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Information Salad: Episode #2
By Slobokan | July 5, 2006
As I said last week, there were might be some surprises this week. The biggest surprise is Vinny agreed not only to do a “tech segment” but he agreed to come on board full time and co-host the podcast, which of course will make things far more interesting for all of you!
This week’s ‘toss up’ includes:
- Nintendo Wii on November 6?
Perhaps not the most natural place you’d find such a scoop, but according to the latest issue of Sports Illustrated for Kids the launch date for the Nintendo Wii is November 6. As proof, someone was kind enough to send Go Nintendo some blurry pics of the issue with the release date included. As if that weren’t enough, the site Cubed3 is reporting that an unnamed “industry source” has said the same date. - Slobokan’s NASCAR Pet Peeve
The Pepsi 400, from Daytona had a special guest. Vice President Dick Cheney was there to observe the race and speak to the crowd. All of the drivers were on the stage with the Vice President while the National Anthem was performed. Again, the FOX cameras did not show many drivers, but I must say I was quite disappointed again. - Transformers the Movie, Trailer Released
Shortly after the trailer appeared on YouTube, it was yanked down and appeared on Transformersthemovie.com. Release date 7/4/07 - Small RAW Firms Gobbled Up
pixmantec was acquired by Adobe
iView Multimedia was acquired by Microsoft - Excellent Photo Manager - UpShot
Upshot is what Picassa could be if Google weren’t running it.- Uploads to most major photo printing services AS WELL AS flickr and smugmug.
- Processes RAW images REALLY quickly.
- Has Autofixing technology that really cleans up botched exposure / etc.
- Looks to be about $29.99 by the time it goes on sale, but seems to be worth every penny.
- Netscape’s New Homepage
Netscape.com is now officially using it’s digg-like interface as its homepage. - This Mama Is On A Power Trip
What happens when one mother decides she knows best for all of our children? Parents, teachers, and students from a Gwinnet County school believe Harry Potter books should remain in the school, so why are they even going to consider this at a full Georgia Board of Education meeting? - N.Y. Times - AOL Said, ‘If You Leave Me I’ll Do Something Crazy’
An excellent article from Randall Stross - MagnaTune
Magnatune is one of the only record labels on the planet whose music you can legally use in your podcast, without paying for a licensing agreement. They specifically grant podcasts a waiver to use their music without paying any fee to a royalty collection agency, such as ASCAP or BMI. Because they work directly with artists, they can legally do this. All of their mp3s are Creative Commons licensed, and may be downloaded at no cost for podcast use. - Podzinger
Podcasts are rapidly emerging as a popular on-line audio publishing vehicle. But trying to find podcasts that are of interest to us is reminiscent of the early days of the internet. Instead of using general search techniques, sites attempted to organize all the content on the internet into categories. The diversity of the available content became too cumbersome for mere categorization to be an effective means for people to find what they wanted. Search evolved to where it is today, that is, to look inside websites quickly for words and phrases. Podcasts have been subjected to the same primitive search through categorization … until now. PODZINGER looks inside podcasts, not just the metadata, letting you search podcasts in the same way that you search for anything else on the web. - Microsoft Closes Books on Windows 98, ME
After July 11th, those people using Windows 98 or ME will no longer receive Windows Updates from Microsoft. Watch the web shudder at the number of people trying to use 98 or ME on a daily basis.
Music from the podcast:
- Tracked In Mud - Cory Davies
- Under The Line - Curl
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