Thursday, October 09, 2003

Boombox modded into a WiFi AP Boombox modded into a WiFi AP. The Bass Station is an old-school boom-box with a WiFi access-point built in, along with: a 120GB hard drive, and an MP3 decoder, and that is controlled using a web browser. Besides being able to play MP3s, it can also stream audio to other devices in its local area network, double as a file-server for file-sharing. Link (via Gizmodo) [Boing Boing Blog] 5:30:45 AM  comment []    trackback []     Viideo citation and blogging frustration Viideo citation and blogging frustration. A few months ago, I wrote about the tragic inaccessibility of audio and video content on the web. Today, while trying to summarize one of the key insights that came out of the BloggerCon conference I attended this past weekend, I was again reminded of this problem. The issue I want to highlight is the gap between what technically proficient users of the blogging medium (or indeed any kind of web authoring) can achieve, and what average users can achieve. Ironically the best way for me to make that point -- by citing portions of the webcast -- is yet another illustration of the problem. In several different sessions, people made compelling pleas for simplicity. It ought to be easy for me to send you to those places in the webcast. It isn't. ... [Jon's Radio] 5:13:55 AM  comment []    trackback []

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