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Thank you for watching.

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Well good afternoon from Curry Castle in Belgium or good evening or good morning.

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Monday, September 13th, 2004, I'm Adam Curry and great to have you aboard.

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We've got a lot of cool stuff to talk about today on the source code.

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Of course, iPodder also want to talk about programs.

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I'm thinking of a new program myself that I want to put together, stuff that we need

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to make these programs doable on our computers.

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Of course, I've got a song of the day, a little bit of geek talk, and I also have

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a comedy clip that I want to play for you today, so lots to get to.

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This is the place where users and developers party together.

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At least we try to.

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In fact, I was thinking about this.

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Imagine if we could actually harness the power of all the developers in the world.

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And so many people are actually developers by scripting applications,

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putting stuff together.

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And I've seen in the past couple of days just looking at conversations going

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back and forth between iPodder developers that we really seem to get along

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on common ground.

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Imagine if we could have a campaign like developers for carry.

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or developers against Bush.

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You know, there's a lot of power in what developers could do.

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Of course, we'd have to be incentivized as developers,

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and, you know, so there'd have to be some campaign promises.

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Like, well, actually, I set up a conversation I had

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with Dave Weiner this morning.

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Free pizza might be, or free beer might even be enough incentive

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for us to get us to vote.

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Unfortunately, that apparently is illegal.

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So I want to talk about iPod a bit.

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We got a mailing list set up.

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I did that at Yahoo Groups,

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and I pointed it out on my web blog on live.curry.com.

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There's one thing I'm going to be hammering on the mail list.

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And, of course, I want to see how everything starts up

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and what people are talking about.

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Everyone's starting to introduce themselves now on the list.

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It's installers.

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We need to really work on our installers.

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We've got all these different versions of iPod

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that work with Windows and iPods and other MP3 devices

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that can sync up to Windows Media Player.

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So we've got everything going.

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It's just that there's still too much work for users.

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It should just be double-click.

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There's a screen.

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screen that says, going to install this, you know, here's how you get rid of it if you

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want to.

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And maybe one or two questions about some default feeds.

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And that should be it.

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It should be no more.

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And boom, it's gone.

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They can forget it.

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We got it.

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Cron jobs are running.

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Everything happens instantly.

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That's something we really got to work on.

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I've also noticed that running iPodder, and I know I talked about this before on

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source code, that I'm really using my iTunes almost like an email client now, where, you

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know, a couple of times a day, I have my email client sent to pick up mail every 15 minutes

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because I quite frankly, I just don't want to be bothered any more frequently than that.

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I used to have it set to one minute, you know, when I was thinking of ideas or public

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company that I co-founded.

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And that was crazy.

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You have no life.

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And even though I know that the iPodder runs only four times in a 24-hour period, I've kind

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of deprogrammed those times.

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I don't exactly remember when.

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It's the serendipity that I'm looking for where I just pop up iTunes and look at the

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top of the library list.

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There's something new and click on it.

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And usually it's a blog digger media file which is hilarious and I've picked up some

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great things in the past couple of days over the weekend.

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So just interesting to see that I'm really using iTunes a lot more than I ever did

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and that's really, it's a joyous experience every single time.

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You know, is there something new?

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Is there maybe a new Morning Coffee Nodes or is there a new Gilmore Gang?

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already sitting there for me and I was like, oh shit, something must have gone wrong.

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So I'm checking the log files and I'm looking at all kinds of places and

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seeing if something went wrong with the iTunes transfer and then I went to the site

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and I saw that, well, there actually was no update, no Gilmore Gang and I'm bummed.

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Actually, I should say, and I hope Doug Kay listens, or that he does listen once in a while

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to the source code, is that, man, you got to let us know.

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That's like death for radio and audio programming, skipping a show without a reason.

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then you can promote that continuously and people know about it but there's no way to tell people.

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And if you don't have it on the weblog, just see this as a complaint.

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I'm bummed. I like that Gilmore Gang.

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because we're going to get bored of the same shows over and over again

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or just get RSS feeds out there so that they can start publishing stuff.

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so we need to figure out ways that people really have to do nothing

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to get their RSS feed with enclosures out there

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so that any iPod or enabled device can grab it, download it automatically by subscription.

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I've been talking to a couple people about this on email and phone conversations.

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Something came in which I thought was pretty cool was a Python screen scraper script.

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I'm going to have to link to that where if you basically publish an HTML page with links

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to MP3 files, it'll create an RSS 2.0 with enclosures file of that page.

