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) lulop ( - The Public Internet News Gathering has more cool RSS feeds of Video news.

Very cool.

From The FeedRoom - List of RSS Channels:

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The FeedRoom, the world's premiere broadband news network, gives high-speed Internet users the video news they want, from the sources they trust, anytime they want.

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I would love to attend this event but i need more notice. 2 days is not enough. Hope it is archived!

From The Future Of Online Collaboration This Week At The Competitive Edge - Online Collaboration and Web Conferencing Breaking News - Kolabora.com:

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The Competitive Edge is back for its second live event, bringing together two visionary scholars and researchers of online collaboration as it is effectively applied to real world situations inside and outside small and large organizations.

Stuart Henshall and Eugene Eric Kim are the “expert” thought-leaders that will be engaging our elite audience of industry experts, marketing VPs and industry CEOs in a live audio/video exchange this upcoming Thursday at 12 noon NY time.

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700 blogs + mentioning RSS in a keynote to influential technology execs plus hiring Robert Scoble, ace blogger. The writing is on the wall. Mitch is right:Microsoft will move into the blog and social software space; it's only a matter of time.

From Red Herring Blog: Bill Gates’ blog strategy:

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Bottom-up collaboration is about exposing information and letting others decide what they want. This eliminates one of the biggest barriers to information flow: The fear that something you send out will not be wanted, when it may be the most important piece of information you have at the moment, though only to someone else who is prepared to recognize and use that information strategically or tactically.

Now, Mr. Gates is just getting this idea, but there is a small army of Microsofties already hard at work on this. As Reuters points out, Microsoft already has 700 bloggers on its payroll. About 1.2 percent of the company's workforce already blogs publicly and there are myriad internal blogs, wikis, and other forms of bottom-up collaboration going on inside the Redmond, Washington-based giant.

Indeed, in recent months, Microsoft has hired Ward Cunningham, who created the wiki, an easy collaborative work environment, and last year enlisted Robert Scoble, a tireless blogger and former marketer at blog developer Userland Software, to evangelize Longhorn to developers.

Microsoft is not climbing on the blogging bandwagon late. It has been riding the blog-RSS railroad for a long while, and may turn it into the juggernaut that attacks Google, leading to a host of M&A activity in the social software space as warring camps stockpile technology for a protracted fight for the bottom-up workplace infrastructure.

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Any way you slice it, this is not a good thing. The patent should never have been granted in the first place. and restricting live recordings using the patent as a legal weapon is clearly evil.

From
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In the past few years, fans leaving some concerts have discovered a souvenir far better than a T-shirt: a live recording of the show they just attended. Bands including the Allman Brothers, moe. and Billy Idol have sold instant concert discs, and the Pixies and the Doors plan to launch similar programs this summer. The recording-and-burning company DiscLive estimated on April 12th that it would gross $500,000 selling live discs this spring alone.

But in a move expected to severely limit the industry, Clear Channel Entertainment has bought the patent from the technology's inventors and now claims to own the exclusive right to sell concert CDs after shows. The company, which is the biggest concert promoter in the world, says the patent covers its 130 venues along with every other venue in the country.

"We want to be artist-friendly," says Steve Simon, a Clear Channel executive vice president and the director of Instant Live. "But it is a business, and it's not going to be 'we have the patent, now everybody can use it for free.'"

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Please help Jay out if you can! I did!

From cadence90:

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Blogger Jay McCarthy's family home was destroyed by fire early Sunday morning. You can give a buck or two to cover the unavoidable expenses -- fresh clothing, takeout pizza, etc., here:

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If you know of any candidates for the Canadian Federal election that have a blog with RSS, please leave a comment.

More info at MP Rating: Canadian Election 2004 - Desperately seeking candidate blogs

Something to check out. I really need to get a Linux box at home again! Someday!

From Liferea Homepage:

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Liferea is a simple FeedReader clone for Unix distributions with GTK2 (GNOME2 is optional). It is a news aggregator for RSS/RDF feeds which also supports CDF channels, Atom/Echo/PIE feeds and OCS or OPML directories. The problem with FeedReader: for now its only available for Windows. There are some projects for GNU/Linux, but no solution for GTK/GNOME, which does not require Python or Perl. Liferea tries to fill this gap. Liferea is an abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader.

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Very cool!

