Boing Boing: Starbucks barristas as living software processes
From the article/paper:
Starbucks barristas as living software processes
Really cool paper examines the underlying software design principles that are rendered in the meatspace protocols for Starbucks barristas.
<snide remark>can this process be copywritten?</snide remark>
MacDevCenter.com: Hacking Radio on the Mac
Features a couple of low-cost audio editing apps, the Griffin RadioShark and the Griffin RoadTrip.
The comments list some notable ommisions: Audio Hijack (record from any source, including the computer), RadioTime.com (TiVo for Radio) and Audacity (open source audio capture, editing and encoding)
More are sure to come.. Ahh the power of the blog..
Gizmodo : Vonage and Viseon Unveil Videochat
From the post: Vonage has announced today a team-up with Viseon to provide a Videophone-over-IP service that will be shown in beta form at CES.
Wired News: File Sharing Goes to High Court
I have my fingers crossed on this one. If these file-sharing services can be held responsible for the actions of their users, what does that mean for any company developing software that allows people to connect via public networks? What about ISP’s and common-carrier laws? What about FTP, IM, Email and so on?
The devil in this one may be that the media companies will renew vigor in lobbying congress for legislation like the INDUCE act.
ShitBegone Toilet Paper
Honest copy with real information. Not at all like other toilet paper advertisers that resort to animatronic stuffed animals. Very interesting, art and product and social commentary and … Ok, I like it a lot!!!
Silicon Valley – Dan Gillmor’s eJournal – A Transition
Dan Gillmor is leaving his job as a writer for the San Jose Mercury News to “work on a citizen-journalism project”. Others have said it is a venture with seed money. Interesting.. Can’t wait for the details!
GCJ: The GNU Compiler for Java
– GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Compile Java to native code.
From the site:
GCJ is a portable, optimizing, ahead-of-time compiler for the Java Programming Language. It can compile:
Java source code directly to native machine code.
Java source code to Java bytecode (class files).
Java bytecode to native machine code.
Dijjer
Nice concept in many ways easier and better than BitTorrent but for it to be useful it should be an infrastructure component which would require that it be installed on a web server. Perhaps the best direction for this is to include it as an Apache module.
HOW-TO: BroadSnatching to a Portable Media Center – Engadget – www.engadget.com
From the article:
Getting video on a Portable Media Center is a fairly complicated task, but not because it’s all that hard, it’s just because no one has ever shown folks how. It’s a lot easier if you have a Media Center PC (MCE), but even if you don’t have an MCE, we showed you how to put DVDs on your Portable Media Center when we reviewed the Creative Zen.
ANT | ANTs Not Television
Go Jay and Josh GO!
ANT helps you download and watch video published on the Internet.
ANT allows you to organize and manage video playlists
ANT is a video aggregator that allows you to subscribe to RSS 2.0 feeds with video enclosures
ANT seeks to build opensource software tools to enable an emergent, grassroots, bottom-up, video distribution network based on exisiting technology such as weblogs and RSS.
ANT is about FREE VIDEO — not free as in price, but free as in freedom.