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this video was taped on Fusion Foam initiative on May 25th here on Amsterdam.

can belong to semanal.org too

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I found this two videos that show two solutions to these problem:

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from Steve Garfield

Here’s a quick video that shows how you can use the Nokia Audio Controller AD-43 as an external microphone on a Nokia N95.
You can connect the Nokia headphones to this and then use the Audio Controller to talk while making phone calls or recording video.
The manual “Some headsets do not include a microphone.”
I’m interested in finding out if anyone has connected a microphone to this device to help record better audio when recording videos.
I know Nokia made a special microphone adapter for some AP news trials, but I have not been able to learn more about that yet.

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from Gunnar

Many mobile journalists use N95 because of its quality video vice. The problem has been that there is need of a external microphone. Here is the solution. This video shows the use of radio mic and ordinary kabel mic.
PS. thanks to Comvu

And I think the Nokia Reuter’s kit also has some adaptor for the microphone…

Hope it suits you this simple solutions and i hope to see you videos with better sound off course.
I will try when i have one of those n95, mine is a e61i that captures 352×288 i think…

Rgds,
ZN

UPDATE (2008/05/06):
A new entry about external mic on N95, this time from shelbinator.com.
I just want to add that the difference between the terminal colors for input has to do with the different adaptors used, because shelbinator uses a nokia adaptor and Gunnar uses a generic adaptor and i suppose thats why the color/terminal used is different.
Another link: mobilejones.com (via twitter).

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#12 Semanal week7
(very very late because we are now on week 14 so i have six more to go…)

This is an exhibition that is called Shalechet (fallen leaves) and the author is the israeli artist Menashe Kadishman, you can find it on the Jewish Museum Berlin (www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de).

I hope to post some more videos about Berlin in the next days, i love(d) that city, its really alive and kicking. …oh, and its huge also!

UPDATE!
the video was borked and incomplete. now its alright and watchable! sorry for the other version being online!

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I edited this small video but didn’t got to publish. it was just a sunny day and a good place to have a breakfast or lunch in Amsterdam (Greenwoods on Singel).

#010 Semanal week5

i published this one so so late.

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#009 Semanal week4

I am finally publishing my week 4 video. I shoot it on 26th January but i just edited/compressed it today. I hope to do the week 5 faster.

I call these video Cross paths at Noordmarkt.

I taped it because i liked very much the way we have several natural layers of different scenes and situations.

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This is a small videobit that shows Jay Dedman talk on Video Vortex 2008 that happened in Amsterdam on 18/19 January.

[semanal.org | week 3 | vlog 08]

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A video from Paris 2001. This is my late entry for week2 of Semanal.org.

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this is my first semanal video.

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NaVloPoMo07 #27

This video is a very simple video with a whole take just for it, it is somehow a fixed plan sort of, but it is also a traveling.

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But I hope to record something in lisbon next week, because I will be there for a week.
Anyway I have to admit that these electric tube/subway stairs are for me one of the “trademarks” of that big and lovely city.

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Its amazing the size and gestures of these big “robots”. The video doesn’t make justice to the fun of watching them inside the store, but I hope you enjoy it anyway.

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hope you like it.

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My knowledge on footbal is almost none, but I will try to be accurate.
Sporting is a footbal club in Portugal. And in the year 2000 it won the Portuguese National Cup, that victory was preceded by many years of trying to win it.
And so the party was amazing, and this pictures were taken in Lisbon on that night.

Enjoy this first and very rough cut of my moving pictures.

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I am already editing the rough cut of this Fátima 2000 archive.

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my very late video is a very small excerpt of the recording I did on the day of the results of the referendum that we had in Portugal (February 2007) about the right for women to decide on abortion.

these people we see here were all watching the various tv channels at the same-time and as you can see are commenting between them.

NaVloPoMo #17

For now I leave you with a teaser in unedited form and from the beginning of his street campaign.

Franscisco Louçã was the candidate from the Bloco de Esquerda party (Left block party(?) see BE and esquerda.net).

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— em português | in portuguese —

Hoje não terei muito tempo e gostava de vos deixar com um teaser  do que há de ser a última parte dos meus vídeos sobre as Eleições Presidenciais 2006. Num dos próximos dias publicarei o vídeo do Francisco Louçã.

