Ryan Greene: Web stuff

Three (OK, Four) Cool Stories

Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:21:10 GMT

Three cool stories about what I see as converging technologies:

Networked Video gets a Chip. ViXS is ready to deliver its XCode processor for delivering broadcast quality video at a full 30 frames per second over wireless LANs.
Samsung Looks for Middle Ground in Handheld Market. With the size of a PDA but the face of a notebook, Samsung is hoping its new NEXiO will appeal to mobile professionals that want more out of their handheld devices.
[Both from allNetDevices Wireless News, 9/26/2002; 12:43:56 AM.]
Labels shoot selves in foot by focusing on stopping P2P. A new KPMG study concludes that the RIAA and its member companies are hurting themselves by focusing on cracking down on P2P sharing instead of figuring out ways to earn a living with it. Link Discuss (Thanks, Michael!) [ Boing Boing Blog, 9/25/2002; 12:01:23 PM]

So, we are now at a point where your wireless handheld could have an embedded chip that decodes all availalbe MPEG streams, and, should labels wise up, this could be streamed to you wirelessly. Oh, combine this with
Can Libraries Circulate Videos To PDAs Now?.

"Despite the imbalanced nature of several panels, the conference was still well worth attending, with some terrifically sharp questions from the audience and some combative give and take on panels such as the State of the Industry roundtable, where Intertainer CEO Jonathan Taplin said his startup was willing to take on the Hollywood studios in court, after the studios had cut the number of movies available to his company from 1,500 titles to 15. The verbal shot across the bow, as it turned out, was accompanied by court papers, which were being filed the very same moment in federal court, alleging that the studios had violated antitrust laws by forming their own cartel, Movielink. (The San Jose Merc has the story today here.)" [JD's New Media Musings][http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/"> The Shifted Librarian, 9/26/2002; 12:43:51 AM.]

Now we have the opportunity for your local library to stream a file to you, wirelessly, wherever you are in the range of their WiFi network*. Imagine if you could "check out" public domain recordings that are streamed to you, allowing you to listen to music, read books that are from Project Gutenberg, watch movies, or access the internet, all from your home, and all because instead of a library card, you've got a NEXiO that the library lends out to users, allowing them to get all kinds of information that they have on hand.

Instead of giving kids full blown laptops, give them NEXiOs (or OQOs) and then they have something small enough to be carried easily, but so useful that they will not soon forget it. Get the school or library to use a P2P network like a customized version of The Circle for file sharing, or better yet Frontier so that the kids can upload/download their homework, check their grades via a Flash based digital dash, and keep an eye on their schedules (Userland, have you considered this market?) Parents can keep track of their kids performance, as well as keeping an eye on their schedule from wherever they might be.

Now imagine that the library/school/town has an IMbot that retrieves information for you, just the basics for now (Library hours, is a particular title available), but later it could be programmed to do an information request interview (Forgive me Jenny, for forgetting the proper term) to help you get the info you need, either from home, on the road, or via the NEXiO.

So how do labels fit into all of this? They should be using local libraries as a means of distributing music files, either as a donation to the libraries, or by helping to convert their existing music banks to MP3 in order to share the music with local users. By providing the hardware and training to do so, they would then help the communities to get a leg up technology wise, and get some local good will going.

*I've been reading about WiFi networks that are getting a 20km range through a combination of directional antenna arrays and masts. A new use for the town clock tower, water tower, or co-locate with a hidden cellular tower? regardless, this would more than cover most towns, if not some smaller cities.

Go Cringely!

Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:51:33 GMT

Open Source TV [Slashdot]

Robert X Cringely describes his plan for NerdTV. Pretty cool, he'll be shooting on some JVC PAL miniDV camcorders, with progressive scan CCDS. That streamlines the conversion process and saves on frames per second for when they go go stream it out.

Additionally, the show is coming out in three versions, Nerd, Suit, and Raw, allowing end users to choose which show they want to watch (This Program is rated N for Nerds, by the Open Source Broadcasting Network.)

Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:43:31 GMT

I just read this great article - Via Doc - about two guys who went to Afganistan and reported from the front, Gonzo style. Sony Digital Cam, Laptop, and Video cam made it work, as well as a site set up for doing low bandwidth updates. Pretty sweet. I applaud them for going out there and doing it.

Um, Go Verizon!

Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:31:20 GMT

Finally, a Fair Fight with Big Music [Business Week: Technology]

The RIAA and Verizon are going at it hammer and tong over the issue of revealing a users identity, who was accused of trading music files via a P2P network. To Verizon's credit, they won't do it.

In a Sept. 10 "friend of the court" brief filed by the U.S. Internet Industry Assn., the ISPs argue that "what the RIAA is really seeking, at the end of the day, is to shift the burden of copyright enforcement from its own members -- who apparently would prefer not to alienate potential customers by suing them outright -- to an ISP that does nothing more than provide an Internet connection to the customer."

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Mon, 09 Sep 2002 11:49:26 GMT

Adam is looking forward to the P2P/RSS 2.0 revolution. So am I. Should the combination of a reliable P2P network (done) and an easy content creation system (almost there) come to pass, we'll start seeing all kinds of crazy stuff, far above and beyiond anything that we've seen thus far in terms of personal(ity) driven blogs, tied together with video, audio, and anything else that we can put together. I can't wait.

Sat, 07 Sep 2002 01:44:29 GMT

How to rework your Intranet with Manila and Radio. Lot's of people are asking me how they can provide a facelift to their Intranet and/or build an internal K-Log network (with Radio and/or Manila). I thought I would provide some of the information that I get asked often:

Manila ($899 a server -- there aren't any per seat or per domain charges) ($299 Academic)

1) Manila can be used to manage a standard informational website on an Intranet. These pages are easily managed through a browser-based WYSIWYG editing tool and management system. So, it is possible to enable authorized content owners with little to no technical training the ability to edit pages they have responsibility for (edit and add text, upload pictures and files, and much more). Additionally, Manila provides out of the box discussion groups, e-mail bulletins, easy theme management, and much more.

2) Manila can also serve an existing site as a static site through its integrated webserver. All you need to do is drop the files into a folder and tell Manila to serve them. Manila can also render pages it creates as static files that are served via the webserver. It is possible to run Apache and Manila on the same server and have Manila send static files to Apache to be served.

3) Manila can serve as a weblog server. Users can easily create personal weblogs using Manila. It can support hundreds of weblogs.

4) Manila can also run a Radio community server and serve those sites statically through its integrated webserver. The Radio community server provides community stats and management functionality that makes running a Radio community easy.

Radio ($39.95 a desktop)

1) Radio provides a way for individuals to publish a personal weblog to a Radio community server running Manila or via FTP to an account on a standard webserver. It also allows individuals to both syndicate their site and subscribe to news.

2) Radio can be used to create directories of resources on a Manila server. It is a very easy process using Radio's outliner. These directories can be linked together easily to create a master directory of resources with subsections managed by different individuals.

Basically, with Manila and Radio it is possible to build a large full featured Intranet on a single server that meets the needs of hundreds of individuals. The two can also be used in concert to quickly build a K-Log network. There is so much more, but this covers the basics. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Jake Rocks the Keyboard

Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:53:30 GMT

Jake makes some great points about a strategy that Macromedia should be pursuing, with regards to WYSIWYG editors for web posting.

Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:34:14 GMT

I just finished some documentation on Radio UserLand for K-Loggers. I am going to include how to set up a Radio Community, more concepts about K-Logging best practices, and other tips soon. Let me know what you think. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

A Cautionary Tale

Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:31:25 GMT

Adam has a tale of woe about his broadband provider and how they cut his access without warning or offering an upgrade. Bad Telenet! No more business for you!

Man, True.

