WEBVTT 00:01.500 --> 00:16.500 Hi everybody, good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, wherever you're checking 00:16.500 --> 00:17.500 in from. 00:22.500 --> 00:26.500 I'm Adam Curry coming to you from a rather balmy Belgium. 00:26.500 --> 00:29.500 It's a power of the door. 00:29.500 --> 00:32.500 I like the way that sounds. Balmy Belgium. 00:32.500 --> 00:36.500 And actually just as I said that, the sun's starting to shine through. 00:36.500 --> 00:43.500 We had a beautiful day yesterday, about 26 degrees centigrade, 00:43.500 --> 00:44.500 until the very end around 7 o'clock. 00:44.500 --> 00:47.500 And all of a sudden I knew what was going to happen 00:47.500 --> 00:49.500 because our satellite reception went out and I said, 00:49.500 --> 00:52.500 oops, we got a real big depression here. 00:52.500 --> 00:58.500 And we just had a cloud burst almost directly above the castle. 00:58.500 --> 01:02.500 And it apparently rained through most of last night. 01:02.500 --> 01:05.500 So really, and let me start off with this, actually. 01:05.500 --> 01:09.500 I apologize about yesterday not getting a source code up on time, 01:09.500 --> 01:12.500 but I'll walk you through just some of the events of the day 01:12.500 --> 01:15.500 and then hopefully you'll understand. 01:15.500 --> 01:18.500 So it's the source code where users and developers party together. 01:18.500 --> 01:21.500 Today we're going to be talking about Howard Stern. 01:21.500 --> 01:23.500 I'll listen to a couple of audio blog posts. 01:24.000 --> 01:29.000 that I've picked up. Also I'm going to give you finally my review of John Stewart's audio 01:29.000 --> 01:36.000 book. Look at the iPodder. Oh, I finally I can say this word the iPodder space because 01:36.000 --> 01:41.000 now next to iPodder I found there's another company doing something or actually a company 01:41.000 --> 01:45.000 not another but a company doing something very similar. I got a song of the day that 01:45.000 --> 01:52.000 I picked up from from around the net and some quick feedback on Skype. So yesterday 01:52.000 --> 02:01.000 and I had all the full intentions to do a source code either from the road or once 02:01.000 --> 02:05.000 I got home but you know because I had to go to Amsterdam sit down with the with 02:05.000 --> 02:10.000 the bank and financial advisors and some tax lawyers because of our move to the 02:10.000 --> 02:17.000 UK there's certain benefits that stem from that financial benefits obviously. 02:17.000 --> 02:21.000 You know so it's kind of an important meeting and also you know the bank will 02:21.000 --> 02:25.000 help me make that move. 02:25.500 --> 02:29.500 It's, I just don't, I don't look forward to changing all that stuff. 02:30.500 --> 02:31.500 What a pain in the ass. 02:31.500 --> 02:33.500 So anyway, so hopefully they're going to take care of it for me. 02:33.500 --> 02:34.500 Oh, they will take care of it for me. 02:36.500 --> 02:40.500 And so I can concentrate on fun things, which was, you know, I wanted to do my 02:40.500 --> 02:41.500 source code yesterday. 02:41.500 --> 02:42.500 Didn't work out. 02:42.500 --> 02:47.500 I drove back after swinging by, uh, swinging by Amsterdam. 02:47.500 --> 02:52.500 Um, I was home around five o'clock, uh, Patricia wanted to eat early. 02:52.500 --> 02:53.500 So we had dinner. 02:53.500 --> 02:57.500 And then I got to put together the exercise bike. 02:57.500 --> 03:02.500 Man, talk about developers who make these things and don't really think 03:02.500 --> 03:04.500 about users who have to put them together. 03:04.500 --> 03:08.500 Uh, it took me a little while, but I finally got all the pieces to 03:08.500 --> 03:10.500 fit together exactly as they should. 03:10.500 --> 03:12.500 And all the pieces were there and it did fit perfectly. 03:13.500 --> 03:16.500 Um, but that took me in, uh, into the good part of the evening. 03:16.500 --> 03:19.500 And then I just, uh, you know, I just didn't have the energy left. 03:19.500 --> 03:20.500 Hey, it was Friday. 03:20.500 --> 03:21.500 What can I say? 03:21.500 --> 03:22.500 So I do apologize. 03:22.500 --> 03:23.500 I'll try to do a better job on that. 03:23.500 --> 03:26.500 Um, as a, um, 03:27.000 --> 03:31.000 I'm a former member of the Bridge and Tunnel crowd in New York City. 03:31.000 --> 03:37.000 I really came to appreciate Howard Stern on the radio, on K-Rock. 03:37.000 --> 03:41.000 If you sit in traffic for an hour and a half or two hours in front of the Lincoln Tunnel 03:41.000 --> 03:46.000 every single morning, then even the best of Sterns start to grow on you. 03:46.000 --> 03:49.000 And I've always really liked the stuff he's doing in the morning. 03:49.000 --> 03:54.000 I feel that particularly, and it's totally a guy's show. 03:54.000 --> 03:59.000 I don't think it's necessarily intended for women, female listeners at all. 03:59.000 --> 04:03.000 But there's something that I think, and lots of guys like, 04:03.000 --> 04:08.000 is just giggling about stupid stuff, which of course usually is about farting 04:08.000 --> 04:11.000 and about sexual stuff. 04:11.000 --> 04:14.000 But it does kind of get you day off started right. 04:14.000 --> 04:17.000 And his audience numbers prove that. 04:17.000 --> 04:28.000 He truly has an amazing audience, very large, and a very valuable audience. 04:28.500 --> 04:32.500 because Howard Stern is without a doubt, no matter what you want to say, very very successful 04:32.500 --> 04:34.500 and I happen to like his show. 04:34.500 --> 04:43.500 So I was elated when I read that Howard Stern had struck a deal with movielink.com to distribute 04:43.500 --> 04:50.500 uncensored versions of his E-Channel television show which is basically his radio show, 04:50.500 --> 04:52.500 only the cameras are hanging up in the studio. 