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• Ladybug2 Picnic: Google Streetview Cars Rocking Ladybug2 Spherical Camera

  Published: July 30, 2007, 8:28 am

  Tags: Camera Cars, Google, Google Streetview, Ladybug2 Picnic, Original, Top

  We've noticed small red cameras up on the top of those Chevy Cobalt camera cars gathering pictures from coast to coast for Google Streetview, and now an astute tipster has shown us which cameras those are: the Ladybug2 by Point Grey Research. It's a spherical digital camera, and a tantalizing tidbit of information is that the thing shoots video at

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• HD Camcorders: Canon HG10 is World's Smallest Hard Disk-Based HD Camcorder

  Published: August 1, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: 1080i, Camcorders, Canon Hg10, Feature, Hd Camcorders, Hdtv, Original

  Canon jumped into the hard disk camcorder market today with its HG10, the company's first high-definition hard drive camcorder and the world's smallest, weighing 19.92 ounces with the battery inside. That 40GB hard disk gives you 5.5 hours of AVCHD recording at its highest quality setting, compressing the video at 15Mbps. If our sneak preview of

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• Video Demo: Essential Wall Dimmer Video Hands On, Soft as a Baby's Butt

  Published: August 3, 2007, 10:17 am

  Tags: Dimmers, Essential Wall Dimmer, Feature, Home Improvement, Household, International Fashion Machines, Lighting, Original, Review, Switches, Top, Video Demo

  When we first told you about the Essential Wall Dimmer from International Fashion Machines, we were wondering if its carpet-like conductive switch felt like a Brillo pad. The company sent us a demo unit, and we can now definitively tell you that it feels soft as silk, just like a fine piece of carpet. The $99 switch works well, and is extremely

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• UPDATED: Another Dangerous Bridge in Twin Cities?

  Published: August 8, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Original Reporting, Breaking News, I 35w Bridge

  UPDATE: Minneapolis Star-Tribune story provides additional support for my concerns about this bridge. The collapse of the 35W bridge over the Mississippi in Minneapolis will force truck traffic moving through the Twin Cities on to alternative routes. Unfortunately, after complaints from residents in wealthy neighborhoods near Grand Avenue in

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• Original Net Reporting: An Interview With Pete Hamill

  Published: August 8, 2007, 9:06 am

  Tags: Blogging, Books, Original Reporting, Internet News Media, Media

  TMV frequent Guest Reviewer Dan Schneider has a fascinating, in depth interview with journalist Pete Hamill on his own website. Here’s THE LINK TO IT and how it starts: DS: Pete Hamill, thank you for agreeing to be interviewed for The Dan Schneider Interview series. The very purpose of this series is to combat what I call the deliteracy'

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• Our Disaster

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:29 pm

  Tags: Original Reporting, I 35w Bridge

  Monstrous events often receive the simplest names — 9/11, Pearl Harbor, The Holocaust. Here in the Twin Cities, they simply call it “The Bridge” now. The naming happens spontaneously, there is no decision in City Hall or an editorial room or a TV news studio. Everyone simply starts calling it by a simple name and everyone

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• Summer 2007 Long Island Folk Music Schedule 8/9/07

  Published: August 10, 2007, 9:33 am

  Tags: Long Island Music, Original Music, Calendar, Events

  vocals, guitars & flute:Original mix of NewAge-FolkJazz. 7p Happenings on Main Street, Northport Village Park, Northport NY Aug 17 Sandy & Steve Edwards Welcome Home/ Princess Peapod Fri Aug 24 tba Fri Aug 31 Glenn Baldwin & Friends of Jazz Fri Aug 10, 17, 24; Sat Aug 11, 18, 25; Sun Aug 12, 19, 26 Caf Coward including Sheila

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• LI Concert Notes # 18: 8/9/07

  Published: August 9, 2007, 9:43 pm

  Tags: Open Mic, Long Island Music, Original Music, Calendar, Events

  My church and my country could use a little mercy now. As they sink into a poison pit that's going to take forever to climb out… Mary Gauthier Here's some great Live Music on LI. Venue addresses/phones/URLs at end of all listings. For more information about great live music on LI and elsewhere Please visit Michael Kornfeld

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• Attack Of The Political Attack Websites

  Published: August 9, 2007, 9:07 pm

  Tags: Blogging, Original Reporting, Internet News Media, Media, Fred Thompson

  No, we’re not talking about weblogs (although they do qualify at times). We’re talking about a website that pops up and makes a statement about a candidate. Sometime it can be an intelligent one. But sometimes a website is so off the wall that it’s out of the house. Read Ed Morrissey HERE who not only writes about one but he did

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• Original Blog Reporting: Talking Dog Interviews Marshall Onellion and Steven Fortney

  Published: August 11, 2007, 3:04 am

  Tags: Blogging, Original Reporting, Religion

  debate sparking — original weblog interview. (We’re running so many of these from that site that we’re close to letting TD post them himself). And this one is one were if we take a quote we’ll be taking it way out of context. So we’ll just give you the intro and ask you to read the entire piece yourself:

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• Scoble out?

  Published: August 11, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Business, Podcasting, Podtech, The, Original, Tweet Based, Rumour, Premiere, Content Video, Company, Podshow, Money, Knows The, Individual, Creators, Doubt, Content Creation, Space, Audio, Fourteen, Hours, Ferry, Calling, Scoble, Blog

  may be out of Podtech (the original tweet-based rumour being here). Who does this leave as the premiere audio/video content company? Podshow. Who’da thunk it. If this is true, it means there’s going to be a lot of doubt going around the content-creation space (audio, video, etc.) in the next little while. Maybe less money, who

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• I bought Anthony da Costa’s CD tonight

  Published: August 11, 2007, 11:08 pm

  Tags: Long Island Music, Original Music, Music

  Also check out: “Poor Poor Pluto“ I went to the Huntington Folk Festival tonight put on by the dynamic duo of Karen Finkenberg & Mike Kornfeld. There was a variety of excellent musicians, many of whom I had never heard before. I was moved by Anthony’s da Costa’s performance during a song swap to buy his album.

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• Original Bioshock Story: Nazis on an Island

  Published: August 16, 2007, 4:43 pm

  Tags: Games, Bioshock, First Person Shooter, Nazis, Original Story

  a little strange that the original plot for Bioshock involved Nazis on an island. According to an article yesterday in CVG, this obviously was a first run idea of the Bioshock design team. “It’s impossible to sit down at the start of a project and say this game will be XYZ and it will be fun. Bioshock for instance started out on a

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• Summer Long Island Folk Music 8/17/07

  Published: August 17, 2007, 1:02 pm

  Tags: Long Island Music, Open Mic, Original Music, Calendar, Events, Music

  Music including swing, jazz, originals and a little bluegrass (of course). 7p Free! East End Arts Council property behind the stores on Main St. Riverhead, NY Bring blanket or lawn chair. 631-727-1215 (Also Radio hear Blue Grass Time w/ Buddy Merriam every Wed 6-8p WUSB 90.1FM Stony Brook U Radio www.wusb.fm ) Evry Fri & Sat Featured

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• Babylon Green Party: LI Folk Legend Bob Westcott 9/5/07

  Published: August 23, 2007, 9:23 am

  Tags: Green Party, Long Island Music, Original Music, Calendar, Events, Music

  LI Folk Legend Bob Westcott On Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 7pm, the Babylon Green Party will host songwriter Bob Westcott, who has been called the “real deal”, and for good reason: Westcott has been performing his elegant finger style guitar work for over 30 years. The new location for the Babylon Green Party gathering is at Pisces

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