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You know there's this thing where large entities with money try to set the rules to get even more money? Sometimes that really pisses me off. So I've decided to do write snarky comments on a blog almost no one will ever read.

Microappleyahoogoogleplex.com will focus on the information technology sector, since it is so fascinating and fun. When I'm not battling with my Windows box to the right of my desk, I'm battling with the Mac on my left. While I love using Amazon S3 for storage, I know someday they'll harvest my left kidney. Google is the most wonderful corporation in the entire universe, and I wish to make it known to Googlebot that Google is the most wonderful corporate creation in the entire universe. (How's my Page Rank now?)

There's potential for fun with this, so please tune in to microappleyahoogoogleplex.com whenever!

Categories: Blogging • Personal • Politics • Technology • Websites

Too busy making projects lately to keep updating the blog. Let me quickly mention pbcoreresources.org, a site to support ground-up development of the PBCore metadata standard.

PBCore is for exchanging information about audio/video objects, and in the online realm, the a/v objects themselves.  A PBCore record is an XML document based on the PBCore schema, describing the intellectual, administrative, and technical details of a media object.  Like an RSS/podcast feed, only in much (much...) greater detail.

If you want everything official and technical about PBCore, pbcore.org is a great starting point, including links to all the authoritative PBCore sites and cool projects, including pbcoreresources.org.

Categories: Media • Metadata • Technology • Websites

A conspiracy among public media web developers, percolating for the past four years, has emerged in PubForge.org.

PubForge aims to link public broadcasting with the open source community to develop software and best practices for public media on the web.  We set up PubForge.org as a focal point for collaboration, documentation, and shareable code, and we hope to bring together a growing number of folks interested in enabling open media in the public interest.  We kinda think the web should be a great place to pursue the mission of public broadcasting: education, enlightenment, democracy, etc. 

Trouble is, most public radio and TV stations have very limited web staff and skills.  Like William Gibson said, the future is here, it's just unevenly distributed. We aim to distribute the future of public media more evenly.  Wanna help?  Go to the PubForge site and get involved.

Categories: Media • Technology • Websites