Fri, 02 Aug 2002 02:10:15 GMT

Mary Wehmeier's observations on civility and forums. I agree. If you can't maintain a civil group shut it down. You owe it to the rest of community. With decentralization comes responsibility. Few people seem to have the ethics, maturity, and civility to maintain a discussion group. If you don't, shut your group down.

If you do want to run a discussion group, remember this: If a poster is out of line, bar them from posting, let them say it on their own weblog, against their name. Don't let people post under fake names just to be able to attack a person without consequence. If they do that, delete their post. It isn't part of the public record. If they cared strongly enough about their statement they would post it along with their name.

Also, if people come out left field, engage them. Make them qualify their statements. Don't let them go on and on with wild unsupported statements. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

A Reason to Buy a Dreamcast (If You Are Into This Sort of Thing)

Thu, 01 Aug 2002 09:18:45 GMT

When Dreamcasts attack. The Register Aug 1 2002 3:06AM ET... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

These guys have come up with a way to get use a Dreamcast as a means getting into a corporate network: Social engineer your way into the building and plant it. The DC then "phones home" and you are in. Since it look slike a toy, not a malicious hacking system, folks might not suspect anything until it is too late (que evil laugh).

Fun with trolls.

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:47:24 GMT

Arguing on the Internet.

Maybe it was a brush-with-mortality that gave me the perspective to see more clearly something that had been lurking around on the edge of my consciousness. Here it is, do with it what you want.

So much of the debate on the Internet seems aimed to so thoroughly discredit (or humiliate?) someone so that everyone will instantly stop listening to that person. I saw it in a new way when I saw Scott Rosenberg confronted by one of his detractors. Sheez, don't they know how hard it is being Scott? He does it cheerfully and honestly, oozing integrity, holding up far more of the Internet than he probably ever bargained for.

Such a position leaves no room for subtlety or complexity.

No one is so devoid of intelligence or soul. Not even a serial murderer, convicted and sentenced to death, has as little grace as the fools who argue this way say.

Greg Hranek explained this to me in an email last night when he raised the issue of honor, in re discourse on the Internet.

Aha! How come I never viewed it that way. A good retort to a flamer.

You have no honor.

Heh.

[Scripting News]

I've kept three things in mind while discussing things on the internet,

Imagine the person is sitting next to you as you're talking to them. Phrase accordingly.
Imagine they know where you live.
What you way will be recorded for the ages, and a quick check of IP adresses shows who you really are. I had a friend who was a third generation hacker, and he specialized in pinpointing people and sending them emails with satellite photos of their house telling them to knock it off. Never threatening them, just usually replying to the "You'll never find me!" trolls.

This "no honor" thing works as well, and makes for a good fourth rule.

Gonzo Marketing in effect, yo

Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:07:52 GMT

Press release: "Salon Media Group, in partnership with UserLand Software, today announced the launch of Salon Blogs, a new service that will allow Salon's users to publish their own weblogs through Salon." [Scripting News]

ISO stands up for open standards

Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:20:04 GMT

ISO Could Withdraw JPEG Standard [Slashdot]

The International Standards Organization is threatening to withdraw the JPEG image format if Forgent keeps pushing to collect on royalties based off their patent.

"Under ISO terms, formally you can only have a standard you can implement on free or RAND terms. "Reasonable and non discriminatory (RAND) terms are typically published, and the same for everyone. It's clear that Forgent's claims are not RAND. $15 million doesn't sound like free to me, and Forgent is not publishing the terms of their licensing.

There is a great Q&A with Forgent's PR manager about halfway down the page here.

Sat, 20 Jul 2002 12:17:49 GMT

A Flashy Web Communication Tool. Macromedia's new Flash Communication Server MX application is creating waves of excitement among the streaming and long-distance collaboration crowd. You know who you are. Lisa Delgado reports from New York. [Wired News]

More info on the new tool.

