The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #58: August 11, 2005

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #58: August 11, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (ID3 tags, an open-source RSS tool for audio, Skylook, copyrights and podcast music, pocasting librarians, “Advertising by the Government of Canada,” and Free Government Information); Hill & Knowlton UK’s employee blogging initiative; Neville’s new computer; Neville’s new blog, the redesign of Desirable Roasted Coffee; our interview with Constantin Basturea; the RSS feeds for Google News; would you pay for podcasts?; RSS and podcast password authentication; AttentionTrust; is innovation dead in Japan and the UK?

Show notes for August 1, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 68-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA.

Download the file here (MP3, 28MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your iPod or other digital player, you’ll also need a podcatcher such as the free iPodder, DopplerRadio or iTunes 4.9, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).

In this edition:

Intro:

  • 00:27 Shel introduces the show; what’s in this edition; how to give your feedback; show notes.

Listeners’ comments discussion:

  • 03:27 Warren Stone on id3 tags and a nifty open-source project designed to generate automatic RSS feeds from audio files
  • 07:49 Jeremy Hague on Skylook and RSS/podcasting password authentication
  • 09:07 Rob Clark on our use of Homer Simpson shouting “Stop the presses!” in our opener, along with examples of copyright-holders going after people who innocently use their intellectual property in their films and other media
  • Daniel Cornwall on librarians who podcast, a report from the government of Canada on its advertising efforts, and a Free Government Information page on podcasts by government agencies and elected officials

News and Features:

  • 16:40 Neville introduces his segment
  • 17:15 Hill & Knowlton UK introduces an employee blogging initiative
  • 27:42 Neville bought a new PC—and it’s a Dell!
  • 31:51 Allan Jenkins has relaunched his blog, Desirable Roasted Coffee, with a new design
  • 33:49 Neville wants you to listen to our interview with Constantin Basturea
  • 35:05 Shel comments on what goes into producing FIR show notes
  • 35:52 Shel congratulates Niall Cook on the Hill & Knowlton UK initiative
  • 36:02Shel comments on the Desirable Roasted Coffee redesign
  • 39:16 Google News introduces RSS feeds
  • 43:04 Would you pay to subscribe to a podcast?
  • 48:30 RSS and podcast password authentication
  • 55:00 AttentionTrust, a new non-profit designed to promote ethical use of people’s attention
  • 58:14 Neville’s at Schipol Airport
  • 59:09 Is innovation dead in Japan?
  • 60:48 Is innovation dead in the UK?

Outro:

  • 63:38 Shel wraps up the show with comment and show-note information
  • 64:47 Shel intros the music

Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show:

Listeners’ comments discussion - id3 tags, Warren Stone’s audio/RSS project (a download of a Zip file), Apple iTunes, Skylook, Lee Hopkins, The Simpsons, the “Mad Hot Ballroom” story, the documentary/ring tone story, Star Trek, Starship Exeter, Open Sauce Marketing, Lawrence Lessig, the Open Stacks library podcast, Advertising by the Government of Canada  (an Adobe Acrobat PDF file), Free Government Information page on podcasts by government agencies and elected officials..

News and Features - Hill & Knowlton UK’s employee blogging initiative (Collective Conversation), Niall Cook, Steve “Bloodhound” Rubel’s post on the H&K UK blogging initiative, Ketchum’s Individual Media Services, Dell Computer, Jeff Jarvis’s Dell saga, Neville’s new blog, Movable Type, Total Choice Hosting, WordPress, Expression Engine, Desirable Roasted Coffee, Constantin Basturea’s blog PR Meets WWW, The New PR, Constantine’s PR blog headline service, Global PR Blog Week 1.0, Global PR Blog Week 2.0, Constantin’s del.icio.us bookmark service, Catalyst Group blog design study, Jakob Nielsen, Google News, Justin Pfister, Blogspotting, Heather Green’s post on paying for podcasts, Audible, Audible’s podcast press release, Your Mac Life, Inside Mac Radio, Amazon.com, XM satellite radio, Sirius satellite radio, HTTP authentication, Feedburner, NewGator Online, PHP, Atom, XML Encryption Syntax & Processing, BlogLines, Blowfish, Greasemonkey, AttentionTrust, Steve Gillmor, Clay Shirky, Mary Hodder, Time magazine, Fortune Global 500, VHS, Sony Walkman, Phillips, Harley Davidson, PlasticBag, Starbucks.

Selected resources on RSS and podcast password authentication - Jason Salas’ Weblog, Quoderat, blog.forret.com, Ian Landsman’s Weblog.

Outro - For Immediate Release, Nevon, a shel of my former self, Brother Love, Summertime.

If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at comments@forimmediaterelease.biz, or call the Comment Line at +1 206 984 0931. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.

So, until Monday, August 15…

Posted by shel on 08/11 at 12:14 PM

  1. Hello Shel and Neville.  Just a couple of quick points regarding Atom, Bloglines, and feed authentication.  First off, in today’s show Shel mentioned that BlogLines doesn’t support Atom 1.0.  That is incorrect.  BlogLines does support Atom 1.0.  There are a number of BlogLines users who have subscribed to my weblogs Atom 1.0 feed without any problems.  Second, while XML Encryption allows publishers to ensure that only authorized parties are able to access the information within an Atom feed, the XML Encryption support in Atom is not meant to provide an authentication mechanism.  Authentication is a separate step in the process wherein the reader performs a number of actions that prove they are who they say they are.  Only after they prove their credentials are they given the key that allows them to decrypt the cipher.

    Posted by James Snell  on  08/11  at  08:02 PM

  2. Shel/Neville,

    I hate to be a pedant after you have recorded such a positive piece on Hill & Knowlton, but I wanted to make it clear to your readers and listeners that our blogging initiative is global, not just UK.

    This comes through in the show itself, but less so in the notes.

    Thanks again for such a great show.

    N

    Posted by Niall Cook  on  08/11  at  10:37 PM

  3. James, that just goes to show how much misinformation there is out there. I got the word on Bloglines and Atom from several online IT sources, all published within the last couple months!

    Posted by Shel Holtz  on  08/12  at  04:31 AM

  4. Unfortunately there is far too much misinformation out there about Atom.  The version 1.0 of the specification is in the final stages of completion now.  The call for implementation has already gone out and many of the most popular feed readers already support it or have announced upcoming support. See http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/KnownAtomConsumers for more information.

    Posted by James Snell  on  08/12  at  01:05 PM

  5. Excuse me if it gets a bit technical, but I’d like to comment on Bloglines’ support of Atom 1.0.

    I just recently updated my Atom 0.3 feeds to 1.0 and chose to have the content of the posts presented as xhtml. This is where Bloglines have problems parsing it. The whitespace before and after all phrases that have xhtml-markup (a href, strong, em, acronym etc) gets deleted. The result is a rather compact text, to some extent, but still entirely readable. I could have chosen to publish the content as pure html, but it felt wrong as Atom is an xml-format.

    Posted by Patrick  on  08/15  at  10:34 PM

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