media: July 2005 Archives

Here's a competition I'm bound to lose (!):

Blog-A-Thon, in which they'll award prizes for "Most Inspirational," "Most Humorous," and "Best Overall". The task?

"We want to hear about your "click moment" — the very first step you to took to stand up for your digital rights -- whether it was blogging about an issue you care about, participating in a demonstration, writing your representatives, or getting involved with EFF."

How have I stood up for my digital rights....and can I articulate it with enough flare to capture the text-geist?

From a recent Knowledge Media conference, info on semantic blogging as "support distributed sensemaking and argumentation with tools that are both intuitive enough to be quickly learnt, flexible enough for widespread adoption in everyday work, but provide enough semantics for computational support? How can human-generated narrative co-exist and synergise with computational-semantics to create hybrid layers of meaning?"

I can imagine that someday I might be interested in the computational asapect. I can perceive why it matters! But I'm not ready to aggregate on that level, yet. :-)

I'm impressed (and happy to be hired, smile) by my new boss. Note this sampling of early advertising and links to media resources.

If you didn't attend the business meeting yesterday you missed:

covert communication typed into the meeting from the computer operator;
Mount Rushmore (four past RID Presidents);
regional and state rivalries;
a challenge to beat the Europeans in donations to WASLI, through RID's "A Day's Pay" program;
and customized (albiet unscripted) martini and fan service.

Perhaps other organizations have as much fun and intercollegiality as we do; but I'm not sure!

There was some drama concerning the now-delayed position paper (Standard Practice Paper) on Video Relay Interpreting and Video Relay Service.

"The internet is a place for me to practice the kind of courage and honesty that my specific vocation in life requires." So says my friend, museumfreak, joining a discussion about academic blogs reacting to a recent article, Bloggers Need Not Apply, in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Ruth suggests checking out Jeff Carroll's artwork; apparently he's an interpreter from Cincinnati here at the RID conference.

a former tour guide provides some hints...Museumfreak on DC

Now voting on the greatest philosopher of our time.

Your choice on the shortlist is among five dead white men.

I picked this one to be different (!), since Lilia said most had selected "I broke the power law." :-)

Trying to post a comment to Jyri Engeström's weblog but "typepad is down" at the moment. :-( Anyway, it's below. Found him via Lilia's post on Living Relationships. Need to go back over the Powerpoints etc.

New reviews (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/) include: