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Those of us in Wisconsin who do not watch the Packers usually just pretend Green Bay does not exist: Self-defense claimed by both parties in area biting, stabbing

Police were called to the couple’s Dousman Street apartment about 3 a.m. for reports of a disturbance. Inside they found the man with minor stab wounds to the back and neck and found the woman to have human bite marks on her neck and face.

Both claimed self-defense, alleging the other drew first blood, said Green Bay police Lt. Bill Galvin.

Hurm…

I tried reading up on Microsoft’s Simple List Extensions Specification but the page would not validate!

I mean, come on guys! How can I take this seriously when you can’t even write valid HTML!

(Warning: This post may or may not contain some form of humor…)

We all know it’s easy to geotag a web page and geotagging photos is pretty common. In fact the geo-wankers think that every camera should geotag photos as they are taken, which is cool with me (and some manufacturers are doing this already) but as I’ve been working more with audio and video, I wonder how geotagging should work. The reason for this is because while a photo easily represents a moment in time at a specific location, audio and video are time-based media, which may have starting points, ending points, and many points in between.

On RasterWeb! we tag each post with lat/lon values and those values also appear in the RSS 2.0 feed. This more or less works, unless I post an entry about traveling from one place to another.

Anyway, this came up because in the videoblogging group there were some thoughts about geotagging the RSS 2.0 feeds so that the items, which also contain enclosures which are videos, could be geotagged. The problem again lies in the fact that you can easily start shooting a video and start driving and end up 30 miles from where you started. Or you could shoot video with footage from many locations and prsent it all as one. Does the geodata need to be embedded within the audio/video stream?

This seems like one of those problems that we can’t easily bootstrap ourselves without manufacturers of equipment building the features into the products they design. I could be wrong on this (and hope I am) and maybe there is a hack to do it, I’m just not the one to do it right now. Still, I think it’s an interesting problem…

Remember last week? It was my birthday! Rather than post any photos from the birthday party, I’ll just show you photos from Flickr taken on June 18, 2005 that match the word “party”, ok?

I guess that Gnomedex thing is going on, but of course, I’m not actually there, so I don’t know.

My idea for the day though was this: I’ve got cell phone numbers for at least three people there, and could possibly even dig up a few more. I thought about calling some of them and saying “Hey, meet me at the Citizen Media session…” or whatever. (If you want to get really tricky scour Flickr for Gnomedex photos of places/things you can reference.) I would then hope that people would mention that I was there but failed to actually find me. One must be elusive, like the unicorn!

Obviously I’ve blown my cover by writing about this. None the less, feel free to borrow my plan…