tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51199622024-03-13T05:18:35.693-07:00Sharing and Celebrating Points-Of-ViewThis blog is a companion site for the Yahoo Group <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frefair/">FreFair</a>.<br><br>To access more information or videos discussed in posts, click the title of the entry.<br><br>JOlmstednoreply@blogger.comBlogger543125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-66077729642223081672009-03-27T19:50:00.000-07:002009-03-27T19:58:31.505-07:00Video: Amy Goodman To Keynote Seattle Green Festival Sunday (#greenfest #GreenSea)<object width="400" height="284"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hOUFDHz7xzA&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hOUFDHz7xzA&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="284"></embed></object>
<br />Interview: Amy Goodman - Seattle Green Festival 2008
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<br />At noon on Sunday, Amy Goodman, award-winning journalist, host of Democracy Now!, and coauthor of The Exception to the Rulers and Static, will speak at the Seattle Green Festival (<a href="http://www.greenfestivals.org/press/press-releases/seattle-hosts-green-festival-for-second-year/">Press Release</a>) that is being held this weekend at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center (<a href="http://www.greenfestivals.org/seattle/schedule/">See Speaker Schedule</a>)
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<br />I will be moblogging the two day annual event using my cell phone to publish audio reports to a variety of twitter streams. You can access my activity in the above widget. If you have any questions or comments, send me a twitt!JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-39162425386771310442009-02-28T11:40:00.000-08:002009-02-28T11:43:46.333-08:00EE Week Student Public Service Announcements<object width="400" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/B8E46A834156C557&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/B8E46A834156C557&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="315" allowscriptaccess="never"></embed><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="never"></param></object><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://www.eeweek.org">Environmental Education Week is April 12-18.</a> (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B8E46A834156C557">YouTube Play List</a>)<br /><br />Help spread the word. Post these public service announcements (PSA) video embed code on blogs, websites and social networks (myspace, facebook, livejournal, etc.).<br /><br />EE Week is the largest organized environmental education event in the United States that increases the educational impact of Earth Day by creating a full week of educational preparation, learning, and activities in K-12 classrooms, nature centers, zoos, museums, and aquariums.<br /><br />NOTE: If you are interested in creating your own eeweek PSAs, check out the resources on my <a href="http://www.classroom20.com/profiles/blogs/videobloggingpodcast-project">Classroom 2.0 blog</a>.JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-75432274428406120302008-08-26T07:42:00.000-07:002008-08-26T07:42:19.949-07:00E&P Ranks Top 30 Newspaper Sites<a href="http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/digital-downloads/metrics/e3i56cb34c420625079cbc87bff295c36ef">E&P Ranks Top 30 Newspaper Sites</a>: "Almost two-thirds of the top 30 newspaper Web site list recorded double-digit percent increases in unique traffic in July, according to the latest data from Nielsen Online. <br /><br />The standout in that month: Ottaway Newspapers -- the community news arm of Dow Jones once up for sale by News Corp. That group of papers, which includes the Cape Cod (Mass.) Times, reported a gain of 167% in unique users year-over-year in July. <br /><br />The Los Angeles Times grew its monthly unique traffic 66% to 8.7 million due mostly to the earthquake that shook that city at the end of July. LATimes.com went down for short bit not because of damage, but rather because too many people tried to access the site at once.<br /><br />Below is the list of the top 30 newspaper Web sites provided by Nielsen. The percent change compares July 2008 uniques with July 2007 uniques. Also keep in mind there are several reasons why traffic fluctuates, including news events."