Hot Dog of the Week

Love this: Hot Dog of the Week. Hawk Krall's posters are available, too. I wonder where I can get real, soft hot dog buns round here in Germany. Maybe in some parallel universe I'll try and bake them myself.

The Web Publisher - Preface

A friend of mine and myself are regular watchers of DP/30. These are great interviews made by David Poland and are part of his blog. The blog itself has been moved and he has made an attempt (actually multiple attempts) to build a separate site around the DP/30 format.

As said, these interviews are very good and highly entertaining. But I always found it hard to follow his content. Videos were sometimes linked, sometimes embedded as Google Video, snippets on YouTube, embedded and downloadable HD .mov.

I love small content providers trying to get their stuff out there. Partly because this is how I believe people will distribute culture in the near future. And partly because these people are currently producing the most essential and influential material available.

I have made a few notes and ran a few tests on different problems David Poland (as an example) is facing as an internet publisher. I hope to interview a few people who may have gathered experience in this field and I am hoping for some meaningful comments. In a series, will consecutively post my personal views on different technical aspects when publishing to the internet. I hope to thereby assist you with some crucial decisions you have to make as a hobbyist or solo publisher.

Omega Mission Hills World Cup II

Coming from behind, Italy won. What a strong effort by the Molinari brothers. Great course, great competitors with Ireland and Sweden... even South Africa and England catching up towards the end. And I loved the jubilation, too. Hugely deserved, with Edoardo Molinari ending an impeccable season and marking serious claims for the year to come.

Omega Mission Hills World Cup

McIlroy and McDowell are sick OK. Stenson and Karlsson are well ill. But the Molinari brothers are diseased! Hope they win - it'd be deserved.

Brotherman

Love the man and his music. But the title and design of this is marvelously ridiculous and endlessly funny at the same time:

http://www.amazon.com/Brotherman-Fatherland-Rahsaan-Roland-Kirk/dp/B000ERU7IY

(Nice, using real URLs again)

DRS 2: Jazz Collection

Yes, you probably noticed: I am running a rigorous IT cleanup this weekend. A lot of evaluations have been dumped and a few have stayed. A lot of Jazz podcasts have come and gone - mostly because they were lacking contentual depth and technical quality. One of them which stayed is the SR DRS podcast "Jazz Collection". Unfortunately it is in (Swiss) German.

Quality stuff! Though, I wonder if there is a bias towards ECM - it doesn't matter anyways: DRS 2: Jazz Collection (Feed)

Killed Twitter and Identi.ca

Just made a hasty decision to delete my Twitter and Identi.ca account. Was thinking about it for a while, now brought it to action. No biggie.

I evaluated it long enough. I think it can be heavily important to certain people and organisations - but the RSS subscription model fits me more. These systems will only start working for me when they federate through open protocols. Of course, this will happen sometime, but then I won't necessarily need an account at their side and be bound to their software. Identi.ca is trying exactly this with StatusNet (ex Laconica), but are not very successful and sadly unreliable. I personally hope XMPP (XEP0060, Wave) will make the race.

* I will keep following the Identi.ca and Twitter contacts via -guess what- RSS

* If you want to @/RT me, leave me a comment or pingback

* I will microblog through this blog

* If you are interested in interesting things I am willing to share, please feel free to subscribe to http://www.google.com/reader/shared/00177912763171547773

Cheers.