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WebJay reduxWebJay reduxWebJay redux 04/09/2004 04:11 PM Free music that streams to your media player. Free music that streams to your media playerPosted Apr 9, 2004, 7:46 AM ET by Alberto Escarlate
Webjay regular Brett Singer, a New York theater producer and computer consultant, builds playlists in his spare time. He’s created more than 50 collections with titles like Song-a-Day, a list made up of songs he has chosen each day for the past two months. On March 28, he had a seaweed treatment, so he chose a song by the group Seaweed Soup. He picked a song called “Party Party” on the occasion of his kid’s birthday party. There isn’t only music playlists. You can find Lawrence Lessig’s “Free Culture” read aloud by miscellaneous people: Lessig/Free Culture audiobook project.[The Digital Music Weblog] Congrats to Lucas Gonze. The meme spreads. This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)WebJay reduxGrok Headline matches for WebJay reduxPlaying the web's music on WebjayPlaying the web's music on Webjay 04/09/2004 03:54 PM Webjay is a cool little hack. You toss in a URL, and it scans pages for mp3 files, making iTunes/winamp/realplayer playlists on the fly. As an example, Common Content's audio page as a MP3 playlist looks something like this. Lucas Gonze and Webjay in the NY Times!Lucas Gonze and Webjay in the NY Times! 07/08/2004 12:27 AM Congrats Lucas..... Here it is..... Multimedia Scrapbooks, to Create and Share Webjay, developed by Lucas Gonze, a programmer who lives in Brooklyn, has already built a following among music lovers. They have used it to assemble sets of legally available music links from all over the Web, then play the whole list with one click, using Windows Media Player, RealOne, Winamp or QuickTime. Now some people are creating video shows using Webjay and streaming Web video. Nobody is doing this with more panache than Brett Singer, a New York theater publicist. Mr. Singer's shows include a music video show, collections of campaign videos and a variety program called Webjay TV. A collage of news, music, comedy and found video, Webjay TV includes video clips like Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" interviewing Howard Dean, a lesson on how to play Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on guitar and George Lucas discussing the "Star Wars" character Jar Jar Binks. "For me, Webjay has taken the place of little online games like minigolf or solitaire," said Mr. Singer, who started making playlists as a hobby, using home videos of his young son. "Webjay has become more of an obsession. It's a way for me to be creative with minimal effort." Mr. Singer said he took particular pleasure in making mashups, playlists that mix videos, photos and music in a multimedia scramble. In a playlist called The Politics of Dancing, a BBC News video about Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Iraq prison abuse scandal is accompanied by the song "We Will Rock You" by Queen. In another playlist, Mr. Singer somewhat more artfully sets to music a shot from a live traffic cam at the Cross Bronx Expressway; a hypnotic tune called "Cars for Christ" from a band of the same name plays as commuters find their way home. Mr. Singer also produces a daily news program on Webjay that uses videos from a variety of sources. Recently, the news program stitched together a BBC News tribute to Ray Charles, a Gallup Poll report on how much Americans remember about D-Day, and highlights from the N.B.A. finals, playing alongside Kobe Bryant's mug shot. Webjay's creator, Mr. Gonze, is among those who think technologies like his may someday stir up the conventional television industry. Mr. Gonze, who spends his summers in Canada without a TV, said that recently, as an alternative to network news, he had watched Mr. Singer's Webjay compilation. "It was embryonic and crude, but also mind-blowing," he said. Andrew Nachison, director of the Media Center at the American Press Institute, said that Webjay video playlists were "a fabulous example of remix society." "It's an outgrowth of hip-hop and DJ culture," he added. "People aren't just remixing music, they're remixing the news." Webjay news mixes can be politically charged. "Brett's a New Yorker," Mr. Gonze said, referring to Mr. Singer. "He's a liberal. He's into show business. He's definitely not playing to the mainstream. NBC has to appeal to the great swath of viewers across America. Brett doesn't." Webjay may eventually face a backlash from record labels and TV networks, but Mr. Gonze maintains that the site is legal because it assembles the Web addresses of media files, but never stores or transmits the actual files themselves. Michael R. Graham, an intellectual property attorney and a partner with the law firm Marshall, Gerstein & Borun in Chicago, said that although Webjay itself "appears to be legal," users should be careful. "There are a gazillion legal questions," he said. "It's a classic example of how technology has leapt over our ability to trace rights and what might be infringed, and in what ways." If anyone who holds the rights to an audio or video clip objects to Webjay carrying a link to it, the site offers a tool, called Tattlematic, for removing links. "I believe in peace through politeness," Mr. Gonze said. "If somebody doesn't want us to link to their stuff, we won't link to their stuff. They don't have to