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Friday, August 18, 2006
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Blogging, Podcasting and Mel Gibson Links
links for 2006-08-17
- Plotbot is a collaborative screenwriting tool. You can write with as many or as few people as you like, all from your browser.
- Sweet custom TypePad blog.
- Professional Podcast Consulting and Development | Morley Studios | Portland Oregon
- A Funny Husband & Wife Pop Culture Podcast with Comedy and Humor! (Portland, Oregon)
- PodDev, a brand new podcast about tech.
- News, plugins and themes for blogging applications
- Video of Denis Leary and Lenny Clark guest broadcasting stint at the Red Sox game.
- Accept PayPal donations from WordPress using this widget
- Mobile Upload makes it possible for you to upload videos to YouTube directly from your mobile phone.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Linky Links
links for 2006-08-16
- Revver calls its license “perpetual,” “royalty-free” and “irrevocable.”
YouTube, however, limits the term of its license and says:
"The foregoing license granted by you terminates once you remove or delete a User Submission from the YouT - Users visit YouTube not based on any of the brand's perceived values, but on its ability to give them what they want, when and how they want it. The service offering can easily be replicated elsewhere, better.
- The sleek new Pepper Pad 3 is the first consumer Web device built with the new Pepper Platform 3.0. It includes all the award-winning features of the original Pepper Pad plus 3 times faster Web browsing, enhanced video performance, faster Wi-Fi and USB co
- VidMirror helps you to easily upload your videos to multiple video hosting services such as Youtube and Google Video. We then give you code to include on your site that will let your visitors choose from among the video copies. Note: It's not automatic t
- rb field correspondent ruud elmendorp covers a rare press conference held by joseph kony, leader of the lord's resistance army (l.r.a.)
- ePassportPhoto is the Internet passport photos booth, empowering people around the world to make free and valid passport photos. We put an end to the passport photo rip-off - join our revolution today by following 3 simple steps for making free passport p
Planets and Plutons
SPACE.com -- Nine Planets Become 12 with Controversial New Definition:
"Marsha Van Eats Mulberry Jam, Sitting Upon Neds Pony."
12 Planets:
"Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Charon, and the provisionally named 2003 UB313."
"Marsha Van Eats Mulberry Currant Jam, Sitting Upon Neds Pony Circa 2003." ;-)
"The tally of planets in our solar system would jump instantly to a dozen under a highly controversial new definition proposed by the International Astronomical Union (IAU)."So now I need to update my rhyme:
"Marsha Van Eats Mulberry Jam, Sitting Upon Neds Pony."
12 Planets:
"Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Charon, and the provisionally named 2003 UB313."
"Marsha Van Eats Mulberry Currant Jam, Sitting Upon Neds Pony Circa 2003." ;-)
Chuck's new favorite wine
My new favorite wine by Chuckumentary, uploaded from flickr.
I just followed a link from Chuck Olsen's flickr post about his favorite new wine, 2001 Tria Pinot Noir.
The link lead me to Geerlings & Wade, based in Canton, MA.
If you've been reading this blog for a while you know I was a big proponent of wineries being able to ship wine directly to Massachusetts.
Well I just called Geerlings & Wade and found out that yes, they have filled out all the paperwork and ship to Massachusetts from their Albany, NY facility. They also have a facility in California.
I asked if they have Cliff Lede wine and was surprised to learn that all their wines are private label wines. Here's the info from their site:
(Geerlings & Wade is) America's leading direct-to-consumer winery, producing our own wines both in our Napa, California winery and with international partnerships that have developed over our twenty years experience in the industry. Today, Geerlings & Wade is AmericaÂ?s leading direct marketer of fine wine and wine accessories with home and office delivery to 28 states and a devoted following of over 100,000 regular customers and members.Interesting...
Hey Chuck, what would you suggest for six bottles?
Any readers buy from Geerlings & Wade?
Also, are there any wineries that now ship direct to Massachusetts? Now that we have a restrictive law on the books I'm wondering if ANY winery has gone through the paperwork to allow direct shipments to Massachusetts.
CBS Teases Mac Users
CBS to air primetime shows online:
"CBS Corp. on Tuesday said it plans to air prime time television programs, including its top-rated CSI series and 'Survivor' show, on the Internet for free.This is great. Yes, it's old media putting TV shows on the internet, but that's what I've been looking for , for years. A way to have on demand access to TV shows I might have missed.
The shows will include 'limited commercial interruption' and be made available on its high speed Internet channel innertube the morning after it airs on the CBS broadcast network, the company said."
With DVR's like TiVo, you've got to subscribe to those shows you want to watch. I've been keeping my subscriptions to a manageable level so I can 'get through' all the shows in my TiVo inbox. ;-)
What CBS is doing is giving me another way to watch their content. Good for them.
There are a couple of problems with the CBS site innertube though.
It seems to be a streaming only solution, which means that I have to be connected to watch.
The other problem is that although innertube comes up on my Mac, the area where the show is supposed to play is an empty white space.
Some might say I'm not missing much, but I'd still like to have the option to watch.
If you have a Mac can you try it out and let me know if you get the same problem?
via [ Valleywag ]
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Video: What is TiVo?
Lex Friedman answers the question, What is TiVo? at Answerbag.com.
He won $5,000 for this video and was featured on the official TiVo blog and TiVoBlog!
Links
links for 2006-08-15
- Is the $1/2 billion dollars in 1753 earmarks on a single appropriations bill reaching your community? Take a look.
My $100 Million Dollar Secret
David Weinberger's secret is out, My $100 Million Dollar Secret:
"Jake is a nice boy. You can tell because he says so. But even a nice boy can get awfully confused when he wins $100,000,000 in the lottery ... and can't tell anyone about it."You can buy it, or read it, or download it.