04:52.500 --> 04:57.500 So they do the radio show, they shoot that with multiple cameras and that's 04:57.500 --> 05:03.500 aired on each channel so it's a great reappropriation of the content they're already making. 05:03.500 --> 05:09.500 And obviously lots of stuff that goes on in the Howard Stern studio is censored. 05:09.500 --> 05:13.500 So making an uncensored version available over the internet I was like, 05:13.500 --> 05:19.500 way to go and of course I'll pay 4.95 for the privilege of watching that. 05:19.500 --> 05:23.500 So I went to movielink.com, now remember I'm in Belgium and just entering the URL 05:23.500 --> 05:28.500 movielink.com brings up the following page that says thanks for your interest in movielink, 05:28.500 --> 05:29.500 the leading source for movies del- 05:30.000 --> 05:31.000 delivered directly over the internet. 05:31.000 --> 05:36.000 We want you to enjoy our powerful movie download experience, but it is presently unavailable 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 to users outside of the United States. 05:38.000 --> 05:42.000 Well, that blows. 05:42.000 --> 05:47.000 I kind of forgot about it, and then as I was looking through my aggregator, and this is 05:47.000 --> 05:54.000 how these things work these days, I have keywords put in there for all kinds of stuff that 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 I'm looking forward to catching. 05:56.000 --> 06:02.000 Once in a while, there is a Howard Stern eShow taped right off the air from the e-channel 06:02.000 --> 06:06.000 that will come by as a bit torrent in one of the TV torrent RSS feeds. 06:06.000 --> 06:11.000 So it's automatically downloaded to my directory where I have all the new stuff that comes 06:11.000 --> 06:12.000 in. 06:12.000 --> 06:18.000 And lo and behold, someone had taken the movie link video, I presume, and I don't know 06:18.000 --> 06:24.000 if they copied it or transcribed it or what they did, or if they just took it verbatim 06:24.000 --> 06:26.000 if it's not copied or protected. 06:26.000 --> 06:29.000 I don't know how movie link works, obviously, so I can't get to the site. 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 But it downloaded, it was sitting there on my... 06:31.500 --> 06:38.500 drive for free. And I'm thinking to myself, you know, A, outfits like movielink.com should 06:38.500 --> 06:43.500 be looking at how they're delivering stuff, because this works, you know, connecting RSS 06:43.500 --> 06:48.500 with enclosures and BitTorrent. It is actually just kind of working. It's bringing stuff 06:48.500 --> 06:53.500 to me that I'm interested in. So it's a very, very, very poor man's very primitive 06:53.500 --> 07:00.500 Tivo version of a network Tivo, but it is working. And, you know, and I'd still 07:00.500 --> 07:03.500 gladly pay if there was a way for me to say, hey, you know, thank you very much. I got 07:03.500 --> 07:10.500 this. I'll pay a subscription, I'll pay whatever, no matter how I receive it. But, 07:10.500 --> 07:15.500 you know, that's up for the business model makers of the future to figure 07:15.500 --> 07:19.500 out. Of course, the same goes for the iTunes music store, although available 07:19.500 --> 07:25.500 in Germany and the United Kingdom, I believe. And I'm not quite sure how Germany 07:25.500 --> 07:31.500 snuck in there, because the rest of the European Union can't download from the 07:31.500 --> 07:32.500 iTunes music store. 07:33.000 --> 07:40.000 store yet. They say that the EU, in the last keynote speech that Apple held in Paris, they 07:40.000 --> 07:48.000 said that the EU was coming in, I think, the first half of 2005. But still, these copyright 07:48.000 --> 07:54.000 boundaries that are very, very, very complicated legal situations. And we're just routing 07:54.000 --> 08:00.000 around it. And I'm not even doing it intentionally. This stuff just floated into me. I didn't 08:00.000 --> 08:05.000 go out looking for the Howard Stern e-show uncensored version. It came to me just through 08:05.000 --> 08:11.000 technology. So this stuff's tough to pay attention to. And I read something horrible this morning 08:11.000 --> 08:19.000 that Catherine Zeta-Jones, the beautiful actress who was married to Michael Douglas, that she's 08:19.000 --> 08:27.000 shooting a movie in Mexico and that a gang of kidnappers tried to ram her limousine off 08:27.000 --> 08:32.000 the road and her bodyguards, which she had, you know, were able to foil the kidnap attempt. 08:32.000 --> 08:34.000 I mean, damn, what's going on there? 08:34.500 --> 08:40.500 And they say that in the report that I was reading that about 2,000 people a year are abducted 08:40.500 --> 08:41.500 in this fashion. 08:41.500 --> 08:45.500 Of course, you only really think about it or hear about it when someone of celebrity status 08:45.500 --> 08:48.500 is abducted or kidnapped. 08:48.500 --> 08:49.500 And then it becomes an issue. 08:49.500 --> 08:51.500 We've got to do something about it. 08:51.500 --> 08:56.500 In the meantime, there's 1,999 other people a year being abducted, which is happening 08:56.500 --> 08:57.500 all over the world. 08:57.500 --> 08:59.500 It's happening in the Middle East. 08:59.500 --> 09:02.500 It's happening in Iraq. 09:02.500 --> 09:07.500 With the discussions that I had with people over there, it was already a common place 09:07.500 --> 09:16.500 at the beginning of, I'm sorry, the First Gulf War when things were just really falling 09:16.500 --> 09:19.500 to shit in that country. 