Drivel:  I have been thinking a lot about how to truly connect my desktop to the rest of the world.  I started thinking about the things I do on my computer:  develop software, email, play games, listen to music, manage my finances, watch short videos, make videos to send to friends and family, rip CDs, chat on IM.  Listening to music, watching videos, and creating videos are by far the most interesting and engaging.  I have been trying to get time to try Garth Kidd's Throat application to start an audio blog and distribute it using Radio, but it looks like it will have to wait until this weekend.  Video blogging is the next step.  I'm trying to get my hands on the Oplayo toolkit to give it a try.  Oplayo has a very light weight video encoder and play back applet.  They have come a long way in improving the quality of their video over the last year.  I suppose I could also enable Windows Media encoding through Radio since they distribute their encoder for free.

I guess there are three tools that would be cool to make very easy to use:  audio blogging, video blogging, and audio syndication.  The audio blogging tool is being taken care of by Garth Kidd.  I think I am going to tackle the video blogging and audio syndication.  Making these tools very easy to use is the key to their success.  To gain widespread use, they have to be as easy to use as Radio.  With Radio, Throat, a video blogging method, and audio syndication, you have an entire media platform on your hands.  12:25:32 PM   comments ()