In my last post, quoting a C-SPAN realvideo clip of Donald Rumsfeld, I discovered a syntax to specify the beginning and ending of the clip.
Pete Peterson:
"I've been informed that this occasion is also being webcast. Someday I'm going to have to figure out what that means exactly, but it's apparently very significant" (audience laughs) (21:57/53: 56)
filename.ram?start=numSeconds&end=numSeconds
Querystring time selection is a very important feature-- the equivalent of "page numbers" in print -- but client implementations could be improved:
A Quicktime/Windows media player version of the CFR speech is also available. I do not know how clip selection works in these formats.
Yesterday evening while I was watching Donald Rumsfeld's speech, at the Council on Foreign Relations on C-SPAN, three things struck me:
"I've been informed that this occasion is also being webcast. Someday I'm going to have to figure out what that means exactly, but it's apparently very significant" (audience laughs) (21:50/53:56)
"I find when I come to New York, there's always somebody in the room who's the world's leading export on a subject that I get asked about..
and so I'd like you to identify yourself right now... All right then forever hold your peace...
I am told, and it's not authoritative.." (28:30/53:56)
This was in preface to his answer about missing Iraqi museum items, and given the context, a excellent piece of self deprecation.
The journalist was pressed for her credentials (she was a freelancer) and treated as an outsider. Her question wasn't even terribly biting-- what are you going to do to prevent people like Saddam from using the banking system to hide their assets-- but I got the sense that journalists were not welcome in the audience. (46:20/53:56.2)
This got me thinking about all the webloggers who are experts in their fields and how their expertise is presented and viewed.
What's the lesson to be learned from the success of Apple's Music Store? Is it the low price? Great UI? Security? Integration? Portablity?
Microsoft wants to duplicate all of these things, but the one thing they underestimate is the whole ownership thing. For all the talk about Property, they think IP rental is the next big thing.
I'm not opposed to business model experimentation, but as I've said before:
Don't expect people to take your moralizing about Intellectual Property very seriously if you insist on an IP Rental Scheme.
Dave Winer pointed to a dark horse congressional canidate and a British MP who blog, but I haven't heard much about Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin, the leading candidate to succeed Prime Minister Chretien.
It's true that Paul's style isn't as informal as most bloggers, he doesn't update very often, and he doesn't have permalinks or RSS, but he is the first high-ranking government official to post.
Now I'm waiting for the university presidents. It's a group with a lot of potential.
I've seen the reports; now show me the weblogs!
I haven't "verified" my claim that Paul Martin is the highest ranking politician currently blogging, but Tim Bray's article about scholarship got me thinking about fact checking.
My Conclusion: Unlike laws, which are assumed to be constitutional unless proven otherwise, weblog posts are not assumed to be true until after they've passed though the deliberative process of the blogosphere. (updated May 24, 11:21 am)
Bob DuCharme has interesting articles about link typing and Shepard's Citations. He says hypertext has not advanced. I think perfectionism is the cause of our mediocrity.
Hypertext experts tend to be purists rather than pragmatists. Take Xanadu is as a case study. Ted Nelson has a Grand Hypertext Vision that he's been working on since the 1960s. Meanwhile, the web won with an evolutionary "worse is better" design.
I had similar Grand Visions for a my openreference project, but it's become apparent that weblogs and xml are the path to better hypertext.
I've taken my brother's elsewhere links as inspiration for an simple link management system. Here's a few advantages:
At first Categories will be Chaos. It will pain those used to controlled vocabularies, and disappoint those hoping for logically structured semantics; but subjective classification was actually a feature of file sharing.
The other thing to notice about link classification is that just as:
Take an example from kottke's remainder links:
Or imagine the slashdot categories:
Companies have tried to establish web site rating systems, but distributed ratings will not work unless content and counting are decoupled so that:
Doc Searls provoked my imagination:
"imagine what would happen if mute buttons on remote controls delivered "we don't want to hear this" messages directly back to advertisers."
Broadcast networks and web sites are not about to design a method to hear the audience's "boos"; and it would be comical to establish an engineering task force for such a purpose.
Instead I propose a RESTian approach
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/weekinreview/18NUNB.html ?vote=boo &voter=http:/www.openpolitics.com/tim/ &categories=uninformed &commentURL=http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000390.html
I while back, I got a trackback from Bob DuCharme. His writing is much more nuanced that the words I put in his mouth. #
Here's the actual text:
In fact, none of the taxonomies I know of have improved on the one described twenty years ago by Randall Trigg in chapter four of his University of Maryland Ph.D. dissertation *
In one sense, the stickers they produced in 1873 were already more sophisticated than web links, because if more than one case had cited the same case, the sticker for that case added a one-to-many link to it. *
It looks as though I made the Cyveillance® "Honor Roll"
Use the grep search utility on your web server logs:
grep '63.148.99' access_log > myResults.txt
For those of you who don't read the articles, the "Honor Roll" is not a Cyveillance® product, but an "anti-brand".
