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Hey everybody it's source code for August 19th 2004 I'm out of

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today from Korea Castle in Belgium and it's a little bit later than usual. I guess maybe

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it's starting to become the norm now. I was late last night as well. It's 10 o'clock

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in the evening and I'm telling you until I get to the end of these radio shows, I'm

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not going to be able to get this source code up on a daily basis before 8 o'clock in the

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morning east coast to US time. Hopefully after that though, we'll be, we'll

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be better on the timing. Okay, just switch a few things around here on my screen. A couple

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of things I want to talk about today. First of all, you know I've been winding down my

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year long 10 year of doing the morning show for Radio Veronica here in the Netherlands.

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And so, you know, near the end and last week, well, next week we'll have, it'll be our last

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week and then there's Monday and Tuesday because actually my last show is on the 31st.

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So we've got all kinds of great guest book and today we have

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had the Leofond de Chote, famous disc jockey from Tholm,

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30 years ago, he was on the pirate ships,

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which were operating on the North Sea.

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He ever heard the story behind that, it's great.

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Now, I have to look up the history

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of the pirate radio broadcast ships,

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radio caroline, radio Veronica, radio and what sea

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international, it was a crazy time.

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And he was one of the pirate disc jockeys

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on one of those ships on the international waters

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in the North Sea.

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And now he is the program director,

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or the, yeah, he's the guy that's responsible

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for the entire programming on three

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of the top commercial television stations.

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And it was really, you know, it was very intense

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to do a show with, so I've also worked with him.

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He directed a live show that I did called Countdown,

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which was a new bass show.

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We had live guests and we had people performing

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and videos and we did that for, you know,

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the whole season.

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So we worked very intently together

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and we've had our ups and downs.

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But it's always a really intense,

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concentrate when you're doing it to you with someone like that, maybe a little bit more

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than normal.

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And I wasn't feeling too hot today.

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So I was pretty wiped out after the show.

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Had to go up to the flat screen factory that I have a stake in called GrandmasterView.

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If you, you know, you should look it up, www.GrandmasterView.com.

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It's pretty cool that we have humongous flat screens at unbelievably low prices.

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So in the, I got home and just slept until like six or six, thirty and had dinner and

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now we're just kind of hanging out and about ready to go back to bed.

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Such is the life of the morning.

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This kajake.

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And you can tell I'm a disc jockey because I have all the lore as well.

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Now about audio blogging, I picked up a pretty cool post yesterday from Harold Gilchrist.

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And once in a second, let me see what the URL of his website is.

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I have to find that and put a link to it.

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it because radio.weblogs.com website. But if you just Google it Harold Gilchrist, that's

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a G-I-L-C-H-R-I-S-T. And he posted some interesting thoughts in his own audio blog about, well,

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what he calls the rise of audio enclosure blogging. Of course, that tickled me and I

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can just bring my mixer back to the front here. I'm going to play a little bit, a snippet.

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Listen to what he's saying. There's a couple of things in there that I like that he said.

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Check it out. This is Harold Gilchrist and whereas I call this source code, the daily source code,

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if you will. Another audio blogging example, which actually I took example who is Dave Weiner's

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morning coffee notes. And Harold calls his audio blogs poolside.

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Anyway, but there's a lot of new audio ging.

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big out there in a blog as fair. I usually call the blog oddspare. And that's good. That's

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good news. So let's back up a second. I said it's the rise of the RSS enclosure audio

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blogger. And again, this is just something I'll remember, but it seems that if you look

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at the RSS feeds of Adam and Dave, and I believe now Doug Kay is doing it for Callie,

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let these audio posts are accompanied by MP3s in the feeds. And developers like Adam Perry

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or writing scripts to take advantage of that being there. So follow this as good news. As

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an observer of audio blogging, this is very healthy. And I look forward to the, did the

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lip in the audio blogging attention, get greater. And I've been seeing it happen now.

