Scripting News

Interview with Steve Gillmor

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:37:56 GMT

I thought we'd do another 15-minute interview, this time with Steve Gillmor, who does the NewsGang website and daily podcast, he's one of the proto-podcasters, and all around wise guy.

http://sundaygang.com/dave/steveGillmorInterview.mp3

It came out great, but it was actually 44 minutes.

Steve and I talked about developer platforms, Microsoft, Apple & Google, and Democratic Party politics.

Interview with Marc Canter

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:50:09 GMT

Marc wrote a blog post after hearing Ray Ozzie's keynote at MIX 08 in Las Vegas, giving it rave reviews.

So I wanted to hear direct from Marc why it was so great. We had a 15-minute talk about this and lots of other things.

http://sundaygang.com/dave/marcCanterInterview.mp3

I'm really getting into these short interview-style podcasts, doing some of them with Cinch and others with Skype, depending on where I am when I get the idea.

Dan Farber wrote up Ozzie's keynote.

MP3 of today's Clinton conference call

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:24:31 GMT

Just got this MP3 of this morning's conference call from the Clinton campaign, where they call for Samantha Powers to resign for calling Clinton a "monster."

http://sundaygang.com/clinton/2008/03/07/call1.mp3

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MP3 of today's Obama conference call

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:28:54 GMT

An MP3 of today's Obama conference call.

http://sundaygang.com/obama/2008/03/07/call1.mp3

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If you were following me on Twitter...

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:17:10 GMT

You'd know that...

New Republic: "Pennsylvania is a swing state that Democrats will almost certainly need to win in November, and Clinton will spend seven weeks and millions of dollars there making the case that Obama is unfit to set foot in the White House. You couldn't create a more damaging scenario if you tried."

Don't know why I didn't see this sooner, but the Clintons are Republics who found a way to run against other Republics.

The beauty of Samantha Power's resignation over calling Hillary a monster is that it guarantees that the association of Hillary with that perfectly accurate word, will be smeared all over the nightly news and the front pages of every newspaper. Probably with not too flattering pictures of Hillary looking like a monster. In other words, be careful what you demand resignations over.

MikeA says only one iPhone app can run at a time. This effectively rules out a podcatcher.

I'm easy to find on Twitter.

Links for 03/06/2008

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:40:02 GMT

Larry David: "Does anyone want this nut answering the phone?"

New Republic says Michigan will announce its caucus in the next few days.

Clinton running for VP?

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:47:24 GMT

Hillary Clinton: "Look, I have said that Senator McCain will bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign, I will bring a lifetime of experience and Senator Obama will bring a speech that he gave in 2002. I think that is a significant difference."

It's been pointed out elsewhere that you say stuff like that if you want the VP nomination, the Republican VP nomination.

In other words she's as much a Democrat as Joe Lieberman is.

Podcast response to Barack Obama

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:34:13 GMT

I got an email from the Obama campaign manager, then Barack Obama added something. They're having a conversation in my inbox and I can't participate. Ooops.

It's good that we have a chance, once again, before it's too late, to redefine a positive hope-filled candidacy. I admit that some part of me would be satisfied to hit back at the Clintons, hard. I've wanted to do that ever since they were in the White House. But they aren't the issue. We are.

Let's create something great.

I think Obama has lost sight of that, and that's why we're struggling, and scared that we might lose. The first step is to reset all our attitudes. We have to create more meaning out of the Yes We Can idea. We have to apply it to Wyoming, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and beyond, way beyond.

So here's the podcast, it's about 10 minutes long.

http://sundaygang.com/dave/podcastResponseToObama.mp3

Let's get creative.

You can subscribe to my podcasts by subscribing to this feed in your RSS 2.0-compatible podcatcher. .

The Lakoff podcast referred to above, is here

How to subscribe to Scripting News podcasts

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:19:25 GMT

In the last few days I've done a number of interviews, published MP3s of conference calls from the Obama and Clinton campaigns. People have asked for an RSS feed, a legitimate request, of course.

So I made it so that the feed for Scripting News, a feed that's been published continuously since December 1997, has enclosures and can be understood by any RSS 2.0-compatible podcatcher.

http://scripting.com/rss.xml

If you subscribe, you should get all the MP3s published here.

"cheesecake"

Lakoff hits it out of the park

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:59:24 GMT

I thought today would be a great day to interview UC-Berkeley professor George Lakoff on the Democratic campaign, who should have done what, and how his candidate (and mine) Barack Obama should proceed in the race with Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

Here's the 25-minute interview in an MP3.

http://sundaygang.com/lakoff/lakoff050308.mp3

I think he hit it out of the park and I hope this makes its way into the Obama campaign. It's got so much more substance than the typical talking head stuff on CNN and MSNBC.

Update: Cross-posted at Huffington.

