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The psychedelic sounds of Toulouse

There's a psychedlic music exhibition at the Médiathèque in Toulouse this month and into June entitled Psychédélisme des Usa à l'Europe. It consists of a vast array of Magazines, LPs, 7 inch single covers, sixties artefacts and the nicknacks of the interplanetary explorers of yore. It's a fascinating exhibit to trawl. I can't claim to know all the musicians represented, but I am partial to a bit of Stones, a smidgen of 13th Floor Elevators, a spoonful or two of the Velvet Underground and a dash of The Seeds. If you're in town, pop along. I think I'll be going again and again until the exhibit closes towards the end of June. Full exhibit slideshow here and a dollop of The Seeds below.

The exhibition includes film projections on sundays 25 Mai, 1 Juin, 22 Juin at 3 pm in the afternoon. Could be worth checking out if you're in town.

PS. My lord Google is quick... toulouse psychedelia mediatheque I was just looking to see if the Médiathèque in Toulouse had something online, but no... Wow.

Finally found a use for...

An old domain I haven't used in a while. Basically a tagged link list of foreign correspondent news and journalism links. "Click the image above to see. Funny... both this and this are blogs, but you wouldn't really know. Not really.

links for 2008-05-14

• Frontline London - Restaurant Review , 13 Norfolk Place
  Paddington’s Frontline is a members’ club, events space and restaurant in one, where Londoners go to relax, eat, think and talk – not necessarily in that order.
  (tags: frontline frontlineclub restaurant review britishfood london paddington journalism mediaclub)
• Costs of Text Messaging vs. Space Transmissions - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog
  Basically... it's cheaper to send a message from hubble than it is to send an SMS to your wife and kids you've managed to lose somewhere in the shopping centre.
  (tags: sms mobile text mobilephone hubble nasa astronomicalcost)
• The Sichuan Quake and the Hubris of Twitter Users
  Some more useful background on Twitter use during the earthquake in China.
  (tags: twitter china earthquake socialmedia frontlinetraining)
• Demotix - The Citizen Wire
  Is this another Scoopt-alike set to launch? I thought the bottomdropped out that market when it was discovered there was no bottom to it...
  (tags: demotix scoopt journalism citizenjournalism media)

Stood in a queue in Toulouse

I was stood in a queue down the fag shop yesterday. Yesterday, in France, was a national holiday. This gaff is possibly the most popular cigarette shop in Toulouse - especially when everywhere else is closed i.e during a national holiday. For the record, I bought a 20 pack of Dunhill Blue for €5.30. They weren't for me - I don't smoke. The bloke in front of me bought a pack of Phillip Morris. The bloke behind me spoke Spanish. It all felt like standing in line at a chemist/drug dealers. Being a smug ex-smoker I see smokers as kind of self-inflicted disabled people - they're all a bit sad, but I'm ever grateful of a seconhand hit on a sidewalk cafe if one drifts my way. Alors... more queues here.

links for 2008-05-13

• Nashua Telegraph experimenting with Qik : Journalism.co.uk editors blog
  The Nashua Telegraph is experimenting with live video from mobile phones on its website using streaming service Qik. The Telegraph is using the tool to stream footage from N95 handsets to provide behind-the-scenes coverage of its online food show, The Doo
  (tags: food qik journalism nashua newspapers multimedia livevideo mobilephone)
• FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts
  Make fonts the easier way via Kottke
  (tags: fonts)

Is this the best newspaper name ever?

I think it is. In fact, I think every newspaper in every country should be called Bla Bla Bla.

31 very interesting things: 13. Pacific Ocean Blue

Well worth getting hold of Pacific Ocean Blue album together with the Bamboo bootleg/unreleased album will apparently be available tomorrow or June - depending on who you read. 33 tracks in all. The vid above is one of the best tracks on a fairly faultless Pacific Ocean Blue. It's called Thoughts of you. The Bamboo album is a bit more bar room, but plenty to savour in there. Looking forward to the Dean Torrence remastered version though

links for 2008-05-12

• The soldier who saw hell | Features | guardian.co.uk Film
  His testimony was shocking, yet he still believed in the war. The year was 1971 and Scott Camil, a marine just back from 20 months in Vietnam, wanted to talk about what he had seen and done there.
  (tags: vietnam wintersoldier war film review)
• The Last Bite: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker
  The global food market fosters both scarcity and overconsumption, while imperilling the planet’s ability to produce food in the future.
  (tags: newyorker food globalism foodcrises)
• MediaShift . Microblogging Mania::Twitter Helps with Reporting, Filtering the News | PBS
  I’ve found that Twitter has gone above and beyond my original expectations in terms of usefulness, allowing me to obtain and share information efficiently. But Twitter has also proven to be a tool that should be used with caution lest it become the oppo
  (tags: twitter mediashift socialmedia microblog journalism media)
• Twitter / WorldEarthquake
  World earthquakes tracked on Twitter
  (tags: earthquake twitter breakingnews frontlinetraining)
• Tweetburner
  Tweetburner lets you track what happens with the links you share on Twitter.
  (tags: twitter tweetburner socialmedia frontlinetraining)
• The Chinese earthquake and Twitter - crowdsourcing without managers « Online Journalism Blog
  Round up of how Twitter was used to break news of the Chinese earthquake in Sichuan.
  (tags: sichuan china twitter journalism tweetburner frontlinetraining socialmedia)