<br /><br />NYTimes.com -- 19,513 -- 38%<br />USATODAY.com -- 10,404 -- (-2%)<br />washingtonpost.com -- 8,935 -- (-2%)<br />LA Times -- 8,750 -- 66%<br />Wall Street Journal Online -- 8,716 -- 94%<br /><br />New York Post -- 4,937 -- 25%<br />Boston.com -- 4,891 -- 21%<br />SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle -- 4,503 -- 25%<br />Daily News Online Edition -- 4,301 -- 66%<br />Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- 3,985 -- 64%<br /><br />Ottaway Newspapers -- 3,957 -- 167%<br />Chicago Tribune -- 3,901 -- 22%<br />Newsday -- 3,393 -- 27%<br />International Herald Tribune -- 3,014 -- 25%<br />Chicago Sun-Times -- 2,636 -- 1%<br /><br />The Houston Chronicle -- 2,636 -- (-28%)<br />Politico -- 2,317 -- 34%<br />DallasNews.com - The Dallas Morning News -- 2,082 -- 1%<br />NJ.com -- 2,081 -- 60%<br />Village Voice Media -- 1,960 -- (-28%)<br /><br />Philly.com -- 1,703 -- 3%<br />The San Diego Union-Tribune -- 1,666 -- (-15%)<br />MercuryNews.com -- 1,612 -- 7%<br /><strong>Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- 1,589 -- 21%</strong><br />Baltimore Sun -- 1,588 -- 45%<br /><br />Star Tribune -- 1,536 -- (-2%)<br />Kentucky.com -- 1,517 - N/A<br />Boston Herald -- 1,451 -- 31%<br />The Detroit News -- 1,446 -- 59%<br />OregonLive.com -- 1,445 -- 66%*JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-68155783427391119762008-08-24T22:16:00.000-07:002008-08-25T10:28:10.734-07:00Port Townsend Country Blues Festival Video Reports<p><a href="http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/videoblogging/">Videoblogging 206 Video Guide: </a><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Interviews, Jams, Concerts (4.5+ hours)</span><br /></p><ol><li><a href="http://blip.tv/file/1136527">Interview Phil Wiggens</a> 15:23</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Ari Eisinger (Part 1)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZvbGFt9NkM">Interview Ari Eisinger (Part 1)</a> 04:53</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Ari Eisinger (Part 2)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX_jQD-0I5Y">Interview Ari Eisinger (Part 2)</a> 08:53</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Ari Eisinger (Part 3)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FZw7fll0h8">Interview Ari Eisinger (Part 3)</a> 07:55</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Ari Eisinger (Part 4)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgxMsPJ7EQw">Interview Ari Eisinger (Part 4)</a> 03:30</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Interview Reverend Robert Jones Sr (1)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVbZn3lFpXQ">Interview Reverend Robert Jones Sr (Part 1)</a> 08:36</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Interview Reverend Robert Jones Sr (2)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j99XKRQysh8">Interview Reverend Robert Jones Sr (Part 2)</a> 07:42</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Interview Reverend Robert Jones Sr (3)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHXFZ4vkpy8">Interview Reverend Robert Jones Sr (Part 3)</a> 09:49</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Interview Reverend Robert Jones Sr (4)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy9N3LMyF4c">Interview Reverend Robert Jones Sr (Part 4)</a> 06:56</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Interview Reverend Robert Jones Sr (5)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UNtJsyeI9E">Interview Reverend Robert Jones Sr (Part 5)</a> 05:57</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Interview Reverend Robert Jones Sr (6)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQhd3Yizwsg">Interview Reverend Robert Jones Sr (Part 6)</a> 09:02</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Interview Reverend Robert Jones Sr (7)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzvyG_Q-ZV0">Interview Reverend Robert Jones Sr (Part 7)</a> 07:46</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Interview with Rick Franklin" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07FC4GMxp_g">Interview Rick Franklin</a> (Part 1) 08:37 </li><li><a title="PT Blues: Rick Franklin" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87GOiXRjQds">Interview Rick Franklin</a> (Part 2) National Guitar Tricone 07:07</li><li><a title="Jerron Paxton Interview Medley" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7g5PB7PJfE">Interview Jerron Paxton Medley</a> 08:31</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Interview with Rev. John Wilkins (Part 1)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBx9_LvXiOE">Interview Rev. John Wilkins (Part 1)</a> 07:56</li><li><a title="'PT" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YETsQ5vk8Xw">Interview Terry "Harmonica" Bean</a> (Part 1) 08:18 </li><li><a title="PT Blues: Interview with Jay Summerour (Part 1)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ooi2K2cs1M">Interview Jay Summerour (Part 1)</a> 