Yea Apple's podcast directory sucks, and sucks at a very deep level.
Apple's iTunes podcast directory is incredibly 1.0 and selfish, and denies the ecosystem that created it. Mike nails it here:
mmeiser blog: Apple threatening Podcast Ready over use of the term Pod: "With Apple all traffic is inbound, none outbound.
Bloggers and Podcasters everywhere are driving thousands and thousands of users to iTunes via thousands of inbound itunes links... I'm willing to bet we are THE number one driver of traffic to the iTunes store. I challenge you... who else is driving traffic to Apple? Apple is using YOU.
There is not a single permalink or linkback anywhere where our content is being watched and listened. Not one link in the media playback interface back to our own sites! There are plenty of links from the iTunes interface into the iTunes Store.. but no links to OUR websites... where we conduct OUR businss.. sell our content... or just discuss the podcast episode you've just listened to in iTunes.
I'd call it a slick bastardization of podcasters interest... but it's NOT slick. It's sickening... an outrage."
Video blogger gets two days to return to prison | CNET News.com
Video blogger gets two days to return to prison | CNET News.com: "Video blogger and freelance journalist Josh Wolf was on Wednesday given two more days to either turn himself back in to prison or cooperate with a federal grand jury seeking unpublished footage he shot during a protest that turned violent."
The interaction design of delegated responsability
How's that for a title?
We went to bring in Maria's Apple laptop for fixing the other day, and they had to reformat the harddrive, and they wanted *us* to physically press the "delete" button, to make sure we were agreeing to it :)
In this case, it wasn't about legal responsability, as it is when they make you sign a paper, it was about emotional responsability, as few people would complain after pressing the button *themselves*.
Amazon Business Solutions - Fulfillment by Amazon - An Amazon Fulfillment Services Group
Amazon is doing some incredible stuff lately.
Amazon Business Solutions - Fulfillment by Amazon - An Amazon Fulfillment Services Group:
"You send us your inventory - Label, pack and ship your items to Amazon.
We store your inventory - When we receive your items, we'll store them until an order is placed.
We fulfill your order - When an order is placed, we'll pick, pack and ship the item, and may combine it with other items in the same order.
We manage all post-order customer service - We'll manage post-order customer service and handle returns as needed."
Have Money Will Vlog » Blog Archive » Maria Gomez-Colombia Migration Project
Maria is starting a videoblog/ethnography project about Colombian migration.
She's using havemoneywillvlog, a pretty interesting approach to funding small videoblog projects like this. The havemoneywillvlog people handpick projects and promote them to raise a certain amount of money to help get a project started.
Donate a small amount here now, this project really deserves it: Colombia Migration Project
And send some linkylove to http://colombiamigrationproject.net/
Mefeedia 2 years ago
Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive »
Mefeedia almost 2 years ago: "I added signing up to the me-tv alpha today. A feature/bugfix a day keeps the doctor away. It takes me about 2 hours every day. Bootstrapping. I’m happy I released early, I have already over 50 people using it and they provide great feedback on what’s important to them. It’s a videoblog browser, by the way."
Boing Boing: More Americans have now died In Iraq than died On 9/11
Boing Boing: More Americans have now died In Iraq than died On 9/11: "While President Bush and other Republican politicians spent the day exploiting the memory of those we lost five years ago, the nation overlooked a grim milestone: More Americans have now died in Iraq than died on 9/11. Iraq didn't attack us on that day, and our misguided policy there has now taken more American lives than Al Qaeda.
Here are the numbers: 3,015 Americans have died in Iraq as of September 9.
2,666 of these were military deaths and 349 were civilians."
CastingWords: Podcast Transcript Search | Podcast Transcription Service
CastingWords: Podcast Transcript Search | Podcast Transcription Service: "All transcribing is done by people, not machines."
Castingwords seems to do a great job at transcribing your podcasts.
Drupal 5.0 user management on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Drupal 5.0 user management on Flickr - Photo Sharing!.
Drupal is doing some interesting experiment: they're using Flickr to discuss usability improvements...
Mefeedia user profile: stevegarfield
Mefeedia user profile: stevegarfield: a conversation about when we started videoblogging on Steve Garfields' profile.
Pixelsoup—jaded Pixel weblog
Pixelsoup—jaded Pixel weblog: interesting approach to translation: let the crowd do it.