sue. They just have to ask." Mr. Nachison said television news organizations could benefit from technologies like Webjay, because they are making news video easier to find on the Web. "The audience for television news on the major networks has been declining for years," he said. "These mashups are bringing the news to a new audience. That's not just a good thing for the media business. That's a good thing for society." Steve O'Brien, executive publisher of the Gallup Poll, said he did not mind that Gallup's videos are being used in Webjay's news reports, as long as Webjay doesn't charge subscription fees for the videos or sell advertising on the site. He said he would prefer that people visit Gallup's own site (gallup.com) to watch the videos. "But at least Webjay is meeting one of our goals, which is getting our information in front of people," he said. He added that Webjay may soon provide a benefit for Gallup. "We're thinking about putting ads in our videos," he says. "Our advertisers will be happy to get the extra viewers." [via pho list - Jim Coffman] Seven reduxSeven redux 04/07/2005 12:53 PM The final scene of "Seven" performed by stuffed animals. Yucca ReduxYucca Redux 07/23/2004 01:23 AM The flowers on that Yucca have died, but gracefully... DanceMob ReduxDanceMob Redux 12/19/2004 03:31 PM Following our forays during the Republican National Convention, many in our DanceMob declared that dancing in the streets had been so much gosh-darned fun that it would be a good thing to do even without a targeted political motive. I agree. There is something mysteriously liberating about making a fool of yourself in public. Dancing anywhere is good. Dancing someplace unexpected is better. Dancing like we were in this video clip is sweet indeed. I wonder if it's ever apolitical though... I came away from our previous experience believing that in America at this time, all dancing is revolutionary. It really does feel to me that this election is more about culture than policy. There are two primary cultures presently at odds in America. One of them is inclined to dance, the other is not. During the Convention, I found us creating a kind of litmus test. It was very easy to see in peoples' reaction to us which side of that divide they were on. But it also seemed to make some converts. While, on some faces, the sour pucker only deepened as we drew closer, there were many others who smiled and drew encouragement from our good energy. So, like many of you, I think we ought to do it again. Indeed, I think we should start making a regular practice of it, sort of like the dancing equivalent of the Critical Mass bicyclists. I'm arbitrarily selecting the 3rd Friday of every month. (Which may have to be seasonal, but we'll see...) Thus, I hope you will join me this Friday evening for a new DanceMob action in New York City. Here's the deal: PLACE: Zocalo, on the Food Concourse of Grand Central Station DATE: Friday, October 22 TIME: 6:00 pm. (That is, we'll start to gather at 6 and probably head out at around 7:00, to be realistic.) Zocalo is a good but not great Mexican restaurant in the basement of Grand Central Station. Their main attraction, aside from being central to good dancing territory, is a pretty swell blood orange margarita. Suck down a few of those and you'll be willing to dance anywhere. It's hard to say about the weather, of course. I wanted to do it last Friday and was dissuaded by the forecast. (Fortunately, as it turns out. There was a bleak rain falling just as we would have ventured out.) The current forecast is more promising, but if it turns vile on us, we can always just dance in Grand Central Station, something I've always wanted to do. Those of you did this before know what a hoot it is and need little persuading. Those of you who haven't should come and experience it. I'm pretty sure you won't regret it. If you have any questions or suggestions, please give me a call on 917/863-2037. Or e-mail me at barlow@eff.org. You can also contact our incredibly dedicated Subcommandte Scott Piscitelli at 646/342-5077 or spmonkeyking@yahoo.com.... Nukamiso reduxNukamiso redux 06/22/2005 02:38 AM  I wrote a Nukamiso guide was which I last updated in April 1999. Since then, I have moved twice and in the process, killed my poor nukamiso. My original nukamiso seeded from three 50 year old nukamiso's and a 25 year old nukamiso, two from Kyoto and two from Tokyo. Killing it was an unforgivable sin. Since then, Mizuka and I have felt so guilty, that it took a lot of courage to decide to start up again. The trigger was receiving a batch of the best eggplant nukamiso that I've ever had. The container contained a healthy amount of the nukamiso in addition to the eggplant and the instructions suggested that you could seed your nukamiso with this. We tried some vegetables from our garden and it was excellent, so we went and got a cedar tub today. In the past, we lived in western houses so one of the challenges was keeping the nukamiso as cold as possible in the summer. This was partially the cause of the demise of our last nukamiso. This time, we now live in a traditional Japanese house has an opening to the space under the kitchen. Japanese houses typically store pickles and other things that need to stay cool in this space. Unlike doing nukamiso from purchased vegetables, we will be able to feed our nuka-chan with fresh home grown veggies. I just Flickr'd some of the pictures.
