Monday, December 27, 2004

China Lights Pure IPv6 Network [Slashdot:] 8:19:08 PM      Google It!.

Open source audio. I've always wondered what it would be like to use audio to tell a story. Today's podcast is my first real attempt at doing that. The title is Open Source Audio and the story is one that I've been trying to tell a number of folks -- and in particular, my non-geek friends -- for a while now. The story begins with a snippet from a 1924 recording of Lonesome Road Blues from the Internet Archive's open source audio collection. After brief discussions of the Edison site at the National Park Service, and the Creative Commons public domain license under which many of these early recordings have been released to the Internet Archive, we hear Brewster Kahle talking about his vision of universal storage and access. I recorded his remarks during a talk he gave at the O'Reilly open source conference in Portland last summer. ... [Jon's Radio] 8:16:15 PM      Google It!.

DURL, a Search Tool for del.icio.us. In case you haven't seen this: overview of DURL, a service that lets you see who has flagged the same URL on del.icio.us By Roland Piquepaille, Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends , Dece,ber 27, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 7:52:54 PM      Google It!.

Nuts About ecto. Readers know how affectionate and enamored I am of flickr but the feelings are just as gooey for ecto, the desktop blog editing tool for Mac OSX and Windows. In fact, it is one of the very few software titles out there that I shelled out some shareware $ for. Without a doubt, I would blog less and use less media if I was forced to use the web editing interfaces. I use ecto to edit about 8 different weblogs, mostly MovableType, but I have also successfully tested it for a Blogger hosted site. It has way too many features to gush on about, but the HTML shortcuts are a godsend, the previews save me from a large number of embarrassing typos (not all of them ;-), the new image and media uploading/attachingg by drag and drop in version 2 of ecto are just a gem and a half. And there are little things I find by accident, such as the Amazon search I just used in a previous post -- a keyword search tool that can help me build a link to relevant books and other things available from Amazon without ever having to visit Amazon or use my web browser. For that last post, where I wanted to reference a book, (1) I merely entered the title (and author's last name since the title search would not be specific); (2) clicked search; and (3) highlighted the result and clicked "insert link". Not only does ecto build a proper link to the book's page at Amazon, it inserts an icon of the book cover into my blog post. This is the beauty of open APIs that Amazon and the flickr people are pioneering. It is why they will be strong net hubs. It is why I love 'em (figuratively ;-) [cogdogblog] 7:51:16 PM      Google It!.