Para já deixo-vos com um teaser em forma não editada e do início da campanha de rua (Martim Moniz). Franscico Louçã foi o candidado do Partido Bloco de Esquerda (ver BE and esquerda.net).

Espero que gostem.

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I went and fetched one and a “half” tapes of a visit I did to Fátima Sanctuary in Portugal, I have to say that I am not catholic and so I went to see what was the scene. It was on May 13th of 2000 and on those particular days the Pope John Paul II visited the place and told the third secret of Fátima.

I want to do some movies about this trip, but today is to late and so I leave you with just this, I recorded this minutes after getting there for the first time.

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What we see here is the Communist and Green Party Alliance (CDU) candidate, Jerónimo de Sousa, doing campaign on Chiado street, that is in downtown Lisbon.

This is my second video from that Presidential Election, the first one was about Mário Soares, the Socialist Party (PS) candidate – http://despauterio.net/2007/04/04/videoblogging-week-2007-17/ (my sole and unique video for videoblogging-week-2007).

It is like 5 mins long and tries to show you how the typical street political campaign works in Portugal.

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NaVloPoMo07

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Presidenciais Portuguesas de Janeiro de 2006

O que vemos aqui é o candidato da aliança do Partido Comunista e dos Verdes (CDU), Jerónimo de Sousa, a fazer a sua campanha na descida do Chiado, na baixa de Lisboa.

Este é o meu segundo vídeo sobre as eleições presidenciais de 2006, o primeiro era sobre o Mário Soares, o candidato do Partido Socialista (PS) – http://despauterio.net/2007/04/04/videoblogging-week-2007-17/ (foi a minha única entrada na videoblogging-week-2007).

Este pequeno filme tem cerca de 5 minutos de duração e tenta mostrar como acontece a campanha política de rua em Portugal.

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i am having lots of difficulty to catch all the vlogs of everyone…

but i am still here!

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Today it was another day without anytime to do anything on our NaVloPoMo07. this images were recorded on saturday and here you have them.

I promise to try and do some editing and also because that is what i fear most, i always think my edited stuff loses rhythm and so i really have to try and educate and train myself this month, and i am sure the comments on that stuff should teach and make me improve it.

For now i have this moving picture and sound to offer, hope it is entertaining.

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more seagulls this time i recorded them on lisbon on the dock. in this video i tried one trick called smoothcam, it was not so interesting in the first take, but it takes so much time to render that i am not going to turn off that filter on the first clip, the second benefits of the filter… bah. enough rumbling geek stuff.

i hope its more relaxing, especially after Robert Croma of yesterday that i just seen some minutes ago (“The Natural History Museum”).

I have lots of video to watch, sorry for that. i blame it on work.

this is the view from my window here in Amsterdam, we are damn lucky for that canal and what i love most is to see the seagulls running at our window.

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This movie was shot in Amsterdam with my nokia e61i and I just stripped the sound in QT.

videoblogging & lumiere?

“traditional” media is going to add this to their already big bag of tricks, but anyway this is not going to change the opened possibility for anyone to make a tv internet show with lots of not so expensive tricks

CNET News.com’s Erica Ogg visits CBS 5 in San Francisco to see how the newsroom is using a Slingbox to get live video feeds for traffic, weather and breaking news instead of relying on standard news vans using satellite signals.

text & video: Consumer device an innovation for TV news crew

and the other video from the same team as “the rock”/look in the eyes video: Mike Gravel – Fire -

and another different video: Senator Mike Gravel Visits My Dorm Room

and also Mike Gravel on the President debate of truth

http://despauterio.net/queens-day-in-amsterdam/

(via Steve Garfield)

from vimeo: “We did this video one night after work. We are a company called Connected Ventures, a group of friends who work for: Vimeo, CollegeHumor, Busted Tees, and Defunker.”

Este é o meu primeiro vídeo para participar na Videoblogging Week deste ano. Como se nota a minha primeira entrada já vai atrasadíssima… Este vídeo é uma montagem da Arruada na Baixa de Lisboa do candidato Mário Soares na campanha das Presidenciais 2006.

— in english —

This is my first video for this year’s Videoblogging Week. As you see I am running very late… This video shows the walking in downtown Lisbon that a Presidential candidate – Mário Soares, did in the 2006 Presidential Election.

links: Biografia de Mário Soares (em português).

