Jon Udell

More ways to turn Internet feeds into TV feeds

Last week I started looking into ways to Internet feeds into TV feeds. Although I did come up with a way to turn a data feed into a video file, that wound up being overkill. It turns out that the local station is willing to broadcast the signal from a computer display. To create that [...]

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01.07.2008 15:11:42 - Jon Udell

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From seeing to hearing: A conversation with Susan Gerhart about assistive technologies for the sight-impaired

For many of us, the podcasting revolution has opened up the audio channel as a new option for receiving information that we might otherwise read. But for the sight-impaired, like Susan Gerhart, who joins me for this week’s ITConversations show, the audio channel isn’t optional. Her myopic retinal degeneration has forced her to shift almost [...]

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30.06.2008 16:01:48 - Jon Udell

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From PowerPoint to IronPython/XAML

As per the comments on yesterday’s item about creating a video crawl for local TV, it turns out there’s no need to produce a video file. Instead it’ll be OK to use a computer display directly. The computer could be running, for example, a PowerPoint slideshow in a loop. Here’s the apparently standard recommendation for making [...]

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26.06.2008 21:30:26 - Jon Udell

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Turning Internet feeds into TV feeds

I’ve cobbled together a way to turn an Internet data feed into a video crawl that can run on my local public access cable TV channel. Before explaining how, I need to explain why. Here’s the short answer: As much as I want everyone to use the Internet for all it’s worth, most people don’t [...]

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25.06.2008 22:02:46 - Jon Udell

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A conversation with Jean-Claude Bradley about open notebook science and the educational uses of Second Life

On this week’s ITConversations show I finally got to meet Jean-Claude Bradley, the Drexel chemistry professor who coined the phrase open notebook science and who champions the principles behind it. There were a couple of surprises for me. First, I was intrigued to learn about Jean-Claude’s vision for mechanized research. I’ve always thought of open notebook [...]

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24.06.2008 16:40:34 - Jon Udell

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The story of the WorldWide Telescope

My guests for this week’s Perspectives are Microsoft researcher Curtis Wong and Harvard-Smithsonian science educator Roy Gould. At Ted 2008 they jointly delivered the first preview of the WorldWide Telescope, an elegant and powerful application for exploring the sky and weaving narratives about it. In this extended interview, you can hear (or read) the whole [...]

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23.06.2008 15:14:57 - Jon Udell

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A conversation with George Hripcsak about electronic health records and clinical truth

George Hripcsak, professor of biomedical informatics, is one of the recipients of a Microsoft Research grant to support work on the computational challenges of genome-wide association studies. These studies involve scanning complete human genomes, and looking for correlations between certain markers of genetic variation and certain diseases. Doing that correlation is a computational challenge, but as [...]

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17.06.2008 14:45:05 - Jon Udell

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Future of the Conversations Network

As recently announced by Doug Kaye, the Conversations Network is embarking on a new phase. The existing channels, including ITConversations and Social Innovation Conversations, will continue. But rather than creating more such channels, the Conversations Network wants to help individuals and organizations capture and publish their own spoken-word audio, mainly in the form of events [...]

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16.06.2008 18:43:47 - Jon Udell

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exchange2ical available on CodePlex

The Exchange-to-iCalendar script that I mentioned here is now published to CodePlex. It’s intended for organizations that run Exchange and would like to publish selected calendars in iCalendar (aka iCal, or .ICS) format without having to rely on a client machine running Outlook 2007. I’ve never run a real Exchange server, so I’m wide open to [...]

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11.06.2008 18:51:27 - Jon Udell

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A quiet retreat from the busy information commons

Nick Carr’s essay in the current Atlantic Monthly crystallizes a lot of what I’ve been feeling for a couple of years about how our use of the Net is changing us. Not co-incidentally I read the essay in the printed magazine whose non-hypertextuality I experienced as a feature, not a bug. (Nick writes: “Unlike footnotes, [...]

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10.06.2008 18:31:06 - Jon Udell

More ways to turn Internet feeds into TV feeds

From seeing to hearing: A conversation with Susan Gerhart about assistive technologies for the sight-impaired

From PowerPoint to IronPython/XAML

Turning Internet feeds into TV feeds

A conversation with Jean-Claude Bradley about open notebook science and the educational uses of Second Life

The story of the WorldWide Telescope

A conversation with George Hripcsak about electronic health records and clinical truth

Future of the Conversations Network

exchange2ical available on CodePlex

A quiet retreat from the busy information commons

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