Posted March 31st, 2008, in: New Media| Semantic Web| Technology
Semantic Web Gang: Introductory Episode
Some suggestions:
1. During the conference call, use some sort of mixing program so the moderator can see who is talking at every moment during the recording via an audio level meter and make adjustments as needed.
2. Whenever some body new starts talking, quickly talk over them stating their name (it only obscures what they’re saying for one or two syllables so it’s easy for the listener to understand what they’re saying while taking in the metadata too)
3. Have a rotating or otherwise changing schedule of guests like TWiT does. The occasional random apperence by a CEO or two, or other dignitaries of the Web might help to keep the discussion interesting.
4. Don’t be afraid to spend a few hundred pounds on a decent microphone and maybe a mixer or or whatever is needed to improve the quality of the audio. The audio of Talking With Talis has been piss poor since the beginning. It would really serve you guys to improve on that.
I think part of your mission is evangelism, so I hate to think you’re losing audience because of the poor audio quality.
Looking forward to more!
-A
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Posted March 30th, 2008, in: Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc| Intellectual Property| Music Industry| New Media| Technology
I’m worried that new innovations in music discovery might not be able to play ASCAP music because of the cost. I heard that this might be the case for small internet radio stations… I’m still trying to get to the bottom of this.
Then, I did come across these ASCAP contracts for new media channels… it’s about $1000/year minimum. This sounds high to me at first for a totally underground, out-of-my-bedroom type of channel, but then I got to thinking… A fast, enterprise-speed server, which is what I think you’d want if you were going to do something like an internet radio station, will probably cost you $100/month… So basically, if you were doing that and you wanted to play ASCAP music (and not get your pants sued off) you’d be doubling that amount… say $200-$300/month…
Then
I found a cool internet radio station called erika.net (that does play ASCAP and BMI music) and it turns out I wasn’t too far off. They say on their site that it costs about $400/month to keep their service going.
to be continued…
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Posted March 30th, 2008, in: Technology
I’ve spent ALL FREAKING DAY researching a subject. Chances are, since it’s probably a subject that many other people are also searching for and not finding satisfactory results for, Google knows in some way, computationally or otherwise, that there is this particular search pattern that ends up being a day-long process for the users conducting the search.
Is it part of Google’s NO-EVIL plan to withhold from us where the holes in the communal knowledge of the Web are? If they are at around 90% of the search market share, is it not a little bit evil to hold on to information about how we are failing to communicate with each other as a species in the interest of preserving their business plan?
Google:
Please start asking for help. Mahalo.com does. Google, please make a public database of “failing searches” so people in the industries related to those searches can jump in and fill the void. Jeeez.
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Posted March 23rd, 2008, in: Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc
What isn’t on this calendar? Well, according to The Wikipedia, on this day, Jesus didn’t become the first human being ever to come back to life after being completely dead (for more than a few minutes).
Lots of interesting things did happen on this day, however. For instance in 1903, The Wright Brothers applied for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes.
I don’t like to blog about religion (or mainstream politics), because I feel like doing so will cloud up the few messages I do really want to trumpet through this site. But thinking about the tradition of celebrating Easter feels weird on me today.
Why do people need to celebrate something that certainly did not happen? And going further, why is it that the story of Jesus, for most Christians, is more about the folklore of his alleged magic tricks than about the philosophical teachings associated with him? Virgin births, resurrections, turning one form of matter into another with the waive of a hand–these are all great tricks, but what about the guy that made the Statue of Liberty disappear? And that was so much more recent! Magic is fun. It’s neato. But to me, disregard and even avoidance of what is evident, the laws of the universe for instance, is just disgraceful.
So while I know I might offend or alienate a few people with this post, I felt like I needed to say that it offends and alienate me when people celebrate bullshit and insist that things are true when they are not. It offends me when religious people want to teach the younger generations of our species untruths. It offends me when religious people want government policy to be influenced by untruths.
Happy Easter!
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Posted March 23rd, 2008, in: Videos
Must-See.
Sorry I hat to link to it. It’s on google video HERE
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Posted March 23rd, 2008, in: New Media| Technology
I don’t understand why this sort of thing needs to exist. It will be interesting to see if I get a response from them.
