an open internet
An important video from Jesse B. Dylan.
Earlier this week, Automattic, the company behind wordpress.com and WordPress (the software this weblog runs on) announced that they would be supporting Theora along with MPEG-4 as part of their VideoPress platform.
It’s important to realize that wordpress.com is the second top 20 website in the US to add support for Theora. (The other is [...]
FIRST.
You must watch the video.
SECOND.
Enjoy the comments.
As a reader of “The Chap” magazine and an owner of some lovely tweed jackets and a Ukulele, I approve of this to a degree beyond measure. Such a shame that my sausagey fingers seem unable to play chords.
Thanks, Ryan!
This is what happens when you post a collaborative drawing app to a twitter account that has 1500 active followers.
Time from posting to first drawing was about 6 seconds. I wish I had caught it from the beginning.
Ogg Theora or MP4
I’ve put up a planet site for WebGL here:
http://planet-webgl.org
It has a short list of people who have been hacking on WebGL support in browsers and the small set of people who have been doing experiments and starting to build tutorials around the technology, even before it hits mainstream browsers. Right now it carries WebGL-specific [...]
#41 – Arcade Fire – Neon Bible & Wake Uppar lablogotheque
If you’ve never seen this 15 minute video then you’re missing out. It contains two wonderful musical moments.
The first is Arcade Fire playing Neon Bible in an elevator with instruments, both classic and improvised. It’s hard to know what it’s like to be [...]
I took the above photo with my Sidekick 3, a phone that at the time I loved dearly. It was probably one of the best phones on the market until the iPhone came on the scene and still does things that the iPhone can’t do – in particular instant messaging. (I still miss [...]