Saturday, August 09, 2003

Doug Kenline -> Friday, August 08, 2003 -> Morning Audioblog Report audblog audio post You never said that you could sing, wow doug. christian | Homepage | 08.08.03 - 11:36 am | # yeah, me and hoyt axton...thanks fer listnin' Doug Kenline | Email | Homepage | 08.09.03 - 12:11 am | #   10:00:16 PM  comment []    trackback []     Would you pay $500 to spend the day listening to people talk about blogging? Wow!!  $500.00??  You got to be kidding.  I'm sorry but if all what their talking about is the present state of blogging there just isn't enough there that we haven't talked about already.  After all blogging is a conversation in itself.  A one day, $500 conference just doesn't make any sense at this point.  $99 would make more sense, IMHO. My advice, download and watch the reboot talks and take a vacation with the family with the money you saved. BloggerCon. Would you pay $500 to spend the day listening to people talk about blogging? Not that I was one of the "invited", (I probably don't live close enough to Boston) but please! I'm already sick of reading all the BS hype about blogging as it is! In fact, one day last week I was so f.....g sick of all the bull that goes with blogging that I came about this close to just giving it up completely! Then I remembered why I got into his and the people who I do enjoy reading and decided against that. Still, I think maybe this is the "tipping point" that all of these blogger-as journalist keep talking about, but it's not the tipping point they think they're getting. It's the tipping point where the rest of the world laughs at us for paying $500 to sit around and discuss blogging for a day. I wouldn't waste the time, let alone the money! Think of it this way, there are those who do things, and there are those who sit around talking about doing things. Which group are you in? Thanks to Joy for the link [Life of a one-man IT department] 8:03:24 PM  comment []    trackback []     Feature I like to see next in Radio?  Dave was asking Paolo this week what he like to see next in Radio.  How about a RSS feed that watches new comments and trackbacks of all posts.  Could be as simple as a permalink back to the original post. 6:07:22 PM  comment []    trackback []     The "Bon Appetit" Blog Christopher Lydon -> The Julie/Julia Project: the "Bon Appetit" Blog -> Chris Lydon interviews Julie Powell. Listen  5:34:37 PM  comment []    trackback []     Howard Dean On The Environment: San Francisco, July 31, 2003 Howard Dean On The Environment: San Francisco, July 31, 2003. Howard Dean came to town last Thursday, and I was able to video two of his speaking events. The first event in the afternoon was on the environment. Howard warned us that his speech might be a little stiff, and he wasn't kidding. But he did make some good points, including one about the potential of wind power. (Small - 3 MB) One highlight took place when a cell phone rang and Dean realized it was his own. (Small - 2 MB) I didn't get a chance to wait around to talk to Howard because I had a 1:45 appointment,... [On Lisa Rein's Radar] Here's a link to Howard Dean On The Environment - Complete from Lisa's Reins weblog.  - Size of file: 75MB - Duration of the video is 33:34. Lisa Rein has also broken the video into smaller files.  Check this link for those files. 5:26:54 PM  comment []    trackback []     Software authors use RSS to update users A couple of more practical business uses like this and will have reason to check our RSS readers during the work day. Software authors use RSS to update users. Software authors, like Mark Richards, are using RSS feeds to communicate with users as their titles are updated, for example, throughout a beta cycle. This allows users to subscribe to the feed and be notified immediately as the development cycle progresses. Very smart! [Lockergnome's RSS Resource] 5:03:16 PM  comment []    trackback []     Maybe there will be 10 types of aggregators Sam Ruby: Two types of aggregators. I don't think we've figured out how aggregators will/should work. Maybe there will be 10 types of aggregators. Maybe someone will figure out the "perfect" way. Anyway, some good points here. [evhead] 3:43:43 PM  comment []    trackback []     Scaling syndication in the blogosphere Just in case you missed it:  Phil Wolff -- scaling syndication in the blogosphere (I think he is off by an order of magnitude, but the concept is sound).  Basically, the only way out is P2P (to handle large payloads) and feed portals (feedster, Google, etc. to help people make sense of it all).  [John Robb's Weblog] 3:23:11 PM  comment []    trackback []     On Lisa Rein's Radar -> ILAW 2003 - Day 3 - July 2, 2003 - PM 2 of 2 - The Future Of Entertainment: Music This panel had the EFF's Fred von Lohmann, Charlie Nesson and Leslie L. Vadasz, Director Emeritus, Intel Corporation on it and was hosted by Jonathan Zittrain. Music Law Panel - Part 1 of 5 (Small - 49 MB) Music Law Panel - Part 2 of 5 (Small - 50 MB) Music Law Panel - Part 3 of 5 (Small - 51 MB) Music Law Panel - Part 4 of 5 (Small - 51 MB) Music Law Panel - Part 5 of 5 (Small - 65 MB) 12:42:01 PM  comment []    trackback []     Personal Broadcasting opens another front for journalists J.D. Lasica.  Personal Broadcasting opens another front for journalists.  Excellent.  The only thing I want to reinforce is the idea of audio and video weblogs as discreet entities is wrong-headed.  It is the combination of all media in a single weblog that has power. The only element that is missing from taking video and audio weblogging mainstream is an efficient delivery network.  It is too damn expensive to for an individual to do otherwise (an audience of 10,000 people that view a short video clip every day would cost a small forture in bandwidth).  I wrote about this in 1996, while at Forrester, in a report entitled, "Personal Broadcast Networks."  The report was a very forward looking effort (5-10 years out) and proved so popular that Forrester used it as the theme for their conference that year (I got tons of play at the major papers and TV networks due to it and some efforts at Microsoft, Netscape, and Akamai used it in their start-up phase).  The idea was that an open delivery system (a combination of a Napster P2P clone, weblogs, and RSS with desktop software/browser) would push the Web to a new level of experience.  Unfortunately, this concept was distorted by the popular press into something called "PUSH" in early 1997 (primarily due to Wired's fumble).  That coverage plus Pointcast's demise (due to a grossly expensive distribution system and difficulties dealing with corporate networks -- I got the quote on the launch of the system in '96 in the WSJ and predicted exactly what happened) tanked the concept.  Now Personal Broadcast Networks are back with the open architecture necessary for some very exciting things. [John Robb's Weblog]   I say if we ever could get to "The only element that is missing from taking video and audio weblogging mainstream is an efficient delivery network.  It is too damn expensive to for an individual to do otherwise (an audience of 10,000 people that view a short video clip every day would cost a small forture in bandwidth). " with enough personal/amateur content, the problem Rob decribes would be a good problem, one we would easily route around. Lets get out of the mud (court room) and move forward with a new network of "our content", the people of the net,  that we can share as we want and build the network to do so.  The time is right to start this new kind of network.  We need to make a clean cut and start an amateur network of content where we create, own, share the content and own and build the people's network together. The only people making money now are the lawyers.  Let's get this "people network" going now and put the people back to work. 11:49:40 AM  comment []    trackback []     Two types of aggregators Two types of aggregators. Ziv talks about two types of weblogs - "take that" and "phone home".  I think the distinction is more subtle than that, and deserves further exploration. ... [Sam Ruby] 10:57:26 AM  comment []    trackback []     Lowest-common denominator computing The greatest example of "lowest-comon denominator computing" I know is the Web.  Does any "lockin architecture" match that?  I don't think so.  I'm sure someone has an argument to support that Microsoft somehow indirectly invented the Web.  Does Blackbird ring a bell (lockin!!)? And I'm sorry, making the statement that maybe "most consumers really could care less about lockin" is to strong when most consumers are not informed or educated on making a decision about the lockin before buying.  Show me the real data! Buying a product is not a pro vote on this matter.  When companies start to put Pro and Con statements in their marketing and on their boxes about lockin then maybe we can start counting the votes. Today is the age of vendor products interoperating over the Internet.  The days of a single vendor selling a suite to do all (and to control the interoperability among the products) are the past.  