Much of the concern over DRM systems has arisen in European countries. Perhaps those unhappy with the current situation should redirect their energies towards persuading the music companies to sell their music DRM-free. For Europeans, two and a half of the big four music companies are located right in their backyard. The largest, Universal, is 100% owned by Vivendi, a French company. EMI is a British company, and Sony BMG is 50% owned by Bertelsmann, a German company. Convincing them to license their music to Apple and others DRM-free will create a truly interoperable music marketplace. Apple will embrace this wholeheartedly.

excerpt from: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/

I would say…. Kill DRM now! Let’s go ahead and do it!!!

Not having 3G is really dummy. even in EUA everyone is talking about EVDO and they are also talking about the 1.8Mbps plus cell network. its funny because we have it in Portugal already working.

Here in the Netherlands, where I am, its much more expensive and slow unfortunately.

Connected to that but also with the concept of comunication device I was/am expecting it to do iChat AV through wifi and 3G, so it is now missing a small front camera for that.

it is also missing a usb host interface for something you could think about…, and why didn’t they predicted the use of some flash memory card… there are now sizes of 4 GB… and so it could be very helpful.

Let’s hope these and also the 4 and 8 Gb versions get upgraded to something bigger and better.

I suppose that they will me messing with the iPhone and so the commercial version can be somehow different and better.

And last but not list, as Pedro Melo questioned, how can you do some programming on it? dashboard? some new API? how?

no problem. everyone will be talking until the day it sells, and even after that we will be still talking about that…

There is one more funny detail about all this, the guy from Cingular, made some menaces about anyone who hack the device or use it with another network… I am afraid it is going to be a bigger story by next summer.

ohhh well. I am still mostly waiting for Leopard OS.

Happy 2007 for everyone!

and there is one comment that is even better:

cpo2u said “That was just slow mo.”

or maybe the mainstream media is speeding up all the other footage video so Bush appears sober.
-Palpatine for Senate

the video from Jamie Walker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, got to the semi-finalists of the 2006 FYI FILM YOUR ISSUE project.

By answering the question honestly, you will discover where you stand morally. The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which you will have to make a decision. Your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous.

You are in Miami, Florida. There is chaos all around you, caused by a hurricane, with severe flooding. This is a flood of biblical proportions. You are a photo/journalist, working for a major newspaper, and you are caught in the middle of this disaster. Yet you are attempting to shoot career-making photos.

Suddenly, you see two men floundering in the water.
They are fighting for their lives, trying not to be taken down with the debris. You move closer. Somehow the men appear familiar. You suddenly realise who they are.
It’s George W. Bush and Tony Blair!

You have two options. You can either attempt to save their lives, or you can shoot dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photos, documenting the demise of two of the most powerful men on earth.

So, here’s the question:

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Would you select high contrast colour film, or would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white ?

(A very good old photographer’s joke, but I found it again online in a lightstalkers post, and had to repost it here!)

(from Apperceptions vlog)

SHiFT will be all about emerging technologies, whether they’re the latest internet trend or the latest social or psychological development. SHiFT will evolve around five major areas, and the idea is to have contributions about them from all sections of society:

People and Technology
Knowledge Management
Civic Participation
Rights, Liberties and Privacy for the Digital Age
New forms of Economics

Apart from the Conference (program and speakers), there are going to be four workshops on September 26 to 27th:
Designing the Next Generation of Web Applications with Peter Merholz
Creativity with Dannie Jost & Henriette Weber Andersen

This event wasn’t possible without the perseverance of Pedro Custódio (organization), and I personally thank him for trying to do some shifting in Portugal, unfortunately I couldn’t visit him and this great event.

I wish all the best for this event and for the lucky ones that are going.

The way I see it, Rocketboom was a much more young cable tv type of program with the difference in the budget and the way it was broadcasted and received… And I am not saying that it wasn’t very important, it really made a turn-point in the way last mile broadcast can be done.

But now with this new Amanda Across America, you will have a lot more, because now the content and form is much more creative, different and experimental. I could say that also it is much more of a vlog than rocketboom ever was.

