Props for the My Yahoo Add post below to Ken who introduced me to the neat little easy-subscribe button. I'm not too sure I agree with his read on Newsgator's New Online Service. They are offering web services for intelligence gathering business processes. Fully integrated with that corporate mainstay, Microsoft Outlook. I'd like to give it a spin to see what benefits it has.

Other RSS related developments this evening...

The New Jazz Thing Audblog, my currently most updated weblog...my scratch-blog, has an Atom feed (courtesy of Blogger). Now it has an RSS feed, courtesy of Myelin: Feed Normalizer, which translates my Atom to RSS...which is way cool! It allows me to output my scratch pad to any RSS aggregator, so I can route interesting things in interesting (and New) directions. Coming soon.

And this My Yahoo integration got me rethinking of my wish to have a more weblog portal look to things. Or actually a couple different portals for different views of the New. A Jazz view: TNJT Live, TNJT The Tunes, Jazz 88 News, eJazzNews feed, Apple iTunes Jazz Feeds. An Enterprise Architecture View: feed, Vince Outlaw's Tech News, CIO.com sponsored feed, other search-term specific feeds. There are lots of ideas on this.

Including re-looking at http://Bloglines.com. Or some other RSS aggregator that allows me to publish a category of RSS feeds as a portal or at least combined weblog.

And Waveblog looks TOTALLY COOL!!! I have dreamed about both mobile blogging and personal broadcasting since I started blogging back in 1999. And I'm looking for the next New thing I can do to cover the Playboy Jazz Festival this year...using one of these things could be it!! I have questions and ideas, so grab your J2ME capable multi-media phone and blog...

"The location information is the hard part, and the piece of the puzzle my company fills in. First, you can use the J2ME app (called WaveSpotter) to locate a position on a map with crosshairs for a one-click post to your weblog, or in the coming months we're going to be announcing deals with American and international carriers who will provide the location information on the back end which will geo-tag email and web posts automagically. I've also added a geo-encoding form to the site as well, so at the worst case you can just enter the address information and it'll look up the location info for you.

In addition to the maps on the weblog, the RSS feed also incorporates per-post geolocation using the W3C geo proposed namespace and tags. The idea is to provide that data for others to use and to start aggregating other geotagged feeds so that using a handset - via J2ME or WAP2 - you can see which weblogs have been updated in real time near you or in another specific location ("location-based mobile aggregation"). Our pitch has to do with club-goers and other trendy what-if scenarios that carriers love, but in general it's just the next step in mobile weblogging. Going from "photo blogs" to *real* moblogging, by enabling producing and consuming of information organized not only by time, but also by location. When you combine this with the rich media that modern handsets can produce, people become "personal broadcasters" where every mobile user (everyone?) becomes a roving reporter on the scene around them."

I would love to record, reflect on, write about, and broadcast the various influences and experiences in my daily, worldly, wonderful life and tools like this and others are now making this real. Now to just find the write set of tool / service vendors that would like to work with a Dad of the New Millenium, built to share experiences and only needing a bit of help and mentoring to get there. Any takers? Apple (iLife, iTunes Music Store, iSight, NetNewsWire). NPR / Audble? International Association of Jazz Educators? SAIC? All fine establishments that I'd love to promote by integrating them into a life shared on-line. I could be like one of those Nascar Race Cars, clothes covered with patches and decals of all those organizations enabling the documenting of a life, reporting on and sharing technology, news, experiences in a most local way and Internetional way. OK, so I'm excited...what the hell...a man can dream can't he!

I can also think, I think, of interesting interaction capabilities between me as TNJT DJ on Jazz 88 playing the Tunes (and producing a real-time RSS feed of them) and folks being able to read these feeds in something like Waveblog and immediately feedback (comment) on the blog entry / Tune. Immediate, multi-media feedback from your listening audience...wow. And you could probably also toss up some aggregation view of listeners to see where everyone was listening from to find folks with similar music taste. Or folks having a TNJT Jazz Party each Thursday and not inviting you...you can invite yourself now!! Possibilities...

Questions:

What phones / devices can work with this?

How does Bluetooth figure in to this wild mix? At all? It's late.

How can I try this out and talk about some possibilities?!
1:29:40 AM    

"One would be hard pressed nowadays to identify a single Global 2000 (G2000) organization where relational DBMSs, based on Codd[base ']s theory, are not the strategic data store for the enterprise. These products include Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and countless other database management systems ranging from MySQL to Teradata. Conversely, EA, especially as espoused by Zachman as a framework for managing information technology and organizational change, has barely penetrated the G2000 corporate culture."