InfoSpaces » Blog Archive » Tagging Ecologies
InfoSpaces » Blog Archive » Tagging Ecologies: "Mefeedia (from Peter Van Dijck) is chronologically the first example of structured tagging. Editors create mutually exclusive facets and users assign tags to facets. The strenght of editors and users together to make large tagclouds more browsable and tags meaning more understandable."
Podcamp Boston coming up
Podcamp Boston seems amazing, and I probably won't be able to make it (perhaps half a day... ). Damn!
The newest Mefee release now supports podcasts too, and I'm already seeing some stuff coming up at the podcast tag: Videos and podcasts about podcamp (get the RSS feed!)
Mefeedia videoblog queue in SecondLife
David Meade send a post to the videoblogging mailing list: he has managed to put his mefeedia queue rss feed in SecondLife, so you can see videoblogs in SecondLife. It's hard to explain but easy to see: the videos play really surprisingly great. You can move around in the room, the video keeps playing, it all works great. Here's a screenshot:
Rosenfeld Media - Search Analytics for your Site: Needed: policies on retention and use of search logs
Rosenfeld Media - Search Analytics for your Site: Needed: policies on retention and use of search logs: "The premise of our book is that search analytics, or search log analysis, yields tremendous benefits. We think just about everyone ought to analyze searches their customers perform. If we succeed in our mission, then a lot more organizations will start analyzing their search logs. But the recent AOL disclosure of log information vividly demonstrated the risk to privacy if you let your logs out into the wild. So Lou and I are mulling what an ideal search log retention and use policy would look like."
google - Yahoo! Search Results
google - Yahoo! Search Results: if you search for "google" on Yahoo, the first result is a Yahoo search box. :)
Mozy Remote Backup: Free. Automatic. Secure.
Mozy Remote Backup: Free. Automatic. Secure.: I'm really liking Mozy: it's free, it works, and it shows a little popup every day (usually when I've been away from my computer) saying "your files have been backed up" for that warm fuzzy feeling. What's not to like?
Light Reading - Video - Top Ten Video Sharing Websites - Telecom Report
Few video services focus on the video creator more than on the video consumer, but blip.tv does. And Light Reading just compared 10 and named blip the number 1 for video creators. Their strategy of focusing on the creators with a great license, support for external blogs and so on is starting to pay off - many of the more determined videobloggers choose them because they truly care about creators.
findability in the long tail
Fireside Chat: The Long Tail - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals): a great discussion about findability in the long tail.
Ajaxio Demo
Ajaxio Demo: proof-of-concept to make something Visio-like in ajax: you can add boxes, drag them around, resize them and draw connector lines between them that adjust as you move them around. Pretty much all I use Visio for ;)
The genius of Digg / Atomiq
The genius of Digg / Atomiq: "The genius of Digg is that it packs a simple user action with the maximum social intent. A digg is a single click--about as simple as it gets--and yet it's the central component of the community."
"Flaky Smoochie - CatchFlaky Smoochie - Catch".
HAHAHA. Cartoon violence. It's basically itchy and scratchy, but better done.
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Original post, from Happy Tree Friends:
Be sure to wear protective gear for this baseball game!
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"Manu Chao en Nueva York": so it seems he'll have a new CD early next year! yey. I went to see the concert in NY and it was fucking fantastic.
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Original post, from gerardo romo z.:
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PressThink: Introducing NewAssignment.Net
PressThink: Introducing NewAssignment.Net: pretty interesting plan to get journalism funded open-source wise.
Visa Blog : Immigration critic has thin skin; thin logic, too
If you're following the immigration debate, my immigration laywer that I worked with in the past is doing some good blogging
Blogger still no enclosures
Blogger's new beta has rss2.0 feeds, but STILL no enclosures. Come on Google! This is 2006!
What's worse I think, is that they still don't show an RSS button - the RSS is there but many people won't find it. It's as if they don't *want* people to subscribe.
What is it with blogger? These are basics!
Cruxy
Cruxy is a new service that tries to make it easier to buy and sell independent media. They just launched. I know the guys behind it, and apart from being excellent coders, they're also great human beings, and they mean what they say - they really want to make it easier to buy and sell independent media. The site is pretty good, not too much stuff there yet, but check it out, I have a feeling this one will grow big.
VideoJug - Life Explained. On Film.
VideoJug - Life Explained. On Film.. Videojug is a great idea, a videohost for how-to movies. Excellent. The only problem is that I can't seem to find RSS feeds anywhere.
