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slash RSS.XML. So the source code for today, a lot of today was spent driving.

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Patricia and I came back from Amsterdam, her mouth operated on, which is a never-ending story.

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Not everyone has a stand at the front of the perfect teeth line.

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Man, we've really done a lot of work on her mouth.

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Anyway, so that was a little less fun for her, but I had a reason to be relaxed day, just

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chilling out, visited a couple people while I was in the city.

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And I wanted to focus on a couple of things on SourceCo today.

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First of all, man, talk about users and developers partying, in this case not partying, maybe

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crying together.

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Murphy really hit hard on the Genesis space capsule that crash landed in the Utah

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Desert.

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I was just thinking that.

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It's so typical.

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You know, here they were, they had worked this thing out with, I guess it was Hollywood

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stunt helicopter pilots who were going to string a net between two helicopters to catch the

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capsule as it floated down on its parachute and then to bring it down to an ultimate

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soft landing.

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And of course, everyone was really concentrated on the helicopter pilots and, you know, were

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they going to be able to catch this disc falling out of space and how fast would it be going?

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And that also has potential.

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dangers you know if you have just imagine two helicopters with a net strung between it if

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something hits it too hard it's going to pull those helicopters together and of course then there's

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all kinds of stuff you don't copter pilot like sheets and wires known as a parachute but then

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of course I was concentrating on that and no one really probably thought you know hey maybe the

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parachute would deploy you know that's technology that we've had for for 70 years and no one figured

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that would fail so it's really sad that that happened and I guess they can't get any samples

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or everything's useless because of the contamination and the disc really hit hard I don't know if you've

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seen a picture I'll be sure to link to one on my blog but man that was rough for them.

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Let's talk briefly about iPodder I think yesterday I mentioned that there was a

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cocoa version on the way as well as I guess yet another windows version and there was just

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Peter just updated the windows version.

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today very cool now it supports apples aac files it automatically detects whether

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you're running Windows Media Player or iTunes and basically does everything else

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for you so that's perfect all we need to do now and now put my user hat on is we

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need to create really one-click installers this is something that is

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often you know just added the very last moment of the process I've noticed

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even on my own iPod or script you still have to download the XML to tools or

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yeah that's what I call XML to tools and you have to install that into your

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into your library folders so that's that's a real pain and really that also

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happened by itself so I'm hoping now that everyone who's made a version of

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iPod and I'll make concerted effort myself this weekend to create an

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installer so basically you just double click on something and it installs

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everything now here's the final the final piece that no one has really done

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And I think I know how I can get it to work on the Mac,

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is we have to have a cron job running.

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We have to have a timed operation of iPod,

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or preferably at night.

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Or see, I have mine set up at four times a day, which

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actually is too much, probably, because at a certain point,

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during the afternoon, then the script will kick in

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through a timed cron job.

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And it does really sometimes noticeably slow down

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the performance.

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Well, certainly the performance of my internet connection,

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depending on how big the files are that I'm sucking in.

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So somehow I need to make that automatic as well.

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And of course, we have to have an uninstall set up,

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or if someone wants to change the times when it runs,

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that would be perfect.

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So that's the final thing we need.

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And then I believe that we have the receiving side all set.

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And then I'm going to start talking about how we move this

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I'm not quite sure what we need to do first.

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Do we need to work on the publishing side, which

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could be a much bigger project than the iPod?

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receiving side or do we want to perhaps look at the distribution side which may even be

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smarter because my feeling is that we might want to look at instead of uploading mp3 files

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to servers at integrating BitTorrent into this. I've noticed that BitTorrent works really

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well when something's fresh and everybody wants to have it because everyone's out

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there clicking the download link of course it's always going to be one link

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right there's always gonna be your your your first node which presumably will be

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your own computer and then the minute other people hit lock on then you have

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more peers to connect to and thus more people can download it and that really

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works that was it they call file swarming technology it I think it

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really works well with the with stuff that's fresh and new so it would

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probably be perfect for programs like this so then of course we'd run up and

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and all the things we're going to run into.

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bringing in enclosed files, and then instead of bringing them in from a web server somewhere,

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actually have it work through BitTorrent, I think we'll be setting ourselves up perfectly for the next step,

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which is quite a ways off, I think, but that will be, eventually will be video,

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and we'll probably do it the same way and BitTorrent seems to work great with big video files.

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So that's just some stuff to think about.

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Because one thing we're missing, we're missing good audio feeds with enclosures.

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I mean, they are out there. There's lots of people doing audio blog posts,

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but just not enough for integrating them into their RSS feeds.

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but just food for thought, I hope.

