WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:14.000 I'm a Korean, it's Wednesday September 15th 2004. 00:27.000 --> 00:29.000 even be tomorrow. 00:29.000 --> 00:31.000 So this is the place where users and developers party 00:31.000 --> 00:32.000 together. 00:32.000 --> 00:35.000 It's the daily source code. 00:35.000 --> 00:38.000 And I discovered something horrible today. 00:38.000 --> 00:42.000 I was I registered for some, I was looking at different 00:42.000 --> 00:45.000 services, that's what it was, for voiceover IP, still in my 00:45.000 --> 00:49.000 ultimate quest to find a voiceover IP provider that 00:49.000 --> 00:52.000 actually gives me dial-up numbers in multiple countries. 00:52.000 --> 00:57.000 And excuse me, that's a cup of tea there. 00:57.000 --> 01:00.000 And I've learned that when you register for something online, 01:00.000 --> 01:02.000 when they say we'll send you an email, usually the first 01:02.000 --> 01:05.000 place you need to look is your junk mail folder, because 01:05.000 --> 01:09.000 that's probably where that type of email is going to show up, 01:09.000 --> 01:11.000 something in the algorithm that always sends it there. 01:11.000 --> 01:14.000 And so I was looking, I just kind of on a fluke. 01:14.000 --> 01:17.000 Now I'm using Apple's mail program, and I actually have 01:17.000 --> 01:19.000 it running through mac.com. 01:19.000 --> 01:22.000 So if you send an email to curry.com, it's routed 01:22.000 --> 01:23.000 through mac.com. 01:23.000 --> 01:26.000 The reason why is because they have built-in spam filters. 01:26.000 --> 01:27.000 There's still a lot of stuff that 01:28.500 --> 01:30.500 I've just manually wanted to filter out. 01:30.500 --> 01:33.500 And boy, was I surprised when I just did a little quick search 01:33.500 --> 01:35.500 for iPodder and for source code. 01:35.500 --> 01:38.500 I have missed a lot of email, and I apologize 01:38.500 --> 01:39.500 that I haven't checked earlier. 01:39.500 --> 01:42.500 There were some messages that date back to August. 01:42.500 --> 01:45.500 Like, whoops. 01:45.500 --> 01:48.500 So I just wanted to run through a couple of pieces of mail 01:48.500 --> 01:51.500 that I found in my junk mail box, because a lot of them 01:51.500 --> 01:52.500 were responses to the show. 01:52.500 --> 01:54.500 Here's one from Danny. 01:54.500 --> 01:57.500 You see, he said, you asked for a reason as to why Skype 01:57.500 --> 01:59.500 is better than standard SIP protocols. 01:59.500 --> 02:01.500 Now, we talked about that. 02:01.500 --> 02:06.500 So what's the big difference with my question between a lot 02:06.500 --> 02:09.500 of these voice over IP service that you see and Skype? 02:09.500 --> 02:11.500 So Danny says, very roughly, the primary difference 02:11.500 --> 02:14.500 is that SIP, let's just call it SIP, 02:14.500 --> 02:16.500 depends upon a central server to act as the switch 02:16.500 --> 02:17.500 for the voice calls. 02:17.500 --> 02:19.500 Skype has distributed this functionality 02:19.500 --> 02:23.500 across all of its users, decentralizing the switch. 02:23.500 --> 02:24.500 This only provides greater reliability, 02:24.500 --> 02:26.500 not having central choke points. 02:26.500 --> 02:29.500 It also allows Skype folks to operate a huge voice network 02:29.500 --> 02:31.500 with a lot of different features. 02:30.000 --> 02:35.000 having to buy racks and racks of servers to run SIP on. Makes sense. And now I understand, 02:35.000 --> 02:40.000 now that I indeed have been looking at how these providers are put together, indeed they're 02:40.000 --> 02:47.000 all using Cisco boxes or what's the other one, other dialog box, I can't remember 02:47.000 --> 02:52.000 all the names. And they are basically providing that bridge or they're buying that capability. 02:52.000 --> 03:00.000 And the connect point is indeed apparently a centralized service from what I can see. 03:00.000 --> 03:04.000 And maybe there are some decentralized ones, but I'm having good success with Skype. 03:04.000 --> 03:07.000 It really pisses me off that I can't receive phone. 03:09.000 --> 03:10.000 I had a phone call with my secretary today. 03:10.000 --> 03:11.000 She's in Amsterdam. 03:11.000 --> 03:12.000 I'm in Belgium. 03:12.000 --> 03:14.000 I Skyped her. 03:14.000 --> 03:16.000 Notice how that's becoming synonymous to an internet phone 03:16.000 --> 03:17.000 call. 03:17.000 --> 03:18.000 I Skyped her. 03:18.000 --> 03:22.000 And we went through at least about, was it actually? 03:22.000 --> 03:23.000 Look at it here. 03:23.000 --> 03:26.000 19 minutes on the phone. 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 It was a long distance country to country call. 03:28.000 --> 03:30.000 Normally I'm probably paying because we're calling between 03:30.000 --> 03:35.000 cell phones just out of, just because we're lazy. 03:35.000 --> 03:36.000 I'm probably paying at least a dollar. 03:36.000 --> 03:41.000 And now I think I paid 30 cents for the entire conversation. 