Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
September 2005

Independent Music Greatest Collection Gets Top Musicians And Critics As Editors   //www.emusic.com/promo/home.html">eMusic, the number two online music service, has revamped their daily music magazine with an all-star team of the top 100 rock critics and musicians, who are working to create "an expertly-curated editorial exploration of the greatest collection of independent music ever created." Staffed by music heavyweights... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- September 30

The Political Power Of Blogs   Anyone with an understanding of blogs knows how much these grassroots communication tools can potentially influence social and political change over any political landscape. It was bloggers who unearthed the shoddy journalistic practices leading to Rathergate during the 2004 election, and recently, blogs like the DrudgeReport... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- September 30

Open-Source Publishing Of Textbooks For Educational Purposes: Wikibooks   Open-source textbooks on any topic, in any language, available to anyone, anywhere, for free - this is the goal of Wikibooks, a project of the Wikimedia Project, the folks who brought you Wikipedia. Currently consisting of over 11.000 book modules from kindergarten to university-level, Wikibooks opens... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- September 29

Online Music Recording And Jamming: The Real-Time Virtual Band Enabler Is Here   What I thought was just a silly-fantasy of a passionate amateur musician like me, has surpassed my wildest expectation and has now turned into an actual product. After the recent debut of Ninjam, which premiered the immense opportunities available to those who, like me, dreamed of hooking... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 28

Personalized Marketing for New Media - Interruptive Advertising for Mass Media   New media options have inundated consumers in recent years, and with so many entertainment and communication technologies available, consumers are harder to reach. In this new environment, old marketing strategies are rapidly becoming much less effective and in some cases, obsolete. Consumers are no longer tolerating "interruptive"... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Kevin C. Borgia and Robin Good - SMLxtraLarge -- September 28

AIDS Causes: Are We Given The Straight Facts From Mainstream Media?   According to emerging research data coming from independent news sources, the possibility that AIDS is the unintended result of biological warfare seems to be more than just a possibility. Photo credit: David Dallaqua The vast majority of alternative AIDS researchers such as Duesberg - those who understand... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Sepp Hasslberger - Health Supreme -- September 26

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 19   Here is another great basket of new media resources, software and articles that I'd like to share with you. Feel free to test, try and share these little gems with your friends, they are my Sunday little present to you. Photo credit: Mark Wagner This is what I... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kevin Borgia -- September 25

Publish Video Online In One-Click: The Egg Video Publisher   By far, the most difficult step for any would-be online video producer, blogger or videomaker is the ability to master the idiosyncrasies of a multitude of different video formats, encoding and compression nightmares and the needs to serve the same content optimized for different users and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 24

Ads As Information Channels   Ads are nothing else but information devoted to promote, market, sell or provide specific information about a product, service, commercial event. Our brain processes ads as another information block. On the other hand our brain has also learned that ads need extra processing for useful application, as... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- September 23

Advertising Future: Ads As Searchable Information   Ads are nothing else but information devoted to promote, market, sell or provide specific information about a product, service, commercial event. Our brain processes ads as another information block. On the other hand our brain has also learned that ads need extra processing for useful application, as... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 23

Best Internet Phone Services   Which Are the best Internet Phone Services? This June 2005 article discusses VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) services, which allow users to make telephone calls using the Internet. It evaluates carriers such as Skype and Vonage for reliability, sound quality, portability, and international calling capabilities. ... Link | cat.: [via Meryl K. Evans] - Slate -- September 23

VoIP Recording: JaJah Does It Good   JaJah, one of the interesting alternatives to Skype has just released an integrated recording function offering the option to record any of voice call going through JaJah as a standard MP3 file. JaJah supports an innovative feature set that makes it a promising alternative to Skype unmatched... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora -- September 22

Learning And Podcasting: Future Perspectives   Here is a new white-paper on podcasting for learning: http://www.ottergroup.com/blog/_archives/2005/9/16/1232728.html Written and produced by the Otter Group, the paper "dips [the authors'] baby toes into the pool of possibilities in podcasting for learning." Since March of this year the Otter Group has been producing the Negotiating Tip of... Link | cat.: Aixa Almonte [via Kathleen Gilroy] - Otter Group -- September 21