I hope to write more on this later…

for now I leave you with her new vlog / project!

about | and so, it begins | Josh Wolf Behind Bars Again | the wiki | the map.

ah ah, someone wrote about Amsterdam, Netherlands in the wiki already…

You will find out that you can sugar them and puff they are lost! (found via gizmodo)

(from Gizmodo | translated news from Beijing news )

you have to see it!

PICNIC ‘06 – CrossMediaWeek, is Amsterdam’s annual event for all those interested and involved in cross media content and technology in Europe, North America and Asia.

SPIT KIT

the first one is from UK and talks about people spitting in bus drivers face and DNA kits, or ’spit kits’ as they call it!?!? got it in from boing boing – “London bus-drivers carrying DNA kits for catching face-spitters London bus-drivers are being equipped with DNA sample kits with which to capture spittle when irate passengers spit on them.”.

SAVED PEOPLE vs USING BOAT W/ PERMISSION

the second story is from USA and Hurricane Katrina… it seems that the guy, named Marc Morice, who saved same people with a boat, is being sued for using it without permission…
old story here and this story here (nola.com).

From The Times Picayune, august 26, 2006, by Steve Ritea (nola.com):

“I don’t know where we would be today if it weren’t for him,” Molly Gordon, Gordon’s wife of 65 years, said Friday.

Lyons’ boat, an 18-foot, 1998-model 180 Sea Sport, was one of three Morice said he commandeered after water started rising in the neighborhood. Morice said one of the other boat owners told him he was glad Morice had been able to hot-wire his boat — Morice said he actually got instructions on how to do it from Yamaha customer service — and the other boat owner apparently has not complained.

JON STEWART

And the last story is a old video from Jon Stewart Daily show (with Stephen Colbert) about some talking about the Prince Charles and whatever tabu sexual experience he had when was younger. video in youtube.com. just pure fun!

MISSED BIKE

and also in my small local life some lowlife took my bike. argh!

I don’t get it why supposedly normal people still buys those ten euro stolen bicycles, do they really think they’re smarter than the rest of us?

If it’s about price, why don’t you buy them recycled 2nd hand as I do? I leave the site here for you – www.recycledbicycles.org , I do think that 30-50 euros for a bike is a nice and honest price, don’t you?

the first one is from MSNBC and the title is “Is bush an idiot?”

the part I feel is funny and strange / different is that I can not imagine this kind of talk in Europe…

the second one has the title “CNN reporter talk dirt on others at Bush katrina speech”

I found those two in a friends blog (first, second), thanks Daniel!

In this case when I revisited Mindcaster’s vlog, I found this great great video. This video is an interview, in german with english subtitles, with the nice guy, Schlutter, that pilot’s Bush…

(direct link to google)

Enjoy every moment of it!

I saw it on ironic1.com…

George W. Bush singing U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday. It doesn’t get much more ironic than that. Thanks thepartyparty.com!

It’s a fine viral-video example…

a vida é bela! e em breve este blog ficará mais actualizado e funcional de novo.

or in english:

YES! At Adam and with 20/1 Mbps Internet!

now we are much better, I just have to change the “binnenband met blitzventiel” on my dear bicycle…

life is beautiful! and very soon we will have this blog in full motion and with lots of links and even videos.

It seems Linux Ubuntu is getting picked up by the giant Google. Let’s see what will everyone get with this news push in the Linux Desktop world.

[ you can see it in the register.co.uk and Slashdot ]

We wish you all a happy new year.

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Aqui está a vernissage da exposição da pintora Teresa Magalhães no Salão Nobre da Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisboa, Portugal. Podem visitar até 19 de Novembro.

teresa-magalhaes.com

[ iremos publicar mais versões mas esta é a "oficial" ]

english: This is the vernissage of a good friend of mine, painter Teresa Magalhães, at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes in Lisbon, Portugal. there will be more versions of this exhibition. but in the meantime this is the official one.

this seems a very good way of improving our knowledge and reaction to the problems in traffic and off course you can even build up some data for future better planning.

I think they’re idea is not so big but is certainly a step in the good way.

off course you have to be careful with the individual data, but that’s obvious.

the article talks about: to track in-use cell phones on Missouri highways and state roads in an effort to monitor traffic flow. Individual information will not be stored, they say — only the aggregate will be studied, using “sophisticated” math.

these two videos were waiting for ourmedia.org to work.

i am going back to iMovie and i will publish more videos soon.

