Maciej Ceglowski on Audioblogs
Cory Doctorow posted this link to an MP3 of Maciej Ceglowski parodying audioblogs. My capsule review - cute in a full of shit, stacked-deck-argument sort of way. He did get all the tropes in this new medium in there pretty well, but his arguments are ludicrous. The “we don’t need this, we already have another [...]
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Audioblog for August 31, 2004
Here is the audioblog for August 31, 2004. I discuss Paul Graham’s talk for IT Conversations with a brief digression into my checkered past with Lisp (and why programming language snobs are really tedious), the term “bundles of passion”, still more on enclosures and the imminent return of Reality Break to the radio airwaves.
Links [...]
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Diebold Election Chicanery
From the “Holy Shit” Department comes this story from Black Box Voting. They have found a “flaw” in the Diebold central tabulator systems. By entering a two digit code, you are able to create a second set of votes. This second set of votes can be manipulated and changed, after which the second set will [...]
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get_enclosures 0.2
Here’s an updated 0.2 release of the get_enclosures script. Added is the more robust caching mechanism based on the dates in the RSS item tag. This release will write out two M3U playlists in every directory that it downloads new files for, one alphabetical and one in reverse chronological order. This allows for ease of [...]
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Audioblog for August 30, 2004
Here is the audioblog for August 30, 2004. I discuss different ways of assembling audioblogs, of how the myth of effortless brilliance impedes success, of the short stories of Theodore Sturgeon and the oddness of XM Radio cracking down on Time Trax.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Hugh MacLeod’s Gaping Void
XM Radio Leans on Time [...]
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iMic
It’s been suggested to me that what I really need for getting audio into this Mac is an iMic. After looking at the page, I have to say that I agree with that. It would be great to actually hook up my real microphones and mike stands and use them to record the audioblogs. I’d [...]
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Audioblog for August 29, 2004
I’m caught back up, so here is the audioblog for August 29, 2004. There are two posted today, but really the first was yesterday’s. I discuss swearing on the audioblog and how I can recite George Carlin’s “7 dirty words” with as much or better ease as the Pledge of Allegiance (complete with demonstration), discuss [...]
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Comment Spammers Walk the Earth
I was sitting here working on the laptop when I got a big wad of email. It was the writeback system here telling me I got a comment, 6 of them. By examing them, I could see they were all comment spam. Since I had installed the Blosxom port of the MT anti-spam plugin I [...]
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Enclosures in Atom
In a comment Pete Prodoehl mentioned how he also hasn’t found anything definitive about enclosures or similar functionality in Atom. I went digging about and found this link to a relatively recent blog posting about it. One of the commentors had several links to other discussions of the subject, and I want to talk about [...]
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Gaston
I can’t say that I’m that wild about, in our third weekend here, going through our second hurricane/tropical storm. I guess we knew this is part of what we signed up for when we moved to the coast, but wow. Welcome to the area! Gaston is looking to make landfill almost directly toward us, [Update: [...]
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Audioblog for August 28, 2004
Here is the audioblog for August 28, 2004. Once again, I recorded this yesterday but didn’t get it assembled until today. I discuss my terminology for “bundles of passion” (and why I completely hate the term “content” in this arena), the IT conversations panel “Living the Broadband Life”, my enclosures plugin, blosxom, and the radio [...]
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Renko
Pete Prodoehl has done a script much like get_enclosures called renko. I downloaded it and it worked well. It’s easier to install than mine because he includes all the modules you need in his distribution, so if that’s an issue with you by all means go get renko.
He also points out in a post that [...]
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Interesting Audioblogging Experiment
Gordon Smith came to my attention from comments he left on this weblog. He emailed me about his site, where I see he is doing a really interesting experiment with audioblogging. He has a photoblog of his environs in Australia, which in and of itself is quite cool. What he is doing is also recording [...]
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Scenes from an Office
Ever wonder what it looks like when you live in Conway, South Carolina and you telecommute to a software development job elsewhere? It looks a lot like this. Now if I only had an audio clip of the sighing and snoring sounds, you’d really get a good feel for my days.
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Christopher Lydon RSS
Speaking of Christopher Lydon, one of the feeds I’ve been using on get_enclosures as a test is his enclosure feed of his interviews. It looks like they were retroactively adding interviews to it, but sometime around January that all stopped. If any of you who read this have Mr. Lydon’s or Dave Winer’s ear, [...]
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Support Your Local Metadata
Brian Tol pounds on a drum I also hit hard: fill out the ID tags of your MP3s if you put them up for distribution. Brian wants people doing audioblogs to go further and include the date in the filename for ease of sorting. It all makes sense to me. Remember that when you are [...]
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Software Freedom Day
Happy Software Freedom Day, everyone!
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iPod - “Closed Platform”
A correspondent named Joshua forwarded me this link to a discussion about Microsoft asking Apple to “open the iPod”. The most striking thing about this discussion is that most of the people really have no idea what they are talking about, and don’t understand what open and closed mean (I mean, it is a forum [...]
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Audioblog for August 27, 2004
Here is the newest entry in the annals of the audioblog. In this episode, I discuss the reactions to my big “iPod platform” entry of previous days, discuss how the audioblog is becoming the first draft for the big “manifestos” on here, and I play a Paul Melancon song. All that, in about 15 minutes, [...]
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Experimental WREK RSS Feeds
The experiment begins. I have two feeds of WREK radio shows as RSS with enclosure tags that point to the component files in the WREK weekly archive. I subscribed to both with get_enclosures and it worked great. During my scheduled run, the whole of each show automagically appeared in my iTunes. The next test will [...]
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