Mobs, Weblogs, Multimedia

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IDrive Multimedia - First Internet
HardDrive with MultiMedia Features, A
virtual iPod?

IDrive Multimedia - First Internet
HardDrive with MultiMedia Features, A
virtual iPod? 03/14/2005 05:24 PM
IBackup (http://www.ibackup.com), a leading online storage and backup service provider, has announced release of IDrive MultiMedia, the first Internet HardDrive Technology that is designed for MultiMedia use. [PRWEB Mar 4, 2005]

ATI’s Multimedia Center 8.8 – The Home
Multimedia Server

ATI’s Multimedia Center 8.8 – The Home
Multimedia Server 12/16/2003 04:12 PM

Snowball Mobs!

Snowball Mobs! 12/05/2003 04:14 PM
With a potential blizzard blanketing the northeast, it looks like flashmobs are out and snowball fights are in. What do you think, are we gonna see a lot more of this kind of thing now that online invitations are setting the standard? This invite seems to be flying around NYC pretty fast indeed. The question is: How big will the battle be?

Smart Mobs -

Smart Mobs - 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
Third, civility, reason, and evidence are what distinguish the public sphere — the free and open discourse among citizens that provides the foundation for democracy — from the emotion-charged, ignorant, slogan-slinging online combat that sometimes drowns

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Art Mobs in Slate

Art Mobs in Slate 07/21/2004 07:44 PM

Slate is running a piece today entitled "Art Mobs" that takes a look at how collaboration between artists has changed as things move online. It covers graphical, film, and text pieces, but the best example is a song.

We've profiled MacJams before, the site built around sharing tracks for Apple's Garageband users. They've got Creative Commons licenses built in and this slate article highlights the final track "Please Eat." It is the fourth version of an earlier cut, and in the end four different musicians contributed 36 separate tracks to the final song.

I did some digging around and here is the original track, which is licensed under an Attribution license. If you'd like to further mash the track, the final track mentioned is under an Attribution-Noncommercial license.

Cybercrime Mobs Revealed

Cybercrime Mobs Revealed 03/17/2005 03:07 AM

Baseline has a great series of articles on the different cybercrimes and how they operate. They talk about who are these cyber criminals and what the law enforcement agencies are doing to stop them. The articles are well written and I am certain you will learn something from reading them.

Crime is now organized on the Internet. Operating in the anonymity of cyberspace, Web mobs with names like Shadowcrew and stealthdivision are building networks that help crackers and phishers, money launderers and fences skim off some of the billions that travel through the Web every day. 

 The players and their games change so quickly it's hard to piece together who they are and how they work together. But that picture's becoming more clear, as the U.S. Secret Service, the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies crack open the networks and prosecute those that run them.

Flash mobs is official

Flash mobs is official 07/09/2004 08:00 PM
"Flash Mobs" has made it into the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, according to Smart Mobs. Maybe it'll be able to get its smarter cousin inducted soon......

Smart Mobs: City of Memory

Smart Mobs: City of Memory 08/05/2004 04:23 PM
Via Smart Mobs: "Jake Barton's City of Memory uses a map structure to locate stories about life in New York City."

Smart Mobs: To the class of 2004

Smart Mobs: To the class of 2004 06/14/2004 06:51 AM
this commencement speech .. a speech to graduates

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Smart mobs beat dumb CEOs

Smart mobs beat dumb CEOs 06/02/2004 07:19 AM
James Surowiecki's new book, "The Wisdom of Crowds," argues that diverse groups predict the future better than solo prima donnas.