09:19.500 --> 09:26.500 And sometimes you'd be kidnapped and if the person who was kidnapped, if their family 09:26.500 --> 09:32.500 was influential enough, they could actually scare the kidnappers with all kinds of connections 09:32.500 --> 09:35.500 and family networks into... 09:36.000 --> 09:41.000 giving the person back and actually paying a fine to them. 09:41.000 --> 09:43.000 It's crazy what's going on. 09:43.000 --> 09:51.000 The value of human life is anywhere from zero to a million dollars or more. 09:51.000 --> 09:52.000 It's crazy. 09:52.000 --> 09:56.000 So anyway, we're happy that Catherine Zeta-Jones is okay, 09:56.000 --> 10:00.000 but man, she's probably going to be a little bit shaken up about that episode for a while 10:00.000 --> 10:08.000 and I think she has to stay there in Mexico until the shooting for the movie is done, 10:08.000 --> 10:10.000 which won't be until the end of the year. 10:10.000 --> 10:16.000 Okay, cruising around the net, listening to some programs, some audio blogs, 10:16.000 --> 10:23.000 and as you know, my blog digger media subscription, that's the blogdigger.com media feed, 10:23.000 --> 10:28.000 brings in, and actually I did look it up, what Blog Digger does 10:28.000 --> 10:34.000 is it basically crawls through RSS feeds and I presume that when it either finds a URL, 10:34.000 --> 10:37.000 whether it's not entirely clear if it'll take any URL that... 10:37.500 --> 10:43.500 comes across an RSS feed or only ones that are encapsulated as an enclosure, it'll then 10:43.500 --> 10:48.500 bring that in and publish it or publish it into a separate feed. 10:48.500 --> 10:54.500 And so it's all kinds of interesting stuff that comes in and I have a couple of bits 10:54.500 --> 10:56.500 lined up for you today. 10:56.500 --> 10:59.500 But first I want to take something from Raster Web. 10:59.500 --> 11:02.500 Now we've listened to Raster Web's audio blog post before. 11:03.500 --> 11:09.500 He says something really interesting about how iPodder is working for him and what his 11:09.500 --> 11:12.500 media client is now turning into. 11:12.500 --> 11:14.500 Let's just listen to this for a second and then we'll discuss it after. 11:14.500 --> 11:16.500 And the important thing is we're automated. 11:22.500 --> 11:24.500 Can you hear me? 11:24.500 --> 11:25.500 Can you play? 11:25.500 --> 11:26.500 Play what? 11:28.500 --> 11:31.500 more and more as I'm using my version of the iPod 11:31.500 --> 11:34.500 that curry calls it, mine's called Braco. 11:34.500 --> 11:37.500 Some pro code I whipped up that I'm seeing iTunes 11:37.500 --> 11:41.500 being more and more like an email application. 11:41.500 --> 11:45.500 I mean, I sort it by, you know, they add it, 11:45.500 --> 11:48.500 so every time I pull it to the front, 11:48.500 --> 11:50.500 I basically see whatever it's been downloaded 11:50.500 --> 11:52.500 and stuck into iTunes. 11:52.500 --> 11:56.500 Later I sit down, iTunes comes, I bring iTunes to the front, 11:56.500 --> 11:58.500 and I go, oh look, there's a new daily source code. 11:58.500 --> 12:01.500 There's a new evil genius Chronicles or whatever. 12:01.500 --> 12:03.500 So, kind of cool. 12:03.500 --> 12:06.500 And again, you know, I see conversations, 12:06.500 --> 12:11.500 which again, great stuff that Ducay and his buddies are doing. 12:11.500 --> 12:13.500 That's all good stuff. 12:13.500 --> 12:17.500 Okay, so this is interesting. 12:17.500 --> 12:21.500 When your iTunes or your Windows Media player 12:21.500 --> 12:24.500 starts to become an email-like application 12:24.500 --> 12:26.500 where you look at that and say, 12:26.500 --> 12:28.500 oh, something new has been added, 12:28.500 --> 12:30.500 and think about the interface, at least I've seen it. 12:30.000 --> 12:37.000 iTunes is very, very similar if not if it probably uses a lot of the same classes, object classes 12:37.000 --> 12:44.000 as the male client on Macintosh's OS X. And same goes for Outlook and Windows Media Player, 12:44.000 --> 12:49.000 I'm sure a lot of the same technology should be leveraged at least underneath the hood. 12:49.000 --> 12:53.000 And I've come to learn that if something new on the Internet looks or feels or works 12:53.000 --> 12:57.000 like something that already exists on the Internet, then we've probably got a good 12:57.000 --> 13:02.000 thing going because the same things were being said with RSS news readers. 13:02.000 --> 13:07.000 So that's interesting. Even though we're working on getting new types of content 13:07.000 --> 13:12.000 and bundles of passion and whatever we call it, you know, programs, shows, 13:12.000 --> 13:15.000 discussions, interviews, audiobooks, we want to get them directly onto the 13:15.000 --> 13:20.000 mobile devices. Now we're seeing that our media players are becoming kind of 13:20.000 --> 13:24.000 the database. And of course we're addressing them exactly like that. 13:24.000 --> 13:31.000 When the iPod or code, when that code runs and it adds something to either the iTunes or the Windows 13:31.500 --> 13:36.500 media player database. It's actually doing that. It's doing a very informal type of call saying, 13:36.500 --> 13:40.500 add this to that database so you'll be able to search it and find it, retrieve it, etc. 13:40.500 --> 13:44.500 So interesting observation there from Raster Web. 13:44.500 --> 13:50.500 Okay, John Stewart. Since I did do some driving over the past, actually yesterday