Jeff goes on to itemize the many dimensions of the Zachman Framework, which definitely when looked at all at once is daunting to get ahold of, and then offers a summary which raises some of it's own questions:

"Organizations need to find a better way to get started with EA. The first thing a building architect does before designing a new home is to look at the "terrain" on which the structure will be situated. For EA, IT should do the same. Look at past technology investments. Define which characteristics of the existing terrain you want to keep, what you need to change, what should be discarded, and what needs to be developed. This topographical mapping of your terrain is the foundational blueprint that serves as the groundwork for future EA initiatives. "

What does this topographical mapping of your terain look like? An example please!
5:34:35 AM    

"One way is to use a simple commonsense approach called [base "]XEA - eXtreme Enterprise Architecture[per thou]. XEA is a lightweight 7 step methodology for creating an adaptive technology portfolio. A technology portfolio provides the foundation upon which rests your traditional, much more complex, Zachman Framework-like enterprise architecture."

Will have to check out Jeff's http://ITScout.com site and his taxonomy roadmaps.
10:34:54 PM    

"Roger Fournier of InformationWeek has spent a good deal of time culling the best practices he's seen in enterprise architecture. You and I are the beneficiaries of ten of the best pointers on how to develop a successful enterprise architecture"

10:23:28 PM    

"This feedback loop enables knowledge workers to gauge the effectiveness of their decisions and continually improve their business. HP calls it "the missing link" that can help companies integrate data warehouses with the rest of their enterprise architecture, especially enterprise applications. It's essential to becoming an information agile company. From a practical viewpoint, they facilitate decision-making required to streamline internal or back-office operations as well as front-office applications."

This has got to be even more important for companies where the main source of income is leveraging employee knowledge to solve customer problems. There's a lot to think about here regarding knowledge management in this type of data warehouse-enabled feedback loop.
9:59:58 PM    

I can't wait to see some of the color pictures.
12:36:56 AM    

Big news on all the TV stations tonight, KUSI had an intesting graphic which I think showed what it will look like on the Bay-line. Alas, they've got a non-existent web site. I went to see if the graphic might be posted on-line, but they don't have anything. Why they wouldn't post an on-demand stream of their most recent newscast is beyond me. It's not like it's hard to encode the video live and move it to a website. Pop-up a window with the video playing in it and advertising by it's side. For the advertising, do something Clue-ful and add some description of the news items and use that to show ads related to that, I think that's how Google Ads work. Update the Google Ads as every story changes. (I'd love to do something like this with an MP3 stream of my weekly Live show...I've got the text of The Tunes.) Wow, I digressed, but I've been trying to think about how to link up presenting the Things on the site in a way that can make a little money (or at least contribute to the hosting fund). So no cool graphic to insert here. There's more...

The next thought was to find someone connected with Jazz and The Midway. Put them on the show to talk about the museum. Play some Jazz. I also thought it would be cool to do this with someone who sailed on the Midway and ask them what they thought of the project. Find someway to connect this up with the show.

Then the muse took me to look at the SD Aircraft Museum News page, to see if they were hooked into the weblog and RSS syndication thing...along with any latest news (their home page was pretty up to date with today's tug-induced delay), but their News page is more of guest-book of messages. Another Midway News page from someone close to the project is much more newsy, updated a couple of days ago, with headlines, in chronological order...very weblog-like.

I remembered that I was looking for something visual to add to this post, so I followed the Midway Webcam post and there are lots of links to cool pictures, like these and this one of the immenseness being escorted out of San Francisco Bay...

So, I finally got my cool graphic for the post.

Poking around their website, it looks like this museum could be a big draw. I wonder how the projections they have on the site somewhere compare to something like the Zoo or Sea World? They can at least count on everyone in San Diego seeing it a least once...and probably bringing their visiting guests. I guess we'll seee.
12:19:09 AM    

How cool to be back on Mars!!!
11:48:03 AM    

I hope that 2004 will be the best that it can be for everyone!
12:41:22 PM    

"Open standard or not, Magic is still one man trying to convince everyone else that he has the answer. 'Digital transmission is the future, but I don't know which system will ultimately be the future,' says Barani Subbiah of NetworkSound. Juszkiewicz may go down in history as the wack-job who took Gibson too far down the digital road, but his stubborn determination may at least give the world its first classic digital guitar. "

9:31:55 AM    

"To be clear, this is a phone that contains everything you used to buy a PDA for: Palm operating system, a QWERTY keyboard, a bright color screen, digital camera, Web browser, video and MP3 players, instant messaging, desktop-sync software, and more. But the important thing is that it has the form of a phone, not just the function."

[Update...] Looks like Verizon added another camera phone to the mix...Audiovox CDM8900. Decisions.
9:29:46 AM    

ONJava.com: Sliding into WebDAV [Dec. 23, 2003]:

"Apache's Jakarta project offers all kinds of great open source resources to Java developers. One of Jakarta's less well-known but extremely useful subprojects is Slide. Slide is composed of a number of different modules, all tied together using the WebDAV protocol. These modules include implementations of a number of useful features such as a WebDAV client library, a WebDAV server library, and a WebDAV-based content management system. Among other uses, these modules give developers the ability to add WebDAV client functionality to their Java applications."

Keeping up on this HTML-based file transfer protocol which will eventually replace FTP, at least for 'embedding' file transfer / content management tasks (file copy, update, check-out, etc.) into web-smart applications.
9:26:36 AM