03:41.000 --> 03:42.000 And you know what? 03:42.000 --> 03:44.000 There's always room for more money. 03:44.000 --> 03:47.000 So spending less equals the same thing in my book. 03:47.000 --> 03:49.000 Another email from Michael. 03:49.000 --> 03:52.000 Let's see what Michael had to say here. 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 He says that he discovered daily source code just 03:54.000 --> 03:55.000 yesterday. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 Now this was sent almost two weeks ago. 03:57.000 --> 04:00.000 He's become absolutely addicted to audio blogs. 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 He spent the entire day learning about RSS feeds 04:02.000 --> 04:03.000 and enclosures. 04:03.000 --> 04:07.000 And he says that he'd only seen these terms in passing 04:07.000 --> 04:11.000 when reading about the upcoming Safari RSS iteration. 04:10.500 --> 04:13.500 So he's clearly enjoying it. 04:13.500 --> 04:18.500 And let me see, why did I want to talk about this email? 04:18.500 --> 04:24.500 Oh, he's talking about an audio setup. 04:24.500 --> 04:28.500 Okay, when listening to your recordings, I was struck by the fidelity. 04:28.500 --> 04:31.500 My ask what mic software encoder setup you are using. 04:31.500 --> 04:33.500 I'm working on an Apple platform as well, 04:33.500 --> 04:37.500 but I struggle to determine exactly what mic and software to use to give everybody a good sound. 04:39.000 --> 04:39.000 Appreciate it, blah, blah, blah. 04:39.000 --> 04:40.000 Okay, Michael. 04:41.000 --> 04:44.000 So let me tell you how I'm doing this. 04:44.000 --> 04:48.000 First of all, the key to doing this type of show 04:48.000 --> 04:51.000 is to be able to record any sound 04:51.000 --> 04:54.000 that comes out of your computer speakers. 04:54.000 --> 04:55.000 In this case, I'm on a Mac, 04:55.000 --> 04:59.000 and unless you physically plug something into the line out 04:59.000 --> 05:01.000 and into a recording device, 05:01.000 --> 05:04.000 it's kind of hard to figure out how to do that. 05:04.000 --> 05:07.000 There's a little application called WireTap for OS X. 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 And when you fire that up, 05:09.000 --> 05:11.000 it will basically record anything 05:11.000 --> 05:13.000 that is sent through the speakers. 05:13.000 --> 05:15.000 So anything you can hear on the speakers, 05:15.000 --> 05:17.000 including when I turn up my volume, listen to this. 05:19.500 --> 05:23.500 So you heard the little blips there of me turning up the volume. 05:23.500 --> 05:24.500 All of that is recorded. 05:24.500 --> 05:29.500 And it's recorded unfortunately to an AIFF file which I then later have to transcode 05:29.500 --> 05:33.500 to MP3. 05:33.500 --> 05:36.500 The reason I do that is so that I can use QuickTime as my media player. 05:36.500 --> 05:39.500 So my opening tune is a QuickTime window. 05:39.500 --> 05:42.500 Then all the bits I want to play, if I want to play an MPEG movie or a QuickTime 05:46.500 --> 05:49.500 In fact, I'm going to do that today. I have a couple of those queued up. Now you still 05:49.500 --> 05:54.500 need to get your mic in. There are different ways to do that. Basically, any program that 05:54.500 --> 05:58.500 will allow your microphone, your internal mic, or your external one, which I'll talk 05:58.500 --> 06:02.500 about in a second, to be played through your speakers will be perfect. Now, in this case, 06:02.500 --> 06:07.500 I'm using GarageBand, since I had the iLife Suite anyway. What's nice about GarageBand 06:07.500 --> 06:12.500 is you can set up filters and compressors. I just actually changed some of the settings. 06:12.500 --> 06:17.500 I had a noise gate in there before. The reason why I use a noise gate is so when 06:17.500 --> 06:22.500 there's a certain level of quiet in the room, then the microphone will just shut 06:22.500 --> 06:28.500 off, so you don't hear any ancillary noise. It's probably most often used 06:28.500 --> 06:33.500 for musical recordings of instruments, but we use it in radio studios all the time. 06:33.500 --> 06:38.500 I'll give you an example of what it sounds like. I've turned the gate on and you 06:38.500 --> 06:41.500 hear that when I breathe, when I stop breathing, if there's not enough 06:41.500 --> 06:44.500 ambient noise, then the gate cuts in and it shuts off the recording. 06:46.500 --> 06:49.500 And so you can set this a little bit looser to the top of it now. 06:49.500 --> 06:50.500 Okay. 06:50.500 --> 06:51.500 So you see that's what a gate is. 06:51.500 --> 06:57.500 Then you have things like a compressor which gives you a little more boost to the sound. 06:57.500 --> 07:00.500 I'm going to turn my compressor on right now. 07:00.500 --> 07:04.500 Now if you're listening to me on an iPod or you're listening through some big speakers, 07:04.500 --> 07:06.500 my voice is probably booming into the room right now. 07:06.500 --> 07:10.500 And that by the way is, oh, you get that big ass radio voice. 