eye-fi

if you have seen the microsoft table that you would seen the wireless digital camera.. to be critical this is a not major surprise to me as there many wirless products around, its is just a clever combination of technologies… it is just like the saying by Hillman Curtis “Ideas/inspiration are all around us, like air, we share them breathing them into our bodies and returning them, changed, into the creative atmosphere.” but it will be useful once its more advanced as there woud be no need of carrying USB cables with you.

To share photos quickly and easily a wireless camera is a must.

But for those people who do not want to invest in a new device help is at hand.

A company called Eye-Fi have developed a series of memory cards with built in wi-fi that automatically convert your camera into a wireless device.

The 2GB cards automatically connect to a wi-fi network and can dump photos to a folder on a PC or upload them to social networks or photo-sharing sites.

The firm has done deals with the likes of Flickr, Photobucket and Facebook.

The associated software takes care of log-ins and passwords and can even automatically resize pictures if the site requires it.

To send them to a computer the PC must be turned on and running the companies photo managing software.

(BBC.co.uk)

summary of my christmas holidays and future plans.

Now I have finished work at GRG, I have the opportunity to get back on track with my dissertation.
During these holidays I have had the chance to read a whole book on war and media and two DVD documentaries, which focuses on Arab media and western media during the Iraq war.
From these documentaries I have written some significant amount notes and facts, which outlines an argument on media in different cultures and background.
I have also been able to examine the relationship between media, military and government during the eras of war as in previous wars such as Vietnam media had been alleged as the main reason of pentagon’s defeat.

One of the case studies that I have planned to interpolate in my dissertation is the differences between known news sources such as BBC,Al-jazzera and CNN.

In this case study I am planning to examine the ethical gathering of news by these sources.

I will be examining the following three categories, which can be acknowledged as the three important elements in any broadcasted material.

1-objectivity
2-balance
3- credibility

The category that I am aiming to focus most is credibility as it has been a debatable subject of mass media’s broadcasts for many years now.
For one week I will be reading, watching news from all these sources and I will examine how they present gathered materials.
I will also observe their approach to culture cues or schemata, background and history related to the same story as my main intention is to conclude a fair judgement.

MC hammer can or cant touch this??

I red today that MC hammer the famous bankrupt rapper has planned to launch his own video sharing website where people can watch “dance videos”.
But according to BBC you tube has 1.7 million “dance” tag videos… so if people want to look for a dance video would they go to DanceJam or will they just start of from youtube… this would be interesting case to follow as its based around concentric audience, it follows the whole idea of exclusive network.
It would be just like Linkedin, which is a similar version of facebook but targeting an audience that have common interest which is in Linkedin case is “professional networking”.

YAP for the all the incessant chatting individuals!

I came across this new product and I thought it would be good to cover it in my blog as there have been recent discussions about the use of mobile phones and free handset white driving.
YAP is J2ME mobile client that has created an application that allows the user to send text messages while driving; this application uses speech recognition technology. I think the whole speech recognition technology has been around for a while now but there are a lot of issues and improvements that can be made in terms of recognising different accents or human voices but then again everything has to start of from somewhere.