Starting to gain traction: bq. Brandon Fuller has released an enclosure’s plugin for moveable type. Now you can publish iPodder compatible rss20 feeds!
Link structure of the audio/video web
Need to dig into this a bit more: bq.. A thing about weblog trackbacks that bothers me is that you can do the same thing using nothing but link structure. Trackbacks are used to notify the author of a web page A when another web page B has commented on it. The idea is to make the “commented on” relationship…
From PaidContent.org: Dissecting the Media: Trust and Transactions
VC Tim Oren in this barn-burner of a post on his blog, talking mainly about transactional values in media, bundling, and other media business models… And all this ties-up here: “Motivated by business opportunity, ideology, and just plain fun, the insurgents are gunning for the legacy media. The game is afoot!” Jeff Jarvis adds to it: “In this new distributed,…
Jeeves Local Search Coming
Forums and such are buzzing with news that Ask has major new local stuff on the way. I’m planning to talk to them Monday, will have more of a report then. For now, check out this thread over at SEW.
Jared Spool: Strategies for Categorizing Categories
Strategies for Categorizing Categories
RSS Enclosure fun from Andrew Grumet
I’m doing a little experiment with audioblogging, partly to try it out and partly to test a new helper script for setting up rss enclosures. The big idea is this. You have a Web-visible area to which you add files from time to time. You’d like to be able to publish an enclosure feed so that your friends/customers/audience can see…
Do-It-Yourself Image Retrieval: Swiss Online Agency Imagepoint Adds Self-Developed Feature “Search For Colours”
It is amazing if a photo agency develops a sophisticated keyword-related image retrieval system (including the feature “show me similiar pictures”) without the apparent help of specialists from outside (like Idee Inc., LTU Technologies, piXlogic, VIMA Technologies, to name only four prominent companies) and then claims that this technology and implementation was an inhouse “self-development”. Questions arise… . The swiss…
Worlds of Difference: Local culture in a global age
Independent radio projects like Worlds of Difference would benefit from RSS feeds and enclosures. I found one of their productions at Transom.org, but I don’t visit that site very often. I always regret it when I don’t because I find audio treasures like these. I would love to discover great documentary work in my iTunes playlist when I log in…
Happy Cog Studios Redesigns Amnesty International USA website
Happy Cog Studios recently redesigned the Amnesty International USA site. They detail the problems they discovered and their solutions in this one-page writeup. A couple on interesting points: * The main navigation is based on the user’s level of commitment: Learn, Join and Act. * They offer RSS feeds with a nice explanation of RSS and links to popular newsreaders.…
From EMERGIC.org: The Real Threat of Blogs
Douglas Rushkoff makes a point I agree with: “The greatest power of the blog is not just its ability to distribute alternative information – a great power, indeed – but its power to demonstrate a mode of engagement that is not based on the profit principle.”