Monday, March 15, 2004

Talk hard The Portland Phoenix.com ->  Talk hard -> BY JESS KILBY -> Or make silly music, or dictate your grocery list. The world is your audience, because audioblogging has arrived. ... And looking forward, keep an eye on Syndicated Audio Messaging (SAM), a project of audioblogging pioneer Harold Gilchrist (www.blogaudsphere.com). In a nutshell, SAM would use XML to search and aggregate Internet audio files, so you could set your mp3 player to automatically download your favorite audioblog programs from your PC (or, once players are more widely equipped with WiFi, straight from the Web), ready for listening during that morning commute or whenever else you choose. 10:01:11 PM  comment []    trackback []     Showtalkers Live for 3/13  audiolink -> ericrice.com:   For everyone who missed the hybrid birthday-release party, here's some of the fun. Showtalkers News for the week of 3/15: favorite TV shows, last movie seen in the theater, and DVD releases for the week. This show marks the kickoff of Showtalkers' format change. Coming soon to Showtalkers.com will be the DVD Commentary for Swordfish tracks 2, 9, and 17. In the meantime, Listen to Showtalkers 3/15 and pop on over to Showtalkers.com and join the conversation. 9:01:29 PM  comment []    trackback []       Noah's Audioblogging SXSW  Noah Glass is rocking the  Audblog at SXSW:  audiolink: Post impressions after Howard Rheingold's keynote and discussion about Howard's regular folk phrase "collective action".   audiolink: Noah audioblogs at the end of the Bloggy Awards and talks with Joi Ito about his earlier panel on emergent democracy. 8:24:34 PM  comment []    trackback []     911 Days later  audiolink: DARREN WEEKS dot NET:  Darren Weeks explains how Spain's recent terror attacks came exactly two and a half years after the attacks in New York and Washington, or 911 days. 7:56:19 PM  comment []    trackback []     The media-player fireswamp In his  e media-player fireswamp post, John Udell makes these statements:  "Publishing Web content that works in a standard and reliable way, in any browser, is a walk in the park compared to publishing AV content that works in a standard and reliable way in any media player." and "We can't blame the problem on the record labels. It's the computer industry that gave us this fragmented and broken media platform. Now, suddenly, there's an explosion of content that can legally be ripped, mixed, burned, and blogged. The RIAA isn't the problem here. We need to find our way out of the QuickTime/Real/WinMedia/Flash fireswamp." I guess I come to see and except the present field of broken media players for what they really are, "dumb media players" (even though they are not advertised as such).   If you look at them that way and except the common limits of the Internet media platform from the computer industry you start to see that the media platform is not really any worse/inconsistant/broken/dumber at delivering media content then all the "dumb web browsers" out there are at delivering their html content.   The point to be made here is that HTML never really had any consistant metadata structure worth talking about or used at any take rate before RSS.  Like HTML files/chunks before it, I see media files following the same path of needing to be supported by a separate short list of structured XML data in a file that supports the media file/chunks.  IMHO, relying on something like hardcoded ID3 tags (feature created by some little guys) in media files is not the best way to go in the next generation of media players and applications.  This is why I believe something SAM like is a direction to explore to move the media platforms forward outside the computer industry. 7:44:36 PM  comment []    trackback []     THE GREAT EQUALIZER  audiolink:  Ears: Christopher Coppola in San Jose talks about looking for a new way for the independent artist and film maker to use technology to level the playing field and bypass the studios. 2:11:35 PM  comment []    trackback []     More thoughts on an association master's degree  audiolink:  The Association Innovation Blog by Jeff De Cagna: In this episode of his weekly audioblogs, Jeff purposes a new Master of Science degree to support leadership in the association community. 1:54:23 PM  comment []    trackback []     RSS news syndication and BitTorrent file sharing Wired: "A demo publishing system launched Friday by a popular programmer and blogger merges two of this season's hottest tech fads -- RSS news syndication and BitTorrent file sharing -- to create a cheap publishing system for what its author calls 'big media objects.'" [Scripting News] 1:14:46 PM  comment []    trackback []

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