Friday, February 18, 2005

from Adam Curry's  "iPodder - A brief History" "Earlier in the year when I attended BloggerCon, Dave was maintaining an RSS feed of enclosures containing mp3's of interviews Chris Lydon was recording. I had asked several developers if they would help me create a standalone application that would download these mp3 files and automatically store them on my iPod. Little did I know then that asking a developer to make your software porgram is almost like asking someone to do your homework for them... So I wound up learning how to program Applescript, Apple's built in scripting language for the mac operating system. After about a month (and some extra time due to a motorcycle accident) my iPodder was ready. But it also really sucked, because I'm not a developer. Observing open source projects led me to believe that releasing my code would attract other developers who might consider fixing and/or contributing to my work." BloggerCon was actually late in the year, October 2003.  No where in this IPodder brief history do I see any credit or mention of Kevin Marks' "SyncPod" work and demo at BloggerCon.  In the seesion it was Kevin Mark's that said that Adam told him to go demo it at the session.  Here is the link to the video of my Audioblogging session at BloggerCon 1, October - 2003 where Kevin Marks demostrates the "SyncPod".   Kevin's demostration is toward the end of the video. 8:57:42 PM  comment []    trackback []     Where is the fact checking from the media and blogosphere to support the podcasting origins story? Even though this blog has had the word "Audioblogging" in it's title for over a year and a half and also has been the first or second response when the word audioblogging is Googled, never has anyone form the media ever emailed me about the origins of podcasting.  Why?  And before the blogosphere becomes all proud of themselves because of this fact, neither have they. 6:54:29 AM  comment []    trackback []     Who planted the idea for audio.weblogs.com? Did you ever wonder who it was that sparked the idea for audio.weblogs.com?  Check out this link and this one. Scripting News - May 3rd, 2004: "Harold Gilchrist says it's time for audio blogs to have their own weblogs.com. We can do it if there's enough interest -- weblogs.com has the ability to spawn new communities. So if there are enough audio blogs or tools to start one, let's do it. Probably the best way to find out is to create a post and ask people with audio blogs to comment. " 6:34:45 AM  comment []    trackback []     Citizen online audio messaging community started 6 months ago It was really the "citizen online audio messaging community" that was started and took off 6 months ago.  All the technology parts were already in place (Audioblogging). Here something I wrote on December 09, 2003: "In 2003 audioblogging came a long way.  Even though we didn't focus on using streaming audio like some said we needed to do audioblogging prevailed and works.  Even though some didn't get it at first others kept rocking and Audioblogging keeps growing everyday.  Audioblogging doesn't really care if it's streaming audio or fixed downloadable files or what transport is the best.  It's not about what web audio technology is the best.  It never was.  Audioblogging like the web itself can use them all.  At the end of the day it's about the message.  It's a new way of using audio on the web to get your message out.  Audioblogging today is simply about creating and putting any audio message on the web however the web can help you get them there.  But we're not done.  Now is the time to get to the next level.  Now we need to build on the past year's work and start creating the "audio messaging community" together. As I look at the new Audlink homepage I see a glimmer of community starting to form.  It's raw but it's there.  I see some elements missing, but it has a seed.  The answer is to work together to water that seed and grow the audio messaging community. 126 years ago, in a small laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey Thomas Edison invented recorded sound.  In 2004 we can take Edison's invention and create an online audio messaging community like none before it with the help of SAM." 6:22:51 AM  comment []    trackback []     Was the first podcatching script really only written 6 months ago? from 10/5/03: Another quote from Betsy Devine that this time blows a huge hole in the myth that the original/famous podcasting script was only written 6 months ago:  "Kevin and Adam Curry are working an a gateway called "SyncPod" between RSS feeds and an iPod, so that you can automatically put stuff into an iTunes playlist to listen to on the iPod. This runs in the background while I'm doing other things, so I don't have to do anything about it." Question:  Why is it that Kevin Marks (worked at one time at Apple on Quicktime) is never given any credit for helping to develop the supposive podcasting script that started it all?  It was that demostrated Adam's script at the Audioblogging session of BloggerCon 1.   His demostration is in the archived video of the BloggerCon 1 session on Audioblogging. 5:54:52 AM  comment []    trackback []     First public demostration of a PodCatcher program This note from a Betsy Devine's blog post is about the first public demostration of Windows program that would be classified in today's Podcast language as a Podcast catcher:  "Tool called "Enclosure Extractor" lets you look at your RSS fee and mark enclosures you want to download. Then it downloads just the enclosures you checked." 5:46:01 AM  comment []    trackback []     How does an audio "enclosure" in an RSS file work? Betsy Devine wrote the following in her blog on 10/5/03": "I (Betsy) asked, How does an audio "enclosure" in an RSS file work? Harold showed us onscreen: the RSS "enclosure" gives you a title, description, and the URL of the audio's mp3. If you want to hear the audio, you click the link to go to the URL. My software saves audio in 3 formats: mp3, Ogg Vorbis, and wav." 5:40:41 AM  comment []    trackback []     Myths need to be punctured to survive Mitch Ratcliffe on the podcasting history story: "it would be better for the survival of the medium if the myths are punctured early rather than later." 5:30:34 AM  comment []    trackback []

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