1 00:00:01,500 --> 00:00:16,500 Hi everybody, good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, wherever you're checking 2 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:17,500 in from. 3 00:00:22,500 --> 00:00:26,500 I'm Adam Curry coming to you from a rather balmy Belgium. 4 00:00:26,500 --> 00:00:29,500 It's a power of the door. 5 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:32,500 I like the way that sounds. Balmy Belgium. 6 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:36,500 And actually just as I said that, the sun's starting to shine through. 7 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:43,500 We had a beautiful day yesterday, about 26 degrees centigrade, 8 00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:44,500 until the very end around 7 o'clock. 9 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:47,500 And all of a sudden I knew what was going to happen 10 00:00:47,500 --> 00:00:49,500 because our satellite reception went out and I said, 11 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:52,500 oops, we got a real big depression here. 12 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:58,500 And we just had a cloud burst almost directly above the castle. 13 00:00:58,500 --> 00:01:02,500 And it apparently rained through most of last night. 14 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:05,500 So really, and let me start off with this, actually. 15 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:09,500 I apologize about yesterday not getting a source code up on time, 16 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:12,500 but I'll walk you through just some of the events of the day 17 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:15,500 and then hopefully you'll understand. 18 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:18,500 So it's the source code where users and developers party together. 19 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:21,500 Today we're going to be talking about Howard Stern. 20 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:23,500 I'll listen to a couple of audio blog posts. 21 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:29,000 that I've picked up. Also I'm going to give you finally my review of John Stewart's audio 22 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:36,000 book. Look at the iPodder. Oh, I finally I can say this word the iPodder space because 23 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:41,000 now next to iPodder I found there's another company doing something or actually a company 24 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,000 not another but a company doing something very similar. I got a song of the day that 25 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:52,000 I picked up from from around the net and some quick feedback on Skype. So yesterday 26 00:01:52,000 --> 00:02:01,000 and I had all the full intentions to do a source code either from the road or once 27 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,000 I got home but you know because I had to go to Amsterdam sit down with the with 28 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,000 the bank and financial advisors and some tax lawyers because of our move to the 29 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:17,000 UK there's certain benefits that stem from that financial benefits obviously. 30 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,000 You know so it's kind of an important meeting and also you know the bank will 31 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,000 help me make that move. 32 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:29,500 It's, I just don't, I don't look forward to changing all that stuff. 33 00:02:30,500 --> 00:02:31,500 What a pain in the ass. 34 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:33,500 So anyway, so hopefully they're going to take care of it for me. 35 00:02:33,500 --> 00:02:34,500 Oh, they will take care of it for me. 36 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:40,500 And so I can concentrate on fun things, which was, you know, I wanted to do my 37 00:02:40,500 --> 00:02:41,500 source code yesterday. 38 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:42,500 Didn't work out. 39 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:47,500 I drove back after swinging by, uh, swinging by Amsterdam. 40 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:52,500 Um, I was home around five o'clock, uh, Patricia wanted to eat early. 41 00:02:52,500 --> 00:02:53,500 So we had dinner. 42 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:57,500 And then I got to put together the exercise bike. 43 00:02:57,500 --> 00:03:02,500 Man, talk about developers who make these things and don't really think 44 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:04,500 about users who have to put them together. 45 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:08,500 Uh, it took me a little while, but I finally got all the pieces to 46 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:10,500 fit together exactly as they should. 47 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:12,500 And all the pieces were there and it did fit perfectly. 48 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:16,500 Um, but that took me in, uh, into the good part of the evening. 49 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:19,500 And then I just, uh, you know, I just didn't have the energy left. 50 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:20,500 Hey, it was Friday. 51 00:03:20,500 --> 00:03:21,500 What can I say? 52 00:03:21,500 --> 00:03:22,500 So I do apologize. 53 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:23,500 I'll try to do a better job on that. 54 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:26,500 Um, as a, um, 55 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 I'm a former member of the Bridge and Tunnel crowd in New York City. 56 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:37,000 I really came to appreciate Howard Stern on the radio, on K-Rock. 57 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000 If you sit in traffic for an hour and a half or two hours in front of the Lincoln Tunnel 58 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,000 every single morning, then even the best of Sterns start to grow on you. 59 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,000 And I've always really liked the stuff he's doing in the morning. 60 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:54,000 I feel that particularly, and it's totally a guy's show. 61 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:59,000 I don't think it's necessarily intended for women, female listeners at all. 62 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 But there's something that I think, and lots of guys like, 63 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:08,000 is just giggling about stupid stuff, which of course usually is about farting 64 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 and about sexual stuff. 65 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,000 But it does kind of get you day off started right. 66 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,000 And his audience numbers prove that. 67 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:28,000 He truly has an amazing audience, very large, and a very valuable audience. 