What Happened to Crawler Etiquette?
Looking at the server logs for this weblog a few minutes ago, I noticed the Everest crawler from Vulcan (which namechecks owner Paul Allen on that page) downloading pages. I also notice that they were distressingly frequent, fetching pages 30K and larger every few seconds. I filled out their feedback form, letting them know that [...]
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Listening to this week’s Personality Crisis (via the RSS feed of course), Jon Kincaid played a long long set of music from X. Dang, I love this band and I love that show. He played a bunch of their songs, and yet didn’t hit my favorite - “The Phone is Off the Hook (but You’re [...]
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Excerpted RSS Feeds
I’ve been beating the drum for full text RSS feeds for years, enough to have burned myself out on the subject multiple times. Years later, it’s still about where it always has been and still swirls at about the same rate. Let me strip down my end of the argument to a non-moral, completely empirical [...]
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Don’t Trust iTunes Lists
I saw this article about podcasting affecting the business models of public radio. It’s an interesting read, but I want to focus on one paragraph:
Talk about pent-up demand. According to Maria Thomas, vice president and general manager of NPR Online, it took only six days after launch for NPR’s “Story of the Day” podcast to [...]
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AmigoFish
It’s time that I announced the project I’ve been working on in my evenings and weekends. It is a collaborative filter for new media - podcasts and videoblogs mostly. Behold, the mighty AmigoFish! You can create an account, rate the things you care about and get predictions for other things you might like. I’ve been [...]
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Backbeat
In my podcast earlier this evening, I went public with my recent signing up with Back Beat Media. I’ve been giving a lot of static to the various podcast networks, so here is their opportunity to fire back. I am in fact in a network per se, but one organized around the one function I’m [...]
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EGC Clambake for November 29, 2005
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for November 29, 2005.
I talk about the Backbeat Media deal for sponsorships; I play a song by American Heartbreak; I present my interview with JD Lasica from the Portable Media Expo; I play a song by Big Machine; I talk about how [...]
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iPodderX Name Change
My former sponsor and the podcatching client I use ever day, iPodderX must change its name, due to the heavy handedness of some pricks at Apple. I think that sucks, but they are making the best of it by holding a fun contest to rename the product. I have thus far recused myself from every [...]
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As We Mean To Go On
When Kevin Smokler’s book Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times came out, it had a joint essay by two of our dear friends, Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge. They are both writers and have been a couple for 17 years. I am beamingly proud to have been their friend for 13 of those years. That [...]
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My Bad
The MP3 weirdness is fixed with the 11/24 episode. It was, as several commentors noted, an MP2 and not and MP3. That was an EBKAC - “error between keyboard and chair.” It has been fixed, renamed and reuploaded. Sorry for the trouble.
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MP3 Weirdness
The most recent show, the one I published yesterday, has something odd about it. Several people have said they can’t copy it to their iPod and I’ve confirmed this myself. I didn’t deliberately do anything different and I can’t see any particular reason why this should be this way. Can anyone figure this out? Any [...]
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Me and Tura Satana
A while ago I posted my comment to the Reel Reviews Radio show notes about Faster Pussycat Kill Kill in which I tell the silly story of my meeting with the women from that movie. In an odd thing to happen on Thanksgiving, Tura Satana herself left a response saying that she remembers that day. [...]
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EGC Clambake for November 24, 2005
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for November 24, 2005.
This show’s glaring error: I refer to a Jill Sobule song as “unreleased” and 3 seconds later name the album it came from. Where are my continuity people when I need them?
I talk about what I’m thankful for; I [...]
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Return of the Attack of the Inbox
This last six weeks have been a whirlwind, with the day job and PME and Converge South, et al. I had an email inbox relapse, flirting with the 300 message mark again. I’m going to try to take advantage of the long weekend by hammering that back down. When you have so few things in [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving
Here’s hoping that everyone has a happy day tomorrow, whether you celebrate it or not. I’m thankful that I get to have my career while living in this small town, whilst connected to people around the world. I’m thankful that anyone cares to listen to what I have to say or take the time to [...]
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Free Culture Interview
Mark Forman’s interview with me has been published. As an obligatory old media dig, I will note that very few of the print reporters I have spoken to in the last year were this engaged. In fact, Dan Conover might be the only one. My experiences with the national press is that they generally weren’t [...]
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Time Flies
Man, it seems like yesterday was the day I got off the plane from the Portable Media Expo. Time is flying so fast I can barely notice it go by. The day job remains busy, the various stuff I do all evening and weekend stays busy. Hard to believe that Thanksgiving is almost upon us [...]
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Esteemed Member of the Style Council
Esteemed Member of the Style Council
Originally uploaded by evilgenius.
Here is our newest member of the style council, and the only photo I actually shot myself. Welcome to the club young Drew Domkus!
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Nappy Times
I’ve been fading in and out of wakefulness this afternoon, on our first stretch of real chilly weather. It’s just that kind of day, a lazy fall Saturday with nothing urgent to do. Right now, I’ve woken back up but every other person and creature in the house is asleep. I think I might rejoin [...]
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Leaves
Friend of the show Mark Welker (the infamous guy in the EGC shirt at Converge South) has posted a >beautiful little vlog entry. It is just footage of trees with leaves that looks like it was shot straight up from the back window well of his car. The combination of the music and the leaves [...]
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