How Dumb Mobs Beat Smart CEOs

How Dumb Mobs Beat Smart CEOs 06/02/2004 02:41 AM
Both the wisdom and stupidity of crowds is a fascinating subject. I once took an entire course that focused on the problems of "groupthink," which is more commonly referred to as the "echo chamber" these days. However, at the same time, disparate groups of people, all making decisions (say, in a market) can lead to some very intelligent solutions. Salon is now reviewing a book called < i>The Wisdom of Crowds, which is obviously a play on the old favorite, < i>Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds. However, I think that the title to Salon's article gets it wrong. They call it: Sm art Mobs Beat Dumb CEOs, when what the book is really talking about is that Dumb Mobs Beat Smart CEOs. That's the real point to drive home. The power of well organized markets that present information (where the errors cancel out and the real info remains) is a testament to the power of "dumb" crowds. They're not being intelligent - but it's the collective actions that reveal the pieces of intelligence. That network of supposedly "dumb" devices at the ends, is likely to beat out the centralized "smart" CEO in the middle. In fact, the book supposedly discusses companies that are experimenting with such distributed decision making processes, where the decisions of many can better forecast where the company is going than the top-down view of the CEO. Of course, if this book catches on, expect a number of companies to try to implement such bottom-up decision making in a way that misses the point and does more damage than harm (followed by the inevitable anecdotal evidence of why such things will never work) such as making everyone "vote" on certain pointless decisions that will just waste time.

My Own Building System (MOBS) 2.1
(Default branch)

My Own Building System (MOBS) 2.1
(Default branch) 06/05/2005 11:23 PM
MOBS is a building system a la autoconf, but a lot easier for both developers and users. It's very easy to use and tune, even for medium-sized projects. If you want your project to be configurable and accept most "./configure" options but without the hassle and burden autoconf and friends impose, this is for you. It has good documentation and a low steep learning curve, and even has a bit of application framework in order to ease development.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
Due to a design flaw, "Makefile" must be called "Makefile.in" now. This prevents a nasty situation where the end user could do "make" before configuring the project with "0".

"Smart Mobs: Rumsfeld bans camera phones
in Iraq"

"Smart Mobs: Rumsfeld bans camera phones
in Iraq" 05/24/2004 08:36 PM

Mobs Attack Indian Theaters Over Lesbian
Film (Reuters)

Mobs Attack Indian Theaters Over Lesbian
Film (Reuters) 06/14/2004 01:05 PM
Reuters - Hard-line Hindus hurled stones and damaged movie theaters in India Monday to stop the screening of a film about a relationship between two women, saying it violated Indian culture.

webl0gs come webl0gs go

webl0gs come webl0gs go 06/16/2004 01:23 PM
The most painful kind of generosity are the promises you cannot fulfill. The people who were once so grateful then turn on you, and your self-esteem is sure to take a beating.

Many years ago, in a fit of generosity, Dave Winer offered to host all early-bird adopters of editthispage.com free hosting of their weblogs. This included php.weblogs.com. Well Dave Winer recently announced that he was closing down the weblogs.com and editthispage.com websites. He no longer runs a company that can support these sites and they are a personal and financial strain on him.

I was disappointed, but I had no expectations that Dave would do this in perpetuity. My momma taught me to keep my expectations low when it comes to free things. After all, Dave and I have never met, and I've only exchanged a couple of emails with him.

I had a feeling that something like this was going to happen because the site has suffering from poor performance this past month. So my contingency plan was to ship the weblog to a commercial hosting service like weblogger if need be. During the weekend, just before the site was cut off, and before any announcement by Dave, I moved my most important open source project to sourceforge, to http://adodb.sourceforge.net/.

Today I got an email from Lawrence, Userland's webmaster:

Subject:   php.weblogs.com 
From:      "Lawrence Lee" deleted#userland.com
Date:      Wed, June 16, 2004 1:46 am 
To:        jlim#natsoft.com
Priority:  Normal 
Mailer:    Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 

We'll be continuing to host php.weblogs.com, we made special
arrangements
with Dave to keep it running.

Lawrence

I didn't ask for special treatment, so this is a pleasant surprise. Apparently the people at Userland decided to host this weblog and Dave emailed me, saying he had nothing to do with this decision. Of course I don't expect this offer to be permanent either, and I will deal with that when the time comes. The website's performance is still terrible though, and I have no expectations about this either.

For those who ever wondered what the icon below each post means, it's a graphic emoticon of how i feel. I think the jazz singer Billie Holiday is an appropriate image for this post; her songs are always bitter-sweet. It sure feels like Stormy Weather or Come Rain or Shine.

I would also like to thank those of you who emailed me privately about this issue. RSS seems the best way to access this web-site at the moment, as it continues to go down at random times.

