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Probe 3 Followup

Michael Frisch

Apr 26, 2004

Friends—
 
Regrets about the snafu that kept me from joining up with the panel I was on for Probe 3, Sunday morning.  Contrary to empty-chair appearances, I DID show up for the session—but while the others were getting going in Clemens Hall, I was waiting in the originally scheduled room in NSC, along with the assigned session videographer, about three gallons of freshly-delivered Starbucks coffee, and a couple of session attendees. So evidently the news about the shift of location from NSC to Clemens hadn’t gotten out consistently, certainly not to us!
 
No big deal-- in some appropriately improvisatory re-scheduling, we were welcomed into the E-poetics session in an adjacent NSC room, which was VERY interesting—and where my presentation probably made as useful a contribution as it might have in the originally intended setting. So, it proved nicely Shakespearean: A Comedy of (Minor) Errors, but All’s Well that Ends Well.  And very much in the free-collaboration spirit for that…
 
Anyway-- A couple of folks there asked if I would post some of the relevant e-links, which I don’t think were included in the general posting I previously had made about this work and the particular Telling Lives project self-activated oral video history project that was the focus of the presentation. So here they are:
 
Telling Lives:    www.tellinglives.com
 
The shop developing it:   www.americanhistoryworkshop.com
 
Interclipper, the digital indexing software we’re using for starters is pitched mainly at its primarily business markets, but the site is very interesting and suggestive: www.interclipper.com
 
Randforce Associagtes LLC, my own shop developing digital indexing for audio/video documentation, in applications from oral history to arts to institutional and archival settings is (or will be sometime not too long for now, the site being “under construction” at the moment, is:
www.randforce.com  
 
In the meantime, you can contact me directly, or via info@randforce.com for descriptive information.
 
Nice meeting many of you and seeing so much really exciting, adventurous work.
 
 
Mike
 
Michael Frisch
Professor of History and American Studies/ Senior Research Scholar
University at Buffalo/ State University of New York
and
Principal, The Randforce Associates, LLC
UB Technology Incubator at Baird Research Park
1576 Sweet Home Road
Amherst, NY 14228
(716) 639-1047
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mfrisch*at*buffalo.edu
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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