07:10.500 --> 07:12.500 Okay, so let's turn that off. 07:13.500 --> 07:14.500 Excuse me. 07:14.500 --> 07:20.500 And for microphone, I'm using a pretty interesting, I'm using a wireless set that we have left over 07:20.500 --> 07:25.500 from our reality TV show that we produced ourselves. 07:25.500 --> 07:29.500 These are, what the hell are these things? 07:29.500 --> 07:35.500 Electro, L-E-C-T-R-O, UHF wireless microphones. 07:35.500 --> 07:36.500 And these are professional. 07:36.500 --> 07:37.500 These are pretty expensive. 07:37.500 --> 07:41.500 This set costs me about, I think, 2,000 euros. 07:41.500 --> 07:45.500 It's about, yeah, about $22 to $2,500. 07:45.500 --> 07:47.500 But you can use all different types of microphones. 07:48.000 --> 07:54.000 And I found that if you go to Radio Shack and you buy one of their metal stick microphones, 07:54.000 --> 07:58.000 which looks very much like a Shure microphone, an old fashioned Shure microphone. 07:58.000 --> 08:05.000 I should actually, well, I'm sorry for the, for the feedback there, but I had to unplug 08:05.000 --> 08:06.000 the headphones. 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 I walk over to my microphone cabinet. 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 Pretty sure. 08:10.000 --> 08:14.000 I probably still have one of those laying here. 08:14.000 --> 08:17.000 Got all my good mics. 08:18.000 --> 08:20.000 Shoot. 08:20.000 --> 08:21.000 No. Okay. 08:21.000 --> 08:29.000 Can't find the, unfortunately I can't find it, but I'll look that up. 08:29.000 --> 08:32.000 I'll see if I can find what model number it is. 08:32.000 --> 08:36.000 If you can get that into your Macintosh, then there's all this process in it you can do. 08:36.000 --> 08:39.000 There's also, there's all kinds of different programs. 08:39.000 --> 08:44.000 There are a lot of mixing programs that will let you filter the audio on a particular channel 08:44.000 --> 08:47.000 and play it through so that you can hear it on the speakers. 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 Again, if you hear it on the speakers, wire tap is. 08:49.500 --> 08:54.500 going to record it. So one thing you're going to get used to is using the mute button on 08:54.500 --> 08:59.500 the program using to get your microphone on to the speakers so that I just turn it off 08:59.500 --> 09:04.500 and turn it back on because when you're playing something you clearly don't want any noise 09:04.500 --> 09:10.500 that you're making to be recorded as well. So you have to learn to shut your mic off. 09:10.500 --> 09:17.500 One more email. Oh the email bag is big today. Hi Adam this is from Julio. Oh this 09:17.500 --> 09:20.500 is cool. Just start listening to the daily source code. Want to tell you it's great. 09:20.500 --> 09:25.500 I listened to it on my commute in the 09:25.500 --> 09:26.500 Caracas. 09:26.500 --> 09:28.500 The subway system here in Caracas, Venezuela. 09:28.500 --> 09:32.500 Hey, we got Caracas on the wireless everybody. 09:32.500 --> 09:38.500 Um, so, and this is another email that was in the junk mail folder and so Julio says 09:38.500 --> 09:40.500 I guess someone must have answered your questions from the September... 09:42.000 --> 09:48.000 and here it goes. This was about the the iPhoto getting in a CD or DVD of iPhoto's 09:48.000 --> 09:52.000 when you put it back in you know the whole thing that that iPhoto actually 09:52.000 --> 09:57.000 boots back up and makes it look just like they're sitting on your hard drive. 09:57.000 --> 10:00.000 So if I'd gotten that earlier then I would have known earlier. Thank you. 10:00.000 --> 10:06.000 And also apparently in iTunes as I said you can select the iPod references and 10:06.000 --> 10:10.000 choose manually manage songs and playlists. After that you can erase 10:10.000 --> 10:13.000 all your files from the computer clearing up space and they will remain on your iPod. 10:13.000 --> 10:18.000 Interesting. Downside you have to move files in manually. Upside you can connect 10:18.000 --> 10:22.000 your iPod to other Macs listed in Music Audit just not just your own Mac. 10:22.000 --> 10:28.000 Okay so that's some iTunes tips from Julio checking us out from Caracas. 10:28.000 --> 10:33.000 Excellent. And today is a very exciting day here at Curry Castle. 10:33.000 --> 10:37.000 It's September and that means it is time to harvest. 10:37.000 --> 10:41.000 Aha! Horticulture on the source code you think. Well indeed. 10:43.500 --> 10:50.500 A couple months ago, I was given by my friendly coffee shop, Purple Rain in Breda, which is 10:50.500 --> 10:55.500 about 25 minutes drive north of here in Holland. 