I Survived the Bush Administration (t-shirt)
I survived the bush administration t-shirt, $16 from Print Liberation (via Constant Siege).
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Googling Your Home Electricity Usage
Google hopes the early announcement of its PowerMeter will help its product and advocacy efforts around energy reform.
Hans Moravec’s slide on computer power and intelligence
In 2002, artificial intelligence pioneer Hans Moravec made an interesting slide showing the evolution of computer power and cost, and the trajectory toward a thinking machine comparable to a human brain. “Evolution of Computer Power/Cost” (Thanks, M…
Miro launches version 2.0
The Participatory Culture Foundation is releasing version 2.0 of its Miro video player today. The new version features a streamlined UI that looks more professional than previous iterations as well as the option to integrate third party video platforms. Users can now easily access sites like Joost or Hulu from within the client. Part of the relaunch is also a completely redesigned homepage as well as a new channel guide.
Here’s a video introducing the client and its new features:
Readers of this blog might also be interested in the fact that Miro features a built-in Bittorrent client based on the libtorrent library.
I’ve always thought that Miro was a great client in concept that was struggling with some technical issues. I played around with the official preview release to version 2.0 a couple of weeks ago and was positively surprised by the fact that it was actually runnng quite smoothly on older hardware, as I wrote back then for Newteevee.com.
We will see whether that’s enough to actually win over any new users, but there’s definitely a need for an alternative to iTunes when it comes to video podcasts, and Miro 2.0 could be a step in the right direction. And come to think of it: Wouldn’t it be quite ironic if a media reform project like Miro would finally become popular because of its integration of a mainstream TV platform like Hulu?
The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan – Open Source Funding
Its easy to write about what the government or other people should do with our/their money. It’s harder to come up with a course of action that I can undertake on my own that possibly, somehow could make a difference. My first inclination is always t…
At TED*: How Far Can a Simulcast Go?
I attended the 2009 TED conference last week, but I didn’t really. I was given a press pass to cover a simulcast of the event held at a separate venue two hours away. As the famed conference expands, its organizers are trying to find ways to include …
Niels Bohr
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”