Monday, November 01, 2004

I really need your help!! Something has been really bothering me all weekend.  I haven't been able to come up any good satisfing answers so I've just decided that it is easier to write about the problem here to get it off my chest. I am about to release (maybe??) a beta of a new application/idea into the PODCast/Audioblogging space.  I'll add that it is a disruptive application at that (one that the PODCast spin machine/masters may not like).  I have always been very open about my ideas here and always trusted that the weblog space was honest and that truth and credit would prevail.  Then this whole podcasting thing happened and somehow my feelings and opinions about honesty and proper credit in the blogosphere are in question. What would you do if you were me?  I been at this Audioblogging thing so long that I know this new audioblogging application is so right and different then what is out there right now.  But I also know now how easily ideas and credit can be spun by the weblog spin masters/gods (as I believe I just witnessed) as their very own exclusive ideas.  Their main advantage, a great one I might add is that their weblog antennaes/reach is magnitudes greater then many of us and they have greater access to the main stream press.  I guess I could patent all my present visionary audioblogging ideas.  But that goes against my philosphies about sharing and what I really want to do in this space.  In my opinion they are not even technically where I was 2 years ago (and their latest ideas will surely delay/trip them up) moving the technology forward.  I really don't want to engage in arguments because I don't have time or the attention for that.  What does or can one do in a situation like this? Is any credit and a level playing field really so much to ask for? I sometimes wonder if Evan from Blogger ever felt this way? 9:06:26 PM  comment []    trackback []     Final Project: A Alright!!  Got an email from my VB.Net teacher.  I'll assume this confirms the "Audioblogging Revolution" code is cool.  I was impressed that she really understood what I was doing.  She would be proud.  I am so much further with new ideas in the program from what she saw Thursday night.  I think I need to drop her off an apple. What really blew me away during the "Audioblogging Revolution" demostration in front of the class was that the most untechnical non-programmer in the class got it instantly. Harold, Congratulations on successfully completing the Introduction to Visual Basic Class! You earned an A on your final project, and your final grade for the class was an A. Your final project was coded well, and demonstrated an excellent application of the Visual Basic language. Your final was one of the best in the class. It was a pleasure having you in class. 8:39:44 PM  comment []    trackback []     IPodder assumes infinite free bandwidth "PODcasting assumes infinite bandwidth... bandwidth is always paid for by someone else. It can only scale when someone wants to sell you (on) something..." Excellent point!!  I might add for IPodder 2004 the client application (not PODCasting) to scale "IPodder assumes infinite free bandwidth".  Sorry that's not going to happen in 2004/2005 for most amateur content providers.  A couple of months ago we were hearing about all the problems with polling small texted based RSS file by aggregators.  Now we're being sold an achitecture that pulls down any and all media files in the RSS feed just in case we decide to listen/watch them later.  This really makes no sense to me.  The worst part is no one is even questioning it.  Where is the reality check here people? Moral to the story:  It's the wrong architecture!!  Try again!! 8:06:42 PM  comment []    trackback []     The benefits and the reasons why we need SAM! SAM - Syndicated Audio Messaging - SAM specification (draft), background - I always thought we needed to solve this problem right and especially first before we went to the media and created the hype!  I suggested late last year we use a module extension of an existing feed format (i.e. ATOM, RSS).  See SAM specification (draft), background. The benefits and the reasons why we need SAM! Present audio message data published and embedded in html on the Web today is incomplete, inconsistant and complicated to parse out. Present publishers of Web and Interenet audio messages need a structured XML file format to publish easily discoverable data on the Web about the pre-recorded audio messages they upload to the Internet. Publishers of audio message links, need a format that supports clear original audio message credit and proper media rights data. Consumer audio applications need a efficient format to discover recently uploaded pre-recorded audio messages to the Internet. To create a potential for a new class of audio message consumer applications. To allow publishers a way to advertise the existance of their audio messages in a near realtime time efficient manner. The new XML feed namespace will allow consumer applications of audio messages the ability to read and analize the audio message data before deciding to interact with the audio message. There is a need to create a consistant audio message specification compatible across all audio formats. To support multiple language audio message publication and detection. Where's the meta data? What's wrong with Podcasting.. Lots of people have been prodding me into reviving "the Marc Canter Show" - which I did – just as the Web was born in '94-'96. I stoped because the video I was shotting wasn’t making it out onto the web, or shall I say “I had no intention of spending millions of dollars narrowcasting my video blogging.â€� Lately I’ve also been getting flack for not using coolio Video Conferencing systems – like FlashMeeting – and in general abandoning my multimedia roots. Well I’ve also had this burning, bubbling feeling in my stomach that something was desperately wrong with Podcasting... [Marc's Voice] 7:31:23 AM  comment []    trackback []     Who Invented Podcasting? IrishEyes -> Who invented podcasting -> "SCRIPTING -- Dave Winer questions the origins of podcasting by pointing to comments and discussion related to himself and Adam Curry. His concerns also point to the way history is made and revised at internet speed. Let the record show that Harold Gilchrist was audioblogging well before "podcasting" was coined. And Audible enjoyed a brisk trade in downloadable audiobooks that I first saw in use on Amtrak in 2001... " Doug Kaye weblog -> Who Invented Podcasting? -> "Update: Eric Rice reminded us that Harold Gilchrist was audioblogging long, long before podcasting or IT Conversations. " 6:05:35 AM  comment []    trackback []

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