Revenues bleak; Track on; I want to know you
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Declining revenue in commercial radio.
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Cross media usage/behavioural tracking
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CRM plus marketers = ….?
What motivates my photography?
Image: Copyright Ben Haylock.
Randal Leeb-du Toit asked
quick poll: what do you do with your photos
I replied
take them, share them, Flickr them. No retouching as I have zero skills. I collect fine art photos and look at them every day.
That’s simplifying things down to 140 characters or less.
Rand followed up
what motivates each of the 3 actions - take, share, Flickr…
Had to stop and think about that.
Image: Copyright Ben Haylock.
Take.
I take to reinforce memories, not to create them. I don’t live the event through the viewfinder, I live in the event with the viewfinder. Kress and Van Leeuwen would probably disagree. Baudrillard would have laughed.
Share.
I love to share the image, and the story that goes with it, with others: usually friends and family. Nearly everyone says that, but it’s not a motivation per se. My motivation to share is to learn more about the art of photography by doing, then sharing, then listening.
Flickr.
Honestly, I have tried many, many image sharing platforms in the last 10+ years. Flickr is the best fit for me. So, what’s the motivation to Flickr? Again, it’s to share and to learn. I have a few snapshots in Lachlan Hardy’s awesome group for all our amateur chef-fests. I put images up so my father, living in a very, very remote location can see his granddaughter’s experiences.
And Flickring is fun. Just honest to goodness eyecandy fun.
mplayer on Mac OS X compilation errors
I had a very unpleasant time this morning compiling mplayer, with LIVE555 support, for Mac OS X Intel (Leopard, 10.5.4).
LIVE555 compiled fine, with
./genmakefiles macosx
and I moved it into /opt/local/lib/live to “co”"exist” with some macports libraries.
But mplayer refused to play nicely, until I built it with
./configure --disable-gui --disable-mencoder --disable-xinerama --disable-xv --disable-x11 --enable-largefiles --enable-macosx-finder-support --enable-menu --with-freetype-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/freetype-config --with-extraincdir=/opt/local/lib/live/ --with-extralibdir=/opt/local/lib
Yeah…right…I totally should have known that off the top of my head. At least now the binary is built, so I could Bonjour it to a coworker for his MacBook and he could start using it straight away.
mplayer (totally cool version with LIVE555 support) (Intel) (Mac OS X) (zip. 2.9mbyte file, HTTP download)
Please understand that this is being provided without any expressed warranty or merchantability statement. It is virus- and malicious code- free. I claim no rights of any kind for compiling open-source codebases into this binary.
links for 2008-07-11
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This graph paper is made for visual designers, interaction designers, and information architects. You’ll find styles for wireframing user interfaces, story boarding interaction, and plotting values on a two by two grid.
links for 2008-07-10
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When you’re bored, and hungry, in the office…..
Epic random DHCP failure
My iPhone (Classic) was failing to get DHCP via one of the WiFi networks in the office. Some convoluted Googling later, I found that perhaps the clash is due to the Billion DHCP server implementation not liking the AirPort Extreme IPv6 Tunneling option being enabled.
Change the IPv6 configuration in your AirPort Extreme to:
And the basestation reboots by itself, which left me with working DHCP.
Yes, I have the WiFi basestation(s) as bridges onto the DHCP-serving router.
links for 2008-07-07
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A neat sneakerpimp-style site. If only I could find where I stored my Nike Air Raid from 1993….
two bridges
Under one bridge, and towards another. A single view from the eye of Ana.
This part of Sydney, near the first settlement in The Rocks, is a visual feast in Winter with the textures of sandstone, steel and tile.