68 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:32,500 because Howard Stern is without a doubt, no matter what you want to say, very very successful 69 00:04:32,500 --> 00:04:34,500 and I happen to like his show. 70 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:43,500 So I was elated when I read that Howard Stern had struck a deal with movielink.com to distribute 71 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:50,500 uncensored versions of his E-Channel television show which is basically his radio show, 72 00:04:50,500 --> 00:04:52,500 only the cameras are hanging up in the studio. 73 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:57,500 So they do the radio show, they shoot that with multiple cameras and that's 74 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:03,500 aired on each channel so it's a great reappropriation of the content they're already making. 75 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:09,500 And obviously lots of stuff that goes on in the Howard Stern studio is censored. 76 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:13,500 So making an uncensored version available over the internet I was like, 77 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:19,500 way to go and of course I'll pay 4.95 for the privilege of watching that. 78 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:23,500 So I went to movielink.com, now remember I'm in Belgium and just entering the URL 79 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:28,500 movielink.com brings up the following page that says thanks for your interest in movielink, 80 00:05:28,500 --> 00:05:29,500 the leading source for movies del- 81 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,000 delivered directly over the internet. 82 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,000 We want you to enjoy our powerful movie download experience, but it is presently unavailable 83 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 to users outside of the United States. 84 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Well, that blows. 85 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:47,000 I kind of forgot about it, and then as I was looking through my aggregator, and this is 86 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:54,000 how these things work these days, I have keywords put in there for all kinds of stuff that 87 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 I'm looking forward to catching. 88 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Once in a while, there is a Howard Stern eShow taped right off the air from the e-channel 89 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,000 that will come by as a bit torrent in one of the TV torrent RSS feeds. 90 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:11,000 So it's automatically downloaded to my directory where I have all the new stuff that comes 91 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,000 in. 92 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:18,000 And lo and behold, someone had taken the movie link video, I presume, and I don't know 93 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:24,000 if they copied it or transcribed it or what they did, or if they just took it verbatim 94 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,000 if it's not copied or protected. 95 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 I don't know how movie link works, obviously, so I can't get to the site. 96 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,000 But it downloaded, it was sitting there on my... 97 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:38,500 drive for free. And I'm thinking to myself, you know, A, outfits like movielink.com should 98 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:43,500 be looking at how they're delivering stuff, because this works, you know, connecting RSS 99 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:48,500 with enclosures and BitTorrent. It is actually just kind of working. It's bringing stuff 100 00:06:48,500 --> 00:06:53,500 to me that I'm interested in. So it's a very, very, very poor man's very primitive 101 00:06:53,500 --> 00:07:00,500 Tivo version of a network Tivo, but it is working. And, you know, and I'd still 102 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:03,500 gladly pay if there was a way for me to say, hey, you know, thank you very much. I got 103 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:10,500 this. I'll pay a subscription, I'll pay whatever, no matter how I receive it. But, 104 00:07:10,500 --> 00:07:15,500 you know, that's up for the business model makers of the future to figure 105 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:19,500 out. Of course, the same goes for the iTunes music store, although available 106 00:07:19,500 --> 00:07:25,500 in Germany and the United Kingdom, I believe. And I'm not quite sure how Germany 107 00:07:25,500 --> 00:07:31,500 snuck in there, because the rest of the European Union can't download from the 108 00:07:31,500 --> 00:07:32,500 iTunes music store. 109 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:40,000 store yet. They say that the EU, in the last keynote speech that Apple held in Paris, they 110 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:48,000 said that the EU was coming in, I think, the first half of 2005. But still, these copyright 111 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:54,000 boundaries that are very, very, very complicated legal situations. And we're just routing 112 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:00,000 around it. And I'm not even doing it intentionally. This stuff just floated into me. I didn't 113 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:05,000 go out looking for the Howard Stern e-show uncensored version. It came to me just through 114 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:11,000 technology. So this stuff's tough to pay attention to. And I read something horrible this morning 115 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:19,000 that Catherine Zeta-Jones, the beautiful actress who was married to Michael Douglas, that she's 116 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:27,000 shooting a movie in Mexico and that a gang of kidnappers tried to ram her limousine off 117 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:32,000 the road and her bodyguards, which she had, you know, were able to foil the kidnap attempt. 118 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 I mean, damn, what's going on there? 119 00:08:34,500 --> 00:08:40,500 And they say that in the report that I was reading that about 2,000 people a year are abducted 120 00:08:40,500 --> 00:08:41,500 in this fashion. 121 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:45,500 Of course, you only really think about it or hear about it when someone of celebrity status 122 00:08:45,500 --> 00:08:48,500 is abducted or kidnapped. 123 00:08:48,500 --> 00:08:49,500 And then it becomes an issue. 124 00:08:49,500 --> 00:08:51,500 We've got to do something about it. 125 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:56,500 In the meantime, there's 1,999 other people a year being abducted, which is happening 126 00:08:56,500 --> 00:08:57,500 all over the world. 127 00:08:57,500 --> 00:08:59,500 It's happening in the Middle East. 128 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:02,500 It's happening in Iraq. 129 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:07,500 With the discussions that I had with people over there, it was already a common place 130 00:09:07,500 --> 00:09:16,500 at the beginning of, I'm sorry, the First Gulf War when things were just really falling 131 00:09:16,500 --> 00:09:19,500 to shit in that country. 