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last year between April and June, there’s kind of been a moratorium on commentary about the greater weblog/syndication world. I found that nothing productive really came out of it, and I wasn’t really invested enough to continue to post about the topic. I tried it, and it was interesting for a while, but I’ve moved on.

I still read Scripting News nearly every day and I still think Dave Winer is a bit of a nutjob a fair bit of the time. Sometimes I agree with him, but I rarely feel strongly about it when I do. Usually it’s about something run-of-the-mill or otherwise meaningless. Today, however, I found myself actually rooting for Dave, which, to be honest, felt a little, well, dirty (j/k).

As I write this, though, the inspiration for my short step out of character isn’t posted on the site any longer and appears to have been replaced by this bland little item. Apparently, Dave was semi-spurned by IDG, the organizer of the Syndicate conference for posting the details of his interactions with them regarding his finding a personal sponsor for his appearance. In particular, I’m betting they didn’t like the criticism he leveled after they told him he couldn’t have a personal sponsor. He had written a very honest, but fair response to their attempt to censor his weblog by threatening his ability to speak if he didn’t stop posting the details. He said, thanks, but no thanks.

Hey, I don’t agree with the guy very often, but I sure appreciated what appeared to be his stand on this issue. I hope he re-posts it soon.

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Looks like I spoke too soon (about his taking it down). He just moved it off the front page. It’s posted at the bottom of this entry at reallysimplesyndication.com.

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BTW, the moratorium is back on. Also, Dave is back to being his good ol’ nutty self again today.

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It should, however, maintain paragraphs correctly, so I’ve protected that function.

Here goes nothing!

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Also, the submission is completely un-authenticated. It would seem like it should be possible to incorporate some sort of public/private key encryption (optionally) to allow people to add some security to the process.

Maybe if I just implemented these things and submitted a patch, they’d accept it. Or maybe not. It’s worth a shot.

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(now down to Adam Curry and Rogers Cadenhead), frankly, I’m a little sad.

Despite his frequently distasteful style, Dave’s numerous tangible contributions to the syndication space have been enormous. It would be a shame for any of them to lose the momentum they currently enjoy. Hopefully, they’ll get the board vacancies filled by a group of people that are committed to the success and growth of the RSS 2.0 format.

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I certainly applaud the effort. Anything that makes RSS 2.0 more useful is great as far as I’m concerned. What’s odd to me is the fact that he appears to get a pass WRT “funkiness” from Dave Winer.

According to Dave’s definition of funkiness for RSS 2.0 clearly states:

A feed is funky if it uses extensions to provide information that can be expressed by core elements.

In this case, the <atom:author> element, while richer than the core <author> element in RSS 2.0, serves the identical purpose of the element it replaces — identifying the author of a given <entry>. This appears to fit the above definition of “funky” quite well.

Now, call me a cynic, but where’s the outcry? Is it because Andrew is a newly anointed member of the RSS 2.0 Cabal? I certainly don’t know. I’m sure there is some subtle difference that is lost on me. Someone enlighten me. Please.

Music is definitely better heard than read. I guess the audio version of posting baby pictures would be to post recordings of the rugrat’s first words or coos.

Quoting talk radio or even television (when the video is superfluous) would be decent uses.

I’m sure there are more, but it strikes me that nearly all of the things I can envision being useful in audio are simply items that would augment or enhance text content. They wouldn’t really be able to stand on their own. I’ll keep thinking about this…Sexy Beast ipod

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Dave Winer has begun an experiment in audio weblogging. Various other experiments in Audio Blogging have been tried and I haven’t liked a single one. Now that Dave has seemingly revived this movement, I figure it’s worth commenting on.

While the future of the web will most certainly include ever increasing amounts of multimedia content, I don’t believe that run of the mill ‘spoken word’ blogs are the likely or appropriate successor to today’s text blogs.

In the blogging context, text content has a number of advantages over audio content:

First, text is searchable. If, six months from now, I’m curious as to Dave’s thoughts on audio blogging or the series of events that ultimately inspired this morning’s recording, I can’t find it with a search engine. I can’t use a few, well placed key words.

Second, text can contain hyperlinks. We get an inkling of the audio’s limitations here at the end of Dave’s message this morning as he explains his e-mail address.

One of the great things about blogs is that we can provide additional meaning to the text content by linking to the names of people, places, and articles involved in our discussion. With audio, this kind of contextualization is far more difficult. It either requires assumed knowledge on the part of the reader OR it requires the ‘performer’ to waste time explaining the context, potentially distracting the listener and breaking the flow of the thought. This is somewhat well illustrated when Dave tries to explain who Steve Gillmor is.

Additionally, Dave’s description of his address is probably only useful to somewhat strong speakers of English. While this may not bother Dave, it does speak to the limited usefulness of audio blogs in more linguistically heterogeneous settings. Which leads us to…

Third, text content is easily translated. O.K., sometimes it reads a little funny when using babelfish to translate things, but usually it’s enough to get the point across. This isn’t currently available for audio content.

Fourth: text content is far more easily edited. While some people seem to think that editing weblog posts is a bad thing, it usually isn’t. While spelling edits would no longer be necessary, adding content and/or reworking audio content would require significantly greater amounts of effort than equivalent text.

Fifth: I can process text content at my own pace. Fast readers often implore a scanning technique to skip extraneous portions of a given paragraph or page. Audio doesn’t allow this. In fact, it actually forces the audience to listen and process at the speaker’s pace. With a blog, I can read it as fast or as slowly as I choose. Not to mention the fact that we are subjected to the various sniffs, coughs and other potentially annoying vocal tendencies that text protects us from.

Sixth: Text is more easily quoted accurately. Copy. Paste. With audio, this process is a much bigger pain. I’m either forced to transcribe the portion I wish to quote or I am likely to paraphrase, which can be a slippery slope.

Well, there’s six to chew on for now. I’ve left out the obvious accessibility issues, which I’ll leave to someone else.

Does this all mean that audio content in blogs is useless? Definitely not. However, it remains to be seen what types of content it is appropriate for. I would say that it would need to be content that needed to be audio. For instance, audio that contains something that otherwise cannot be represented by text (and no, a plane flying by doesn’t strike me as being that significant). Musical content. Quoting an original item for which the format was audio (television, movies, a speech or presentation). Things like that. The random thoughts of Joe Geek are better expressed in text.