Thesis

Since returning from New Orleans, programming has gone into high gear, with me staying up most nights until 6am (the programming hour really begins for me at midnight...not sure why that is). Jadie and I are slightly off our production schedule due to some problems with video uploading that we are meeting with Shawn Van Every to fix tomorrow. Thus, we have already begun implementation of Ajax all across the site and, despite a few minor problems, we have been pretty successful so far. The major hurdle involving the media navigation div has still not been touched, but we are pretty sure that we will be able to figure it out. Most of the programming I have done this week has been involving the ajax and some php behind the scenes. I have also gotten several of my friends to sign up for the site and we received some additional new users thanks to a presentation we conducted at the Electronic Social Mixer at Hunter College.

I am disappointed that we have not been able to officially release to a broader user population due to the issues we have been having with video. (shawn to the rescue hopefully). This next week I hope to get a lot of the behind the scenes php completed, start on the media navigation and of course fix the video and release the site to the ITP student list. I also plan to talk with my sister this weekend in order to implement the circle I am creating for her and her friends.

The Voices of New Orleans circle has also not really taken off. Many of us who went down there have found that communication with the people we met has been slow, probably partially due to lack of reliable internet connectivity and partially due to busy schedules on both parts. I plan to talk to Ashley this weekend and see if there is a way we can push the circle forward. I am not sure how much she has promoted it so far, I'll have to ask her this weekend.

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My mission over the last week has been to get the initial part of the asterisk side of freeformed up and running before the students from Xavier University get here next week. This has been quite challenging. ITP has been in the progress of migrating over to a dedicated asterisk server over the last month. This required an entirely new configuration of all aspects of the original freeformed code, including the changing and adding in new functionality. There were a few snags to do with unaccessible administrative functions, for which Shawn Van Every has been kind enough to help me with almost as soon as the problems arose. The freeformed asterisk configuration is now in a testing phase. Users next week will receive a phone call every time they upload a media file so they can leave a contextual description of their file (they can also turn this off on the fly). Users can also call in and leave comments on a particular circle.

Our initial thought was to set up a specific circle called 'Digital Storytelling; HOME' and then allow the students to create sub circles if they want to. We have also been asked to devise a walking plan, specifically illustrating where we will be taking the students. Since New Orleans has a very rich musical history our thought was to do research on musical history in New York City, specifically Greenwich Village and do a walking tour based on that information. More on this to come.

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Don't try to register or login...those won't work from this page. But here is the official re-dsign of the front page...thanks to Jadie Oh. A couple of things look a little weird on windows firefox but we are fixing it. That is the good part of having a PC person in the group.

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