Saturday, December 20, 2003

The Cookie Parade

Here's a little holiday gift, The Cookie Parade! Featuring the Holiday Cookies of Canyon Rim Children's Center and New Christmas Music from songwriter Kathryn Williams called "'Tis The Season Of The Year" (http://SaintJaneJazz.com)...

Click on the little forward thingy to start it

QT MOV 2 minutes, 2.2MB

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Put The New Jazz Thing Live on Jazz 88 on Your Calendar!

Here's a link to an iCalendar file, which contains the start and stop time of the weekly radio show. When added to your favorite online calendar, it should clue you in to when to dig The New Jazz Thing Live!

Most mail programs will recognize the .ics file as an Event when you click on the link. Then you just Save / Close and the Event should be added to your calendar. If that doesn't work, then just download the file and read it in via your Calendaring program (Outlook, iCal, etc.)

The_New_Jazz_Thing_Live_with_Vince_Outlaw_on_Jazz_88.ics
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Apple Announces Quicktime RSS and Atom Multimedia Streaming Support

Apple announced Quicktime Player and Web Page Plug-in support for Streaming RSS Enclosures. Wow. And who would have thought it would happen just when I was thinking about something I want to do in a browser window or a media player...

Simultaneously:

  • Streaming the Jazz88 Stream in MP3. In the Quicktime Player.
  • Streaming the Jazz 88 iBooth-cam (via iSight) as background (or foreground). In the Quicktime Player.
  • Streaming TNJT Tunes RSS Feed into the foreground. In the Quicktime Player.

    Quicktime as the RSS Multimedia Player.

    Get Quicktime running on the iPod and you've got a Portable Multimedia RSS Player. Wi-Fi the iPod and you stream it.

    Is Quicktime player available on mobile phone platforms? Imagine that connectivity...dial a number, RSS with Enclosures downloads and begins playing on the phone.

    OK...so am I just dreaming or is this at all possible with the Quicktime or any player today?

    And the RSS would not just be any RSS, but RSS aggregated from the RSS enabled weblogs of Jazz Lovers. Jazz Lovers writing about New Jazz Things! The things they hear 24 / 7 on Jazz 88 and want to write about. And you can bet the RSS enabled hopefully-soon-to-be-released Jazz 88 playlist would aggregated in there quite prominently! The soundtrack of your mind at the time of your writing, about Jazz, is crucial. Thus the tunes and spots and such eminating from Jazz 88 should be in the RSS flow. I've muttered on about this before. This is another angle.

    Oh, and I'm sure Quicktime would support Atom feeds too. Wouldn't some tie in between Atom and the Quicktime player be a totally most sellable item on the format. Show Quicktime doing cools things with Atom...maybe it's Quicktime integrating over the Internet with the Atom or Blogger or Meta-Weblog or whatever API to pull weblog / website content into Quicktime for playback. And again, none of this locks out Windows Media, or Real Media, or Winamp, or Apple iTunes, or any other interface to take advantage of RSS / Atom / Weblog content as something fresh to display along with the other multimedia types you support.

    Another angle before I collapse is potential for transforming RSS / ATOM to exisiting streaming scripting lingo / commands / format.

    OK...is it possible to do what I started out with...RSS in Quicktime?
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  • Hotsheet as Potential RSS Ticker

    John Munch's HotSheet: "HotSheet is a program that retrieves news headlines from multiple websites, displays them, and allows you to interact with them (e.g. to get the story that goes with a particular headline). HotSheet works by pulling files from websites that have their news headlines stored in a XML format known as RSS. "

    This looks interesting. I don't have time now, but I've been looking for cross-platform RSS reader that functions as a desktop ticker for readers / listeners of my website. In particular, listeners of The New Jazz Thing Live Tunes who want to 'see' what tunes I'm playing, as I do, and give them easy access to comment on those tunes.

    Points to ponder and pursue...

  • Will it pick up my new posts (tunes) immediately (or close) as I post (play) them. Publish/Subscribe for RSS is possible or do it use some sort of polling mechanism (timed pull of RSS file).
  • How does it support / integrate with the Comment feature I have on each post? I want folks to easily post a comment on the tune. I want folks to easily click the Google It link to search for more about the tune. I want folks to easily click the soon-to-be-reimplemented iTunes Music Store (and others) link to buy the tune.
  • Any contemplation of RSS Enclosure support? Would be totally cool the listener-reader could autoplay the enclosures in the RSS list. I could off-mic comment on a tune, post it with the post, and the listener-reader could hear my comment...as the tune is playing. (That is a lot to ask of the DJ, though!).
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  • Lightcode

    Light cone: "From the moment of my birth, light [that I could have influenced] has been expanding around the Earth and light [which could influence me, from an increasing distance of origin] reaching it -- this ever-growing sphere of potential causality is my light cone." [via Lance]

    Ain't this cool. It would be cooler to have a graphic of a mini-universe with the glow of my ever-changing, RSS broadcasted, light cone superimposed over it somehow. Oh to be able to render what crazy things my mind sees...
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    Jazz 88 - Abacast Streaming Community RSS Feed

    Abacast: audio, video stream hosting server software

    I have been digging Jazz 88 on the Internet tonight at http://KSDS-FM.org. Digging it enough to write that last bit. And the sound is so totally good. And it's Peer 2 Peer. The Abacast technology is very cool in that it essentially puts you in the chain so you're sharing your stream with the next listener.

    The current impetus is to ask the Abacast folks how I get some text, preferably XML (RSS), to display in the Windows Media Viewer while the Jazz 88 audio stream is...streaming?

    But then I thought as I wrote the coolness of it above...wouldn't it be cool to see the action of the Peer to Peer-ness of a Jazz 88 over Abacast session being displayed on the screen while you listened to Jazz 88. Very weblogish. A new posting when you get in the stream...where you are, who you're sharing the Jazz 88 stream with, where they are from. A new posting when someone leaves. It's now sounding very chat room-ish. The Jazz 88 Abacast RSS Channel. We can add that to the Jazz 88 RSS aggregated stream.

    All of this displayed and heard and experienced. Jazz 88 listening (and weblogging) community.
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