Sunday, August 10, 2003

Best Blogging News of the week IMHO, the biggest and best blogging news this week or so far this month in blogging technology devlopement has to go to the inclusion of "Multipart/alternative" in the Atom 0.2 feed. Bing!! Dive Into Mark -> "Multipart/alternative 0.2 feed. This is the biggest new feature in this snapshot: content type="multipart/alternative". It contains 1 or more content elements, of varying types and languages." It's like going from plain text based email to email with attachments. Could you imagine email today without attachments.  IMHO, this is even bigger than that!  I get excited thinking about what starts to happen when the text bloggers go multimedia and when new bloggers that aren't even here yet that aren't writters enter the picture.  How about when the new Atom feed software starts supporting this capability and starts to pull the new content types in and using it in ways we can't even imagine. Somebody stop me!! It seems like it has taken so long to get to this step.  The next step from the technology side is careful execution.  Lot of room for companies and people to work together with different skills to get this off the ground and really going.  What's a content feature without content producers? Education and demostrating examples of what can be done with this new capability is next.  Stay tuned to these new channels of content.  The "people network" is truely a step closer this week. IMHO of course! 9:12:04 PM  comment []    trackback []     Dick Cheney's Neighbors On The Daily Show Another example of where a multimedia post would benefit using multipart/alternative content in an ATOM content feed. Dick Cheney's Neighbors On The Daily Show. This is from the July 31, 2003 program. Cheney Reaction (Small - 9 MB) The Daily Show (The best news on television.)... [On Lisa Rein's Radar] 2:06:44 PM  comment []    trackback []     Awesome Animation On How Katherine Harris Rigged The Already-Faulty Voting Purge Lists In Florida From 8,000 to 58,000 Voters This post by Lisa Rein is a perfect example of a multimedia post that could potentially take advantage of and benefit with the use of multipart/alternative content support (which is really still technically single content module per entry - confused? me too!! but the point here about multiple content is still important) in an ATOM protocol feed.  Lisa's post includes both embedded Flash animation and a link to a Real video streaming file.  If the entry was broken into 3 different types of content (html, flash file, real video file) in an ATOM entry using multipart/alternative content, feed client software that pulls and reads ATOM feeds such as aggregators (but not just aggregators - I would like to think aggregators are one of many kinds of eventual feed software and not the only model we should be thinking about when discussing possible client ATOM feed software) could use this content specific information to filter and make decisions on which content to use with the client application. IMHO, I think it easy to see how three different types of client software (today's aggregators, a pure flash aggregator and a Real video streaming aggregator, etc.) might see and use an ATOM feed using multipart/alternative content very differently.  Also IMHO, it's use has the potential to create classes of client software and features not possible easily without its use. Awesome Animation On How Katherine Harris Rigged The Already-Faulty Voting Purge Lists In Florida From 8,000 to 58,000 Voters. ...with a little help from Florida's 1998 Voter Reform Law. Here's an awesome video/animation from Eric Blumrich w/music from Grand Theft Auto: Grand Theft America Time's ticking away guys, we've got to do something or they're just going to do it again in 2004. This animation was based on findings in Greg Palast's report: Theft Of The Presidency. There's real video of it available too. (Thanks, Kevin)... [On Lisa Rein's Radar] 2:05:51 PM  comment []    trackback []     mp3.com rejects Creative Commons mp3.com rejects Creative Commons. Don't you hate when the people who should most "get it" TOTALLY DON'T GET IT! Neeru@Creative Commons We would love to help you offer Creative Commons license to your users — it’s free, and a great way to make clear the rights and restrictions artists would like to offer their fans. Legal Department@mp3.com Nothing replaces the legal protections provided by registering a copyright with the US Copyright Office--most certainly not your “free license.” This email is formal notice for you to cease and desist from further contacting our artists through our web site to solicit for your product/services, which are not sanctioned by us. Legal Department Music & Media Vivendi Universal Net USA, Inc. [Joi Ito's Web] 10:48:15 AM  comment []    trackback []     WHAT IS VOICEMONKEY? Except for the cost of making the phone call, this blogging service, at least for now, is a "free phone audioblogging" service for bloggers. VoiceMonkey is a service that lets you put voice messages on the internet. All you have to do is call in and leave a message and then you can let others hear your message via a link in a website, blog, email, or chat.  Click here to hear an example message.   WebTalkGuys interview VoiceMonkey.com founder Hugh Seagraves. Cool Innovation Audio on the Web Guest: Hugh Seagraves, founder VoiceMonkey.com 10 min @ 20k Stream. Real      WinMedia  Mobile Win Audio  (2.4 MB) mp3 - full show (9.8 MB) Learn how you can leave free voice messages on the web with a new instant voice communications tool that is being used by everyone from bloggers to people wanting to send personal voice messages around the world as another way to add more personal dimensions to websites and email. 9:47:06 AM  comment []    trackback []     More Celebration of Self-Publishing More Celebration of Self-Publishing. Online Journalism Review has two interesting new stories on the trend of personally produced journalism. Rick Bruner gushes. [summary] [Up2Speed - The single source for no-nonsense Internet marketing news] 7:57:21 AM  comment []    trackback []

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