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I will be posting all 4 of the JoeLovesDoug videos at joelovesdoug.com
So nearly a year has passed and I haven't decided what to do with this site. The sidebar content here is all still live and accurate. The question for me has been what to do with this content area since Delicious stopped the auto-feed of links to MovableType.
A few years back I thought that what I'd like is an interactive timeline of my life. As I age so much of what I've done is disappearing. Rather than on online resume (or LinkedIn profile - I'm there but hardly interested) I'd like to post old photos and videos and other artifacts I have that tell my story in a timeline.
Maybe I'll get to that in the next year. Until then I will post as I feel like it and I will be keeping all of my sites live. But the exercise of daily updating passed a few years ago now. And the quest for the next chapter in my online presence continues.
The latest from the young, talented folks at New Left Media...
I am still updating this site. Or, rather, I am still contemplating how to update this site and where it fits in my online presence.
I used to use Delicious to keep this site updated as a kind of public personal archive. The new delicious abandoned the feature that made that possible automatically, recognizing that now we use Twitter, Facebook and Evernote for sharing and archiving.
So until I come up with a new focus for this portion of my personal web presence, the content section of the site is in limbo. All sidebar links remain live and updated.
Do scroll down for some of my recent personal video work. My current vita is here.
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Apparently, NPR people do not understand what the critique of he said, she said is all about. It’s not about editorializing. Or taking sides. It’s failing to do the reporting required to shed light on conflicting truth claims.
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If you're still unsure that the nocebo effect could actually lead to premature death, Adler cites one stunning example of the effect from China. A team of researchers found that Chinese Americans die younger than expected "if they have a combination of disease and birth year which Chinese astrology and medicine considers ill-fated." That is to say, if they were born in a year that was astrologically linked to poor lung health, they would die an average of five years earlier from lung-related disease than someone born in some other year with the same disease. Similar effects were not found in the white populations around them. And how much sooner you died depended on the people's "strength of commitment to traditional Chinese culture." Think about that for a minute. If you were born under a bad sign, you died five years younger from the same diseases as people born under good signs. But only if you believed in Chinese astrology.
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the Georgia Tea Party is arguing that the county should abandon its light-rail proposal because if the light-rail line were to be completed, it would become a magnet for terrorist attacks. Here's the group's chair, J.D. Van Brink: If anyone doesn't believe me—England and Spain. Now, if we have a more decentralized mass-transit system using buses, if the terrorists blow up a single bus, we can work around that. When they blow up a rail, that just brings the system to a grinding halt. So how much security are we going to have on this rail system, and how much will it cost? In other words, Van Brink is arguing that because terrorists fantasize about blowing up American infrastructure, we should avoid spending any money on infrastructure.
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Steve Jobs's resignation from Apple has sparked plenty of commentary on his achievements, his personality, and his vision. He deserves the attention: This is a man who transformed the technology world and helped build Apple into what was, at least for a few hours earlier this month, the world's most valuable publicly traded company. But the idea, so common in this week's media coverage, that Jobs was an inspired savant who succeeded by taking big risks on personal hunches, is way off the mark. Rather than worship at the altar of inspiration and "going with your gut," the rest of us should use this moment to consider the fundamental strategies that drove Apple's success.
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Excellent article, thanks daniel! "...Spears and other researchers argue that this sort of decision fatigue is a major — and hitherto ignored — factor in trapping people in poverty. Because their financial situation forces them to make so many trade-offs, they have less willpower to devote to school, work and other activities that might get them into the middle class. It’s hard to know exactly how important this factor is, but there’s no doubt that willpower is a special problem for poor people. Study after study has shown that low self-control correlates with low income as well as with a host of other problems, including poor achievement in school, divorce, crime, alcoholism and poor health. Lapses in self-control have led to the notion of the “undeserving poor” — epitomized by the image of the welfare mom using food stamps to buy junk food — but Spears urges sympathy for someone who makes decisions all day on a tight budget."
The final video version of the presentation I did at Florida State University's Future of the Book conference held at Turnbull Conference Center in Talahassee, FL, last month. It's central idea is that we are in the process of moving from a literal tradition of sharing and passing on culture to a social tradition.
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THE DEFINITIVE REVIEW: Apple pegs Lion at 250+ new features, which doesn't quite match the 300 touted for Leopard, but I guess it all depends on what you consider a "feature" (and what that "+" is supposed to mean). Still, this is the most significant release of Mac OS X in many years—perhaps the most significant release ever. Though the number of new APIs introduced in Lion may fall short of the landmark Tiger and Leopard releases, the most important changes in Lion are radical accelerations of past trends. Apple appears tired of dragging people kicking and screaming into the future; with Lion, it has simply decided to leave without us.
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I great idea I've got to follow.