10:55.500 --> 11:01.500 Five wonderful little marijuana plants, of which, well I put them all in our, we have 11:01.500 --> 11:04.500 a little greenhouse, I started growing them a couple months ago. 11:04.500 --> 11:07.500 I didn't know anything about it, you know, just checked a few things on the internet, 11:07.500 --> 11:12.500 didn't really look into how you're supposed to do it, and then figure out after several 11:12.500 --> 11:16.500 months and after these plants were just huge, I figured out, you know, you have to 11:16.500 --> 11:21.500 control their light cycle in order to get them to bloom, because that's the stuff 11:21.500 --> 11:23.500 that you want to cut off. 11:23.500 --> 11:27.500 And so what I did is I set up a little thing down in the basement, brought the 11:27.500 --> 11:31.500 plants down, and these were almost like mini shrubs, they're like trees at this 11:31.500 --> 11:37.500 point, and started cultivating them underneath light, 12 hours on, 12 hours 11:37.500 --> 11:40.500 off, and then bring that cycle down. 11:40.500 --> 11:44.500 Since they were outdoor plants moved indoor, eventually four of them didn't. 11:45.000 --> 11:50.000 make it and they like boom just died overnight which really sucked and I've 11:50.000 --> 11:55.000 had one left and it's pretty humongous we think we're going to be able to cut 11:55.000 --> 11:58.000 quite a lot off of it never done the cutting before and of course we have 11:58.000 --> 12:03.000 to dry everything so that is on this evening schedule we're going to watch 12:03.000 --> 12:07.000 television and we're going to cut all the little buds off the plant and hang 12:07.000 --> 12:13.000 up to dry and I will you know what and I think we should do I think that takes 12:13.000 --> 12:17.000 at least a week maybe even longer to dry him we'll have to celebrate together on 12:17.000 --> 12:23.000 the source code and I'll spark one up for you and pass a virtual doobie let's see 12:23.000 --> 12:32.000 just running through the news man Ivan possibly on its way to Louisiana maybe 12:32.000 --> 12:36.000 by the time you hear this it's already hit that's really intense you know I've 12:36.000 --> 12:40.000 been there a couple times from already brought with MTV broadcasts great 12:40.000 --> 12:48.000 town and probably probably won't be able to withstand a big storm like that 12:46.500 --> 12:52.500 very well and also the geographical location. Topographical location isn't very advantageous 12:52.500 --> 12:58.500 as all the news media is telling us. And I wanted to mention Oprah briefly because her 12:58.500 --> 13:04.500 big Pontiac giveaway did not go unnoticed here either. So just to let you all know that 13:04.500 --> 13:10.500 if you think that maybe giving away, was it 260, $28,000 cars, if that was a bad 13:10.500 --> 13:14.500 idea while I'm telling you, everyone knows about the Pontiac here in Holland and they 13:14.500 --> 13:18.500 probably never even heard of Pontiacs before. So that really worked. Big and 13:18.500 --> 13:26.500 excellent, excellent PR move by Oprah and Pontiac. And yesterday I played some bits 13:26.500 --> 13:34.500 of Fahrenheit 9-11 and got some interesting responses to that. I think most 13:34.500 --> 13:38.500 people seem to agree with me. You know the message is clear but the way it was 13:38.500 --> 13:42.500 all cut up was just almost unnecessary to do it that way. I was really 13:42.500 --> 13:48.500 interested in the historical part of what this documentary is supposed to show. 13:48.000 --> 13:52.000 which definitely was there, but all the hokey bits just didn't seem necessary. 13:52.000 --> 13:54.000 And almost, I think, attracted from the message. 13:54.000 --> 13:58.000 So on source code, we do wanna keep to equal air time. 13:58.000 --> 14:03.000 And I ran across a new documentary, which should be out on DVD very soon, 14:03.000 --> 14:06.000 which is probably just as bad as Fahrenheit 9-11. 14:06.000 --> 14:09.000 This is called Fahrenheit 9-11. 14:09.000 --> 14:14.000 And it has some saluminaries in there who go on record talking about 14:14.000 --> 14:19.000 Michael Moore's documentary, most notably Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City. 14:19.000 --> 14:23.000 I'm just gonna play the trailer so you can enjoy this bit of equal air time 14:23.000 --> 14:25.000 programming Fahrenheit 9-11. 14:36.000 --> 14:44.000 I probably should have queued that out. There's a whole bunch of what you're seeing right 14:44.000 --> 14:50.000 now on the screen is a whole bunch of reviews just like to do in the movies where it says 14:50.000 --> 14:54.000 Michael Moore best film, most important film ever. So it goes through that and here comes 14:54.000 --> 14:55.000 Ed Koch. 15:18.000 --> 15:22.000 man who says that the units have spread misery throughout the world. 15:24.000 --> 15:25.000 Come on. 15:25.000 --> 15:29.000 Michael Moore, I'm a safe shallow. 15:39.000 --> 15:42.000 The terrorist threat is real. It's every day it's real. 15:42.000 --> 15:46.000 I said 3,000 people were murdered! 15:47.000 --> 15:48.000 How the f*** do you say this? 15:48.000 --> 15:54.000 Someone has to explain that nobody took it seriously before George Bush on 9-11. 15:54.000 --> 15:58.000 Iraq was a war for oil. That's just propaganda, but out of the rocket, felt grenades. 