Radar Roundup

• Reactable video, nifty UI.
• A critical look at the Chumby (NYTimes, reg required). O'Reilly is an investor in Chumby. My take is that it's a bit odd to focus on the author's opinion that Chumby's business model is repugnant to business, without talking to any business who has a problem with it (or a business that doesn't).
• Collective Intelligence in the "I Love Bees" alternate reality game (PDF). (via BoingBoing). They kept pushing the players harder and harder and the players met every challenge, down to "we'll randomly call payphones 15 seconds apart and the second has to repeat what the first said".
• The Evolving Newsroom, blog from Julie Starr who was "chief change agent" for Telegraph Media Group's multimedia newsroom in London. I had lunch with her yesterday and we brainstormed a pile of projects. She talked about FastCompany.com's rebirth as a community, powered by Drupal.
• Vector Magic graduates from Stanford and is now a separate company. Vector Magic produces vector images from bitmaps. Now you have to buy tokens to get the vector files.
• Light Identity Computer Installation (NYU ITP). Beautiful effects. The only three things I wish I'd done when I was in the US: get to an ITP show, attend SXSW, and see the Grand Canyon.
• Andy Baio writes about independent games developers and the games industry vs web industry.
• Random House allows DRM-free audio books (BoingBoing). Brilliant. I love this: "In the announcement, Random House notes that they've been running a DRM-free audiobook program with eMusic for months, and that none of the pirate editions of their audiobooks online came from those DRM-free editions; rather, they've come from DRM'ed editions that were cracked, and from ripped CDs." Good to have confirmation for what we've long suspected.
• Django Goes Pro (Reddit) - Jacob Kaplan-Moss is going to be working on Django, the Python web-application framework full-time at Whiskey Media. Congrats Adrian!