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That's

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Some nice words there from Harold

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About audio blogging

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I don't know what Harold does. I gather from his post maybe he's a consultant or

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He said it's his job to pay attention to what's going on in the blogosphere, so

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Something that one part that I really like there is that he said that developers like Adam Curry. I'm like oh, yes

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Finally I'm starting to graduate into the developer sphere

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And I wanted to stop and talk about that for just a second because I've created this thing called iPod

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Which more people are using than I then I anticipated

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Because now of course I'm getting support questions and all kinds of stuff that comes along with developing something

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My intention with iPod was to create something that unfortunately I can only do it for the Mac because that's all I have and that's the only thing I know how to

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program or develop on or

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integrate systems on

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That if you subscribe to an RSS feed that has mp3

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closures like Harold explained that it will automatically show up on your iPod, really

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making your iPod an aggregate.

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And the intent behind it was just to prove the concept, show it says what I want it to

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be, this is how I want it to work and hopefully other people will catch on to it and with a

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little bit of luck developers will start to make the same functionality hopefully better

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in cross-platform development environments.

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Steve Garfield who is a video blogger, well he caught me on one of the, probably the Achilles

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heel of the iPod or application.

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Steve said, hey it's funny, I removed all this content, didn't want from the iPod or

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folder and it came back magically.

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So there it is, I built an application that doesn't really have a database.

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So it dollars I guess it parks the file system and uses that as a database.

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enclosures are still in the active RSS feed, it's going to want to suck those in.

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So if you have something like, see if you have a feed that doesn't update very often,

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take IT conversations for instance.

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There's probably 15 shows in their feed and one is added every other day or every three

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days.

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So if you remove five or six of those files, only one of them or two of them won't come

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back.

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On the contrary, this is another observation I had.

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If you have something like scripting news and Dave posts an MP3 in his enclosure, if

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you don't, if your script isn't running often enough, Dave will out post your aggregator

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and that posting will actually drop off the edge of the RSS file and you'll miss it.

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So all kinds of things to be considered there when it comes to updating.

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Of course this is because we're not, we're, we're not using or it's difficult to use

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uh, pings effectively because of course

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what you want is you want to be notified that something's updated and updated accordingly

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and not necessarily pull the whole time.

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But that's a whole other discussion.

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So anyway, check out SteveBarfield.com.

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He blogged the Democratic National Convention.

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He's really funny.

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I like the way he did it and I can see he's learning his video skills very, very quickly.

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I think guess he's doing most of it on Final Cut Pro and the iMovie, but it's good stuff.

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And once we figure out how we use enclosures with audio, which I think is a lot easier

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to do, I know is a lot easier to develop for just because of the sheer size of the files,

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I think we'll be able to apply a lot of this to the video blogging.

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Which really, in my mind, if we say blogging in the context of audio or video blogging,

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it's audio and video distribution.

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And BitTorrent is a major part of that and I hope to start testing with that in the audio

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realm pretty soon.

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Okay, hope you can still stand this sound of the crappy microphone.

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Luckily, when I turn the mic off, it doesn't crap out, and I'm going to do so with a song.

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And I've been thinking, I don't really have a theme for what I played the song of the day sounds, you know, it's like so typical.

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But maybe today, I'll just be honest about it.

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I'm really in the mood for something really hokey, you know, a 70s hokey song of the day,

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Because we're For Shout-O-Pro Nelly for Tahoe, Jewel, or...

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The 70s. This is Ricky Lee Jones. It's Chuck and Ben Love.

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[ Music ]

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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I'm doing the most of my life.

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and get to sleep in Saturday and Sunday. It's gonna be really busy week next week.

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Since Patricia and I announced that we're moving to the United Kingdom,

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the press of force wants to have the story, so we're doing all kinds of interviews and TV shows next week.

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I'm gonna fit some flying in, all kinds of stuff going on.

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And of course, early to rise for the radio show.

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And I'll be back tomorrow with a wrap up of the week.

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Thanks for listening. Oh, I have to remember.

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If you have any comments, my email is adam at curry.com, C-U-R-R-Y,

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my website, live. curry.com.

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And if you're listening to this through your aggregator, thank you very much for subscribing.

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And talk to you tomorrow. Bye.