132 00:09:19,500 --> 00:09:26,500 And sometimes you'd be kidnapped and if the person who was kidnapped, if their family 133 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:32,500 was influential enough, they could actually scare the kidnappers with all kinds of connections 134 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:35,500 and family networks into... 135 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:41,000 giving the person back and actually paying a fine to them. 136 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 It's crazy what's going on. 137 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:51,000 The value of human life is anywhere from zero to a million dollars or more. 138 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,000 It's crazy. 139 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,000 So anyway, we're happy that Catherine Zeta-Jones is okay, 140 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,000 but man, she's probably going to be a little bit shaken up about that episode for a while 141 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:08,000 and I think she has to stay there in Mexico until the shooting for the movie is done, 142 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,000 which won't be until the end of the year. 143 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Okay, cruising around the net, listening to some programs, some audio blogs, 144 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:23,000 and as you know, my blog digger media subscription, that's the blogdigger.com media feed, 145 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:28,000 brings in, and actually I did look it up, what Blog Digger does 146 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:34,000 is it basically crawls through RSS feeds and I presume that when it either finds a URL, 147 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,000 whether it's not entirely clear if it'll take any URL that... 148 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:43,500 comes across an RSS feed or only ones that are encapsulated as an enclosure, it'll then 149 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:48,500 bring that in and publish it or publish it into a separate feed. 150 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:54,500 And so it's all kinds of interesting stuff that comes in and I have a couple of bits 151 00:10:54,500 --> 00:10:56,500 lined up for you today. 152 00:10:56,500 --> 00:10:59,500 But first I want to take something from Raster Web. 153 00:10:59,500 --> 00:11:02,500 Now we've listened to Raster Web's audio blog post before. 154 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:09,500 He says something really interesting about how iPodder is working for him and what his 155 00:11:09,500 --> 00:11:12,500 media client is now turning into. 156 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:14,500 Let's just listen to this for a second and then we'll discuss it after. 157 00:11:14,500 --> 00:11:16,500 And the important thing is we're automated. 158 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:24,500 Can you hear me? 159 00:11:24,500 --> 00:11:25,500 Can you play? 160 00:11:25,500 --> 00:11:26,500 Play what? 161 00:11:28,500 --> 00:11:31,500 more and more as I'm using my version of the iPod 162 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:34,500 that curry calls it, mine's called Braco. 163 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:37,500 Some pro code I whipped up that I'm seeing iTunes 164 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:41,500 being more and more like an email application. 165 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:45,500 I mean, I sort it by, you know, they add it, 166 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:48,500 so every time I pull it to the front, 167 00:11:48,500 --> 00:11:50,500 I basically see whatever it's been downloaded 168 00:11:50,500 --> 00:11:52,500 and stuck into iTunes. 169 00:11:52,500 --> 00:11:56,500 Later I sit down, iTunes comes, I bring iTunes to the front, 170 00:11:56,500 --> 00:11:58,500 and I go, oh look, there's a new daily source code. 171 00:11:58,500 --> 00:12:01,500 There's a new evil genius Chronicles or whatever. 172 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:03,500 So, kind of cool. 173 00:12:03,500 --> 00:12:06,500 And again, you know, I see conversations, 174 00:12:06,500 --> 00:12:11,500 which again, great stuff that Ducay and his buddies are doing. 175 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:13,500 That's all good stuff. 176 00:12:13,500 --> 00:12:17,500 Okay, so this is interesting. 177 00:12:17,500 --> 00:12:21,500 When your iTunes or your Windows Media player 178 00:12:21,500 --> 00:12:24,500 starts to become an email-like application 179 00:12:24,500 --> 00:12:26,500 where you look at that and say, 180 00:12:26,500 --> 00:12:28,500 oh, something new has been added, 181 00:12:28,500 --> 00:12:30,500 and think about the interface, at least I've seen it. 182 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:37,000 iTunes is very, very similar if not if it probably uses a lot of the same classes, object classes 183 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:44,000 as the male client on Macintosh's OS X. And same goes for Outlook and Windows Media Player, 184 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:49,000 I'm sure a lot of the same technology should be leveraged at least underneath the hood. 185 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,000 And I've come to learn that if something new on the Internet looks or feels or works 186 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:57,000 like something that already exists on the Internet, then we've probably got a good 187 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:02,000 thing going because the same things were being said with RSS news readers. 188 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:07,000 So that's interesting. Even though we're working on getting new types of content 189 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:12,000 and bundles of passion and whatever we call it, you know, programs, shows, 190 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,000 discussions, interviews, audiobooks, we want to get them directly onto the 191 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:20,000 mobile devices. Now we're seeing that our media players are becoming kind of 192 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:24,000 the database. And of course we're addressing them exactly like that. 193 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:31,000 When the iPod or code, when that code runs and it adds something to either the iTunes or the Windows 194 00:13:31,500 --> 00:13:36,500 media player database. It's actually doing that. It's doing a very informal type of call saying, 195 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:40,500 add this to that database so you'll be able to search it and find it, retrieve it, etc. 196 00:13:40,500 --> 00:13:44,500 So interesting observation there from Raster Web. 197 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:50,500 Okay, John Stewart. Since I did do some driving over the past, actually yesterday as I told 198 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:56,500 you, I had a chance to finish up. The John Stewart presents America Audio Book, which 199 00:13:56,500 --> 00:14:01,500 is an excellent, excellent piece of work. It is produced specifically as an audio book. 200 00:14:01,500 --> 00:14:05,500 I don't even know if it's available in a paper version. I don't think a paper version could do it 201 00:14:05,500 --> 00:14:15,500 justice. We listen to it. It's put together almost like an old-fashioned radio show with bells 202 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:20,500 and whistles and sound effects, different voices. Clearly everything is script, but it's... 203 00:14:20,500 --> 00:14:24,500 And of course this edited wasn't done live as they used to do in the old days. 204 00:14:24,500 --> 00:14:30,500 Oh, listen, we've got Pittsburgh on the wireless. But it's an excellent piece of work. 205 00:14:30,500 --> 00:14:32,500 It takes you through the... 206 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:40,000 history of the United States, how democracy was born and came about. 