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doing things because I'd rather have stuff that's archived properly and hold on

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a second, sounds like my wife is coming home. One sec, let me just see.

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Someone's certainly coming home.

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The dogs go crazy.

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Now Andrew Groomit. Is that the way you pronounce it, Andrew?

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He sent me an email about something he just posted which is a small Python script

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And you fire up that script, and in the folder it creates a little file called rss.xml, and

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in that is the contents of that folder with some information that you said that you preset.

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So every single time you add something to it, if it's a watch folder that script

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should run automatically or you just run the script and you've got it, and

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then any web server can access that file.

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an application that is as simple as give me an address of either your web

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log so we can hopefully take care of it through a web log.

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the blogger API or even better the meta web blog API or give me an FTP server and

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I'll drop the file there and then of course after I've dropped that file there

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I'm going to ping web blogs comm or something like that to let the world

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know that the feed is has updated and I was talking to Dave this morning as it

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solution or figured it out and as he said that I was thinking did I think of

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that or I couldn't remember but anyway what he said was right it's exactly the

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opposite of what we're doing with the RSS files creating playlists from the

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channel information oh hold on hi hon yeah

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the RSS feed and from that information that's in there creates folders to store the files,

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creates a playlist, etc. What you want to do is you want to make it so simple that if someone

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creates an mp3 file, all they need to do is really edit the ID3 tags because that'll give you

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all the information you need to create an RSS file out of that. And there's many ways it

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can be done. There's even a command line tool that I've seen for changing ID3 tags that you

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can attach to a watch folder. I mean I think somewhere in there is the way to do it. And

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people who are interested in publishing something will certainly already be familiar with the

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concept of ID3 tags and editing those. So this will just be a little button next to it which

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says publish and then it's going to FTP your RSS file to an FTP server that a web server can

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access and also FTP your mp3 file up and that should be it. It should work.

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as simple as that and I'm going to of course try and bake up one of my own versions.

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Alright, that's enough for iPod. Let's talk about programs, shows like this for a second.

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I've gotten quite a bit of email questions about the legality of me playing music on

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the source.

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which is, you know, all right, sue me.

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You know, who's losing in this game

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and how much of a thief am I in this particular case?

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if I were to make money on any kind of program,

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just like all broadcast radio stations do,

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you give a percentage, usually between two and 6%,

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to ASCAP, VMI, and a couple of other foreign agencies.

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They'll be happy to do business with us,

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but right now, you know, we're not really stealing anything,

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just enjoying some old tunes now and again.

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oh, well, you're playing this song, you're playing that song,

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how about that tune that you played?

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code which is the Rachmaninoff Burris remix here I'll play it for you for a second.

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It's because we're not conditioned to think that way and if playing Kiss I was made for

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loving you was stealing then this is stealing just the same.

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Another big note to self.

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Gotta check the batteries before each show. This is the second time this has happened to me. This drives me crazy.

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You know what? I have another battery. So why don't you bear with me here?

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I'll have to feed back now. If you want to then you can just fast forward this piece of the

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You can do this on the fly.

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To the better microphone.

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Now of course you know that my mic battery is going to go.

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So we already mentioned the thing about, you know, no one thinking about the tunes

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and there's all kinds of copyrighted material all over the place.

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And that way it's just to hand off a percentage of your growth revenue.

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It's done in broadcast all over the world.

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I think the only thing that's different is the actual percentages themselves.

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Could we just adjust this here?

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Mic is good.

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So now we talk about programs and there was a nice post by Steve Kirk's.

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which now I want to get to. My computer screensaver just kicked in.

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His post is called Have a Take, Don't Suck.

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And in there he says, well first of all he's very nice and compliments me

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and calls me the gold standard of audio web blogging.

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how these programs fit together and how there's a format.

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He actually speaks of a format and that, you know, there's not

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not every one or everybody is going to be appropriate for doing this type of stuff.

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You know, and there's a lot of prior art to look to.

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I posted a link to Steve's posting.

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So just have a read on that little plug.

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Now some stuff that came in through the iPodder,

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some interesting programming thoughts.

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This of course came through BlogDigger.

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by William S. Burroughs, who I hadn't heard of before.

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The speech is about something called the wishing machine.

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He died in 1997.

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And this is an hour-long speech

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that he did on the topic of the technology of wishing.

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And there's two things I want to play this clip for you.

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Two reasons why.