"Webl0gs.com"

"Webl0gs.com" 02/17/2004 08:53 AM

old.webl0gs.com

old.webl0gs.com 06/14/2004 03:50 AM

old.weblogs.com
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"old.webl0gs.com"

"old.webl0gs.com" 06/17/2004 11:32 AM

Webl0gs.com Needs Help

Webl0gs.com Needs Help 12/17/2004 06:37 PM
As anyone who pings it knows, weblogs.com is not holding up well under the strain of the blogosphere’s growth curve. Today Dave Winer is asking for help in getting it re-engineered. He seems to be convinced that it has to be done in C; I wouldn’t be surprised if a smart PHP or Java (Velocity maybe?) implementation could carry the load just as well. On the other hand, for someone who’s never written an Apache module, this would be a simple one, it’s a useful skill, and that’s about as close to the metal as you can get. In any case, I’m pretty sure Dave’s right that it wouldn’t be a good idea for a big company (like Sun, for example) to step up and say “we’ll do it” because the suspicion of cheating from outsiders, and the temptation to tilt the table a little for insiders, would both be a real issue. A pity, because a big company (like Sun, for example) already has the infrastructure to support this and wouldn’t even notice the bandwidth. And a pity because I already know how to write Apache modules and would like to learn Velocity. I’m dubious that the notion of “one central place that everyone pings” is going to hold up for the long term, but for the time being it’s useful and would be a good project for anyone with the cycles to spare.

Webl0gs, Inc.

Webl0gs, Inc. 04/15/2005 04:52 AM
Weblogs, Inc. Home Page - www.weblogsinc.com .. weblog 'trade-publishing' .. Jason Calacanis .. weblogsinc .. blurb .. WIN .. It

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"certain webl0gs"

"certain webl0gs" 06/05/2004 09:07 AM

How many webl0gs are there in the UK?

How many webl0gs are there in the UK? 12/09/2003 10:54 AM

Right. For a whole range of reasons, I'm getting increasingly interested in finding out how many weblogs there are in the UK. If we could demonstrate that a large number of UK-based webloggers exist, then it could have a whole range of effects: it could encourage publishers to find constructive ways to engage with the community, could encourage UK-based people/companies to get more involved in building weblog-based software (or to spend time thinking around Denton-esque micro-publishing ventures like Gawker, Fleshbot and Gizmodo). All kinds of stuff.

Now there's no really useful way of effectively measuring these things, but it occurs to me that we'd probably be able to motivate a good number of people to make themselves known as weblogers if everyone who read this post stuck up a mention/plug for one or more of the major geographical portals onto their sites. So I'm going to wander off now and check that I'm listed on:

• The Eatonweb Portal
• Globe of Blogs
• Weblogs.co.uk (which runs the extremely useful UK Blogs Aggregator)

And please - if you've got ten minutes and are interested in helping to uncover the lost continent of UK webloggers out there, then stick something on your site about this too.

More on the webl0gs.com/rss

More on the webl0gs.com/rss 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Dave Winer again:: "Second, I believe it was a mistake to spec the new element as part of the blogChannel...

"d2r: an introduction to webl0gs"

"d2r: an introduction to webl0gs" 11/02/2003 03:13 PM

"Webl0gs Harvard Law"

"Webl0gs Harvard Law" 12/19/2003 11:55 AM

Webl0gs.com Goes Dark

Webl0gs.com Goes Dark 06/15/2004 11:31 AM

Sudden Closure of Weblogs.com Strands Bloggers: Three thousand blogs hosted at weblogs.com has gone offline because Dave Winer decided to shut the server down.

...some users protested that they had no warning of the shutdown, and thus were unable to download copies of their sites, including user comments. Winer said he will export a site's content if its owner makes a specific request, but would not do so before July 1.

Dave provided free hosting to all these people, which is great, so he really owed them nothing. However, I think perhaps a little notice would have made thing easier for these folks.

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Webl0gs.com Redirects

Webl0gs.com Redirects 06/15/2004 01:39 PM
Tom Matrullo's blog has relocated for now to here. It's vintage Tom......