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Unique counts play to the wonder of Google search and, now, by Facebook and Twitter touts, but they are increasingly meaningless in a world that still seems to operate on a single currency: currency. Expect the bounce rates (hit one page and then leave the site) of the fly-bys only to increase in our new age of ubiquity, with mobile devices providing everywhere-and-anywhere access. It is hard not to run into big brands: Add to the Times, the HuffPo, the Guardian, and Mail Online such top-of-Google sites as Examiner.com and eHow. Counting unique visitors — increasingly — is like counting air.
The video inclues footage of Genie officiating at our 2009 Renewing Our Commitment ceremony. I've been submitting it to festivals around the country, with an emphasis on the South, where Genie's story will resonate the strongest.
For Such A Time As This will be premiered tonight at QFest, Houston's LGBTQ film festival. I am especially pleased that it will be featured as a special presentation kicking off the Girl Shorts program.
The trailer is above. The full web version is here.
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Internet Explorer 9's dual-pronged approach to blocking access to malicious URLs—SmartScreen Filter to block bad URLs, and Application Reputation to detect untrustworthy executables—provides the best socially engineered malware blocking of any stable browser version, according to NSS Labs' latest report. Internet Explorer 9 blocked 92 percent of malware with its URL-based filtering, and 100 percent with Application-based filtering enabled. Internet Explorer 8, in second place, blocked 90 percent of malware. Tied for third place were Safari 5, Chrome 10, and Firefox 4, each blocking just 13 percent. Bringing up the rear was Opera 11, blocking just 5 percent of malware.
I need your help...
You might remember that last fall I did a presentation titled, "Is Book A Verb? The Social Future of the Book." The big idea in it is that we are in the midst of moving from a Literal Tradition of sharing and passing on culture to a Social Tradition.
This weekend I will be updating and expanding that presentation to deliver it again on Friday at The Future of the Book Conference sponsored by Florida State University and Florida's Panhandle Library Access Network (PLAN). The help I'd like from you all is feedback and criticism, links and suggestions, in comments or via email, to make the presentation stronger.
I used Prezi, the zooming online presentation program. When I presented it in the spring, the students really liked it; some of the adults complained of way too much zooooming. A 13 minute video version...
The full Prezi presentation...
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UGA is #3; Portland has a "hipster librarian"
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If Windows remains marginal on tablets, the “PC market” will likely tip away from Microsoft in two years (depending on how quickly Apple can build iPads.) Microsoft is making the commitment to move Windows to a tablet form factor but they are doing it while retaining the user interaction model of a desktop... Whether Microsoft succeeds or not will depend on whether the new form factor is disruptive in more than user experience. In other words whether this is just a “new PC” or a “post-PC”... For example the new model comes with different cycle time of product development (deep, integrated, yearly changes), different ecosystem (apps), different cost structures (high R&D in hardware), vast scale (device economics, components, ramps), and potentially new distribution (operators in the channel mix.) Summed up, the real challenge for Microsoft is whether they can keep their business model (selling OS licenses to hardware vendors) as PCs become more device-like.
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The marching orders were, first, you must not vote to extend the continuing resolution [that would keep the government open through 2011] unless it, in their words, “defunds Obamacare.” Number two, you must not, under any circumstances, vote for an increase in the debt ceiling. Period. No conditions. Number three, and they said this explicitly, we don’t trust John Boehner or Eric Cantor. And the state party chair from Virginia was from Cantor’s district. And, finally, the members themselves told me afterwards that what they thought they did wrong in 1995 and 1996 was they gave in too early to Clinton... it was clear to me that there was no way they could come up with a compromise or agree to a deal before the deadline. Even if it was a great deal, the presumption would be that they gave up too much by not waiting till the last second, just like with Clinton. So there’s no way they won’t blow through the 22nd of July, the date that got set up for an early deadline.
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Apple's Chief Architect of Video Applications Randy Ubillos had originally created an application called "First Cut" which later evolved into iMovie '08. iMovie '08 was met with similarly mixed reactions due to the complete overhaul over iMovie 6. According to Mellicker, Ubillos returned from vacation and found that Final Cut wasn't ideal for organizing raw footage. From that experience, First Cut was born which would let you import your raw footage and quickly skip through, organizing and building a rough edit. The intention originally was to then export to Final Cut Pro. At some point, Apple officially latched onto the project and turned it into the new iMovie '08. Ubillos was the creator of the first three versions of Adobe Premiere and later developed KeyGrip which was sold to Apple and released as Final Cut Pro. Ubillos continues to be the Chief Architect of Video Applications at Apple.
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Apple has done this before: "I can’t remember any software company pulling a stunt like this before: throwing away a fully developed, mature, popular program and substituting a bare-bones, differently focused program under the same name."