Products that can harness this power the best in their uncomplicated/reliable features will succeed in the future markets with educated customers (not consumers).  Which is really the only vote in the end that matters, imho.  The following is an excerpt from a Robert Scoble weblog post: The Accordion Guy (Joey deVilla) is trying to get rid of Microsoft stuff. Why? Interoperability. Jeremy Allison was making the same point today in my comments. Anytime a customer "fires" us, I'm interested. It means we've failed somewhere.... ... And on and on we could go all night long. Yeah, if interoperability and lack of lockin is your only concern, then Microsoft probably isn't the best thing out there (although, hey, anyone can open my Notepad documents and we did invent, or implement, many of the world's interoperability standards like SOAP, etc). But, most of us don't really care about these two things, do we? Everytime I see just how popular Tivos are, or how popular Sony's Play Stations are, or how popular Barry Bonds is, I get the feeling that most consumers really could care less about lockin. But, guys like Joey and Jeremy are telling me I'm wrong. That scares me, cause it doesn't take too many people to fire Microsoft before I'm outta a job. In the meantime, I can't understand how anyone uses a computer that doesn't have ClearType. Everytime I turn it off on my computer my eyes start to hurt. Did you know that if you have Windows XP, you need to turn it on to use it? There's even a little Web service to help you configure ClearType and to see its advantages. [Robert Scoble: Scobleizer Weblog] 7:40:01 AM  comment []    trackback []     The three-pane "feed reader" is a disaster Andrew Grumet has a philosophy of aggregators that matches mine. The three-pane "feed reader" is a disaster, it's merely recreating a mess I want to run away from. I like having a new queue every few hours. [Scripting News] 7:26:48 AM  comment []    trackback []     How Technorati works I was gonna try and answer the question, but Sifry beat me to it. :-). Clearly the coolest (to me) feature of the blogosphere is to reach out and directly ask questions of the creators of the technology.  So when Lilia Efimova asked this simple clarification of how Technorati works, Dave Sifrey bellied up to the bar and answered the question. How Technorati works? (2). David Sifry answers my question about Technorati: Here's the basics: 1) We spider blogs, and match up their links to your blog - to anywhere on your blog 2) In the inbound blog list, we use the outbound links from the blog homepage, not from the archives 3) We do process RSS feeds an other metadata, but that doesn't affect your inbound blog stats 4) Nightly, we go through the database and re-calculate the number of inbound blogs and links, which helps us double-check our work and also allows us to create the interesting newcomers list, the interesting recent blogs list, etc. We strice to be accurate all the time. Sometimes things slip through. For example, one of the reasons why your inbound blog count may be down today is because we were doing maintenance of the database last night to remove duplicate blogs - for example, Radio Userland has an obnoxious habit of sending pings to www.weblogs.com for each weblog "category" if you use multiple categories on your blog. Same information, same author, just link spam, basically. So, last night we cleaned out a bunch of that stuff. If you were linked from a bunch of people's blog categories, then you lost those inbound blogs. Then again, so did everyone else. :-) The last thing to remember is that while we strive for accuracy and completeness, we still do have bugs and have to fix things. If you notice something strange, please don't hesitate to send us feedback (feedback@technorati.com) and let us know. Thanks for fast reply! And for fixing the category problem (I had it in my stats). I suggest that you add this explanation somewhere, so people know that inbound blog/link statistics are calculated based on links from homepages of other weblogs. (I guess I'm getting spoiled as a researcher: I want to know the method to trust results :) [Mathemagenic] Even with mispellings, Sifry's scribe is true and authentic. In fact you could argue that the mispellings are a brand of trueness - almost akind of encryption/certification "amatuer created" [don't mind the typoesssss] And besdies I strice to be authentic all teh time = 2. [Marc's Voice] 7:07:51 AM  comment []    trackback []

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