Web 2.0 + Housing Maps = A Great Preview Of The Web To Come   This has got to be really a preview of the Web to come. For you cutting-edge readers and Web 2.0 developers this may look like nothing new or for which to roll your head over, but for whoever is not a geek, this is really the... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- September 21

BlogBridge Gets Good!   During the night I received a welcome notification from Pito Salas of BlogBridge. In appreciation for some of the useful insight and advice I have provided to BlogBridge in the development and design of their unique open-source cross-platform RSS reader-aggregator, BlogBridge has officialized my acceptance to... Link | cat.: Robin Good - BlogBridge -- September 20

Wi-Fi Cruising: Italian Highways Go Wireless   Italian car drivers are getting very excited around the opportunities created by the new cutting-edge business initiative allowing individuals to buy Wi-Fi connection passes to hook up to the net while cruising the Sunshine Freeway (Autostrada del Sole, linking Milan with Rome and Neaples - it... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Luigi Ferro - SMAU News [via Giovanni Canali De Rossi] -- September 20

Pre-Browse The Content Of Any Site Via Look-Ahead Search   Scoping the contents of an information site is a tough task. that is why major search engines have become the major, most used and accessed gateways to anyone site pages. They are indeed, by far, the fastest and easiest method to discover and find out whether... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 19

Personal Health Freedom: The End Of Your Rights   Rather than being concerned on whether RSS will replace email or P2P going mainstream this year or next, here is something we should all be seriously worried about: Business is taking over our personal and fundamental right to be able to choose our own health remedies. Our... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- September 19

Bush Miserable Failure: Google Bombing Or Popular Opinion?   Go to Google and do a search for "miserable failure" and see what do you get as an answer. If you can't see the above image, here is what the Google results say: Web Results 1 - 10 of about 2,860,000 for miserable failure. (0.17 seconds) ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Marissa Mayer/Google Blog - BBC - BBC -- September 19

Breaking Tech News Radar: Tech.Memeorandum   "The Web is humming with reports and opinions on technology. tech.memeorandum is page A1 for these discussions. Auto-updated every 5 minutes, it uncovers the most relevant items from thousands of news sites and weblogs." A true "quality" //www.masternewmedia.org/2004/03/02/the_rss_newsmaster.htm">newsmaster channel, tech.memeorandum brings together a focused, filtered and... Link | cat.: [via Robert Scoble] - Scobleizer -- September 18

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 18   Here is my new media picks selection for this week. Check out what I have found: Cross-platform File Sharing and Synchronization Online collaboration across email, calendaring and contacts Recording tool captures any video playing on your screen Graphic visualization of delicious contents RSS one-stop reference Personal Publishing... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- September 18

How To Start Podcasting And Video Blogging   Do you know how you can use podcasting and video blogging to communicate effectively via online media? Are you interested in starting up your own Internet TV or radio station? For the first time in human history every individual has the power of self-expression to reach... Link | cat.: ITConversations -- September 17

Why Blogs Are All About Conversations   "You've gotta go back and understand where blogging came from. We were disgusted with how corporations were behaving. Blogging started really taking off after the dotcom boom and bust. It started taking off after WorldCom and other corporate scandals. It started taking off because corporations seemed to... Link | cat.: Robert Scoble - Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger -- September 16

What Is A Blog? New Media Culture 101   James Torio has recently taken on the challenge to write about blogs and media phenomenon they represent: blogs are social change tools, business venues, support and development instruments, wonderful marketing channels, gateways to innovative learner-centered education and peer-review journals for a new media world in which... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- September 16

What Blogs Are: A Collaborative, Open Model For Information Exchange   I have been hearing and talking so much about blogs that for a while I stopped listening. I personally never felt in tune with those wanting to define blogs in terms of specific software-based features that allow easy publishing of content online, while adding RSS, comments... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- September 16

Aerial Images Of New Orleans Before And After The Katrina Hurricane: MSNBC Launches Katrina Flyover   Microsoft MSNBC has been working hard with its partner Pictometry to capture areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina. After talking with the people on the ground supporting relief efforts, it became apparent that the lack of information about the status of homes and buildings was hampering... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 15

How To Submit Your RSS Feed To The New Google Blog Search   As reported by SearchEngineWatch, Google has just introduced its long awaited blog search service, becoming the first major search engine to offer full-blown blog and feed search capabilities. "While Google web search has allowed you to limit results to popular blog file types such as RSS... Link | cat.: Robin Good - Chris Sherman - Search Engine Watch -- September 14

