Monthly Archives: December 2004

Kathy Biehl ’s Bloggers Beware: Debunking Eight Copyright Myths of the Online World:

It’s okay to use anything that doesn’t have a copyright notice.
It’s okay to use anything that’s online, because if it’s online, it’s in the public domain and up … Continue reading →

BusinessWeek writes in Let a Million Videos Bloom Online: Following in the footsteps of text blogs, video blogs are starting to take off on the Internet. This new form of grassroots digital media is being shepherded along by groups of … Continue reading →

Guess I shouldn’t be surprised; maybe suprised that we haven’t seen it sooner. From the iPodLinux Project:

So far, we have successfully ported a customized uClinux (http://www.uclinux.org) kernel to the iPod, and written a simple user interface for it dubbed … Continue reading →

iDive is a Mac OS X application for managing your digital video, that I wrote about previously. The kind folks at Aquafadas Software just wrote to let me know there’s a new version 1.2 out. New features include:

Via Boing Boing: Video mashup of Pulp Fiction with vintage Rankin-Bass holiday animation. Enjoy this one when you’re done wrapping the presents. Merry Christmas all!

T. L. Pakii Pierce has just published How To Podcast with BlogHarbor, an illustrated primer for publishing your own Podcast. Complete with videos. Very nice.

CNN: Piercing the sky above the verdant hills of southern France, a stunningly modern roadway bridge hailed as the tallest in the world was officially inaugurated Tuesday.

Just read about this service in How To Blog For Fun & Profit!, it’s called Blogdigger; it’s a search engine for blogs and I dig it. Can’t believe I haven’t heard of this one before, but then again with the … Continue reading →

Just discovered Alton Brown’s site/blog via Andrew Grumet. Alton has a blog he calls Rants and Raves; I found this article on his visit to see the movie Supersize Me entertaining:

Is MacDonalds food bad for you? What do you think? … Continue reading →

WholeWheatRadio posted a very useful article on MP3 encoding back in October, check it out if you want to get some more information about what frequency and bitrate to encode your podcast in.
Hugo Schotman’s Rock solid recording with Quicktime Broadcaster … Continue reading →

Great line from Adam Curry about podcasting in a recent Newsweek article about podcasting:

Anyone can come and party on my MP3 player.

Party on Adam!

One thing I learned from this article is that former Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn has a podcast, … Continue reading →

You guessed it, Blog is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2004. Their definition:

Blog noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer

Yuck. You … Continue reading →