15:58.000 --> 16:00.000 And 60 million years. 16:00.000 --> 16:02.000 Somebody's been slipping past the sanctions. 16:02.000 --> 16:03.000 No, fuck that one. They're all the same. 16:03.000 --> 16:05.000 Everybody wanted to defend Sadami, saying they don't like him at all. 16:05.000 --> 16:08.000 That's the first second day of war they wanted to escape. 16:08.000 --> 16:11.000 The biggest thing on their mind was their families, their lives. 16:11.000 --> 16:12.000 That's it. They didn't care about stuff. 16:12.000 --> 16:15.000 I thank God we have the baby on the actual... 16:15.000 --> 16:16.000 What's amazing about this war... 16:21.000 --> 16:25.000 President Bush said, I will do whatever it takes. 16:25.000 --> 16:30.000 You call out war from the get-go, and that really defined the war on terrorism. 16:30.000 --> 16:36.000 The fear for abusive freedom of speech in society is more freedom of speech than a channel. 16:36.000 --> 16:39.000 Somebody can sleep last night by a friend. 16:39.000 --> 16:42.000 Like Ron Reagan and Latchel was good. 16:42.000 --> 16:48.000 Michael Moore's film, in trying to knock our liberty, and trying to say that we don't have it, 16:48.000 --> 16:51.000 is the best illustration of how wrong his film is. 17:00.000 --> 17:02.000 Oh for 17:02.000 --> 17:08.000 Fahrenheit 9 1 1 savage pictures Fahrenheit Fahrenheit 9 1 1 17:08.000 --> 17:11.000 Dot com okay, you can go check that out so much for the equal error 17:11.000 --> 17:18.000 You know what it's only just a matter of time until someone's gonna come up with a perfect final cut pro edit of both the 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 Documentaries and put a against be and it's gonna be a even 17:24.000 --> 17:29.000 Oh, another video blog post that, actually a video blog post that I wanted to let you 17:29.000 --> 17:36.000 hear because this is Steve Garfield who has a very rye sense of humor. 17:36.000 --> 17:42.000 In fact, at the rate he's going, he could take those places. 17:42.000 --> 17:48.000 He went out as what he calls a citizen journalist for election day. 17:48.000 --> 17:54.000 Now it happened to be in his particular county was election day for sheriff. 17:54.000 --> 17:59.000 And he went to check out on the polling rules if everyone was adhering to a... 18:01.500 --> 18:05.500 that are supposed to be written in stone apparently when it comes to polling. 18:05.500 --> 18:10.500 Well, the post kind of speaks for itself. I'm going to play this as well. 18:10.500 --> 18:14.500 And just imagine Steve Garfield standing in front of buildings with people with signs behind him 18:14.500 --> 18:17.500 and you'll get the video part. It's titled, 150 Feet. 18:17.500 --> 18:22.500 Hi, this is Steve Garfield from SteveGarfield.com. 18:22.500 --> 18:27.500 It's Election Day in Boston and today's big primary race is the Sheriff's Race. 18:27.500 --> 18:31.500 Not many people seem to be voting today so the story that we're going to look at is 18:31.500 --> 18:36.500 if the people who are campaigning for any of the candidates are breaking the Massachusetts law 18:36.500 --> 18:41.500 which says you must stay within 150 feet of a polling place. 18:41.500 --> 18:49.500 Here in Jamaica Plain, the law is being abided by and the candidate supporters are staying well away from the polling place. 18:49.500 --> 18:55.500 Now we're in West Roxbury at the Holy Name Parish voting facility where we can obviously see 18:55.500 --> 19:02.500 that these campaign workers are well within the 150 foot legal limit where they're supposed to be. 19:03.000 --> 19:09.000 be out in the street and not the front steps. Has anyone from the polling place here told 19:09.000 --> 19:15.000 you about the law where campaigners need to be 150 feet away from the polling place? 19:15.000 --> 19:18.000 No, they haven't said that today. 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 So were you aware of that? 19:20.000 --> 19:21.000 Yes. 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 So what are we right here? How close are we? 19:23.000 --> 19:27.000 Well, it depends on what you're counting. Where you measure it to, if you're measuring 19:27.000 --> 19:32.000 to where the actual votes are taken, we're outside that 150 feet. 19:32.000 --> 19:34.000 I notice you're pretty close to the... 19:36.000 --> 19:36.000 uh... 19:36.000 --> 19:39.000 law which is supposed to be like a hundred fifty feet away 19:39.000 --> 19:44.000 uh... yes we are right now it's very slow there's nothing going on but as 19:44.000 --> 19:46.000 people start coming in 19:46.000 --> 19:50.000 so where would the polling place actually be like 19:50.000 --> 19:51.000 where does it start 19:51.000 --> 19:52.000 right here at the building? 19:52.000 --> 19:56.000 yes it does right there and i know that's a hundred fifty feet 19:56.000 --> 19:59.000 so if they enforce if they actually enforce that law where we would 20:01.500 --> 20:03.500 Really, that's fire. 20:12.000 --> 20:16.000 Rocksbury Branch Library and it's our third stop today. 