Monthly Archive for June, 2005

As if being Scobleized wasn’t enough

Published on 6/30/2005 in Self Promotion. Comments

It seems I’m now fodder for reality television…..

I just received the following email (names obscured to protect the innocent):

Dear Dads,

I’m working with XXX Television with hopes to feature fabulous at-home dad families for several of our upcoming shows. I think that the office mom / at-home dad family dynamic is so inspiring – and through my research I’ve realized that it’s a quickly growing trend across the country!! I came across your information linked trough XXXXXX.com and after speaking with XXX XXXXX about our goals for the show I got the “ok” to scroll through and contact you!!! I know you could be a great resource for me so I hope we can partner together to feature a great family – and a great Super Dad on our shows!

I would LOVE to chat with your or other at-home dads you know to learn about your household philosophy – what systems you have in place and how this arrangement works for your wife, your children, and of course, you! I think it’s a fantastic idea that works so well for lots of families out there…yet still isn’t what most of middle America would consider the “normal” family dynamic. Together we could work to change that!!

I’m hoping to speak to families that have children at least 4 years old and older. There is generous financial compensation involved with our program!

Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns – I hope to hear back from you soon!

Best Regards,
XXXX

XXX XXXX
Casting Associate Producer
XXX Television

My response…

Dear Scary Television Person,

Thank you for your interest but I’m already playing a supporting role in the reality show that is my life…

Love,

David

Update: It turns out that XXX XXXX actually did NOT give his permission for XXX from XXX Television to contact people in his list.

Yes, the television lady lied. Shocking.

I may have to rethink my decision to obscure names.

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Robert Scoble wants a new conversation

Published on 6/29/2005 in State of the Art. Comments

Robert Scoble asks what do you want from Microsoft, from Apple, from all of these great new technologies and toys. Most of all, he wants to know what the next conversations will be.

Robert, here’s my two cents…

I want the devices I own now to still work with the files and filesystems of five, ten, even twenty years from now. I know people listening to the radio on 50 year-old boat-anchors, I don’t see why that principle shouldn’t apply to consumer technology.

I don’t want DRM – I bought the file, I own it and if I want to burn a CD for my wife, that’s my business.

I want Word files that I create on my PowerBook to work on a Windows machine – guess what, every now and then they don’t.

I want simple tools to put every picture and video I make of my kids in my parent’s and in-law’s hands within minutes. I don’t want to have to worry if the file is in .mov or .avi or whatever format – I just want it up there and done with.

Just like you said, I want to put EVERYTHING on the Internet but I want an easy, painless way – a way that I could explain to my mother in a phone call – to do it. APIs and OPML files are fine for us geek folk to talk about but in the end, the folks out there don’t need to know what they are, they just need to know what they can do with them.

And to answer your other question, podcasting isn’t any more or less of a fad than blogging. What’s important isn’t blogging or podcasting, but the fact that people are taking the creation and dissemination of media into their own hands with tools being built by small little start-ups, not giants like Microsoft and Apple.

Update Scobleized!! If you are coming here for the first time, here’s some background.

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iTunes now with podcasting support

Published on 6/28/2005 in Toys. Comments

Apple quietly released iTunes 4.9, with support for podcasting.

Most of the podcasts are listed as being authored by ‘unknown’ which does nothing if you have a client who has a podcast.

Otherwise, it’s amazingly cool.

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Suck

Published on 6/27/2005 in Profound Thoughts. Comments

“We were all in L.A. I remember there was some disaster that was on all the cable channels. Some miserable disaster. It was some horrible crime where a mom had killed her kids or an avalanche. Just horrible. Nothing funny about it. But I said, ‘You know what I love about the coverage of this? The way they instantly put the graphic here.’ I was making fun of the coverage of it. Heather said, ‘That’s what I can never explain to anybody about writing for Suck. Right there. That you think that’s funny.’”

A history of Suck, the first great web publication and the model for the tone and attitude of countless bloggers. Sometimes I can still hear myself trying to speak in that voice.

Required reading for any of you who ever dare brag that you’ve been blogging since last month.

Link via Easy Bake Weblogs

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Grokster roundup

Published on 6/27/2005 in Profound Thoughts. Comments

It’s out.

Here’s something that sticks out to me, from the EFF’s release:

This decision relies on a new theory of copyright liability that measures whether manufacturers created their wares with the “intent” of inducing consumers to infringe. It means that inventors and entrepreneurs will not only bear the costs of bringing new products to market, but also the costs of lawsuits if consumers start using their products for illegal purposes.

So innovation now must pass the test of ‘if someday some script kiddie can figure out a way …’

Of course the problem with that is some script kiddie is always going to figure out a way around restrictions. All this decision does is create a whole new class of criminals – not only the companies who now must pass muster with the RIAA and MPAA but the users who will have no problem finding ways around the restrictions that will be built into all new products. Anyone want to find out how easy it is to get a Region 1 DVD to play on a Region 2 DVD player?

So much for America being the birthplace of innovation.

Comments from Mary Hodder, Marc Canter and Robert Scoble who say it’s bad. Om Malik says maybe it’s not quite that bad.

Update: Doc Searls suggests Grokster is the Dean Moriarity of the tech world.

Update 2: Ben Hammersley offers a view from abroad.

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