… and as i am going to Lisbon (Portugal) maybe i will publish videos from Lisboa that is the city were i was born and which think is a really lovely city.

this was supposed to be the first vlog post. enjoy it anyhow.

A personal chronicle of what hurricane Katrina has done to my poor proud people.

from the author:

clayton james cubitt’s mom was a teenage runaway, go-go dancing at a club on bourbon street in new orleans. his dad was a canadian national running pot over the border from mexico. they met, married, and moved to los angeles, conceiving him on the trip in the back of a vw bus at dinosaur national park in utah. now he takes pictures and lives in brooklyn. he grew up in new orleans and the gulf coast, where his family still lives. He is also known as siege, and all of these images originally appeared on his photo journal for Nerve.com

you must see this for yourself.

this article / discussion at the Slashdot is interesting reading.

Music Industry Threatens to Pull Plug on Apple

Or like oil companies asking automobile manufacturers to share their profits.
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According to Apple, the original goal of the iTunes Music Store (ITMS) was to sell more iPods. In fact, they didn’t expect it to be profitable at all – but now it commands a sizable share of Apple’s quarterly revenue.
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Having observed their behavior in the past, I fully believe that the music industry really believes that they are doing Apple a favor and that they can cut Apple off.
If they close iTunes, iPod users will just rip their own music (and share it) leaving 0 revenue.
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It’s probably just a bluff, but if the Music Industry does go through with this it would be incredibly stupid of them. I know it would be contrary to their agreements with Apple Records, but if the music execs do go ahead with this, I think Apple should start selling music directly from the musicians rather than going through the labels. They could simultaneously reduce the prices and give the musicians much more than they get under their current contracts.
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Ford and GM announced today that unless Exxon and Shell start sharing gasoline revenues, future SUVs will run on ethanol.
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The recording industry never saw a cash cow they didn’t want to kill.

iTunes is a very interesting solution for distributing music in a digital and network world.

the dream is if we could bypass this greedy companies altogether… at list Apple proposes something that we could even in some sense describe as fair trade.

i hope people see who is right and who is wrong in all this story.

the other day i read that a band edited by Sony, had to publish in their site an help text explaining how to do if you wanted to rip theirs audio cd for the computer… it was fun to read about that!

this was my seccond post but it become my first thanks to ourmedia confusion…

this video is from the WesterPark here in Amsterdam
it’s a lovely park!

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By now, you’ll have probably guessed the club members are all women being brutally victimized by EMI, Universal, Warner and Sony BMG, the huge, multi-billion-dollar record label cartel that’s using its immense financial and political weight and deep, dark connections to law enforcement agencies in a bizarre marketing scheme.

Rather, they stand out because they’re standing up, defying the Mafia-like labels and their teams of hired legal thugs who work through ‘Settlement Centers’ which aim to terrorize people into paying ‘fees’ which usually start out at $7,500 to be ‘negotiated’ down to around $3,500.
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[ text from an article: "The 'We're Not Taking Any More' club" ]

the link was first seen in slashdot, where you can read a great first post / phrase:
Now that the women are taking care of business, crap will get done.

and at present what i am seeing in the end of the discussion is also interesting ( i have included the signature because it made sense of course):
“Why does the Motherhood of these women matter?”

Nobody cares about the rights of college students.
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“Liberté, egalité, fraternité” also makes for an interesting order of priorities.

and because if you really think about it, it represents a lot of things…

the global market is the most obvious, but as most of the ikea furniture, including beds, are still on wood (or based on), you can assume people still prefers sleeping on wood and in more natural “environments”…

maybe we should start an inquiry about that…

[ i found it in a slashdot discussion ]

Dolores Park Movie Night

MobMov: A mobile movie guerilla drive-in in Berkeley, CA
What is the MobileMovie?
We are a grassroots movement aimed at bringing back the forgotten joy of the great American drive-in. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, what used to be a dark and decrepit warehouse wall springs to life with the sublime sights and sounds of a big screen movie. Best of all, the MobMov is free.

