A + V

I started doing a little volunteer work for Participatory Culture Foundationrecently, bugtesting the mac version of their "channel" aggregator.They're doing some really intereststing things with distributed video, and Iwould highly recommend checking them out if you have or might want to start doing any video work you'd be willing to distribute for free.

Their distribution system is tailor made to work in conjunction with the Creative Commons licensing structure and Archive.org's help with storage and bandwidth.

PCF's software is still in beta, but it looks promising so far. I tried to do a video hosting experiment in around 2001, but this is a lot simpler and less demanding of personal resources (video servers on a low-bandwidth DSL connections are not a ideal).

I've posted some of my video work under the sight link above. All of it is older, but I've been working with flash as an animation tool lately so hopefully I'll have some new content up soon.

DOORS

They say that for every door that shuts, another one opens, but no door opening can make up for the one that shut tonight.

In loving memory.

OpLog

OpLog is a message broadcast service for our various monitors, notifications,
etc.; think twitter for sysadmins.

The main goal for OpLog was to replace email as the main client for
notifications. Operations e-mail accounts are constantly filling up with
things we may and or may not care about, numbing us and eventually causing us
to stop paying attention to most emails we get. This also costs us time and
energy cleaning up our mailboxes on a regular basis.

OpLog is designed to be a minimally intrusive system. The current client
notifications can be passively disregarded or looked into further if more
details are desired.

The current interfaces for OpLog are:
* The cgi you're about to set up
* Omnigrowl/Snarl notifications
* RSS feed (and associated Dashboard widget)
* Via your Jabber/XMPP capable IM client

To fit into our current infrastructure, the input mechanism that was chosen
for OpLog was email. To "port" an application to use OpLog notifications, you
only need to add the appropriate e-mail address as a recipient.