Source: Youtube.
The entire issue No 33 of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung’s supplement magazine (hitting the news stands on August 20th) is dedicated to present its readers with a print media experience never before seen anywhere in this form. In cooperation with Augmented Reality (AR) specialist metaio the entire magazine has been enriched with multimedia content which can be enjoyed by anyone using a smartphone. This makes the SZ magazine the first publication to enhance print media with the attractions and capabilities the digital world has to offer.

Please note: iOS 4.0 Update is mandatory for this experience!

A print media experience never seen before is a post from Infofilm

YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video aims to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video. Developed by YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with HP, YouTube Play hopes to attract innovative, original, and surprising videos from around the world, regardless of genre, technique, background, or budget. This global online initiative is not a search for what’s “now,” but a search for what’s next. Visit youtube.com/play to learn more and submit a video.

Submissions close July 31, 2010.

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With software installations and complicated instructions, editing video can be a hassle—but we think it should be easy. Today, we’re introducing YouTube’s new online video editor, which makes editing your video a cinch. It’s available in TestTube, where YouTube engineers and developers test out new tools and get feedback on how they’re doing.

With this new editor, you can:

• Combine multiple videos you’ve uploaded to create a new longer video
• Trim the beginning and/or ending of your videos
• Add soundtracks from our AudioSwap library of tens of thousands of songs
• Create new videos without worrying about file formats and publish them to YouTube with one click—no upload necessary

via Official Google Blog: Edit video online with the YouTube Video Editor.

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Source: Digging Digitally

As a follow-up to the previous post about the British Museum’s collaboration with Wikipedia, I’d like to publish a text that was distributed originally on the private agade mailing list. It is written by A.J. Cave.

While is a good idea to read Wikipedia’s tutorials, policies and guidelines, sorting through volumes of information can be intimating for newcomers.  So here are a few helpful hints:

1. No matter what you do, you can’t break Wikipedia.  Wikipedia has robust version controls, so you cannot accidentally do permanent harm if you make a mistake in your editing.  All mistakes can be quickly and easily reversed or fixed by any other editor.

2. Start small.  The best way to break in and feel comfortable is do minor edits first.

3. While to edit an article, you can remain anonymous, to create a new article you have to register with a valid email userid and a password.  If you are concerned about privacy and anonymity, you may prefer to create a user name for yourself in order to hide your IP address.

4. Before starting a major edit, announce your intentions on the “Discussion” page of the article.

5. Wikipedians are expected to be civil and neutral, respecting all points of view, and only add verifiable and factual information with cited external sources rather than personal views and opinions.

6. An ideal Wikipedia article aims to be well-researched, well-written, balanced, and neutral with verifiable information, suited for an encyclopedia.  However, many Wikipedia articles start as a “stub”. A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a topic, but not so short as to provide no useful information, and it should be capable of expansion.

7. Wikipedia articles are always work in progress and vary in quality and maturity.  However, given that anyone can edit any article, it is possible for biased, outdated, or incorrect information to be posted.

8. Wikipedia does not allow original research and there is no elaborate system of scholarly peer review.

9. All articles are susceptible to vandalism and insertion of false information – particularly articles on popular and controversial topics.  But they eventually get cleaned up, either via consensus among Wikipedians or through intervention by the editors using Wikipedia’s conflict resolution systems.  A lock on an article’s page means the article is temporarily protected from editing by everyone and restricted to a few editors.

10. There are no content guarantees, so always check the History page to see if the article has been vandalized.

11. For those who teach, if you think your students have changed a Wikipedia article to match their research papers, just have them printout the History of a Wikipedia article and hand over!

Read more: Digging Digitally

A few helpful hints for editing your museum on Wikipedia is a post from Infofilm

Television was not the very same in older days. If you ever regretted that you might have missed some classic TV commercials or some popular oldie soaps, music videos or game shows that you have heard from your parents then you can stop repenting now, because you can anytime visit the online TV museum to explore the history of television and media (British) at TV-Ark.

TVARK is the on-line TV museum. The site is intended as a tribute to the work of television presentation and graphics, and to preserve a slice of our social history. Through images and video clips, TVARK presents those modest little chunks of television that are never repeated: idents, programme promotions, opening title sequences, public information films, commercials, daily start-ups and closedowns, break bumpers and station clocks. Each item is accompanied by a short written analysis and review.