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In

http://www.thespoon.com/drivein/start-your-own.html

Start Your Own Guerilla Drive-In
Guerilla Drive-Ins are springing up everywhere from LA to NY, in big cities and little towns. People are rejecting the idea of the $10 movie (twenty with popcorn and a soda) and embracing the idea of the do-it-yourself movie free to the community.

Guerilla Drive-Ins – Gizmodo

the movie: Current TV // Blog // Citizen Rescue

[ i saw it first in Citizen Rescue - Movie of the Week, and it was first published in 2005/09/01 ]

Participatory Culture: News and Ideas » Blog Archive » Hurricane

Things have been absolutely insane. Watch this video.

one of them is this blog of a IT team and his business DirectNIC (old address: The Interdictor) – This journal has become the Survival of New Orleans blog. In less perilous times it was simply a blog for me to talk smack and chat with friends. Now this journal exists to share firsthand experience of the disaster and its aftermath with anyone interested.. from them i show some photos: Katrina Aftermath – September 6, 2005, Helicopters vs. Fire and Katrina Aftermath – Stench, Stragglers, and Stagnant Water.

i found this link originally in Slashdot, but then i see that is also on the register: Heroic New Orleans hosting outfit battles on | The Register and What kind of moron are you? | The Register.

and in the meantine we have more links:

New Orleans to enjoy free Wi-Fi access | The Register – While we’re not entirely convinced that the company has actually been watching the TV footage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina – and let’s be honest, swimming to the nearest Starbucks to enjoy a double mocha chocka latte decaf while, ahem, surfing the web as the Louisiana National Guard battle gamely to protect the store’s blueberry muffins from looters – the company can at least be applauded for the gesture.

Drone aircraft to search for Big Easy survivors | The Register – Five unmanned, remote-controlled drone aircraft, intended to seek out survivors of Hurricane Katrina, are on their way to Baton Rouge after a US congressman took it upon himself to “obtain” the vehicles from a private company.

on slashdot they talk about a wired article: Too Many People in Nature’s Way – “The bottom line is we have a very unsafe planet.”.

Slashdot | PayPal Freezes Hurricane Relief Account

Slashdot | Katrina Hits the Gaming World – With a tee-shirt you can purchase from Bungie’s store: ‘Just so that we’re clear, of the $19.95 the shirt costs, about $15 in cleared funds will go straight to the Red Cross and directly to the disaster relief. Nobody, not Bungie, the Bungie store, or the distributor will clear a penny profit.’

Wired News: Sonic ‘Lasers’ Head to Flood Zone (from slashdot) – Representatives of both companies say that within days, they will ship some units of their respective products to areas hit by Hurricane Katrina, so authorities can use the tools for crowd control, aid distribution and rescue operations..

Slashdot | Technology In Katrina’s Wake – in here you will find the project: Katrina public web kiosk project wants volunteers.

Slashdot | Post-Katrina Images on Google Maps – “Satellite imagery of New Orleans taken on Wednesday, August 31st is now available on Google Maps. Enter ‘New Orleans’ in the search field at the top of the page, or drag and zoom the map to the area. A red ‘Katrina’ button will appear at the top right of the map, next to the existing map buttons. Older images for the area are still available too – click the “Satellite” button to switch to those.”.

we are seeing lots of people trying to help, trying to inform, trying to put people in contact, also collecting money, and unfortunately there is also people trying to get advantage of this all situation… let’s hope the good guys win.

one thing i see that for me is somehow interesting is that the ham people still is typically a good bunch of people, because we start to look in a group that works in telecommunication and helping others and you see them everywhere and in good numbers. a very good example is the VoIP team from Part-15.org, in that list you have, and just to give some names / cases, the Mark from Asterisk / Digium (the open source PBX VoIP that everyone is talking about), the Jeremy from Nufone and Mark Cohen from the Jhai project deploying Pedal Powered PCs and VoIP in Laos as well…

i end with one more quote from Luís Costa Ribas “blog”: Já agora, vinha mesmo a calhar um banho de chuveiro, mas para não variar vou dormir no carro.

and last but not list, i am very proud to have a link in glória facil blog (automatic translation to english by babelfish).

Go and read it. i never saw this things in first hand because i am from many time a self-employed person, but this real is a thing someone should pay attention to.

