Saturday, December 20, 2003

The Blogosphere and the Holidays December so far for me has been getting ready and planning for #3. #3 this year for me will probably be a moving target over the next couple of weeks most likely not happening until after the 1st of the year.  I find December to be the best time time to refect on all the positive and negative things that have happened during the past year.  I use that reflective energy to mold the plan for the next year.  In reality the big next year plan I come up with in December changes.  The needed reflection at the end of the year at least serves as the purpose of syncing everything up. Scripting News: The Blogosphere and the Holidays. ... Randy Charles Morin sent a question about this. Does the blogosphere pick up or go on holiday during the holidays? Here's what I said. 1. I don't have any data, but I do have subjectives. 2. The actual flow goes down, around the 25th way down. 3. But the volume of real work goes up, because people have time for projects that require attention or thinking, which they have more of in the coming two-three weeks.... 8:24:24 AM  comment []    trackback []     The S in SAM I almost changed the S in SAM to mean short yesterday.  Why?  I started to think maybe using short was just easier to understand "Short Audio Messaging".  But I changed my mind against short based on the some of the thoughts I posted in a previous post.  The S in SAM could of meant many things, short, small, sync.  Syndicated just seems to fit the best what we are trying to do with SAM, syndicate the audio message's metadata. Lets talk a little about what we are syndicating here.  We are syndicating the audio message's meta data.  Not the audio message file itself.  What you say?  Consider the fact that there may not even be an audio file to download.  Remember SAM supports all present and future audio formats and protocols including streaming audio and Flash where downloading an audio message file doesn't apply.  That's one of the reasons we included the downloadable flag in SAM. I also believe downloading every audio message file available on a given SAM channel is wrong and not the recommended way to go right now on the net.  If every one started downloading every SAM available on their favorite channel they would create a financial burden on the channel's owner that might prevent the channel from existing.   As SAM gains reach listeners will not be able to listen to all new audio messages available on all of their favorite/subscribed SAM channels.  Why?  Not enough SAM attention available in a day.  SAM is designed for user interaction.  The listeners will need and want to make choices similiar to the ones they make when reading text blogs today using RSS news readers.  RSS news readers today don't automatically download the linked pages associated with the items they show in the news viewer.  The news reader viewer/user makes the choice to pull the originating html page if and when necessary.  Clear concise meta data like titles, descriptions, categories, topics, listening time, etc. will help the SAM listerners make their audio messaging choices. 6:53:43 AM  comment []    trackback []     Adam Curry shows us how he uses enclosures Adam Curry, co-designer of enclosures shows us how he uses enclosures.  Note that one of the Chris Lydon audio interviews he waited for overnight using enclosures I earlier also downloaded "on demand" over a cable modem in less then 40 seconds.  In fairness to enclosures, I would like to also point out Adam also downloaded a Letterman show that I would also have also preferred to use the enclosures method over "on demand" to download today. early xmas enclosures. Christmas came early this year! 2 new Lydon interviews and Letterman's most recent show were waiting for my on my hard drive when I awoke this morning! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 6:23:55 AM  comment []    trackback []     How small is small? I just downloaded Chris Lydon's Larry Lessig interview. The mp3 file downloaded very quickly.  Here are the stats: 4.28MB in 39 seconds - 112KB/sec Length of interview: 18:42.4 A 18 minute audio message in less than 1 minute!!! With BroadBand this audio message is still considered small and could easily support an audio on demand SAM network. The potential bottleneck or weak link in my home network that would disable the downloading of these kind of audio messages on demand is not the last mile.  Agreed I would prefer not to download movies this way.  Nor would I want to download large audio messages over a modem.  But lets also agree that the methods used for downloading "short" audio messages and large video files should not be the same today over BroadBand. So the question I ask, is how short is short?  It would probably be better to define the unit of measurement using latency.  Any file that you can download in less than aprox. 1 minute qualifies as a unit.  In my test case I could have downloaded 4 unique large units, gathering over 1 hour of audio in about 4 minutes.  Wow!  In the SAM network today even Chris's interviews are considered short. SAM "on demand" downloading over broadband is here today. 5:19:35 AM  comment []    trackback []

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