Carrying the Lantern

Bill R: At first I was just curious about this. Then I noticed it's sponsored by National Geographic, has night vision, follows sounds automatically, and has audio. [After watching for awhile, I believe someone is steering the camera. And it's 20 frames per minute - effectively live action. Impressive. You just can't believe how much texture the sound adds to this experience. Right now - approaching sunset their time - I'm watching elephants.] Once I started watching, I couldn't stop. As you hear the African night, you just beg for the camera to steer over there and see what it is. Here's roughly the location: Mashatu, Botswana. Fascinating! I dare you to try it and not be mesmerized by the sounds alone.

African watering hole webcam. Mark Frauenfelder: National Geographic has a live webcam pointed at an African watering hole. Right now (8:52 pm in Africa) the infrared camera isn't picking up any animals getting a late night drink, but you can hear crickets chirping and other animal sounds.

PEAK VIEWING PERIOD: 7 a.m.-Noon Botswana Time



And in September as Mashatu moves into its summer season, Pete's Pond will see increasing traffic in the afternoon hours from about 4-6 p.m.

Link (via IP) [Boing Boing]

- Posted by William A. Riski - 8:55:10 PM - comment []

Bill R.: Presentations 1.0 were what we did before PowerPoint and Harvard Graphics. Back when you had a graphics department who produced color transparencies and put them in frames, but only if you were high enough up the management chain. Think pre-1990

Presentation 2.0 is the current era of PowerPoint with projectors and computers in every conference room. And laptops and light-valves for those rooms without. Think 1990 - 2005+

Welcome to Presentation 3.0. Sit back and watch the future presented by a pro.

Mashup.

Dick Hardt has been honing a new style and method of presenting based ‹ with credit and gratitude ‹ on the style and method of Larry Lessig. (Which many of us first witnessed here.)

I was sitting next to Larry at a meeting the other day when Dick gave the presentation in the coolest way: by walking up to the podium, plugging his laptop into the projector, bending the microphone down to the laptop's speakers, bringing a video of his own talk up on the Web, then sitting and watching it with the rest of us.

Larry wrote (while we were both sitting there), Dick Hardt is brilliant. Watch (and copy) the style. Learn tons from the substance. (My pride is tied to the style only).

- Posted by William A. Riski - 8:23:33 PM - comment []