Thursday, January 06, 2005

Hoder: "Friends in Iran, journalists and technicians, are saying that judiciary officials have ordered all major ISP to filter all blogging services including PersianBlog, BlogSpot, Blogger, BlogSky, and even BlogRolling." 

MIT Tech Review: "Podcasting shows once again how a commercial technology invented for a specific purpose -- in this case, the digital music player, which reached its pinnacle in the Apple iPod -- can be creatively repurposed to more democratic ends by independent software developers using open technologies like RSS and XML." 

Press release: "WNYC today announced that NPR’s On the Media, is now available for podcasting. This is the first National Public Radio program to take advantage of this new technology." 

No address for the press release, but here is the RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures. 

Madge Weinstein, interviewed on today's Daily Source Code: "If [Howard Stern] heard my show he's going to be so goddam angry because I got to say cunt on the radio." To which Adam said: "Exactly." 

That's the first time the c-word has appeared on Scripting News. 

Fresno Bee: Pod people. 

Steve Rubel on GM exec blogs. 

Early morning South Beach pics. 

Sunrise on the Atlantic in Miami movie. 

LID: "A quite simple, but powerful technology that empowers individuals to keep control over and manage their digital identities." 

Bret Fausett: How to Podcast RIAA Music Under License. 

CNN's RSS feed: "Read full story for latest details." 

Microsoft's anti-spyware software. Is it any good? 

Bill Gates: "We need to keep IE the best." Heh. 

BBC: "A user of Apple's iTunes services sues the firm saying it is unfair that he can only use an iPod to play songs." 

LiveJournal acquired by Six Apart. Six Apart acquires Live Journal. 

Venture Capital 101 

In all the speculation about the deal betw Six Apart and LiveJournal I haven't seen what surely is the motivator. Six Apart plans to go public. The market will value SA based on its ability to generate profits, and it will likely do so in proportion to the number of users, the theory being that they can sell things to the users, so the more users, the more they can sell. The more users the more value. LJ has a lot of users. So the founders of LJ get SA stock, and the shareholders of SA get more users, and value of the combined companies goes up and the day of the IPO gets closer.

This is just a test