Technology and the Arts – Ep. 70 (03.12.2014)

Technology and the Arts – Ep. 70 (03.12.2014)

Technology and the Arts – Episode 70 (03.12.2014) features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangout On Air conducted March 10, 2014. This special episode focuses on the 39th edition of the Trenton Computer Festival and includes an interview with festival co-founder and chair Dr. Allen Katz from The College of New Jersey, where the event will take place March 15. We also discuss the return of Cosmos to television, Marvel’s Netflix deal and Hoopla, a relatively new library-based streaming media service…and more! File size: 16.2 MB. Time: 1 hr., 5 min., 45 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

Related Links:

• Trenton Computer Festival
  • Dr. Allen Katz, professor of electrical and computer engineering at The College of New Jersey and TCF co-founder and chair
  • @TCFSHOW – TCF on Twitter
  • TCF on Facebook
  • TCF 2014 Program [pdf]
  • TCF 2014 Speaker Schedule [pdf]
• Hoopla – free streaming media service provided through participating libraries
• Marvel/Netflix deal involving The Defenders — Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones
• Cosmos – the groundbreaking PBS show spearheaded by the late, great Dr. Carl Sagan is reborn for the 21st century on Fox with Seth MacFarlane as executive producer and Neil DeGrasse Tyson as host.

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Technology and the Arts – Ep. 69 (10.18.2013)

Technology and the Arts – Ep. 69 (10.18.2013)

Technology and the Arts – Episode 69 (10.18.2013) features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangout On Air conducted October 14, 2013. This installment of the podcast features discussion of The Oatmeal’s “Columbus Day” comic, Hypothes.is and its plan to bring open annotation to the web, New York Comic-Con’s hijacking of attendees’ social media feeds, the discovery of nine long-lost episodes of Doctor Who…and more! File size: 6.5 MB. Time: 26 min., 30 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

Show Notes for Technology and the Arts – Episode 69

Technology and the Arts – Episode 69 (10.18.2013) features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangout On Air conducted October 14, 2013. This installment of the podcast features discussion of The Oatmeal’s “Columbus Day” comic, Hypothes.is and its plan to bring open annotation to the web, New York Comic-Con’s hijacking of attendees’ social media feeds, the discovery of nine long-lost episodes of Doctor Who…and more! File size: 6.5 MB. Time: 26 min., 30 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

Here’s a rundown of what we discussed:

• John talked about presenting at Gloucester County Library’s staff day retreat, his proposed talk on personal branding being accepted for the 2014 Trenton Computer Festival (scheduled for March 15, 2014), his continued participation in the “Codecademy” program at Princeton (NJ) Public Library, and an October 18 Brookdale Computer Users Group talk on Scratch, Arduino, Raspberry Pi and the “Make” movement.
• Brian talked about his Tandem With The Random podcast’s celebration of Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary in November, and playing accordion for Christian Beach on a cover of Yoko Ono’s “Silver Horse” at the New Jersey Peace Action’s Concert for Peace on October 19, 2013, in Bloomfield, N.J.
• The Oatmeal’s “Columbus Day” comic…digital art as political platform.
• Hypothes.is – “Hypothes.is will be an open platform for the collaborative evaluation of knowledge. It will combine sentence-level critique with community peer-review to provide commentary, references, and insight on top of news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and regulations, software code and more.”
• Canada on verge of mandating “pick and pay” (similar to “a la carte”) options for nation’s cable television subscribers.
• Coverage by Mashable and Ars Technica on New York Comic-Con’s controversial tactic of promoting the event through attendees’ social media accounts…without the attendees’ knowledge.
• The discovery of nine missing Doctor Who episodes from the 1960s that have restored two Patrick Troughton-era stories—”The Enemy of the World” and “Web of Fear”—to near completion (only one episode of “Web of Fear” remains missing) for the first time in more than 40 years.

Thank you for watching this season of Technology and the Arts…Brian and John will be back in spring 2014.

