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I'm trying out feedburner's podcast generation tools here. Andrew and Christopher have a new video podcast up featuring them having fun with dry ice.I've added an iTunes friendly video feed of my various videos.Technorati Tags: childen, creative commons, podcasting, vi...

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In order to address the APIG questions on DRM, I need to state some principles.Firstly, the Church-Turing thesis, one of the basic tenets of Computer Science, which states that any general purpose computing device can solve the same problems as any other. The practical consequences of this are key - it means that a computer can emulate any other computer, so a program has no way of knowing what it...

One Billion Internet Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox):Some time in 2005, we quietly passed a dramatic milestone in Internet history: the one-billionth user went online. Because we have no central register of Internet users, we don't know who that user was, or when he or she first logged on. Statistically, we're likely talking about a 24-year-old woman in Shangh...

In a remarkably thoughtless piece, Susan Cheever writes:It's late at night, and you are in the bedroom cruising auction sites for furniture on the Internet. You should go to sleep, but you don't. Then you see them, the pair of chairs from your own living room. They are for sale by someone in New Jersey, but they are your chairs. You can even see the stains on the blue one where your son spilled some...

Tantek and I had a great conversation with Eric Hayes and the other smart folks at Attensa at the Syndicate Conference today.we plan a Attention.xml spec discussion tomorrow from 12 noon to 1 pm at the Syndicate conference, Hilton Hotel, San Francisco We will spend some time revising attention.xml in the light of Attensa's experience and what we have learned from the microformats process in...

Tristan is looking for bubble warnings.The one that I look for, which I derived from reading Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker, and from my experiences in the CD-ROM publishing business in the mid 90's is this simple rule:When expensively educated, fashionable young graduates start showing up in your field, you're in a bubble.Lewis describes this in the investment banking business, when his entire Yale...

I touched on this briefly yesterday, but AKMA has made me think about it further.There has been a raging debate in academia over truth and the construction of knowledge for decades. and for most of us it has indeed been an academic discussion (intereresting that 'academic' can be used as a put down just as 'amateur' can be).What the Seigenthaler incident and the Wikipedia stuff I have been involved...

As it is now such a focus of discussion, here are my recollections of Bloggercon 2003 and Podcasting.On the first day, when we were all in the same room, I was sitting there webcasting live, and Adam Curry was in the row behind.During one of the breaks, I introduced myself and mentioned that I knew he was interested in Audioblogging (as we called it then), and showed him the Python script I'd written...

I got edited out of the history of Podcasting again by a mysterious IP address 82.108.78.107If you do a whois lookup on this address, you can see it was Adam Curry.I did previously reinsert this reference to my Bloggercon demo with citations, and I don't want to get into an edit war. Suggestions welcomed.Technorati Tags: Adam Curry, ethics, podcasting, wikipe...

John Battelle notes Tivo is planning to let you search for Ads and has an elaborate scenario mapped out.Tim Oren wonders about the effect on production values:Such adverts probably don't look like today's. Years of battling the remote and now the DVR have turned commercials into attention grabbing eye candy. And it works, to some extent. The Tundra smacked by a meteor and the SUV carrying singing...

When I posted my 5 short arguments against DRM: Computer Users: DRM turns your computer against youComputer Scientists: DRM will fail through emulation Corporations: DRM has to be undone to be used Lawyers: DRM makes machines judge, jury and executionerMedia Companies: DRM destroys valueI got some responses that said these looked contradictory. In fact, the DRM industry seems to see the implications....

Here's my video podcast for this session:Download Podcasting vs Streaming here.Download iPod version of Podcasting vs Streaming here. November 15, 2005 11.15am - 12:15am Podcasting & Video-Blogging: The Best Thing to Happen to Streaming Media at Streaming Media West, San Jose Convention Centre, San Jose, CA SpeakersModerator: Damien Stolarz, CEO, Robotarmy, Corp. & Author, Mastering...