"Noche de Jazz en Harlem NY": we finally found a fun bar in Harlem and they have fantastic Jazz too.. Maria made a movie of it.
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Original post, from diariodeviaje:
Watch the videoHace un par de semanas estubimos con Melina y Willie en Saint Nick's Pub un lugar maravilloso donde sin las pretenciones innecesarias que normalmente se encuentran en nyc se puede disfrutar de una muy buena musica.
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"Off The Grid-The Geeks Unplug"; Scoble invited a bunch of people (anyone really) to the middle of nowhere, here's a good overview video.
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Original post, from ryanne on blip.tv (beta):
this is going to be featured on RyanIsHungry.comcheck it out!
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This is a live webcast about lebanon etc. happening RIGHT NOW: streamtime.sdp (video/quicktime Object). Check it out, new ways of collaborating.
NYCMosaico (this is the new site) has been one of the sites that really tracks and celebrates latino culture in New York. Now, from what I hear, the person doing their website has fallen out with them, taken the old domain name nymosaico.com with him and left the team having to build up a new site, new links and so on.
It's easy to say of course that you should always control your domain name, but in reality the web person often does it, especially if they're not getting paid but are a volunteer.
"Blissful": really, really amazing animation stuff. Short too so enjoy!
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Original post, from No fat clips!!!:
I posted this one on Ticklebooth before, but it well deserves an extra time in the spotlights.Blissful is a short yet amazing blend of animation and motion graphics did by Leftchannel for Fantômas (brainchild of Mike Patton), "a trip through torment and obstacles of supposed demise within the mind of an evil being."Mike Patton (born Michael Allan Patton) is an American musician. He is best known as the lead singer of Faith No More from 1988 to 1998, but has also handled lead vocals for Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, Fantômas and Peeping Tom.Questo lo postai su Ticklebooth, ma credo che meriti ben donde un'altra razione di fama e gloria.Blissful è un breve ma stupefacente misto di animazione e motion graphics realizzato da Leftchannel per Fantômas (perto della mente di Mike Patton), "un viaggio attraverso la mente di un essere maligno, irta di ostacoli e di tormenti."Mike Patton (nato Michael Allan Patton) è un musicista americano, meglio conosciuto come il leader dei Faith No More dal 1988 al 1998, ma ha anche cantato per Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, Fantômas e Peeping Tom.via Motionographer and 'boardsDOWNLOAD: Scarica Blissful.[Format: Quicktime - Size: 5 MB - Running Time: 1 min.]WATCH: Guarda Blissful su 'boards.MIRROR: Guarda Blissful su Blip.WATCH: Guarda Blissful su Leftchannel.[Format: Flash]WATCH (ALT.): Guarda Blissful su Blip.[Format: Flash]LINK: Visita Leftchannel Industries Inc.MVDBASE: Pagina di LeftchannelIMDB: Pagina di Mike PattonCODECS: Apple Quicktime - FlashTags: [Short Movie] [Motion Graphics] [Motion Graphics]
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"There Are So Many Of Us", a prettty cool animation. I wish I could do these :)
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Original post, from dhuth on blip.tv (beta):
Music by David Michael Stith.
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Ryan Is Hungry » Josh Wolf: Federal Grand Jury Appearance
A videoblogger is being sued:
Ryan Is Hungry » Josh Wolf: Federal Grand Jury Appearance: "We went to Josh Wolfâs Grand Jury appearance earlier this week. The video is 10 minutes long, but has good information and we wanted to document as much of the event as possible.
As we understand it, the Federal prosecutors want him to turn over a raw video tape he recorded during a protest over a year ago. Josh refuses to hand it over and now, potentially, faces jail time.
Hereâs the original video that got Josh in trouble.
At this hearing last Thursday, July 20th, the judge extended his judgement till August 1st. Go to joshwolf.net for more updates.
Why should any of us care?
For us, itâs important to support journalists or anyone with a camera being harassed by the government to turn over recordings of public events that each of us has every right to record. We donât want the government, local or federal, to make it a habit of asking for anything we happen to record. Then we each might question: âDo I want to record this and be harassed later on?â? This is especially true during controversial political events.
