| 'Young Reporters Media Camp' set on Maui
Akaku: Maui Community Television will hold a "Young Reporters Media Camp" for middle and high school students over spring break. The weekly camp will run from 9 a.m to 3 p.m. weekdays from March 17 to 21. The cost is $200, with scholarships available. Participants will learn about video journalism and be certified to use Akaku cameras and editing equipment to contribute content to "The Maui Daily" current-events program. To apply or for more information, call 808-871-5554, or e-mail Sara Tekula at sara@akaku.org. .topix_commentLink a { font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana !important; font-size: 9pt !important; font-weight: bold !important; color: #990000 !important; } .topix_commentLink a:hover { font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana !important; font-size: 9pt !important; font-weight: bold !important; color: #003366 !important; } .topix_postform { padding: 4px !important; } .topix_postform .headerText { font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana !important; font-size: 8pt !important; font-weight: normal !important; color: #333333 !important; } .topix_postform .fieldHeader { font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana !important; font-size: 9pt !important; font-weight: bold !important; } .topix_postform .fieldHeader .explanatorytext { font-size: 1px !important; font-weight: normal !important; color: #ffffff !important; visibility: hidden !important; } .topix_postform .fieldContent { font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana !important; font-size: 9pt !important; } .topix_postform .fieldContent a:hover { color: #003366 !important; } .topix_postform .captchaText { display: block !important; width: 130px !important; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana !important; font-size: 8pt !important; font-weight: normal !important; color: #333333 !important; } .topix_postform .disclaimerText { display: block !important; margin-bottom: -75px !important; padding-bottom: -75px !important; visibility: hidden !important; } .
Not just another punk: Martin Atkins' can-do approach
On a snowy night in late January, a former funeral home in Bridgeport teems with life. The basement houses a small recording studio; the ground floor, where friends and family once gathered to mourn the deceased, functions as an art gallery/office space/warehouse; only the second floor, long ago converted into a two-bedroom apartment, stands empty.
For the past six years this two-story building has functioned as a sort of mission control for Martin Atkins, onetime drummer for Johnny Lydon's post-Sex Pistols project Public Image Ltd., the driving force behind industrial band Pigface, artist and the founder of Invisible Records, which is entering its 20th year.
The Coventry, England-born Atkins, who settled in Chicago more than a decade ago, just completed a hectic 2007.
Ting Tings release first single
The Ting Tings have released their much-anticipated debut single Great DJ. And the duo, who have been billed as a band to watch for 2008, have revealed their surprise at how much buzz has been surrounding their music. Speaking of their new release they said: "We hand-made all our singles so we did a limited copy with only a small amount going out. "It's quite shocking all this coverage we've been getting. Airplay and stuff has been amazing." Although the group are playing down the hype, they are hoping to drum up more support ahead of their album release in May. They said: "We try not to read too much of it because it can give you a really big head. So I think we've got to play shows all this year and show people what we do." .
All at sea? Ocean can find you
It is a challenge that West Australian wireless ISP Ocean Broadband has embraced, and it is tackling the problem with the help of software from two companies that sit at the heart of the Web 2.0 revolution. Ocean has paired up its Salesforce.com platform with the mapping applications of search behemoth Google in a so-called mash-up that information systems head David Wilson says is delivering big benefits for customer service and logistics. The mash-up adds Google Earth images to Ocean's customer files to give technical support staff at the small business instant access to detailed information about where their clients live. The use of Google Earth satellite photography is also proving worthwhile in diagnosing some technical problems, such as trees growing to interfere with line-of-sight reception from wireless towers.
Safe corporate social computing?
Look around at social and collaborative computing and what do you see? A complete hotch potch of different systems, some of which run safely behind the firewall, others which sit out there on someone else's servers. You hop from Flickr to Outlook to Skype to Facebook to discussion groups, or whatever. Each has its own approach and, often, integration is only possible through hyperlinks or copy/paste. Add to this the fact that you're working on different devices, laptop, desktop, internet café terminal, mobile phone, Blackberry and so on and what have you got? A lot of time wasting, a lack of security and data distributed all over the show. It can't last. To move forward we need to get to a point where all we're concerned about is doing stuff with our information and other people while the systems themselves move towards invisibility.
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