20:16.000 --> 20:20.000 So I guess we could say we're two out of three because look at these people. 20:20.000 --> 20:24.000 These campaigners are right in front of the doorstep of the library. 20:24.000 --> 20:28.000 Steven Murphy, Marion Walsh, everybody signs, 20:28.000 --> 20:32.000 posted right up to the lamppost of the library. This is ridiculous. 20:32.000 --> 20:37.000 This law of staying within 150 feet of any polling place is just 20:37.000 --> 20:41.000 not being enforced two out of three times. I'd say if I went to ten more 20:41.000 --> 20:45.000 places, I bet you there'd be people all over the front of these polling places. 20:45.000 --> 20:49.000 So that's something that I think's got to change. I always drive by 20:49.000 --> 20:53.000 and am so upset when I see people swarming right over the front door. This is not right. 20:53.000 --> 20:57.000 You know, I just don't like it. This is Steve Garfield reporting for 20:57.000 --> 21:01.000 SteveGarfield.com. Excellent. Steve Garfield 21:01.000 --> 21:05.000 protecting democracy on the streets of Boston 21:05.000 --> 21:09.000 and very proud of him for doing that because it doesn't matter how trivial the law 21:09.000 --> 21:13.000 is. That's those are the rules. Before you know it, you're debating over 21:13.000 --> 21:15.000 hanging people. 21:13.500 --> 21:19.500 chats. Let's talk about enclosures for a second. There's, oh first of all, good new, well let 21:19.500 --> 21:27.500 me just back up for a second. Enclosures is really part of the technology that we're 21:27.500 --> 21:33.500 using for iPodder. If you haven't used it yet, check out iPodder.org and download one of 21:33.500 --> 21:36.500 these programs either for Mac or for Windows or even for Linux. They're all out there 21:36.500 --> 21:43.500 for iTunes, they're out there for Windows Media Player and if you have an MP3 device 21:45.000 --> 21:47.000 I want to dry them off. 21:47.000 --> 21:50.000 So if you have a MP3 player that works on Windows Media, 21:50.000 --> 21:54.000 then do something about that feedback. 21:54.000 --> 21:55.000 Then you're good to go. 21:55.000 --> 22:01.000 So how this is done is by creating an RSS 2.0 feed, 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 which is basically just a text file which 22:03.000 --> 22:10.000 has some fairly human readable words in it. 22:10.000 --> 22:15.000 And they represent little bytes of information, 22:15.000 --> 22:17.000 so a blog post typically. 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 And to each of those postings, you can attach a file. 22:19.000 --> 22:21.000 In this case, for the iPodder and for what 22:21.000 --> 22:26.000 we're doing with the source code and other programs like this, 22:26.000 --> 22:30.000 is we attach a URL to an MP3 file. 22:30.000 --> 22:34.000 And as far as I know, I think really only Radio User Land 22:34.000 --> 22:39.000 has it built into the blogging interface. 22:39.000 --> 22:40.000 If you make a web blog post, for instance, 22:40.000 --> 22:44.000 I say, hey, it's daily source code for September 15, 2004. 22:44.000 --> 22:47.000 MP3, it's going to be a great day. 22:46.500 --> 22:47.500 be about 35 minutes or 30 minutes. 22:47.500 --> 22:49.500 It's this big. 22:49.500 --> 22:51.500 And then I just add the URL to wherever that file is located. 22:51.500 --> 22:55.500 I add that in a little box that says Enclosure URL. 22:55.500 --> 22:56.500 And then it attaches it. 22:56.500 --> 23:00.500 And then my RSS feed goes out without enclosure attached to 23:00.500 --> 23:01.500 it. 23:01.500 --> 23:05.500 Word is that another great weblogs package called Word 23:05.500 --> 23:08.500 Press, which I'm very impressed with. 23:08.500 --> 23:10.500 They're now working. 23:10.500 --> 23:11.500 There are a couple of people working. 23:11.500 --> 23:11.500 I saw some Dutch guys. 23:11.500 --> 23:14.500 It's in fact working on adding enclosure support to Word 23:14.500 --> 23:16.500 Press, which will be great to have. 23:16.500 --> 23:19.500 And there's lots of people supporting this effort. 23:19.500 --> 23:22.500 So I'm sure that's going to show up pretty soon. 23:22.500 --> 23:26.500 Andrew Grumit has also started an audio blog. 23:26.500 --> 23:28.500 Or he started audio blogging. 23:28.500 --> 23:30.500 Let's put it that way. 23:30.500 --> 23:33.500 And I wanted to play an excerpt, which I haven't queued up. 23:33.500 --> 23:39.500 I just realized of Andrew talking about iPod and iTunes 23:39.500 --> 23:42.500 and how that really is going to be, how iTunes is going 23:42.500 --> 23:43.500 to be a killer app. 23:43.500 --> 23:45.500 Let me just skip through this with you for a second. 23:45.500 --> 23:46.500 Let's listen to Andrew's post here. 23:46.500 --> 23:47.500 Good evening. 23:48.000 --> 23:53.000 Andrew Grumit, it's September 14th, 2004, about 945. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 Hold on, I'm gonna fast forward you Andrew. 