09:05</li><li><a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=40633289" name="vidtitle_40633289" wbr="true">Interview Shirley Smith, Gospel Choir</a> 15:39 </li><li><a title="PT Blues: Roy Brown WA Blues Society" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBi1MTLUYog">Interview Roy Brown WA Blues Society</a> 05:48 </li><li><a title="PT Blues: Blues In The Clubs Reverend Robert Jones Sr" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUOD0iiL-u8">Blues In The Clubs Reverend Robert Jones Sr</a> 08:50</li><li><a title="'Jerron" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY54-rQDK8c">Blues In The Clubs Jerron "J-Dog" Paxton Plays The Uptown Pub</a> 05:25</li><li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYU2E607_L4">Blues In The Clubs Rick Franklin Plays The Public House</a> 02:46</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Participants' Concert" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpuqJvWsrig">Participants' Concert</a> JT Moor 04:22</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Jerron Paxton - Hit the Road Jack" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL4byRPar50">Participants' Concert - Jerronettes</a> 05:45</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Participants' Concert" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1NOmawSXY8">Participants' Phil Wiggens and Zoë Carpenter Concert </a>03:02</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Shirley Smith, Gospel Choir" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n37QyLWcTk4">Participants' Concert Shirley Smith Gospel Choir</a> 04:30</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Mary Hilts, Student" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re6m7jzzclo">Student Mary Hilts</a> 03:51</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Student Tanner Wells" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq3el7zlKbU">Student Tanner Wells</a> 05:21</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Blues Dance" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hllfUg23BM">McCurdy Pavilion Friday Night Performances</a> 05:33</li><li><a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=39955520" name="vidtitle_39955520" wbr="true">McCurdy Pavilion Saturday Afternoon Performances</a> 14:02 </li><li><a title="PT Blues: Rev. John Wilkins Sing-a-Long Jam" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHe57b_XquM">Jam Rev. John Wilkins 204 Sing-a-Long</a> 05:37</li><li><a title="PT Blues: Jarron Paxton 204 Jam" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrkYUJvZhOc">Jam 204 Jerron Paxton </a>07:12</li><li><a title="PT Blues: 204 Jam Tuesday" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV-uZ21AL04">Jam 204 Tuesday</a> 09:32</li><li><a title="PT Blues: 210 Jam" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDev5ItYVSg">Jam 210 Jerron Paxton, Jay Summerour, Warner Williams</a> 02:26</li><li><a title="PT Blues: 204 Jam" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3swqb2W4uaQ">Jam 204</a> Monday 09:13</li><li><a title="PT Blues:Historial Blues Musicians Mural" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4MpHRaY3GI">Historial Blues Musicians Mural</a><a href="http://blip.tv/file/1136527"> 04:12</a></li></ol>JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-45028494425898894882008-06-19T11:17:00.000-07:002008-06-19T11:24:46.291-07:00Fremont Fair: Naked Cyclists Get Their Own T-ShirtsDuring my live online radio interview with Adina Johnson, <a href="http://www.fremontfair.com/">Fremont Fair</a> Producer, she talked about the merchandise artwork developed by chalk illustrationist, Lou Patnode, that will be available at the Fair this weekend on T-shirts. <br /><img src="http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/videoblogging/library/Naked_Bike_eProof.jpg" width="400"><br /><br />The Fremont Parade Solstice Cyclists T-Shirt ArtworkJOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-57543599360722275402008-06-09T17:34:00.000-07:002008-06-09T17:34:12.677-07:00DiCaprio to Play Nolan Bushnell in Atari | The Underwire from Wired.com<a href="http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/leo-dicaprio-at.html">DiCaprio to Play Nolan Bushnell in Atari | The Underwire from Wired.com</a>: "Leonardo DiCaprio will star as Nolan Bushnell in Atari, a new Paramount Pictures biopic about the man who brought us Pong and Chuck E. Cheese.<br />Bushnell turned down a number of previous requests to turn his life story into a movie, according to Variety, but signed off on a pitch by Craig Sherman and Brian Hecker (Bart Got a Room).