Hi Andy Thank you for all the info about Joost/Venice. Sure, interacting with other users while watching TV might be useful, say, if a work group studies/edits a video together at distance - but then can't they use a chat in another window? Oh well, I guess it's a question of generation - maybe young people also enjoy actually chatting virtually while watching a film unfold.
But re: Andy Carvin ha scritto: > (...)It's much more > immersive, with the video appearing borderless on your > screen. All the navigation buttons are hidden or > translucent, and only pop up into view when you move > your mouse to the right corner. In Democracy 0.9.2 at least, you also have full-screen mode with translucent commands appearing when you move the mouse to the right corner. In Don McAllister's "SCO0064 - Democracy Player - Internet TV [Free Version]" tutorial http://www.videobomb.com/posts/show/7811, this is shown slightly after the half of the video Btw, since this tutorial was posted, there have been a few minor changes in the Democracy interface, like the ashcans have been replaced by a "delete" link, but overall, it remains so far a good introduction, I think, so I "starred" it in videobomb, the interactive part of the Democracy project. And above all, Don McAllister was permitted by default to make it. Another great feature of Democracy is that users are collaborating in translating the template into other languages. See <https://translations.launchpad.net/getdemocracy/trunk/+pots/getdemocracy>. Once I get the hang of the sliced up pages, I might dive in: it's the kind of online social interaction I enjoy (1). Does Joost plan to offer templates in several languages too? They'd have to pay the translators, though. Conversedly, I'm allergic to hype so I'm allergic to Joost hype - you have been far more convincing, Andy. But it's not only that. It's in whose hands Joost will end in. Have you seen "Web 2.0 Podcast: A Conversation with Ross Levinsohn" <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2007/01/24/web-20-levinsohn.html>? Joost wasn't mentioned, but as with You Tube, it seems that the 2 main potential buyers for Joost will be Murdoch and Google. And if Murdoch wins this time, his influence, on political life too, will grow exponentially. And this. Anyone ready to make a 1984 video series for Joost? it would be great, full-screen. Oops, I forgot: Orwell's 1984 is under copyright and will be for a long while, thanks to the Sony Bono act. Best Claude (1) Re online collaborative translation: I did a 70-page one with colleagues in Kinshasa last December. The pay was miserly, but it was a great experience. We used Google Docs because it autosaves regularly, and their only access to a computer was cybercafes where the line goes off unexpectedly, or they had to run away when street battles were coming too near. And I'd like to go further this way - also with textual transcription and captioning. Not at the slave-driving rates paid by http://castingwords.com/ (used by O'Reilly's show, for instance: that's how I found them), who outsource the transcriptions to "Turkers": see <http://turkers.proboards80.com/index.cgi?board=cwords&action=display&thread=1169641068> or <http://tinyurl.com/2n4hnb>. But that's another story, _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