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:57:23 GMT

Knowledge Management. An interview with Robert Buckman of Buckman Labs in Singapore's Business Times [via Mohan Narendran's comment on John Robb's blog]: We found that over 90 per cent of the knowledge in the company was in the heads of our people and it was changing every minute of every day. It [E M E R G I C . o r g] I am blogging a blog that points to a comment on my blog. Say that ten times fast. Regardless, this is a great article that says basically that KM as it is practiced now is wrong. It only deals with explicit knowledge, which represents only 5% of corporate knowledge. The value is in finding a way to share the 90% of corporate knowledge in people's heads. The answer, of course, is K-Logs. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Agreed. By going to transparency in terms of process throughout an organization, you eliminate the fiefdoms that tend to pop up, and allow information to flow freely.

This eliminates the "Not my department" syndrome that I've seen in many a business, which can hamper information flow throughout a company. Information is the lifeblood of a company, letting ti pool up in one area is a bad idea.

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 02:54:14 GMT

Pretty cool: Google news. Details here, excerpted below. What I think is cool is that the news is generated with an algorithm, menaing that there is no editor sitting and determining what is (and isn't) news. Now if they just offered an rss feed...

A Novel Approach to News

Google's News Search (BETA) service presents information culled from many of the world's news sources collected over the previous week. With continuous updates throughout the day, you'll keep up to date with what's happening now and learn about the stories that led to the most recent developments.

What's different about Google's News Search is the unique grouping technology Google has developed to automatically put related stories together in the same search result. This makes it easy to quickly scan the headlines while providing the option of reading multiple accounts of a story from different news sources.

As we continue to improve our Google News Search service, we'll be adding more news sources and updating our index of stories more frequently. We believe these enhancements will make the service more useful, but we'd like to hear your opinions as well. What news sources would you like to see added? What advanced search features would be helpful? Are story groups a good idea or do they get in the way?

Hit it, it's stuck

Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:45:38 GMT

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[Wired News]

Verbatum from Wired. Someone messed up.

Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:22:19 GMT

Peercast: Peer-to-Peer Streaming [Slashdot: Index]

Wow. right now it's audio, can video be far behind?

Signs I need to switch to decaf

Sat, 13 Jul 2002 04:58:38 GMT

FCC Chief Slams TV Makers on Digital TV Conversion. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell slammed consumer electronics makers on Friday for an inadequate commitment to accelerating the transition to higher quality digital television. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]

The digital transition, which was designed to be completed by 2006, has been slowed in part by limited available content, potential piracy of content, and high-priced equipment needed to receive the higher-quality signals. (emphasis mine)

I've spent far too much time lusting after the HDTVs they have at the local Best Buy, and you know what? Pirating content isn't one of my plans, for the same reason that I rarely watch movies on my PC: It looks like crap. I want to see the full blown, super crisp picture that God (and the folks who made the content) intended. I don't want to have my movie hiccup because I'm getting an email, or my system is checking for an update, or my screen-saver is trying to take over. I want to see it in frighteningly crisp, clear video that is going to serve as the glue that keeps my butt in the la-z-boy and my hand in the popcorn. I want to hear it in sphincter thrumming bass that makes the windows rattle, along with my belly. I want to turn down the lights, crank the volume, and look over my shoulder when I hear a gun cock behind me in surround sound.

"But Ryan" you say "You can get than on your computer." Excuse me, did you read the second sentence of my post? I'm on a plane, a bus, whatever, fine, laptop it is. I'm at home, I want to be able to reach into my cooler, grab a cold one*, put my feet up, and enjoy. I don't want to worry about how warm my UPS is, or what cord I have trapped between my toes. I want to sit back, and enjoy the movie, and you know what? I CAN'T, because some team of industry lackeys has decided that I, the consumer, am more likely to pirate their precious content than buy it. Never mind the collection of 200 movies that I have, half of which are on DVD. Let's ignore the mountain of CDs, the cassette tapes, and the LPs. I won't even get into my rental habits because I think you get the idea. As far as these bastards are concerned, I'm a pirate, and their afraid that I'm going to use my DSL connection to try to view some grainy, reduced quality version of their works, without watching the commercials, without paying for the content that they have slaved to create in an attempt to garner my attention. God knows that they are just paying out the ass for those airwaves, Hey wait, aren't a lot of these content creators on cable? How does that work? What kind of broadcast fee structure are they under? Doesn't matter.

