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Solid Steel are a series of DJ mix albums issued on Ninja Tune , an independent record label in the UK.

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32-593: Solid Steel also has a radio station webcast and related live concerts which further showcase the DJing talents of such artists. In 1988, Solid Steel began as a radio show on Kiss FM hosted by Coldcut 's Matt Black and Jonathan More , where they were not only able to play and mix records, but also display their cut-up technique live. The show was known for airing "The Broadest Beats in London." They were joined by PC and Strictly Kev from DJ Food in 1993. The two-hour show

64-430: A 21-minute Victoria's Secret fashion show featuring supermodel Tyra Banks aired exclusively on Broadcast.com . The webcast was promoted by a 30-second television spot during Super Bowl XXXIII and drew an estimated 1.5 million viewers. Broadcast.com servers were reportedly overwhelmed by the spike in traffic, locking out many potential viewers. Virtually all major broadcasters now have a webcast of their output, from

96-537: A concert by Metallica on June 10, 1996, live from Slim's in San Francisco. In 1995, Benford E. Standley produced one of the first audio/video webcasts in history. On October 31, 1996, UK rock band Caduseus broadcast their one-hour concert from 11   pm to 12   midnight (UT) at Celtica in Machynlleth, Wales, UK – the first live streamed audio and simultaneous live streamed video multicast – around

128-420: A detailed report of a company's financials or an entrepreneur pitching their venture idea to investors. The term can also be used for a formal or ritualized introduction or offering, as with the presentation of a debutante . Presentations in certain formats are also known as keynote address. Interactive presentations, in which the audience is involved, are also represented more and more frequently. Instead of

160-527: A feature of the fledgling World Wide Web . Later in 1996 an American college student and conceptual artist , Jenny Ringley , set up a web camera similar to the Trojan Room Coffee Pot's webcam in her dorm room. That webcam photographed her every few minutes while it broadcast those images live over the Internet upon a site called JenniCam . Ringley wanted to portray all aspects of her lifestyle and

192-503: A funeral is also a service provided by some funeral homes. Although it has been around since at least 2005, cheaper broadband access, the financial strain of travel, and deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan have all led to increased use of the technology. Presentation A presentation conveys information from a speaker to an audience . Presentations are typically demonstrations, introduction, lecture , or speech meant to inform, persuade, inspire, motivate, build goodwill, or present

224-411: A monologue, this creates a dialogue between the speaker and the audience. The advantages of an interactive presentation is for example, that it attracts more attention from the audience and that the interaction creates a sense of community. A presentation program is commonly used to generate the presentation content, some of which also allow presentations to be developed collaboratively , e.g. using

256-575: A multitude of Internet-only "stations". Webcasting usually consists of providing non-interactive linear streams or events. Rights and licensing bodies offer specific "webcasting licenses" to those wishing to carry out Internet broadcasting using copyrighted material. Webcasting is used extensively in the commercial sector for investor relations presentations (such as annual general meetings), in e-learning (to transmit seminars ), and for related communications activities. However, webcasting does not bear much, if any, relationship to web conferencing , which

288-427: A new idea/product. Presentations usually require preparation, organization , event planning , writing , use of visual aids, dealing with stress, and answering questions. “The key elements of a presentation consists of presenter, audience, message, reaction and method to deliver speech for organizational success in an effective manner.” Presentations are widely used in tertiary work settings such as accountants giving

320-609: A slot on the advertisement-free BBC 's London Live radio station and were on the station until 2002. This unique 2-hour show has expanded to include guest mixes, regular video mixes (often the No. 1 video podcast on iTunes) and the additional 1-hour podcast highlights, regularly featuring in the top 10 music podcasts on iTunes, with over 3 million downloads to date and hosted on the Ninja Tune SoundCloud each week. In 2012, Solid Steel joined Strongroom Alive internet radio to perform

352-415: A way of providing higher bandwidth Internet access to home computer users as well as enabling television-based Internet access, driving the development of smart television products. The earliest graphically oriented web broadcasts were not streaming video, but were in fact still frames which were photographed with a web camera every few minutes while they were being broadcast live over the Internet. One of

