DIY DAYS – fund :: create :: distribute :: sustain
How do we sustain ourselves as storytellers in this day of shifting distribution systems? How do we monetize our work and get the word? Presented by the WorkBook Project – DIY DAYS aims to answer these questions with a day of panels, roundtable discussions and workshops: A look at how to fund, create, and distribute and sustain.
A wonderful documentary about Open Design & Innovation.
How are social media changing design? What is the value of a prototype? How are work and play merging? Where is design headed in the 21st century? “Delivered in Beta” begins a conversation on these topics and invites your participation (twitter hashtag #od10beta). This video was created during the Open Design Workshop at the Betahaus
as part of Social Media Week Berlin 2010. Produced by KS12.
The Budget webcast on Wednesday the 9th of December wasn’t has big as the emergency budget in April but still very busy. We had about 9100 concurrent streams at peak using 4.49 Gbit/s of bandwidth. The format ratio was 8:1 to Flash over Windows Media.
Some more stats from the webcast;
Average viewing time: 5 minutes, 1 second
79% of viewers were in Ireland.
76% of Irish viewers were viewing in Dublin.
The technology behind it;
We use 6 Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers with Windows Server 2003 and Flash Media Server 3.5, each connected with two gigabit connections to the HEAnet network. The Windows Media servers (soon to include the FMS servers) are Dell PowerEdge R905 servers with 10 Gbit/s connections running Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. The servers currently host four virtual machines serving Windows Media using network load balancing across the VMs. They will soon host FMS VM also.
I updated a 7 minute clip from the Dáil archive to test the new auto syncing of a transcript feature on YouTube. I uploaded the video and a plain text file with no timecodes in it. Youtube did a very good job of creating the subtitles.
To enable “Close Captions” by selecting “cc” from the menu in the bottom right corner of the player.