Simply put, Gimme. I want my MTV, my VH1, my HBO, my Discovery channel, animal planet HGTV food network jumping monkey gator catching high speed chase from a helicopter in full surround sound on an HDTV that I can watch with funky 3d shutter lenses and I want it all and I want it right now. I am your market folks, I just bought the laptop equivalent of a ferrari and it'll be here soon. I work hard and dammit, I play hard too. Get your product out, drop the freaking early adopter tax and just like Ozzy, I'll put it in every room of my house. Because if you don't folks, if you big companies drop the ball that you've been bobbling since 1994 when I first read that a standard had been agreed to in Video Toaster magazine, folks you will be well and truly fucked, because you're already losing your precious eyeballs. Most of my friends don't watch TV, and when they do it's a special event like the Super-bowl. Mostly they play games, or surf the net. Your one way conversation is more boring than a lecture from a droning college professor, and we ain't being graded for watching this one bubbah.

We're too busy working on our homes, building up our own businesses, and getting our next degrees to be bothered with you old boy. We grew up watching you and we know all of your tricks. This is why Survivor was such a hit: It broke the formula of set up and payoff, it introduced a random element into the very structured programming that you've been throwing at us for years. What's sad is that a show can now consist of nothing but homages to other things you've thrown at us and we'll think it's irreverent and new, instead of the thinly veiled retread that it knows itself to be. Bore us and we flip flip flip away from you, surfing the channels and using the remote one handed like the extension of ourselves that we know it to be.

But you can change all that. Make a better mousetrap. Give us the bigger, bolder prettier spiraling shape and we'll pick it up and call it wonderful and denounce it and play with it and love it and hate it but more importantly, we'll buy the damned thing if you'll just get it out there. The longer you sit there in your board rooms and worry about the things that we, the unwashed masses of scurvy ridden entertainment pirates, are going to do with your precious content, the less likely we are to be here to buy it when it comes out.

You're not the only game in town anymore boss, and really, you never were. And for every day that you sit back and bicker, we're going elsewhere to be distracted from how bored we are by you. Every day that you snipe, we start entertaining ourselves. Photoshop tennis is just the start, wait until home video editing hits critical mass. Then you're going to see an explosion of crazy, half baked, wild and entertaining indeciferable, beautiful madness the likes of which you've never seen, let alone approved from your office in the sky. Jackass was the first flake of snow, the first drop of rain in a torrent that is coming. We've learned at your feet, the tools got cheap, and you no longer control the means of production OR distribution. We've got peer to peer video on demand 24-7 and every time you knock out a channel, another three pop up daddy. This is the hydra all over again, and this time, you ain't got a torch Herc.

This isn't to say that you're dead, oh no, we still need heroes to watch, doing things we can't do, someone to follow for fashion and lingo. We love paying five bucks for ten cents worth of popcorn, and sitting in small seats to gather and watch what you tell us is acceptable. You tell us who to love and like dutiful soldiers, we'll follow your commands until it's time for something new to come along. Then you'll act all suprised until you can either co-opt it and drown us in it, or sic your lawyers and political hacks on it till it's dead. But that'll only last until we figure out another way to go around you. Our desire is like water, it goes wherever it can, either wearing away or going around it's obsticles, roaring when the resistance overcome, and wiping itself out when the momentum takes us too far.

*Sadly, this is either Gatorade or Poland Spring bottled water of late

(I watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas today, just finished Gonzo Marketing, and am starting Hot Text. This may well explain a lot about this post.)

Fri, 12 Jul 2002 02:56:20 GMT

Peek-A-Booty source is available. The Peek-A-Booty team have posted the source for their great censorship-busting app. The idea is that public-spirited censorware-busters run a screen-saver that makes their computers available to act as a proxy for anyone who wants it, primarily those who live behind repressive national firewalls (cough China cough). The proxies discover each other and those who are looking for them using a Gnutella-like protocol, and when you want a page that is censored by your firewall, you ask one of your anonymous benefactors to pass it to you.