23:58.000 --> 24:01.000 You decide a pub date is for a file that was created. 24:01.000 --> 24:02.000 Okay, so a whole bunch of techy stuff in there 24:02.000 --> 24:05.000 about when, you know, what kind of information 24:05.000 --> 24:08.000 is to be in the RSS 2.0 file. 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 Users might wanna listen to it, 24:10.000 --> 24:11.000 although you might not understand it, 24:11.000 --> 24:14.000 but this is pretty important stuff, 24:14.000 --> 24:16.000 so we can get these iPodder programs working properly. 24:17.000 --> 24:18.000 Let me see. 24:18.000 --> 24:22.000 So that's probably, I'm gonna probably leave it there 24:22.000 --> 24:26.000 unless I get strong feedback that it's just unworkable. 24:26.000 --> 24:27.000 Okay. 24:27.000 --> 24:28.000 Let's see. 24:28.000 --> 24:31.000 Adam Curry had some nice ideas, 24:31.000 --> 24:36.000 one of which was that the, I think he noted that, 24:39.000 --> 24:47.000 I've putter type scripts on the extraction side, go and use the ID3 tag data to... 24:47.000 --> 24:51.000 This is about publishing using ID3 tags. 24:51.000 --> 24:53.000 Set up playlists and so forth. 24:53.000 --> 24:54.000 That's not the bit I want to... 24:54.000 --> 24:57.000 So should the publishing scripts go dig into the ID3 tags and... 24:57.000 --> 24:58.000 I have to talk about it. 24:58.000 --> 24:59.000 So I went ahead and added some to the script. 24:59.000 --> 25:00.000 Hold on a second. 25:00.000 --> 25:01.000 I have the Perl. 25:01.000 --> 25:03.000 I had to learn a little bit of stuff. 25:03.000 --> 25:04.000 It was... 25:04.000 --> 25:05.000 I sort of generalized... 25:05.000 --> 25:07.000 I really should have queued this up for you. 25:07.000 --> 25:09.000 So it's sort of a mini plug-in architecture. 25:09.000 --> 25:11.000 Okay, now go for it. 25:11.000 --> 25:16.000 Okay, so, oh, and Adam also had an observation about ease of use. 25:16.000 --> 25:17.000 And it's definitely true. 25:17.000 --> 25:20.000 This is kind of a geek script. 25:20.000 --> 25:23.000 I don't expect everybody to set up cron jobs on their server. 25:23.000 --> 25:26.000 It happened to be the easiest thing for me. 25:26.000 --> 25:32.000 And what my idea was to combine it with Radio User Land upstreaming so that what 25:32.000 --> 25:36.000 I can do is drag my audio file to a folder. 25:36.000 --> 25:39.000 It gets upstreamed by FTP. 25:39.000 --> 25:40.000 At some point a cron job... 25:40.500 --> 25:45.500 comes along and sees the new file and regenerates the RSS feed. So that's how I'm going to do it. 25:46.500 --> 25:56.500 But anyone is, the audience or the developer group who might be listening is more than invited to 25:56.500 --> 26:03.500 copy everything I've done and make it work really nicely on the desktop or use the ideas as a basis 26:03.500 --> 26:08.500 for, you know, steel-free-lead basically. Which is exactly what we want to see on the 26:10.500 --> 26:16.500 iPod or dev mailing list. So what Andrew was talking about there was about his DIR2 RSS script, 26:16.500 --> 26:22.500 which creates an RSS 2.0 file. Again, we're getting more and more blog software to support this, so 26:22.500 --> 26:27.500 that's going to get easier for users in the future. Now I think it's the part where he talks 26:27.500 --> 26:37.500 about the media players. Oh, last thing. I wanted to talk about a usability strategy, I guess, 26:37.500 --> 26:41.500 something I did with my iPod that seems kind of useful. I think other people have noted that 26:42.000 --> 26:48.000 iTunes has this thing called the smart playlist and you can tell the smart 26:48.000 --> 26:53.000 playlist. You can tell it you want the last 10 items added to your iPod, you 26:53.000 --> 27:00.000 know, ordered, if I reverse chronological date added, and so that's really a great 27:00.000 --> 27:04.000 way. That for me is the killer app. You know, I just want to go into the iPod, 27:05.000 --> 27:12.000 you know, go to my latest playlist and just sort of, you know, hit play at the top 27:12.000 --> 27:18.000 and have it go down through the last few things added. And one little trick is that 27:19.000 --> 27:24.000 it seems to, the iPod wants to display the list alphabetically. So it seems like, 27:24.000 --> 27:31.000 so I went in and I renamed my latest playlist to 00 latest, which bubbles it up to the top, 27:31.000 --> 27:36.000 so there's even less work. So that seems to be working well and maybe it'll work well for you. 27:37.000 --> 27:43.000 Okay, that's all I have to say and I'm going to go ahead and try publishing this with the latest version of 27:43.500 --> 27:45.500 my script and we'll see how it goes. 27:45.500 --> 27:46.500 Well it worked Andrew. 27:46.500 --> 27:47.500 Take care everybody. 27:47.500 --> 27:48.500 Thank you very much. 27:48.500 --> 27:50.500 So that's interesting there. 