<br />DiCaprio, who's also pushing to make Brave New World, knows a little something about ingenious inventor-entrepreneurs, having earned an Oscar nomination for portraying Howard Hughes in The Aviator."JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-58641078962513469642008-06-04T15:46:00.000-07:002008-06-04T15:49:00.354-07:00With these tips you should be able to throw a pizza crust like a pro<embed src="http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1526070353" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=1568133066&playerId=1526070353&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://services.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="320" height="288" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed><br /><br />By REBEKAH DENN<br />P-I FOOD WRITER<br /><br />I've always found it easy to make pizza dough at home -- easy, as long as I wanted a crust that baked up thick, puffy and irregularly shaped. Forming an even, flat, thin circle of dough has been an entirely different ball of dough. <br /><br />The novice status of my crust was thrown, so to speak, in my face when I picked up pizza at Pagliacci. I jealously watched staffers take just seconds to transform a ball of dough seemingly much like mine into a twirling dervish, then into a supple, flat, even, 17-inch blank palette. The process looked as smooth, inevitable and unattainable as a magic trick. <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/food/365622_pizzacrust04.html">Read More</a>JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-38984014321278773662008-04-08T05:10:00.000-07:002008-04-08T05:14:55.337-07:00Natasha Bedingfield: Unwritten<object width="400" height="255" id="uvp_fop" allowFullScreen="false"><param name="movie" value="http://d.yimg.com/cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/fop/embedflv/swf/fop.swf"/><param name="flashVars" value="id=v29585741&eID=1301797&enableFullScreen=0"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><embed height="255" width="400" id="uvp_fop" allowFullScreen="false" src="http://d.yimg.com/cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/fop/embedflv/swf/fop.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="id=v29585741&eID=1301797&enableFullScreen=0" /></object>
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<br />Yahoo! now provides embedded video player code of top music videos. Coolness!JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-23097204866203137672008-03-14T08:30:00.000-07:002008-03-14T08:33:20.843-07:00AFI's ground-breaking filmmaking series, LIGHTS, CAMERA, EDUCATION!<object width="400" height="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EY-qMXWL3-s&rel=1&border=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EY-qMXWL3-s&rel=1&border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"width="400" height="325"></embed></object><br />A eleven part AFI series, hosted by actor and director Sean Astin, a step by step guide for planning, shooting and editing video project, tips & tricks for a smooth production and practical advice from working filmmaking professionals.JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-26124451575381695112008-02-19T14:05:00.000-08:002008-02-19T14:07:45.451-08:00PORT TOWNSEND: EarthDay, Everyday Videos<object width="400" height="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/1A1B8E414BE975F4"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/1A1B8E414BE975F4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="325"></embed></object><br />A YouTube Playlist Demo featuring Port Townsend, WA Earthday, Everyday video reports from 2006-07.JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-43524758892442675802007-12-30T21:04:00.000-08:002007-12-30T21:04:39.770-08:00Americans more wired: survey | Entertainment | Industry | Reuters<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSN2844258220071229">Americans more wired: survey | Entertainment | Industry | Reuters</a>: "NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - About 38 percent of U.S. consumers are watching TV shows online, 36 percent use their cell phones as entertainment devices and 45 percent are creating online content like Web sites, music, videos and blogs for others, according to a new-media survey from Deloitte & Touche.<br />The findings of the online survey of 2,081 Americans, conducted October 25-31, were provided to The Hollywood Reporter before their official release next month.<br />The 'State of the Media Democracy' notes that in Deloitte's first edition of the survey just eight months earlier, 24 percent of consumers used their cell phones as entertainment devices, meaning that usage has soared 50 percent."JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-70809060956364490262007-12-29T12:27:00.000-08:002007-12-29T12:33:10.131-08:00NYT: For the right niche, blogs can be valuable tool for marketingBy MARCI ALBOHER<br />THE NEW YORK TIMES<br /><br /><br /><blockquote>To its true believers at small businesses, it is a low-cost, high-return tool that can handle marketing and public relations, raise the company profile and build the brand.