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One is just so you can hear his brief introduction of his speech.

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and this is dated from 1985 or 87, I think,

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listen to how this technology now can be used.

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is going to put down a recorder.

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guy's speech and here it is still living years and years and years later and

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totally distributable and you could make an archive of these and there you go

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you could distribute them through the iPod platform. Anyway so listen to

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this I'm gonna let you hear the piece where the guy is who recorded this is

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actually setting up the microphone for the speech by William S. Burroughs.

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June 24th, 1986.

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June 25th, 1986, William Burroughs of Gamble Sigma,

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Norwey Institute's Emeriting Program.

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it sounds a lot like the source code, lots of dead air, and microphone noises.

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The subject I will address, first subject I will address, is of interest to young and

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old, man and beast to everyone without exception.

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It's the subject, it's the technology of wishing.

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How to formulate your wish in such a way that it has some chance of being real?

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you might say the ethic to wishing.

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Okay, so that's just a little piece there of William S. Burroughs and you can see how this

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can be pretty enthralling, you know, it's just like another audiobook as long as the

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audio is actually decent.

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In this case I think it was, they must have plugged directly into the microphone.

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Jim Kelly is a writer and he actually introduces exactly what he's doing and why he's doing

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these things.

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introduction before each book. So I'm going to play that introduction for you. It's a

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little on the soft side, so you might have to crank up the volume. But it's interesting

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to hear how he's going to use the iPod platform and also his motivation behind it. Here's

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Jim Kelly from JimKelly.net with an introduction and then I'll let you hear the first couple

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paragraphs from his story, The Best Christmas Ever.

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Hi, this is Jim Kelly. Welcome to Pre-Reads.

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I'm releasing the story you're about to hear under a Creative Commons license.

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Basically, it means it's free.

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Copy it as much as you want, send it to your cousin in Kalamazoo, or your pal in Poland.

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All I ask is that you don't alter the file, or delete this intro, or the app to follow.

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If you like what you hear, you might consider clicking over to my website,

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www.jimkelly.net, and putting a little something in my PayPal account

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to cover my costs of studio production.

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How much? That's entirely up to you.

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I'm no actor, but I am the author of the stories in the Free Read series,

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and I've tried to perform them, more or less as I heard them in my head when I was writing them.

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As the contributions roll in, if they roll in,

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I hope to return to the studio to record more of my work.

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In any event, I'm glad to have you as a listener. Enjoy!

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The best Christmas app.

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Okay, a couple of observations here about Jim Kelly.

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First of all, I think it's really cool what he's doing by putting this together.

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The thing that really hurts me here is that he is having to go to a studio and sounds like it because the quality is really good of his read.

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That he has to go to a studio and pay someone money to get this kind of quality where you can easily get this kind of quality on your PC.

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There should be no problem at all. There's enough processing power in there, enough digital signal processing chips.

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It all should be possible. Users and developers are a huge crevice between us there on what we really need.

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The biggest problem is that users don't know what to ask for as usual because we don't really...

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know what the capabilities are. I mean I'm slowly turning my power book here into a

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portable studio but something different than all the applications have been made

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for. Something that creates a sound file on the computer and that can mix

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everything together all virtually. That's really what's happening here. And of

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course it would be nice if we could match up the right readers with the

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right story writers because you know although Jim does an excellent read I

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think you really there's a lot more as an advantage to have that you can gain if

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you have someone who has the right type of talent for doing a read of an

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audiobook. So a lot of matching up to do if possible. And I've been talking to

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lots of people and been thinking about doing an additional show. So you know the

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daily source code of course stays and thinking about something weekly perhaps.

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And as a part of that or maybe a whole show hold a for show all together if anyone

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out there.

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is feeling good about it, we need an audio book review program definitely.

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And it should be so simple.

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I've even thought about this.

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We could modify iPodder so that if you're listening to, let's say there's a feed, an

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audio book review feed, which of course is great if you have time to listen to it, which

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is where you're going to listen to audio books anyway.

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And it's a show and it comes in every single day and there's a review of maybe one book

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with an excerpt.

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And if you want it, then you just hold down the play button on your iPod.

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It marks it to a special playlist.

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When you reconnect, boom, it goes out and talks to Audible or BarnesandNoble.com

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or whoever you're going to buy, Amazon, wherever you're going to buy this from,

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and pops it up.

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It already knows that it came through the audiobookreview.com show.

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And there's a transaction all over the place.

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There's a market there.

