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The FCC has imposed Universal Service Fund taxes on VoIP services that connect to the legacy phone network. USF is allegedly a way to bring services to rural and low-income communities, but in practice is outdoor relief for big telcos. I assume that the telco lobbyists see this as a victory, but as it only applies to interconnecting services, those that are pure internet services now have an even bigger cost advantage.

As for subsidising communications for low income users, it looks like the internet is doing a far better job by making everything cheap or free, as even the homeless are connected to the net.

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Dave Winer managed to stir up a storm by capturing a video of John Dvorak confessing how he trolls Mac users for extra pageviews. Although Dave posted the video in QuickTime format using open codecs (JPEG video and 8-bit uncompressed audio), which should mollify Mark Pilgrim somewhat, the iPod Video won't play this. I converted it using the handy iSquint tool into standard mpeg-4 files. I present 3 alternatives for you:

1. iPod compatible MPEG-4 version, using H264 codec - requires QuickTime 7, iTunes 6 or VLC 0.84
2. iPod compatible MPEG-4 version, using the previous MPEG4 codec - works in QuickTime 6 or earlier iTunes
3. Dave's compatible MOV version via BitTorrent - should play back to QuickTime 1.0 once you have downloaded it

Those of you playing close attention will notice I am using markup based on the microformat brainstorming for expressing alternative versions of the same file. As this uses rel-enclosure, it will be picked up by Mark's Universal Feed Parser, and also by FeedBurner's version of my blog feed.

Technorati Tags: bittorrent, formats, HTML, microformats, movie, podcasting, QuickTime, troll, video

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Mark Pilgrim has a thorough post explaining his move to open formats. If you care about preserving your data, you should go and read it. On one small point I may be able to give some advice. Mark said:

[I spent] Years of creating content, most recently video content in iMovie. Home movies of my children being born and growing up, heavily edited and burned to DVD and distributed to friends and family. Plus a few screencasts and some other odd video projects I’ve never released. Years of tagging and organizing an ever-growing collection of music, photos, and multimedia. I’ve now exported all my home movies as .DV files — one for the final product, one for all the unused clips. All other edits are lost. All editability is lost.

Mark, have a look at the QuickTime format. It is published and open, has been substantially the same for 15 years, and iMovie (finally) stores it's edit lists in it.

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When I dropped by Vloggercon on Sunday, I ran into Scoble and Furrier in the lobby, and said hello. They mentioned that they now realised they didn't need a press release. This matches what we do at Technorati - we just blog things ourselves. The press can find them.

I talked with the grassroots FIRST. Against the advice, by the way, of a lot of PR people (they wanted me to break the news to Walt Mossberg or someone "important" first — they thought that's how I was going to get the biggest story going).

They all are wrong. I almost bought into it too. In fact, I did. On Saturday I talked with maybe 20 people and said "can you wait until Tuesday to talk about it?" I wanted to give the story to the Wall Street Journal too. Not to mention I wanted to tell my coworkers before the story hit. I didn't get that chance and I'm lucky, in hindsight, that I didn't. Because the story started on the grassroots first it got far far bigger than if I broke it on a big newspaper.

Of course, the Cluetrain chaps were ahead of us all:

15. In just a few more years, the current homogenized "voice" of business—the sound of mission statements and brochures—will seem as contrived and artificial as the language of the 18th century French court.
16. Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone.

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