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ProNet: Entertainment Weekly's Popwatch
ProNet: Entertainment Weekly's Popwatch
06/24/2005 03:38 PMOne of the most fun new TypePad blogs we've seen is Popwatch, from
Entertainment Weekly magazine, which offers an amusing overview of
what's going on in pop culture today. In addition to the great
writing, they've got a blogroll of...
KGB and police seize independent
weekly's computers
KGB and police seize independent
weekly's computers
03/26/2005 09:07 AMReporters Sans Frontires Mar 26 2005 12:25PM GMT
Creative Commons Audiobooks
Creative Commons Audiobooks
04/12/2004 07:33 AMOpen Audiobooks Project
Open Audiobooks Project
08/11/2004 11:15 PM
We've seen a couple audiobook projects popup around Creative Commons
licensed books recently (Lessig's audiobook and Doctorow's audiobook), but this new Open
Audiobooks Project aims to collect recordings of public domain
books. They're kicking off the project by recording Jane Austen’s
Pride and Prejudice. If you're a fan of the book, have a good
voice, and want to contribute to the project, sign on their site.
Telltale Weekly Audiobooks Now Offered
As AAC
Telltale Weekly Audiobooks Now Offered
As AAC
06/07/2004 10:42 AMAward-winning sf as CC-licensed
audiobooks
Award-winning sf as CC-licensed
audiobooks
09/10/2004 06:38 PM
Cory Doctorow:
Hugo-award-winning author James Patrick Kelly's "Free Reads" site is a
place where he posts Creative-Commons-licensed studio recordings of
him reading his works. He's a fantastic reader, and an even better
writer, and he made enough off his tipjar the last time around to go
into the studio and record three more:
"Faith" first published in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1989.
Time:59:25, File Size 27.86 MB.
"The Best Christmas Ever" first published in SciFiction, May, 2004.
Time:39:38, File Size 19.03 MB.
"Serpent" first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science
Fiction, May 2004. Time:22:53, File Size 10.74 MB.
Link
(
Thanks, Jim!)
Marvellous classic audiobooks on
Telltale Weekly
Marvellous classic audiobooks on
Telltale Weekly
07/24/2004 06:06 AMSome time ago, I blogged about Telltale Weekly, a site that records
and posts audiobook editions of public domain texts, charging small
sums ($0.25-$4 or so) for MP3/OGG/AAC downloads.
I just revisited the site and gosh, there's been a lot of good stuff
posted since I last stopped by (there's an RSS feed for new titles that I've just added to my
newsreader): classic stories and essays by Twain, Jack London, L Frank
Baum, O Henry; poetry by Walt Whitman; political speeches and essays
by Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass... My cup runneth over.
And there's good karma at Telltale: after five years or 100,000
downloads, TTW will release each track into the public domain; also,
partial proceeds from Ogg downloads are donated to the Xiph
Foundation, who support Ogg development.
Link
Audiobooks Open A New Chapter In
Internet Downloading
Audiobooks Open A New Chapter In
Internet Downloading
01/11/2004 11:15 AMBy Michael Booth (Denver Post via MyAppleMenu)
News: Mercedes-Benz tries iPod
audiobooks as sales tool
News: Mercedes-Benz tries iPod
audiobooks as sales tool
03/31/2005 05:56 PMMercedes-Benz USA is using Apple's iPod as a sales tool at this week's
New York Auto Show at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York
City. The automobile maker is providing "walk-around" narrations about
the features available on its new car models, as audiobook files
installed on loaner iPods showgoers can borrow while they're looking
at the new vehicles. Mercedes-Benz USA is also selling the audio books
to showgoers who have brought their own iPods, and is selling them on
the iTunes Music Store for US$2.95 each -- iTunes has walkaround files
listed for the 2006 CLS-Class and 2006 M-Class.
James Patrick Kelly's wonderful sf
stories online as free audiobooks
James Patrick Kelly's wonderful sf
stories online as free audiobooks
04/28/2004 02:43 PMJames Patrick Kelly, my friend and mentor, is one of the finest short
story writers working in science fiction today. His stories are like
perfect little gems, and his advice on story-writing was the most
important artistic advice I've ever received.
Which is a preamble to some of the best news I've ever imparted: Jim
Kelly is releasing audiobooks of his stories on teh net under a
Creative Commons license. I know what I'm gonna be listening to before
bed and on the tube this month.
Link
A tale of two tunes
A tale of two tunes
04/28/2004 08:12 PMCNET Apr 29 2004 0:45AM GMT
A Tale of Two Soldiers
A Tale of Two Soldiers
05/11/2004 03:11 PM
A tale of two West Virginia soldiers: one named Jessica, one
named Lynndie. Both are on
opposite sides of the propaganda war. One is a
hero, one is a
monster. No, wait - actually, one is a
fraud, one was
just following orders. No wait, one is
perky and blonde, the other is
kind of butch
and ugly. Now I'm all confused. Help me Metafilter, you're my only
hope.
The Tale of Two Hazards...
The Tale of Two Hazards...
