Saturday, December 03, 2005

Rogers Cadenhead Workbench: Hundred Visions and Revisions of Podcasting   I think the truth discovery process is working about as well as it ever does on the web. Wikipedia's the perfect place for a tag-team, no-holds barred cage match of competing ideas. I'm glad this controversy is giving people like Downes, Marks, and Harold Gilchrist some attention. They were podcasting when podcasting wasn't cool. Gilchrist especially has been overlooked in the mad dash for glory. When podcasting began to take off in 2004, he had two years experience delivering audio content in syndicated feeds and evangelizing the concept. When the media fell in love with the idea that a former MTV veejay with full-bodied, luxuriant hair was the podfather, a lot of bloggers followed suit and Gilchrist was overlooked, much to his chagrin: If you watch this Audioblogging video you will obviously see that the demostration and explanation of Audioblogging (circa 2003) gives credit where credit is due, explains and illustrates the use of enclosures with audioblogs and exactly explains Audioblogging the way you hear Podcasting explained today. Just a whole year earlier. The IPod is even mentioned with its tie to audioblogging and enclosures. ... The day that the technology A bloggers started to tell the story about the invention of Podcasting without its ties to its Audioblogging history is the day that technology blogging jump the shark in my books. 2:44:50 PM  comment []    trackback []     Adam apologies to Stephen Downes for erasing him from Wikipedia's Podcasting history Stephen's Web: "...Anyhow, it has come to light that Adam Curry has been revising the Wikipedia entry to, as this article says, "remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation." I am one of the people he removed. ..." AC adam[at]curry.com" comments to Stephen's post: "Stephen, thank you for your thoughts on this issue. From the start, there was always a firm belief that what was happening with rss enclosures was significantly different from scraping and audioblogging. Dave was very vocal about this as well. When editing the 'history' I didn't feel this was a significant contribution in the chronolgy as it did not influence me. But as I have stated publicly, having seen actual video of the session where Kevin Maks demo'd a system similar to what I built 8 months later, I have to revise my position on all of podcasting's history. Audioblogging had it's place in there as well. The process of 'truth' discovery through open wiki's seems pretty broken to me when I get 'outed' without some form of process among contributing editors with opposing views. So, an apology to you sir, you deserve to be documented as a part of this story. AC adam[at]curry.com" 11:24:47 AM  comment []    trackback []     "The history of podcasting" rears its ugly head once again Adam Curry Caught in Sticky Wiki "Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation. "   ...   "On Nov. 3, a sentence was removed that credited Kevin Marks with programming a podcasting script: At the first Harvard BloggerCon conference, October 4-October 5, 2003, Kevin Marks demonstrated a script to download RSS enclosures to iTunes and synchronise them onto an iPod[6], something Adam Curry had been doing with Radio Userland and Applescript. " Kevin Marks checks in with a post titled "Bloggercon and Podcasting": "During one of the breaks, I introduced myself and mentioned that I knew he was interested in Audioblogging (as we called it then), and showed him the Python script I’d written to automatically download mp3 enclosures to iTunes. His reaction was that this was cool, and that I should show it off in the Audioblogging session the next day, which I duly did, thanks to Harold Gilchrist making time for me: Download Kevin Mark's Audioblogging speech here. Download iPod version of Kevin Mark's Audioblogging speech here." 8:32:39 AM  comment []    trackback []

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