Technorati Tags: nukamiso Comment - TrackBackFirst Primary: A Bit of ReduxFirst Primary: A Bit of Redux 01/28/2004 12:08 AM John Kerry has now done what none of his rivals for the Democratic nomination have yet come close to doing: He has won twice. Regulation ReduxRegulation Redux 05/28/2004 01:59 PM You may have to vouch for your information security in the not-too-distant future as regulators get restless over cyber-attacks. Waterbox reduxWaterbox redux 03/06/2004 01:51 AM The music of Waterbox, part of this site's Classics department, is back online for your listening pleasure. Tracks were cut in the 1980s, using a prototype Akai MG1212 integrated 12-track recorder/mixer. BlogTalk ReduxBlogTalk Redux 07/08/2004 08:25 PM Sorry to have missed this year's BlogTalk gathering in Vienna. I participated in the one last year, and got some eye-opening material from European bloggers. Joi Ito set up this wiki about the event. Atom/W3C reduxAtom/W3C redux 06/04/2004 08:39 AM Matt May: We at W3C like Atom. Speaking for myself, my concern remains about openness, not time to market. The one thing that I felt that was not adequately explored in the meeting was the possibility that there might be a difference from a legal perspective between these two organizations. ... Fat Club reduxFat Club redux 08/27/2004 01:34 PM Yesterday, Mutsumi in our office told me half a dozen times that I looked "bigger". I'd been thinking about how to lose some weight and I remembered Fa t Club because Jan e linked to a Fat Club entry on her blog. For some reason, I seem to be able to motivate myself to lose weight when I'm competing. I asked everyone in our office if they wanted to join Fat Club 2004. Kuri, Jim and Nob agreed to participate. The race is to see who can lose 10% of their body weight first and sustain it for one week. The last one in has to be a slave to the winner for a day. Slave rights can be sold or rented. We decided to set up a private wiki to organize this event. Mizuka bought a fancy scale awhile ago hinting that I should probably lose some weight. I jumped on it this morning and it told me that I had the body of a 49 year old. (I'm 38.) The fancy scale uses Bioelectric Impedance to measure your body fat and calculates basal metabolism, body fat percentage, muscle percentage, internal body fat level, your body mass index and your body age equivalent. Let me just say it was very motivating. This new scale has 6 contacts, two for your hands and 4 for your feet and seems more accurate than some of the older models. Comment - TrackBackOpen How-tos reduxOpen How-tos redux 07/28/2004 09:52 AM One of the coolio things we've got built into 1UP is the notion of a game expert. Any kid can declare themselves an "expert" of any of our 11,000+ games in our database. When someone lands on a Game overview page - 'some' of the experts for that game are displayed..... (can't show them ALL = too many!) I myself used to be an expert of Joust, Defender and Prof. Pac-Man. Maybe it was because I knew the folks who programmed those games (and got expert advice from) or because I happened to be a programmer myself of ProfPac - but anyway...... Finding expertise and help from the open distributed net will be aBIG business moving forward. And haviong standards to help us find each other and perhaps even barter help, will also be key.... So now Ming the Mchanic (Flemming Funch) picks up a thread started by Kevin Kelly and Seb on Open How-tos. How-to tutorials are a deep, rich kind of micro-content with very clear structures, intentions and applications. This is a PERFECT new kind of effort. It would also dovetail nicely with some requests I've been getting from people for a 'OpenLists' effort. Though Lists don't really have a need for schemas, they're certainly something that people want - which (by definition) should be enough. I just tell folks "get it into OPML" for now.... He re's the post from Ming.....
