Record as I Am

Tech && Soccer && PHP Coding - More Bolivian than America expected.

I didn't miss the boat on Dr. Horrible, I just haven't gotten around to blogging about it. If you missed it when it was free, you can get all 3 episodes on iTunes for just 4 dollars. You can't beat that deal for your entertainment dollar. I highly recommend it, if you like any combination of super heroes, super villains, romantic comedy, and musicals.

For a while now, digital cameras have been able to record movies along with just taking photographs.  Camera vendors use different video codecs to compress and save the video you take.  Common codecs include one of Apple's quicktime codecs (usually saved as a .mov file) and a variety of codecs with the .

Information week links to a report from the Computer and Communications Industry Association calculating that Fair Use exceptions in the US account for $4.

Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball are not just at the opposite ends of the alphabet, but also in embracing digital media.  In this day and age, fans don't want to be tied to watching anything, even a soccer match or baseball game, by place or time.  Baseball is one of the big three sports in the States, much like horse racing and boxing were last century, and they're vested in the old model of viewing a game at a certain place and time, and in blacking out games outside of different regions.

If you have a Tivo, iPod, or anything else that lets you view videos or listen to music on a digital player, you've run up against DRM.  You may not be aware of it but its there.  It's what's kept TivoToGo from working on non-windows PC's until last month, when the encryption was finally cracked.

Yahoo music is selling a music file as a plain vanilla MP3 file with no DRM.  Could this position them to compete against iTunes effectively?  Only if music available as a protected AAC file on iTunes is also purchasable as a plain MP3 file on Yahoo! Music.  From

The Hollywood cartels may try to get hardware companies to put in DRM controls via HDMI with the promise not to use them for 7-8 years.

The effect is that if your screen or recorder isn't blessed by Hollywood, they can limit the video they send to it to a low-resolution image.

Via BoingBoing, I ran across this item, about how a supporter of the DMCA and DRM technologies found he couldn't access 2 years worth of television programs on his own video recorder.

I sent my friend Nam-ho a link to the new release of Lightbox JS, a slick Javascript based way to overlay images on a webpage. As far as a javascript onlly solution, it could be an impressive method for displaying a slideshow. In response, Nam-ho sent me to

A revelation hopefully more artists and creative professionals will come to is neatly summed up in this post from Powazek. We'll only see more of them come to the same conclusions as they learn to fully harness the distribution models provided by the Internet.