as I told 13:50.500 --> 13:56.500 you, I had a chance to finish up. The John Stewart presents America Audio Book, which 13:56.500 --> 14:01.500 is an excellent, excellent piece of work. It is produced specifically as an audio book. 14:01.500 --> 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 14:05.500 --> 14:15.500 justice. We listen to it. It's put together almost like an old-fashioned radio show with bells 14:15.500 --> 14:20.500 and whistles and sound effects, different voices. Clearly everything is script, but it's... 14:20.500 --> 14:24.500 And of course this edited wasn't done live as they used to do in the old days. 14:24.500 --> 14:30.500 Oh, listen, we've got Pittsburgh on the wireless. But it's an excellent piece of work. 14:30.500 --> 14:32.500 It takes you through the... 14:33.000 --> 14:40.000 history of the United States, how democracy was born and came about. 14:40.000 --> 14:44.000 And of course he does get some historical perspective back to ancient Rome on that. 14:44.000 --> 14:50.000 And then also explains the three branches of government, goes into all different parts 14:50.000 --> 14:55.000 and aspects, but in a very humorous way. 14:55.000 --> 14:59.000 And listening to it, having worked with John a little bit in the MTV days when he still 14:59.000 --> 15:03.000 had the John Stuart show and we were hanging out at the beach house doing some stuff together. 15:03.000 --> 15:06.000 It really, you can tell it really is John Stuart. 15:06.000 --> 15:13.000 It is totally from, I'm sure many people worked on this, but it is totally John Stuart to the core. 15:13.000 --> 15:19.000 And here's a little bit where the Congress is being discussed. 15:19.000 --> 15:26.000 And you listen to this one snippet and I think it will just blow your mind in its humor, its insight. 15:26.000 --> 15:28.000 And it's perhaps its accuracy. 15:31.500 --> 15:36.500 The Strom Thurman filibuster August 28, 1957 15:37.500 --> 15:40.500 Senator Strom Thurman, Republican South Carolina, 15:40.500 --> 15:42.500 set the record for longest filibuster 15:42.500 --> 15:45.500 with this 24-hour 18-minute speech 15:45.500 --> 15:47.500 railing against a civil rights bill. 15:47.500 --> 15:50.500 The marathon-speaking session left Thurman so drained 15:50.500 --> 15:51.500 he could barely have sex 15:51.500 --> 15:55.500 with the underaged black woman in his family's employ. 15:55.500 --> 15:57.500 Thurman's oration obliterated 15:57.500 --> 15:59.500 the previous filibuster record, 15:59.500 --> 16:01.500 a 13-hour description by Daniel Webster 16:01.500 --> 16:03.500 of the massive dump he had just taken. 16:06.000 --> 16:07.000 Discussion questions. 16:07.000 --> 16:08.000 One. 16:08.000 --> 16:15.000 If Khan is the opposite of pro, then isn't Congress the opposite of progress? 16:15.000 --> 16:18.000 Or did we just fucking blow your mind? 16:18.000 --> 16:22.000 I mean, that did blow my mind. 16:22.000 --> 16:23.000 I was listening to that on the road. 16:23.000 --> 16:27.000 I was like, whoa, progress, Congress. 16:27.000 --> 16:29.000 Okay, point taken, point made. 16:29.000 --> 16:30.000 Excellent. 16:30.000 --> 16:34.000 I'm going to play a little bit more of the John Stuart Presents America audiobook 16:34.000 --> 16:35.000 in a second. 16:35.000 --> 16:39.000 First, another bit I picked up online from the blog digger media feed. 16:39.000 --> 16:44.000 Unfortunately, there's no title other than 1933.mp3. 16:44.000 --> 16:46.000 Clearly it's from an audio blogging service. 16:46.000 --> 16:49.000 It's done through a telephone. 16:49.000 --> 16:53.000 And this is a gentleman who is extremely pissed off at George W. Bush. 16:53.000 --> 16:56.000 And the reason why I want you to hear this, and I'm also going to do something, another 16:56.000 --> 17:01.000 piece of John Stuart, is as opposed to when you would write about how pissed off you 17:01.000 --> 17:07.000 are about the current administration or perhaps about anybody, it doesn't really matter. 17:07.500 --> 17:12.500 This is very hard to convey the emotions that you can with the human voice, or at least 17:12.500 --> 17:17.500 to receive the emotions, even though they're probably not even intended to be transmitted 17:17.500 --> 17:18.500 that way. 17:18.500 --> 17:19.500 They are transmitted. 17:19.500 --> 17:30.500 And this gentleman is definitely angry. 17:33.000 --> 17:38.000 So it's a different world today than it was yesterday because he has now been caught and 17:38.000 --> 17:40.000 his administration has been caught. 17:40.000 --> 17:41.000 And you know what? 17:41.000 --> 17:48.000 George Bush's allies have made an issue of John Kerry service and we are going to make 17:48.000 --> 17:55.000 an issue of the president's credibility as it relates to his service, to the conduct 17:55.000 --> 18:01.000 of what he has done in Iraq, on the issues of his credibility on jobs, healthcare and 18:01.000 --> 18:02.000 education. 18:02.000 --> 18:08.000 So this is on the table and it's going to be on the table from now until November 2nd. 18:10.500 --> 18:14.500 So think about reading that as a web blog post. 18:14.500 --> 18:17.500 You could certainly receive the same type of intensity 18:17.500 --> 18:20.500 that you heard there, but probably not. 18:20.500 --> 18:23.500 And I think this is a definite advantage 18:23.500 --> 18:25.500 of what audio blogs can do. 18:25.500 --> 18:28.500 All we need now is different ways for these to be aggregated. 18:28.500 --> 18:31.500 And I think the most obvious way 18:31.500 --> 18:35.500 is to have people do that, have people be content routers. 