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It hurts… it hurts! See, it’s all just a popularity contest! If I was an international jetset techie-nerd who went to conferences, people might actually listen to me… But Nooooo, no no no…

Even Brent, yes, Brent, who I conversed with on mailing lists and the like back in the mid-1990’s… Witness this:

It was Adam who convinced us to add support for enclosures and podcasts to NetNewsWire. It was a major feature request last fall, lots of people were asking for it, but it was finally a short email from Adam that was the tipping point. He said it seemed like it would be a “slam-dunk” for us. Who could resist that? Not me.

That’s from June 2005, but let’s go back to August 2004, where I said in regards to podcasting and NetNewsWire:

(Honestly, I think NetNewsWire could kick butt in this area, it’s a Mac OS X application that could tie directly into iTunes quite easily, and Brent could do it all with a great interface Brent, you listening?)

Oh wait, gosh – what is that? I also mention the idea of enclosures in Atom!

Oh, both Adam and Dave wondered about enclosures in Atom and assumed Atom must have something similar, but every time I ask, no one seems to have a good answer. Maybe this will help poke the Atom folks a bit.

That link to the Atom mailing list is dated March 2004, well before what would widely be considered the “birth of podcasting” probably because I was already running my own code to download enclosures from the (very) few RSS 2.0 Feeds (with enclosures) that existed at the time… I was amazed that no one influential in the Atom community thought enclosures would be important or useful enough to follow up on. Over a year later I’m still asking about enclosures in Atom with no clear answers.

Some days it just doesn’t pay to start typing.

(P.S. Can I have my pony now?)

Sheesh… (In the name of shameless self-promotion) those videobloggers are crazy!

I mean, crazy in a good way…

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…