04/28/2004 11:45 AM
That boy ain't
right... Recently -- for some reason -- I have found
myself listening to the song
Hazard by Richard
Marx, and my interest in the murderous storyline has been
re-piqued. This place has the whole shebang.
Background
information,
conspiracy
theories and even a
kangaroo court!
A Tale of Two Concepts
A Tale of Two Concepts
06/02/2004 08:23 AMSome eateries thrive while others suffer through the low-carb craze.
A Tale of Two Patents
A Tale of Two Patents
05/19/2004 07:23 PMInternetNews.com-1 hour agoGoogle's Gmail could be a huge
moneymaker for the search leader. But someone else may have thought of
it first. Google got gobs ...
A tale of two Tigers
A tale of two Tigers
06/28/2004 09:48 PMAlso: Google bolsters star power...iPod plans turn car owners green.
A Tale of Two Printers
A Tale of Two Printers
07/23/2004 02:35 AMTechnology Review Jul 23 2004 5:54AM GMT
A tale of two mergers
A tale of two mergers
04/02/2005 01:53 PMInternetRetailer.com Apr 2 2005 4:43PM GMT
FC Now: A Tale of Two Squares
FC Now: A Tale of Two Squares
09/01/2004 06:16 AMThis week, in New York City, there's a tale of two squares -- one is
Times Square, and the other -- seven blocks south --...
FC Now: A Tale of Two Teammates
FC Now: A Tale of Two Teammates
09/14/2004 05:38 AMWhile Michael Eisner and Fanklin Thomas were by no means
contemporaries at Disney, this weekend's news about recent
developments in the lives and careers of...
A Tale in the Desert II 1.0
A Tale in the Desert II 1.0
09/17/2004 04:27 PMAn online game set in ancient Egypt where players work together to
build the perfect society.
A Tangled Tale
A Tangled Tale
09/24/2004 02:10 PM
Math
s puzzles and
more problems.
Found whilst searching for the fiendish
the Monty Hall
Problem. A
Tangled Tale, indeed.
Do these lists tell a tale?
Do these lists tell a tale?
01/07/2004 02:02 PM In "How to Kill a Country" there's a list of steps:
(1) Destroy the engine of productivity
(2) Bury the truth
(3) Crush dissent
(4) Legislate the impossible
(5) Teach hate
(6) Scare off foreigners
(7) Invade a neighbor
(8) Ignore a deadly enemy
(9) Commit genocide
(10) Blame the imperialists
In
"Fog of
War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara" the
lessons list as:
(1) Empathize with your enemy.
(2) Rationality will not save us.
(3) There's something beyond one's self.
(4) Maximize efficiency.
(5) Proportionality should be a guideline in war.
(6) Get the data.
(7) Belief and seeing are both often wrong.
(8) Be prepared to re-examine your reasoning.
(9) In order to do good you may have to engage in evil.
(10) Never say never.
(11) You can't change human nature.
Two sides of the same coin?
A tale of two Cairos
A tale of two Cairos
12/02/2003 01:37 AM
Microsoft's 2003 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) reminded
some observers of the same event in 1993, when the hot topics were the
Win32 APIs, a rough draft of Windows 95 code-named Chicago, and a
preview of a futuristic object-file-system-based NT successor
code-named Cairo. The hot topics this year were the WinFX managed
APIs, a rough draft of a future version of NT code-named Longhorn, and
... Cairo. Now called WinFS, this vision of metadata-enriched storage
and query-driven retrieval was, and is, compelling. Making it real
wasn't then, and isn't now, simply a matter of engineering the right
data structures and APIs. [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
...Tale of Two Stories
Tale of Two Stories
02/07/2003 07:39 AMWhat does coverage of Google's success tell us about what's really
going on with Linux? Google has achieved maximum Linux irony ...
SMS is a cautionary tale too
SMS is a cautionary tale too
04/27/2004 07:26 AM
Another cautionary tale from the dinner in Amsterdam, SMS is
going down the same path as WAP/WML, what used to be a firm standard
is being extended in incompatible ways. There will be eighteen brands
of SMS, and you'll only be able to message people who use the same
brand of phone. I don't use SMS, I don't think it exists in the US,
but I understand it's popular in Europe and Asia.
I used to say this to Bill G when he started giving money to
charities to help make the world a better place, presumably. I said
that he had so much more leverage in the computer business, if he
would just do a few things differently we could solve some of the
biggest problems in the world by working together. He either didn't
get it, or ignored it, or is insincere in his desire to make the world
a better place, or something else I don't understand.
Working together in the users' interest, is by far the most
important thing we can do, far more important than any one brand of
software.
A tale of two cultures
A tale of two cultures
01/01/2004 01:35 PM
It's clear that that the future of the Unix-style pipeline lies with
Web services. When the XML messages flowing through that pipeline are
also XML documents that users interact with directly, we'll really
start to cook with gas. But a GUI doesn't just present documents, it
also enables us to interact with them. From Mozilla's XUL (XML User
Interface Language) to Macromedia's Flex to Microsoft's XAML, we're
trending toward XML dialects that define those interactions. Where
this might lead is not so clear, but the recently published WSRP (Web
Services for Remote Portals) specification may provide a clue. WSRP,
like the Java portal systems it abstracts, delivers markup fragments
that are nominally HTML, but could potentially be XUL, Flex, or XAML.