18:35.500 --> 18:36.500 Like what I'm trying to do here 18:36.500 --> 18:39.500 is let you hear different aspects of what can be done, 18:39.500 --> 18:42.500 how we can produce things on our desktop, 18:42.500 --> 18:44.500 how we can distribute them ourselves. 18:44.500 --> 18:47.500 Because I think there is a valid place for audio 18:47.500 --> 18:50.500 within the internet being a communications device, 18:50.500 --> 18:53.500 certainly in the manner that we're using it. 18:53.500 --> 18:55.500 So, and I'll be on the lookout for anything 18:55.500 --> 18:57.500 that comes from the other side 18:57.500 --> 18:59.500 of the political equation in the States. 18:59.500 --> 19:01.500 If that shows up on the blog digger media feed, 19:01.500 --> 19:04.500 I'll be sure to give them equal time. 19:04.500 --> 19:07.500 Back to John Stewart's book, John Stewart Presents America. 19:07.500 --> 19:09.500 Now this is a little longer piece, 19:09.500 --> 19:11.500 about three and a half minutes, but I think it's... 19:12.000 --> 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 19:17.000 --> 19:20.000 I'm sure I don't know if Amazon has it. They probably do 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 Otherwise audible.com to buy this book 19:24.000 --> 19:30.000 Prices range from 495 to 795. That's Dave. Dave. Why are paid 495? I paid 795 19:31.000 --> 19:32.000 this next 19:32.000 --> 19:36.000 piece from the book really is the core of what John Stewart and 19:36.000 --> 19:40.000 We all know him from the Daily Show what he is all about about the media 19:40.000 --> 19:45.000 What the media's role is in the democracy how it's supposed to function? 19:45.000 --> 19:50.000 And of course we know that John Stewart sees this and the Daily Show 19:50.000 --> 19:55.000 Really plays off the fact that we don't get what we deserve as a democracy 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 What the free press should be delivering to us? 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 I'll just let me just back this up a second 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 And and again you'll hear a very 20:07.000 --> 20:13.000 Passionate John Stewart of course none of this is safe for work, but 20:13.500 --> 20:15.500 But, you know, we've discussed that before. 20:15.500 --> 20:20.500 Oh, by the way, I'll talk about the copy protection in a second. 20:20.500 --> 20:22.500 First let's listen to John Stuart. 20:22.500 --> 20:28.500 He says it's about three and a half minutes talking about the media and the free press 20:28.500 --> 20:29.500 in a democracy. 20:31.500 --> 20:50.500 Chapter 7. The Media. Democracy's Guardian Angel. 20:54.000 --> 20:59.000 chapter you will learn how to identify political bias in today's liberal 20:59.000 --> 21:05.000 bleeding heart Jew and gay run media become an unnamed source create your 21:05.000 --> 21:13.000 own no-spin zone discover which media conglomerate now owns you not have your 21:13.000 --> 21:18.000 opinion of Geraldo Rivera particularly improved upon 21:18.000 --> 21:22.000 A free and independent press is essential to the health of a functioning democracy. 21:22.000 --> 21:27.000 It serves to inform the voting public on matters relevant to its well-being. 21:27.000 --> 21:29.000 Why they've stopped doing that is a mystery. 21:29.000 --> 21:33.000 I mean 300 camera crews outside of courthouse to see what Kobe Bryant is wearing, when the 21:33.000 --> 21:38.000 judge sets his hearing date while false information used to send our country to war goes unchecked. 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 What the fuck happened? 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 The spineless cowards in the press have finally gone too far. 21:42.000 --> 21:45.000 They have violated a trust. 21:45.000 --> 21:47.000 Was the president successful in convincing the country? 21:47.000 --> 21:49.000 Who gives a shit? 21:49.000 --> 21:52.000 Why not tell us if what he said was true and the excuses? 21:52.000 --> 21:53.000 My god, the excuses! 21:53.000 --> 21:56.000 Hey, we just give the people what they want. 21:56.000 --> 21:57.000 What can we do? 21:57.000 --> 21:59.000 This administration is secretive. 21:59.000 --> 22:01.000 But the last season of Friends really is news. 22:01.000 --> 22:04.000 The unmitigated gall of these weak willed. 22:04.000 --> 22:08.000 You're supposed to be helping us, you indecent piles of shit! 22:08.000 --> 22:09.000 I- Fuck it! 22:09.000 --> 22:12.000 Just fuck it! 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 This is the editor again. 22:14.000 --> 22:16.000 We sincerely apologize for this false start. 22:16.000 --> 22:19.000 The authors have assured us it was a momentary lapse. 22:19.500 --> 22:24.500 restrained caused by a deadline-induced red bull binge. In no way was it meant to 22:24.500 --> 22:27.500 portray any sense of anger and or disappointment in the behavior and 22:27.500 --> 22:30.500 standards of the modern media. 22:32.500 --> 22:38.500 Chapter 7. The Media. Democracies Guardian Angel. 22:43.500 --> 22:48.500 What's the role of a free and independent press in a democratic society? 22:48.500 --> 22:52.500 Is it to be a passive conduit responsible only for the delivery of information between 22:52.500 --> 22:54.500 a government and its people? 22:54.500 --> 22:59.500 Is it to aggressively print allegation and rumor independent of accuracy or fairness? 22:59.500 --> 23:00.500 Is it to show boobies? 