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384-1144: A weekly live show on Thursday nights (7 – 9   pm). Other shows include Ross Allen, Clash + Dazed magazine. The show is hosted by Jon More (Coldcut), and he is often joined by DK, DJ Food and rolling guests. Guest mixes and interviews have featured most of the Ninja Tune roster as well as many other artists and DJs, including Four Tet , Skream , Norman Jay , Robot Koch, Goldie , Tim Healey, Company Flow , Jackmaster, Z-Trip , Steinski , Seiji, Pearson Sound, DJ Kentaro , Toddla T , Freestylers , Hudson Mohawke , DJ Marky , DJ Yoda , Diplo , Ben Westbeech , Cut Chemist , DJ Shadow , 4hero , Andy Smith, Laurent Garnier , Kenny Dope , RJD2 , Amorphous Androgynous , Alec Empire , The Orb , Robert Owens , Portico Quartet , Kutmah, Pinch , Trevor Jackson , Machinedrum , FaltyDL , De La Soul , Double Dee & Steinski , David Axelrod , Ken Nordine , Jean-Jacques Perrey , Quannum Projects , Juan Atkins , Mr. Scruff , Kid Koala , Bonobo , Daedelus , Luke Vibert , and Antipop Consortium . The first Solid Steel album

416-570: Is designed for many-to-many interaction. The ability to webcast using cheap/accessible technology has allowed independent media to flourish. There are many notable independent shows that broadcast regularly online. Often produced by average citizens in their homes they cover many interests and topics. Webcasts relating to computers, technology , and news are particularly popular and many new shows are added regularly. Webcasting differs from podcasting in that webcasting refers to live streaming while podcasting simply refers to media files placed on

448-402: Is edited. Content such as text, images, links, and effects are added into each of the presentation programs to deliver useful, consolidated information to a group. Visual elements add to the effectiveness of a presentation and help emphasize the key points being made through the use of type, color, images/videos, graphs, layout, and transitions. One common means to help one convey information and

480-676: The BBC to CNN to Al Jazeera to UNTV in television to Radio China, Vatican Radio, United Nations Radio and the World Service in radio. On November 4, 1994, Stef van der Ziel distributed the first live video images over the web from the Simplon venue in Groningen. On November 7, 1994, WXYC , the college radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill became the first radio station in

512-742: The American jam band Phish webcast one of their concerts for the first time. On October 22, 1998, the first Billy Graham Crusade was broadcast live to a worldwide audience from the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Florida courtesy of Dale Ficken and the WebcastCenter in Pennsylvania. The live signal was broadcast via satellite to PA, then encoded and streamed via the BGEA website. On February 6, 1999,

544-463: The Internet by geographically disparate collaborators. Presentation viewers can be used to combine content from different sources into one presentation. Some of the popular presentation products used across the globe are offered by Apple , Google and Microsoft . Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides are effective tools to develop slides, both Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint allows groups to work together online to update each account as it

576-411: The Internet. The term "webcast" had previously been used to describe the distribution of Web or Internet content using conventional broadcast technologies such as those intended for digital video ( Digital Video Broadcasting ) and audio ( Digital Audio Broadcasting ), and in some cases even leveraging analogue broadcasting techniques traditionally used by Teletext services to deliver a limited "Best of

608-539: The Web" selection of content to audiences. Overnight broadcasts of data via analogue television signals were claimed by WebTV representatives to be able to offer "a fresh gigabyte of data every day... while you sleep". Typically, webcasting referred to a form of datacasting involving higher bandwidth broadcast technologies delivering Web content, multimedia files in particular, and with any interactivity supported by lower bandwidth return channels such as dial-up Internet access over

640-461: The audience stay on track is through the incorporation of text in a legible font size and type. According to the article "Prepare and Deliver an Effective Presentation", effective presentations typically use serif fonts (e.g. Times New Roman, Garamond, Baskerville, etc.) for the smaller text and sans serif fonts (e.g. Helvetica, Futura, Arial, etc.) for headings and larger text. The typefaces are used along with type size to improve readability for

