So what are you reading? New York Times article: "End of the University as we know it"

Currently screen-reading this & installing software: New York Times' article: End of the University as we know it... need a coffee?

Camping allowed, browsing encouraged...

The Library of Congress funded
Preserving Virtual Worlds Project

The Center for Internet & Society: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/

Play Machinima Law Conference, Stanford Law School: April 24-25, 2009.
The Twitter feed: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23pml

The very cool Hackleman Brothers': Myndflame

An older post from the Virtually Blind blog (no longer updated): Virtual World Screenshots Raise Copyright Questions... scary, scary, scary.

Caleb Booker's great post about ROI in virtual worlds and why they're waaaaay better than webcams!

Caleb Booker's 'Business in Virtual Worlds'
So then does the shape of the screen matter?
Was LBJ a “close talker”? Where avatars come in... yes, you can maintain some personal space.
http://www.calebbooker.com/blog/2009/01/27/roi-in-virtual-worlds-1-why-webcams-fail/

Will you Play Machinima Law?

Yes, you can still take a couple of days off and speed or fly to Palo Alto, California to take part in this uber-exciting conference... like a weekend vacation immersed in the issues of your favourite past-time... making machinima, archiving machinima...
Are you breaking the law... or not?
Absolutely can't wait... I'll be on the panel: Machinima in Game Preservation: A Fair Use Activity?
Moderated by Matteo Bittanti, Associate Researcher, Stanford Humanities Lab, Stanford University.
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/playmachinima
A new debate has already started with the YouTube comments...

Are you a Mindspotter? A Mindkeeper? ... are you Danish?

Dive into The library innovation that is the Mindspot Project: a universe for youth, focussing on what is interesting and usable to the users, gaming events, unorthodox branding where the message is distributed through many different channels, content created in co-creation with young people, lessons in information searches based on young people's needs, Mindspot's caravan, "the Spotmobile"
a glimpse into the future of the library... 2014: the new main library in Aarhus Harbour aptly named 'MediaSpace'
Watch "Mindspot the Movie: The Library as a Universe"
on their YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixsOLvLSARg&fmt=18
Check out the site: http://www.mindspot.dk/
Thank you to Sidsel!

Chris Pirillo installing SDD on 8 core Mac Pro.. yes, please

Chris Pirillo installing SDD on 8 core Mac Pro.. yes, please, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

So I'm watching my favourite show: Chris Pirillo Live on UStream with 572 watching the very elegant $800 SDD going into the stealth mac pro (16 GB RAM, 8 cores)... I want one!
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chris-pirillo-live
or http://live.pirillo.com

Celebrating Ambrosia's New SnapzProX 2.1.4!

Celebrating Ambrosia's New SnapzProX 2.1.4!, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

Changes & Enhancements to Snapz Pro X 2.1.4

-Added a "Save Later" button to the movie conversion dialog.

-Rebooting between movie capture and conversion no longer trashes the capture file.

-Display a very rough approximation of the output size of each track.

-Display a warning if the estimated movie size is greater than the available disk space.

-Raw capture are stored in ~/Library/Caches/Snapz Pro X, and can be copied or moved to other computers running the same version of Snapz.
-Long captures no longer fail during audio conversion, but the audio track is limited to 6.6 hours.

-Updates

"AmbrosiaAudioSupport.kext to 2.3.10, which fixes incompatibility with System 10.5.7"

System Requirements:
Mac OS X version 10.3.9 or later.
The Ambrosia Software site:
http://www.Ambrosiasw.com

Ambrosia's SnapzProX 2.1.4 long awaited fixes

Ambrosia's snapzprox 2.1.4 update, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

Thank you!

snapzProX Movie could not be opened (OSStatus error - 1409)

snapzProX Movie could not be opened (OSStatus error - 1409), originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

Ian Smith's post "Something I said..." has helped me through this utterly frustrating afternoon. Luckily I did take a few hours break while I thought the video was saving... and caught some sunshine, sushi and a latte while watching passersby wheel their groceries across the parking lot... such a waste of time - killing time while Snapz is not saving my vid and having to wheel groceries across parking lots. Looking at alternatives now and really clearing the disks. I have HDs on the Mac Pro and this should NOT have happened. Alas, it did. So I will keep the main HD really clear in future. I do feel better after reading Ian's post.. yes, it was nothing I said.. just did.

SnapzProX cannot be launched - error code -1712

SnapzProX cannot be launched - error code -1712, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

still mad

snapzProX Operation could not be completed - error code 1712

snapzProX Operation could not be completed - error code 1712, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

I was saving the very large HD720p file from the SL Story Project this afternoon and nightmare of nightmares... it was saving to my main hard drive instead of another HD and I got the dreaded message that II was running out of disk space. There was actually 58 GB space remaining on the drive. The file was likely about 3 GB.. so I was really mad... at myself and OSX... and a tiny bit at Snapz.
I am using Snapz Pro X 2.1.3fc2
.... mad, mad, mad.