More than a censorship-circumventer, Peek-A-Booty has the potential to act as a distributed, self-evolving route-generator. If Alice has a route to CNN and Bob has no route to CNN, but Bob has a route to Alice, Bob can access CNN via Alice. When giant interchanges like MAE West go down, apps like Peek-A-Booty will take up the slack.
In other words: The Internet interprets damage as censorship and routes around it. Link Discuss (via Aaron Swartz: The Weblog) [Boing Boing Blog]

Brilliant solution to both routing and censorship issues. This could also be used to find faster ways of getting around the web, minimizing the number of hops that you need to to take to get to a high bandwidth site.

Sat, 06 Jul 2002 13:55:34 GMT

Cool! I just got the categories working here so you can now see where I classify the items I post. Thanks Jenny and Jake!

Sat, 06 Jul 2002 13:50:21 GMT

testing

Sat, 06 Jul 2002 13:35:12 GMT

Radio Progress Marcheth On. Putting a Radio post's categories on the web page

"Jake Savin [jake@userland.com] posted in his comments pointers to:

a macro: Drop listCategoriesForPost.txt into your Macros folder.
the code for your Item template that calls it:

<%local (adrpost = @weblogData.posts.["<%paddedItemNum%>"]); listCategoriesForPost (adrpost)%>

Thanks, Jake! A better way than mine: logic pushed from the template to the macro." [a klog apart]

I may try this one, too, although I'm more intrigued by liveTopics since it also builds an index of posts by category. (Speaking of which, Marc and Matt - I'll get back to trying the installations as soon as I can.)

[The Shifted Librarian]

Bunch of MX studio tutorials

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:33:11 GMT

Tip of the Week: Getting Started with Dynamic Pages on Dreamweaver MX by George Jardine; re: ColdFusion, Dreamweaver. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
Using ColdFusion MX in Distributed Mode by Michael Stillman; re: ColdFusion. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
Configuring the ColdFusion MX Built-in Web Server by Stephen M. Gilson; re: ColdFusion. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
ColdFusion MX Code Examples by Macromedia; re: ColdFusion. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
Video Tutorials: Building Dynamic Sites with Dreamweaver MX by Mathew Pizzi; re: Dreamweaver. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
Getting Started with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX by Garo Green of Lynda.com and Mark Fletcher; re: Dreamweaver. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
Masking Effects in Fireworks MX by Japi Honoo; re: Fireworks. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
Creating Macromedia Fireworks MX Documents from HTML by Tonya Estes; re: Fireworks. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
The Fireworks MX Property Inspector by Macromedia; re: Fireworks. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
Validating for Accessibility with Dreamweaver MX by Macromedia; re: Dreamweaver. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
Consuming Web Services in Macromedia Flash using Macromedia ColdFusion MX by David Golden; re: ColdFusion, Macromedia Flash. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
ColdFusion Extreme: ColdFusion MX Advanced Security Evolves by Rob Rusher; re: ColdFusion. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
Pet Market: Designing Application Interfaces with Macromedia Flash MX by Brian Takle; re: Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Flash Player. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
Pet Market: Best Practices for Building Rich Internet Applications with Macromedia Flash MX by Jason Hatcher; re: Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Flash Player. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
Pet Market Process Map by Brian Takle; re: ColdFusion, Macromedia Flash. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
Pet Market Architecture Tour by Jason Hatcher; re: ColdFusion, Macromedia Flash. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
Logged In: Introduction to Pet Market by Steve Peterson; re: ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, JRun, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Flash Player. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
Pet Market Blueprint Application Center by Macromedia; re: ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, JRun, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Flash Player. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]
Macromedia Flash Search Engine SDK
An important announcement, if only to silence the 'You can't search Flash content!' nay-sayers. [Flash Blog]

All courtesy of Vincent Flanders.