Emily Ulmer to me:
The other day I ran across your site AndrewAPeterson.Wordpress.com as I
was searching for computer related info. on Google. As mentioned in my
previous email to you, I like your site, especially your text colors and
page layout.
I run a website also, and would like to see if there are ways we can
work together to benefit both our businesses. As I am sure you have
found, reciprocal links have very little value these days – getting
ahead on the search engines relies on two factors…
1. Lots of well-crafted unique content on your site.
2. One way links to your site.
We are willing to supply you with “unique” content for your website in
the form of keyword rich articles written on topics related to both our
sites. All of your articles will be on interesting topics relating to
the windows registry or related computer topics and of course, will be
search engine friendly. These quality articles will help you in your
search engine rankings, and will never be published on another website.
We are offering you unique high-quality content for your website. In
return for the free articles, we want the links within the article to
remain intact. We will put links (3 to 4) into the article.
If you are interested in getting free content for your site, just let me
know and we will get to work writing fabulous articles exclusively for
your website. Our website is www.Instant-Registry-Fixes.org and you can
contact me by replying to this email, or calling either Miles or myself
at (720) 240-4663.
Thanks so much,
Emily
Digital Enterprises Inc.
(720) 240-4663
My Response:
Emily,
Why not just put the “unique” content, containing the 3-4 links on your own blog or RSS feed? What is the advantage to you or anyone else in having it be on my blog, other than me having more content?
May I see an example of this unique content with 3-4 links in it?
-Andrew
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Posted March 23rd, 2008, in: Technology| Videos
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Posted March 17th, 2008, in: Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc| New Media| Technology| Web 2.0
I have a job interview for a job I actually want to get tomorrow. I need to bite the bullet and work like a normal person for a while. There’s too many things I need to buy in order to remain productive in the long run, a new machine for instance. If I get this job, I will surely have practically no time to participate in the Web like I have been. I’ll be back though, some day. Don’t you cry.
In related news, look what happens when I stop blogging every day:
That’s my traffic. And the interesting thing is that this isn’t because of subscriptions as in more people subscribed so fewer posts equals fewer hits… It’s because of
- the Live-Web search engines like Technorati and WordPress’ back-end,
- traffic from TrackBacks when I blog about other people’s blog posts,
- and how Google seems to give higher status to sites that update more regularly.
There are a good deal of searches that I used to come up on the first page for that I’m already falling off of, just because I went on a road trip and wasn’t really blogging for about a week.
Social Currency on the Web requires participation.
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Posted March 17th, 2008, in: New Media| Technology| Web Browsers
Now that I have NetNewsWire going, and can finally really manage as many feeds as I want in a totally efficient way, I’m realizing that I need more specific focus for my information gathering.
Engadget, one of the best consumer electronics blogs out there (the other is probably CNET’s) is getting laid off. It’s just not relevant enough to me.
It’s Monday afternoon even after spending my usual hour or so reading and scanning, I still have 2988 headlines I have not even glanced at yet.
224 of those are from Engadget. Sorry Engadget. I’m just not, on a daily basis, that interested in
- digital picture frames,
- handsets
- bigscreen TVs
- every little detail about all gaming related products
- the vast world of portable media players
Gotta trim the fat sometimes… Another likely candidate for the chopping block is digg.com’s technology feed…
I can’t help but think of Digg as more of a pastime than a news source, although nearly every time I get bored enough to actually spend any time there, I find something really interesting to me.
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Posted March 17th, 2008, in: Music Industry| Technology
They have three different subscription plans, the more you pay, the cheaper the tracks get per-track. In addition, you can buy individual tracks for $0.99…
What I don’t get is, if it’s a monthly subscription, does that mean you don’t get to keep the tracks? And if it’s a subscription plan where you don’t get to keep the music, why not make it unlimited songs as long as you have a current subscription activated?
They boast DRM-Free MP3’s so I can only assume that what this really means is this: You have one month per active subscription period to download your quota of tracks. Hmmm. So, unlike an iTunes gift card, you pay in advance but lose your money if you don’t use the funds in time.
I’m glad to see LimeWire launching a store, because at the very least, it’s good to have competition in this new market.
I don’t have the disposable income right now to sign up with every new online music store and buy tracks to see what the scoop is.
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