Saturday, July 12, 2003

Marc Canter responds to Adam Curry's Why we need Echo Marc Canter responds to Adam Curry's Why we need Echo. ... I beg for explanation, in simple terms, why do I need (n)echo? [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]   1.  Semantic blogging.  Please go check out what Matt and Paolo did with k-collector.  But since it's not 'a standard' (or supported by Userland, Dave or you for that matter) - it went nowhere.  With Echo - all blog posts can have topics attached to them. 2.  Combine data structure and API into one thing.  This will enable folks to move their blog info - from Radio (for instance) to Moveable Type or TypePad. 3.  Something besides blogging.  Photos, Reviews, Conversations, audio, video - people.  Do I have to continue?  is that enough? [Marc's Voice] 4:28:03 PM  comment []       hey, listen to this hey, listen to this. So one of the million things I've not had time to do while finishing this draft (answering a b'gillion emails is another) was to listen to this. As I described before, Colin Mutchler posted a guitar track to Opsound. Opsound makes its content available to others under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike license. Cora Beth, a 17 year old violinist, took the track and added a violin track. The result is this. As Brian Flemming commented on the post, "a great way to illustrate the value of CC to someone who perhaps doesn’t quite get it." Indeed it is. Listen to this, and you'll can't help but get it. [Lessig Blog] 2:14:14 PM  comment []       Echo feed available Echo feed available. Yesterday Dave Winer added support for Echo to Radio Userland's aggregator. Today I did the same, but at the other end. My Radio Userland now emits an Echo feed. The RSS feed is now created by transforming the Echo feed, using this XSLT transformation. [Sjoerd Visscher's weblog] 2:11:46 PM  comment []     Audioblogging Bitrates Using Micoco's Mp3 To Wav Converter Plus 2.6, I noticed that Christopher Lydon, Eric Rice and myself seem to be using similiar bitrate and sampling frequency to record mp3s for our audioblogs: Bitrate: 64 kbps Frequency: 22050 Hz Mode: Single Channel or Mode: Joint Stereo On the other hand Audblog seems to record MP3s slightly different (expected since they are recording voice quality audio from an analog phone): Bitrate: 24 kbps Frequency: 22050 Hz Mode: Single Channel It may not seem to matter much what MP3 settings one chooses to audioblog but it does. In reality, programmers and software testers don't test everything.  If we can come to some consensus on typical MP3 settings used for audioblogging, we can help promote that these cases are tested for all audioblogging tools and PC/PDA/etc. audio testing in general. 10:24:40 AM  comment []       "We're Desperate for these Conversations"  "We're Desperate for these Conversations" -> "The "spoken word" tour of the blogosphere continues.  Here is the poet and provocateur Jim Behrle's walk around the blog landscape--for poets." [Christopher Lydon] 8:24:16 AM  comment []

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