06.05.08
Posted in audio recording, svhmpc, video at 6:50 pm by pronoiac
Silicon Valley Homebrewed Mobile Phone Club, held in conjunction with the Emerging Communications Conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
Mark Wood talked about the Cell Broadcast System, for broadcasting text messages over geographic areas. He’s the CTO of CellCast, & he lectures on Disaster Telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin. He also works with organizations such as ETSI, ITU, & the Civil Emergency Alert Service Association.
For more information, see hbmobile.org (currently down).
Video - Posted at Google Video.
Audio - mp3 - 62 min, 44 meg, 96kbps.
Edit: Here are some supplements while hbmobile.org is down: a new mailing list, a working mirror of the wiki (content dating from late February), & the mirrored meeting announcement, in which it becomes clear that the description above was swiped.
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05.18.08
Posted in audio recording, ambient at 4:35 pm by pronoiac
This is all surf. There’s almost nothing from nearby cars, people, dogs, or seagulls.
mp3 - 59 min, 56 meg.
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04.06.08
Posted in audio recording, video at 4:33 pm by pronoiac
Soon after being uncovered as Fake Steve Jobs, Daniel Lyons visited Books Inc. in San Francisco to talk about the experience of writing the blog.
He talks about the genesis of the larger-than-life persona, the joys & contortions of working with Forbes, My Little Pony, company access, appearing in slash fanfiction, FSJ crushes (Bike Helmet Girl & Veronica Belmont, who were present), appearing at Microsoft, trolling with intentional mistakes, Krasnodar (sp?), Russia, clowning the audience, siooma, & more.
The camera was awkwardly placed in front of a column, to stay out of the way. So, even though I sat right in front of Bike Helmet Girl, she and everybody else in the audience is off-camera. Sorry.
Video is up at Google.
mp3: 51 min. 37 meg @ 96kbps.
Edit: Whoops, I meant “Bike Helmet Girl,” not “Bicycle Helmet Girl.”
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03.21.08
Posted in audio recording, shessuchageek at 4:26 pm by pronoiac
This is the second reading I went to; here’s the first.
Liz Henry recapped this live. (This is how you liveblog.)
In order, the readers this time: Kristin Abkemeier, Ellen Spertus, Jenn Shreve, Corie Ralston, Charlie Anders, Annalee Newitz, and then Q&A.
Download the audio (62 minutes, 44 megabytes): MP3
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03.20.08
Posted in audio recording, shessuchageek at 11:05 pm by pronoiac
Annalee Newitz & Charlie Anders edited & contributed to “She’s Such a Geek,” a book about women in domains traditionally viewed as being only for men. This reading took place at City Lights on 2007-01-25. There’s a good summary of the event up on the blog for the book.
Contributors who read this time (in order of reading): Devin Grayson, Michelle Villanueva, Charlie Anders, Quinn Norton, Morgan Romine, & Annalee Newitz. A Q&A followed.
Download the audio (59 minutes, 42 megabytes): mp3
(No AAC in the foreseeable future.)
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10.23.07
Posted in audio recording, video at 11:53 pm by pronoiac
Charlie Stross visited San Francisco for a reading & Q&A at Borders - Union Square. This was the last event in his October 2007 tour of the West Coast, in support of Halting State.
Here it is on Google Video. If you want to skip the reading, the Q&A starts around 40:25 in - if I got that link right.
Download the mp3: 70 min, 50 meg.
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10.17.07
Posted in dorkbot, audio recording, video at 12:15 am by pronoiac
The beginning of Mark Pauline’s presentation at the Dorkbot Todd Blair fundraiser was moving.
I posted the video over on Google video, & here’s the audio as an mp3.
Edit: The Dorkbot fundraiser continues, & there’s a blog tracking Todd Blair’s recovery.
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09.24.07
Posted in audio recording, video at 9:45 pm by pronoiac
Jonathan Coulton performed at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, California, on September 14, 2007. I’m one of a few people to post video. Pirates & video links after the cut. See Jonathan Coulton’s blog entry for that performance for more information, or other recordings. He also has a forum posting about this show.
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03.17.07
Posted in audio recording, wifi for sf at 2:28 pm by pronoiac
This is the meeting from December 4th, the tenth of twelve total meetings, & the fourth of six I recorded.
Dan from Google was the main speaker. Stephen Salinger from Earthlink was there to field questions, as always. Michael McCarthy from the TechConnect Task Force spoke a bit.
The atmosphere was nice enough. Dan noted that some people had read the media coverage & had thought that the network was well on its way, rather than (at the time) not approved by the mayor or the Board of Supervisors.
Download it (33 meg, 68 minutes):
Edit: Fixed links.
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02.07.07
Posted in dorkbot, audio recording at 10:46 pm by pronoiac
Three months later, after carefully cleaning this up, I’m, um, going to blabber on about it now.
The presentations at this meeting were very visual: first, a map of neighborhoods, drawn from Craigslist postings; second, software to visualize audio by frequency & the slight audio delays between ears.
However, as far as I know, no good copies of the streaming video for that night were saved. I would love to be mistaken. I’d almost suggest playing along with the map & audio software as you listen to this. The audio’s posted in decent-quality audio, so the software might actually have enough info to work.
Setting up & cleaning up this recording was a learning experience: I didn’t record the audience very well, & my recorder dropped a couple of minutes in a Q&A, which included a phone call from the internet to ask a question. I recovered audience commentary to the best of my ability, with limited materials; I lucked out that I could get the audience audible at all.
I left in the daughter of Jonathan Moore, the MC, just because I got a kick out of her happily wandering in, babbling for a bit, & then being given the controls of a flamethrower.
Anyway. Here’s the audio: 95 minutes, 90 meg. I encoded these at 128kbps because stereo music is involved.
For more information, see the Dorkbot SF page on this meeting.
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