23:00.500 --> 23:02.500 No. 23:02.500 --> 23:06.500 The role of a free press is to be the people's eyes and ears, providing not just information 23:06.500 --> 23:11.500 but access, insight, and most importantly, context. 23:11.500 --> 23:14.500 It must devote its time and resources to monitoring the government, permeating the 23:14.500 --> 23:18.500 halls of power to determine who is doing the people's work, who is corrupting the 23:18.500 --> 23:22.500 process, and who will promise to be a mole in the State Department if their 23:22.500 --> 23:24.500 homosexuality is kept secret. 23:24.500 --> 23:28.500 Only after that, and only with time permitting, should it move on to high 23:28.500 --> 23:30.500 speed freeway cases. 23:30.500 --> 23:34.500 For government to truly be for the people, inner workings must be exposed for 23:34.500 --> 23:36.500 the public to see. 23:36.500 --> 23:39.500 This lofty goal is known as transparency, and while this could be 23:39.500 --> 23:43.500 accomplished by sheathing all elected officials in public buildings in 23:43.500 --> 23:44.500 Saran Wrap, this is 23:45.000 --> 23:51.000 has been deemed unwieldy, expensive and creepy. Instead transparency is achieved via a free 23:51.000 --> 23:56.000 press, something so vital to democracy it has historically been given equal stature 23:56.000 --> 24:01.000 to the three branches of government, hence its nickname, the Fourth Estate. 24:01.000 --> 24:03.000 No less an authority than Thomas Jefferson wrote, 24:03.000 --> 24:07.000 If it were left to me to decide whether we should have a government without a free 24:07.000 --> 24:11.000 press or a free press without a government, I would prefer the latter. Now if you'll 24:11.000 --> 24:15.000 excuse me, I have a lunchtime appointment with a fine slice of brown sugar. 24:15.000 --> 24:22.000 So the audiobook is titled John Stewart Presents America and well worth the 24:22.000 --> 24:26.000 three and a half hours that you'll be listening to it. Excellent, excellent 24:26.000 --> 24:30.000 stuff and actually a very good refresher course in in what this great country is 24:30.000 --> 24:34.000 all about. And oh yeah, something about a little bit about DRM and copy 24:34.000 --> 24:40.000 protection. Of course I purchased the book off of audible.com. It downloads 24:40.000 --> 24:48.000 as an Apple AAC file which has the advantage of bookmarking. 24:46.500 --> 24:49.500 which work automatically with your iPod, but also should include 24:51.000 --> 24:58.000 And instead of, since I can't really queue anything up in iTunes, except for like one bookmark, 24:58.000 --> 25:00.000 I wanted to play two different clips. 25:00.000 --> 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. 25:08.000 --> 25:13.000 I just played the bits that I wanted, recorded them, which are then recorded as AIFF files, 25:13.000 --> 25:15.000 and just opened those in QuickTime. 25:15.000 --> 25:22.000 And it worked perfectly, so much for the big DRM and impossibility of copying. 25:22.000 --> 25:27.000 Not of course that I want to encourage any of you to do that, but it's that simple, 25:27.000 --> 25:34.000 and they really want to stop copying copyright protected works. 25:34.000 --> 25:37.000 We've got to find a device of different schema. 25:37.000 --> 25:40.000 Okay, let's talk about iPod, or just briefly, of course, 25:40.000 --> 25:44.000 iPod.org is where you can download one of many different applications and scripts 25:44.000 --> 25:50.000 that will enable you to automatically download programs like this one onto your mobile device. 25:50.000 --> 25:52.000 We have it set up for iPods, we have it set up for... 25:52.500 --> 25:57.500 anything that works with Windows Media Player and even have a version for Linux. 25:57.500 --> 25:59.500 That'll at least bring everything in for you. 25:59.500 --> 26:05.500 And someone, a couple people actually pointed me to a company called Audio Feast. 26:05.500 --> 26:08.500 Let me just bring this up now. 26:08.500 --> 26:15.500 Here we go, Audio Feast, which you can find at 26:15.500 --> 26:22.500 serenadesms.com, so S-E-R-E-N-A-D-E-S-M-S.com 26:22.500 --> 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. 26:31.500 --> 26:36.500 Sync all the programs you want, listen whenever and wherever you'd like. 26:36.500 --> 26:39.500 So essentially they have exactly the same idea. 26:39.500 --> 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, 26:46.500 --> 26:51.500 Audio Feast is a service that delivers extensive programming choices for MP3 players. 26:51.500 --> 26:53.500 It's easy to use and deliver time shifting. 26:54.000 --> 26:59.000 flexibility at an affordable all you can listen prize. Subscribers can choose to listen 26:59.000 --> 27:04.000 to their favorite programs directly from their desktop or sync to their portable audio devices 27:04.000 --> 27:10.000 and listen on the go. So it is exactly what we're doing here only I think these guys 27:10.000 --> 27:15.000 have it completely backwards and upside down. What they're doing is they've created 27:15.000 --> 27:21.000 another gateway, they're gatekeepers to getting stuff onto your mobile device and 27:21.000 --> 27:25.000 that's what you pay for. You basically pay for their technology to work on your 27:25.000 --> 27:30.000 system whereas we've created you know little scripts some fewer than a hundred 27:30.000 --> 27:35.000 lines long which do exactly the same thing. Now here's the here's what I 27:35.000 --> 27:38.000 really don't understand and these guys are funded they have VCs on the board 27:38.000 --> 27:44.000 so they've got money. They have providers so you can become a 27:44.000 --> 27:50.000 provider which means you probably pay a license to use their technology to 27:50.000 --> 27:57.000 get onto their distribution system and they have here as providers A&E 27:55.500 --> 28:02.500 AARP, Animal Talk Radio, BBC, Beatles Arama, Blue, Bloomberg, Cape Cod Radio, Consumer 28:02.500 --> 28:07.500 Reports, C-SPAN, Discovery Channel, Dow Jones, Fox, Grateful Dead, John Hopkins. 