Tuesday, September 07, 2004

The TiVo Olympics. Every fourth summer, IT trade pubs write about the technology that powers the Olympic Games. It's always an interesting topic, but apart from an enhanced focus on security, the Athens 2004 stories were little changed from their Sydney 2000 counterparts. And yet, this Olympics was utterly transformed, for me and for a few million other viewers, by TiVo. Thanks to this cheap, Linux-based appliance, I was able to compress all of the events that interested me into a fraction of the time it would otherwise have taken to watch them. I'll always remember the Athens games as the first TiVo Olympics. Now I'm thinking about ways to make the next one even better. ... In our world -- where blogs, Wi-Fi, and computer-attached video cameras are the norm -- we've begun to redefine the art of event coverage. If you want to see how the Beijing Olympics should be covered in 2008, visit a tech conference next year. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio] 8:19:03 PM    comment []

My First Day WIth AdSense: Battelle Gets Busted. Well, Day one with AdSense has been a learning experience, but that's why I decided to try it, right? Noontime brought this email into my box from Google: Subject: Google AdSense - Program Policies Hello John, It has recently come to our attention that you're encouraging your website users to click on the Google ads you're serving through AdSense. This activity - which can artificially inflate AdWords advertiser costs - is prohibited by our program Terms and Conditions (https://www.google.com/adsense/terms). We request that you remove the following language from your website: "Paying the Bills" If you wish to keep text above the Google ads on your page, you must replace the above text with "Sponsored Links" or "Advertisements". Thank you for your understanding. Once you've made... [John Battelle's Searchblog] 8:14:33 PM    comment []