From Herecast: Location-Based WiFi Services:

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Herecast provides location-based services on a WiFi device. At its simplest level, it can tell you where you are. More advanced services can use your location to enhance information lookups, publish presence information, and create unique games -- all while preserving privacy.

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Must .... try .... this!

From RSS Quotes -- Home:

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RSSQuotes allows you to create and save a list of stocks, then delivers the quotes to your favorite RSS Reader during market hours. Most quotes are in REAL-TIME. Those not traded on the ECNs are 20 min. delayed.

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It starts with two. Join us won't you? You have nothing to lose except subsidizing the Canadian music business. A business where most artists make very little money and the fatcats in the middle make far too much.

Musicians will be better off if you buy tickets to their concerts, buy T-shirts and their CDs direct from the artists at their gigs rather than through record stores (I support Zulu and other independent record stores of their ilk; I don't suppport the chain record stores and other music business lackeys) and other non-value added channels.

From Random Bytes :: Canadian music industry boycott gains momentum:

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A boycott of two.

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Yet another reason not to buy CDs from artists (I love the music of the Tragically Hip and BNL but they are tragically misguided when it comes to 'piracy' from downloads and the effect on the music business) who are part of the dysfunctional recording industry. And I wouldn't bother downloading because I fear that they will come after you (to the detriment of music in general) at some point in the future. No, in my opinion, the only way to stop the CRIA and their misguided artists is to stop buying music from them at all and to stop downloading and to create your own music and to listen to the music of real artists who see an opportunity in downloading and not a threat.

(via Random Bytes) - From CRIA News:

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(Toronto) - Since the Federal Court decision on 31 March, Internet piracy has been rampant. The Tragically Hip, one of Canada's treasured cultural assets, was one of the hardest hit. During a five-week stretch from 30 March to 7 May, there were more than half a million unauthorized attempts to download the new Tragically Hip single, "Vaccination Scar". Overall, during this period, Universal Music reported 2.8 million attempts to illegally download The Tragically Hip’s recordings. During the same period fewer than 1,000 copies were purchased legally online.

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Lots more money to be made doing this kind of thing. Anybody know of a similar outfit in Canada? I bet you could do a more efficient system using secure RSS as well as and in addition to email.

From HouseValues receives $14 million investment:

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Now, he pays more than $1,000 per month in subscription fees to have exclusive rights to HouseValues' home sellers in Federal Way and Browns Point in Pierce County.

"Of all of the other approaches I have used to develop leads, this has been by far the most efficient," he said.

House hunters and sellers sign up at HouseValues.com or JustListed.com because they receive free house valuations or real estate listings from local agents. There are now about 2 million home buyers and sellers in the company's database.

Bringing together house hunters and real estate agents over the Internet is a business that has been difficult for many to crack. Morris, who previously ran MSN HomeAdvisor, thinks his company has created "a win-win" for both.

More than 80 percent of home buyers now begin their home search over the Internet. Helping real estate agents tap those Internet-savvy consumers is the company's primary goal, he said.

"We live and breathe for real estate agents," Morris said. "We are helping 10,000 real estate agents make more money than they ever thought was possible."

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Awesome! Must revisit Newzcrawler! From Erik's Weblog : How do I do it?:

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A few days ago, the folks on #mobitopia were wondering how I manage my Linkblog, etc. They thought it would be something interesting to blog about. I've briefly explained the process before, but I'll go in more details this time around. Here goes nothing. How many feeds do you read? I monitor around 1600 feeds on a daily basis. How long does it take to read them all? First, I don't actually read everything. I usually scan the subject/topic first and weed out the stuff I'm definitely not interested with. Second, I rarely read everything at once, but when I do, it takes a little over an hour. I usually spend 30 minutes or so here and there throughout the day. Which news/feeds reader do you use, and why? NewzCrawler. Everything else I've tried (and I've tried them all) chokes on the sheer volume, or lacks some major functionality I really need. When I find something of interest I post it using the Blog This! editor:

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Amazing. Jakob should follow this advice on his site. It would me it a lot more usable! Doctor heal thyself!

From Design by Fire: Design Eye for the Usability Guy:

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Last Monday, to much fanfare, Nielsen published the second part to his guidelines on the display of links. I was as shocked as anyone by it. He actually made sense!

Well, color me paranoid. I’m at loss. Beyond the awkward language, beyond the retina-burning presentation, and beyond a few misused design terms, I actually got from the King of Usability what I have been asking for all this time.

