Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Why I want SAM  (Syndicated Audio Messaging) : The 4 Basic Premises of the SAM structure 1) Audio messaging appears on the Internet in many forms. ie. mp3s, wav, ogg vorbis, Real Audio, Windows Media, Flash, streaming, audio on demand, etc.  2) Because of the use of different audio types and technology to transport audio on the web today,  the same audio message (content) may need to be represented by more than one link. 3) A useful unit of audio, the "audio message" can be defined for quick downloading anytime over a Broadband connection. ie. a hour of audio can be downloaded in less than 5 minutes. 4) Audio message meta data can be easily transmitted with a XML syndication format known as a feed. Audio message attributes: link, mime type, media description?, file size, file length(time in seconds), date and time recorded   S can mean small, short, simple, syncronize, syndication A always means audio M can mean messaging, meta data   8:37:36 PM  comment []    trackback []     LiveJournal demographics LiveJournal demographics. LiveJournal has posted a bunch of demographic stats about its user-community -- the age distribution skew (shown here) is fascinating. Link (via Smartpatrol) [Boing Boing Blog] 6:33:21 PM  comment []    trackback []     New Lisa Rein song online I'm a fan!!  I'm starting to really like Lisa's music.  Lisa has 2 versions of her lasted recording posted.  One with an intro and one without.  How would you do that in a RSS enclosure?  Note: Lisa's live 6 minute, 9MB mp3 took me about 30 seconds to download.  New Lisa Rein song online. Lisa Rein has begun to post the recordings from her musical showcase. Her first track, "In the Spirit," is up now. It's her first anti-war song. Link [Boing Boing Blog] 6:12:14 PM  comment []    trackback []     Enclosures - only download during off hours!! Why doesn't ITConversations have a RSS feed?  Maybe I'm not looking close enough.  I always seem to miss what's going on there.  Thanks goes to Doc Searls in my aggregator for keeping me informed.   Update: I found the feed page. Subscribed!! Note: I find this interesting and the general consensus on the understanding of RSS Enclosures. "Browsers that understand enclosures can download the mp3 files during off hours." I read it as "Enclosures - only download during off hours!!" Why? Do we really have to apply this rule to every media file we enclose?  There is no reason to wait if the media file is audio and short, say less than 10 minutes.  These files download download rather quickly with a broadband connection and should not be treated as you would treat large video files.  I could download a hour's worth of audio in about 5 minutes using my broadband connection.   RSS Feeds       We offer the following RSS (XML) feeds. The first feed includes descriptions of the 10 most-recent IT Conversations. This feed doesn't include the mp3 audio files--only links to them.   The second feed includes all of the above plus RSS 2.0 "enclosures." Browsers that understand enclosures can download the mp3 files during off hours.   This is the RSS feed from Doug Kaye's Blogarithms weblog.     He's everywhere. Two David Weinberger interviews are up. Doug Kaye has an audio interview at ITConversations (with a linkable print transcription also provided). Frank Paynter has an all-print interview at Sandhill Trek. Great stuff. Go read it. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 5:51:48 PM  comment []    trackback []     Report calls for VOIP 'regulatory certainty' InfoWorld: Top News: Report calls for VOIP 'regulatory certainty'. WASHINGTON - Providers of VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) telephone services need the "regulatory certainty" that would be created with a national U.S. government policy, a report released Tuesday suggested. 6:44:41 AM  comment []    trackback []     Re-routing the last mile of Broadband Adam has a creative solution to the last-mile ownership problem, WiFi Peering.  Finding a viable replacement exceptable by the FCC for the last-mile is the best way, and maybe only way to create a level open playing field with the incumbents (also known as competition) in the future of the Internet with next generation Internet applications. The incumbents know this and will continue to try to lock up control of the last-mile as long as they can.  re-route. Reading this story about the possibility of the internet as we know it (open end-end networks) dying, made me think of an essay I wrote 2 years ago: WiFi Peering. Would it be possible to use this technology to route around government imposed (and/or sanctioned) gateways like last-mile broadband providers? [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 6:23:42 AM  comment []    trackback []     The battle for open broadband Kevin Werbach is concerned about the direction the FCC is taking to tilt the rules of the game away from innovators and toward incumbents and what they could pose for the future of the Internet.  Good read. Werblog: The battle for open broadband. FCC Commissioner Michael Copps had an op-ed yesterday in the San Jose Mercury News about the threat upcoming FCC decisions could pose to the open Internet: "At the behest of powerful interests, the FCC is buying into a warped vision that open networks should be replaced by closed networks and that the FCC should excuse broadband providers from longstanding non-discrimination requirements." I'm also growing increasingly concerned about the direction the FCC is taking. Just as broadband deployment is taking off, and new applications as VOIP are beginning to thrive on top of the broadband platform, the FCC is moving to tilt the rules of the game away from innovators and toward incumbents. I have great respect for FCC Chairman Powell's intelligence and integrity, and as I've written, I don't see him as a mindless tool of big business. He is one of the few people in Washington who sees the coming transformation of telecom for what it is. The problem is that the FCC doesn't seem to fully appreciate what "voice is just an application" implies. It means broadband transport and what rides on top are separate markets. Competition on top depends on open connectivity to what lies beneath, where two companies in each market still control the critical last-mile bottleneck. As much as those companies have complained, they have made the investments and successfully built broadband access businesses under the current pro-competitive FCC rules. Yet now they insist they won't invest without the ability to control what happens at the application and content layers. The incumbents (and, it seems, the FCC) have it exactly backwards. Today, we don't need a new set of incentives for companies to deliver broadband transport; we need incentives to create broadband applications. And competition is the best possible incentive. Competition at the application layer will stimulate demand for more bandwidth at the physical layer. That's how we'll catch up to places like Japan and Korea that are rolling out 27 and 50 megabit broadband connections. Giving up on competition in applications in the hope that the bottleneck transport providers will deploy bundled services makes no sense. It runs counter to all the lessons we should have learned from the success of the narrowband Internet. 6:19:52 AM  comment []    trackback []

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