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March 31, 2005
Microsoft Portable Video Service
REDMOND, Wash. -- Television addicts rejoice: Now you can take more
shows on the road. Microsoft Corp. has launched a $19.95-a-year ...
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March 30, 2005
Portable Recorders
Portable Recorders Leap Forward in Convenience and Sound
WHEN Alan Lomax and his father, John, began making their famous field
recordings of Southern folk singers in the 1930's, they had to build
their 350-pound recording machine into the back of their Ford. It
etched the songs of cowboys and former slaves onto aluminum disks, and
used two 75-pound batteries for power.
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March 25, 2005
Odeo - Custom podcasts by subscription?
Somewhere in an apartment in San Francisco, we're making it easy for
you
to discover, create, and subscribe to fresh, independent audio content
for your iPod (or whatever MP3-player-type-deal you prefer).
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PodCastamatic
Podcast Straight From Your Web Server: Podcastamatic - Robin Good's Latest News
Podcast Straight From Your Web Server: Podcastamatic
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March 24, 2005
VOIP virtual phones
Powerful Skype competitor
By TJ on Technology
Robin Good reviews the powerful Skype competitor Teleo:
"Teleo allows you to place PC-to-PC calls to other Teleo users anywhere in the world for free, even over wi-fi connections and behind firewalls. Calls to your computer from regular telephones are also completely free.
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Tivo for Radio
It's called Radio YourWayLX
and it's designed to record your favorite radio programs for playback
whenever you want. It's kind of clunky looking and that name is a
marketing nightmare, but still.
It's features include:
- Automatically record radio broadcasts via a daily or weekly timer-function; totally unattended
- MP3 Recording- Easily transfer and archive your recordings to a PC or MAC with an available USB port
- Record from any audio source (CD, Cassette, or TV etc.) in MP3 format without the use of a PC!
- Playback MP3, WMA or RVF files
- Use Radio YourWay LX as a portable storage device for data files!
Given that the extremely useful TV DVR's like TiVo have not yet caught on (I love mine!), one has to wonder whether items like this one has a future.
But if this unit can do it, you have to believe that it will eventually be built into many mp3 player/recorders in the future.
And then you have to wonder if Arbitron's Personal People Meter will be able to capture the listenership. For example, if I'm recording the radio at home but carrying the meter on my body, will the meter measure the playback from the portable mp3 player later?
Of course, all of this assumes that we as an industry provide content worth recording, and I consider that an open question.
(Thanks to Tod Maffin for the tip)
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OurMedia will host your media files free
"Ourmedia.org, a free global repository for grassroots media, allows anyone to upload, store and share digital works. The site will accept home movies, music videos, original music, audio interviews, photos, art, documentaries, grassroots political ads, animations, books, student films, software — any work in digital form." More details here
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Podcast Discoveries
I've added another podcast to the Podcasts I Listen To list on the left hand column of this blog.
After writing the Exploding Radio post from yesterday, I went searching for music podcasts from FM radio stations. To be honest, there isn't much out there yet.
Thanks to a link from a reader, I did find a bunch of podcasts from KCRW in Santa Monica, California.
The one I liked best is for a program called The Music Exchange. It's a ten minute show that's played once a week on Tuesdays at 11:05am PST. Here's how its described on KCRW's website.
Leading British radio DJ Steve Lamacq and KCRW's Nic Harcourt chat and play each other's music discovery of the week.
It's a great way to find new british bands. And its short and fun to listen to.
Here's the link to the podcast.
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How the Indie Word Spreads
MP3 of the Week
By Fred on New Music
Podcasting has been great in terms of finding new music.
A band that I am really enjoying as a result of podcasting is Meet The Day.
I sent them an email last week and asked if I could feature one of their songs on my MP3 of the Week post. They said "sure" and sent me to Pure Volume to get their MP3s.
The song I like best is called A Smile Like Yours and its my MP3 of the Week.
Give it a listen.
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How the Indie Word Spreads
MP3 of the Week
By Fred on New Music
Podcasting has been great in terms of finding new music.
A band that I am really enjoying as a result of podcasting is Meet The Day.
I sent them an email last week and asked if I could feature one of their songs on my MP3 of the Week post. They said "sure" and sent me to Pure Volume to get their MP3s.
The song I like best is called A Smile Like Yours and its my MP3 of the Week.
Give it a listen.
Posted by roymond at 04:27 PM | Comments (0)
March 21, 2005
IP, UP, we all P
Orrin Hatch is head of new IP subcommitee
Cory Doctorow:
Loony old Orrin Hatch has been named the head of the new Senate subcommittee on Intellectual Property -- I guess that Genghis Kahn wasn't available to fill the position.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), once nicknamed "Terminator" for his 2003 comment that the recording industry should be allowed to remotely destroy the computers of file-sharers, was named today to head a new Senate subcommittee on intellectual property. While Hatch backed down slightly from that comment the next day, saying, "I do not favor extreme remedies -- unless no moderate remedies can be found," he has remained a staunch ally of the entertainment industry.
(Thanks, Nick!)
Update: Irony alert: Joi Ito loaded our RSS for this story and got an ad for some IP law firm underneath it. Guess the whole relevance-matching algorithm is a little scr0d.
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Free Hosting with Unlimited Bandwidth!
OurMedia: unlimited hosting/serving of your open-licensed works
Cory Doctorow:
JD Lasica, Marc Canter and co have launched OurMedia, a service that will host your open-licensed materials forever, for free, with unlimited bandwidth. They're under high load right now, but I'm sure they'll be running more smoothly as they throw more servers at the problem.
(via Dan Gillmor)
Posted by roymond at 06:08 PM
March 17, 2005
A-Infos Radio Project
It's been years since I checked back, but this is a solid archive of varried and fabulous radio content, in high resolution.
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RRadio - Independent Music for Online Radio
So, their home page looks pretty bad, and it gives no indication of how many artists might reside inside.
But hey, there are some in there, and maybe there's a model here that will help seed online radio with quality indie music!
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March 08, 2005
Gnod
Gnod is an experiment in artificial Intelligence. I don't remember when I first played around there, but it holds interesting posibilities as far as bringing people into new spheres of music (or other forms of intellect). I wonder how we can effectively bring the indie music world into the Gnod-zone...this could be a useful way for people to discover new sounds :)
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Licensing for Podcasts
There's still talk about this out there so I figure I should pipe in. Stop complaining about paying to use copyrighted material already! And please do keep in mind that artists have asked ASCAP to license their material. ASCAP is, after all, a non-profit. Whether they should be licensing for podcasts is another issue, of course, since podcasting is a distribution mechanism, not a performance one.
There's so much awesome indie music to go around licensed under creative commons. Podcasting is the perfect medium to turn people on to great indie music. I am disappointed that folks like Adam Curry worry about playing all their old favorites. Isn't it far cooler to play the new stuff we've heard? Which he does now and then, but really... so... much... good... music... that you don't have to license.
I've been a bit busy to keep up the ICN podcast, but now I'm reinvigorated to bring it on. Stay tuned...
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March 07, 2005
Video blog aggregators
From NYTimes: For video bloggers, there are special readers for R.S.S. feeds, called aggregators, like mefeedia (mefeedia.com) and ANT (www.antisnottv.org). Vloggers can join mefeedia free; subscribers to their feed will be notified when a new video is posted. ANT is more like TiVo for vlogs. The desktop-based freeware automatically downloads video to your hard drive from the vlogs you subscribe to. It is available only for the Mac, but a Windows version is in development.
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