<![CDATA[Podcasting News: FeedPod Translates Blog Text to Podcasts:
The news, as read by Stephen Hawking. Now you can take your text-to-speech with you, Steve.]]>
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Month: February 2005
<![CDATA[Tom Peters wants to catch a ride on an Airbus 380 (not me, I like my planes built by folks in the Northwest, whom I knew when they couldn’t hold their beer in high school—besides, I’ve been on several Airbus planes that actually leaked water during rainstorms):
Emirates has ordered 45 of the Big Suckers! As I mentioned after an earlier visit, the UAE seems to be doing everything in a Big Way these days. Their “democracy score” still leaves a lot to be desired, but their “Crazy Capitalist Quotient” is Off the Charts!
If you look at aircraft orders, the Middle East and particularly the Persian Gulf states, account for a huge share of new planes. It’s becoming clear that these countries are going to use their oil reserves to destroy competing long haul and air freight carriers.]]>
<![CDATA[The Washington Monthly wonders if Andrew Sullivan is really done blogging.
One commenter says “It’s like a drug, he’ll be back.” Well, it’s also a great way to create a television and big media brand, so he may not be back the way he has been here before. I’ll be posting later today on a Big Idea about blogging, btw.]]>
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BuzzMachine… by Jeff Jarvis
<![CDATA[BuzzMachine… by Jeff Jarvis:
Since the internet started, many big-time publishers have struggled to convince big-time advertisers that this new medium is not just about direct response (click-through) but also about branding (that is, the value of associating your brand and product with a media brand — the reason to advertise in a glossy magazine with a classy audience, for example). That is why the Online Publishers Association was created.
But note what Denton has done twice: He got big-time advertisers to sign onto a product that didn’t even exist yet. Take it from a guy who started a magazine; that doesn’t happen. So why did they do it? Clearly, they wanted to be associated — branded — with the next, new, cool thing. Just being the first in equals branding. That is a value of this new medium: its newness.
Jeff also blasts Andrew Sullivan for squandering his brand by taking time off for a book project…. But, basically, a brand is built over a very long —years—of delivering great value. There are still a ton of fly-by-night brands out there.
Newness is novelty, and novelty wears out.]]>
<![CDATA[New Media Musings: Curry on the next stage of podcasting:
Fortune: Just as blogs are challenging mainstream media, ex-MTV veejay Adam Curry predicts that podcasts will take on radio and satellite. Curry and partners plan to launch a podcasting network.
For a guy who has argued that podcasting should not be corrupted by money, Adam Curry sure seems bent on making a company run on podcasting revenues. You should hear what fees he asks for meetings. The problem I have with a lot of the purists on blogging and this new version of audio distribution (seems to me Don Katz came up with this idea about 11 years ago—I was there) is that they are willing to take large fees for their insight but refuse to admit others can and should be able to make small fees for actually doing the production work….]]>
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ANM first to audit ad servers
<![CDATA[ANM first to audit ad servers
Noted: Things count.]]>
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94 mln Internet users in China, 43 mln have broadband:
The number of Internet users in China climbed to 94 mln by the end of 2004, according to China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). Broadband users jumped by nearly 150% to almost 43 mln. China’s Internet users account for 7.2% of the population, still below the world average of 12.7%. Hong Kong has 3.3 mln Internet users, while Macao has 201,000 online – 51% and 46% of their populations, respectively.
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Ross Mayfield and I were breaking bones on skateboards round about the same time, though in different climates, but following up on a point I’ve been arguing this morning over in Browse, Ross’s point about Dogtown Movements shows how order is seldom the product of order, but more often the emanation of chaos:
With a little leadership, a core group born out of passion within an architecture that seems natural. Rejecting established culture to develop their own and spreading it in their own words, images and actions. Constant iteration in practice and adaptation by shaping architecture.
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<![CDATA[Wired News: Folksonomies Tap People Power:
The job of tags isn’t to organize all the world’s information into tidy categories,” said Stewart Butterfield, one of Flickr’s co-founders. “It’s to add value to the giant piles of data that are already out there.”
These days, a growing number of sites whose content is user-created rely on tagging systems, also known as folksonomies, for the added value Butterfield is talking about. Flickr and the social-bookmarking site Delicious, along with Furl, are generally considered folksonomy trailblazers, but now sites like MetaFilter and the blog index Technorati have jumped on board, and more are expected to follow.
“It’s very much people tagging information so that they can come back to it themselves or so that others with the same vocabulary can find it,” said Thomas Vander Wal, the information architect credited with coining the term “folksonomy.”
Chaos produces more order than order does….]]>
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Playlists are metadata
<![CDATA[Boing Boing: Disney park family videos from yore and present
My comment: It’s fascinating to see how shared playilists are building the folksonomies that others are trying to make explicit with tags. Playlists are history, not metadata, but they accomplish almost everything metadata does.]]>