31 May 2002

Flash MX and RSS Create Exploding Content Mike Chambers: "The Flash community has been getting pretty excited about Flash and RSS lately." We're going to glue these two things together next term in a Web Writing course taught at Tipperary Institute. Sent from Radio TransNote on Irish Rail at Kildare. Pointer from Scripting News ref: 125

Leading the Way in Hotspot Deployments Alan Reiter: "Many WiFi experts think the U.S. is the WiFi leader. We're the leader in software development and new business models, but not in hotspot implementation. In Korea, there will be 25,000 hotspots in perhaps a year. In the U.S. we now have 1-2,000 hotspots." If you  want to be part of the leading edge of hotspot development, you should subscribe to Boing Boing's RSS feed. Sent by Radio TransNote over Vodafone HSD while on Irish Rail at Carlow. ref: 109

Weblogs Leave Trails to Follow Jon Udell's last column for BYTE, Personal RSS Aggregators, is rising through the ranks on Daypop. This is good to see. Unlike weblogs, aggregators don't leave much of a visible trail to follow.   [Scripting News]

The Web is a Scripting Environment Dave Winer: The Web is a scripting environmnent. As The Irish Times moves to locking down its essence behind a PPV walled garden, another dimension of the Web has emerged that brings high-quality content into an easily managed client news hamper.

RIAA Hurting Musicians. Brian Zisk:  Tells RIAA's Steven Marks and SoundExchange's John Simson that their credibility "has ceased to exist," and that their efforts are "hurting SoundExchange, the recording industry, the webcasting industry, and worst of all the musicians." Zisk is technology director with Future of Music Coalition.

The Web Needs More than Walled Gardens Scott Johnson: The Web isn't hypertext, it's DECORATED DIRECTORIES!

Major Labels Avoid Web Radio George Mannes: The major record labels would rather maintain the status quo when it comes to promotion (i.e. radio) than be willing to adopt new Internet models.

Combo MP3 FM Walkman Brad Wilson: Can you imagine what a cow the RIAA would have if someone came out with an 802.11a (high speed wireless) equipped device that played MP3s, WMAs, AVIs, etc., that allowed you to just beam the content from one device to another? "Hey, whatcha listening to?" "New Moby disc." "Any good?" "Here, this track's phat, take a listen." Ouch. :)