Deval Patrick TV
Check out Deval Patrick TV. Deval Patrick is using the Brightcove platform to let voters hear directly from him on the issues. From the press release:
The Deval Patrick campaign is launching “Deval Patrick TV,” an interactive Internet TV channel. After going to the DevalPatrick.tv website, the user chooses what to watch—a speech, a testimonial, a message from Deval on the issue that matters to them. It allows people to use high resolution videos to introduce Deval to their friends and family and choose the specific content they want to watch (just like a TV). Current highlights include Deval Patrick’s speeches from his rally with U.S. Senator Barack Obama and after his endorsement at the Democratic State Convention.Looks really, really nice.
The website is located at www.devalpatrick.tv and will allow voters to learn more about Patrick in his own words—an in-depth format that will go beyond the 30-second sound byte. In keeping with the Patrick campaign’s commitment to supporters, the campaign will release Deval’s first television ads on DevalPatrick.tv on Thursday before they appear on standard TV later this week.
How To: Linksys WRT54G Installation
OK, I just installed the Linksys WRT54G router on my Comcast modem.
I actually took the easy way out and used Carol's Dell laptop to run the Setup Wizard CD.
It was a good step by step tutorial telling me to unplug the existing connections and then guided me through physically connecting the cable modem to the router and then Stygian up a wireless network name, a password and security. I guessed at the security type though since there was no explanation as to what each security method meant.
Let's do a new speed test and see if there's any difference:
Speed Test 3:
Wired connection to Linksys WRT54G. This router supports speeds up to 54Mbps.
Sweet. Twice the download speed.
It's right at the same speed I would get if I was connected directly into the modem.
Speed Test 4:
Wireless connection to Linksys WRT54G.
Hmm. The packets seem to be flowing nicely!
I actually took the easy way out and used Carol's Dell laptop to run the Setup Wizard CD.
It was a good step by step tutorial telling me to unplug the existing connections and then guided me through physically connecting the cable modem to the router and then Stygian up a wireless network name, a password and security. I guessed at the security type though since there was no explanation as to what each security method meant.
Let's do a new speed test and see if there's any difference:
Speed Test 3:
Wired connection to Linksys WRT54G. This router supports speeds up to 54Mbps.
Sweet. Twice the download speed.
It's right at the same speed I would get if I was connected directly into the modem.
Speed Test 4:
Wireless connection to Linksys WRT54G.
Hmm. The packets seem to be flowing nicely!
Comcast Speed Test for Linksys BEFSR41
I'm preparing to install a new router, the Linksys WRT54G. It says it supports Wireless-G (802.11g at 54Mbps) and Wireless-B (802.11b at 11Mbps).
Let's take a look at my current speeds before the upgrade using the Speakeasy Speed Test.
Speed Test 1:
Wired connection to Linksys BEFSR41. This router supports speeds up to 10Mbps.
Speed Test 2:
Wireless Connection to Apple Airport Base Station (1st Generation Graphite 11Mbps), which is connected to the Linksys BEFSR41 via a cable running from the 3rd floor to the second floor.
Hmm... That isn't too good.
Let's take a look at my current speeds before the upgrade using the Speakeasy Speed Test.
Speed Test 1:
Wired connection to Linksys BEFSR41. This router supports speeds up to 10Mbps.
Speed Test 2:
Wireless Connection to Apple Airport Base Station (1st Generation Graphite 11Mbps), which is connected to the Linksys BEFSR41 via a cable running from the 3rd floor to the second floor.
Hmm... That isn't too good.
Elder Videoblogging
Ronni writes about YouTube Elderblogging:
The newest elderblogger sensation, as many of you have pointed out to me via email over the past several days, is one Peter, a 79-year-old widower living in the U.K.
Well, actually, he is on YouTube where he is known as geriatric1927 and has turned out nine five- to six-minute videos in one week... Thousands of elderbloggers have been proving that for years including Millie of My Mom’s Blog who has been producing videos with her son, vlogger extraordinaire Steve Garfield, for a couple of years. It shouldn't be such a surprise to the media that elders are part of the blogosphere.
But what is most important, and what Peter’s new-found celebrity is helping to do, is make the point that elders are out here in the blogosphere producing words, audio and video that is as compelling as anything 20-somethings do.
How To: YouTube videos on WordPress.com
Matt explains how to get a YouTube video onto a Wordpress.com blog.
WordPress.com - YouTube Support
It's as easy as this example he uses:
"[ youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=_dIya1aJJKA]"
Wordpress strips out some HTML code when you make a post, so you'll be putting all of this video embed code in your blog post, and then when you post it, it disapears.
"It's for your own good."
WordPress.com - YouTube Support
It's as easy as this example he uses:
"[ youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=_dIya1aJJKA]"
Wordpress strips out some HTML code when you make a post, so you'll be putting all of this video embed code in your blog post, and then when you post it, it disapears.
"It's for your own good."
Monday, August 14, 2006
Adrian Monk is Charlie Chaplin
Monk - Episode: MR. MONK, PRIVATE EYE:
Monk gets on the boat to look around, but while he does, Natalie makes a gruesome discovery: Bill Gibbard's dead body floating in the water nearby. She calls Captain Stottlemeyer, but meanwhile, Jay Bennett has boarded his boat and taken off onto the open water with Monk!Adrian Monk getting on the boat was actually a 5 minute production of him making like Charlie Chaplin... attempting and then holding back... then thinking about it... then not getting on the boat.
That scene is one of the funniest of the season.
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