http://happyworm.com/blog Breaking new ground on the web | The Worm Hole Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:12:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Mark Boas A few weeks ago I was asked to write a bio - explain a bit about myself in a few lines. I hate writing bios, all that faux third-personage - I never really know what to write. The reason a bio was required was that I'd been offered a ... http://happyworm.com/blog/2011/12/16/altrepreneurial-vs-entrepreneurial-and-why-im-going-to-work-with-al-jazeera/ By Mark Boas "O ye’ll tak’ the high road, and Ah'll tak' the low (road) And Ah’ll be in Scotlan' afore ye." (The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond) The web audio community are a vibrant bunch. No sooner had the standard <audio> API been established, than developers were clamouring for more. Just ... http://happyworm.com/blog/2011/11/15/html5-audio-apis-how-low-can-we-go/ This year has run contrary to previous years of my life in the sense that it seems to have lasted much longer than the year before. This may have something to do with a small addition to the family that arrived in March and the consequent ramping up of waking ... http://happyworm.com/blog/2011/11/01/hyperaudio-at-the-mozilla-festival/ Mark Boas Imagine Imagine that making your own video or audio news programs was really easy. Imagine if you could pull together news stories from various sources, combine them and publish the results in minutes. Imagine that the story you made came complete with a transcript, was fully accessible and could be picked up ... http://happyworm.com/blog/2011/08/08/the-hyperaudio-pad-a-software-product-proposal/ Mark Boas Last week as part of the Mozilla News Lab, I took part in webinars with Shazna Nessa - Director of Interactive at the Associated Press in New York, Mohamed Nanabhay - an internet entrepreneur and Head of Online at Al Jazeera English and Oliver Reichenstein - CEO of iA ... http://happyworm.com/blog/2011/08/01/introducing-the-hyperaudio-pad-working-title/