Sure, interest is going to rise as DV cams are dropping in price and as the distribution model is improved as far as hardware and syndication goes. But to look at video as an improvement over radio — the long lost brother with all the visuals — doesn’t seem right. Radio is an artform in itself and has survived television, movies and the internet. Probably with less listeners, but just as I found aggregation of blogs absolutely mindblowing, the autosyncing of audiocontent altered my everyday life. The point is I can listen to all the good DIY content while doing other things. Biking, riding cars, cooking; podcasting is my friend. When in a bus, on a train, on a plane, video will rock, definately. But these forms will happily coexist, I’m telling ya.

Audio content jumps right into an empty attention sweetspot where video has to compete with other activities taking up full attention. Which is fine. I’d rather watch the Daily Show than read some silly free paper while commuting. Having played for two minutes with a PSP though, makes me pretty convinced that Jobs was right when he stated that the screen might be too small. It still is. And the device isn’t online. The PSP is — with a larger screen. More convergence, please.

In that light, it’s interesting that the iPod now can record in a decent way.

That being said, I’m looking forward to more video content, to see the new iPod in action and to witness the result of the crybaby record industry finally realizing that there are millions of ways to make money on the content they already have; this time it’s movies and music videos. In a couple months’ time, Jobs will show a slide with impressive sales of video content. So stop complaining.

Tags: podcasting, video, vlog

Q: Is Brent moving to Denver? Or Tennessee?


Greg: Yes!


Brent: No, I’ll be staying in Seattle.


Greg: Darn it, I’m 0 for 2. Denver’s not such a bad place, you know. We have 4 seasons and everything!

Brent: As a Macintosh user interface designer I like to simplify whenever possible. Four seasons is two too many. Seattle has two seasons, rainy and dry — anything more is too complex for new users. ;)

Actually, decent Mac/PC syncing might not be bad at all.

Tags: nnw

Det er jo ikke konceptet ‘avistid’ der er noget galt med. Aviser kan være enormt afslappende, give et vist overblik og signalerer overskud. SÃ¥ langt sÃ¥ godt. Men at gøre det til main selling point er nok at strække den, især nÃ¥r man gennem sit kampagnesite effektivt lukker for dialogen.

Jeg fÃ¥r heller ikke det store ud af en helsides Thomas Helmig, der i en farvetoning der var superhot forrige Ã¥r, lægger ansigt til en tekst, der helt tydeligt har fÃ¥et mere end en tand livsstilsnak for meget. MÃ¥ jeg minde om, at aviser, der reklamerer bør bruge lidt kræfter pÃ¥ det skrevne — det er det vi forventer I gør, nÃ¥r I producerer avis. Og sÃ¥ kan Thomas Helmig ligne Flemming Poulsen sÃ¥ meget han vil.

Jeg foreslår blogtid.dk. Lynproduceret brugerindhold, der som en lille modvægt påpeger både det uheldige i kampagnens pointe og pengene, der er smidt efter den.

Jeg forestiller mig ikke det vil tage lang tid at skyde et par billeder af en glad onlinemedielæser og fÃ¥ nogle positive udsagn. Udsagn, der ikke er skrevet af en praktikant pÃ¥ et reklamebureau, men af engagerede mennesker der ikke har som hovedformÃ¥l at sælge noget i klichefyldte vendinger — men at dele erfaringer om en medieform de holder af og kan argumentere for.

Ligeså med film. Den første glimrende ide er allerede hos Balslev og flere kunne følge.

Samlet budget? 4,5 kroner — ikke 45 mio. De gÃ¥r til at sende linket pÃ¥ siden til lederen af avistid.dk med post. Han kan umuligt have mail.

Tags: avistid, blogging, media, newspaper, rss

New city, new temporary subscription providing valuable hints and more, such as Berlin Snap Shots, a nice snapshot blog from Berlin.

Had good fun subscribing to the roskilde tag during the festival (the next best thing if you can’t go) and to the reboot7 tag the days following the conference (great, especially if you went).

I wonder if you can setup your aggregator with a ‘subscribe until’-date — or ‘subscribe for the next n days’…?

Nyholm has got some good thoughts on Living through tags. Quick comment: The massive number of entries added to del.icio.us (or the other services) certainly is quite overwhelming. But for the first few days, I’ve found that taking the time to quickly sort through it all usually pays off. Often stuff pops up that I hadn’t thought of. but yes, I have narrowed down my serach now.

I’ve mentioned it before and hoped that I got round to do some splicing of my own to get camblog/sideblog feeds in there as well, but for now I’ll settle with just taking a look at the statistics of the blog feed.

I’ve done a
Redirect temp /blog/index.rdf http://feeds.feedburner.com/pollasatom

which I hope is correct procedure (I’m a .htaccess amateur for those of you who haven’t guessed it). Don’t subscribe to the feed just yet, things might change.

To start audio blogging, you have to do the hard part first — record the audio file. Be interesting. Let’s say you recorded as an MP3 file. Then upload the MP3 file to your web server so that it is available for download. Then create a new blog entry that announces your post and has a link to the MP3. The link should be a standard tag with the HREF pointing to the MP3. Save and rebuild your index files. Your RSS 2.0 index will now have an tag in it pointing to the MP3. You are all done!

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the big bang movie to buy

Hope I find the time to play with podcasting soon.

Most of the hype comes from the press, but I’ve been shocked at the lack of shame some people have about exploiting it. RSS does nothing new, it’s just marginally more convenient than browsing the websites manually. It’s like getting VC for browser bookmark.

This and other truths are all in there.