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by Monday to have had enough feedback from folks and figure out which way we

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should go with this. I did catch a couple interesting bits across the net on the

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iPod or I love the blog digger MP3 feed. It brings in just it's the most

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serendipitous part of my experience is whatever that brings in and I actually

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caught this one guy before and this is his latest, well I guess it's

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kind of like an advertisement in the form of a audio blog post and he's got a

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business model and I think you should listen to it only lasts about a minute or

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so but you know get your pen and paper handy because you're gonna want to

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write down these URLs. Check out this Internet Guru. Welcome to volume 2

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number 36 September 7th 2004 edition of current awareness happening John the

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Internet. Your truly Marcus P. Zellman. This week's edition will be discussing

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It is a categorization registry of library services

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rich site summary, really simple syndication,

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depending upon which nomenclature you are using.

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And in general, for each entry,

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and is hot linked entry for the item.

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When available, a link of the RSS feed

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it has information about administrative and...

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And he just keeps going on and on and on and on.

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But interesting use of audio blogs.

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I wonder if he's making any money that way.

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Maybe one of these days I'll be lucky enough to have him on as a guest.

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Something else I picked up.

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Now, I remember that you'll remember...

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if you're old enough, the old CB radio days, they used to be all kinds of parody songs and

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joke songs about CB users.

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And of course, when it comes to weblogs, there's just too many analogies to go into right now

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and too many parallels between weblogs and CB radio.

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And it's been mentioned many times before.

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There's some obvious benefits, of course, with the internet and weblogs.

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But it's about that time in the life cycle of something that hits pop culture as hard as

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weblogs have for the parody songs to come out.

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And this is actually not even that bad a song if you just take it at its merit.

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Again, picked up through the blog digger media feed.

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Now this is something that apparently has been circulating around the internet because

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I did a Google search on it and came up with, I even came up with remixes of the

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song, of course, typical.

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not your blog. Well, it's actually my mic up a little bit. It sucks. Hold on. Okay. Yeah,

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not too bad. I kind of like that song. This is not your blog available all around the

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internet now also in a remix version. A couple more things I want to talk about just bopping

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around from topic to topic today. I picked up on a story I think Dave Weiner pointed

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into it about Microsoft MSN radio. This is really interesting. Apparently what MSN

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is doing is they started up a new service where they purchase the playlist information

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of see in total. I think they have probably 1200 radio stations in the States, Canada

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and Puerto Rico. Now you can get these you can buy these from from Nielsson broadcast

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data systems and radio stations subscribe to these services all the time all kinds of

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services so they can see what the competition is doing basically so it's

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very it's very normal to subscribe to this. But what they're doing is they're

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the playlist, not necessarily the format. I'm not quite sure if they're onto that.

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the hour or what part of the day. In fact radio is split up into day parts.

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have heard of. But apparently, let's see, Oakland San Jose, KYLD, Wild 94,

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Alice 97.3, K101, Star 101, which is Star 101.3. So you have the exact same

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music mix, presumably in more or less the same order. They're even claiming with

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less repetition. Think about how they're really trying to make radio here.

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and of course the disc jockeys. And this is supposed to be like this huge

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call this MSN radio. They clearly do not have a... They have... There is clueless about what

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radio is about as clear channel is from what I'm reading here. And there's one program

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director who was quoted in this piece who actually hit it right on the head. Here we go. This

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is from John Aller's program director at KCNLFM, known there as Channel 104.9. He said, and

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have discovered us yet, Aller said. But he added that if you're trying to take away

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our listeners, the programming that makes a station's personality and connection

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to listeners can't be duplicated by a computer. Hallelujah. That is right on the

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money and absolutely true. Hold on. Let me just crank up the mic here a little

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bit. And the reason for that is that radio is not just about records. Yes,

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that's a very important part of it.

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important part of it and that's going to bring in the age group of listeners that you're

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It's not just about, you know, Madonna's in town and we have the concert.

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That's just not what it's all about.

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People really do like and need some type of human element to a radio station.

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Non-stop jukeboxes work still work.

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very well. And there are many radio formats where there's a hell of a lot more music and

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less talk. But still, it is even if it's the local weather report, it's absolutely critical

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to the success of any radio station. So I'm not quite sure what MSN is trying to do.

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I don't think that they're liable for anything, because I still don't think that they can

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really copy the format unless they've got some radio guy working with them on this

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who knows what he's doing. Because it's not easy to copy a format.

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program director or a music director or sometimes even a general manager just

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going into the computer. The system they use, almost every radio station he uses

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is called selector and will be manually changing things on the fly. And all the

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lists are always checked. And it's something that really comes from the

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are really good and usually the ones doing well.

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see that type of hands-on approach.

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So interesting that they're trying to do that, but again, I think quite clueless.

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And if they're trying to market that as radio, then they're making a marketing mistake.

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I think it was, yeah, we said that the language of politics today is the language

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of marketing.

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And there's another bit of marketing out there.

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I don't know if you've seen it in the states yet.

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Probably it certainly, it's not airing anywhere in Europe unless you happen to

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catch it on a news broadcast.

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This is an advertisement which was paid for by Texans for Truth.

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And it's very short and there's only two captions in it, two titles.

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I'll read those as they come on the screen.

