Monday, June 30, 2003

ECHO multi-media blogging technical issues Because I find Sam Ruby's ECHO wiki slow at times and hard to follow for the occasional reader, I've decided to cover on this blog some of the conversations I've engaged in there and key observations as they relate to multi-media blogging. I invite the RSS and ECHO community to correct my technical interpetation about RSS and ECHO features if they are wrong.  I have no intention to stir the RSS versus ECHO pot, so please no comments or questions from that direction (because I won't answer them).  I am trying to understand and communicate the technical decisions being made in ECHO that will impact multi-media bloggers. The core design.  In my opinion it is starting to look like the design of the core of ECHO is to model the core of RSS, no more, no less.  Even though the semantics and syntax are different, the main idea seems to be, emulate all core RSS features and functionality based on present use. The multiple content type issue: When it comes to entries (which are similar to items in RSS) there is some division on a entry child tag named "content".  It seems some want to limit one content per entry while others like myself would like to see one or more content tags supported. How will ECHO  model the content by reference feature supported in RSS with the tag enclosure with only one content per entry?  This feature is presently used by bloggers and supported by Radio. In the case of an audioblog item (which I state here I have a bias for) in RSS, I can today put the file reference in an enclosure along with its mime type and file size. Along with that, I can have all the other attributes of item which includes a chunk of html description data that I believe would presently qualify as a second content entry type in ECHO. The content by reference issue: To address content that is best served by referencing it's file with an URI (such as audio, video, photos), many are in support of implementing content by reference.  Others believe including this feature is somehow adding a feature not needed in ECHO 1.0 even though we get this feature in RSS with enclosure. If these issues are not addressed, in my opinion ECHO could mean less not more for audio, video and photo bloggers.  Note: I would like put some of these comments on Sam's wiki but I have not been able to reach it all afternoon. Ref: Content types discussion at Sam Ruby's ECHO wiki: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/content 6:41:45 PM  comment []       media and weblog developments media and weblog developments. I'm really excited about a weblog related development here (The netherlands). We've been receiving a lot of negative press lately, and have been watchinig the flow of information this tiny couontry has. The 'real" news gets published in the telegraaf, which I have publicly denounced as false based on my personal information. But in reality, anyone who's been interviewed never sees the whole truth represented too their version of the truth back on the written page. The nasty part is that most journalists in the netherlands are so lazy they literaly just copy-paste any 'news' printed in the telegraaf. Instead of doing any real research, they just quote that it was 'in the paper'. This is probably how it goes in most countries these days. But today I tried something new. Currently we are happy to do interviews and have several scheduled with other major print publications his week. We only have one demand; that the entire interview is recorded [audio] and posted publicly on my weblog for public refrence. Guess what, they've all agreed! This means I can always put the article into context, and anyone can judge for themselves by hearing this 'reality' broadcast on demand. These audio files, in combination with my weblog posts are turning out to be an extremely powerful tool when it comes to tweaking the traditional media. This recording this is great, because most interviewers tape their own conversations anyway. Now they'v gotta be extra sharp when dealing with the facts as they collected them. Denying the recording ofcourse looks equally bad to the journalist, and so the scales have been tipped just a little more balanced than before. Any ceo should surely take note that the combination of a maintained weblog with recorded interviews (as enclosures in your rss feed!) are very, very powerful. Fire your p.r. agency now and get with the new deal. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 3:14:27 PM  comment []       Scoble: I had a dream OK, now to the reason why I woke up at 1 a.m.: I had a RSS/Echo dream. I had a dream that Dave Winer donated RSS to the Echo project. Now, hear me out .... [Robert Scoble: Scobleizer Weblog] 9:09:47 AM  comment []       Is RSS Dead? Is RSS Dead?. Been reading a lot of the debates about the future of RSS and issues going forwrd. I have a lot... [Michael Gartenberg] 9:03:31 AM  comment []       Bloggers Explaining The Media Ecosystem of the Blogosphere Bloggers Explaining The Media Ecosystem of the Blogosphere. The blogosphere is a self-organizing webspace that is constructed through the presence and interlinking of the 3 million weblogs (blogs) ....[Elwyn Jenkins: MicrodocBlogger] 9:00:10 AM  comment []       Dare Obasanjo: "What's Wrong with the MetaWeblog API?" Dare Obasanjo: "What's Wrong with the MetaWeblog API?" In my comments, it should be pointed out, Dare accused me of "propoganda and culture of personality rantings." Hey, isn't that what a weblog is supposed to be? Heh! [The Scobleizer Weblog] 8:54:27 AM  comment []       Samurai on the Job Here's a cool use of an audioblog. Samurai on the Job: Amana Model SXDE25JP SxS Refrigerator audblog audio post from [Fix It Now] 3:38:05 AM  comment []     Three more videos from Reboot  I viewed 3 more videos tonight from Reboot.  All equally good.  I never heard any of these 3 presenters talk before watching these videos.  I recommend listening to them all. Cory Doctorow Quicktime (ca. 76Mb) Cory talks about his recent experiences as a Science Fiction writer, the music industry and reducing your risk of guessing wrong in a market economy, Dan Gillmor  Quicktime (ca. 52Mb) Dan talks about RSS, moblogging and the new journalist/reader conversation thats happening on the web. Tim O'Reilly  Quickime (ca. 48Mb) In this talk Tim talks about Open Source, collaboration, Internet culture, Internet history and the future platform. 1:32:45 AM  comment []

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