The good news was this-
At Joshâs press conference, there were about 30 people there. Mostly regular people. 40% of the people had some kind of recording device: audio, video, digital photo, and plain old notebook. Its very cool to see that we all realize that we have the power to disseminate information we think is important. Things can be remembered and discussed without permission."
ongoing · Unending War
ongoing · Unending War: "Iâm having a persistent anger-management problem; seeing your former home blown to hell with malice aforethought will do that. So, who am I mad at? Oddly, Iâm not that mad at the foot soldiers on either side, the IDF or the Hez. Itâs depressingly easy to get young men to go out and kill and die for reasons that turn out later to have been really crappy. The IDF gruntsâ leaders tell them that doing this will make the rockets stop and bring peace to Israelâs northern border, and Iâm sure a lot of them are going about their bloody business as conscientiously as they possibly can. The Hez grunts are mostly poor, oppressed, ignorant, and religion-befuddled, and their leaders tell them that doing this will punish violent oppressors and do Godâs will. ¶
Those leaders, though... anyone whoâs read first-hand reportage about the Hez leadership knows theyâre bloodthirsty racist fundamentalist barbarians who would really like to kill all the Jews and revert the world to fourteenth-century ways. Scum.
As for the Israeli political leadership, we have to act on the assumption that they actually kind of understand whatâs going on around them, and that they launched this in full knowledge that they intended to kill hundreds, displace hundreds of thousands, and break a country. And thereâs a sickening suspicion that they knew it wouldnât work, that this is all playing to the domestic political theater; which would be getting into MiloÅ¡eviÄ territory. Scum.
But right at the moment, thereâs another group that Iâm even angrier at. These are the individuals right here in the civilized world who are egging on one side or the other, who show up in blog comments and on talk radio and in some newspaper columns, explaining how itâs OK for one side to lob rockets into cities, or for the other to blow up towns with everyone in them, because the other side deserves what itâs getting; the victims are kind of sub-human, or are paying a fair price for something they did in 2001 or 1987 or 1973 or 1967 or 1949 or a couple of millennia before that.
Their position, basically, is âLetâs you and him fightâ?. Yep, theyâre willing to fight to the last screaming bleeding victim, as long as itâs a couple of continents away from their comfy chair. Some more of them will write me after I publish this. Theyâre not just scum, theyâre cowards."
In Europe, we had 2 world wars ravage the continent, and somehow, people seem to remember. We always feel that the US has never (recently) known a war on its own land, only in other countries. And really, it's true: I am in NY now and this doesn't feel like a country at war. Nobody's dying. No houses are being blown up.
There are a lot of reasons why the US is so happy to go to war in foreign countries and tear them apart (the biggest military in the world needs at least some practice), but the fact that they don't remember what war is like must be one of them, and the feeling many in the world have that terrorism against the US is ok stems at least partly from that. "Let them feel some pain too", basically. Sure, americans are good at theatrics about the "american lives lost", but the average person doesn't feel any pain from being at war with 3 countries in 5 years (I may miscalculate here, is it more or less?).
Attacking and ravaging other countries does not help you, guys, even if you call them terrorists. And supporting countries who do doesn't help you either.
DreamHost Blog » Anatomy of a(n ongoing) Disaster..
DreamHost Blog » Anatomy of a(n ongoing) Disaster..: "As I’m sure most of you already know, we’ve had nothing but troubles, large troubles, for pretty much the last three weeks. A lot of these troubles were our fault, a couple of them were at least ostensibly beyond our control, and they all compounded each other.
Here I’ll try and go into as much detail as possible about what happened, why, and the steps we’re taking to stop this sort of thing from ever happening again. I can’t excuse what happened, just apologize and hopefully elucidate."
The reason I like Dreamhost is that they are the ONLY host I've dealt with in many years that really, really work for you and communicate and are basically just human beings that want the best for you.
Israel is wrong
Scripting News: 8/1/2006: "I know I'm going to catch hell for this, but it's time to say something. Israel is wrong. There aren't two sides to this anymore. I've heard all I want to hear from Israel. It's time to stop the attack on Hezbollah, withdraw back into Israel, stop firing bombs into Lebanon, and shut up for a while and let everyone else sort this out. It's not just Israel's problem. There are hundreds of millions of lives at stake in the Middle East, and this time not only has an Arab country, and that's what Hezbollah is, withstood Israel's attack, but they're also clearly justified in their response to the Israeli attack.
Hezbollah has every right to have defenses against Israel. If I'm not mistaken, Hezbollah didn't start firing rockets into Israel until they were attacked by Israel. Okay, they took two Israeli soldiers hostage. And now Israel has killed hundreds of Lebanese, destroyed large parts of the country and its infrastructure. It's enough already. Even a Jew like myself sees how wrong the Israeli position is."