Kevin Kelly asks:Yes, yes, yes. Of course we need all of that. A comprehensive open archive of the how-tos for ... most everything. And an easy way of finding everybody who want to do the same things. And we might actually get to work."What are the best how-to books, videos, software, websites that you've ever seen? I don't care what the topic is, I am primarily interested in the execution."Building a distributed body of how-tos would be another great application of structured blogging. Paging Marc Canter: must add Open How-Tos to your list of digital lifestyle standards. More Unleashed ReduxMore Unleashed Redux 06/29/2004 02:38 AM We've received confirmation that Hasbro is currently soliciting orders for their Unleashed wave 11 assortment. VWB Flyboy ReduxVWB Flyboy Redux 12/24/2004 12:16 PM
Surgery ReduxSurgery Redux 12/07/2003 09:24 AM weblog.burningbird.net/fires/life/surgery_redux.htm#comment8347 Democracy ReduxDemocracy Redux 03/31/2005 02:34 PM What we may end up with as part of this push towards "democracy" in the Middle East is civil war. Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine are all on the brink of it now. Are we better off with this? RVW Redux - OpenReviewsRVW Redux - OpenReviews 04/09/2005 05:50 PM Hey Arnaud - take a look at what Alf Eaton just updated - this time utilizing Mozilla's GreaseMonkey. Since you've been impelementing Structured blogging in OPML - why don't you get everything into Alf's namespace - and set up a shared Review server. I bet the lower case semantic web folks will create a microformat called 'review' - or maybe it's has to be a smaller chunk of 'info' - like 'morsel' - or 'hotel room key' or 'tire'. But it's not a coincidence that all this activity is starting to percolate. It was destined to happen - once people got tired of talking about "what is blogging." What's been missing up til now have been the specific namespaces or microformat types - which are appearing, bottom up, literally out of the woodwork. And with services and APIs like Google Maps, Flickt, de.licio.us and EVDB available - how long will it be til we have aggregators supporting these formats - presenting "easy-to-use" interfaces for humans. Next step after that - is that it's all available on our smartphones and then we can give Howard Rheingold what I promised him: "tools for the mob." And make Russell Beattie happy. Badgers: ReduxBadgers: Redux 12/19/2003 11:36 AM Flash Friday Badgers: Redux Scripting by the Bay, ReduxScripting by the Bay, Redux 04/11/2005 08:22 PM Matt Neuburg (~100 words) Scripting by the Bay, Redux -- For those who need to acquire or hone AppleScript skills, Shane Stanley and Ray Robertson will once again be leading their wonderfully intensive AppleScript Pro sessions, 02-May-05 through 06-May-05, in beautiful Monterey, California. I'm slated once again to teach my famous "forced march through AppleScript Studio" class. One source of real excitement is the question of whether Tiger will have shipped in time; if it does, we'll be able to talk about the new features, such as BLEEEP and BOOOP (sorry, censored by the NDA police). [MAN] LLSSRV ReduxLLSSRV Redux 03/19/2005 03:11 AM Dave Aitel (Mar 17 2005) OpenReviews - reduxOpenReviews - redux 03/14/2005 05:09 PM So following up on years of work by Alf Eaton - the folks at PubSub have released - 'structured blogging' which takes Reviews to the next step - with a nice UI plug-in for WordPress. Somebody nominate this man to be head of OpenReviews! And don't forget OpenRecipes! Meg Hourihan needs somewhere to store all her fine new trick.