The Potted Plant Test

And I tend to have a problem with the latter.
Not real “conflicts”, I don’t usually have them. But I’ve been in several places (and, indeed, am in one now) where everything would be almost perfect – colleagues, environment, the work itself – except for one imbecile who ruins everything – and who happens to be my boss.
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PART-15.ORG Archives Emergency-Relief List (PART-15.ORG Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts)

VoIP team (from Part-15.org Archives Message) – “We have about 10 people in the team currently. We`re looking for anyone who`s got some VoIP knowledge and isn`t otherwise committed to P15`s efforts. Please don`t sign up if you`re already on another team! I don`t want to suck talent away from WiFi/RF stuff or anything else.” (The P15-voip archive). by curiosity: one of the persons on this list, Mark Cohen, has also been on the Jhai project deploying Pedal Powered PCs and VoIP in Laos.

The Air Care Alliance – “The Air Care Alliance is a nationwide league of humanitarian flying organizations whose volunteer pilots are dedicated to community service.”

Hurricane Katrina Resources – “Responding to the devastation in the Gulf Coast region of the U.S. as a result of Hurricane Katrina, the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) is making every effort to assist in recovery efforts. Our heartfelt and deepest sympathies are extended to those who have lost loved ones as a result of the hurricane.”

KatrinaHousing.net | Helping people find housing information

some local blogs (from Glória Fácil, that saw the links in Blasfémias):
– Metroblogs
– DeadlyKatrina
– Kaye’s Hurricane
– The Times-Picayune blog
– John’s

a “blog” on fox news: FOXNews.com – FOX Fan – Harrigan on the Hunt – Alone and Afraid

the impressions by Luís Costa Ribas, reporter that SIC sent to New Orleans and that said that was sleeping in his car, because there were no other place to go (in portuguese). it seems to be a blog – “Domingo, 4 de Setembro

Sinto-me pouco à vontade, tal como os restantes jornalistas. Olhamo-nos por cima do ombro, a passar os toalhetes no tronco e a mudar de t-shirt junto ao carro, na rua, transformando rituais privados em relutantes espectáculos públicos. ”

# update on 2005/09/06 15:40h
how could i forgot the indymedia link:
New Orleans Independent Media Center

the links i am publishing here are influenced by my attraction to follow one theme that i think is very very important nowadays: the use you can give to the new technologies in places that suffered some natural or not so natural devastation. i am talking about reestablishing communications, give tools to the various organizations that are trying to work side by side. all that coordination and also the talking to the base has to go trough some new channels, and for that you can use Wi-Fi, long distance Wi-Fi, Mesh networks, VoIP, satellite IP communications, and of course all the natural group-ware (web) software you can get to put all those people talking to each-other and to theirs mother-ships…

(new futon)

It’s not a good site to see if you are somehow down. it’s very real and quite appalling in fact.

I don’t really know why it’s not happening in much more broadcasters.

And i would enjoyed if the people that organizes conferences and such, could use the iChat AV, and it can be very interesting because you can cut costs and time using it.

[ from Macworld UK - CNN commits iChat AV experiment, and the US show is hosted by Wolf Blitzer and is called "Situation Room". there is one interview with Joi Ito that he talks about in his blog. ]

I really like it, practicality and good sense doesn’t describe all of it.

I saw it in Expat Forums, but the news story is in ananova.

Couple had sex on police car

“But the policemen have to be available for duty. If the two lovers had left when they were told, nothing would have happened.”

have fun if you get them, you’ve better have kids to have an excuse to buy them off-course!

Enjoy the photos!

Me and Ana are publishing some reports and photos at the WTH News wiki.

for now I am just publishing some links:

– ascii moves to the javastraat — Ascii

– ASCII site (in english)

ASCII has a interesting translation “Amsterdam Subversive Center for Information Interchange”.

The project involves a place (in a squat), where you can use the internet, get to learn things about it, and there is lots of recycling, use and abuse of open source.

It’s a very nice project and I intend to learn much more and maybe try to help wherever I can.

I will listen to talk at the WTH – “Community wireless NL”, Wireless networks in Amsterdam and Leiden (Rudi Van Drunen, Jaap and Rop Gonggrijp), where there will be some talk about another very interesting project… – Amsterdam Network Collective – een draadloos (internet) netwerk in Amsterdam.

We will see.