I'm speaking here today: November 15, 2005 11am - 11:45am Engines of Meaning: How Will We Scale Our Understanding? Kevin Marks and Mary Hodder at Austin Hall at The Harvard Law School, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA Ultimately no human brain, no planet full of human brains, can possibly catalog the dark, expanding ocean of data we spew. In a future of information auto-organized...

According to eWeek, Microsoft's antivirus tools will delete Sony's DRM 'Rootkit'. A good start, but how about the infection vector? Microsoft should disable autorunning of programs on CD Insert, as Apple did years ago. As Windows runs such things with the full privileges of the logged-in user, and most users have admin privileges, this is an open do...

For Remembrance Day this year, Siegfried Sassoon reading Attack! from The Spoken Word: Poets:At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun In the wild purple of the glow'ring sun, Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one, Tanks creep and topple forward to the wire. The barrage roars and lifts. Then, clumsily bowed With bombs and guns and...

The ideas expressed are nothing new to anyone following the years old Emergent Democracy debate; the surprise is seeing them urged on the Conservative Party in the Daily Telegra...

Mary takes Intelliseek to task for calling the writers of the web 'consumers', but her suggestion of 'users' is equally infelicitous - even Scoble winces every time he says 'user generated content'.We already have a word for people who create for the love of it, rather than being paid to, and it is 'amateurs'. As with many other pleasures, when we seek out opinions, we prefer those that flow from...

Joi's blogsitter and Xeni find it notable that some Paris rioters have blogs.This brings to mind again Douglas Adams' wise words from 1999:I don’t think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it’s very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people ‘over the...

Chris Anderson's list of faltering mainstream media includes under 'mixed':DVDs: sales growth is slowing dramatically, from 29% last year to single digits this year.Hang on a second there, that isn't a fall, it's a dip in the 2nd derivative - if it grew 29% last year and ~ 10% this year, it's still doing well. Notice also that the linked article mentions that studios have been shortening the wait...

Ewan told me over lunch that the UK Govt had been defeated in the Commons over an extension of detention without trial, which strikes me as encouraging for the ORG agenda (there's still time to be one of the thousand founding patrons, if you hurry).This made me think about the difficulty of defending an existing, working organisation like the House of Lords or ICANN against a putative more democratic...

I think this week may be when the supposed middle ground of DRM vanishes. Walt Mossberg and Chris Anderson have both spoken against harsh protection, but stopped short of condemning DRM outright, unlike David Berlind. This week we have had Sony/BMG adopting the techniques of virus writers to wrest control of your PC from you, and the MPAA proposing legislation to cripple all our video cameras and...

I keep seeing things that aren't so much 'Web 2.0' as 'me 2.0'I had that Emma Bovary in the back of the cab once...If you buy a Sony CD it saves you the 15 minute wait to get rootedI now realise that Our Island Story was an extended set up for 1066 and All ThatWas the Master jealous of the Doctor in Dr Who because he never finished his PhD?That much Halloween candy is bound to bring on apocolocyntosisInspired...

Nicholas Carr's 'The amorality of Web 2.0' has an underlying rhetorical premise that is flawed, and Tim O'Reilly's defence ignores this.Technology should be amoral. Morality is difficult stuff that should be left to humans to deal with. At best, technology can help inform humans to make moral choices, but to argue, as both sides in this debate seem to be doing, that technology can be moral in itself...

Technorati passed 20 million blogs today. The 20 millionth was Les CE2/CM2 Anquetil, a blog from an elementary school in Reims, France, in the heart of Champagne country. They started the blog to celebrate running 2 miles in a Relay Marathon.Technorati Tags: 20000000, blogs, technor...

I've talked about this before, but not written it down.One of the criticisms of tags is that they are 'just keywords again', which is true. The key difference is that they are experienced differently by the users, in a way that imposes much less cognitive load. iPhoto has had an image keywords feature since it was first launched, but I don't know anyone who uses it. Conversely, Flickr's tagging is...