"Webl0gs der TU-München"

"Webl0gs der TU-München" 03/27/2005 06:21 PM

"article on webl0gs that actually gets
them right"

"article on webl0gs that actually gets
them right" 06/15/2004 10:24 AM

The FCC, Webl0gs, and Inequality

The FCC, Webl0gs, and Inequality 01/07/2004 02:54 PM
Yesterday, the FCC adjusted the restrictions on media ownership, allowing newspapers to own TV stations, and raising the ownership limitations on broadcast TV networks by 10%, to 45% from 35%. It's not clear whether the effects of the ruling will be catastrophic or relatively unimportant, and there are smart people on both sides of that question. It is also unclear what effect the internet had on the FCC's ruling, or what role it will play now.

What is clear, however, is a lesson from the weblog world: inequality is a natural component of media. For people arguing about an ideal media landscape, the tradeoffs are clear: Diverse. Free. Equal. Pick two. - More at http://shirky.com/writings/fcc_inequality.html

On comments and webl0gs

On comments and webl0gs 01/22/2004 02:18 PM

I've thought a lot about comments on weblogs over the years, and for a mailing list I'm on, I finally summarized some of my thoughts. Since it might be useful for others, I'm reposting them here. They're a few questions I ask myself related to enabling comments on weblogs posts I make. With the proliferation of commenting-ability in today's weblog tools, it might make sense for people to think a bit before blindly turning on comments, whether for an individual or group blog.

1. Do I want feedback on what I'm writing?
I never turn on comments on megnut unless I specifically want feedback, and I'd encourage people to think about this when they're posting to their sites as well. Are you writing about something that can engender a discussion? And do you want to have a discussion about it? Not everything needs a discussion, and if it doesn't, think about disabling comments for a post, if only to avoid spammers and trolls.

2. Do I have time to manage a conversation right now?
It's easy to turn on comments, it takes work to host a discussion. Especially when the post is controversial or inflammatory, the poster needs to be prepared to stay on top of the thread. Do you have the time to nurture that discussion and keep on top of it, delete the trolls, refocus the discussion when it gets derailed, etc.? If not, perhaps posting, or turning on comments, isn't such a good idea. I know I try and help out if I see a thread going awry but I believe it's the poster's responsibility to make sure her thread stays on target and remains as civil as possible.

3. Is this conversation over?
There comes a point in every thread when the conversation is done, either because posts have petered out or because it's gotten so out of control and unpleasant that it needs to end. Either way, the poster should go back in and set comments to "Closed." This will prevent people/spammers/trolls from posting in old threads, and keep the discussions alive and active on "current" posts.

Rather than just having a blanket rule -- whether that's "comments on" or "comments off" -- it would be nice if we could consider these questions before posting. Turning on comments is an opportunity and a responsibility.

Unicode and webl0gs

Unicode and webl0gs 04/19/2004 08:33 AM
Hossein Derakhshan: We should promote Unicode standard among English speaking programmers. Many tools do not work well with Unicode and this sucks. Spread the meme  Please test your clients, servers, comments, and feeds. ...

Webl0gs in education

Webl0gs in education 09/21/2004 04:29 PM
Via Scripting News, I see a post by Michael Feldman of Dowbrigade wishing for a stronger uptake of weblogging in the classroom. Michael's a professor at Harvard and/or Boston University (I couldn't quite figure it out) and has one class...

MP3 Music Webl0gs

MP3 Music Webl0gs 08/31/2004 05:56 AM

I have been running the wget script we wrote about several months ago and I am amazed at the number of songs we are pulling down. Many are from artist I have never heard. Some are from cover bans and their re-makes of popular music along with music that has been ripped from a copyrighted CD. Thus far though it has been a interesting experiment in checking out all the new tunes. I am sure my Internet provider is happy with me as the run today pulled 1.6 gigs of music simply amazing.

