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thehpalliance: If you use YouTube, you need to know this. You’ve heard all these rumblings about Net Neutrality over the past several months. Let’s get real: this is about controlling online video. It is estimated that by 2017, video content will account for 80-90% of all global Internet traffic. This isn’t just about not being…
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Online Video is Nothing Like TV (But it Will Be if We Can’t Think Differently)
Online Video is Nothing Like TV (But it Will Be if We Can’t Think Differently) fishingboatproceeds: kenyatta: edwardspoonhands: WALL OF TEXT ABOUT ONLINE VIDEO! Everything about online video is different from television (aside from the fact that lots of images are displayed in sequence in order to create the illusion of movement.) The way the…
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rhube: laylainalaska: fuckyeahsources: Nope. But the real story is better. Bolding mine: The late Ruth Thompson, a cell painter on “Snow White” who later became a multiplane scene planner, recalled: “We tried everything – airbrush, drybrush, even lipstick and rouge, which is perhaps the basis for the legend because we did, in fact, try it. But…
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guardian: Ferguson, 11 days on: “We are sitting on a powder keg” “Just about the only thing clear through the fog of noxious gas clouding Ferguson’s streets is the burning, implacable rage of Brown’s peers against the police and their political masters” • Read our special report Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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How Facebook and Twitter control what you see about Ferguson
How Facebook and Twitter control what you see about Ferguson invisiblelad: Social media is controlled by algorithms – a mathematical formula that dictates what you see and when. In the past week, people have noticed something curious about the way these algorithms have filtered news about protests in Ferguson, Mo., over the fatal shooting of…
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andreblyth: forestambassador: The Wait is a game about the desert by Pierre Chevalier. Play Online Why Try It: Beautiful visual design; a short narrative told through images and minimal interaction. Mood: Atmospheric Author’s Notes: “The Wait is a narrative set in the desert. I suggest you play first (actually, you should play several times), then come back here…