Dave Winer, Todd at Geek News Central, and Edd Dumbill take some shots at Apple’s implementation of RSS in iTMS’s podcast features. I don’t know that much about RSS on the technical side, but it sounds like their concerns are valid and hopefully Apple will take note. I tried to register my Nahenahe podcasts, but was greeted by the message that it had already been submitted, either by someone at Apple or one of my listeners. Too cool.
NahenaheNet Podcast #003 goes up.
This ‘cast goes into new territory. It features a conversation with “KM”, one of Hawai’i’s most prolific composers, producers, and a musician’s musician. There’s not much that Kenneth can’t do, and he is the holder of about a dozen Na Hoku Hanohano Awards (Hawai’i’s equivalent of the Grammy Award) for his work. We talked about the possible ramifications of the elimination of compulsory licensing, a topic that Kenneth posted about on my NahenaheNet weblog. The podcast also includes music from last year’s Na Hoku Hanohano Award winning CD “Hula Lives” by Kimo Alama Keaulana and Lei Hulu.
Response from NARAS.
To give both sides equal time on my humble blog, here is the response from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (“The Grammy” folks) the the Grokster decision. My take: Both sides are full of sh*t. The EFF and other supporters are willing to ignore, or at least gloss over, the fact that the networks are primarily used as a means to illegally distribute copyrighted material by arguing that some legitimate uses exist for the network, and they are indeed used in those legitimate ways. The RIAA, NARAS and MPAA, on the other hand, are full of it…
Geek news talks about this development, too
I listened to Adam Curry’s Gnomedex podcast, too. I didn’t recall him specifying that it would be on Tuesday or Wednesday, but will take Geek News’ word for it. They also talk about today’s Supreme Court decision on Grokster.
Dave has been hearing rumors regarding iTunes and podcasting.
I’m not taking any chances and saying any more, just pointing to Dave.
Dave’s posted some more teases about his new outlining tool.
Dave, you’re killing me. I want to play!
Adam’s looking for a Photoshop Mashup.
I’m no Photoshop artist, Adam, but how’s this… It’s an old shot (I think), but the head angle was good. Still needs some cleanup, but got things to do… Maybe I should turn this into a “write a caption” contest. Please feel free to leave your caption idea in the commments for this post.
Dave has a new OPML tool in development.
Unfortunately he’s not ready for Mac testing yet. WHAAAA! I loved participating in the beta testing of Radio Userland way back when, and working with Jake Savin on some things. Hopefully I’ll be able to play with this new toy when Dave is ready for Mac testers. I use Radio and OPML to maintain my Hawaiian music directory on “NahenaheNet”, which is maintained on a “Manila” site. How do I find the time? I don’t. I make the time. I just started podcasting on NahenaheNet, and am planning to use podcasting for delivering my lectures this fall. Hopefully this new…
The Education Podcast Network.
The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.
Jerky Pictures and Sound Are History. Videoconferencing Is All Grown Up.
Nice feature from the NYTimes on how video conferencing is growing up, and offers an outstanding example of someone using it to each guitar over the net. My podcast production is similar in its simplicity. I have an old ElectroVoice microphone (albeit one of their nicer ND Series vocal mics) connected to my Mac via a TASCAM US-122 USB audio/MIDI interface (I got mine for under $200), and use Garage Band to record and mix the show. I could just as easily eschew the mic and US-122 and use the microphone built into my PowerBook, or my iSight’s, but that…