The program that powers Ego Machine was authored in Macromedia Director. The program uses a web-spider that goes through web gathering and indexing specific information automatically, data being mentions of Sullivan’s name. The data found, containing originating web address, context and date, where Sullivan’s name was mentioned will be logged into a mySQL database. The Director program then accesses gathered data through a plug-in called xMySQL.

The Ego Machine’s prototype will be presented in virtual death memorial gallery. He’s to encourage visitors to link into his website, discuss him on their blogs or visit Ego Machine’s beta version and manipulate his store of after-life points. Meanwhile, gallery visitors will be given a chance to interact directly with its non-beta version. Other graphic design artists also created pieces for show. An urn that holds remains of Roy Ferdinand, an artist who lost his battle with cancer on Dec. 3, 2004, will also be shown. Two artists are commissioned by Antippas to create Ferdinand’s urn that displays some of things he treasured and his artworks, after Ferdinand’s sister handed over Ferdinand’s ashes to Antippas.

The show simply showed that even as we are practically mortals and all, not entirely permanent in this world – technological advances may help in making us virtually immortal. -30-

Lala C. Ballatan is a 26 year-old Communication Arts graduate.

Book reading has always been her greatest passion -- mysteries, horrors, psycho-thrillers, historical documentaries and classics.

By using a live streaming media server, almost any multimedia content can be streamed, including audio and video assets obtained from nearly any source. Streaming does not choose any type of multimedia – whether it is stored on old 8mm film reels or already stored as an MPEG file on your computer.

However, though your streaming server is live, you can never be sure your audience can see and hear your content as you intended for them to view and hear it. It should be understood that performance of streaming media is more crucial than any other type of Internet traffic. Loss of performance will instantly mean a loss of audience. And once your audience can’t connect or lose service quality, then your efforts and investment may be wasted.

To make sure your streaming media work, along with other investments online like content creation, high performance web hosting and content delivery networks, make sure that your investment delivers results. By this, it means that you have to make sure that your audience can see and hear what you are broadcasting.

Work on streaming your chosen multimedia content for necessary purpose it may serve you. Choose a streaming server that’s reliable and has a wide range of services like Tier-1 OC-192 Content Delivery Network (CDN); professional and knowledgeable customer service staff; support for a wide array of Media Formats; network designed from ground up for: scalability, performance, and redundancy. -30-

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Lala C. Ballatan is a 26 year-old Communication Arts graduate.

Book reading has always been her greatest passion -- mysteries, horrors, psycho-thrillers, historical documentaries and classics.