See it here and also on CrunchGear.

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I’ll write something soon on BarCampLA2, but for now, read Carmen De Jesus’s and Mac Reed’s excellent write ups.

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I’ll be attending BarCampLA II this weekend. I am not sure what I will talk about yet. It will either be to facilitate a discussion on helping people find desktop or web applications that they did not know existed, or Leveraging Emergent Behaviors Online, or my ideas for a new microformat around books. It should be fun. You can test drive an electric car, learn about the semantic web and microformats, hear the leading expert on emergent behaviors in social networks, learn CSS for WordPress and Drupal, and drink free wine. Here is a list of attendees and what they will be talking about.

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Check out this spam I got this morning.

You’ve got a new song from Roy on MySpace!

Click here to hear your MySpace music:
myspace.mp3vosem.com/?reloc.cfm=6&id=36056

Click here to get 5-free songs downloaded to Your Space:
myspace.mp3vosem.com/?reloc.cfm=6&id=3605694473_5free

I have not clicked on the link yet, (will do it later on my Mac when I know I am more safe) but I bet it is a phishing scam.

First, my MySpace message notification is off so I never get an e-mail from MySpace. Secondly, you should always look for whatever is right before the .com, .net, .biz, .info, etc. If it is not a site you recognize (in this case, mp3vosem), then it is probably not legit.

Update:
It redirects to an affilate link for an AllOfMP3.com clone site.

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Here is my Flickr set from Soundwalk 2006. This is an event that takes up the sidewalk and art galleries in the East Village Arts District in downtown Long Beach. It features art installation that feature sounds along with experimental music performances.

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I try to listen to as many Podtech.net episodes as I can, since there is some great advice for entrepreneurs, start-ups, VCs, and enterprise software deployment. John Furrier and the team are really in a great position in being able to deliver this type of content. PodTech.net puts out several episodes a day. Recently I came across a couple gems.

The two recent talks I enjoyed too place at the Fall 2006 Interop Meetup in New York City. Scott Kriens, CEO of Juniper gave a talk titled “Keeping it Real” (sort sounds like getting real). He imagines a triangle of good, fast, and cheap.

Kriens says you cannot have all three, and it is dumb to try and sell SOA with all three, because it is just against the law of nature. This seems like some practical advice. So I Googled “good fast cheap” and found post written way back in 2003 by David J. Anderson , author of Agile Management for Software Engineers. Anderson says that according to Built to Last,

…companies which are built to last do not accept the “The Tyranny of the OR” but instead embrace “The Genius of the AND”. These business simply refuse to accept that it is not possible to do it all [good and fast and cheap].

So which is it?

The other talk at Interop that I liked was Ross Mayfield of SocialText and Andrew McAfee, associate professor, Harvard Business School on Web 2.0 for Enterprise.
But then at 39:20 McAfee notes the cultural barrier that can exist in enterprise wiki adoption verses e-mail blasts/thread following. The emergent behavior of projects like Wikipedia proves that this model works, but only some people contribute. It is a damn shame to hear this as I try to champion this type of system at the company I work at. He closes the talk saying that he does not know what the solution is yet. Well, at least the “MySpace generation” will thrive in this area when they come of age. I suppose getting rid of the top-down culture is a start. Is web 2.0 an advantage or a cost center in the enterprise? For the ones who think it is a cost and they cannot adapt, they will not survive. For the ones that think of it as an advantage, they will survive.

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Check out my photos with some of my favorite podcasters on flickr.

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(via BoingBoing) Damn, I had this idea, I swear. But I am glad someone is doing it. The open (as in open source) set top box, the Neuros OSD running on Linux. This is the beginning of something great. Consumers are finally going to get the home audio device that will do what they want it to do.

The device has not been released yet, most of the good apps still need to written for it. And how will they get written? There are bounties for various apps: Flickr photo browser, YouTube viewer, PVR for satellite radio. I imagine someone will also make a podcast/video podcast downloader/streamer, and Tivo-like video recording features. I come home, turn on the TV, and watch my favorite shows: Ze Frank, Rocketboom, and DiggNation. That would be great. It features Ethernet (wired and wireless), USB. Pre-order here.

What about MPAA/RIAA?: Dream Scenario
You might ask if this company can stay around in the face of sue-happy-Hollywood. If they get up in arms, I have an idea. We can beat them at their own game. What if we (the free culture/hacker/open source/creative commons/blogger/podcaster community) were to come up with a way to tag content digital as Creative Commons, and make it so the device can play only Creative Commons licensed material and fair use coppies? This would be a great strategy to play right at the tipping point of the popularity of this device. When it becomes so hot and everyone has one and everyone is ditching their DVD players and DVRs for the Neros OSD, there will be a strong demand for Creative Commons material, and traditional media outlets will need to licence Creative Commons. Copyright dies, fair use lives.

Apps: Let the Disruptive Innovation Begin!
So, there are the obvious apps mentioned above. But here is the real doom scenario for anit-free culture corporate stakeholders: built in BitTorrent with data encryption, open and built-in content purchasing platforms (DRM free of course), fair use iTMS iPod content ripper (protected M4A to MP3 converter) that auto inserts ID3 tags.

I did have my heart set on Apple’s new iTV. But why pay more for a device that does less? Why wait for Apple to make the updates that are going to be MPAA/RIAA flavored when any developer who knows and wants to can make apps for it that do what people really want?

Update:
There is a lot of criticism about paying low bounties. Cory Doctorow has replied to one of these critics with some great points.

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The other cool announcment Apple made yesterday was iPod games. This means that it may be possible for developers to make applications that run on the iPod. I remember getting really excited about chapter markers, but this is a much bigger deal. Ben Sinclair has taken a look at the .ipg file that is an iPod Game file, and discovered it is a zip file with audio, xml, and image files inside. Apple was thinking what I was thinking when I suggested this format and stuck it on a wiki at suggestions4ipodanditunes.com, and my proposed iiml (interactive iPod markup language) format and intreactive iPod audio file.

Ben wrote to Apple, and they have replied, stating that there are currently no plans for an iPod games SDK. I really hope this is not so that can make it so that the only way to get these files is to buy them. I bet, that in a matter of days, someone will post the instructions on how to hack these applications together. As podcasting was platform that was not intended by Apple that they embraced, iPod apps could also be a new platform that the developer/hacker/iPod user communities will exploit big time. This is the beginning of the iPod as an open source applications platform.

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Apple announced today that they will have a device slated for next year codenamed iTV (great summary, David). The device will be wireless as well as featuring an Ethernet and USB ports. One killer app for this device would be the ability to download video podcasts or vlogs to the device and watch them on a TV. Subscribing to them on the device itself with Apple’s own directory (like their podcast directory) would be great. In January, I suggested that Tivo should do more of this. They were offering Rocketboom at one time. I am not sure if this is still a feature.

Update:
Engadget has a photo of the presentation with Joanne of Rocketboom. This confirms that it can do video podcasts. I can’t wait! I will watch TV again (sort of).

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