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This podcast came from NYC.

Back from a long hiatus, I had just listened to Adam Curry's new Daily Source Code, and wanted to say hey, and talk about what he's doing and how it's cool to have a VJ creating in this new medium that still didn't have a name.

Then we listened to an excerpt from Sandy by Bruce Springsteen.

I had been in San Francisco and had lunch with a Sun exec named Jonathan Schwartz, who used to be a DJ in NYC at WNEW-FM. I do an impression of the DJ which I demonstrate.

August of 2004 apparently is before Apple starting encouraging developers to work on its platforms, again, after a long hiatus. The iPhone was still three years away in 2004.

Then it was on to Steve Gillmor's latest episode, not impressed with his guests, and I say so! How's that for candor. But there are good reasons for wanting to work with users, but it should be at a different level. What I talk about, the web as a strong platform, it's still missing, a way for software communities to boot up around open formats and protocols. The barrier to entry keeps going up. And of course none of the platform companies want competition from individuals, but it is technically possible.

Anyway as often is the case, I continue rambling long after the point has been made. 😀

But then we get to the iPod, what kind of feed aggregator can we put on the iPod. I hoped there was a way to view an iPod as a file system that could be plugged into the Mac. No that was not to be. Instead we got iTunes. Still to this day, the connection between their mobile devices and desktops are pretty hard to manage, at least I find it so. Too much breakage, every time they do a release it seems they break me as a user.

Then I go on to talk about how the podcast aggregator on an iPod would work. This was all new! I talk about what it would be like to have NPR programs, and how great it will be to listen to the shows I want to listen to and only those. And then BBC and PRX content, which would both be part of the early bootstrap (PRX came out of Berkman too).

The next program comes from the road in Saskatchewan, on Sept 1, and the pace picks up, with eight episodes in Sept.

The archive for Scripting News in August 2004.

30 minute podcast.

"Second audio interview with Don Means, senior political advisor at Meetup.Com. Again my co-hort is Natasha from Pacific Views."

The blog page for 7/27/2004.

"Audio interview with Minnesota candidate for the House, Patty Wetterling. I did the interview with Natasha Celine of Pacific Views. We're in the Democratic News Service; they are 'dedicated to getting great stories for the bloggers.'"

The blog page for 7/27/2004.

"Today's audio blog post includes an interview with Matt Gross, formerly of Dean For America, and now chief blogger for North Carolina Senate candidate Erskine Bowles."

The blog page for 7/26/2004.

"Today's audio blog post, recorded while traveling from the Westin hotel in Copley Plaza to Fleet Center. Interviews with people along the way. Some very rough audio at the beginning with one quite large silent spot, but some really good stuff I think. Designed to go with the pictures, above."

The blog page for 7/25/2004.

"Today's audio blog post, about developing the Convention Bloggers software, pictures from New Mexico and microphones."

The podcast is 18 minutes long.

The blog page for 7/24/2004.

Coming to you from New York on July 22, 2004.

I have the sniffles in this audio blog post.

Talking about what I'll do at the DNC.

The small picture. I actually use that term, thought I came up with that much later.

My goal is to give you an idea of what it's like to be there.

The DNC is next week, in Boston.

They're "importing bloggers" -- they really did roll out the red carpet for us.

We had a site called Convention Bloggers -- it was a feed reader, clearly done with Frontier, of blogs run by people who were at the convention.

I was wondering if they'd do it again in 2008. They didn't, but I did get to go thanks to help from Nicco Mele.

Will everyone at the DNC have a blog in four years? Yes, in a sense -- with Twitter, which did not exist in 2004 but did in 2008.

Re the cost of the Iraq war?

Scripting News blog for 7/22/2004.

My first on-the-road podcast, July 16, 2004.

As the name implies, I'm driving on Interstate 25 in New Mexico between Truth or Consequences and Socorro.

Two days since downloading email. Different times. Wifi is scarce as are cellphone signals in 2004.

2004 nerd heaven: iPod, Nikon Coolpix camera, laptop, USB connection to camera, power adapter that hooks into cigarette lighter (cars used to have them).

Remember it's 2004, long before ubiquitous connectivity. But I still don't have cell coverage where I live, in 2024, it's not everywhere yet.

A week later I'll be at the DNC in Boston.

Didn't get my email in Socorro. Apparently no net connectivity to be found. The old days.

I talk about taking pictures, but I can't find them. They should be on davetravel.scripting.com, which was previously hosted at Berkman, but I moved it to my server when I left.

The Scripting News archive page for July 16, 2004.

This is the second time I pushed out an audio from my meditation teacher from the 1990s, Jeru Kabbal. I've done this meditation many times over the years. Just sit on a pillow on the floor, close your eyes and breathe. If you go with it, before long you're in another space, inside yourself. One that you might not even know is there.

A link to the shownotes for the previous meditation tape.

Here's the post that went with this episode. On that same day I explained my travel plan through the rest of the summer: El Paso, Juarez, Las Cruces, Albuqurque, Santa Fe, Taos, NY, then Boston for the DNC. I would end up spending the summer and fall in Seattle.

So now we've got a sense of geography. I wasn't even sure I was in NY for the most recent episodes. Probably staying with my parents in Queens.

I was interviewed by a reporter from the Chicago Tribune with questions about RSS.

What is RSS? Automated web surfing.

Is RSS ready for civillians? I didn't know then but the answer is no. Until it's very easy to subscribe to a feed you'll have to do a lot of difficult work to subscribe to a feed. I didn't know it at the time, but two years later a product called Twitter would be introduced that solves the subscription problem and that event would put a cap on the growth of RSS.

If you could tell people one thing about RSS? It's not email, it's news. You don't read every story in every issue of the newspaper. However, esp at the time, there was a presumption that you wanted to read every email. I favored a timeline approach which would be what Twitter did a couple of years later.

I'm very very longwinded!

In the shownotes it says that it begins with two outtakes. I remember that feeling from twenty years ago. It's not something my current software would let me do. I was using Polderbits, today I use Apple's voice memo app.

A link to the blog page for July 14, 2004.