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Again Leigh Hubner creates beautiful work using a Canon 5D. ...

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:39:03 -0400

Again Leigh Hubner creates beautiful work using a Canon 5D. These cameras a just it. on a budget you can’t go past what can be done on these little muscle cameras.

Sunrise weather presenter Grant Denyer set the task of getting from Cairns to Cape York on motorbike and being the first to broadcast live from the very tip of Australia. Here is a look at the week and its challanges. Make sure you check out the last 30sec of the video. Its a little behind the scenes look at how we moved out SNG and camera gear up to the very very tip.

Shot on a Canon 5D by Leigh Hubne

This is just great and shows that on a budget Canon gear does...

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:13:00 -0400

This is just great and shows that on a budget Canon gear does the job.

Mark Beretta from Channel 7’s Sunrise joins 75 cyclists as they ride from Sydney to the Sunshine Coast all in the name of cancer research. Here is a 10min look at 10days of riding and a glimpse of the scenery that the riders enjoyed on their 1400km journey.

Shot by Leigh Hubner
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Cairns NAIDOC March 2010. All the deadly mob that marched...

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:00:00 -0400

Cairns NAIDOC March 2010.

All the deadly mob that marched this year in Cairns. Sorry I could not get everyone maybe next year. Hope you all enjoy.

In the coming week a new web portal innovated by a completely...

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:27:00 -0400

In the coming week a new web portal innovated by a completely Indigenous development team will be released.

The first of it’s kind specifically for Indigenous Australia the web portal will deliver content online and via mobile devices including articles, photographs and video and a whole lot more deliver by the the end user.

The system and gateway will deliver content in real time to iphone, ipads, blackberry, HTC (andriod) and Symbian based mobile devices.

Make sure you check back for further updates as this exciting new business initiative unfolds into black hands throughout Australia. Helping to bridge the digital divide in an exciting new way.

Want to take part? Here’s what to do. 1. Visit the “Life in a...

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:29:06 -0400

Want to take part? Here’s what to do.

1. Visit the “Life in a Day” channel and learn more about the project. Be sure to read through the steps you need to take to participate and the guidelines for creating your video(s). Also check out some of the sample videos for inspirational ideas.

2. On July 24, capture your day on camera.

3. Upload your footage to the “Life in a Day” channel any time before July 31.

Regardless of whether your footage makes it into the final film, your video(s) will live on on the “Life in a Day” channel as a time capsule that will tell future generations what it was like to be alive on July 24, 2010.

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Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:27:47 -0400

Join us on 10.10.10 for an unprecedented event. Every Nation, 24...

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:27:11 -0400

Join us on 10.10.10 for an unprecedented event.
Every Nation, 24 hours, and You.

Across the planet, documentary filmmakers, students, and inspired citizens will record the human experience over a 24-hour period. By participating in this historic event, you will help capture the diversity of life and culture on this planet. Together we will create a document that is a gift to the world.

One Day on Earth is a documentary and new media project about the amazing diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph that occurs in one 24-hour period on Earth. More than a film, One Day on Earth is a multi-platform participatory media project. The flagship of this project is a 120-minute documentary to be released theatrically. Through the One Day on Earth platform we will establish a community that not only watches, but participates.

The Twenty Ten project – training African multimedia journalists...

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:11:38 -0400

The Twenty Ten project – training African multimedia journalists for the World Cup with Canon DSLRs

Dr DJ Clark is a leading photojournalist and educator, training students across the globe in the use of DSLR video for news reporting. He is also course leader of the new MA International Multimedia Journalism starting this year in Beijing,China run by the University of Bolton (UK). DJ has recently worked with World Press Photo foundation helping cover the news surrounding 2010 FIFA World Cup. He also works with China Daily’s website.

Over the past two years World Press Photo, Free Voice, Africa Media Online and Lokaalmondiaal have been training print, radio and photo journalists to ready themselves for covering the World Cup. The aim has been to provide African media with stories created and edited by African journalists – a counterpoint to the mainstream ‘western’ wire services; an African voice for an African event. Over 120 journalists from 34 different countries trained and of these, 18 were chosen to join a journalistic ‘Dream team’ in South Africa during the World Cup itself.

Award winning photojournalist Jonathan Torgovnik and myself were tasked with the job of choosing the best African multimedia journalists to be part of the project. We held one workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa and another in Lusaka, Zambia, training 20 of them to work on short projects and demonstrated how I used the Canon DSLRs to produce multimedia.