Show Notes for Technology and the Arts – Episode 68

Technology and the Arts – Episode 68 (10.11.2013) features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangout On Air conducted October 7, 2013. This installment of the podcast features discussion of the giant tablets being used on the new Fox News set, the fallout from a questionable tweet by Joyce Evans of Philadelphia’s Fox 29 News, Nielsen’s plan to measure Twitter traffic for TV shows, Rhode Island School of Design’s STEM to STEAM initiative to include Art and Design in the traditional STEM curriculum…and more! File size: 10.0 MB. Time: 40 min., 42 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

Here’s a rundown of what we discussed:

• John’s presentation on food blogging and his participation in a three-session “Codecademy” program at Princeton (NJ) Public Library.
• With the recent talk of Christian Beach’s cover of Yoko Ono’s “Silver Horse,” Brian discovered yesterday that Ono currently holds the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Dance/Club Play chart with “Walking on Thin Ice 2013,” an update of her 1981 hit.
• The odd presence of giant touchscreens on Fox News’ revamped “breaking news” deck…and John’s vision of such devices from last year.
• The tasteless, ill-advised tweet sent by Joyce Evans of Fox 29 News in Philadelphia that foolishly invoked the “Breaking Bad” finale to tease a story on an upcoming newscast about six people getting shot—one of whom was killed. The story ignited a firestorm on Twitter and even reached Gawker. It also spawned the ridiculously funny #JoyceEvansTweets hashtag on Twitter, mocking her original tweet.
• Nielsen’s efforts to measure tweets about television shows.
• The STEM to STEAM movement championed by the Rhode Island School of Design and thoughts on the concept from RISD President John Maede, which he shared in a guest blog post for Scientific American.

Show Notes for Technology and the Arts – Episode 67

Technology and the Arts – Episode 67 (10.04.2013) features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangout On Air conducted September 30, 2013. This installment of the podcast features discussion of Robert Scoble’s “Age of Context,” the virtues of Google+ Hangouts compared to Adobe Connect and GoTo Meeting, the new Seaboard keyboard instrument from Roli, and the potential medical uses for Google Glass…and more! Plus, we talk with singer-songwriter Christian Beach, who performed one of his new songs for us. File size: 19.5 MB. Time: 1 hr., 19 min., 25 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

Here is a rundown of what we discussed on this episode…

• Robert Scoble and the “age of context”
• Co-host Brian Kelley’s current training for the Trenton10K in November.
• Australian singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke, her departure from Sony and her crowd-funded new album–successfully funded via PledgeMusic.com in just three days.
• A Doctor Who/science-fiction fan club in New York City is spearheading a Change.org petition to have the Empire State Building go TARDIS blue on Nov. 23, 2013, to mark the program’s 50th anniversary.
• John extolled the virtues of Google+ Hangouts, compared to Adobe Connect and GoTo Meeting.
• John discussed an effort to bring gamification to Artworks Trenton.
• The new Seaboard keyboard instrument from Roli.
• The future of Google Glass in the medical community.
• Christian Beach – a singer-songwriter interviewed during the episode who also performed his song “Divide and Conquer.” Christian will also be performing a cover of Yoko Ono’s “Silver Horse” during a tribute to Yoko Ono taking place during New Jersey Peace Action’s Concert for Peace taking place in Bloomfield, N.J., October 19.

Technology and the Arts – Ep. 64 (09.13.2013)

Technology and the Arts – Ep. 64 (09.13.2013)

Technology and the Arts – Episode 64 (09.13.2013) features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangout On Air conducted September 10, 2013. This installment of the podcast features discussion of Paul McCartney’s new album and legacy, the recent NASA moon mission launched from the Virginia coast, Evernote, Google’s removal of the video response feature on YouTube, the mostly underwhelming announcement of the iPhone 5c and 5s, new technology and its potential impact on classic works of art, setting up a staging/development site with WordPress…and more! File size: 18.5 MB. Time: 1 hr., 15 min., 25 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

Show Notes for Technology and the Arts – Episode 64

Technology and the Arts – Episode 64 (09.13.2013) features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangout On Air conducted September 10, 2013. This installment of the podcast features discussion of Paul McCartney’s new album and legacy, the recent NASA moon mission launched from the Virginia coast, Evernote, Google’s removal of the video response feature on YouTube, the mostly underwhelming announcement of the iPhone 5c and 5s, new technology and its potential impact on classic works of art, setting up a staging/development site with WordPress…and more! File size: 18.5 MB. Time: 1 hr., 15 min., 25 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

John talks about:

• Teaching classes at Rider University
• The arrival of his Chromecast

Brian talks about:

• An update on his friend, singer-songwriter Christian Beach‘s cover of Yoko Ono’s “Silver Horse”—on which Brian played accordion—that will be appearing on an Main Man Records tribute album due this fall…and a scheduled performance at a special event in October. Details will hopefully be available soon.
• Paul McCartney’s “New” album and his incredible musical legacy.
• The LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) mission launch from Virginia, including a look at a photo by NJ photographer Mike Black.

