Sunday, August 14, 2005

*** Mediaburn Podstation 2408: First Human Podcast From Space *** First Podcast from Space. Podcasting from Space Shuttle Discovery. Steve Robinson, on his last day in space, gives a glimpse of his experience on a historic spacewalk and other mission events. [Mediaburn Podstation 2408 on GigaDial Public] 10:02:06 PM

Rockin' Country Style I'm not worthy ... I'm not worthy!. Rockin' Country Style You usually hear the music termed "rockabilly," but the creator of this site prefers the term "country and western rock 'n' roll," a term he feels reflects what observers of the music's prime era (the mid-to-late 1950s) thought was going on, and is more inclusive besides (racially and also in regard to artificial genre boundaries). Whatever you think about his "theoretical scope," there is so much here to explore. And so much deeply, deeply odd music. The usual suspects are here, among them Elvis and the usual Sun heroes, as well Gene Vincent and Buddy Holly, etc. What is really interesting about this site, however, is how one can explore the evolution of a performer's sound (see: Link Wray) or the sounds of a geographical area or city. Then there are just so many great song samples, like Hep Cat Baby from Eddy Arnold and Fickle Chicken by the Atmospheres - and that's only from the A's! The site also features compilations by label, photographs of singles, and likes to sites dedicated to labels and performers. Terry Gordon, who oversaw the creation of this impossibly thorough database, is now working on a second database site dedicated to southern soul. [MetaFilter] 8:09:02 PM

A Rose by Any Other Name From BellaOnline by Lori Collvins. 2:51:05 PM

'That Which We Call A Rose, By Any Other Name... ...would smell as sweet." - Billy Shakespeare With RSS, it's the function and the format that's important. Call it what you want, just don't mess with the format. We are the ones who built this city. - Editor From Richard MacManus: Feeds is the new RSS. This week I kicked off a discussion about what the brand name of RSS should be, going forward. It's generated a lot of great discussion, including some excellent comments on my blog. And funnily enough, I'm now convinced that in fact RSS is not the right term to market to the masses. 'Web feeds' is the term I like the most, although the abbreviated 'feeds' is also fine. Mike Torres, Program Manager on MSN Spaces, made a very good point when he said that using the term 'web feeds' for RSS is akin to using 'web pages' to refer to HTML files. Ed Bott also made an excellent point when he said: "The reason some people at Microsoft are exploring alternatives to RSS is because people don't understand the term." But most interesting to note is the turnaround in the IE7 Team at Microsoft. They originally had an orange RSS feed button in the demo that Robert Scoble filmed just before Gnomedex in June (I specifically mentioned that in my post at the time). But now it seems Microsoft has abandoned the orange RSS button and gone with a stylized orange logo: And to prove I'm not just drinking the Microsoft kool-aid, Yahoo is also using the term 'feeds' more to describe RSS. See this post referencing the "feeds module" of Yahoo 360 (hat-tip Havi). Needless to say, Google is using 'feeds' as their main term - and ignores the orange buttons altogether. So sorry Dave and Robert, but it looks like the tide has turned. All 3 bigco's are using 'feeds' and the majority of people that commented on my post are too. The people have spoken - feeds is it. [Read/Write Web] 2:32:05 PM