The Battle of Trafalgar was fought 200 years ago today, preventing Napoleon's fleet from invading England. Admiral Horatio Nelson died during it. He was commemorated by Robert Graves in the poem '1805', so I'm posting this public domain recording of Robert Graves reading 1805, courtesy of the British Library.Technorati Tags: Battle of Trafalgar, Horatio Nel...

he says:Resolving a problem by re-stating the obvious is an increasingly popular conversational gambit. For example, how many times have you phoned up a monolithic corporation to complain about bad service, practically spewing tears as you relive the 15-month frustration you've just been through, only to be told: "I hear what you're saying"?As if, though on the phone with you, they weren't hearing...

Daniel Cuthbert has been convicted of computer hacking and fined $1000 for typing a URL into a browser.The Open Rights Group is being set up to fight this kind of idiocy. Go and pledge your support today.Technorati Tags: digital rights, law, Open R, ORG, polit...

I'm at Web 2.0 Conference: October 5-7, at the Argent Hotel, San Francisco, CA Come find me!Technorati Tags: web ...

Suw asks:What are the top five issues you think are important in the world of social media in business? What keeps you up at night? What should be taking centre stage at BlogOn 2005?Suw's Blogon Event is designed to explain to corporations how blogs can work for them, so my questions are for those embarking on a public corporate blogging project: Are you ready to talk honestly in public, and avoid...

On the question of which file formats succeed, the answer is those that are resilient. The ones that provide a method for expansion, and a way for multiple versions to coexist safely.Backwards compatibility is a necessary part of this, but it is not sufficient - forwards compatibility is what wins out.I see 3 big generations of file format here:RFC 822 style (ASCII key:value, as in Mail headers and...

I've been spending the day at the future of TV conference I mentioned below, and am hearing recurring themes from people here, which mesh with a lot I've been thinking.I spoke about a key technological driver, which is storage. Classic broadcast TV had everyone watching at the same time, because there is no storage at all. The next iteration is a central archive, but these are fragile - witness the...

Kevin Compares iPods Originally uploaded by mollyeh11. from Cory's 'Themepunks' :Remember the iPod? Why do you think it was so prone to scratching and going all gunky after a year in your pocket? Why would Apple build a handheld technology out of materials that turned to shit if you looked at them cross-eyed? It's because the iPod was only meant to last a year! [...]He handed her a white brick,...

September 30th, 2005 11:30am - 12:30pm Getting Ready for Prime Time: Online Video and the Future of Television at The Hillside Club 2286 Cedar Street Berkeley, California I'm speaking at this conference about Content Discovery and Search relating to online video -looks like an interesting day. Technorati Tags: bacon, bittorrent, long tail, movie, pirate, podcasting, power law, tags, v...

September 27th, 2005 6:30 - 8:30pm Tag Tuesday - Scott Golder and Technorati Blog Finder at 77 Natoma Street at 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA USA Meet other Bay Area tag developers, hear Scott Golder present his research on Collaborative Tagging, and hear how Technorati Blog Finder combines bubble-up taxonomy and direct tagging. We skipped this in August due to Barcamp, but we're back.Technorati...

Knuth has trouble with validation.Cisco makes a router that validates XML.A roomful of RDF experts recommend scrapi...

Chris Anderson writes in Always On:the Long Tail model, which was born in March 2004. [...]I met with a guy named Robbie Vann-Adibé who at the time was running a digital jukebox company called Ecast. During the course of our conversation, Robbie asked me what percentage of his top 10,000 tracks I thought sold at least once per month? [...]The answer was 98%—that is, 98% of Ecast's top 10,000 tracks...

I have seen several discussions of Digital Rights Management again recently. Having blogged on this folly at enormous length in the past, I thought instead I'd apply my targetted frame technique. Here are some anti-DRM arguments framed for 5 different groups: Computer Users: DRM turns your computer against youI know sometimes it seems like your computer has its own agenda, when it refuses to print...

