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Found a 64 minute documentary on Cyberpunk, complete with interviews with William Gibson, Timothy Leary and more.

Plenty of people are objecting to video being incorporated into Flickr, a photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo. Some say, this is a place for photos! or it will be filled with YouTube-style crap . And that may be the case. I personally don t have an opinion. I m an artist, I make media, in any form that s presented to me. I m also a paying customer of Flickr. I use the service to post photos from my Canon 20D, photos from my iPhone and N95, screenshots from my desktop and video games, and now, video. Today I had a thought, however, about this moving photo spin that Yahoo has been dishing out. That phrase is something quite easy for me to smirk at, given that there s only have 90 seconds of total running time, and video does not equal photos. So, I wondered. What if it wasn t Flickr who needed to change, instead, it s us? What if we turned the cameras not on ourselves, but away from us? Can we learn a new skill? What if we studied this new sliver of a video genre? Jay Dedman, one of videoblogging s early pioneers, had several videos that were just snapshots in time . moments showing that s about the only term I can think of to describe this. It s not us performing , it s us, watching, observing seeing. So I tried to have a go at it. A living snapshot: Bonus video from Jay Dedman from July of 2004: Freaking out, quietly. Thanks, Jay.

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And when I say practical social media app , I mean, for once, it doesn t parade around my contact list, display every blink and sneeze I make for the entire world to see. I don t want to be crazy hermit man in the cave, but come ON people. Give people some space. Eyejot, is really simple. Video mail, the end. No really, I just record a video and send it to either a) another Eyejot user or b) an email address. It s free or 14.95 for an entire year (which gets more bells and whistles, recording time from 1 minute to 5, uploads, mobile access and the like. It works well on the iphone and you can subscribe to your inbox as a podcast feed. This is smart and super simple. Here s a vid: Feel free to add me to your addressbook, I m ericrice, or just drop a note to me at my typical gmail account.

Who would think it would be SO DIFFICULT to buy an overpriced phone from Nokia (to switch FROM an IPHONE ffs)? I m already OVER the fact that I will never be able to go into a physical store to touch/hold/read-the-side-of-a-box. (I know, call me crazy for wanting to see/touch a product I ll be buying, wacky, eh?). Fine. Most online retailers can t seem to clearly get stats published properly and even calling Nokia themselves has left me with doubt that even they know (and hey, nice way to have your sales guys throw people to tech support and drop the sale in the process). So yeah, here s the video open letter to Nokia, who apparently seems to coddle bloggers and vloggers, yet you d never know it. Everyone else is an armchair expert I just want a company to confirm that something will work (for those that have offered up advice and links, thanks, now if only the actual company could get it together, heh). Short version: I want an n95 that will work w/AT T and support UMTS 2100 (so I can use it in japan). Whether or not it has 3G in the US is irrelevant, EDGE is fine. I just want to buy the right thing ONCE, but getting to that point, in a word, sucks. PS: Is this it? Nokia N95 @ MacMall

This video became popular so I decided to post it here so people could comment on it. This is, in a way, the next level beyond the Facebook-data scraping incident. This is social hacking; social engineering. The creation of fake personas, carefully nuanced with mundane details and mediocrity, the fake average guy , when developed over a long period of time, can be an ingenious platform to scrape data, mine data, infiltrate social networks and communities.

Ah, the irony. Even though I pay attention to a lot of virtual worlds and such, I m typecast as the SL Guy , heh. In this long , I talk with Akela and Moo about the history of Saijo City, Second Life, iPhone, design, filmmaking, Web 2.0, Social Networks and more. (Aw, I m the Web 2.0 poster boy, do I have to tell my mom? Download the MP3

Heh. The iPhone Song Produced By Nora McDevitt Written By MC Slutsky, MC Prager, Randy Zuckerberg Music By Myloekoe

CNET/ZDnet did a cool couple of TV segments: One of being a virtual millionaire and the other on saving lives virtually First video is me talking about the Hipcast.com Virtual Conference Center and the other is Kim Rufers-Bach talking about setting up disaster training in a virtual world to prepare for real world (Philip Rosedales piece on working out the logistics of setting up a command center in a parking lot is quite insightful). (who built it? find out here) Check em out, and thanks for all the good words. BTW, ALSO IMPORTANT! I m stoked that one of Multiverse Records/Slackstreet Music s own is part of the soundtrack! In the piece on Virtual Millionaire, you can hear Keiko, who is a dual San Jose/Tokyo artist and someone filled with much awesomeness. Her story is amazing and her sounds I personally can t get enough of even the kids love her music. Listen to Saw it Coming . Play it on your podcast, but please link to Keiko s myspace page: http://myspace.com/keikotakamura Keiko performs weekly inside of Second Life, and may be doing a couple gigs here in the Bay Area before going back to Tokyo. 3