207 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:44,000 And of course he does get some historical perspective back to ancient Rome on that. 208 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:50,000 And then also explains the three branches of government, goes into all different parts 209 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:55,000 and aspects, but in a very humorous way. 210 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:59,000 And listening to it, having worked with John a little bit in the MTV days when he still 211 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,000 had the John Stuart show and we were hanging out at the beach house doing some stuff together. 212 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,000 It really, you can tell it really is John Stuart. 213 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:13,000 It is totally from, I'm sure many people worked on this, but it is totally John Stuart to the core. 214 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:19,000 And here's a little bit where the Congress is being discussed. 215 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:26,000 And you listen to this one snippet and I think it will just blow your mind in its humor, its insight. 216 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,000 And it's perhaps its accuracy. 217 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:36,500 The Strom Thurman filibuster August 28, 1957 218 00:15:37,500 --> 00:15:40,500 Senator Strom Thurman, Republican South Carolina, 219 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:42,500 set the record for longest filibuster 220 00:15:42,500 --> 00:15:45,500 with this 24-hour 18-minute speech 221 00:15:45,500 --> 00:15:47,500 railing against a civil rights bill. 222 00:15:47,500 --> 00:15:50,500 The marathon-speaking session left Thurman so drained 223 00:15:50,500 --> 00:15:51,500 he could barely have sex 224 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:55,500 with the underaged black woman in his family's employ. 225 00:15:55,500 --> 00:15:57,500 Thurman's oration obliterated 226 00:15:57,500 --> 00:15:59,500 the previous filibuster record, 227 00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:01,500 a 13-hour description by Daniel Webster 228 00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:03,500 of the massive dump he had just taken. 229 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Discussion questions. 230 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,000 One. 231 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:15,000 If Khan is the opposite of pro, then isn't Congress the opposite of progress? 232 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Or did we just fucking blow your mind? 233 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,000 I mean, that did blow my mind. 234 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,000 I was listening to that on the road. 235 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,000 I was like, whoa, progress, Congress. 236 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Okay, point taken, point made. 237 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Excellent. 238 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:34,000 I'm going to play a little bit more of the John Stuart Presents America audiobook 239 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,000 in a second. 240 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,000 First, another bit I picked up online from the blog digger media feed. 241 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Unfortunately, there's no title other than 1933.mp3. 242 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Clearly it's from an audio blogging service. 243 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,000 It's done through a telephone. 244 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,000 And this is a gentleman who is extremely pissed off at George W. Bush. 245 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,000 And the reason why I want you to hear this, and I'm also going to do something, another 246 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:01,000 piece of John Stuart, is as opposed to when you would write about how pissed off you 247 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:07,000 are about the current administration or perhaps about anybody, it doesn't really matter. 248 00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:12,500 This is very hard to convey the emotions that you can with the human voice, or at least 249 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:17,500 to receive the emotions, even though they're probably not even intended to be transmitted 250 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:18,500 that way. 251 00:17:18,500 --> 00:17:19,500 They are transmitted. 252 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:30,500 And this gentleman is definitely angry. 253 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:38,000 So it's a different world today than it was yesterday because he has now been caught and 254 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,000 his administration has been caught. 255 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,000 And you know what? 256 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:48,000 George Bush's allies have made an issue of John Kerry service and we are going to make 257 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:55,000 an issue of the president's credibility as it relates to his service, to the conduct 258 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:01,000 of what he has done in Iraq, on the issues of his credibility on jobs, healthcare and 259 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:02,000 education. 260 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:08,000 So this is on the table and it's going to be on the table from now until November 2nd. 261 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:14,500 So think about reading that as a web blog post. 262 00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:17,500 You could certainly receive the same type of intensity 263 00:18:17,500 --> 00:18:20,500 that you heard there, but probably not. 264 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:23,500 And I think this is a definite advantage 265 00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:25,500 of what audio blogs can do. 266 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:28,500 All we need now is different ways for these to be aggregated. 267 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:31,500 And I think the most obvious way 268 00:18:31,500 --> 00:18:35,500 is to have people do that, have people be content routers. 269 00:18:35,500 --> 00:18:36,500 Like what I'm trying to do here 270 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:39,500 is let you hear different aspects of what can be done, 271 00:18:39,500 --> 00:18:42,500 how we can produce things on our desktop, 272 00:18:42,500 --> 00:18:44,500 how we can distribute them ourselves. 