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Archive for May, 2008

Major article in mass media on Cloud Computing

Posted in Nicholas Carr, Web 2.0, cloud computing on Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 4:33 pm | 1 Comment »

The International Herald Tribune had an article on cloud computing yesterday. Not a bad popular account of the topic, but not particularly comprehensive or insightful. For example, while it cites Nicolas Carr’s “Big Switch,” its not a particularly good summary, omitting the negative consequences of the cloud that Carr spends a lot of time on [...]

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Red One Camera Build 16: What We Get

Posted in 4K, Build 16, Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, cameras, digital cinema, high-definition on Monday, 19 May 2008, 11:00 pm | 2 Comments »

Jim Jannard just posted about the much-anticipated Build 16 of the camera’s firmware, which is due out in Alpha very soon. Sounds good to me: What is Build 16? Since you all have waited so long for this infamous build, I think it is only fair to tell you some of it’s advantages. 1. We [...]

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Good software for streamlining copying of Red files on set

Posted in Indie filmmaking, R3D, R3D Manager, Red Camera, Red accessories, Red digital cinema, backup on Monday, 12 May 2008, 12:16 am | Leave a Comment »

Check out R3D Manager (US$79). Somehow I missed that this came out last month. Looks like exactly what’s needed on a chaotic set–a “hit one button” solution to securely backup your Red Raid (or Compact Flash) cards, including verifying the files (with checksums). I was alerted to this by Adam Wilt’s good post over at [...]

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Two Reasons To NOT choose WordPress for blogging in Asia

Posted in Great Firewall of China, SLA, SaaS, Web 2.0, WordPress.com, blogs on Sunday, 11 May 2008, 3:31 pm | 2 Comments »

[UPDATE 17:45 HK time, 11 May: Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic Inc., the company behind WordPress.com, just wrote a comment to my post here that the down-time of a few hours ago was due to a fire in a data center. This downtime in the middle of the day in Asia for long periods of [...]

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Interviews with Famous Red Users (Soderbergh, etc.)

Posted in 4K, Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, Soderbergh, cinematography, interviews on Monday, 5 May 2008, 12:44 am | 1 Comment »

Red.com has posted some excellent interviews with famous and talented directors and cinematographers on their impressions of and experiences with the Red One camera: Crash Doug Liman Michael Cioni Pierre De Lespinois Stephen Soderbergh Tony Richmond Great interviews and real-world insight into how good Red is to make films. A good quote by Tony Richmond [...]

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Interesting new book: Subject To Change–Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World

Posted in Adaptive Path, Tim O'Reilly, Web 2.0, agile, books, design on Saturday, 3 May 2008, 10:37 am | Leave a Comment »

Here’s an interesting new book I just stumbled across, Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World. It’s from Adaptive Path (a sort of web “interactive agency” on steroids). Very “on topic” for me, so I’ve just ordered it. Here’s the blurb and a couple reviews: “Short, but powerful. Easy to [...]

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Excellent Red Accessories Roundup Site

Posted in Element Technica, Indie filmmaking, Matrox, Red Camera, Red accessories, Red digital cinema, Redrock Micro, Toys4Red, UGrip, cameras, cinematography on Saturday, 3 May 2008, 10:11 am | Leave a Comment »

Darren Finner has launched an excellent site featuring a roundup of the Red accessories he likes best, complete with commentary and, in many cases, reviews. Darren is a big (and opinionated) poster on reduser.net. This “Finner Knows Best” site has write-ups (and links) for: Element Technica View Factor Studios Redrock Micro UGrip Toys 4 Red [...]

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Tim O’Reilly’s Good Keynote At Web 2.0 Expo: With Chunk on Enterprise 2.0

Posted in Amazon Web Services, Assimilate Scratch, EngineYard, Enterprise 2.0, NLE, RightScale, Tim O'Reilly, Web 2.0, ambient computing, cloud computing, digital cinema, google, heroku, mobile phones, presentations on Friday, 2 May 2008, 11:48 am | 1 Comment »

I always listen to what Tim O’Reilly has to say. Smart guy who knows tech and has a good track record of accurately foreseeing (and guiding) trends (he coined “Web 2.0″). It’s well worth checking out his presentation a couple weeks ago at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. In case you don’t have the [...]

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