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blog comments is a semantic web problem

JD on MX wrote:

Dead blog comments

Weblogs are pretty broken. Some writers read only through RSS and never pick up comments. But lots of blog owners get lazy on spam handling, and default-off publishing their replies. I've got a bunch of stuff I've taken the time to type, but which never got clicked-for-approval...

This has been a sore spot for blogging from the very beginning. I've always advocated the idea that, if you want to respond to a blog entry, post your response to your own blog, and let the search engines tie them all together. The critical requirement is proper use of <cite> and <blockquote> tags.

For instance, here is the HTML to my quote of you above:

<p><a href="http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/"><cite>JD on MX</cite></a> wrote:</p>
<blockquote cite="http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/dead_blog_comme.cfm">
<p><a href="http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/04/dead_blog_comme.cfm">Dead blog comments</a></p>
<p>Weblogs are pretty broken...</p>
</blockquote>

Of course, the problem is, before the semantic web ties this altogether, will you see it?

Extending XMP from print to video

Lost Remote wrote:

Adobe’s Media Player, video-to-text editing

There are some interesting new video products Adobe unveiled here at NAB...

Adobe’s Mark Randall, who’s the company’s chief strategist for dynamic media, said that video metadata will fuel many innovations over the next several years. At NAB, Adobe announced a video-to-text application that works right in the editing workflow. “It literally builds a transcript while editing,” he said. “You can edit on the words and search for words.” Randall said Adobe is working on extending its XMP standard from print to video. Too much rich media is “opaque,” Randalls said, which limits its distribution, consumption and monetization.

This will have profound effects on online video, and desktop media browsers such as Adobe Media Player. Here's Mark Randall explaining it to Andy Plesser.

Video Comments? 5 Reasons They Don't Work... Yet

Read/Write Web wrote:

Video Comments? No Thanks - 5 Reasons They Don't Work

...[TechCrunch] added video comments courtesy of live video startup Seesmic. About 24 hours later, video comments had turned into a mini-trend with another 80 blogs installing them...

Below are 5 reasons why I don't particularly care for video comments out of the gate.

1. You Can't Scan Them
2. Harder to Moderate
3. They're Inaccessible
4. You Can't Leave Links
5. They Increase Load Time

That's a good list. And in chorus, we can all add one more...

6. Video can't be indexed and searched

Fortunately, as Mark Randall says, we're working on extending XMP from print to video, which might actually address many of these issues.

Podcast Audience Grows 40% In One Year

Podcasting News reports:

Podcast Audience Grows 40% In One Year

According to a new e-Marketer report, a January 2008 Arbitron-Edison Media Research study found that podcast use is exploding:

• The podcast audience has grown nearly 40% in the last year.
• Podcasting reaches 18% of the US population, up from 13% a year ago.
• Podcast adoption is accelerating. A year ago, we reported that the podcast audience had grown 18%, less than half of last years growth.
• An estimated 23 million, or 9% of Americans have listened to a podcast in the past month.

I'm surprised someone still hasn't invented the DVR equivalent for your car radio, maybe it really is just too easy to connect your ipod and go. I wonder what the ratio is between radio content and TV content consumption is in the U.S., as a proxy for estimating the size and growth of video podcasting?

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Beet.tv - Adobe Media Player is a "Huge Step Forward" In the Tracking of Downloadable Media

Beet.TV wrote:

Adobe Media Player is a "Huge Step Forward" In the Tracking of Downloadable Media

Whether or not the new Adobe Media Player (AMP) enjoys widespread adoption, the technology solves the critical issue of tracking the viewership of downloaded files, says Mike Hudack, CEO and co-founder of Blip.tv.

While most downloaded video files come through iTunes, publishers like the Washington Post and advertisers have difficulty knowing if the files are watched and for what duration.  The Adobe Media Player provides these analytics.

As many as 200 shows on Blip.tv are going to be seen on the AMP, Mike told me.  Beet.TV is already up.

Dynamic advertising insertion is a big part of advertising on the Adobe Media Player.  Integrating the ads for Blip.tv is YuMe, Mike told me in this interview.

Jayant Kadambi, YuMe CEO, told me yesterday that his company is both integrating overly ads into the AMP platform and providing access to the company's advertising network.  Its work for Blip.tv is its first implementation on AMP, he said.

first time in the swing

Photos from stevecooley wrote:

first time in the swing

stevecooley posted a video:

OH thank you Deeje and Paulette... whew.

:-) This swing has comforted almost all the children in our extended family and has done a tour of both the east and west coasts. Praise the swing!

Podcasting in Plain English

Well done, Common Craft! Podcasting News wrote:

Podcasting in Plain English

Common Craft put together this fun and simple intro to podcasting.

The video is licensed with a Creative Commons license, so you can copy, distribute, display, and perform the work for non-commercial purposes.

Partial Transcript:

Remember the good old days of TV and radio? Everyone would gather around to be entertained. Shows were broadcast at specific times and if you weren’t there on time, you missed it . Broadcasts disappeared into the ether. Well, things have changed.

This is Podcasting in Plain English

Here’s the big idea. Thanks to podcasting, show times don’t matter. When a new show is created, podcasting gives you a way to capture it and take it with you to watch or listen to later - usually for free. It makes shows personal and available on demand - That’s what makes it different from broadcasting.

It works by setting up a connection between a web site and a computer, so that new shows automatically show up when available.

Hehe, I like the revisionist definition of POD to mean "personal on demand" ;-)

In the parlance of this video, Adobe Media Player is a pod catcher, specifically designed for video podcasts and internet TV shows.

VidPodcasting.com - Does The World Need Another Media Player?

Richard Harrington interviewed me about Adobe Media Player and posted a deep-dive article entitled "Does The World Need Another Media Player?". Then answer, of course, is yes!

Chris Pirillo sez "Keep an eye on..." Adobe Media Player