273 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:47,500 Because I think there is a valid place for audio 274 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:50,500 within the internet being a communications device, 275 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:53,500 certainly in the manner that we're using it. 276 00:18:53,500 --> 00:18:55,500 So, and I'll be on the lookout for anything 277 00:18:55,500 --> 00:18:57,500 that comes from the other side 278 00:18:57,500 --> 00:18:59,500 of the political equation in the States. 279 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:01,500 If that shows up on the blog digger media feed, 280 00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:04,500 I'll be sure to give them equal time. 281 00:19:04,500 --> 00:19:07,500 Back to John Stewart's book, John Stewart Presents America. 282 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:09,500 Now this is a little longer piece, 283 00:19:09,500 --> 00:19:11,500 about three and a half minutes, but I think it's... 284 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,000 Well worth listening to first of all I'm trying to entice you to listen to the entire things you can go off to 285 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,000 I'm sure I don't know if Amazon has it. They probably do 286 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000 Otherwise audible.com to buy this book 287 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:30,000 Prices range from 495 to 795. That's Dave. Dave. Why are paid 495? I paid 795 288 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,000 this next 289 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:36,000 piece from the book really is the core of what John Stewart and 290 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:40,000 We all know him from the Daily Show what he is all about about the media 291 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:45,000 What the media's role is in the democracy how it's supposed to function? 292 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:50,000 And of course we know that John Stewart sees this and the Daily Show 293 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Really plays off the fact that we don't get what we deserve as a democracy 294 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,000 What the free press should be delivering to us? 295 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 I'll just let me just back this up a second 296 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 And and again you'll hear a very 297 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:13,000 Passionate John Stewart of course none of this is safe for work, but 298 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:15,500 But, you know, we've discussed that before. 299 00:20:15,500 --> 00:20:20,500 Oh, by the way, I'll talk about the copy protection in a second. 300 00:20:20,500 --> 00:20:22,500 First let's listen to John Stuart. 301 00:20:22,500 --> 00:20:28,500 He says it's about three and a half minutes talking about the media and the free press 302 00:20:28,500 --> 00:20:29,500 in a democracy. 303 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:50,500 Chapter 7. The Media. Democracy's Guardian Angel. 304 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:59,000 chapter you will learn how to identify political bias in today's liberal 305 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:05,000 bleeding heart Jew and gay run media become an unnamed source create your 306 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:13,000 own no-spin zone discover which media conglomerate now owns you not have your 307 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:18,000 opinion of Geraldo Rivera particularly improved upon 308 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,000 A free and independent press is essential to the health of a functioning democracy. 309 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:27,000 It serves to inform the voting public on matters relevant to its well-being. 310 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 Why they've stopped doing that is a mystery. 311 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:33,000 I mean 300 camera crews outside of courthouse to see what Kobe Bryant is wearing, when the 312 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:38,000 judge sets his hearing date while false information used to send our country to war goes unchecked. 313 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000 What the fuck happened? 314 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 The spineless cowards in the press have finally gone too far. 315 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,000 They have violated a trust. 316 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,000 Was the president successful in convincing the country? 317 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,000 Who gives a shit? 318 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Why not tell us if what he said was true and the excuses? 319 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,000 My god, the excuses! 320 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Hey, we just give the people what they want. 321 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,000 What can we do? 322 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,000 This administration is secretive. 323 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000 But the last season of Friends really is news. 324 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,000 The unmitigated gall of these weak willed. 325 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,000 You're supposed to be helping us, you indecent piles of shit! 326 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,000 I- Fuck it! 327 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Just fuck it! 328 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,000 This is the editor again. 329 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,000 We sincerely apologize for this false start. 330 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,000 The authors have assured us it was a momentary lapse. 331 00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:24,500 restrained caused by a deadline-induced red bull binge. In no way was it meant to 332 00:22:24,500 --> 00:22:27,500 portray any sense of anger and or disappointment in the behavior and 333 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:30,500 standards of the modern media. 334 00:22:32,500 --> 00:22:38,500 Chapter 7. The Media. Democracies Guardian Angel. 335 00:22:43,500 --> 00:22:48,500 What's the role of a free and independent press in a democratic society? 336 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:52,500 Is it to be a passive conduit responsible only for the delivery of information between 337 00:22:52,500 --> 00:22:54,500 a government and its people? 338 00:22:54,500 --> 00:22:59,500 Is it to aggressively print allegation and rumor independent of accuracy or fairness? 339 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:00,500 Is it to show boobies? 340 00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:02,500 No. 341 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:06,500 The role of a free press is to be the people's eyes and ears, providing not just information 342 00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:11,500 but access, insight, and most importantly, context. 