27:50.500 --> 27:53.500 Again we spoke about that yesterday where your media player is starting to look a little bit... 27:55.500 --> 27:59.500 a playlist but it's the same thing as rules and you can call it a playlist you 27:59.500 --> 28:05.500 can call it a folder. I mean this nuance is everything in this. And on the list 28:05.500 --> 28:09.500 further I'm seeing a lot of people now talk about hey you know this is so 28:09.500 --> 28:12.500 successful we should start setting ourselves up for other types of 28:12.500 --> 28:16.500 enclosures like video and applications and this is where I want to see like a 28:16.500 --> 28:19.500 back off the developers a little bit because we're gonna get ahead of 28:19.500 --> 28:24.500 ourselves. We still need to get the right installers already I posted today 28:24.500 --> 28:28.500 there's a Windows configuration tool for the Windows iPodder which is great 28:28.500 --> 28:33.500 but on on install I'll just run you through the steps that typical user will 28:33.500 --> 28:38.500 need you know and from a Mac OS X OS 10 perspective obviously and we download 28:38.500 --> 28:43.500 this you know a sit file or whatever it could be a DMG I want it to be a disc 28:43.500 --> 28:48.500 image at a certain point that opens up it says double click here it's probably an 28:48.500 --> 28:52.500 Apple script a double click it sets up my cron job and it pops up a dialogue 28:52.500 --> 28:56.500 and says iPodder will run at these times and make it 3 a.m. 28:57.000 --> 29:06.000 8am, 11pm, whatever, and you could check off or maybe check a few more hours as options. 29:06.000 --> 29:09.000 And that's going to be set up in your cron job, it's going to make it run. 29:09.000 --> 29:13.000 And then it's going to say, you're subscribed to these feeds automatically and you can deselect 29:13.000 --> 29:15.000 any one of them you want to. 29:15.000 --> 29:21.000 And it's also going to tell you how you can add another feed to it, which should 29:21.000 --> 29:23.000 be able to be done after the install. 29:23.000 --> 29:25.000 And really that's it. 29:25.000 --> 29:30.000 The only other thing you'd want perhaps is just a hello world thing to make your user 29:30.000 --> 29:31.000 really happy. 29:31.000 --> 29:36.000 Where you've installed this thing, it should go out, it should download an mp3 from, 29:36.000 --> 29:42.000 you know, just a set mp3 that's always there in an rss file that never changes. 29:42.000 --> 29:44.000 And it'll be, hi, hello world. 29:44.000 --> 29:47.000 You have successfully installed the iPod. 29:47.000 --> 29:50.000 And of course that should transfer onto the iPod or whatever device. 29:50.000 --> 29:55.000 That should be put into a special hello world welcome playlist. 29:55.000 --> 29:58.000 And I think that once we've got all that set up and users are able to just download 29:58.000 --> 29:58.000 this. 29:58.500 --> 30:04.500 thing and their iPod is working then we can move on to other types of enclosures. 30:04.500 --> 30:08.500 And by the time we've got the installation we'll also have other types of devices to 30:08.500 --> 30:09.500 talk to. 30:09.500 --> 30:11.500 Time for the song of the day. 30:11.500 --> 30:18.500 I was rolling through the iTunes playlist and Patricia and my wife was sitting beside 30:18.500 --> 30:20.500 me and she said, oh yeah. 30:20.500 --> 30:23.500 This is, are you searching for a song for the source code? 30:23.500 --> 30:24.500 I said oh yeah. 30:24.500 --> 30:27.500 She said, this has got to be the one then. 30:27.500 --> 30:30.500 She's missing a rock and roll band and the world plays it. 30:30.500 --> 30:33.500 They may not know all the words but it's a classic. 30:33.500 --> 30:36.500 It's a little singing with me and the job. 30:38.750 --> 35:36.250 [ Music ] 35:37.500 --> 35:53.500 I'm going to wrap it up today with just a brief pointer to the new search engine on the scene. 35:55.500 --> 35:59.500 I was pointed to it by something Dave wrote about it. 35:59.500 --> 36:03.500 Apparently, well, that's something for a different discussion. 36:03.500 --> 36:08.500 But anyway, a9.com, which is certainly less typing to get to than google.com. 36:08.500 --> 36:09.500 Interesting search engine. 36:09.500 --> 36:16.500 I'm pretty sure they use Google's search engine, but they do have some interesting 36:16.500 --> 36:17.500 features. 36:17.500 --> 36:24.500 You know, your history of searches, you can open up multiple frames for different types 36:24.500 --> 36:30.500 of searches next to each other, such as a search based on web pages, a search based on images. 36:30.500 --> 36:36.500 So definitely worth taking a look at, and probably worth having a conversation with Dave Weiner 36:36.500 --> 36:37.500 over. 36:37.500 --> 36:39.500 Now, that's a plan. 36:39.500 --> 36:41.500 And that's it for source code for today. 36:41.500 --> 36:44.500 I'll be back tomorrow with another edition of your daily source code. 36:46.500 --> 36:53.500 If you want to subscribe to the show by RSS check my know with enclosures it's dating source code.com