backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk on 25 July 2005 at 15:42 +0000 wrote:
>Do you knock up prototypes? Yes - given time (in fact, i only ever do prototypes, and then it's coded with cannibalised code that hangs together with the software equivalent of gaffer tape.....i don;t think i've ever got anything as far as a late beta...;-) however, i'm blagging minutes rather than hours for not-work stuff at the mo, and the pace of change on this list means that prototypes are appearing at the speed of thought... if only i could get time to put a bid in for the info mixing desk as a proper research project...(gazes longingly into the distance) [resonates with this from Matt..... >I wish I could buy some time to get the annotation streams thing >up and running! ] re the info mixing desk - I thought i'd blogged about this a bit ago, but can;t find it anywhere expect for a couple of pages of scribbled notes in an old logbook, so i'm afraid i can;t link you to more detailed thoughts just at the mo... Original idea was just a rap on an rss equivalent of something like this: http://www.theatrecrafts.com/sound_mixingdesk.html that was more than eg just this: http://www.feedcombine.co.uk/st/content/makefeed/ (which doesn;t appear to be working at the mo?) Cf the sounddesk, the line feeds are RSS feeds. Eq allows you to filter results on keywords, perhaps (eg like +terms and -terms in search engines), auxiliaries i saw as sending the rss to some sort of feed processor that returns something pulled from the original feed (tho now i realise that what the aux's would more usefully do is provide Matt's annotationStreams...) The different channels/faders, allow you to set the weight of items from different RSS inputs(with added FX/annotations) in the overall output infomix. This could be another RSS feed, or it could be data plotted on a google map, or some other visualisation. The sounddesk graphic doesn;t have mute/solo buttons, etc, but they'd be there to allow the infomixer to check individual feeds etc. I had a scout around some time ago for exemplars (lazy as i am) and about the only thing i came across at the time that wasn't an RSS aggregator was this text mixing desk http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/v4/cutup/textinput.php which is NOT the sort of thing i was thinking of... but it probably takes you to interesting places if you think around it a bit... In terms of FX, it's also quite a fruitful starting point thinking of info analogues to sound FX, though they soon breakdown - so for example an echo on a blog posting might be a quote from, or interpretation of, that blog on another blog; Re annotation feeds - another useful 'annotation' might be images or movies to illustrate a feed (so the info mising desk needs an 'add image' effect..:-) tony ----------------------------------------------------------- SEE THE WICKED ROBOT INVASION MAP http://www.wickedrobots.co.uk/ ----------------------------------------------------------- Mail tags: ----------------------------------------------------------- Tony Hirst mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] blog: http://micro-info.blogspot.com/ Dept. of ICT, Faculty of Technology Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK Tel: +44 (0)19086 52789, m./SMS 07709 766223 http://robofesta.open.ac.uk/tony http://www.robofesta-uk.org - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
