Thursday, November 11, 2004

It’s a metadata swarm Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter -> "The power of metadata is additive. My vanity PubSub feed caught a podcast citation with Thomas Edison and my name in the same sentence. Sure got my attention. Net result: Harold Gilchrist joined my iPodder sub list and has flooded my Mac with 6, nope 7 just in, podcasts on something called the PODcast Browser. Then Mary Hodder pointed at Harold and Dave Winer pointed at Mary. It’s a metadata swarm, as Ray Ozzie would put it." 9:52:15 PM  comment []    trackback []     Planned Betas of the PODCast Browser My latest episode  of "The Audioblogging Revolution".  This morning we talk about RSS 2.0 Item attributes and Channel elements, planned beta releases of the PODCast Browser and the layout and interaction of the Discovery interface so far and I answer Steve Gilmor email (bong). 8:52:28 AM  comment []    trackback []     Podderati ? I don't think so!!!  Sorry this is nothing like Napster except maybe the downloading part.  The only Power Laws used by Napster were wired in your brain long before Napster came on the scene sometime back when you were growing up listening to AM/FM Radio.  If you weren't old enough to grow up on AM/FM radio you went looking for what you heard on VH1 and MTV.  The point is the mass majority of Napter users went looking for what they listened to and owned in their childhood or heard through another medium besides the Internet or Napster.  Very little or any new discovery was communicated through the system! By the way this lack of discovery is shared by most P2P file sharing systems.  People go there knowing what they want not with an open mind to choose music file that is totally new and different. PODCasting and Audioblogging scream a new, vastly different communications model that is built on the sharing of discovery with others especially since both are achitected on top of the Blogosphere and BlogAudSphere.  The main difference is the system feeds on itself adding user generated valid meta data that drives the many approaches to discovery that are built on top of it. podstar -> Napsterization: "These are radio shows, essentially, and so metadata being data about the data, means it's the title of the show, the people talking, the date, etc. But it's not the transcript. And so the shows rise based on reputation and linking and pointing, and metadata, but not the content specifically. We cannot search the actual words of the shows, and therefore, if a new voice emerges, how will we find it? In systems like Pubsub, Feedster, Technorati, Bloglines, Blogpulse? These search systems have a democratizing effect, because anything can come up in the searches. But without the content itself being searchable, we will likely end up with a very strong powerlaw effect." 7:31:43 AM  comment []    trackback []

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