MadLibs mashup
Mashups are all the rage...MadLibs is one very interesting use of a mash-up site - you enter a noun, verb, adjective, name, and number to be told a Flickr photo story.
The photo above is from mine, try it yourself...
It's our web?
By michelle, 2 years, 9 months ago - No Comments
Here is a very timely message from the freespeech.org people in the wake of Facebook's recent apology
"Robots Are Taking Over the Web! This is a truly crucial time for the Internet, the most powerful and interactive medium humans have ever seen." - Adbusters
The Open Source Party
By michelle, 2 years, 9 months ago - No Comments
I've always seen open source as political...but an open source political party! I am interested to see if this proposal goes ahead, and the results if they do get elected.
A jab at myself
By michelle, 2 years, 9 months ago - No Comments
Its the beginning of the week so thought I'd post this for fun...my brother Benjamin and i were the subject of an amusing video on JIBJAB the other day. watch and laugh at us here.
its a pretty cool website actually, you can just upload a photo with someones head in it, then use their editing tools to cut out the head and create a jaw (some of the videos have talking characters) then choose which JIBJAB character the head goes on.
also check out Gizmoz. here you can upload your photo into their system, and they render out a 3d version of you. You can change your appearance and make yourself speak. I tried it myself a wee while ago.
'snack-o-tainment'
By michelle, 2 years, 9 months ago - No Comments
I like to know whats hip and whats not, so i get the trendwatching reports each month ;)
here's what they told me about media trends this month:
"Music, television, games, movies, fashion: We now devour our pop culture the same way we enjoy candy and chips—in conveniently packaged bite-size nuggets made to be munched easily with increased frequency and maximum speed. Today, media snacking is a way of life. In the morning, we check news and tap out emails on our laptops. At work, we graze all day on videos and blogs. Back home, the giant HDTV is for 10-course feasting - say, an entire season of 24. In between are the morsels that fill those whenever minutes, as your mobile phone carrier calls them: a 30-second game on your Nintendo DS, a 60-second webisode on your cell, a three-minute podcast on your MP3 player. Like Homer Simpson at the all-you-can-eat seafood buffet, we are capable of devouring whatever is in front of us—down to the plastic crustaceans—and still go fishing for Colbert clips at 3 am."
Hehe. you can read the full report here - i warn you it's very long - i might just graze on it throughout the day.
By michelle, 2 years, 8 months ago - No Comments