You Tube have introduced a couple of new projects. One is a special section for mobile videos. Have only had a look at two and they were surprisingly good. Had expected the technical quality to be poor.
They have also got a Test Tube an ideas "incubator" which allows you to try out new "recipes and concotions" while still in the development stage.
One is an Audio Swap ( an attempt to solve the problem of music copyright) which offers you the chance to replace your aduio with officially licensed music…..mmmmm
The other is Stream..chat with others who are watching the same videos as you.
You are invited to "jump in and play around."
Avatars
Somewhere in deep cyberspace I have an avatar . Well, actually its lodged in Second Life and I am one of the 5million who have registered since last July. At that time there were only 330,000 there.
However, my avatar lies dormant. I am not alone. Most of us who register never get around to being active in Second Life.
A more accurate figure of users, says the Technology Guardiantoday is 1 million. Still that's a hefty number of people to be playing in virtual space on a regular basis.
So I was interested to see that Ars Virtua is advertising under Opportunities in AN magazine for a resident artist to carry out a performance in a place that has no physical location.
You apply via your online avatar….now what was the password?
Astonished to find that my seahorse web movie has got 17 ratings on YouTube, and for the first couple of weeks it hardly moved.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5arlAweuzg
Suddenly its taken off. This is part of what is known as the "long tail" effect of the web.
Fascinated to read in the current issue of A-N that there is a virtual residency being advertised in Second Life.
Art has many functions and acting as a social catalyst is one of them. Tonight at a function met a fellow country ( Welsh) woman and discovered that we had a mutual acquaintance who went to Antartica knowing that he had terminal cancer. I made him a video based on his photos and this is up on the internet. I sent her a link. Its my memorial to him./youtube.com/watch?v=MRRzv-APp2U
Finally got around to uploading a new web movie. It's called "Mirage", result of my week in Dahab only this was made out in the Sinai desert. Hope the link works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnaq6OiKBNE
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