Sometimes you just have bad luck:
the blip.tv blog » hardware issue: "Looks like the failure is more serious than simply a primary disk array. We lost two disks simultaneously in a big storage server called a RAID 5 array. Our RAID 5 arrays are supposed to be able to lose any two disks and keep running, but you can’t really lose two disks simultaneously. It’s all a bit technical, and I’ll spare you the details. Almost immediately after that happened — you really can’t make this up — the power went out at our secondary datacenter."
Working from home: rythm vs. structure
When you're working for yourself, not just working from home but really working for yourself, you don't have to stick to 9 to 5. 9 to 5 is only used because it's easy to control by companies, anyways. Nobody is productive from 9 to 5. I never heard anyone say: "Jee, I'm really at my best from 9 to 5."
So when you work for yourself, instead of a structure that tells you when to work, you have to find your rythm. The times of the day when you get certain stuff done.
For me, after a coffee in the morning, I have a few hours of very creative, focused attention in which I get a lot done. Rythm has a lot to do with how you eat, by the way. But it's different for everyone. So, finding your rythm. Figuring out when's a good time to do coding, versus when's a good time to go to the bank.
See also: Get your rythm
During Friday Curfew Busy Mansur is Empty 4
"Curfew in Baghdad normally starts at 8 pm most days. This means no cars are allowed on the streets after 8pm, and you shouldn't be wandering outside your house without extremely urgent business.
These days Iraqis tend to be at home by 5 or 6pm.
Before the war, even during the sanctions, Mansur was a hip, lively, exciting area. Think of it as the East Village or Mission District of Baghdad.
Now the curfew begins at 11am on Fridays, and doesn't end until 6am Saturday. This means Iraqis are prevented from travelling the city for almost 24 hours one day a week.
When you include this with the other 60 hours Baghdad residents are under curfew, this means you are under curfew about half of your life in Baghdad."
"Minuteman Fuera de NYC!!!": the "Minutemen" are this self-appointed group of people who want to get immigrants out of the country. What a crazy idea, and racist too. This is a video of a protest against the minutemen.
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Original post, from gerardo romo z.:
Protestas contra el grupo anti-inmigrante Minuteman Click here to view video
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Get your rythm
I'm up early today, couldn't sleep with the heat. It's 4:00 am. Yeah, that's ridiculous.
So I figured I'd do an experiment. Since I work mostly from home these days, I'm always trying to find the best rythm. I know that usually, I get up and from like 8:00am to noon, I'm very productive. In the afternoon, not so, so I do chores then.
What can I get done this early? Is it a time to code? To wax philosophically? To read up?
What do you do?
"Prodigio peruano en Nueva York". I met Gerardo a few weeks ago. He's videoblogging for El Diario, a Spanish newspaper in New York. His videoblogs are fantastic, a great insight in daily life of Spanish New York.
He's a pioneer. He must be one of the first paid videobloggers in the world.
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Original post, from gerardo romo z.:
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Rocketboom about comics. Batman, Superman, Spiderman. You names it.
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Original post, from Rocketboom RSS 2.0 Main Index:
story links: rb field correspondent zadi diaz covers comic-con 2006, chuck d., rich koslowski, kyle baker, adam wallenta, steve rude | related: exclusive chuck d interview on jetsetshow.com, zadi covers comic-con 2005
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"AK - Parking Lot, pt.1" American King - check it out. The true America.
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Original post, from Human Dog Productions:
Garrett explains a new job prospect as part of his plan to get his life back together. Look for more on Friday. Subscribe to Human Dog using the Big Feed Button on the left and get American King and the rest of Human Dog delivered free. Your comments are appreciated. DOWNLOAD Quicktime/iPod VIDEO FILE DOWNLOAD Windows VIDEO FILE
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"Sometimes I Feel Like This". Short, atmospheric, and making a beautiful point, I like this kind of videoblogging.
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Original post, from Ryanne's Video Blog:
Know what I mean? Jay definately caught me in a mood. That mood seems to have been lasting about 2 weeks. I'm slowly slipping out of it though. Thanks to things like Node101 Weekend which remind me that there is still hope in the world. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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iPhoto, Flickr and Photocasting on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
iPhoto, Flickr and Photocasting on Flickr