Hot-linking and re-blogging: Evil or Healthy?

Mike's guide to re-vlogging ettiquette.

It's an outliner party

Scripting News - Really Simple Groupware:

Users and developers party together. Really simple groupware. Right on.

Dave Winer is looking for someone who is "a Frontier programmer who knows MacBird and can even go into the kernel to debug".

Video: Happy Birthday U.S. Army

Steve Garfield's Video Blog: Army Birthday:

There was a celebration of the U.S. Army's 230th birthday in Cambridge, MA on Tuesday. Re-enactors were there, along with guys jumping out of helicopters and anti-war protestors.

I happened across this event yesterday and captured it for my video blog and for Rocketboom.

J.D. Lasica: Virtual Book Tour

Steve Garfield's Video Blog: J.D. Lasica: Virtual Book Tour.
In this extended version of a report I filed for Rocketboom, I interview JD Lasica about his new book, Darknet.

The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism

Poynter Online - The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism:

A resource guide to help you figure out how to put this industry trend to work for you and your newsroom.

Steve Outing explains how big media can embrace the personal media revolution.

Blogging is not enough for Eric Rice

Eric Rice :: Milestone: When blogging alone is not enough:

The diary-like semantics of blogging platforms turn the traditional publishing model on its head, which could be confusing to those that have certain expectations when seeking information.

Clint Sharp: Eric Rice Mixes His Media.

Looking for Mary

Current TV: Looking For Mary:

San Francisco's Dantia MacDonald submitted a really well-done piece about representations of the Virgin Mary -- on belt buckles, biceps, and brick walls.

So You Warezed The Documentary

ASCII by Jason Scott: So You Warezed The Documentary:

You really have three choices when dealing with torrent sites: accept them gracefully and hope your product is worth buying even when downloaded elsewhere, bitch wildly in an impotent manner about how the world has become somewhere no longer to your liking, or become a complete raging jerknut with swords flailing trying to scare a billion people into buying your production using lawyers and bought-off-laws and subterfuge.

I've opted for the first approach.

How to write a blog they’ll read in 100 years

The Pepys Now project.

Hear about it and Jason Scott, Podcasting Archivist, tomorrow on Open Source.

Your own home TV channel

The Avcast Media Kit takes the audio/video output from any home entertainment device and broadcasts it to every TV in the home on the selected channel.

Free 46 MB/sec wi-fi in NYC

Rocketboom reports on:

- The new free wi-fi salon in Battery Park, NY which features 46 MB/sec transfers speeds
- Marshall Brown was involved in putting it all together
- Sony location free tv which does not support media streaming
- and Andrew Rasiej who is running for office in NYC.

I want to see footage of the new “Biergarten”.

BandTrax VidCast

BandTrax VidCast:

"BandTrax is now VidCasting!"

Looks like you need to right-click and Save As to download it cuz it won't seem to stream yet - at least on my Mac.

It's like MTV for your RSS 2.0 feed, but without the expensive studio.

Hey CC, nice job directing the video from Now is Now.



It's great to see you branching out to video. I clicked on the earlier posting's .mp4 file, from a Mac, and didn't get the video. Had to download it as you mention in the instructions.

Come join the videoblogging group over at Yahoo! for tips on how to get the .mp4 file to stream. I think your server has to set a mime type for that .mp4 file.

Update:
If you are running Apache, and can use .htaccess files, this might
help:

AddType video/mp4 .mp4
AddType video/mpeg .mpeg .mpg
AddType video/quicktime .mov

Also, on your newest vidcast, providing the file as a .zip won't make it easy to subscribe to and view for people using aggregators such as FireANT. Are those vidcasts supposed to be for PSP only? Can you make an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures made up of .mov files for the band videos?
via [ CC ]

No Border

After four years of typing in border="0" to keep borders from apearing around my images, I just found out that I can add this code to my CSS Style Sheet, and voila, no more borders.

a img {
border-width:0;
}

Yay!

Video: Ravi, Sonia and Ortiz

Steve Garfield's Video Blog: The Carol and Steve Show: Episode 25 - Ravi, Sonia and Ortiz
Ravi and Sonia had us over for dinner. Ravi made Paella according to the recipe in Cook's Illustrated. Sonia made Mojitos.

Save Katie

Nothing to link to here, just testing my new no border CSS code.

The Downing Street Memo :: What is it?

Mark Frauenfelder points us to an excellent site about the Downing Street memo that shows the Bush administration fabricated the reasons for invading Iraq.

The contents of the memo are shocking. The minutes detail how our government did not believe Iraq was a greater threat than other nations; how intelligence was "fixed" to sell the case for war to the American public; and how the Bush Administration’s public assurances of "war as a last resort" were at odds with their privately stated intentions. When asked, British officials "did not dispute the document's authenticity." and a senior American official has described it as "absolutely accurate." Yet the Bush administration continues to simultaneously sidestep the issue while attempting to cast doubt on the memo’s authenticity.

Google is the new AOL

Jason Calacanis writes The Official Meta Lockin Shame & Short-term Solution List.

For your protection?

Adam Gaffin writes in today's Boston Globe, For your protection?:

Steve Garfield of Jamaica Plain wondered why the state inconveniences motorists by letting people park on Storrow Drive for concerts, so he wrote the state Department of Conservation and Recreation. He got back a letter stating that the policy protects the lives of concertgoers: ''The line of cars protects the thousands of spectators at the Hatch Shell from any auto accidents that would occur with passing traffic.' So now Garfield wonders whether there has ever been a case in which a car has careened out of control, jumped the curb, avoided all the trees, and wound up on the lawn in front of the Hatch Shell when there isn't a concert going on.

Please contact the state Department of Conservation and Recreation and ask them to stop this misguided policy.

I'd listen to this guy read a cereal box

Deathwatch:
"A eulogy for an HD satellite network, with some comparisons to the deaths of Terry Shaivo, John Paul II and RCA."

I might have posted this before, but it just showed up in ANT and I listened again.

Where do I find videoblogs?

Check out the FireANT Directory of Video Blogs from the makers of FireANT, the video aggregator.