It's scary to think about combinations of these, so I'm praying for
convergence. But I like the trend. XML messages in the pipeline, XML
documents carrying data to users, XML definitions of application
behavior. If we're going to blend the two cultures, this is the right
set of ingredients. [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
My recent stuff has provoked some diametrically opposed reactions.
Responding to this column, Dan Kegel wrote:
Jon, you've been drinking too much XML / web services kool-aid. Only
clueless analysts and those who wish they could program, but can't,
think there's anything novel about "web services". Anything you can do
with XML can be done more simply without it; the standards documents
associated with XML and "web services" are absolutely mind-numbing. In
the meantime, real programmers are getting real work done, and
ignoring the analysts.
...A cautionary tale
A cautionary tale
04/27/2004 03:19 AM
At last night's dinner I sat across from an entrepreneur who
runs a company that makes content for cell phones. He told the story
of WAP and WML and how they had splintered and reformed so many times,
that now there are thousands of variations, and it's basically
impossible to make applications that work over enough of the market to
be economically viable.
This is a cautionary tale for the RSS community. When people
say more formats, or varying practices don't cost, they are either
naive or acting in their own interest, not ours. In all likelihood,
RSS is going down the same path. But it's not too late to do something
about it.
Yesterday Adam Curry, a friend of mine (a word I don't use
lightly), said when he sees me write about RSS, he quickly skips to
the next item, thinking "I'm glad Dave is taking care of that." Don't
be so sure, I said to Adam. The people who want to splinter the
formats just make my personality the issue, something they couldn't do
if you joined me in fighting the splintering. If two people say no, it
can't be about personalities, because we'd have to share the
personality flaws. When you make me the only voice, that's what
happens.
And by the way, having said that, you can't be sure I'm
watching out for your interests. I get tired of fighting this alone.
So if you like what you have with RSS, get up to speed on how it is
falling apart, and stop it from happening before it's too late.
So Adam asked what he
could do. I said you now own Joi Ito. Help him learn how he could
help. He invests in lots of companies that benefit from RSS. It's time
for him to do something good for RSS to balance the books. He's used
it too well, his companies, particularly SixApart, have repeatedly
undermined a coalescing of the format. Someone needs to talk wtih Joi
about this. I've tried, and failed. Maybe Adam and Joi can figure out
what Joi needs to get him on board. Then, after that works, we'll find
someone else for you to work with, and then someone for Joi to work
with. We'll start a world wide club of ninjas, fighting against the
unfair exploitation of RSS and its users.
Novell OES: A tale of two kernels
Novell OES: A tale of two kernels
02/01/2005 08:19 PMI got to sit down last week with Charlie Ungashick, Novell's director
of product management and marketing, Linux servers and desktops.
(Charlie hands out two business cards: one for his title, one for
everything else!) We talked about - what else - Novell's upcoming Open
Enterprise Server.
Twisted Tale of Art, Death, DNA
Twisted Tale of Art, Death, DNA
06/04/2004 05:50 AMSteve Kurtz is an artist who works with DNA. His wife's recent
unexplained death has suddenly made him a very interesting man to the
FBI. By Mark Baard.
A tale told by an idiot
A tale told by an idiot
03/31/2005 11:49 PMWildly overplaying the Schiavo protesters, ignoring facts and giving
Bush a free ride, the press was full of sound and fury, signifying
nothing.
A Tale Of Two American Women
A Tale Of Two American Women
05/17/2004 06:03 AMFree Internet Press May 17 2004 10:23AM GMT
Historic Tale Construction Kit
Historic Tale Construction Kit
12/09/2003 07:28 PM Historic
Tale Construction Kit.
[flash]
[more] Another Cautionary Tale for Car Renters
Another Cautionary Tale for Car Renters
01/16/2004 01:00 PMHiawatha Bray points me to
this New York Times horror story about a
man who was charged more than $3,000 for a car rental because he took
the car out of state without realizing that would violate his
contract.
A tale of modern day slavery
A tale of modern day slavery
08/11/2004 08:22 AM
Slavery is not just the shameful stuff of history books - not in
Florida. Last year, 7 journalists spent 9 months in a
behind-the-scenes exploration of the state's immigrant workers. In
more than 30 articles and photo essays, they revealed a system where
workers are threatened, beaten, locked up, injured, forced into
prostitution, and trapped in a spiral of debt and abuse. Powerful
forces are arrayed against them in a state where agricultural laws are
shaped by politician-farmers who have a vested interest in the status
quo.
- more - A Tale of Timber and Love
A Tale of Timber and Love
05/05/2004 07:00 AMMom might not find timber so exciting -- until she rakes in some hefty
dividends.
Enjoying Japanese Tale
Enjoying Japanese Tale
12/19/2004 03:24 PM
Japanese fairy tales. In English, illustrated.
The tale of the bounced check
The tale of the bounced check
04/16/2004 08:55 AMGrok Description matches for Tell Tale Weekly's audiobooks
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