28:07.500 --> 28:11.500 They've got some smaller providers in there as well, but the fact that you have to become 28:11.500 --> 28:14.500 a provider and register with them just makes no sense to me. 28:14.500 --> 28:18.500 We already have this technology available at our fingertips and it's working now and 28:18.500 --> 28:20.500 it's free. 28:20.500 --> 28:24.500 All you have to do is work out your own copyright issues. 28:24.500 --> 28:28.500 So although I applaud them for what they're doing and for the thought behind it, 28:28.500 --> 28:32.500 it just doesn't make any sense to me because we're doing exactly what Audio 28:32.500 --> 28:34.500 Feast is offering here. 28:34.500 --> 28:37.500 Only we're using the existing technology. 28:37.500 --> 28:41.500 You know, I don't think we should be locked into anything that gives them 28:41.500 --> 28:43.500 power over access to whatever we want to have. 28:43.500 --> 28:47.500 Also, I don't want to have to pay anyone more than my provider for 28:47.500 --> 28:50.500 whatever bandwidth I use to publish something. 28:50.500 --> 28:56.500 But I linked to this on my weblog at curate.com, so check it out. 28:57.000 --> 29:01.000 And if anyone actually decides to sign up, subscribe and use it, 29:01.000 --> 29:06.000 we'd love to have a review and see if there's anything that we can use in our own system. 29:06.000 --> 29:10.000 Okay, time for our song of the day. Already 30 minutes into this, 29:10.000 --> 29:13.000 so I have a few more things I want to talk about after the song of the day, 29:13.000 --> 29:15.000 which will be about iPhoto and about Skype. 29:15.000 --> 29:18.000 And this one came in through the Blog Digger Media Feed. 29:18.000 --> 29:21.000 It's a classic song from the 80s. 29:21.000 --> 29:25.000 I wouldn't have chosen this one if it hadn't come in automatically, 29:25.000 --> 29:30.000 but I've decided to try and do as many sounds around the net as possible. 29:34.500 --> 29:38.500 I don't know if they're doing another reunion so I can do it about once every year. 29:43.750 --> 33:27.000 [ Music ] 33:27.000 --> 33:36.000 Kiss! I was made for loving you. I think that was 1979. Maybe the right time now to tell 33:36.000 --> 33:45.000 my one of my kiss stories. I was working at MTV. Let's see, this was 1987 or 1988 at 33:45.000 --> 33:52.000 the time I believe. And I was one of the, actually I was the only air talent as they 33:52.000 --> 33:56.000 called it, who wanted to sit in the music meetings which is basically where we 33:56.000 --> 34:01.000 decided what we're gonna play and what rotation videos are gonna be played. Very 34:01.000 --> 34:06.000 much in fact it was run exactly like a radio station certainly in those days 34:06.000 --> 34:10.000 using the same type of music scheduling software and there were radio 34:10.000 --> 34:14.000 people who were basically doing the programming lineup. Of course this was 34:14.000 --> 34:19.000 MTV played videos right and we had our music meeting I want to say it was 34:19.000 --> 34:26.000 Tuesdays and Kiss had a video out. God I can't remember what it was now but we were 34:26.000 --> 34:29.000 all sitting in the music meeting. 34:28.500 --> 34:33.500 and all of a sudden the door bursts open and in comes Gene Simmons 34:33.500 --> 34:36.500 and he's got knee pads on 34:36.500 --> 34:39.500 and he jumps up onto this big conference room table 34:39.500 --> 34:41.500 and we're all sitting around it right being really serious 34:41.500 --> 34:45.500 picking the music videos deciding whose career we're going to make or break 34:45.500 --> 34:49.500 and he hops up and he goes over to Abbie Konowicz 34:49.500 --> 34:54.500 who later went on to co-found Madonna's record label Maverick 34:54.500 --> 35:01.500 and he's on all fours and he's right in front of Abbie Konowicz 35:01.500 --> 35:05.500 and says alright who do I have to blow around here to get this video played 35:05.500 --> 35:10.500 hilarity ensued and of course the video was added goes without saying 35:10.500 --> 35:15.500 so to wind up things for today's source code 35:15.500 --> 35:20.500 I want to thank everyone for the feedback I've received on Skype 35:20.500 --> 35:27.500 so no Skype and SIP, those are two different protocols used for voiceover IP 35:27.500 --> 35:30.500 they're also not compatible with each other, at least not yet 35:30.000 --> 35:38.000 can't talk to each other. There's no super advantage behind using Skype versus some of 35:38.000 --> 35:46.000 the other VoVIP systems from what I gather. Other than that it does just seem to work, 35:46.000 --> 35:50.000 which is exactly what they advertised. You can't get any inbound service, that I already 35:50.000 --> 35:54.000 knew. They have the Skype out, which I'm fairly happy with, works very well. Because 35:54.000 --> 35:59.000 the peer-to-peer nature of how they do things, it is suggested in some cases, although 35:59.000 --> 36:03.000 I haven't witnessed it personally, that there can be a lot of latency in the 36:03.000 --> 36:10.000 phone calls. And also so far no one has really been able to give me any solution 36:10.000 --> 36:16.000 for what I'm looking for, which is a voice over IP provider that will let 36:16.000 --> 36:23.000 me use a software phone as well as a voice over IP hardware to connect my 36:23.000 --> 36:28.000 analog phone. And I want a local dial-up number in Los Angeles, in New York, in 36:28.000 --> 36:32.000 Amsterdam, in Antwerp, and in London. 