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And I'm so certain that audiobooks are just going to grow and grow and grow as

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more iPods and MP3 devices.

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are out in the marketplace. So, yeah hon? Yeah come on. Come on. Yeah I'm still busy.

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Yeah. Give me a hand please. Yeah, okay.

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Is your hand sharp enough? No man. That's over your feather.

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Oh you're...

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This is Patricia who brought me a nice bowl of chicken soup.

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Because it's rainy? Mmhmm.

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I'm gonna catch, wanna go out, and not allowed to. Thank you hon.

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Bye.

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very nice. So I've been thinking about a show with a co-host. Actually, I've been talking

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to someone about a show as a co-host. And, you know, we're not quite there yet. But

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just from a technology standpoint, now I'm thinking, how can we do this? And I wrote

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it, I tried to explain this on my web blog today by writing about it, found it kind

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of difficult, or I don't think anyone will understand what I'm saying.

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In the broadcast world, when you have, I'll say, a radio show and you want to talk

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to someone else who is somewhere in a different country or different world or

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different state or around the corner, just not in the studio, what you need to do is

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either lease a line, you can do connections through ISDN, that's how it's

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done often, so you get a nice clear quality, or you immediately downgrade to

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a telephone, which of course is the easiest, cheapest way and almost

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anybody can use it and has access to one. And part of the big promise of the

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internet.

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of course especially for broadcasters is hey you know we can connect to anyone

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you could call in with your net meeting, video chat software, and oh, I suck, that never looked

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good.

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And it probably still wouldn't today.

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But that was years ago until for its time, or for the period of time, way ahead of its

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But now I think that if I'm going to do a radio show with someone else, there should

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be no reason for us to both be in the same room at the same time, yet we should be

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able to capture an equal fidelity quality of us talking.

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And we should be able to have a real time conversation just like we're talking on

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the phone.

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And of course, I've already been interested in voice over IP and I thought,

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wow, you know, what we need to do is we need to hook up either Skype or some

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type of chat program so that we can basically hear each other and then

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record the output of both.

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And as I thought it through, give up with some issues.

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One is the way I have it set up now so that I can record my microphone and

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and any other sound that I make on my Mac,

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I'm basically recording through a program called WireTap,

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which just anything that'll come through the speakers,

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WireTap is going to record.

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Now, my microphone, if I just plug the mic in

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and there's no application talking to it,

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it's not gonna do anything, you won't hear it.

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Therefore, WireTap can't record it.

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and I turn the monitoring on in GarageBand.

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I can set some effects and some EQs

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and because I can hear it through the speakers,

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it will be recorded by WireTap.

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to talk to someone else to have them on the show,

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I could certainly record what they're saying

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because I can hear it through the speakers,

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therefore this WireTap program will record it.

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But my microphone is already being used by another application,

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so how am I gonna make sure

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that the person on the other end hears me?

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So anyway, I figured it out.

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which is very interesting is that for some reason with these two applications probably

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because they are both Apple programs and use the core audio, my microphone can actually

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be accessed by these two programs at once.

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So now I'll be able to record my voice.

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I'll be able to record whoever's on the other end of the iChat AV and of course when they

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get audio conferencing I'll be able to do it with a whole bunch of people which will

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be fascinating.

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I can also at the same time any sound effect or any song or anything I play on any media

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player, any sound that I make with my Mac even like turning up the volume.

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Hold on, did you get that?

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There you go.

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Any sound that comes out of the speakers will be recorded by wire tap.

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But then there's one problem there is that when I play a clip, the person on the other

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end won't be able to hear that clip because then I basically have to hold a microphone

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up to the speaker and that's not the way it should be done.

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So I've toyed around with a couple of different programs that let you route audio from one

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program to the other.

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I'm just having a little bit of this chicken soup here.

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Yeah, it's good.

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And I couldn't really get those to work the way I wanted to, so I haven't quite solved

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that problem yet.

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But this is going to be so huge when we all figure this out and we start to want to make

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these type of programs.

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This is going to be such a market for software to do this stuff.

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It's going to be awesome.

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So anyway, that's on the horizon.

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I'll update you as everything unfolds.

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Song of the day.

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It's a classic one.

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This is really a song that is perfect for the weather here today in Belgium.

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It was raining all weekend.

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It's been dark and musty and wet and just continuing to drizzle and then rain off and

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on again.

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So there's no other song more perfect for a day like today than the Mamas and the

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Pappas.

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Of course it's Monday.