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And this is basically the counter-attack of John Kerry's

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about the truth or whatever the swift boat controversy of his tours in Vietnam and now

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they're counter attacking on George Bush about him possibly having been AWOL himself.

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So I'll read the captions off and you can listen to the audio.

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Was George Bush AWOL in Alabama?

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George Bush was up and say I served in the 180th Civil Air National Guard in Montgomery,

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Alabama.

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Really.

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I mean that was my unit and I don't remember seeing you there.

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So I call friends and I did you know that George served in our unit?

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No, I never saw him there.

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Tell us whom you serve with Mr. President.

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It would be impossible to be unseen in a unit of that size.

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George Bush has some explaining to do.

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There you go.

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So it ends with George Bush has some explaining to do and that was, let me see, I can get

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that title for you and see who that was who was speaking.

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Lieutenant Colonel Robert Mince of the 187th Tech.

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a practical squadron Air National Guard in Montgomery, Alabama.

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And he's claiming that he can't remember any George Bush and he called a couple other

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people neither could they.

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So interesting bit of marketing.

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Has nothing to do with politics or the future of the United States?

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I think there's other more important things we'll be talking about, that's for sure.

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Briefly on audiobooks, one of my favorite topics.

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And here's something that I did not know.

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You probably heard of the Gutenberg Project, which you can get to through Gutenberg.net.

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This is a collection of all literary works that have come into the public domain.

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So you can basically download the text and many are an HTML version and some even in

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PDFs of some excellent, excellent books that you can just download and put on your

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ebook reader or you can read it right off your screen.

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I've seen...

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Lots of times I've seen people who have used text to speech processing to try and kind of make an audio book into it.

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I've tried that myself a couple times and it just it just doesn't work.

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I mean you can't get the nuance, the human feeling, the emotion depending on what kind of book or if it's a novel or

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biography you need a different approach and

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computerize the speech synthesis, at least on the level that it's available to users today.

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It's nowhere near what it needs to be. But I actually found

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that there are also some folks out there who were

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making these audio books free of charge and uploading them to the Gutenberg project.

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And I want to give you two examples just to give you an idea of the quality

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because the voice on the first one that I have no idea if this is homegrown or if this is maybe something a little bit

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a little more professional. Check out this reading. I'll just give you a little piece of Sherlock Holmes.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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A scandal in

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email.

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Sherlock Holmes. She is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any

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other name. In his eyes, she eclipses and predominates the whole of her say.

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So that's just a little bit of Sherlock Holmes. I was blown away by that speaker and I've

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actually downloaded this. It's on my iPod and I will get to it because it sounds like

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that would be a pretty relaxing listen to Sherlock Holmes book. And I found that original

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audio recording. It's just all kinds of audio stuff here today. And this also came

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off of Gutenberg. This is an actual recording of Watson discussing the

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events that unfolded and how the telephone was discovered, which of course was

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done by Alexander Graham Bell. But listen to a bit of this recording. You should

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listen to the whole thing. It's about six minutes long. It's a fabulous piece

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of history. And the recording is, well, needless to say...

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shit listen to the scratches

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telegraph netizens over one wire at the same time

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so just a bit there of the birth of the telephone and

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again, both of these can be downloaded for free and they're completely

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royalty and copyright free from

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Gutenberg net excellent resource on the internet and one of these days

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I am just gonna have to you know break down and actually record an entire audiobook

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I've been looking at a couple different ones that are read as a kid

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And I don't know, I just have to have got a, I wonder how long it would take.

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You know, I remember we did, there was a collaborative audio book effort that was done several, like,

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well everyone took a chapter.

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There were 13 or 14 different bloggers that all read a chapter of Lawrence Lessig's book.

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Maybe that would be fun to start that up again or as I said, maybe I'll just do

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one myself.

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Okay, let's see, we're 25 minutes.

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Why don't we just round off today's source code with a song.

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This is one that I picked out of the iTunes library.

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Never can get enough Joe Walsh.

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Rocky Mountain Way.

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Joe Walsh, Rocky Mountain Way on the source code.

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And I was just thinking, I apologize if I sound a little discombobulated.

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It's quarter to 11 here and I'm just tired.

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I got to do these things earlier, that's for sure.

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What we didn't talk about today was something that's pretty high in everybody's list

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who's been responding, namely naming conventions for the source code.

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So should it be year, month, day?

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Should it be day, month, year?

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Should it be daily source code or just DSC?

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All different kinds of opinions based upon.

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I think probably different user experiences, different MP3 devices.

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So I'm still kind of trying to work that out in my own little world here.

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So for now I'm going to keep the naming.

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convention as it is.

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And I'm going to leave you with that for the source code for today.

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Of course, as always, if you'd like to respond, you can send email to adamantcurry.com or

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just leave a comment on my web blog, which is located at live.curry.com.

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This was the source code for today, September 8th, 2004.

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And we'll see you tomorrow.

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Bye-bye.

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