343 00:23:11,500 --> 00:23:14,500 It must devote its time and resources to monitoring the government, permeating the 344 00:23:14,500 --> 00:23:18,500 halls of power to determine who is doing the people's work, who is corrupting the 345 00:23:18,500 --> 00:23:22,500 process, and who will promise to be a mole in the State Department if their 346 00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:24,500 homosexuality is kept secret. 347 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:28,500 Only after that, and only with time permitting, should it move on to high 348 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:30,500 speed freeway cases. 349 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:34,500 For government to truly be for the people, inner workings must be exposed for 350 00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:36,500 the public to see. 351 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:39,500 This lofty goal is known as transparency, and while this could be 352 00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:43,500 accomplished by sheathing all elected officials in public buildings in 353 00:23:43,500 --> 00:23:44,500 Saran Wrap, this is 354 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:51,000 has been deemed unwieldy, expensive and creepy. Instead transparency is achieved via a free 355 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:56,000 press, something so vital to democracy it has historically been given equal stature 356 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:01,000 to the three branches of government, hence its nickname, the Fourth Estate. 357 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,000 No less an authority than Thomas Jefferson wrote, 358 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,000 If it were left to me to decide whether we should have a government without a free 359 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,000 press or a free press without a government, I would prefer the latter. Now if you'll 360 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,000 excuse me, I have a lunchtime appointment with a fine slice of brown sugar. 361 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:22,000 So the audiobook is titled John Stewart Presents America and well worth the 362 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:26,000 three and a half hours that you'll be listening to it. Excellent, excellent 363 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,000 stuff and actually a very good refresher course in in what this great country is 364 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,000 all about. And oh yeah, something about a little bit about DRM and copy 365 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:40,000 protection. Of course I purchased the book off of audible.com. It downloads 366 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:48,000 as an Apple AAC file which has the advantage of bookmarking. 367 00:24:46,500 --> 00:24:49,500 which work automatically with your iPod, but also should include 368 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:58,000 And instead of, since I can't really queue anything up in iTunes, except for like one bookmark, 369 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000 I wanted to play two different clips. 370 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:08,000 What I did was I recorded it through wiretap, which is a beautiful little application for the Mac OS X, OS X 10. 371 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:13,000 I just played the bits that I wanted, recorded them, which are then recorded as AIFF files, 372 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000 and just opened those in QuickTime. 373 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:22,000 And it worked perfectly, so much for the big DRM and impossibility of copying. 374 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:27,000 Not of course that I want to encourage any of you to do that, but it's that simple, 375 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:34,000 and they really want to stop copying copyright protected works. 376 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,000 We've got to find a device of different schema. 377 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,000 Okay, let's talk about iPod, or just briefly, of course, 378 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:44,000 iPod.org is where you can download one of many different applications and scripts 379 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:50,000 that will enable you to automatically download programs like this one onto your mobile device. 380 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 We have it set up for iPods, we have it set up for... 381 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:57,500 anything that works with Windows Media Player and even have a version for Linux. 382 00:25:57,500 --> 00:25:59,500 That'll at least bring everything in for you. 383 00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:05,500 And someone, a couple people actually pointed me to a company called Audio Feast. 384 00:26:05,500 --> 00:26:08,500 Let me just bring this up now. 385 00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:15,500 Here we go, Audio Feast, which you can find at 386 00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:22,500 serenadesms.com, so S-E-R-E-N-A-D-E-S-M-S.com 387 00:26:22,500 --> 00:26:31,500 Audio Feast, I'll just read this to you, delivers 300 plus news, sports and entertainment radio programs to your MP3 player and PC. 388 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:36,500 Sync all the programs you want, listen whenever and wherever you'd like. 389 00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:39,500 So essentially they have exactly the same idea. 390 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:46,500 In fact, when I go to the What Is It page, which I'll surf to now and I'll read along with you, 391 00:26:46,500 --> 00:26:51,500 Audio Feast is a service that delivers extensive programming choices for MP3 players. 392 00:26:51,500 --> 00:26:53,500 It's easy to use and deliver time shifting. 393 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:59,000 flexibility at an affordable all you can listen prize. Subscribers can choose to listen 394 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:04,000 to their favorite programs directly from their desktop or sync to their portable audio devices 395 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:10,000 and listen on the go. So it is exactly what we're doing here only I think these guys 396 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:15,000 have it completely backwards and upside down. What they're doing is they've created 397 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:21,000 another gateway, they're gatekeepers to getting stuff onto your mobile device and 398 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,000 that's what you pay for. You basically pay for their technology to work on your 399 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:30,000 system whereas we've created you know little scripts some fewer than a hundred 400 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:35,000 lines long which do exactly the same thing. Now here's the here's what I 401 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,000 really don't understand and these guys are funded they have VCs on the board 402 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:44,000 so they've got money. They have providers so you can become a 403 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:50,000 provider which means you probably pay a license to use their technology to 404 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:57,000 get onto their distribution system and they have here as providers A&E 405 00:27:55,500 --> 00:28:02,500 AARP, Animal Talk Radio, BBC, Beatles Arama, Blue, Bloomberg, Cape Cod Radio, Consumer 406 00:28:02,500 --> 00:28:07,500 Reports, C-SPAN, Discovery Channel, Dow Jones, Fox, Grateful Dead, John Hopkins. 