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Wednesday, February 09, 2005 |
Quoteplay: A Flash Based Player for Quoting Podcasts.
Here's how quoteplay is described at the web site:
quoteplay allows others to link to specific bits of your audio files (ideal for letting weblogs quote from podcasts). Using a Flash-based in-browser MP3 player anyone can play & select clips and create links to them.
The app allows people to make clips and post them at their blog. People reading the blog can then get a better view into what the show is about. By using it, listeners can point to specific parts of a show that they thought was great or a bunch of bull.
The demo shows how it works. It is amazingly simple for the user. You use the orange markers to define the clip you want and then click "generate url." The url is then saved so you or anyone else can paste it into their browser. And it saves it as a clip url and a link url, making it easy to clip pieces of podcasts.
Here's my clip from The Village People's classic: YMCA (Cantonese version.)
I think we'll give this a try. We'll see how simple it is to install on our site. I'll report back about what we learned.
BTW, quoteplay is free. They are asking for donations of $10 to help with development. Seems fair.
Have you tried installing quoteplay? What do you think?
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And don't forget "Four Minutes About Podcasting," by the inimitable Lisa Rein. Er, Lisa Williams. Williams. Not Rein. Listen, anyway, don't try to imitate either of 'em; you can't do it.
(It was that or: On the Internet, nobody knows you're a Williams.)
(So, given the comment, that seems to me a sufficiently obvious update as not to require my singling it out for notice. Or else this will do.)
10:03:55 PM 
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Three from BNA News:-
ANTI-SPYWARE CONSORTIUM FALLING APART
The Consortium of Anti-Spyware Technology vendors is on the
rocks, with three founding members resigning in protest over
policies they say are too laid-back. Webroot Software,
Aluria Software and Computer Associates International's
PestPatrol successively announced their departures in recent
days from the group.
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ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME SUES ONLINE JEWISH ROCK HALL
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has asked a federal judge to
stop two journalists and a radio company executive from
putting up a Web site called the Jewish Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame. The Cleveland-based museum says the site will
infringe on the original's trademark name and that the
public would confuse the two.
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GOOGLE IMAGE INDEX PASSES 1 BILLION MARK
Google announced yesterday that following a recent
expansion, its image index now contains more than 1 billion
pictures.
10:38:50 AM
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Microsoft Fesses Up To 19
Vulnerabilities, MSBlast-Level Worm Likely: The company released
its largest group of security patches in nearly a year, posting 12
security bulletins encompassing 19 vulnerabilities, 14 of which it
marked "Critical." Among them is a vulnerability that one security
vendor claims will likely lead to the biggest, baddest worm since
mid-2003.
By Gregg Keizer,
TechWeb News.
9:38:39 AM
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Talk About Your "Fetishism of Commodities": a Priest, a Truck, a Girl, and the Reactionary Drift. By Paul Street.
This story (below) is interesting on numerous levels. It tells the curious and disturbing tale of a Super Bowl advertisement that didn’t happen. ...
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Not having seen the promo ad, I don’t want to appear to deny that it may well have trivialized those misdeeds. It probably did.
Still, I find this little dispute to be typically American in that nothing is said about the core sickness that lay at the heart of the commercial: the rather over-literal "fetishism of commodities," to use the title of the fourth section of the first chapter of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol.1.
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Meanwhile, the conservative counter-reaction from evangelical and other appalled sectors gives the purveyors of mass consumerism a perfect
Meanwhile, the conservative counter-reaction from evangelical and other appalled sectors gives the purveyors of mass consumerism a perfect "Church Lady" foil to more effectively market their stupid, fetishistic, and nauseating stream of "cool stuff." Leading capitalist media has, since the 1960s, curiously aligned itself with and profited from "counter-cultural" rebellion against the corporate state and religious conservatives. This corporate "conquest of cool" (left business and cultural historian Thomas Frank’s excellent phrase) is displayed in clever advertisements in which anarchic youth undertake "hip" resistance to "square" authority figures and puritanical ideals by purchasing supposedly liberating products (from Nike shoes to the latest software) and services (on-line trading) provided, ironically enough, by repressive and authoritarian corporations. The corporations have long been playing both sides of --- and profiting economically and politically from --- the ongoing "hip" v. "square" contest.
It’s part of how you get an idiot nation.
[ZNet Blog]
6:33:31 AM
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THE INTERNATIONAL DATABASE OF CORPORATE COMMANDS.
An Imperative Call
The Institute for Infinitely Small Things announced its new research initiative today, THE INTERNATIONAL DATABASE OF CORPORATE COMMANDS (IDCC). This research database is open to submissions of corporate commands from researchers around the world. A Corporate Command is an instruction work, a call to action in the form of an imperative: "Just Do It"; "Turn on the Future"; "Live without Limits"; "Tap into great taste"; "Think different"; "Ride the light"; "Live Like You Mean It."
It is the hypothesis of the Institute for Infinitely Small Things that these commands, largely and consciously ignored by a public over-saturated with advertisements, function at the scale of the infinitely small. Tiny events that do not disturb ones consciousness or disrupt ones identity as "free" agents, these commands seep under the surface of the individual and lay claim to the territory of the Deleuzian Virtual. Desire, memory, and future potentiality become territories for conquest and tactics for social and political control.
By compiling, tabulating, concretizing and enacting these commands in the International Database of Corporate Commands (IDCC), the Institute for Infinitely Small Things seeks to better understand the mechanisms behind this deployment of power and its larger cultural ramifications.
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ABOUT THE INSTITUTE FOR INFINITELY SMALL THINGS
The Institute for Infinitely Small Things is a research organization dedicated to the creation, collection and documentation of all of the infinitely small things in the world, past, present and future. The Institute's research projects are concerned with creating a critical cartography through which to explore notions of political power, social controls, collective agency and human freedom.
Contact: The Institute for Infinitely Small Things
info @ infinitelysmallthings.net
617-501-2441
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6:33:16 AM
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