John Scalzi’s angry reaction to TV commentators’ astonishment at people not evacuating New Orleans led him to write Being Poor - a heartfelt explanation in the form of a series of examples. And then the commenters came and added their experiences, on and on and on in heartbreaking detail.John reflects on it all:Overall, writing the "Being Poor" piece and seeing the response has been one of the moving...

Podcrastinating - verb - to spend time at the computer listing to Podcasts, instead of working, as opposed to listening to podcasts on your iPod while doing other things like driving, cycling or ironing.Technorati Tags: podcast...

The Messenger probe took a great movie of Earth as it left for Mercury.The spooky thing for me is that my old friends at Planetary Visions Limited spent a big chunk of the 90s making computer visualisations from satellite data of just this kind of thing - here's a year's worth of weather, so the real pictures are curiously familiar.Technorati Tags: 3D Atlas, earth, Erd Sicht, geo, movie, sp...

After seeing and enjoying Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I realised the boys hadn't seen Edward Scissorhands, so we watched that together too.Seeing them consecutively made me realise that they both are parables of how it is to be a geek in the world. The way Edward Scissorhands gently satirises Californian suburban life was much clearer now I've been living it for a while. At it's core, though,...

Scott Beale is hosting Dorrian Porter's impressionistic video of Bar Camp, which I helped compre...

Arnold Kling tries to apply Long Tail thinking to politics - I think there is something to this, but it goes back to coalition building. In order to gain support for a cause we need to be able to craft arguments for it that appeal to different political worldviews.For example, here's the argument against copyright term extension reframed for different political views:Liberal collectivistThe shared...

This weekend's Foo camp and Bar camp set me thinking about how important physical proximity is. One of the tenets of the Open Source movement was that in the Internet age, physical co-presence is no longer needed - your operating system can be run from Finland, your VoIP service from Luxembourg, and both can draw on global collaborators.Perhaps it was this idea of decentralisation that got Tim O'Reilly...

Lynne Kiesling quotes Adam SmithThe man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices...

Updated - Stanford stupidly took the site down, here's Burtynsky's own site.I saw the Burtynsky exhibition at Stanford today. He takes haunting pictures of landscapes transformed by industry into scenes of devastation and strange beauty. Quarries that look like stacks of boxes or an auditorium, then you see a tiny vehicle and realise the scale.Shattered Ozymandian fragments of ships in Chittagong,...

When I heard radio reports of the London police shooting a suspect in the tube, my heart sank. It sounded like a failure to capture a suspect, it sounded like another possible attack, but most of all it sounded like the last chapter of Blink, where Gladwell analyses closely how easy it is a for a group of armed policemen in hot pursuit to make fatal snap judgements. He summarized in Slate:We tend...

At the OpenTech conference today, there was a debate around establishing a British equivalent of the EFF. This seems a very good idea to me - with the UK's ability to push legislation through parliament in a hurry, and the ambiguous situation regarding European legislation versus UK common law, a group prepared to fight test cases and lobby about Bills in parliament. I signed Danny's pledge. My only...

Apollo 11 landing Google's lunar effort is amusing, but the panorama's shot by Apollo 11, Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 astronauts are the real thing.Unless you believe the Google Ads chosen for the panorama site, that is.You can hear Neil Armstrong's first unscripted words on the moon:The surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered...

I've been having lots of conversations around microformats recently, with a gallimaufry of thoughtful and interesting people. Deeje has been experimenting, Suw has implemented events, and Danny O'Brien said 'RDF was the LSD of the 90s'Technorati Tags: microformat, t...

Back in April, I attended the Microsoft Social Computing Symposium, which included some coverage of tags. they just posted presentations there that only work in IE6 here's a direct links to Windows media files for:David Weinberger's 'From Trees to Tags'Me reporting back on the Tags Birds of a feather discussionLast week at Where 2.0 I was chatting with Chris Pirillo about tags and microformats, when...