Tutorial at WWW2005 Developer's Day

I'll be giving a tutorial on Building Dynamic Video Webs at the WWW2005 Developer's Day on May 14 in Chiba, Japan.

In Sydney next Tuesday evening (May 3), I'll be doing a dry-run at the Sydney PostgreSQL users group. Given it's at the James Squire Brewhouse, it probably won't be so dry at all :-) All welcome, so please come and enjoy the friendly, nerdy warmth of the JSBH. It'll also be my last booze-up before escaping to Japan and Europe for a little while, so let's party!

A little more about the tutorial:

This session shows you how to use familiar server-side scripting to build dynamic, interactive video webs. You can use CGI scripting and database backends to provide customization and personalization of video content on an unmodified web server. Using normal scripting languages, you can create hyperlinks into and out of video and manipulate tracks of timed XML metadata.

I'll be demonstrating scripting with Benno's pyannodex, an awesome set of python bindings for mucking around with Annodex media. We've used this together with a database backend for CMMLWiki, and that style of programming gives you all the flexibility of server-side scripting to produce custom video content instead of HTML.

We've got hundreds of hours of Annodex media content from LCA2005, so you can also come along to SydPUG and re-live some of the excitement of LCA! As Pia Waugh would say, Rock on!!!

IEEE Multimedia article is up!

Silvia and I wrote an article about video blogging for IEEE Multimedia magazine, which the editors awesomely titled " Video Blogging: Content to the Max". It's just been published in the April-June 2005 issue, and it's available online: [PDF]

LCA2005 Audio Miniconf update

This year's Audio Miniconf will have some awesome talks, like Dave Robillard discussing his new Om synth. It does JACK and LADSPA, and you can patch up to it using OSC with Python or just hook it up to an OSC or MIDI controller.

Simon Burton will be demoing SuperCollider on Linux, including sounds by Hypersense, controlling SuperCollider with custom built USB sensor devices.

There will also be some much more down to earth talks, like Peter Chubb on digitizing vinyl, and Erik de Castro Lopo ranting about something or other involving filter design and stuff.

The jam session venue is also booked, thanks to Simon Burton. You can get the latest updates on the presentations and the jam session at the Audio Miniconf web site.

I wonder if Scrubby will make an appearance?