Category Archives: Video

first aid kit at sxsw!

I’ve written about them before but it turns out that First Aid Kit was at SXSW and there’s a video of it. Their recent album, Drunken Trees (CD or MP3) is quite good – I bought it a month or … Continue reading

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teddy thompson – tonight will be fine – live

Pretty sure this is a cover of a Leonard Cohen song. Love Teddy Thompson’s version more than the original.

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some joy for your week: Bon Iver

[Note: original post containing these videos.] If you haven’t heard of Bon Iver before then you’re in for a bit of a treat. (I’m sure that many of you have, and just don’t know it.) These three videos were shot … Continue reading

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mark bittman on food

Yet another post on my series on Food. This time it’s a video by Mark Bittman who talks about our food system, what we’ve lost and what we should be doing. (I love his focus on real food – not … Continue reading

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reminder: lessig chat tomorrow (thursday, feb 25th) at 6pm eastern / 3pm pacific

The Open Video Alliance will be hosting an online chat with Lawrence Lessig tomorrow at 6pm eastern time / 3pm pacific time (see more time zones here.) There are a lot of events in person as well. I will be … Continue reading

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some additional information about theora and patents

There was a recent post on LWN suggesting that three specific Nokia patents may cover Theora. A deeper analysis indicates that’s just not true. Two of the patents 6,950,469 and 7,263,125, are post-VP3 and therefore not relevant because the patent … Continue reading

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the difference engine

A video of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine in operation at the Computer History Museum. A larger and higher quality version of the video is also available.

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sunrise over sweden

Your browser doesn’t support open video or you are reading this through a feed reader that strips video tags. Please view the video directly. Shot this with my N900 on my flight out of Sweden last week and wanted to … Continue reading

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the fosdem dance

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HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and why we’re standing with the web

For background on the free software angle on this story please check out Robert O’Callahan’s post on this topic. Also check out Mike Shaver’s shorter background post as well. This post differs from theirs in that I want to talk … Continue reading

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