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Social Media

Turning a fail into a win

After the last Social Media Cafe Liverpool last February 2011, I tried to create a video of the conversation between Alistair Houghton and Christian Payne aka Documentally. The video from this was the first attempt – somewhere along the line the encoding had gone wring and and gave me this really speeded up version of the interview. This was an Epic FAIL.

Fail to plan, plan to fail

Mr T said that

But I loved the funny fast paced images and decided this video would take a different route to than straight to the recycle bin. I asked @Methoddan if he had any open source audio that I could use, he did, so I cut it up and overlaid or underlaid it (whichever it is), recorded a bit of my audio to give is some use at Social media Cafe Liverpool.

I hope you like my turning a fail into a win.

 

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Social Media

Show me the money…. Getting your programme brochure on your website

Issuu LogoWhy isn’t your programme brochure on your website?

That is the question I ask myself often when looking at events to go to, instead I have to scrawl through pages of your site looking for times and dates for a specific event. As a hardened culture vulture I’m willing to do this but what if I was just a casual browser looking for something to fill my time.

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Social Media

What’s them RSS Feeds then or how RSS makes the Internet work

A quick guide to RSS feeds and making them work for you.

This video will undoubtedly will explain RSS feeds better than I ever could.  Even though it is 5 years old now it still has important information for many.

Watch,  enjoy then read on.

Right then so now you know what RSS feeds are and how you can use them to get other peoples news to your computer without having to go to all of those websites to read it.

But and there is always a but … are you making sure that visitors to your website are able to do the same.
Are they able to subscribe to your news via RSS feed?

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Ramblings

What is your favourite video of Hacking and Tinkering

Interface AmnestyDefnet TV needs You – So what is your favourite? Get in touch and send us your links  so we can feature them!!!

This is for a series of programmes in the build up to Interface Amnesty on 26th September, to appear on Defnet TV. We want to know what are you faved tinkerer Vids so that we can feature them on the day at Interface Amnesty but also in the week leading up to it.

Blurby bit about Interface amnesty “Inspired by a trade fair scene in the 1974 Francis Ford Coppola film “The Conversation” and your local jumble sale. Interface Amnesty plays with the conventions of interface design, music technology products and the presentation of interactive art.Its an opportunity for sharing between artists, musicians and the public with live music, food stalls and that elusive country fair feeling If you have been developing your own instruments and interfaces for making and performing music sound and moving images and want to share your creations with the public on your own stall get in touch with a description of your interface or project Please provide as much information about your project as you can.

This is the first one that we found below on Youtube – strange

Hacked Vintage Dustbuster Vacuum Cat. No: 9330 Type 2 & Duracell Powerpack 300 Jumpstart Box

So Get in touch and send us your links  so we can feature them!!!

Email me —-   defnetmedia at gmail.com

via Calling all INTERFACE MAKERS HACKERS TINKERERS.

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What I Hear (stereo mixdown) by cheapjack

I came across this on Sound Cloud uploaded by Cheapjack aka Ross from Sound Network on Sound Cloud – I have some of my stuff there and it has a handy little widget for posting to otehr social media spaces like this.

I never got to Power Plant but wish i had.

This is …..

Stereo mixdown of 10 channel sound installation made in collaboration with Daniel Barrett, Tim Lambert and Imogen Stidworthy for Powerplant a commission for Liverpool Culture Company

What I Hear (stereo mixdown) by cheapjack

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