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Category: Real Time Web

  • Initial Thoughts on Setting Up a Pi Hole

    Initial Thoughts on Setting Up a Pi Hole

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Today I installed Pi Hole on a Raspberry Pi 3 and configured it so that the router routes traffic through the Pi Hole before returning to the devices on my network. Installing Pi Hole on a Raspberry Pi 3 is relatively straight forward. Find the two or three lines of…

  • On The Desire To Change Career

    On The Desire To Change Career

    Reading Time: 3 minutes If I had been smart I would have changed career path around 2006-2007 when I was in London surrounded by entrepreneurs and web developers, rather than now during a pandemic. Normally I struggle to find new contracts because of two things. The first is that for camera and editing work there…

  • Does the World Wide Web Dumb us Down too Much to Read

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Does the World Wide Web dumb is down to much to read is an article exploring the idea that we have too many distractions and that as a result we are unable to focus. Yesterday I wrote about blogging rather than writing twitter threads and this article goes some way to…

  • The Right side of the transmission chain – acquisition

    The Right side of the transmission chain – acquisition

    Reading Time: 2 minutes The right side of the Transmission Chain is at the event itself.  Transmission chain is a term used to describe the route that a signal takes from an event venue to the device on which you are watching an event. As a camera operator the right side of the transmission chain…

  • The Moléson VF with the Narrative Clip 2

    The Moléson VF with the Narrative Clip 2

    Reading Time: 2 minutes The Narrative Clip 2 is a specialist camera that can be programmed to take photos at regular intervals whilst you enjoy activities. This is sometimes referred to as life logging. The idea is that you wear the camera either on clothing or place it somewhere where it can capture the passage…

  • Pride and media consumption

    Reading Time: 3 minutes I enjoyed reading the Unbearable Lightness of Being so much that I read every book by Milan Kundera. I also read every book by Albert Camus because I enjoyed reading La Peste so much. Laura M. Holson wrote an article about “Unplugging without FOMO” which I skimmed after someone on twitter commented…

  • Threaded conversations and community

    Reading Time: 2 minutes From the 1970s to 2007 we had threaded conversations through bulletin boards, forums, groups and other centralising discussion points. For a brief window of about two years conversations became so captivating that people wanted to meet in person as strong friendships were established. By 2009-2010 the threaded and personal conversations between…

  • Glympse and real time location sharing

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Glympse is a real time location software that allows you to share your location with twitter, facebook, by e-mail or via a number of other social networks. It is simple and intuitive to use. Connect your facebook, twitter and other services with the application. When you are heading to work…

  • Google Latitude and Automatic stalking for only your closest friends

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Google latitude is the perfect tool for anyone that works and has a life where logging into locations would be an unsightly thing to do. By that I mean that you can’t arrive at work and log into the location. It gives colleagues the impression you are not serious about your…

  • Foursquare and evolving electronic social meetings

    Reading Time: 4 minutes We’ve all got smartphones. Some of us are using Nokia,  others are using blackberries and yet more are using Android and Iphones. As a result when we interact with people we are not interacting with them from a desk somewhere in a building. We’re interacting with them from the middle of…