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[ Music ]

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Monday Monday and just think if Karen Carpenter and Deaton Mama Cassis ham sandwich we would

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have still had two great singers with us today.

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And I apologize I'm not quite sure what happened during the song but for some reason the whole

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computer froze up once or twice and I'm sure that was reflected in the recording but everything

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seems to be running so I just let it go.

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I figured this whole program has been crappy enough.

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And I might as well add that to the mix.

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Quick bit of geek talk.

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I've been noticing that Google is doing some stuff that I'm not seeing a lot written about

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but I have picked up on a couple of links I'm not quite sure I understand it.

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Excuse me.

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Oh great chicken soup.

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One of them is Google FS or maybe it's Gmail FS it seems that somehow there's an API

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or there's some way to address Google specifically Gmail.

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I think it was Google FS which stands for the file system.

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away from Linux for you to mount your Gmail Drive space, which of course is one gigabyte.

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And along with that, there's another application, a little program, which is also something

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you have to download and work on Unix.

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But that's where all the, you know, a lot of the fun stuff does seem to start.

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It's called Galina.

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And what that does is whenever you send an email to your Gmail account, it automatically

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generates a blog post on a web blog page.

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So, you know, it seems to me like there's something really interesting going on there.

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And are people just finding these APIs or is there active development going on?

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Or, you know, what the hell is it?

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And while you ponder that, I want to play something that I discussed when I was

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talking to Dave, Dave Weiner, who was temporarily at least has moved to Seattle.

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He's going to be there at least through the November 6th BloggerCon conference,

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which I'll, I'm attending and I'll be leaving.

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a discussion on, gee, shall we do it about this?

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So that's a lot of fun to look forward to.

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So we're talking about that and talking about our upcoming move to the UK.

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And there's a lot of exciting stuff and just stuff you run across when you're moving,

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your financial stuff and changes of addresses and letting everyone know what's going on

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and then your stuff.

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And Dave said, well, you know, I'm to the point where my stuff fits in one car.

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And I'm like, yeah, you know, I have a wife and a 14 year old daughter and our stuff just

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doesn't fit in one car.

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It's just no way.

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And we've got lots of stuff.

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And I said, have you ever heard the George Carlin bit about stuff?

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And he says, no.

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I said, well, I'm going to play that for you on the source code.

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So I looked at my iTunes library.

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I know I had it at one point.

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Couldn't find it.

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And so you got to love the internet one quick trip to Lime Wire.

476
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And I guess this came off a bear share client.

477
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It is the.

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original piece that George Carlin does about stuff. I'm going to play a little bit more

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than just the stuff. There's a commercial and advertisement which comes after it, which I

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might as well just leave on since it's Carlin to the max. So enjoy this bit from George

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Carlin. It's called A Place for My Stuff.

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That's my job thinking up goofy shit.

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Come around every now and then letting you know what it is.

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Or reminding you of things you already knew but forgot to laugh at the first time.

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This is my office over here.

486
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Let's face it, if this is my job, this must be my office.

487
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Looks like an office to me.

488
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Got me a little desk here.

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Kind of nice desk.

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And a chair.

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Chair goes with the desk, of course.

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You could sit on the chair at the desk, if you like, making them a set.

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Or you can use the chair as an occasional piece.

494
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Which is nice to have in the office, I always say.

495
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Actually this is just a place for my stuff, you know?

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That's all a little place for my stuff.

497
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That's all I want, that's all you need in life is a little place for your stuff, you know?

498
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I can see it on your table, everybody's got a little place for their stuff.

499
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This is my stuff, that's your stuff, that'll be his stuff over there.

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That's all you need in life, a little place for your stuff.

501
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That's all your house is, a place to keep your stuff.

502
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If you didn't have so much stuff, you wouldn't need a house.

503
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You could just walk around all the time.

504
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The house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it.

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You can see that when you're taking off in an airplane.

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You look down, you see everybody's got a little pile of stuff.

507
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All the little piles of stuff.

508
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And when you leave your house, you gotta lock it up.

509
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Wouldn't want somebody to come by and take some of your stuff.

510
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They always take the good stuff.

511
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They've never bothered with that crap you're saving.

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All they want is the shiniest stuff.

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Put your house is a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

514
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Sometimes you gotta move, gotta get a bigger house. Why? No room for your stuff in here.

515
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Notice when you go to somebody else's house, you never quite feel 100% at home.

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You know why?

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No room for your stuff.

