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In a recent email newsletter from Jakob Nielson (no link, since it does not appear to be on the web, ponder than one for a while…) he talks about Steve Jobs’ Macworld keynote, and even makes a joke!

In my last newsletter, I complained about the webcast of Bill Gates’ CES keynote: we didn’t get to hear the speaker until 8 minutes and 57 seconds into the video. Too drawn-out (thus boring) for Web video. In contrast, Apple’s video of Steve Jobs’ recent Macworld keynote had him talking after only 36 seconds of intro. They could have tightened this a bit, but basically, that’s the way to go. The video image was the same size as Microsoft’s (320×180), which is too small to see demos well. For long videos, better quality is needed to keep users’ attention, even when you are webcasting from a reality distortion field.

As for the Macworld keynote, Drew mentioned that it would be a most excellent idea for Apple to make the keynote available via the iTunes Music Store. What Mac-fanatic wouldn’t pay $1.99 to download all the Stevey goodness with “Oh… and one more thing…”? Isn’t it the perfect content for that shiny new video-capable iPod?

What’s up Apple?

Hmmm, this seems weird…

Go to this Flickr page: /photos/tags/water/ and this Flickr page: /creativecommons/by-nc-sa-2.0/tags/water/

The first one, which is all photos tagged with ‘water’ regardless of license, has an RSS feed you can subscribe to. The second one, which has photos tagged with ‘water’ made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license, does not…

Seems to me that you would want an RSS feed of by-nc-sa license photos, eh?

(Update: I may or may not have heard that RSS feeds for the CC stuff should happen in the future. Yay!)

You know how you search, and you get a results page and it says something like:

12 results found!
Displaying 1 – 10 of 12

And then you need to go to the second page to see the last two results?

This is due to some programmer deciding (or more likely not deciding) that you should always display a list of 10 items per page, and the last page will have the remainder. Why not just round the number of results properly and display 1 – 12 of 12, or 50 – 66 of 66, etc?

Yeah, ok, Rocketboom is nice and all, sort of funny in a geeky way, but really, for a true alpha-geek you need more, you need Geek Entertaintment TV.

I know, people go on and on about Amanda this and Amanda that, but she can’t compete with Irina Slutsky.

The Macworld Expo 2006 Wrap Up is especially hilarious. ("S. Kelly" indeed!)

I have seen the future of videoblogging/videopodcasting/vlogging… whatever you call it! It’s Geek Entertaintment TV…

That Zeldman guy does go on, doesn’t he? This time on Web 2.0 3.0…

Here is my favorite bit:

If Steven created the site with CGI and Perl and used tables for layout, this is the story of a boy who made a website for his own amusement, perhaps gaining social points in the process. He might even contribute to a SXSW Interactive panel.

But if Steven used AJAX and Ruby on Rails, Yahoo will pay millions and Tim O’Reilly will beg him to keynote.

So that’s what I’ve been doing wrong all this time!

There are plenty of comments on the article, but since you can only view 10 on a page at a time, well, blah, blah, something about usability, blah, blah…