TVARK is above all an educational resource. It is popular at home and abroad, used by teachers and students in schools and colleges. It is also recognised by people within the TV industry; TVARK’s archives are frequently used by industry professionals, who find their own master copies of programmes have been wiped over the years. TVARK has supplied information and clips for broadcast documentaries, presentation & news programmes, as well as broadcasting websites.

Visit: TV Ark.

On-line TV museum: TVARK is a post from Infofilm

Created with Adobe InDesign CS5 and additional Adobe publishing technologies, the WIRED Reader is the first in a series of steps for Adobe to enable magazine publishers and retail catalogers to deliver groundbreaking experiences across tablets, smartphones and other devices. By reaching readers in new ways on these emerging devices, publishers can increase circulation because these new apps count towards audited ABC circulation and deliver incremental digital revenue.

Together with Creative Suite 5, this Digital Magazine Solution from Adobe allows magazines and retail catalogers to differentiate themselves through expressive content experiences. Previous experiments to bring the magazine experience to the Web via a browser have resulted in a static experience. With new reading paradigms like the WIRED Reader, readers are able to experience the design fidelity of a print magazine married with the interactivity of digital.

Read more: Introducing WIRED Magazine on iPad – Adobe Digital Publishing.

New ways of publishing: WIRED Magazine on iPad is a post from Infofilm

HTML5 offers in combination with other apps, plugins and widgets great possibilities for online museums. Have a look at this Sports Magazine presentation, a collaboration between TWF, Google, and SI for the Google I/O 2010 Keynote Presentation. Narrated by SI Editor, Terry McDonell

Developed in HTML5 using:
CSS Animation
Embedded Fonts
Drag & Drop
HTML5 Video
Geolocation
Web Workers
App Cache
Web DB
Feeds
Google Maps API
Google Buzz API
Rails
Lazy Loading Pages

HTML5, nice features for museums! is a post from Infofilm

Virtue ethics is an approach to ethics that emphasizes the character of the moral agent, rather than rules or consequences, as the key element of ethical thinking (Wikipedia). Paul van Tongeren and Marcel Becker at The Radboud University Nijmegen apply virtue ethics to the concept of INTEGRITY. Infofilm made an interactive DVD ‘INTEGRITEIT DEUGT’ to explore and explain this approach with interviews and animations. The four cardinal virtues are (in Dutch): MOED, MAAT, RECHTVAARDIGHEID, VERSTANDIGHEID. The commissioner was BIOS, the Dutch National Office for Promoting Ethics and Integrity in the Public Sector at The ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK).

NEW DVD: Virtue ethics and Integrity, an interactive approach is a post from Infofilm

Although the iPad has some significant disadvantages (and similar devices are coming) we think the iPad is a great presentation tool for museums. Here is Apple’s Ad in the tradition of their Newton Ad 20 years ago. (Museummedia)

We @ Infofilm and Museummedia we love it… is a post from Infofilm

Social Media Revolution 2 is a refresh of the original video with new and updated social media & mobile statistics that are hard to ignore. Based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman.

Seems to me informative for museum marketing people.

(Video) Social media & mobile statistics, worth knowing for museums is a post from Infofilm

Artist Sue Lawty, who devised the World Beach Project in association with the V&A, describes the processes involved in participating in the project and creating a pattern on a beach.

Devised by artist Sue Lawty in association with the V&A, the World Beach Project is a global art project open to anybody, anywhere, of any age, building on the experience many of us have had on holiday of making patterns on beaches and shorelines.

Explore the map by clicking on the coloured pins.

World Beach Project in association with the V&A is a post from Infofilm

Andrew Lyons from UltraKnowledge introduces the Independent newspaper’s News Wall, which allows readers to search for stories visually.

UltraKnowledge introduce the Independent’s News Wall is a post from Infofilm

Motion! Videos can explain, clarify, and engage like nothing else.

Wikipedia is the largest collaborative experiment in human history. It’s also one of the ten most-visited websites in the world. The English Wikipedia alone has more than 3.2 million articles. These articles were all created by the active community of Wikipedians. Anyone can edit an article, making Wikipedia a constantly growing and improving resource.

But a text article can only convey so much. Wouldn’t it be great if a Wikipedia entry could communicate the motion of a pirouette? Or the kinetic buzz of New York City’s Grand Central Terminal?