<br /><br />That tool is blogging, though small businesses with blogs are still a distinct minority. A recent American Express survey found that only 5 percent of businesses with fewer than 100 employees have blogs. Other experts put the number slightly higher.<br /><br />But while blogs may be useful to many more small businesses, even blogging experts do not recommend it for the majority.<br /><br />Guy Kawasaki, a serial entrepreneur, managing partner of Garage Technology Ventures and a prolific blogger, put it this way: "If you're a clothing manufacturer or a restaurant, blogging is probably not as high on your list as making good food or good clothes."<br /><br />Blogging requires a large time commitment and some writing skills, which not every small business has on hand.<br /><br />But some companies are suited to blogging. The most obvious candidates, said Aliza Sherman Risdahl, author of "The Everything Blogging Book," are consultants. "They are experts in their fields and are in the business of telling people what to do."</blockquote>JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-51508155397179850702007-12-14T09:43:00.000-08:002007-12-14T09:58:01.647-08:00Bellevue Community College (BCC) YouTube Contest Finalists<object width="400" height="406"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/9A4FB669C8ADB54B" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/9A4FB669C8ADB54B" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="406" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-59448904051405266952007-12-09T12:09:00.000-08:002007-12-09T12:14:54.198-08:00GAMES FOR HEALTH PROJECT<p>GAMES FOR HEALTH PROJECT ANNOUNCES GAMES FOR HEALTH CONFERENCE 2008ISSUES CALL FOR CONTENT FOR FOURTH ANNUAL GATHERING</p><p>December 6, 2007 - (Portland, ME) - Today the Games for Health Project (<a href="http://www.gamesforhealth.org/" target="_blank">www.gamesforhealth.org</a>) announced plans for its fourth annual Games for Health Conference. The conference will be held May 8–9, 2008, at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. </p><p>Games for Health announced Humana has signed on as a premiere industry sponsor for the event.Prior to the conference, on May 7, the Project will also host two additional day-long events devoted to virtual worlds and health, as well as games accessibility. </p><p>Together, these three days of meetings will cover the intersection of next-generation game technologies, health, and health care. Registration is now open at <a href="http://www.gamesforhealth.org/" target="_blank">www.gamesforhealth.org</a>, and a call for content has now been issued on the site and is available to prospective speakers and presenters.</p><p>The Games for Health Project is dedicated to exploring and building on the use of games and game technologies to improve health and health care. The Project was started in 2002 by the Serious Games Initiative (<a href="http://www.seriousgames.org/" target="_blank">www.seriousgames.org</a>) and is sponsored by the Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). </p><p>On November 7, 2007,RWJF announced an $8.25M grant to fund new research and continued efforts to build the games for health field, which includes support for the Games for Health Project and primary sponsorship of the Games for Health Conference through 2011.</p><p>"On the heels of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s grant announcement, we are proud to launch what we expect to be our biggest and best gathering to date," said Games for Health Project Communications Director and conference organizer Beth Bryant. "The theme this year is ‘Leveling Up,’ which we feel signifies the great leaps forward the games for health community has made since our last major event in September 2006." The Games for Health Conference expects over 300 attendees at Games for Health 2008. “This conference provides a forum for collaborations to emerge between the video game industry and the health and health care industry.” said Chinwe Onyekere, RWJF program officer. “Through these exchanges, we hope attendees will continue to explore how the power of video games can help to solve complex health and health care challenges.”