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Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
iPodder 1.0.
 The windows/mac iPodder development team announces their first public release, which is kick ass!
"We're proud to mention that iPodder version 1.0 is released. It's released both for Windows as for Macintosh. We placed some notes on the projectsite, check it at: http://ipodder.sourceforge.net/"
iPodder version 1.0 in a nutshell:
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# iPodder for the Mac and Windows platform (soon linux)
# Graphical user interface and tray icon
# Scheduler inside to setup recursive and timed downloads
# Progress bar inside
# BitTorrent support
# iTunes/Mediaplayer integration
# Downloads are automatically divided by folders
# Playlists ordered by Feed
# Application memorizes the history to prevend double downloads
# Half downloads will be restarted in new session
# Automatic placing of content on your iPod (mac only)
# Standalone application (no extra applications needed)
# Easy to use
[unmediated]
10:20:55 PM 
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Avatars Anchor Your RSS Evening News.
File this under str_ange. WebNews.TV is a RSS news aggregator software application that pronounces both your feeds and comments on them with funny animation movies featuring avatars (virtual reality characters). It downloads the latest news from your feeds and then shows them in TV like screen with funny characters. Each news character (world news, sports, technology, entertainment, etc.) is delivered by a different emotion of a single penguin (Hmm, is he related to Linux?) character.
(What happens when we can present the blog feed of Ana Marie Cox through a Michelle Malkin avatar? Who wants to explain that one to the lawyers? Oi. -kc.)
[unmediated]
10:16:59 PM
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Seth wrote a comment to
yesterday's
post about falsely attributing quotes to Democratic Presidential
candidates. Following up on my allusion to the
Gore-invented-the-Internet hoax (or lie) he pointed at his amazing trove of
Al Gore "invented the Internet"
resources. It includes a transcript of Vice President Gore's appearance
on CNN's 'Late Edition', links to Declan's origination of the bogus
attribution, (as well as a note that the Wired News archived version of the
story "seems to have lost two critical paragraphs in the archiving process"
and links to other archived versions), the debunkings by Agre, Rosenberg,
Kahn, and Cerf, as well as histories and analyses of the "clear failure in
the marketplace of ideas."
Thanks, loads, Seth.
11:34:05 AM
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How news is spread - the power of social distribution.
On September 23, the popular Dutch singer Andre Hazes died. The news came out just before noon, and within a few minutes, the country's mobile-phone carrier noticed something strange: The number of text messages instantly doubled. People were spreading the news themselves, instantly, via SMS.
The incident led phone-pundit Mike Masnick to wonder whether this could be a new paradigm for how news is spread. Rather than wait for everyone to tune into their newspaper or TV show or web site, how about having reporters provide news in a format that readers can easily re-broadcast -- using SMS, email, or whatever? As Masnick puts it:
From a news organization's perspective, then, the opportunity is to package the news not in a way that simply attracts more readers, but to be easily disseminated outward by those readers. As the E-Media Tidbits article notes, for the news of Hazes death, a news organization could have sent: "Here is a message to forward, a picture, and part of a Hazes song attached," and then just let the power of social distribution take over.
Masnicks original article in TheFeature
via Clive Thompson on Collision Detection [Thanks Howard !]
Hazes links in the Dutch media [Smart Mobs]
7:15:51 AM
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Coffee talk gets philosophical with Cafe Philo. Aristotle. Socrates. Double-shot espressos. Whether feeding an addiction to philosophy or a need for caffeine beverages, the discussion forum Café Philo promises to tend to both in an hour-and-a-half flat. "I've noticed for some time a growing thirst for soulful conversations about things that matter," said David Hilditch, adjunct professor of the philosophy department, who delegates the discussion. [The Journal]
7:15:30 AM
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Anthopologists on Creative Commons, free software
Biella sez, "This is a collection of anthropological articles on intellectual property, free software, and the Creative Commons. It is, as far as I know, the first time an Anthropology journal has published accounts on free software and the first time they are using a CC license. All the papers are ready to download as a PDF under a CC license." Link (Thanks, Biella!)
[bOing bOing]
7:14:52 AM
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Slate: "The fact that, under the circumstances, Bush didn't deliver a major policy address after all, despite his advance word, should embarrass not only CNN and MSNBC but, still more, President Bush." [Scripting News]
7:08:59 AM
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Prof Pursued by Mob of Bloggers. A Utah professor finds himself the target of an unexpected flood of hate mail after posting a report defending the disputed Bush National Guard memos. The incident is one of many examples of the power of bloggers acting in unison. By Staci D. Kramer. [Wired News]
7:04:37 AM
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