Life is good sometimes.

So, as you can see, I’ve implemented a few of the suggestions found in Nielsen’s Alertbox. I have added dotted underlines to my links, even though they look like shoddy, gnarly dashes in Internet Explorer, and I’ve changed the color of visited links to be a darker shade of red to distinguish them. I’m getting religion.

Further, in the spirit of sharing, I decided I’d gather up some knowledgeable designers and help Nielsen in return with a little bit of design advice. The Design Fab Five, right here, right now.

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We're getting there!

From Jon Udell: Random access to Web audio:

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According to this comparison of HTTP 1.0 and 1.1, the URL parameter idea ran afoul of HTTP 1.1's conditional GET feature, and so byte ranges migrated into the realm of HTTP headers.

To sum up, an ordinary downloadable MP3 sitting on a conventional Web server (as opposed to a streaming MP3 hosted on an Icecast or Shoutcast server) is perfectly able to be randomly accessed -- but only by means of HTTP Range headers, not by means of parameterized URLs. And some (but evidently not all) MP3 players are prepared to exploit that random-access feature

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Fred Fabro, Jon Husband and myself (part time only for me!) are working on this in the soon to be released beta of QuickDraft (or whatever Fred is calling it these days :-) !). The beta will be crude but hopefully show the potential of what we have in mind for future releases.

From Visualizing Weblog Conversations - The Social Software Weblog - socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com:

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We are interested in a design that combines a search interface with a visual representation of blog conversations. We believe that a text-only representation of search results and blog linkages will hide the complexities of these conversations as well as conceal valuable data. Additionally, there will be opportunities for other features, such as dynamic filters, zooming, and so forth, pending early testing and prototypes.

Who else is working on the visualization of weblogging conversations?

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Jon nails it. If email direct marketers practiced what they preached, they'd use RSS as it is today: an opt-in media instead of using email which is a 'impossible-to-opt-out' media.

And I expect to see more and more personal RSS feeds!

From Jon Udell: Pushmepullyou:

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I think the rhetoric of email direct marketing -- that it's an opt-in, customer-controlled medium -- should correspond to the reality. It makes email direct marketers understandably nervous when I point out that RSS has all the right characteristics -- including, nowadays, lower cost, given the expense incurred on both ends of the email pipe in order to keep the channel clear.

Obviously direct marketers will be among the last to relinquish channel control to the customer. Meanwhile, there's another species of email that's ripe for migration to RSS: institutional alerts. My bank, for example, sends me email alerts when my checking balance falls below $500. To separate those alerts from my spam filters on the one hand, and from my interpersonal email on the other hand, I had to write a filter to catch them and route them to a folder. Many (probably most) people won't go that extra mile. They'll have to pluck the bank's messages from a chaotic email stream, and will wind up missing some alerts.

The obvious alternative is a personalized RSS feed. Does anyone have this already? I'm hoping that, before the end of this year, at least one of the institutions that currently sends me email alerts will offer an RSS option.

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Sounds cool . Must check this out.

From .NET Buzz Forum - The World's first 3D BlogReader by Holger Ferstl:

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I was always wondering how to get deeper sight into Scoble's postings, to zoom into his words. .. Perhaps to see his postings in other way? ... Holger Ferstl wrote the first 3D Blog Reader (it's in german) using .NET and Direct X. Pan, Zoom and change your point of view while reading Blogs. Gotcha Scoble! :-)

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Excellent re-invention of the 1999 Manila prior art. Now if this meme would spread to other blog systems!

From Life With Alacrity: Simple Yet Sophisticated Group Page Editing:

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At the fundamental level, EditThisPagePHP basically just let you remotely edit a single page. There are many situations where existing Wiki or Blog software is too complicated, or imposes too much structure. EditThisPagePHP lets you have total control over the HTML -- you can use sophisticated CSS layouts, or very simple HTML -- the software does not get in the way.

Yet in spite of this simplicity, EditThisPagePHP also uses ideas drawn from various Wiki, Blog, and CMS (content management system) technologies. Like Wikis, it supports an edit-this-page button, page history, page diffs, and can email users when pages change. Like Blogs, it supports optional user comments, trackbacks (both send and receive), and delivers two RSS feeds -- one for the current version of the page, and one with diffs. Like a CMS, it supports multiple roles, by default a reader, an editor, and a super-editor -- each with different privileges.

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