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Apple has already communicated to some video editors that this is not the "final state of FCPX," as noted by Gary Adcock, with some features apparently coming as part of the release of Mac OS X Lion. Still, as evidenced by Apple's new FAQ page, there are some things that just plain won't change.
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Final Cut Pro is like a soap opera and Apple is the network. You’ve had a character, let’s say Luke and Laura, who’ve been around, developing their storyline and their romance for a decade. The show’s viewers are heavily invested in Luke and Laura. But the network decides that Luke and Laura represent an old, outmoded character type, and that the new way is young, hip, lean…
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I worked on Final Cut Pro from 2002 to 2008. It was an amazing experience. The Final Cut Pro X project was just getting started when I left Apple. It was an ambitious and controversial move, but it made sense for Apple. Here's why:
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Graduating senior Nowmee Shehab, who headed the Gay-Straight Alliance at Brookwood High, discovered the filtering when she was unable to access the group’s own website, reported WSB-TV in Atlanta. Other blocked sites included those of the Georgia Safe Schools Coalition and the It Gets Better Project. “They are not sites that are pornographic or in any way provide adult content,” said Chara Fisher Jackson, legal director for the ACLU of Georgia. The group sent the school district a letter demanding that it lift the filters or face a possible lawsuit. Shehab said it was crucial for students to be able to reach the sites at school. “They may not feel safe at home or don’t have a computer at home so it’s very important they be able to access these sites from school,” she said. She told CBS Atlanta that students can reach reparative-therapy websites like Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Exodus International, both of which claim that homosexuals can change their sexual orientation.
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The income inequality gap in the United States now exceeds that of Egypt, which you’ll recall, just had a revolution. We’re a long way (I think) from violence between the rich and poor, but even a cursory glance through history shows that when the gap gets ever greater, societies usually come to no good end. The income gap here also exceeds that of Ivory Coast and Cameroon, two countries with long histories of instability. The income game between the top-earners and the rest of us has been this great only once, just before the Great Depression.
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Edmund S. Morgan's American Slavery, American Freedom is all about the paradox that the most aggressive and strident political advocates of the small-government personal-liberty tradition in America were the highly-racist plantation slaveowners of the Virginia Dynasty. There is something about holding hundreds of your fellow humans in inhuman bondage that makes you very averse to even a moderately-strong and powerful central government--especially one that you and your class do not control.
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MacStories deserved a link to their original post on the story, and they got that. AllThingsD’s readers deserved to know who discovered it. Yes, they could find that out by following the link to “an Apple enthusiast site”, but how many of the people who read Fried’s story actually clicked that link? My guess is not many. Fried’s piece was itself a complete version of the story. That’s how much of the for-profit weblog world works — building up your own site’s page views.
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The Bottom Line: Apple has followed the typical Apple sequence: (1) throw out something that’s popular and comfortable but increasingly ancient, (2) replace it with something that’s slick and modern and forward-looking and incomplete, (3) spend another year finishing it up, restoring missing pieces. Professional editors should (1) learn to tell what’s really missing from what’s just been moved around, (2) recognize that there’s no obligation to switch from the old program yet, (3) monitor the progress of FCP X and its ecosystem, and especially (4) be willing to consider that a radical new design may be unfamiliar, but may, in the long term, actually be better.
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In every situation where Apple comes under fire, Apple takes their time to respond. But when they finally respond, they show that they understand the issue, and they do what it takes to address the full problem. With Final Cut Pro X, I imagine they are reading every review and every blog post and seeking to understand the root of the problem. And once they fully grasp the issue, they will figure out what is necessary to address it.
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I love the organizational intelligence of FCP X and frankly it's long overdue. If you think about what a computer was born to do... I also like the smart analysis, background rendering, the skimmer and the Precision Editor. These features make the editing experience feel fluid, organic and less mechanical then track based editing applications. Also, I don't mind the single monitor. The Viewer is simple and clean and the interface does not feel cluttered. Anyone should feel at home editing on it from an iMac to a MacBook Air... Also, adding effects, titles and transitions and editing them is infinitely easier and more intuitive....While FCP X will no doubt be referred to as a souped up version of iMovie by some, this is not my impression at all. I have been cutting a documentary on it among other things, and I just finished a tutorial that is close to 5 hours long which speaks to it's depth. I was very surprised at how much iron the Apple engineers put into it.
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Apple has revamped Final Cut Pro's hands-on user experience in three major areas: Editing, media organization, and post-production workflow. New tools such as the Magnetic Timeline, Clip Connections, Compound Clips, and Auditions provide a smooth, intuitive editing experience. With the rise of data-centric workflows and tapeless video recording, organizational tools such as Content Auto-Analysis, Range-based keywords, and Smart Collections work in the background to automate formerly tedious and time-consuming manual processes. Post production workflows now offer customizable effects, integrated audio editing, color grading, and a host of streamlined delivery options. With this new application, video pros can no longer follow traditional ways of working.
