My son Aaron described this to me last night. He wants an iPod that would work like the networked versions of iTunes. He wants access to other iPod users playlists when they are near him and thought that it should probably have some kind of “address” so you could send messages to it. He also wants wireless headphones. Pretty cool…
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Test entry
Update: Obviously fixed. I added “lastn=”15” to my MTEntries tag and the previous posts have been restored. I am guesing that all of my entries were archived off of the main index since I have not updated much recently. This is a test entry – trying to figure out why all of my previous posts have disappeared from the main…
Digital Storytelling Cookbook
The Centre for Digital Storytelling has published a comprehensive Digital Storytelling Cookbook. To quote: In all communities, in all cultures, stories evolve from the culinary experience. Making media, like making a meal, requires guidance, learning from our friends through the sharing of recipes and from those who spend their professional lives in the kitchen. We have helped over 1000 people…
Converting Shorten sound files to MP3
I recently downloaded some live music performances from the “Internet Archive”:http://www.archive.org/audio/ and they were in the Shorten (.shn) format. I found an easy-to-use “converter”:http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm that will convert the files to the MP3 format. The dBpowerAMP converter supports a multitude of “codecs”:http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central.htm. If what you need isn’t built in, you can download what you’re looking for and install it. It looks…
Installed Blacklist and Textile plugins
I recently installed the “Blacklist”:http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/ plugin and “MT Textile 2.0”:http://bradchoate.com/mt-plugins/textile. I have not received a lot of comment spam, but I wanted to try an eliminate it if I can. At some point if the spammers keep it up I’ll have to turn comments off. Read more about “AKMA”:http://akma.disseminary.org/archives/001342.html and “John Batelle’s”:http://battellemedia.com/archives/000668.php frustrations with comment spam. I also wanted to…
Jay Rosen – News Judgment
Jay Rosen – News Judgment Old and News Judgment New: American Nicholas Berg Beheaded. Now What? The argument surfaced last week: the gatekeepers in Big Media are mistaken–clueless, biased, disconnected–for filtering out the full horror of the Berg beheading. They haven’t showed the photos or the video of the act itself. But the full horror is available on the Web,…
MythTV and archive.org movies
I need to explore MythTV a bit more. Some interecting intersections with BitTorrent, RSS and enclosures plus the addition of public domain content (I just downloaded a Yonder Mountain String Band live concert from their audio archives). There’s an interesting thread on the MythTV developer list about how to bring archive.org content to the television set. Imagine, a TV with…
Live Music Archive
Just a reminder that I need to dig into this site a bit more… Internet Archive: Live Music Archive
FreeCache – Alternative to BitTorrent
Internet Archive: FreeCache From their website: FreeCache works by moving content “hot spots” on the web closer to users. This provides several advantages to various parties involved: Users get faster downloads, content providers pay less for Internet-bound traffic, and ISPs pay less for Internet-originating traffic. An example: Say an up-and-coming rock band, the RockLobsters, has a website that has a…
Good Blog News Roundup
From: Micro Persuasion: Good Blog News Roundup Bill Hobbs has posted a solid roundup of news about blogs and the impact they’re having in public relations, journalism, politics and academia. The roundup includes a Reuters report that explores the impact of digital technology on war-related public relations and journalism, an interview PR Newswire’s Media Insider conducted with me on blogs,…