Andy Pryke's detailed meeting with Nanniebots creator
— he includes transcripts of his chats, some background on the story #Joel on How Microsoft Lost the API War
— still catching up on my links since Baby Day via Slashdot #Dave Winer Remix Contest
Yesterday, Dave Winer shut down the free Weblogs.com, inciting the wrath of his many critics and attracting media attention from Wired, News.com, eWeek, and Slashdot. Dave redirected every one of the 3,000+ Weblogs.com sites to this entry, with a 9-minute MP3 explaining his motives. (Full transcript.)
Brian Dear remixed the audio into a catchy number that I call “People Just Love to Jump Up and Down” [.MP3, 1.95 MB]. It’s good, but I know you people can do much better.
So consider this a call for entries… Remix Dave’s speech and e-mail/IM me a link to your MP3 (or Dropload the entire file), and I’ll gladly host it for you. Three Gmail invites to the winner, and one each for the two runner-ups. Have fun!
Entries:
Dan Dickinson – I’m Sorry (Dave Winer Remix).mp3 (7.6 MB)
Matt Canale – This Is Not A Morning Coffee Note (rcade Deep House Mix).mp3 (5.7 MB)
Ralph Brandi – Smoking Weblogs.mp3 (5.3 MB)
Phil Ulrich – Audio Thing.mp3 (5.7 MB)
Scott Mulligan – Goofin’ On Dave Winer.mp3 (3.6 MB)
Exsend – Hi It’s Dave Here.mp3 (1.9 MB)
June 17, 2004: Greetings, Scripting.com readers!
June 18, 2004: Feel free to use Dave’s second audioblog posting [.MP3, 4.3MB], now dubbing the shutdown as a temporary outage, into your remixes. Here’s a transcript.
June 22, 2004: The winners!
New Scientist update on ChatNannies
— still a hoax, Wightman showed off a modified copy of the Alice bot #3D FPS-style car navigation system in Japan
— this is badass, but not a very practical visualization via Boing Boing #
Pitchformula, crunching thousands of Pitchfork album review to write better songs
— he includes all the Perl scripts he wrote for his BA project via Things Magazine #Straight Dope on electricity failure after a zombie takeover
— answer: scattered blackouts within 4-6 hours, complete failure in 24 hours via Delicious #TuneTeller, MIDI search engine with a piano UI
— focus the Java applet and play with your keyboard #Notlong, short URLs with subdomains
— more readable alternative to TinyURL and their ilk via Leonard Lin #Transcript of Winer's Weblogs.com audio announcement
— Wired News on the shutdown, and more via theregister.co.uk #Cuckoo for Coco Cox, rant on celebrity baby names
— hard to pull off, unless your dad is Frank Zappa via Ethan Marcotte #Second Life upgrade adds XML-RPC, in-world marriage
— you can blog from within the world via Slashdot #Firefox open to malicious spyware installers
— but don’t let that stop you from using today’s Firefox 0.9 release #Half-Life 2 moves to Autumn release?
— seems unlikely that Vivendi would sit on it for a couple months #It's Baby Time
If you’re wondering why I haven’t updated my site in the last five days, here’s why: the birth of my baby boy, Eliot Andrew Baio.
Updates will be sporadic while I learn the best ways to swaddle, the physical properties of meconium, and the complete works of Dr. Harvey Karp.