Thursday, April 22, 2004

Looking for the right wireless digital audio adapter Related entries: Home Entertainment Our pal Craig Froehle over at GearBits checks out a bunch of different wireless digital audio adapters — the Netgear MP101, Creative’s SoundBlaster Wireless Music, Roku’s Soundbridhe M1000 and M2000, and Turtle Beach’s AudioTron-100, and finds that they all fall short (conspicuously absent: Slim Devices’ Squeezebox. UPDATE: They just added it.). Besides none of them having 802.11g rather than the slower 802.11b, they were also all missing another feature he was looking for: support for streaming Internet radio. We think he might want to check out the new Wireless-B Music System from Linksys (pictured at right), which should be out soon. It doesn’t have 802.11g, but it can definitely stream Internet radio stations. Read › [Engadget] 12:29:03 PM  comment []    trackback []     Collaborative playlists Hublog: Collaborative playlists -> Those artists that make their tracks freely available online are the ones that will benefit most from the collaborative filtering and recommendation networks that are being set up. 11:28:32 AM  comment []    trackback []     Active resumes Active resumes. Today's New York Times includes a brief article on music blogging. The story links to Webjay and quotes Lucas Gonze and Alf Eaton. I've written three recent entries about this phenomenon: The media-player fireswamp, Blogs + playlists = collaborative listening, and Networks of shared experience. My fascination with the topic may seem like diversion from my usual themes, and in a way it is, but I think the issues transcend music, copyright, and the RIAA. ... [Jon's Radio] 11:03:33 AM  comment []    trackback []     Sony's mobile TV studio-in-a-box This is definitely not your mother's tablet or notebook. With great products and ideas like this coming from Sony it is starting to look like companies like Sony will bring the revolution in widgets for personal publishing, not the old guard.  Sony's mobile TV studio-in-a-box. From Sony, a $20,000 mobile television production studio-in-a-box that brings network quality broadcasting just that much closer to the masses: the Anycast basically shrinks down to a briefcase what used to require an entire van’s worth of equipment, and comes with a switcher, an audio mixer, camera controller, a character generator, and an encoder for sending out a live Real video stream. Comes out in August. [Via BuzzMachine] [Engadget] 10:50:11 AM  comment []    trackback []     Stay away from Los Angeles I just downloaded this new tune from the Refreshments into my home's media player.  Reminds me a little of a blend of Ian Hunter and Mott the Hoople, Tom Petty and Randy Newman.  Refreshments - Los Angeles. View this song at SongBuddy [SongBuddy's Latest Songs] 10:15:05 AM  comment []    trackback []     We're still not there    Shel Israel on Blogging's Missing Links:   It seems to me, that if it is to reach its true potential, blogging needs to be easier for people everwhere to simply click on and self-publish. Those who have not yet come may not want to understand how it works or why.   Again, recommendations and feedback are welcome. [Doc Searls Weblog] 9:52:10 AM  comment []    trackback []

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