672-413: The audience. A combination of these typefaces can also be used to create emphasis. The majority of the fonts within a presentation are kept simple to aid in readability. Font styles, like bold, italic, and underline, are used to highlight important points. It is possible to emphasize text and still maintain its readability by using contrasting colors. For example, black words on a white background emphasize

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704-417: The camera captured her doing almost everything – brushing her teeth, doing her laundry, and even having sex with her boyfriend. Her website generated millions of hits upon the Internet, became a pay site in 1998, and spawned hundreds of female imitators who would then use streaming video to create a new billion dollar industry called camming , and brand themselves as camgirls or webcam models. One of

736-423: The creation of an immersive experience for an audience. Large images relevant to the presentation attract an audience’s attention which in turn can clarify the topics within the presentation. Using pictures sparingly helps support other presentation elements (e.g. text). Short videos are used to help the presenter reinforce their message to the audience. With the additional reinforcement that images and videos offer,

768-574: The earliest instances of sequential live image broadcasting was in 1991 when a camera was set up next to the Trojan Room in the computer laboratory of the University of Cambridge . It provided a live picture every few minutes of the office coffee pot to all desktop computers on that office's network. A couple of years later its broadcasts went to the Internet, became known as the Trojan Room Coffee Pot webcam , and gained international notoriety as

800-572: The earliest webcast equivalent of an online concert and one of the earliest examples of webcasting itself was by Apple Computer 's Webcasting Group in partnership with the entrepreneurs Michael Dorf and Andrew Rasiej. Together with David B. Pakman from Apple , they launched the Macintosh New York Music Festival from July 17–22, 1995. This event audio webcast concerts from more than 15 clubs in New York City. Apple later webcast

832-429: The globe to more than twenty direct "mirrors" in more than twenty countries. In September 1997, Nebraska Public Television started webcasting Big Red Wrap Up from Lincoln, Nebraska which combined highlights from every Cornhusker football game, coverage of the coaches' weekly press conferences, analysis with Nebraska sportswriters, appearances by special guests and questions and answers with viewers. On August 8, 1997,

864-408: The public telephone network or communication over mobile telephone networks. Such return channels conveyed each user's requests for the delivery of specific content over the broadcast medium. Eventually, DVB satellite operators were to offer a higher bandwidth return channel using DVB-RCS , raising the prospect of "point-to-point connections with users' satellite dishes". Webcasting had been regarded as

896-406: The text being displayed but still helps maintain its readability. Text that contrasts with the background of a slide also enhances visibility. Readability and visibility enhance a presentation experience, which contributes to the effectiveness of it. Certain colors are also associated with specific emotions and the proper application of these colors adds to the effectiveness of a presentation through

928-555: The wedding in person. On August 13, 1998, the first webcast wedding took place, between Alan K'necht and Carrie Silverman in Toronto Canada . The first webcast teleconference wedding to date is believed to have occurred on December 31, 1998. Dale Ficken and Lorrie Scarangella wed on this date as they stood in a church in Pennsylvania, and were married by Jerry Falwell while he sat in his office in Lynchburg, Virginia . Webcasting

960-501: The world to broadcast its signal over the internet. Translated versions including Subtitling are now possible using SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language . A webcast of a wedding may be called a wedcast ; it allows family and friends of the couple to watch the wedding in real time on the Internet . It is sometimes used for weddings in exotic locations, where it would be expensive or difficult for people to travel to see

992-512: Was filled by improv, with each DJ taking sets of 30 minutes. In 1997, Darren Knott, otherwise known as DK, joined the show as producer as Coldcut and DJ Food were increasingly away on tour. They left Kiss FM in 1999 after playlist changes meant they would be consigned to the Tuesday 2   am – 4   am graveyard slot. The show was still recorded each week, being available online and syndicated worldwide. In 1999, they were offered

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1024-510: Was released by DJ Food and DK in 2001. Webcast A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand. Essentially, webcasting is " broadcasting " over the Internet. The largest "webcasters" include existing radio and TV stations, who " simulcast " their output through online TV or online radio streaming, as well as

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