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 Friday, November 17, 2006
started 11/17/2006; 8:05:53 AM - last post 11/18/2006; 5:38:42 PM
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Doc Searls - Friday, November 17, 2006 
11/17/2006; 12:05:53 PM (reads: 4655, responses: 3)
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Spinning long tail 
| | Imagine playing your music selection, with commentary by anybody who knows anything about your songs. That's the idea behind SpotDJ. I like it. I just wish it wasn't built around Apple's iTunes silo. |
A roar in the sky
| | That's what we said over and over last night as we lay on our back deck on an air mattress sandwiched between layers of blankets, comforters, sleeping bags and large coats, staring up at the at the Leonid meteor storm from 2am until dawn. |
| | It was spectacular. At one point I counted twelve meteors streaking past Jupiter through Gemini alone. At dawn Leo was straight up, a showerhead of meteors streaking out from a single point near the lion's head, celestial fireworks for a crown. What an amazing show. |
| | Of course, that was a peak year. But the Leonids are worth watching any year, because you're sure to see some shooting stars. |
| | The 2006 Leonids will show a dust trail encounter with the 1932-dust trail of comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, as well as the possible return of the Filament component. David Asher's original prediction put the peak time at 04:45 UT on November 19, with a peak rate of about 100 per hour, visible from western Europe and western Africa. Peak time of the Filament component is uncertain. The traditional maximum of the annual Leonid shower is earlier on November 17, around 16:45 UT, well placed for the western USA (early morning of November 18 local time). |
| | IMCCE has a chart that shows the path Earth takes through the trail of comet Temple-Tuttle, which produces the Leonids. |
| | If you have kids, see if you can get them up a couple hours before dawn Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Stay out as long as you can ‹ it could take 15-20 minutes before you see your first streak, and you never know when a fireball will appear. |
| | Right now it's 5:14am in San Francisco and raining. I'll miss it tomorrow too, but I'll definitely get up with the kid early Sunday to see what we can. |
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Michael Markman - Re: Friday, November 17, 2006
11/17/2006; 3:33:26 PM (reads: 663, responses: 2)
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iTunes music silo is fine with me. It's where I keep my music. I like it. I salute your devotion to the no lock-in ideology. In theory I agree with you. But in practice, I'm very happy in my cage. They feed me. They play good music. I get to wear the white ear buds. What's not to like?
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Doc Searls - Re: Friday, November 17, 2006
11/18/2006; 1:37:43 PM (reads: 736, responses: 1)
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First, is the locked-in life not also an ideology?
Second, how do you like finding that the music you bought, with real money, won't play anywhere other than the computer you bought it on and the iPods associated with it -- unless you do tricks with "authorization" and "de-authorization"?
For what it's worth, I think iPods are terrific devices. I have two of them. It's the silo system I'd rather not have.
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Mike Warot - Re: iPod silo
11/18/2006; 9:38:42 PM (reads: 899, responses: 0)
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Doc, I've been using SharePod with my 4Gb iPod mini, with no problems, and no iTunes. I'm sorry this one is Windows only, though.
Before my shuffle died, I had a program to rebuild the catalog without iTunes on that as well. Now, that program was written in Python, so it would run on ANY host.
I bought most of my CDs back when Napster made it easy to find new music... and stopped buying them once the RIAA decided to bite the hand that feeds it, so I don't worry about downloading things... I already have my music in MP3 format.
It is possible to break out of the silo. Of course, being aware of the silo walls is the first step towards escape.
--Mike--
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