36:31.500 --> 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, 36:36.500 --> 36:44.500 just keep my wishes in mind, will you? And the largest advantage that Skype has over all the 36:44.500 --> 36:49.500 voice over IP setups that I've come to understand is that they have the firewall issue solved. 36:49.500 --> 36:53.500 And of course, they were able to solve this because they're using their kaza technology. 36:53.500 --> 36:58.500 It's made by the same guys who created kaza. And they had the firewall issues all sorted 36:58.500 --> 37:04.500 out there. So that's the number one thing that Skype is really good at. 37:05.500 --> 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 37:11.500 --> 37:15.500 really running out of disk space. I was continuously deleting stuff from caches. 37:17.500 --> 37:22.500 We all know the drill, right? You go searching for files larger than 5 megs. 37:22.500 --> 37:26.500 What can I do with this? And either way to move some stuff off. And the two largest 37:26.500 --> 37:32.500 collections of data that I have, excuse me, are without a doubt my music folder. 37:33.000 --> 37:38.000 and my pictures folder. And the decision about music was pretty easy because I really need 37:38.000 --> 37:43.000 access to that at a moment's notice on my hard drive for the type of work that I'm producing 37:43.000 --> 37:49.000 like the source code. So I've been cleaning up my iTunes library as I go, you know, just 37:49.000 --> 37:55.000 pulling out old shit, old audiobooks that I don't need anymore, which are huge files. 37:55.000 --> 37:58.000 You know, we're talking 80 megs for some of them, and that's just, you know, in 37:58.000 --> 38:01.000 three different parts. So I've been able to find a lot of space there, but the pictures, 38:01.000 --> 38:09.000 which is all in the iPhoto album folder, that was about six gigs. No, a little less, 38:09.000 --> 38:13.000 I'm sorry, about four and a half gigs. And I knew that, you know, if I could move those 38:13.000 --> 38:17.000 off, at least if I have them on some kind of safe storage device, I know that I'll be 38:17.000 --> 38:22.000 able to use them later on. I wasn't too sure how easy that was going to be, but I 38:22.000 --> 38:27.000 just wanted to say that with iPhoto it's really phenomenal. Now I'd never used the DVD 38:27.000 --> 38:33.000 burning capabilities of my power book. So I didn't know, you know, I was total newbie at 38:33.000 --> 38:34.000 this and went to... 38:34.500 --> 38:39.500 the store and of course promptly bought the wrong DVDs there is a difference between plus R or plus 38:39.500 --> 38:46.500 RW and minus R or minus RW for two different technologies of how the DVDs are burned and if 38:46.500 --> 38:51.500 you you know do it incorrectly then they won't play on different machines and God knows what. 38:53.500 --> 38:57.500 So I went back same place by the way where we bought the exercise bike. 38:58.500 --> 39:06.500 It's a great store and I got the minus RW because I can actually use optical discs that are 39:06.500 --> 39:12.500 rewritable. Now this was pretty cool I've never erased a DVD and I actually practiced with that and 39:12.500 --> 39:17.500 it worked and worked perfectly and so then in iPhoto there's a little button you just select all your 39:17.500 --> 39:22.500 pictures and I couldn't get all of them onto one DVD because it would it just it would take up 39:22.500 --> 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 39:29.500 --> 39:35.500 get everything on there from 1999 to 2004 to date so I split it up into 99 through 2003. 39:36.000 --> 39:39.000 three, just click the burn button out to select those pictures. 39:39.000 --> 39:43.000 Actually, I made a little smart playlist that says, you know, select all photos between these 39:43.000 --> 39:44.000 two dates. 39:44.000 --> 39:50.000 Burn that to DVD, popped it out, did the other one for 2004. 39:50.000 --> 39:52.000 And of course, I checked and made sure everything was working. 39:52.000 --> 39:58.000 I had a whole backup copy on a firewire drive before I deleted the iTunes, the picture, 39:58.000 --> 40:02.000 the iPhoto library references. 40:02.000 --> 40:07.000 And what's cool about it is now when I insert one of those two DVDs, it automatically fires 40:07.000 --> 40:11.000 up iTunes and presents me with the pictures exactly the way they were when they were on 40:11.000 --> 40:12.000 my hard drive. 40:12.000 --> 40:16.000 And the speed between getting them off the DVD and the hard drive is slower, but it's 40:16.000 --> 40:21.000 certainly manageable and I can whip up a slideshow and all the albums are still intact. 40:21.000 --> 40:24.000 So that is absolutely well done, very happy. 40:24.000 --> 40:27.000 And again, I think that sometimes those guys at Apple, man, they're probably smoking 40:27.000 --> 40:30.000 the same stuff that we are here down on Earth. 40:30.000 --> 40:32.000 And that's it for source code for today. 40:32.000 --> 40:34.000 We'll be back on Monday. 40:37.500 --> 40:41.500 If you want a response, send me email to adamanturi.com or leave a comment on my web 40:54.000 --> 40:56.000 The power of the author. 40:56.000 --> 41:01.000 Daily source code dot com slash rss dot xml. 41:01.000 --> 41:03.000 See you Monday! 41:03.750 --> 41:24.000 [ Music ] 41:24.000 --> 41:34.000 The power of the author.