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For users who still need to deliver projects on disc, they will have to use the existing version of DVD Studio Pro or consider Adobe Encore. Most vexing for some pro users, however, is the lack of tape control for import and export. While Final Cut Pro X has some capacity to import from tape, there is no ability to control output to tape. Final Cut Pro X is largely built on the assumption that footage is captured digitally and output directly to some digital form. Editors that work in the broadcasting industry in particular, where tape is still regularly used, may not be able to work with these limitations. Again, the ability to install FCPX while still holding on to and using FCP7 will be advantageous here.
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Apple may have had no choice– due to all the legacy code, FCP7 might not run in Lion at all, forcing Apple to take drastic measures, releasing an FCPX app before it was fully cooked, and pulling FCS3 off the shelves. So this entire debacle may have come down to a choice by Apple: delay the release of Lion– probably for many months – OR – release FCPX (and Motion 5/Compressor) prematurely so there was at least some editing software that ran on Lion and scramble to get everything Lion-ready? This makes a lot of sense, I, for one, believe it.
Online voting through July 8. The press release says the winner will be announced July 15.
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"...bias is everywhere, that many of our studies are shot through with unconscious errors and subtle prejudices. To Paul Simon, we see what we want to see and disregard the rest. In recent years, it's become clearer that these psychological shortcomings are a serious societal problem. Because we believe we're impervious to bias—we're blind to our own blind spots—we assume that our judgment isn't affected by financial incentives or personal opinions. But we're wrong."
On bringing Slavery by Another Name to public television. More here.
I was in the audience for the second performance of The false start, personal apology from the director and Trey Parker and Matt Stone sitting sixth row center all only added to the wild enthusiasm of the audience. We knew the show would be a hit. I wondered what number they'd do at the Tony's.
My assumption is that it will be the most benign of the show. "Hello," the opening number, is set at a mission training center in Salt Lake City where young Mormons are learning to missionize door-to-door. Scott Brown agrees:
I can dream that the the Tonycast will include The Book of Mormon's "Hasa Diga Eebowai," the category favorite's most talked-about number, which contains a helpful suggestion for the Supreme Being that might be anatomically impossible, even for Him. But considering the extreme de-crass-ification of past broadcasts, it seems unlikely that CBS will allow tuneful, good-natured blasphemy on its Tiffany air (yes, the same crystalline ether that, until recently, transmitted Charlie Sheen). Full-contact God-cursing just isn't easily bleepable. The show's medley will most likely open with Mormon’s doorbell-ringing opening number, “Hello!” Later, we're told there'll be a number anchored by Best Actor in a Musical nom Andrew Rannells. (I believe it'll be “I Believe," but don't make me swear on the Bible.)
An excellent CBS Sunday Morning report on the Book of Mormon includes discussion of that most talked-about number, "Hasa Diga Eebowai":
The Tony's will be live-blogged here. FiveThirtyEight looks at just how much a Tony is worth. Fresh Air did an interview with Parker and Stone on the show. Kevin Fallon says watch even if you've never been to a Broadway show.
Recognizing that 10 minutes is an eternity on the web, I cut a shorter version of my Rev. Genie Hargrove profile video, For Such A Time As This.
Today Trish Bendix at AfterEllen linked to it. Nice traffic; thanks Trish!
The full version is being entered into film festivals. I will have an announcement of the first festival screening soon...
The 32nd annual Bicycle Ride Across Georgia (BRAG) began Sunday at Oglethorpe College in Atlanta. It moves on to Oxford, Milledgeville, Dublin, Metter and Hinesville before coming to an end in Savannah on Saturday. Rest stops, set up every 15 miles along the route, are managed by the Special Olympics.
This is the fourth year in a row that my partner, Doug Keith, is riding. He tells me the 72 mile ride from Oxford to Milledgeville on Monday will be among the toughest of this year's course. The 100° high we're expecting, down from an earlier prediction of 102°, won't help.
Doug says he's become a star of sorts on these rides. One reason is the funny-looking vintage Pederson bike he rides. The Bentley of Bicycles, Doug's was a gift from a friend who once rode it over eleven Swiss mountain passes in ten days.
"Good testimony that it's a good hill-riding bike," says Doug.
He'll need a whole-lot-of that tomorrow!
But Doug is also known on these rides because, it turns out, a good number of the riders saw my 2008 video of his first ride. The second half gives a good sense of what it's like on the road. If you have 10+ minutes (I know, an eternity in internet time!) you might give it a look. Be sure to let me know what you think.
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