Saturday, October 30, 2004

Is Apple throwing PODCasters in the trunk or are they doing it to themselves? If this is true, we might be explaining PODCasting in the future as a feature that works easily with all MP3/media players except the IPod.  Would that make it UnPodCasting? Moral to this history lesson: Don't create/bet your platform/money/time on a vendor's/someone else's proprietary technology. Cory Doctorow: "That's because Apple just devoted some expensive engineering hours to updating iTunes to version 4.7, with the "improvement" of breaking iPod Download. " "What's the lesson here? Well, Apple's not on your side, even if you're an Apple customer. If you buy into a proprietary platform where the music industry gets a veto, you're scr0d. Every time you buy an iPod, you are financing legal and technical countermeasures aimed at taking away legitimate features that enable you to do more with your lawfully acquired music and hardware." Scripting News -> Cory Doctorow: "Apple's spending money seeing to it that features are removed from your iPod." 2:04:29 PM  comment []    trackback []     How quickly a year goes Wow! Over a year ago, Bob Doyle and myself lead a discussion on Audioblogging at the first BloggerCon.   Check out the session's description "Demos of the tools used to add audio to weblogs, RSS enclosures, how to indexpensively set up a studio".   I think you'll agree that the description (written over a year ago) covers 98% of the technical aspects of what is today being spun as PodCasting in the media (minus the IPod of course). Side note 1: Kevin Marks demostrated one of Adam Curry's Applescripts for retrieving enclosures at this session.  Having witnessed this demo, I often wonder sometimes why the history story/spin about the IPodder script always makes it sound like it was developed last month. Huh? I also remember that I wondered back then why Adam Curry (when I spoke briefly to Adam the night before the Audioblogging session I asked him if he was going to attend the session he seemed excited about it and replied yes) didn't attend the BloggerCon Audioblogging session.  Since he was at BloggerCon it just seemed to me to make sense that he would attend the session in support and demo his enclosure/media ideas himself (not that Kevin didn't do a great job).  I was told by Kevin Marks at the time that he was asked to demo Adam scripts because Adam Curry was at Joi Ito's session in the next room.  Side note 2: Christopher Lydon did attend the BloggerCon 1 Audioblogging session and engaged in some great conversation about the emerging Audioblogging subject. Audioblogging When: October 5, 2003, 1:30PM Where: Pound 200 Discussion leader:  Harold Gilchrist Who attends: Bloggers with all levels of experience who are interested in adding audio to their sites, software developers creating audioblogging software, listeners who want to subscibe to audioblogging feeds. Description: Demos of the tools used to add audio to weblogs, RSS enclosures, how to indexpensively set up a studio . 12:13:23 PM  comment []    trackback []     So, who invented it? Eric, Thanks for not forgetting!!! So, who invented it?. From: Scripting News: 10/29/2004 Eric Rice: "... But, I certainly recognize that enclosures existed and plenty of work was done within the Userland community... let's also not forget Harold Gilchrist of the Audioblogging Revolution... " 11:58:27 AM  comment []    trackback []     Better Late then Never Scripting News -> Blogging tools and enclosures. "We've been trying to get aggregator developers to support RSS 2.0 enclosures, but I've never written a piece explaining how I think developers of blogging tools should support enclosures." 11:45:50 AM  comment []    trackback []

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