Sunday, February 27, 2005

Game Boy On Your iRiver iHP-140. Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware system for your Archos Jukebox, iRiver and one or two other players. There's a new plugin for Rockbox in development called Rockboy, which allows you to port the gnuboy emulator over to your iRiver iHP-140 (only?) and play your favorite GameBoy Color games. Rockbox only supports monochrome, so you're stuck with that, and playback is pretty slow, but it's a neat concept nonetheless and not faked like those Sonic-on-Archos pics. Still, we're not sure when/if it'll be widely available, as it appears they're still in the relatively early stages of Rockbox for iRiver. More pictures after the jump. (Thanks, BiLo!) Rockboy Plugin [Rockbox] [Gizmodo] 8:00:18 PM

Is videologging the next big hype storm?. At last weekend's Northern Voice conference I was interested by a small community of people who were doing video blogs. There was a session there and the videos ran from the emotional (one guy gave his last will and testament on camera before dying a month later) to artistic stuff, to boring talking head stuff. I linked to a few video blogging sites to get you started in case you're interested. Michael Verdi seemed to get the best read on why vlogging is cool. Here, watch his "Vlog Anarchy" post. My favorite line comes right at the end: "I'm making stuff up and putting it on the Internet and you can't do s**t about that." [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger] 7:22:19 PM

The latest Daily Podcast feed is up.  It contains a poem, discussion on jumping the shark, information about NY Hotel Bars, Podcast safe music from Jersey and more.  So go over to my new audioblog experiment, "The Daily Podcast Feed" and listen to some of the podcasts in it! All of the tools (GigaDial, Blogger, FeedBurner, WebJay, Smoothouse Webjay wizard, Fabricio's XSPF MusicPlayer ) I am using in my latest audioblog experiment are free and available right now on the web.  That fact opens the potential for a group of pioneer podcast feed producers to evolve using a set of open free tools.  Below is a list of descriptions of some of the tools I use to create "The Daily Podcast Feed": GigaDial  GigaDial.net is a new approach to radio programming. You can use it to create and subscribe to podcast-powered stations composed of individual episodes from your favorite podcasters. Outputs RSS 2.0 XML feeds. Blogger  Free blogging authoring software.  Enables  the distribution of Podcast feeds through the embeding of audio players and links to RSS 2.0 feeds using the weblog platformy.  Outputs an ATOM XML feed that can be inputted to other services such as FeedBurner. FeedBurner  Can converts a ATOM feed to RSS 2.0 XML file.  Using it's SmartCast feature, FeedBurner will take the first anchor (<a>) tag that it finds in your posting content and convert the linked URL into an RSS 2.0 <enclosure>.  Is the case of Audioblogging 2.0, the RSS 2.0 enclosure file type is also a RSS 2.0 file.  Feedburner turns the feed item into content that future audioblogging 2.0/podcasting clients can potentially use to produce "show channels". WebJay  Mother of all music playlist generators.  It allows you to take a RSS 2.0 file with mp3 enclosures and convert it to a XSPF playlist to feed into Fabricio's XSPF MusicPlayer. Smoothouse Webjay wizard  Assists in the generation of the correct HTML for linking/embedding a Webjay playlist in Fabricio's XSPF MusicPlayer. Fabricio's XSPF MusicPlayer XSPF Web Music Player is a flash-based web application that uses xspf playlist format to play mp3 songs. XSPF is the XML Shareable Playlist Format. The software is written in Actionscript 2. Player can be embedded into a weblog post using weblog authoring software like Blogger. Many of the tools above contain other features that do a lot more then the features I described.  My explanations  focus on the features used for creating "The Daily Podcast Feed" and what I call Audioblogging 2.0. 1:16:41 AM