Threads ReduxThreads Redux 06/22/2005 02:04 AM The June 12th On Threads piece got slashdotted (twenty thousand hits for a 2,300 word hard-tech piece, not bad), which provoked really interesting feedback from (among others) David Dagastine, Greg Wilson, and Ben Holm, along with pointers to some related work. All those pointers are worth following, and some of the points are worth a little more discussion... Hardware ReduxHardware Redux 12/27/2003 01:38 PM I’d be remiss not to pass on more of the helpful information people have sent in response to the recent whine about the iBook’s shortcomings:
JahShaka reduxJahShaka redux 01/07/2004 05:06 PM  Jahshaka will set you free.
Open Source Video Editing system that works on Linux and OS-X and other platforms. My buddy JahShaka is back at it. 4:4:4, open source, composting and animation. ReST vs RPC ReduxReST vs RPC Redux 03/11/2003 11:53 AM It looks like SOAP is destined to continue to be maligned and misunderstood. Dave Winer is upset because not everybody limits themselves to his narrow RPC profile of SOAP usage. Non-RPC usage of SOAP isn't new - it was always in the spec. And things that fit Dave's narrow profile continue to interop. Mark Baker is upset because SOAP permits usages which are not, in his and many people's opinion, well architected. Usages such as RPC. While many of Mark's arguments resonate with me, he tends to throw the baby out with the bathwater. He might as well say that Python is not a good language for building REST systems because it can also be used for RPC. Meanwhile, where Mark throws up his hands, others are making progress. MSNBC - Conspiracy ReduxMSNBC - Conspiracy Redux 07/19/2004 06:36 AM MERYL STREEP: I'M NOT PLAYING HILLARY .. preview article .. Jonathan Demme .. Yeah Right msnbc.msn.com/id/5457032/site/newsweek Gutter modules reduxGutter modules redux 07/22/2004 01:30 PM Julian Bond has submitted a great idea to the LazyWeb - I guess assuming that one Ben Hammersely will jump through the proverbial hoop and hack it right up - with some of those sexy shell scripts he and Danny O'Brien love to talk about.
That sounds like to me - a lot of what MeNowDocument could handle, with new kinds of micro-content inside of it, with new kinds of collaboration inspired by it. It also reminds me of a contest we tried to do with CMP back in '95-'96 "Where's Barlow?". All in all - I'd say blog gutter stuff is coming into it's own. Credit Jason DeFillippo with much of this. His Blogrolling.com (now owned by Tucows) was the first service I ever saw which utilized this idea of blog gutter 'stuff'. I was so inspired - I came up with a wh ole strategy for Jason. So now we have Tribe Cast, Ping.net, Blogshares, Technorati, Laszlo's BlogBox and various forms of RSS feeds. Isn't life getting interesting? Oh yah - and Google AdSense. Mobile Video ReduxMobile Video Redux 07/21/2004 12:38 PM
And even less ambitious uses are insanely compelling. Mobile video means no more searching for the camcorder when the kid does something cool. No more "Say hi to Nana... no, no. Say hi. Say hi. Hmm. he was talking a minute ago." Instead it's all captured and sent in a blink of an eye, or streamed live while you chat. This stuff is *cool* and its *here* We need mobile media services quick! I want my TiVo streamed to my phone! I want a real-time Real and WMV to 3GP conversion server! I want XM Radio, but over WCDMA! I want a video conference with the iChat A/V guys! I want to have access to all media! Now! Ever see that commercial where the guy walks into an old hotel and asks about what stations they get and the lady says something like "We have every station, movie, television show and play ever created." Yeah! That's what I want! Now! In my hand! Are you with me!? :-D -Russ I am so with you - my brother! And I finally get to meet you on Friday at BlogON - coolio! Other News: MyTunes ReduxOther News: MyTunes Redux 09/08/2004 11:02 AM Another iTunes-sharing utility debuts. Heart of The Alien ReduxHeart of The Alien Redux 01/04/2005 05:35 PM heartalien 1.2.0 has been released Supply Chain: Y2K Redux?Supply Chain: Y2K Redux? 