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Somebody else's stuff is all over the goddamn place.

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And if you stay overnight, unexpectedly, to give you a little bedroom to sleep in, bedroom

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they haven't used in about 11 years, someone died in it 11 years, and they haven't moved

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any of his stuff.

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Right next to the bed is usually a dresser or a bureau of some kind and there's no room

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for your stuff on it.

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Somebody else's shit is on the dresser.

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Have you noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff?

526
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Say that shit off of there and let me put my stuff down.

527
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Sometimes you leave your house to go on vacation

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and you gotta take some of your stuff with you.

529
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You gotta take about two big suitcases full of stuff.

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When you go on vacation you gotta take a smaller version of your house.

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It's the second version of your stuff.

532
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You're gonna fly all the way to Honolulu. You're gonna go across the continent,

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across half an ocean to Honolulu. You get down to the hotel room in Honolulu

534
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and you open up your suitcase and you put away all your stuff. There's lots of places in the hotel room to put your stuff.

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Here's a place to put a little bit of stuff there. Put some stuff here. Put some stuff here.

536
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You put your stuff there. Put some stuff here. There's another place for stuff.

537
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Look at this. I put some stuff here.

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Even though you're far away from home, you start to get used to it.

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You start to feel okay because after all, you do have some of your stuff with you.

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That's when your friend calls up from Maui and says,

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hey, why don't you come over to Maui for the weekend and spend a couple of nights over here?

542
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Oh, no.

543
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Now what do I pack?

544
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Right. You've got to pack an even smaller version of your stuff.

545
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The third version of your house.

546
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Just enough stuff to take to Maui for a couple of days.

547
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Get over to Maui. I mean, you're really getting extended now.

548
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When you think about it, you've got stuff all the way back on the mainland.

549
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You've got stuff on another island. You've got stuff on this island.

550
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I mean, supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain.

551
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You get over to your friend's house on Maui and he gives you a little place to sleep,

552
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a little bed right next to it, there's a windowsill or something. You put some of your stuff up there,

553
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you put your stuff up there, you got your vising, you got your nail clippers, and you put everything up.

554
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About an hour and a half, but after a while you finally feel okay, say,

555
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all right, I got my nail clippers, I must be okay. That's when your friend says,

556
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hey, I think tonight we'll go over the other side of the island, visit a pal of mine, and maybe stay over.

557
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Oh no. Now what do you pack?

558
00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:36,500
Right. You gotta pack an even smaller version of your stuff.

559
00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:41,500
The fourth version of your house. Only the stuff you know you're gonna need.

560
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Money, keys, comb, wallet, lighter, hanky, pen, smoke, rubber, and change.

561
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Well, only the stuff you hope you're gonna need.

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We'll be back to the album in just a moment. First, these messages.

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Say, why not become a schmuck? A licensed, practicing schmuck?

564
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Or if you qualify, a CPS. That's right, a certified public schmuck.

565
00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:10,500
You know, it may not seem like it when you look around, but there is a shortage of schmucks in today's society.

566
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And there's big money in schmuckdom. The average schmuck today earns over $34,000 a year.

567
00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:20,500
And there are openings for schmucks in virtually every field.

568
00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:23,500
The government is run by schmucks, big businesses run by schmucks,

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and more and more people are becoming schmucks on their own.

570
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You know, some guys can only manage to be schmucks on New Year's Eve.

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But here's your opportunity to become a full-time year-round schmuck.

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Give us a call. Don't be a schmuck. Be a schmuck.

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That's George Carlin. And of course you heard a bit from his very famous, A Place For My Stuff,

574
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which I just love it, man.

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Here's a guy when he's doing some of this stuff, doing a show like...

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this. Wouldn't it be great to wake up every morning to a little look on life from George

577
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Carlin or from John Stuart for that reason? There's a lot of people I'd love to hear.

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Just a little, just a little bit about the day. That's it for the source code for today.

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A little bit, a little messy here and there and I'm going to run out and get some more

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batteries for tomorrow's show. As always, if you want to respond, you can send me

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email adam at curry.com or leave a comment on my web blog live.curry.com.

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You can always find a new source code at DailySourceCode.com where you can subscribe to the Daily Feed with iPodder.

583
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That's DailySourceCode.com slash RSS dot XML.

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And you can get the iPodder at iPodder.org.

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We'll see you tomorrow for another source code.

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Take care!

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The power of your new thoughts.

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The Power of Your New Thoughts