Together, John and Brian discussed:

• A follow-up on our item in the last podcast on 12-year-old Lillian Powers, whose clever Vine videos garnered her much media attention…only to have her kicked off Vine by the powers that be.
• The many uses for Evernote, a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving.
• The Nexus 7 tablet and Nexus 4…which John purchased.
• Google’s sunsetting of the video response feature on YouTube.
• More thoughts on the NSA spying scandal, which keeps getting worse, as it’s found the agency can crack through most smartphone protections without breaking a sweat, and has consistently violated court rules regarding its phone records program.
• Apple’s mostly underwhelming announcement of the iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s.
• A recent article pondering if advances in technology might threaten the value of classic works of art.
• Creating a staging site using WordPress
• The new poster for The Day of the Doctor, the newly named Doctor Who 50th anniversary special.

Here is the webcast version of the episode:
Technology and the Arts 2.0: Series 2, Ep. 5 – 09.10.2013

Technology and the Arts 2.0: Series 2, Episode 5 – 09.10.2013

Technology and the Arts 2.0: Series 2, Ep. 5 – 09.10.2013

In this installment of the Technology and the Arts webcast, hosts Brian Kelley and John LeMasney talk about Paul McCartney’s new album and legacy, the recent NASA moon mission launched from the Virginia coast, Evernote, Google’s removal of the video response feature on YouTube, the mostly underwhelming announcement of the iPhone 5c and 5s, new technology and its potential impact on classic works of art, and setting up a staging/development site with WordPress…and more!

Technology and the Arts – Ep. 63 (08.30.2013)

Technology and the Arts – Ep. 63 (08.30.2013)

Technology and the Arts – Episode 63 (08.30.2013) features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangout On Air conducted August 27, 2013. This installment of the podcast features a discussion on the NSA’s PRISM spying program, Kevin Spacey’s impassioned defense of the Netflix business model, Facebook’s just-announced shared photo albums, the Iowa City Library Local Music Project…and more. File size: 22.5 MB. Time: 1 hr., 31 min., 30 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

Show Notes for Technology and the Arts – Episode 63

Technology and the Arts – Episode 63 (08.30.2013) features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangout On Air conducted August 27, 2013. This installment of the podcast features a discussion on the NSA’s PRISM spying program, Kevin Spacey’s impassioned defense of the Netflix business model, Facebook’s just-announced shared photo albums, the Iowa City Library Local Music Project…and more. File size: 22.5 MB. Time: 1 hr., 31 min., 30 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

John talks about:

• A number of upcoming projects
• LibraryLinkNJ
• Teaching classes at Rider University
• Doodle.com/lemasney
• Arts, Culture, Technology & Community NJ Meetups at ArtWorks Trenton
• The fact that his Chromecast has finally shipped
• 12-year-old Lillian Powers…Vine superstar (Gawker | Vinebox)

Brian talks about:

• An update on his friend, singer-songwriter Christian Beach‘s cover of Yoko Ono’s “Silver Horse”—on which Brian played accordion—that will be appearing on an Main Man Records tribute album due this fall
• A planned “arts hub” featuring lofts, studios, classroom space, business and training areas, and retail space in an abandoned mill from the 1890s at the Hamilton/Trenton border in Mercer County, NJ

Together, John and Brian discussed:

• Thoughts on the NSA, PRISM and the “quick death of privacy” in the United States
• Google’s reported efforts to acquire the rights to the NFL’s Sunday Ticket package, currently exclusive to DirectTV, and bring the action to YouTube
• Kevin Spacey’s impassioned defense of the Netflix business model during his is address at the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival
• The lack of great design apps in the cloud…aside from Adobe.
• AllCast app developer’s accusations that Google is disabling unsupported use of Chromecast via firmware updates
• Facebook’s new shared photo albums, which are rolling out slowly now
• The controversy over a plans to install a 9/11 memorial in Princeton Battlefield State Park, the site of a pivotal Revolutionary War battle
• NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia and the planned Sept. 6 launch of the LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) mission to the moon—a launch that could be visible to most of the mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States.
• Iowa City Library Local Music Project—a unique licensing scheme allowing Iowa City Library patrons to download and keep music by local artists

Here is the webcast version of the episode:
Technology and the Arts 2.0: Series 2, Ep. 4 – 08.27.2013