08/02/2004 03:25 PM The new global standard for bar codes mandates 13 digits, not the 12 used in most U.S. systems. This means another round of remediation to meet a January deadline. Heart of The Alien Redux 1.2.0Heart of The Alien Redux 1.2.0 01/04/2005 08:50 PM A complete rewrite of game Heart of The Alien. Wikipedia Reliability ReduxWikipedia Reliability Redux 09/09/2004 03:51 AM It seems we created quite the unexpected monster with our Wikipedia stories from a few weeks ago. The post that generated most of the interest, where Al Fasoldt suggested Wikipedia was outra geous, repugnant and dangerous has also caused quite a bit of activity in many different sectors. A few people took me up on the suggestion that errors be purposely (but temporarily) introduced to Wikipedia, with varying results. Some had the errors corrected, others didn't. This "test" alone generated a storm of controversy. People, including Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) complained about this kind of "vandalism." While I agree that it's bad, and regret that it's been used a bunch of times, if Wikipedia is to deal with the criticisms it receives, this whole controversy should only make it stronger. And, in fact, that appears to be what's happening. Mark Glaser has a good article summarizing much of the original controversy and spending plenty of time on new plans (from a few different sources including both Jimmy Wales and Ross Mayfield of Socialtext) to work on better ways to demonstrate and prove Wikipedia's reliability and trustworthiness as a source for journalists. This includes formal fact-check procedures and the possibility of a "verified" notation in Wikipedia. Both of these sound like great ideas that should only help to take Wikipedia to the next level. Still, it appears that news organizations like CNN are quite comfortable using Wikipedia as a source, as noted in a recent article where they use it to back up some of the information they provide. This, of course, is horrifying to Fasoldt, who is quoted in the Glaser piece as saying wikis should never be used as a source. As for my conversation with Fasoldt, it continued after that piece and took a turn towards the bizarre. I avoided it for a while, but Fasoldt kept focusing in on the importance of "certified" professionals, which he believed had no place in Wikipedia. He repeated (3 times!) that no one would ever trust a brain surgeon trained only on Wikipedia -- ignoring the fact (which was sent in response) that no one would trust a brain surgeon trained only on the Encyclopedia Britannica either. However, after repeatedly claiming that only certified experts can have an opinion on things, I sent him two academic papers on Wikipedia's reliability and one article by a Columbia journalism professor. It seemed that, here were credible, certified experts showing that Wikipedia appeared to be quite reliable in many cases. Suddenly, it turned out that Fasoldt had no more interest in certified experts -- because those certified experts told him he was wrong. For all his focus on certified experts, I asked him if he thought these certified experts were lying. Fasoldt ignored the question a few times before reverting to direct and repeated insults. Based on this conversation, which included plenty of insults, but not a single instance of him backing up a claim, I'm afraid I still need to lean towards Wikipedia over Al Fasoldt on which is more trustworthy. However, for all the mess this caused, it looks as though the eventual good from these efforts to make Wikipedia more reliable should make it worthwhile. Information routing, reduxInformation routing, redux 09/01/2004 05:34 PM In last week's column, I mentioned del.icio.us, Joshua Schachter's "social bookmarking" service. Since then, I've explored the service more deeply in a series of blog entries. Using del.icio.us, I'm now able to process information in dramatically more efficient ways.... rnc redux project websiternc redux project website 08/31/2004 06:58 PM they're hooking together an amazing chain of technology to make their art The Bourne What's-Happening-acy reduxThe Bourne What's-Happening-acy redux 08/27/2004 01:37 PM I know I've already blogged about how confusing I found The Bourne Supremacy, but here's an email (slightly edited) I sent to Sam Allis at the Boston Globe today in response to his "Critic's Notebook" that luxuriated in that movie racking up bigger grosses than either Collateral or The Manchurian Candidate, two movies he considers to be smug, predictable, and coasting on their star power: Sam, I enjoyed your piece today and am glad to see Damon get the credit he deserves. But one thing you said irked me enough to write to you, primarily because I just can't... 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Mobile Video is going to be the
killer app. It is *so* compelling. Screw the nay-sayers who
go on about postage-stamp sized screens, etc. This is going to be a
killer use for next gen networks. It'll be the *reason* to buy the
phone (the definition of a killer app). Think about all the time being
spent on Tetris right now and replace that with streaming MTV and you
get what I'm talking about.