Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Should Dave Pinto Audioblog? Dave Pinto, x lead researcher and last year's host of ESPN's Baseball Tonight, created quite a stir on his weblog yesterday when he audioblogged a couple of baseball news posts.  From the many comments  he received, the main problem seemed to be coming from the members of his community that read his baseball news while at work. I would say the overall consensus from the comments was mixed as the following 3 comments illustrate. 1) I like it. If I was at work, I probably wouldn't, but....I'm not. :) 2) I usually read from work (via the XML feed populating my livejournal friends list), and I just skip anything that says audioblog. 3) I like it. I can just download the file and listen to it later if I'm at work. Me thinks it's neat-o. Should I Audio Blog? I got this letter in response to my audio blogging today: please please please stop. I like being able to READ your site, not have my browser fire up iTunes every time I try to want to see(hear) the contents of an article. :-) If you must audioblog, can you PLEASE include a transcript or something? ... 6:11:22 AM  comment []    trackback []     I think he's got it The link.  The old powerful link.  Now, if we could just take a little more time and add a little meta data with that link we really would be cooking. Oh, so that's what we're doing Oh, so that's what we're doing. Dave Sifry: "[B]ehind every link, behind every post, behind every weblog is a person (sometimes more than one), and that person is making decisions on what to post and who to link to, and the linking process itself is not just a proxy for attention (as the Google guys understood) but it is a new form of social gesture" [Werblog] 5:57:30 AM  comment []    trackback []     WinFS as a Digital Media Store Just came upon this.  My first reaction is to say, make it easy so we can get all the media meta data out of WinFS easily so that this effort is not just a LongHorn developer feature but a true Internet media application enabler.  Think Internet Media Gateway!! WinFS as a Digital Media Store Chris Sells writes On his quest to find "non-bad WinFS scenarios" (ironically, because he was called out by another Microsoft employee -- I love it when we fight in public : ), Jeremy Mazner, Longhorn Technical Evangelist, starts with his real life use of Windows Movie Maker and trying to find music to use as a soundtrack. Let Jeremy know what you think. I think the scenario is compelling. In fact, the only issue I have with the WinFS scenario that Jeremy outlines is that he implies that the metadata about music files Windows Media player exposes is tied to the application but in truth most of it is tied to the actual media files as regular file info [file location, date modified, etc] or as ID3 tags [album, genre, artist, etc]. This means that there doesn't even need to be explicit inter-application sharing of data. If the file system had a notion of a music item which exposed the kind of information one sees in ID3 tags which was also exposed by the shell in standard ways then you could do lots of interesting things with music metadata without even trying hard. I also like it's quite compelling because metadata attached to music files is such a low hanging fruit that one can get immediate value out of and which exists today on the average person's machine. [Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life] 5:44:45 AM  comment []    trackback []     Wireless Talk Radio I'm curious to see how long it takes for the first show to get archived on the Web.  Having the show archived gives us something "real" to point/link to.  How else could we really blog the show.  I'll audioblog the first show when the link appears.  Stay tuned. Wireless Talk Radio. The Wireless Technology Radio Show launches this morning (on the Internet). It can heard live, Wednesday mornings at 10:00am Eastern and 7:00am Pacific Time. They archive shows so you can click to listen anytime. Jim Sutton and Marlon Schafer talk about the latest technology news and trends in fixed and mobile wireless technologies. Topics include WiFi, WiMAX, Ultra-wideband, security issues, i... [Daily Wireless] 5:32:48 AM  comment []    trackback []

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