</p><p>GAMES FOR HEALTH CONTENT</p><p>The Games for Health Conference 2008 will feature more than 30 sessions and an expanded expo, including specific tracks on exergaming and training—two of the biggest areas of activity within the greater games for health field. Over the course of the two-day conference, researchers and game developers are expected to share research, games, and related engineering covering a diverse portfolio of activities, including:</p><p>* Exergaming & Rehabitainment<br />* Health Behavior Change<br />* Disease Management & Education<br />* Public Health Messaging & Patient Communication <br />* Cognitive Health<br />* Training and Management Sims & Occupational Recruitment<br />* Accessibility for Games & Disability-Focused Games* Epidemiology<br />* Pain Distraction & Stress Relief* CyberPsychology<br />* Entertainment Games About Health or Substantial Health-Related Play<br />* Health Effects of Games* First Responders & Mass Casualty Training<br />* Medical Informatics & Health Data Collection* Virtual Patients<br />* Interface & Visualization Applications* Personal Health & Electronic Medical Record Systems</p>JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-28244976817923197542007-11-21T19:25:00.000-08:002007-11-21T19:27:27.359-08:00Dell Uses Stars To Power Up Sales<object width="400" height="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WLSw56obA10&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WLSw56obA10&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="325"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://www.brandweek.com/bw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003673598">Dell Uses Stars To Power Up Sales</a>: "Dell hinges its $2.5 million holiday campaign launching Friday on a star-powered promotional roster that includes Burt Reynolds, Estelle Harris, Ice T, Vivica Fox and Brooke Burke. The celebs will send a message from a dedicated Web site, Yours Is Here.com, where consumers can send an e-mail video from the celebrity of their choice, urging friends to chip in on the price of a new Dell product as a holiday gift. The tone of the video message varies according to the image of the celebrity. For Estelle Harris, best known as George Costanza’s manipulative mother in Seinfeld, the pitch is tinged with guilt. The tone from Burke is a soft, subtle sell. Friends can put the gift money in a PayPal account."JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-27793034891417610602007-09-04T09:15:00.000-07:002007-09-04T09:15:29.079-07:00Overseas growth, especially China, means business for the West<a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/330120_chinatrade04.html">Overseas growth, especially China, means business for the West</a>: "The glimpses of the future that line the polished hallways of Mulvanny G2 Architecture come in the form of tacked-up sketches, model skyscrapers and posters of daring buildings that are, or will be. Design work at the Bellevue firm is shaping the skylines of major cities -- its architects' ideas eagerly built by clients who each want to out-dream the other. Such opportunity is rare, but it's happening in China, where ambitious expansion has given senior partner Ming Zhang and his team a venue to flex their design muscles. MG2 joins a number of Washington businesses that are prospering by feeding China's growth spurt. "JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-62027011033587753522007-09-02T06:06:00.000-07:002007-09-02T06:11:46.383-07:00Publishing photo of 2 men on ferry: A question of right vs. rightBy Michael R. Fancher<br />Seattle Times editor-at-large<br /><br />Journalists and readers could find more respectful common ground on ethical dilemmas if we all read the same book.<br /><br />It's called "How Good People Make Tough Choices" by Rushworth Kidder. I learned about it from a reader of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, ironically, because the P-I and The Seattle Times made opposite decisions on one of those tough ethical choices. About two weeks ago, the Seattle FBI asked the press to publish a photo of two men so that the public might help in identifying them. It was a rare request, and the newspapers didn't have much to go on at first.<br /><br />An FBI news release said only, "These men have been seen aboard Washington State Ferries on several occasions and have exhibited unusual behavior, which was reported by passengers. While this behavior may have been innocuous, the FBI and WAJAC [Washington Joint Analytical Center] would like to resolve these reports."<br /><br />...That is the way journalism should be practiced, and it is how thoughtful readers should critique the work of the media. Seeing ethical dilemmas in terms of right vs. right doesn't make them go away, but it could lead to more civil discourse about them.