Location-Aware Mapping And Interaction: Plazes   Developed by Stefan Kellner and Felix Petersen here is an open collaborative effort for annotating locations. Called Plazes, this is a grassroots approach to location-aware interaction, which leverages the local network you are connected to as a location reference. Photo credit: Barb Ballard As Enki Boehm’s blog... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 12

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 17   This week Robin Good's new media picks selection includes: Open-source server-based RSS feed aggregator RSS newsmastering tool self-discovers hot topics Blogging to the Web from within Microsoft Word Free online content storehouse (1GB) and sharing platform Web site traffic ranking and popularity reporting service Web search via... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- September 11

Internet Calls + Voice XML = Skype Creates New Market Opportunity For Voice Services   With the combination of Internet calls and VoiceXML, a new era of innovation is coming to the telephone. Photo credit: Yan Moura Skype has jut announced its partnership with three voice application development companies opening a new huge market for voice-based services and applications delivered through the... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- September 10

Remix The BBC   The latest creative incentive the BBC is offering its own audiences to have them start participating more tangibly in the making of media is a video-editing competition in which participants get to remix selected BBC openly-licensed video footage. The competition is running now and will last throughout... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- September 10

Monitor Mentions Of Your Product Online: Ego Searching   Most any online blogger knows how to monitor and track mentions of her blog or person across the blogosphere and on the Web at large. But you don't need to be a blogger to see the benefits that the automatic tracking of specific subjects offers to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Sharon Housley - Robin Good - FeedforAll -- September 9

Content Distribution: Operating Systems As Media Channels   "Call it the widget revolution. Mac OS X, Windows and Linux all have widgets for pulling in available content from small software houses and other sources around the Internet. Although users can cull these free bits of data from elsewhere on the Web, the widget, thanks... Link | cat.: Elizabeth Millard - Newsfactor -- September 8

CSS Examples And Showcase: The CSS Zen Garden   CSS Zen Garden is an interesting initiative launched in 2003 to demonstrate the benefits of using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). With the same fixed HTML code, many web designers have contributed different CSS files that produce a dramatically different web page, with the same contents. ... read more | cat.: | Link Juan C. Dürsteler - InfoVis -- September 6

New Orleans Speaks: We Have Been Abandoned   from the Information Clearing House "news you won't find on CNN" "But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Information Clearinghouse - DemocracyNow -- September 6

Micropayments Gain Further Support: PayPal Joins The Frey   PayPal is extending its micro-payments service to support online commerce of low-cost digital content. The digital content to be covered by the new PayPal offering will include news articles, video games, online greeting cards, mobile phone content, and music. For this type of micropayments (less than $2),... Link | cat.: Robin Good - Red Herring -- September 5

Someone Will Speak Up: One Death Is One Death Too Many! A Flash Manifesto   "To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men" - Abraham Lincoln "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." -... Link | cat.: [via Democracy in Action] -- September 5

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 16   This week Robin Good's new media picks selection includes: Customize content into marketable products RSS submission tools compared RSS output for Macromedia Dreamweaver Blog geo-coding service Podcast music network supporting indie bands Online guide to understanding Digital Rights Management The future of music Earth interactive mapping... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- September 4

Online TV Station For Independent Actors And Directors: PitbullTV   Online television stations are visibly growing in number and directions. This time I am giving my ears to Frank Principe, actor-entrepreneur who tired and disillusioned with trying to make it to the Hollywood dream or being caged in a looping race to survive by doing less than... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 3

Trusted Computing + Microsoft = Windows Vista   "The same system that prevents worms and viruses from running on your computer might also stop you from using any legitimate software that your hardware or operating system vendor simply doesn't like. The same system that protects spyware from accessing your data files might also stop... Link | cat.: Bruce Schneier - ZDNet UK -- September 2

GoToMyPC Alternative Looks Good For Non-Corporate Use   A new PC-based remote access tool called BeAnywhere Personal, offers a great alternative to those of you needing to remotely access your PC when away form it. In fact this new tool, may soon give serious competition to GoToMyPC wide dominance in the desktop remote access... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 1

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