407 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:11,500 They've got some smaller providers in there as well, but the fact that you have to become 408 00:28:11,500 --> 00:28:14,500 a provider and register with them just makes no sense to me. 409 00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:18,500 We already have this technology available at our fingertips and it's working now and 410 00:28:18,500 --> 00:28:20,500 it's free. 411 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:24,500 All you have to do is work out your own copyright issues. 412 00:28:24,500 --> 00:28:28,500 So although I applaud them for what they're doing and for the thought behind it, 413 00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:32,500 it just doesn't make any sense to me because we're doing exactly what Audio 414 00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:34,500 Feast is offering here. 415 00:28:34,500 --> 00:28:37,500 Only we're using the existing technology. 416 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:41,500 You know, I don't think we should be locked into anything that gives them 417 00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:43,500 power over access to whatever we want to have. 418 00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:47,500 Also, I don't want to have to pay anyone more than my provider for 419 00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:50,500 whatever bandwidth I use to publish something. 420 00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:56,500 But I linked to this on my weblog at curate.com, so check it out. 421 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,000 And if anyone actually decides to sign up, subscribe and use it, 422 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:06,000 we'd love to have a review and see if there's anything that we can use in our own system. 423 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:10,000 Okay, time for our song of the day. Already 30 minutes into this, 424 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,000 so I have a few more things I want to talk about after the song of the day, 425 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,000 which will be about iPhoto and about Skype. 426 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,000 And this one came in through the Blog Digger Media Feed. 427 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,000 It's a classic song from the 80s. 428 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:25,000 I wouldn't have chosen this one if it hadn't come in automatically, 429 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:30,000 but I've decided to try and do as many sounds around the net as possible. 430 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:38,500 I don't know if they're doing another reunion so I can do it about once every year. 431 00:29:43,750 --> 00:33:27,000 [ Music ] 432 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:36,000 Kiss! I was made for loving you. I think that was 1979. Maybe the right time now to tell 433 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:45,000 my one of my kiss stories. I was working at MTV. Let's see, this was 1987 or 1988 at 434 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:52,000 the time I believe. And I was one of the, actually I was the only air talent as they 435 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:56,000 called it, who wanted to sit in the music meetings which is basically where we 436 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:01,000 decided what we're gonna play and what rotation videos are gonna be played. Very 437 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:06,000 much in fact it was run exactly like a radio station certainly in those days 438 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,000 using the same type of music scheduling software and there were radio 439 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,000 people who were basically doing the programming lineup. Of course this was 440 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:19,000 MTV played videos right and we had our music meeting I want to say it was 441 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:26,000 Tuesdays and Kiss had a video out. God I can't remember what it was now but we were 442 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000 all sitting in the music meeting. 443 00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:33,500 and all of a sudden the door bursts open and in comes Gene Simmons 444 00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:36,500 and he's got knee pads on 445 00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:39,500 and he jumps up onto this big conference room table 446 00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:41,500 and we're all sitting around it right being really serious 447 00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:45,500 picking the music videos deciding whose career we're going to make or break 448 00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:49,500 and he hops up and he goes over to Abbie Konowicz 449 00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:54,500 who later went on to co-found Madonna's record label Maverick 450 00:34:54,500 --> 00:35:01,500 and he's on all fours and he's right in front of Abbie Konowicz 451 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:05,500 and says alright who do I have to blow around here to get this video played 452 00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:10,500 hilarity ensued and of course the video was added goes without saying 453 00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:15,500 so to wind up things for today's source code 454 00:35:15,500 --> 00:35:20,500 I want to thank everyone for the feedback I've received on Skype 455 00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:27,500 so no Skype and SIP, those are two different protocols used for voiceover IP 456 00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:30,500 they're also not compatible with each other, at least not yet 457 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:38,000 can't talk to each other. There's no super advantage behind using Skype versus some of 458 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:46,000 the other VoVIP systems from what I gather. Other than that it does just seem to work, 459 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,000 which is exactly what they advertised. You can't get any inbound service, that I already 460 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,000 knew. They have the Skype out, which I'm fairly happy with, works very well. Because 461 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:59,000 the peer-to-peer nature of how they do things, it is suggested in some cases, although 462 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,000 I haven't witnessed it personally, that there can be a lot of latency in the 463 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:10,000 phone calls. And also so far no one has really been able to give me any solution 464 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:16,000 for what I'm looking for, which is a voice over IP provider that will let 465 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:23,000 me use a software phone as well as a voice over IP hardware to connect my 466 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:28,000 analog phone. And I want a local dial-up number in Los Angeles, in New York, in 467 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,000 Amsterdam, in Antwerp, and in London. 