During the next few months we are working a similiar project with Indigenous students from the Cairns and North Queensland region to develop the use of appropriate technology use for our Indigenous communities.

Canon Wonder Camera Concept at Expo 2010 Interesting...

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:07:01 -0400

Canon Wonder Camera Concept at Expo 2010

Interesting demonstration of a ‘Wonder Camera’ concept from Canon at the Japanese pavilion of the Shanghai World Expo. It is Canon’s imagining of what a camera will be like around the year 2030, but what is really interesting is that most of the technology they show appears to actually work today. This camera of the future would have a single touch-controlled, image-stabilised megazoom lens going from extreme macro to 5000mm super telephoto and everything would be in focus. One assumes that to get shallow depth of field the camera would apply some kind of computer algorithm and not actually use optical techniques. It would feature a super high definition sensor and only capture video, using the video to generate stills if needed. If you observe carefully, the camera is tethered to a backpack worn by the presenter. One can assume that much of the camera’s electronics are really in a computer in this backpack which may be linked wirelessly or tethered to even more computing power behind the scenes. Even so, I’ld love to take a peek inside and see what makes it tick. At one point they show off multiple faces in the audience being tracked; later, these are turned into individual portraits simply by cropping the high resolution sensor. I assume that what is holding technology like this back is storage capacity and computing power – and given how quickly these are increasing you may not have to wait until 2030 for the chance to buy something like this.

NYU Students Raise More than $100,000 to Build Facebook...

Thu, 13 May 2010 17:02:07 -0400

NYU Students Raise More than $100,000 to Build Facebook Alternative

Four New York University students have a vision to build Diaspora, “an open source personal web service that will put individuals in control of their data,” or essentially the anti-Facebook.

They started with just a dream and a prayer — that prayer was to raise $10,000 by June 1 so that they could spend the summer making their vision a reality. They reached that goal in just 12 days.

Now, still more than two weeks away from their deadline, the team of programmers has already broke $100,000, collected via the fundraising platform Kickstarter.

Diddy Plugs His New Blog with Inspirational Trailer [VIDEO]

Sat, 08 May 2010 06:36:37 -0400

Diddy Plugs His New Blog with Inspirational Trailer [VIDEO]

Social Media and Tech News Stories This Week This week was...

Sat, 08 May 2010 06:27:43 -0400

Social Media and Tech News Stories This Week

This week was positively schizophrenic when it comes to social media news: web coverage of major news events, Google search’s makeover, Twitter innovations, Facebook privacy gaffes, Apple-centric controversy and, of course, the Webbys.

If you’re still reeling from yesterday’s market madness and have subsequently forgotten everything you learned over the past seven days, never fear — Mashable (Mashable) has a list of the top 12 social media and tech stories of the week.

1. Google Search Gets a Major Overhaul – After months of testing and speculation, Google (Google) is finally releasing the next edition of Google search to the public, complete with a left-hand menu bar and even an update to the well-known Google logo.

2. Facebook Chat Down for Maintenance Following Privacy Lapse – The feature was presumably disabled following a report that exposed a Facebook security bug that allowed users to access and view friends’ live chats, friend requests and friends in common.

3. iPad Coming to Nine More Countries on May 28 – Residents of Australia (Australia), Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, rejoice: The iPad will be available in your country on May 28.

4. Google Adds App Store for Analytics – Google is giving users even more tools for finding and understanding their website’s visitor stats. The company has just announced they’re opening a full App Gallery for Google Analytics (Google Analytics).

5. Twitter to Launch Embeddable Tweets – Screenshots of tweets begone — you can now embed individual tweets on your website. There’s still some bugs, though.

6. Mashable Wins 3 Webby Awards – Mashable is honored to have won three Webby Awards in the categories Best Cultural Blog (Webby Award) and Best Business Blog (Webby Award and People’s Voice). We’re thankful to all the readers who voted for us.

7. Chrome Gains, IE Slumps in Browser Wars – Google Chrome (Google Chrome) was the fastest growing web browser for the fifth month in a row in analytics company Net Applications’ April market report, while Microsoft Internet Explorer again lost market share.

8. More Fallout at Digg: 10% of Staff Laid Off – Social news site Digg (Digg) has just laid off 10% of its staff according to a representative from the company. The move comes a month after Jay Adelson’s sudden departure as CEO, in which he was replaced by company founder Kevin Rose.

