It seems there's a conventional wisdom that audio-blogging is a bad idea, except for certain applications like this. I think that's crap. I think that the web was a bridge to blogs, which are a bridge to audio and video blogging, which is itself a bridge to a time in the near future where everyone has their own "channel" and it's as easy to blog your life as it is today to push-button publish on blogger.com. In other words, just extend all the metaphors of forums and blogs -- some are public, some require invitation or registration, et cetera -- to audio and video media and imagine that. Imagine SlashDot as an audio/video experience, if you wanted, where everything is automatically transcribed into text for later review.
I also saw an interesting story on some new ways to look at the Sims game. One group had hacked it to become a foreign language learning tool. I was in Germany once for 14 days, and that kind of immersion is the only way to learn. In the Sims, you can get that immersion, plus, the best part, is your text boxes are in English if you aren't getting something -- it helps you automatically.
The recent Sims story about a television show that's either being talked about or is in production now was also interesting. It'll end up just like reality television since the obvious popularity winners will be the zany, off-beat, amusing, and sexy characters. So producers will pay people to play a certain way just like they coax people in the shows today to act a certain way.
Part of the reason why hard drives haven't kept up with other components is because consumers don't demand more features. Seems like people don't want their hard drives to do more - though I know that I'd like better performance when working with large video files.
Reveals Google's Access to Large Data Sets
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The article highlights the key to Google's success: constant feedback via formal studies and data analysis, and access to very large data sets. It's like the webmaster that pours over his Urchin stats and tweaks his website according to his current traffic patterns.
That kind of dilegence makes for an improved quality of experience for the person visiting the site, and increases the traffic for the webmaster. Google applies that same dilegence on a global scale.
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It seems there's a conventional wisdom that audio-blogging is a bad idea, except for certain applications like this. I think that's crap. I think that the web was a bridge to blogs, which are a bridge to audio and video blogging, which is itself a bridge to a time in the near future where everyone has their own "channel" and it's as easy to blog your life as it is today to push-button publish on blogger.com. In other words, just extend all the metaphors of forums and blogs -- some are public, some require invitation or registration, et cetera -- to audio and video media and imagine that. Imagine SlashDot as an audio/video experience, if you wanted, where everything is automatically transcribed into text for later review.
I also saw an interesting story on some new ways to look at the Sims game. One group had hacked it to become a foreign language learning tool. I was in Germany once for 14 days, and that kind of immersion is the only way to learn. In the Sims, you can get that immersion, plus, the best part, is your text boxes are in English if you aren't getting something -- it helps you automatically.
The recent Sims story about a television show that's either being talked about or is in production now was also interesting. It'll end up just like reality television since the obvious popularity winners will be the zany, off-beat, amusing, and sexy characters. So producers will pay people to play a certain way just like they coax people in the shows today to act a certain way.
Part of the reason why hard drives haven't kept up with other components is because consumers don't demand more features. Seems like people don't want their hard drives to do more - though I know that I'd like better performance when working with large video files.
The article highlights the key to Google's success: constant feedback via formal studies and data analysis, and access to very large data sets. It's like the webmaster that pours over his Urchin stats and tweaks his website according to his current traffic patterns.
That kind of dilegence makes for an improved quality of experience for the person visiting the site, and increases the traffic for the webmaster. Google applies that same dilegence on a global scale.