31 very interesting things: 12. John D. McHugh

The first winner of the Frontline Journalism Award is the Irish freelance photojournalist John D. McHugh. He talked about his work and the story of when he was shot and almost killed by a Taliban sniper last year. He's currently in Afghanistan on commission for The Guardian. In a similar vein, I found the chat with Anthony Loyd equally interesting. There's something about the mental makeup of the people who choose to report on war. Something I hope to explore more on this blog in the future.

links for 2008-05-10

• The Work of Graham Roumieu – Latest
  Sad, but true for some folks I guess. For the record I tried facebook, but left it soon after. Just no use for it. RSS, twitter and del.icio.us do the job.
  (tags: facebook socialmedia socialnetworking socialnetwork twitter)
• From the Frontline - Frontline Club Journalism Awards
  Announcing the inaugural Frontline Club Journalism Awards. John D. McHugh, currently multimedia blogging for the Guardian, wins the Frontline Club Award. Brent Stirton wins the Frontline Club Memorial Tribute Award.
  (tags: frontlineclub journalism awards media guardian getty reportage photojournalism photography blog afghanistan congo)

31 very interesting things: 11. Year Zero

I've read a lot of books about Cambodia and I've spent quite a lot of time in Cambodia. However, of all the books I've read there's one that stands out, Year Zero by Francois Ponchaud. It's a very factual book, there are no frills and that is its strength. Click on the video above to watch a report from John Pilger. It has the same title as the book. However, that's not the reason I include it. I was very young at the time this aired on British TV, but I can still remember seeing the images from this report. For some reason the shots of the empty, litter strewn streets of Phnom Penh stuck in my mind. I didn't imagine I'd end up living near there and visiting regularly back then. I was probably too busy collecting Top Trumps.

links for 2008-05-09

• The Twitter Disconnect
  below is some background info that hopefully helps out newbies and also Twitter vets trying to explain it to folks. via strangelyattractive
  (tags: twitter frontlinetraining socialmedia socialnetworking journalism)
• Disappearing Act - WSJ.com
  "Nang Leong isn't just a market; it's also a keeper of Thai culinary heritage" Robyn, from the Eating Asia blog, about Bangkok street markets in WSJ.
  (tags: eatingasia wsj bangkok asia thailand markets wetmarket streetfood)
• TwitterFone: Send Messages to Twitter with Voice
  But does it work?
  (tags: twitter twitterfone phone mobile socialmedia)

links for 2008-05-08

• Reuters - Phones to make poor upwardly mobile
  “Three billion of the world’s 6 billion people have mobile phones,” Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin said. “And three-quarters of the new customers are in the developing world. This is a huge opportunity.”
  (tags: mobile reuters phones mobilephone)
• Flickr: Julien Harneis' Photostream
  From IDP camps near Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  (tags: goma congo drc africa flickr photography)
• Marumashi newsmap
  The bigger the square, the 'bigger' the story. Interesting way of visualising the news and reading it.
  (tags: marumashi map news media journalism search)
• 10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris
  Another interesting way to search and read news. All done through pictures. In much the same way as www.thewhalehunt.org which is ahrdly surprising as it was done by the same folk...
  (tags: news visualisations media journalism 10x10 whalehunt)
• Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know | Online Marketing Blog
  Not sure about the 'should' bit, but some interesting uses of the microblogging tool Twitter
  (tags: twitter microblog microblogging socialmedia socialnetworks)
• From the Frontline - Why Darfur?
  Charlie Beckett poses a good question. Why is the media so fascinated by Darfur and not Congo, Chad or Somalia or wherever else/ And to so little effect?
  (tags: somalia chad darfur africa conflict war journalism media mediabias)

links for 2008-05-07

• Global Voices Online » Zimbabwe: Using New Technologies to Fight for Democracy
  Great post bringing together a lot of info sources from Zimbabwe: "In countries such as Zimbabwe where media freedom is extremely restricted, new technologies have become powerful tools for political campaigning, communication, advocacy and mobilisation."
  (tags: zimbabwe harare mugabe zanu-pf africa globalvoices)
• Facebook 'more effective than emergency services in a disaster' - Telegraph
  (tags: facebook media journalism socialmedia socialnetwork)
• fabric of folly: The word on the web: 7 keyword trending tools
  (tags: trends web media tools graphics frontlinetraining)
• AP Mobile News Network
  The Mobile News Network – powered by the Associated Press – is a new multimedia service that offers access to local and national news from trusted sources for wireless users, wherever they are and whenever they need it.
  (tags: ap mobile news internet iphone)

31 very interesting things: 10. 41 hours in an elevator

Literally just came across this. Seems to have been a big hit for The New Yorker magazine,

Nicholas White got stuck in a lift. For 41 hours. link via Pods and blogs

Think I'd have gone absolutely stark, ravin' bananas. I hate lifts.