9. Greece Riots as Seen on Twitter, YouTube – As riots explode in Greece, pictures and videos are flying around the social web, shared from news sources and folks on the ground.

10. Nashville Flooding: Twitter and YouTube Tell the Story – Nashville and other parts of Tennessee were hit by the region’s greatest rainfall in recorded history this weekend, resulting in a severe flood that has devastated the region and even swept away buildings and cars.

11. Apple Has Sold 1 Million iPads – Apple has officially confirmed it has sold 1 million iPads. The company sold its one millionth iPad on Friday, April 30, just 28 days after the device’s release.

12. Apple Isn’t Laughing at Ellen’s iPhone Commercial Parody – After airing a send-up of an iPhone commercial on Monday’s Ellen DeGeneres Show, the comedienne apologized for the parody at the behest of, well, Apple.

Young Indigenous star graces the cover of Vogue Australia. We...

Sat, 08 May 2010 06:19:40 -0400

Young Indigenous star graces the cover of Vogue Australia.

We all know that beauty comes from the heart but I could not resist posting this young murri woman.

Samantha Harris has been around since she was 14 years old but now she has been added to the few Indigenous women to grace the cover of Vogue. At 19 she is about to take the world over with her beautiful looks and her inner beauty and spirituality. Yet another young star to watch.

But, as we all know there’s many more to come. Just look at your daughter, son, niece, nephew etc. Just like Samantha this generation will be the one’s.

Apple Didn’t Kill Flash, HTML5 Did

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:26:09 -0400

The battle over Flash and its role (or lack thereof) on the iPhone came to a head today when Apple CEO Steve Jobs published an open letter explaining why his company won’t support Flash on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen spoke with The Wall Street Journal to deliver his response. Unsurprisingly, the arguments from both parties are self-serving in parts and gloss over some realities.

It’s time to cut through the BS and, in turn, determine what the Apple-Adobe feud means for consumers and developers.

JENTLA a New CMS System

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:02:00 -0400

JENTLA a New CMS System:

Jentla technologies are based on the Joomla content management system, extending the reach, capability and support of this open source technology for use as a comprehensive business content management tool. Jentla revolutionises content management, taking complex multisite content management and content sharing processes and making them simple and affordable. Jentla incorporates all the elements of modern technology required in a multisite content management system, at a price point that is affordable for real business implementation.

Apart from Jentla, our other products include Freeway a GPL ecommerce CMS and SMACKB!Z, for video management.

Jentla was founded by Damian Hickey and Durai Prasanna in Brisbane, Australia. The company has grown incrementally over the past 5 years with support and recognition from a wide range of technology experts and government agencies. Jentla’s technology has been awarded the 2009 Software Innovation Award by The Australian Computer Society. We have offices in Brisbane, Australia; San Francisco in the USA, Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu in India and Sibiu in Romania.

Apple just updated its store with some more info on when,...

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:29:27 -0400

Apple just updated its store with some more info on when, exactly, we can expect the iPad 3G version to ship. Their exact wording is “by May 7th,” which may mean some iPad 3Gs will be delivered earlier, though.

As far as international availability goes, there’s nothing new in the Apple Store about that. Apple will announce international pricing and begin taking online pre-orders on May 10, 3 days after iPad 3G starts shipping in the US. Let’s hope Apple doesn’t sell them all out – again – by then.

The Government announced on Friday that NITV will receive...

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:39:00 -0400

The Government announced on Friday that NITV will receive funding for next financial year.

In this interview Pat Turner CEO of NITV, thanked all the people that helped NITV secure funding. Pat also said NITV would be looking into options for creating FREE-to-AIR broadcasting through five locations across Australia.

Indigenous Designed website featured in ComputerWorld

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:13:00 -0400

Indigenous Designed website featured in ComputerWorld:

Completely design and implemented by Cairns new media design agency ingeous studios and developed in consultation with several groups, including Vision Australia and other organisations in the US and Canada.

Call to review services for Indigenous Queenslanders

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:11:32 -0400

Call to review services for Indigenous Queenslanders

A financial literacy program has been launched in Katherine to help Indigenous people break out of...

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:32:38 -0400

A financial literacy program has been launched in Katherine to help Indigenous people break out of the poverty cycle.