Right now, very few articles on Wikipedia have videos. It’s time to change that! Starting now, you can be among the first people experimenting with the possibilities of collaborative video. Your contributions will shape the future of Wikipedia, making it a rich and dynamic source of high-quality educational content. You will also help spread free sharing of knowledge on the web.

Plus, when you post a video to Wikipedia, you are also helping to promote open video. Wikipedia uses a 100% free and open source video stack powered by HTML5 and Theora. The articles are free to share and reuse, there’s no advertising, and the software that runs the site is free and open source.

Click here to learn how to post a video on Wikipedia. For more on video on Wikipedia, or how to become a partner, visit our Roadmap page.

via Let’s Get Video on Wikipedia.

Let’s Get Video on Wikipedia is a post from Infofilm

The Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab is working to develop social robots that can learn to assist people by observing natural human interaction. Mars Escape is a two-player game designed to gather data about human teamwork, social interaction and communication. Help us out by playing the game, either as a human or a robot!

Algorithmic analysis of the data collected through these games will enable us to develop natural autonomous behaviors for our robot Nexi. We will then recreate the game environment in real life and demo our findings at the Boston Museum of Science!

The game takes about 10 minutes to play, you will be randomly paired with another player online. Players must be 18 and over.

Read also: Play MIT’s New Video Game to Help Train Smarter Robots
How to play: Mars Escape.

Mars Escape, Play MIT’s New Video Game to Help Train Smarter Robots is a post from Infofilm

Teleac vraagt om fragmenten uit Infofilm-animaties voor TV-programma ‘Vroeger & Zo’. Vroeger & Zo is een Schooltv-programma uitgezonden door Teleac/NOT op een vaste dag en tijdstip. Vrijwel altijd op lesdagen. Het is een programma bedoeld voor kinderen van groep 6, groep 7 en groep 8 van de basisschool.

Er zijn drie hoofdpersonen:

• tante Anastasia (Ellis van den Brink) met haar antiekwinkel
• buurmeisje Jet (Terence Schreurs)
• pizzakoerier Jeffrey (Ivan Renema)

Aan de hand van een thema wordt een educatief, informatief programma gemaakt over een onderwerp uit de (Nederlandse) geschiedenis. Spelenderwijs leren kinderen over geschiedenis en de achtergronden ervan.

NL – Teleac vraagt om fragmenten uit Infofilm-animaties voor TV-programma ‘Vroeger & Zo’ is a post from Infofilm

spyfilms.com – The making of the award winning “Nuit Blanche” Very nice, complicated performance! Greenscreen and 3D keying. Great!

See the film here.

The Making Of Nuit Blanche is a post from Infofilm

Framer Framed is een debatserie over de positie van niet-westerse kunst in Nederlandse kunstinstellingen. In de Nederlandse museumwereld lijkt nauwelijks plaats voor perspectieven vanuit de regio zelf. Tentoonstellingen worden geframed met de Nederlandse blik als uitgangspunt.

In het debat ‘De exotische blik’ gaan Stanley Bremer, directeur van het Wereldmuseum, Bert Sliggers curator in het Teylers Museum, Rocky Tuhuteru, programmamaker, radio- en televisiepresentator en Francio Guadeloupe, cultureel antropoloog, docent en onderzoeker aan de ASSR met elkaar in gesprek.

NL – Framer Framed debat ‘De exotische blik’ is a post from Infofilm

All languages have syntactic rules. Those rules govern the structure of sentences and allow communication. The Internet also has its own language and its own syntax. All computers and electronic devices need that syntax to communicate on the web. It is known as the “Internet Protocol”. The European Commission encourages the widespread adoption of its sixth version, the Internet Protocol version 6 IPv6 on the basis of a specific action plan that should be fully implemented this year.

The adoption of IPv6 will facilitate the deployment of online mobile communications. It is also essential to ensure the growth and development of tomorrow’s Internet.

Read more: IPv6 | Europa – Information Society.

Why do we need a new Internet Protocol IPv6? is a post from Infofilm

An interview and behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the amazing new ebook The Elements: A Visual Exploration. Theodore Gray tells you the why and how of this best-selling new iPad book.

The Elements ebook for iPad looks great! is a post from Infofilm

Many people use Photoshop to bend and twist images in unique ways. Russell Brown, senior creative director, delivers a new take on warping images and image elements in this early glimpse into Photoshops Labs. CS5 is coming on April 12 – www.adobe.com

Puppet Warp Sneak Peak CS5 Photoshop is a post from Infofilm