<br /><br />Much of what is posted on Internet forums or sent in e-mail commentaries these days is shrill, mean-spirited and absolutist. Tough choices come easy for some in cyberspace.JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-47933225168328583242007-08-13T21:51:00.000-07:002007-08-13T21:51:47.149-07:00Searchforvideo - About Searchforvideo<a href="http://www.searchforvideo.com/about.php">Searchforvideo - About Searchforvideo</a>: "Searchforvideo.com is a leading video search engine that indexes online video clips from over 10,000 sources. We do not host or stream online video, we index rich meta data about video clips and provide direct links to video clips around the web. Searchforvideo.com works with over 100 brand name video content providers"JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-30817495101783191492007-06-19T06:13:00.000-07:002007-06-19T06:37:16.721-07:00Fremont Parade Photos<a href="http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/myseattlepix/art/logo2.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/myseattlepix/art/logo2.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/myseattlepix/photos/1005465_450.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/myseattlepix/photos/1005465_450.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Seattle Post-Intelligencer readers are slowly posting Fremont Parade Pictures on the free photo sharing site "<a href="http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/myseattlepix/index.asp">MySeattlePixs</a>"<br /><br /><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1389/563879903_b3df852b5f.jpg" width="400"><br />There are <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/solsticeparade/">thousands of photos</a> on Flickr.JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-62651252979347518862007-06-18T15:12:00.000-07:002007-06-18T15:23:17.748-07:00Katrina Frankele, Sprint Upstage Team<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Cj9VvRPTAUU/RncDE9XUFUI/AAAAAAAAAQM/MRv9ykzAHX0/s1600-h/DCP_1749.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Cj9VvRPTAUU/RncDE9XUFUI/AAAAAAAAAQM/MRv9ykzAHX0/s400/DCP_1749.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077530488610231618" /></a><br /><br />In the only moblog of the weekend, Katrina Frankele, Sprint Upstage Team, talks about the features of the Upstage phone and whey Sprint did to sponsor the 36th Fremont Fair. <br /><br /><a target='new' href='http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&b=play&id=8088&cast=33686&autoplay=true'>Gabcast! Street Pods #9</a><br></br><br></br><object codebase='http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0' height='76' width='150' classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000'><param value='http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/mp3player.swf?file=http://www.gabcast.com/casts/8088/episodes/1182125476.mp3&config=http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/config.php?ini=mini.0.l' name='movie'></param><param value='transparent' name='wmode'></param><param value='always' name='allowScriptAccess'></param><embed pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' name='mp3player' height='76' width='150' wmode='transparent' allowScriptAccess='always' src='http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/mp3player.swf?file=http://www.gabcast.com/casts/8088/episodes/1182125476.mp3&config=http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/config.php?ini=mini.0.l'></embed></object>JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-61422712799277049242007-06-15T13:46:00.000-07:002007-06-15T14:04:36.135-07:00The Fremont Parade and Fair Is This Weekend<a href="http://www.fremontfair.com/images/poster_2007_large.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.fremontfair.com/images/poster_2007_large.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />To listen to unedited cell phone interviews direct from the event visit the <a href="http://streetpod.blogspot.com">Street Pod Blog</a>. <br /><br />To access videos, photos and edited moblog reports, goto the <a href="http://facbull.blogspot.com">Fremont Parade/Fair Blog</a>.JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-33809831903720529032007-06-06T08:13:00.000-07:002007-06-06T08:42:30.504-07:00Pike Place Market Street Fair<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Cj9VvRPTAUU/RmbPLdXUFQI/AAAAAAAAAP0/xMheTEiasVY/s1600-h/Hyun+Jung.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Cj9VvRPTAUU/RmbPLdXUFQI/AAAAAAAAAP0/xMheTEiasVY/s400/Hyun+Jung.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072969826047366402" /></a><br />Last Saturday, I covered the 2007 Pike Place Market Street Fair in Seattle, but arrived late due to getting the run around by the <a href="http://www.poulsbofarmersmarket.org">Poulsbo Farmers Market</a> site manager.