Robert J Whitney

Dear Google and YouTube

June 14, 2008 – 12:57 pm

Dear Google,

Please let me take advantage of your massive storage capabilities and API’s to use the YouTube platform to launch my own contest centered social networking YouTube site. I will gladly pay a reasonable fee and/or integrate with your adsense, as well as display a powered by Google logo of a most generous size.

Sincerely,

Robert J. Whitney

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June 11, 2008 – 2:58 pm

The Graduate

May 26, 2008 – 9:32 am

OPL releases first Drupal Module!

May 13, 2008 – 11:48 pm

Our baby boy John released a bit of his work into the Drupal community today! Way to go John, aka ‘the freshman,’ aka frosh, aka Johnny Drupalseed.

Edit Content, the first content management module from our upcoming Innovation News Install Profile, is now available to download in beta from the Drupal Website. This marks the first open source release by the Lab.

Edit Content lists content by edit status and provides an “edit” link for each piece of content. When used with the forthcoming Innovation News install profile, it will allow for simplified team collaboration and will integrate with other aspects of the system to provide necessary tools for users with “Editor” status.

The goal is to have the the complete Innovation News Install Profile available for download later this summer. The profile allows “one-click” integration of our Innovation News modules and themes into an Drupal 6.x installation.

Waiting for Render

May 13, 2008 – 11:43 pm

Dispatch: 1:28 am.

I am in a bunker, the back room of a computer lab on campus, waiting for FinalCut Pro to render my final project for Moving Media.  

There are only three days of classes left in my undergraduate years, it’s been so long now, I’m not sure how to feel.  Ross and I just snuck out for a beer to take the edge off, and all either of us could say (other than “why didn’t we think of this sooner?”) was how we couldn’t wait for it to be over. I don’t mean that I want the learning to end, but I am glad to soon have gotten that degree.  And yes, even though I still have a lot I would like to learn at college, its hard to concentrate when it’s so close!

We’re all plowing ahead, tying up loose ends, and looking forward. Anticipation. Can’t wait.

Spot, Pilot!

May 8, 2008 – 8:35 pm

beat.{ effectively suspending the relevance of the moment: we are born with every heart beat. “what are you doing here?” depends on your notions of incarnation, while “all these years” result in a context no more relevant than gallons of blood. this abstract rhetoric will never amount; while the subsequent birth of every step and the image of something vested i will never understand, and can not shake for the death of me, is also born in every beat. } beat.

Innovation Festival a hit for OPL

May 5, 2008 – 10:43 pm

The Imagine RIT innovation festival went off with a bang for the Open Publishing Lab, where I work! Our darling projects launched and boy did we learn a lot! Check out the OPL site for more info on what we’ve been up to.

Innovation News

The Social Networking Game

Innovation News (beta) Launches Tomorrow!

May 2, 2008 – 6:26 pm

One of the projects I am involved in at RIT’s Open Publishing Lab is launching along with Imagine RIT tomorrow (Saturday) from 10-4!

Innovation News: a virtually instantaneous, cross media newspaper to document the Imagine RIT festival, and facilitate the creation of new models for news publishing, and event coverage.  We’ll be publishing in multiple print editions, live to the web via Drupal, and to a HUGE Dynamic Google earth map, in an immersive 3D environment.

Sounds cool, right? Watch it go down. LIVE.  on the site.

Because everyone should be marveling at this:

April 30, 2008 – 1:11 pm

http://twistori.com

Process

April 22, 2008 – 7:42 pm

This video is a study of a test recording that, upon review, I unexpectedly discovered held a moment obscured within itself.  In essence, it is a portrait of an eight second period. My goal was to examine how even our own experience is enough noise to obscure the information directly in front of faces, while making reference to the medium of video.

I encourage you to view this piece in full screen.