468 00:36:31,500 --> 00:36:36,500 That's what I want and I'm willing to pay for it. So please, if you're working on a service, 469 00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:44,500 just keep my wishes in mind, will you? And the largest advantage that Skype has over all the 470 00:36:44,500 --> 00:36:49,500 voice over IP setups that I've come to understand is that they have the firewall issue solved. 471 00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:53,500 And of course, they were able to solve this because they're using their kaza technology. 472 00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:58,500 It's made by the same guys who created kaza. And they had the firewall issues all sorted 473 00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:04,500 out there. So that's the number one thing that Skype is really good at. 474 00:37:05,500 --> 00:37:11,500 And to wrap it up for today, I wanted to talk about iPhoto. Don't know if you recall that I was 475 00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:15,500 really running out of disk space. I was continuously deleting stuff from caches. 476 00:37:17,500 --> 00:37:22,500 We all know the drill, right? You go searching for files larger than 5 megs. 477 00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:26,500 What can I do with this? And either way to move some stuff off. And the two largest 478 00:37:26,500 --> 00:37:32,500 collections of data that I have, excuse me, are without a doubt my music folder. 479 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:38,000 and my pictures folder. And the decision about music was pretty easy because I really need 480 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:43,000 access to that at a moment's notice on my hard drive for the type of work that I'm producing 481 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:49,000 like the source code. So I've been cleaning up my iTunes library as I go, you know, just 482 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:55,000 pulling out old shit, old audiobooks that I don't need anymore, which are huge files. 483 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,000 You know, we're talking 80 megs for some of them, and that's just, you know, in 484 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,000 three different parts. So I've been able to find a lot of space there, but the pictures, 485 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:09,000 which is all in the iPhoto album folder, that was about six gigs. No, a little less, 486 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,000 I'm sorry, about four and a half gigs. And I knew that, you know, if I could move those 487 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,000 off, at least if I have them on some kind of safe storage device, I know that I'll be 488 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:22,000 able to use them later on. I wasn't too sure how easy that was going to be, but I 489 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:27,000 just wanted to say that with iPhoto it's really phenomenal. Now I'd never used the DVD 490 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:33,000 burning capabilities of my power book. So I didn't know, you know, I was total newbie at 491 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,000 this and went to... 492 00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:39,500 the store and of course promptly bought the wrong DVDs there is a difference between plus R or plus 493 00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:46,500 RW and minus R or minus RW for two different technologies of how the DVDs are burned and if 494 00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:51,500 you you know do it incorrectly then they won't play on different machines and God knows what. 495 00:38:53,500 --> 00:38:57,500 So I went back same place by the way where we bought the exercise bike. 496 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:06,500 It's a great store and I got the minus RW because I can actually use optical discs that are 497 00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:12,500 rewritable. Now this was pretty cool I've never erased a DVD and I actually practiced with that and 498 00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:17,500 it worked and worked perfectly and so then in iPhoto there's a little button you just select all your 499 00:39:17,500 --> 00:39:22,500 pictures and I couldn't get all of them onto one DVD because it would it just it would take up 500 00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:29,500 too much space and I guess it's 4.7 gigs that fit onto a DVD and with some overhead I couldn't quite 501 00:39:29,500 --> 00:39:35,500 get everything on there from 1999 to 2004 to date so I split it up into 99 through 2003. 502 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,000 three, just click the burn button out to select those pictures. 503 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,000 Actually, I made a little smart playlist that says, you know, select all photos between these 504 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,000 two dates. 505 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:50,000 Burn that to DVD, popped it out, did the other one for 2004. 506 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,000 And of course, I checked and made sure everything was working. 507 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:58,000 I had a whole backup copy on a firewire drive before I deleted the iTunes, the picture, 508 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:02,000 the iPhoto library references. 509 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:07,000 And what's cool about it is now when I insert one of those two DVDs, it automatically fires 510 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:11,000 up iTunes and presents me with the pictures exactly the way they were when they were on 511 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,000 my hard drive. 512 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,000 And the speed between getting them off the DVD and the hard drive is slower, but it's 513 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:21,000 certainly manageable and I can whip up a slideshow and all the albums are still intact. 514 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,000 So that is absolutely well done, very happy. 515 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,000 And again, I think that sometimes those guys at Apple, man, they're probably smoking 516 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,000 the same stuff that we are here down on Earth. 517 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,000 And that's it for source code for today. 518 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,000 We'll be back on Monday. 519 00:40:37,500 --> 00:40:41,500 If you want a response, send me email to adamanturi.com or leave a comment on my web 520 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000 The power of the author. 521 00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:01,000 Daily source code dot com slash rss dot xml. 522 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,000 See you Monday! 523 00:41:03,750 --> 00:41:24,000 [ Music ] 524 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:34,000 The power of the author.