<br /><br />I interviewed <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdpbRhL2_IE">Hyun-Jung Jang</a> (photo) and published around 10 video reports from the event on YouTube. Movie Maker, the free windows editing program, is getting easier to use. I'm still grooping with adding "b-roll".<br /><br />This weekend I will be teaching Hyun-Jung the ropes on how to be a video reporter at the U District Farmers Market. If things go well, we will cover the Fremont Fair on the 16th.<br /><br />Last week, <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/video">The Stranger</a> said that they would publish my videos on their site. Yesterday, three vids were selected from the 10 the Pike Place Market Street Fair reports and I was to remove "The Stranger" from the credits....and the production would look better if the credits were elimated all together. So, I re-edited the vids, removed the credits, and published the clips again on youtube. Hopefully, good things will happen from this point forward...JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-50781726875510192222007-06-03T18:15:00.000-07:002007-06-03T18:20:37.681-07:00Seattle PI Pike Place Market Multimedia Coverage<img src="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20070523/pikeplace100banner.gif" width="400"><br /><br />The Pike Place Market turns 100 on Aug. 17, 2007. To commemorate this event, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Newspaper will be updating their <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/specials/pikeplace/">special section site</a> with articles, photos, multimedia slideshows and more over the next few months.JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-25974847508161172122007-06-03T09:34:00.000-07:002007-06-03T13:03:26.358-07:00Washington State Farmer's Market Multimedia Reports<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Cj9VvRPTAUU/RmL3KCGDU_I/AAAAAAAAAOo/EYurpVP4L7k/s1600-h/DCP_1535.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071887882105607154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Cj9VvRPTAUU/RmL3KCGDU_I/AAAAAAAAAOo/EYurpVP4L7k/s400/DCP_1535.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Washington State Farmer's Market Multimedia Reports can be found on the <a href="http://ptfarmersmarket.blogspot.com">Unofficial Port Townsend Farmers Market Blog</a> and the Seattle PI <a href="http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/myseattlepix/gallery.asp?galleryID=183">"MySeattlePix"</a> Farmers Market Gallery.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Farmer's Market Reports</span></strong><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ptfarmersmarket.org">Port Townsend</a><br /><a href="http://www.bainbridgefarmersmarket.com/movie.html">Bainbridge</a><br /><a href="http://www.poulsbofarmersmarket.org/">Poulsbo</a><br /><a href="http://www.pikeplacecentennial.org/">Pike Place Farmers Market Centennial Celebration</a> - SeattleJOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119962.post-7664518390394229842007-05-31T22:28:00.000-07:002007-05-31T22:28:35.885-07:00Free Article - WSJ.com<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118066046287520886.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">Free Article - WSJ.com</a>: "CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Among the many barbs that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have traded over the years, perhaps none was as cutting as when the Apple Inc. CEO said that Microsoft Corp. had 'no taste' in a 1990s documentary. Embedded in that short remark were the vast differences between the two men and between their companies. Though they worked closely together in the early days of the personal computer industry, they soon diverged. Mr. Jobs built his fame as the father of elegant and tasteful consumer products such as the Macintosh computer and iPod music player. Mr. Gates earned a fortune building software for the general-purpose utility PC for businesses and homes, functional but arguably unexciting by comparison.<br />So it was especially significant that in a rare joint appearance at The Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference here this week, Mr. Gates said he'd 'give a lot to have Steve's taste.... The way he does things is just different, and I think it's magical.' In an exchange marked more by respect than rivalry, Mr. Jobs acknowledged Mr. Gates's role as a software pioneer and pointed to the deep history the two men have as the catalysts of an industry revolution that brought cheap, easy-to-use computers to the masses."JOlmstednoreply@blogger.com0