Here are the sites I poll and if you have any other MP3 weblogs that you know about drop me a line.

http://senses.typepad.com/
http://www.3hive.com/
http://www.christopherporter. com/
http://ggth. typepad.com/media/mp3_blogs/index.html
http://djmartian.blogspot.com/
http://www.bellybo ngo.com/links/sharity.html
http://www. free-conversant.com/thom/main/2004/05/26
http://musik.antville .org/stories/676094/
http://te achingtheindiekidstodanceagain.blogspot.com/
http://www.fatplanet.com.au/ http://music.for-robots.com/ http://tofuhut.blogspot.com/ http://www.scenestars.blogs pot.com/
http://blog.largeheartedboy.co m/
http://www.l ivejournal.com/community/talkiewalkie/
http://www.kingblind.com/
http://www.mobile-phone- directory.org/
http://www.redfishaudi o.com/samples.html
http://www.purevolume.com/
http://newflux.blogspot.com/ http://www.pop77.com/blog/
http://www.scissorkick.com/
http://amillionlovesongs .blogspot.com/
http://www.moistworks.com/
http://www.o-du b.com/crates/weblog/blogger.html
http://music.for-robots.com/ http://mul tsanta.madvision.co.uk/blunts//indexb.html
http://tofuhut.blogspot.com/ http://www.tangmonkey.co m/blogs/music/
http://copycommaright.blogs pot.com/
http://the-big-ticket.blogs pot.com/
http://www.li vejournal.com/community/talkiewalkie/
http://www.bubble gum-machine.com/culchah.html
http://fingertipsmusic.blo gspot.com/
http://www.londonlee.com/blo g.html
http://www.mysticalbeast .blogspot.com/
http://www.livejo urnal.com/users/moebius_rex/

Just don't call them webl0gs

Just don't call them webl0gs 02/11/2004 12:07 AM
Lots of people who write weblogs seem to take great pleasure in debating what a weblog is, and more importantly for some, what a weblog isn't. While trying to understanding what the new tools enable, and how they are changing the nature of the net, journalism, and public discourse, seems like a worthwhile enterprise, I never saw the point of spending a lot of energy debating what was a weblog and what wasn't. One might as well debate how many Angels can dance on the head of a pin. I saw a great example of this today. One of the more interesting sessions at ETech today was a presentation by three people from different units of Disney, describing how they are using three of the tools customarily associated with webloggers: weblogs, RSS and wikis. During the talk, Mike Pusateri described his secret for getting people to adopt weblogs as a tool for communicating information at Disney, "don't call them weblogs." He just told people working in Disney's 24/7 operations center that he had a better tool for a task they were already doing. They were already creating what they called shift logs to keep track of information that the people coming in on the next shift needed to know, using a proprietary application based on FoxPro. He told the op center staff that with the new tool (Movable Type) they would now be able to edit and revise and format their information, and that the information would be viewable on the intranet. They loved it, and, as he put it, they never knew that they were blogging. Similarly, he got the staff to start using RSS by having Movable Type generate the feeds, and having the staff all adopt Newsgator, an RSS aggregator that plugs into Microsoft Outlook, the standard email client at Disney. To the users of Newsgator, the updated RSS feeds just looked like email, and they could deal with the feeds they same way they were used to dealing with emails, filing them or forwarding them with comments, using the same interface they were used to dealing with for email. So the users didn't have to change any existing habits, and they had little new UI to learn, but they got a lot more functionality. All at a very low cost to Disney, compared with their traditional methods of developing custom applications. We technologists are often so...

Internet Course WebLogs

Internet Course WebLogs 01/27/2004 09:13 AM
The Internet Courses - Weblogs
http://www.hi.is/~Eanne/w eblogs.html

An excellent resource by Dr. L. Anne Clyde of the University of Iceland. The site includes links to the following resources on Weblogs: Information and Articles About Weblogs, Weblog Software and Resources, Directories and Guides to Weblogs, Other Weblog Resources, Examples of LIS Weblogs, Examples of Other Weblogs, Weblogs About Blogging and RSS.

Are webl0gs being read?

Are webl0gs being read? 05/29/2004 09:36 AM

That is a question I get a lot and when I let them look at the stats they say yeah I guess so while giving me a slap on the back. The conversation usually turns to how in the hell did you accomplish that. Well it seems that there is some debate out there sparked by a NYT article that in essence says that most bloggers are talking to themselves. I know my personal blog is only read by a few people but It is also not targeted to the general public. This site is read by a significant number of you. But it is worth a closer look and I think the commentary over at A Small Victory sums it up very nicely. [A Small Victory]

On Collaborative Webl0gs

On Collaborative Webl0gs 05/31/2004 12:33 PM

"Webl0gs in Journalism"

"Webl0gs in Journalism" 01/26/2004 09:50 PM

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