Today's campaign conference calls

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:39:39 GMT

Listen to the Obama and Clinton campaigns spin results from yesterday's primaries in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont.

Sorry I don't have an RSS feed yet for all these podcasts. It's all rushing by so fast, it's the most I can do to get them online and downloadable.

Need some new tools, which I'll have asap.

Morning podcast

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:21:51 GMT

Another in a series of 20-minute interviews with smart people of all walks of life about the political issues of our day.

Today our guest is Scott Rosenberg, former Salon Managing Editor and book author.

http://sundaygang.com/misc/scottRosenberg.mp3

This podcast was recorded at 10AM on March 5, 2008, the day after the Ohio and Texas primaries.

cinch.blogtalkradio.com improved

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:26:49 GMT

Okay the number one complaint about the wonderfully simple Cinch service from BlogTalkRadio was that your feed has your phone number in it.

So...

Now they've added a simple registration feature that allows you to give it a new name and hide your phone number.

I changed my feed to:

http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/dave

You can listen to my first podcast under the new regime.

Enjoy!

Quote of the morning

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:55:55 GMT

Politico: "If she wants to make issues like ethics and disclosure and law firms and real estate deals and all that stuff issues, as I've said before I don't know why they'd want to go there, but I guess that's where they'll take the race.'' Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod.

Obama has to fight back and there's lots to discuss. Whitewater, Travelgate, Vince Foster, impeachment, disbarment.

IRC for Ohio/Texas returns

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:11:05 GMT

I started a chatroom for tonight's primaries.

irc://irc.freenode.net/#ohioTexas

5PM Pacific: Vermont declared for Obama, the rest are closed or too close to call.

Update: I'm predicting a sweep for Obama tonight. 4-for-4.

5:50PM: Clinton is calling an emergency conference call about "irregularities" in Texas. Okay, she didn't win Texas. Now comes the whining.

John W. McCain

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:40:05 GMT

McCain loves him some baggage.

Technopeasant News

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:11:05 GMT

Things you would have learned if you followed me on Twitter.

Apparently, I am, according to Andrew Keen, a hippie, academic and peasant. Pretty accurate. I'm a technopeasant.

Andrew Keen once said I should get a Pulitzer.

m.pownce.com is very nice. If you've been overwhelmed by all the michegas in Pownce you might try this UI.

Me, I'm here for the politics and the raw unadulterated sex. :-)

Twitter doesn't have to implement what Pownce has, as long as Pownce is there. I'm no longer ~~telling~~ asking them to implement payloads.

Hillary is falling.

I have 579 friends on Pownce. (Update: 639.)

I'm not a Democrat. I don't believe that "we" have to win. I'm not part of that "we."

"Hope" is the right thing to be focused on, because normally, we are "hope-less."

Update: Francine Hardaway follows me on Twitter and confirms something a lot of people suspect. She's only seen half of these twits. She thinks Twitter eats these gems. If so that's very bad!

Jay Rosen interview

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:43:48 GMT

A 15-minute Skype interview with NYU journalism prof Jay Rosen about politics, journalism and blogging on "Telltale Tuesday."

Jay's PressThink weblog.

Comparing Twitter and Pownce for payloads

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:48:09 GMT

New development, now when I post a picture to Twitter from my iPhone, it also goes to Pownce.

A screen shot of the Pownce version.

A screen shot of the Twitter version.

We now can see, visually, the difference betw a messaging service that supports payloads and one that doesn't. Not saying one is better than the other, because this is still very much an exploration. But there are definite advantages to each approach. Please consider that before you beg anyone not to listen to anyone else.

Update: I quickly added fields to the flickrToTwitter page to flow pictures to Pownce in addition to Twitter. Screen shot.

Pownce API 2.0, day 2

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:15:36 GMT

I've made good progress wiring up the OPML Editor to Pownce, but I got stuck when it came to posting a media file.

The docs don't say how to encode the data of the file. I guessed that it would be base64-encoded, but it didn't work. If anyone has gotten this working, or knows how to do the encoding, please post a note here. Thanks.

BTW, this is the file I was testing with. It's nowhere near the stated file size limit.

Update: FIle-sharing in Pownce, explained.

Update #2: It works. Here's a file that I uploaded, you have to be a logged on and a friend of mine to see it. The key was using a multipart/form-data POST. Highly recommend that the API docs be updated to say just that. It's enough of a clue so that an experienced developer will be able to get it to work with no extra help. Okay I'm happy about this now, I've got payloads working from both ends, under program control. Next thing I'm going to push up to the cloud is a campaign conference call MP3. Good news, we have a partner, a huge media company that decided to work with the bloggers.

Update #3: Here are Pownce entries for today's Obama conference call and the Clinton call. You need to be signed into Pownce to listen in, and be a friend of mine. Just for this experiment. We'll have other ways to download conference calls soon (for example, an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures).