mid 90’s in seattle. too hot to move. think. blog. gnomedex recap and more as soon as there is a break in the freakish weather.
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dan gillmor July 26, 2003
the rise of personal publishing.
journalism’s new world
ubiquitous networks
new choices for reader/viewers/listeners
anyone can publish
powerful tools for exporting, publishing
empowers not just the “former audience” but….
doh – slide changed!
7 november 2000, hong kong
being in hong kong, between refreshing the home page of cnn and listening to an audio stream of npr i felt like i was getting great coverage. i was “rolling” my own news.
convergence
we started with old media
we added new media
then we added we media
doh – slide change (slow down my man!)
media in the digital age
11 september 2001
first t.v., then the websites, then the blogs, email lists. getting news…in real time.
14 september 2001
an afghan-american speaks – email making rounds in the web… showed up on salon.com
“bottom up journalism”
december 5, 2002: trent lott’s nostalgia for segregation
mainstream journalism ignored it basically – it was the webloggers who made them pay attention. made them realize it was a story – a national story.
february 1, 2003:
columbia — 1 space shuttle columbia is lost – real time blogger following
columbia — 2 weather radar appears to show shuttle debris
columbia –3 in email list a prediction was made as to what had happened – turns out the guy was right
journalism has been a lecture
we say, “this is the news”
you buy what we sell
-(or you don’t)
journalism becomes a conversation… or maybe a seminar
we tell you what we have learned.
you tell us if you think we are correct.
then we discuss it.
self-correcting, to an extent
a foundation principle:
my reads know more than i do
my readers know more….
and this guy probably wishes they didn’t:
joe nacchio: former ceo of qwest
at pc forum conference whining about the price of stock company
buzz bruggeman: sends link to doc and dan re: stock sale by joe nacchio
my audience learns more
reporting and distribution via tools/toys
rss – newsreaders
search tools – feedster for example, technorati
social software – wiki
inviting the audience
big media ask the readers
the self assembling newsroom
mutimedia blogging
new media and trust
what is true?
how can reader/viewer verify?
- kaycee nicole
- drudge
- rumors move at the speed of light, corrections follow slowly
retreat to quality?
“we can fact check your ass” – ken layne
democracy and an informed public
concentration of media is a danger
fewer voices
vanilla journalism
wall street’s pernicious influence
but “big media” does vital work
investigative journalism
covering the city council
ear to the community
new model: nano-publishing
new/old model: the tip jar
back in iraq 2.0
engaging the community
comments
- invite reader participation; learn from them
– bbc’s editorial control
give readers their own weblogs
- salon
– reverse cowgirl et al.
THE BIG PROBLEM:
how hollywood, governments see the internet: (picture of the television: i.e. lock it down)
intellectual property rights
digital content: who sets the rules?
rest of the world is following u.s. lead
dmca
digital millennium copyright act; wipo; eu follows, then leads
copyright holders assert absolute control
threats and suggestions stifle research
microsoft, other tech companies, are helping the control freaks
copyright extensions
why worry?
new media entrants may be thwarted.
more power to incumbents
less useful information for citizens
help dan with his book: dgillmor@mercurynews.com
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my question to dvorak. July 26, 2003
ps_ if you were at gnomedex i wasn’t just giving john a hard time. i sincerely wanted to know if there was some new exciting technology he likes. i was happy to get a sincere answer and a tip on a really cool new toy i need to check out.
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john c. dvorak. July 26, 2003
chris doing an intro and pointing out a recent article with dvorak’s take on blogs.
the switcherooski – making powerpoint your friend
go to google and put “.ppt” and the word slides – do a search
download the slides that sound interesting – example “user-centered applicance computing: appliance data services” from stanford and hp
famous predictions
oh my – i’m sort of brain fried after keeping up with tim. i’m just going to sit back and listen to this one.
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tim o’s suggested reading list. July 26, 2003
the structure of scientific revloutions, by thomas kuhn
the innovator’s dilemma, by clayton christenson
the cathedral and the bazaar, by eric s. raymond
code and other laws of cyberspace, by lawrence lessig
the cluetrain manifesto, by chris locke, doc searls, and david weinberger
small pieces loosely joined, by david weinberger
down and out in the magic kingdom, by cory doctorow (* currently reading this on my pocket pc – he has a free download from him blog)
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tim o’reilly. July 26, 2003
so tim sent me a quick e-mail yesterday. wow. i’ll definitely put that in my save folder right along with the voice mail i got from wil wheaton last year. color me *star struck*.
tim o’reilly: the open source paradigm shift.
paradigm shift – a change in world view that calls everything you know into question.
slide one: the pc paradigm shift (hardware)
commodity hardware with an open architecture – ibm beats apple
low cost and a pure play commodity hardware business model beat proprietary add-ones – dell beats ibm and copmaq
companies stuck in the old paradigm die off: digital, data general, prime
even open architectures have proprietary componenets – intel inside.
lesson number one: open architecture/hardware beats proprietary. lesson number two: there are little pockets of proprietariness (intel inside).
slide two: the pc paradigm shift (software)
sofware decoupled from hardware
lock-in and competitive advantage move to software – microsoft beats ibm
lesson: understand this paradigm shift.
slide three: paradigm failure at work!
linux critic: “there is no user-friendly applications on linux”
linux advocate: have you seen the latest release of gnome, openoffice, or the gimp?
what’s wrong with this picture?
slide four: user friendly applications on linux (or bsd)
google, amazon.com, paypal, yahoo get local maps – if you use these you are a linux user!
slide five: what’s wrong with this picture?
these applications are being created by open source developers and run on an open source platfrom, but ….
most are fiercely proprietary
source code is not distrubted (and it wouldn’t be useful to many developers if it were)
licensis triggered by binary software distribution have no effect
the value in these applications is in their data and their customer interactions more than in their software
slide six: the internet paradigm shift
an open arichetcture inevitably leads to interchangeable parts – commodity softrare
competitive advantage and revenue opportunities move up the stack to services avole the level of a single device.
information applications are decoupled form both hardware and software
lcok in is based on data and customer relationships noe proprietary software
intel is still inside but so cisco and eventually others there are lots of choke points for proprietary advantage even in a open system.
the internet application platform
commodity intel hardware
the internet protocol stack and utilities like vind
lamp
-linux
-apache
-mysql
-php (or perl or python
platform agnostic client front ends
slide eight
i’m an inventor. i became interested in long term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished not the world in which it is started.: – ray kurzweil.
slide nine: beyond licensing: the three c’s
the three deep trends:
commoditization of software
user customizable systems and architectures
network – enabled collaboration
slide ten: software as comodity
open source promotes competition and drives down margins
linux on intel gives 10x savings
apache means web serving is not a revenue opportunity
my sql threatens to do the same for databases
open unix/linux/internet architecture makes “plug compatible” software the norm
proprietary alternatives must become free (as in beer) to compete – usually bundled with added value components.
slide eleven: customaizability at work:
commodity components provide platform and infrastructure on which additional software is built for use in delivering services, not for sale
internet era applications are updated daily, not yearly
interfaces are built with dynamic data not just software – you might call this “infoware”
dynamic languages like Perl, PHP, Python are key to daily update: managing infoware interfaces and gluing together software components.
slide twelve: why the p in LAMP matters so much
von kempelen’s mechanical turk
slide thirteen: network enabled collaboration
usenet: the real mother of open source
the adhocracy – like – minded developers can find each other and work in ever-shifting groups (reference to down and out in the magic kingdom)
software development teams can be distributed, even internationally
users help to build the application
slide fourteen: what’s more….
collaborative techniques are increasingly being applied to proprietary software
collabnet
with a large enough development organization, OSS-like behavior emerges
asp.net
open source behavior has nothing to do with licenseses.
slide fifteen: collaboration at the data layer
some things to think about:
clay shirky’s “listening to napster”: napster/kazaa users build song swapping network as byproducts of their own self interest
google leverages millions of independent linkers via pagerank algorithm. scoble example. i can link to something and then it shows up on google thereby contributing to changing the web.
more people have “contributed” to amazon than to linux!
slide sixteen: businesss model thoughts for commodity software
ibm websphere, macos x = compaq
??? = dell
there are many possible “intels inside”. not just LAMP, but: J2EE and .Net
platform = web services (digital identity, location, search)
aggregated and sold by subscription, not by the piece
ian murdoch – progeny. our expertise is in assembling distributions
slide seventeen: hidden service business models in open source software
not just “professional services,” but services delivered to end users
UUnet, not RedHat – greatest open source business success to date
BIND – monopoly in disguise
sendmail and apache – not software sales but email and web hosting
google, paypal, amazon et al – the next step on the path to a services-based software economy.
slide eighteen: building the internet operating system
here are some ofther parts of the puzzle:
peer-to-peer and ad-hoc networking
wireless
“social software”
cell phones and other mobile devices
pervasive computing
grid and on – demand computing
“software above the level of a single device”
these thing should be on the radar of all developers!
slide nineteen: two types of platform
one ring to rule them all!
or
small pieces loosely joined (aside: shout out to david weinberger)
slide twenty: small pieces loosely joined
an arhictecture of participation means that your user help to extend your palatform
lowe barriers to experiementaqtion mean that the system is hacker friendly for maximum innovation
interoperability means that one component or service can b e swapped out if a better one comes along
“lock-in” comes because others depend on the benefit from your services, not because you’re completely in control
slide twenty-one: embrace the new paradigm
use comomodity software componde3nts to drive down prices for users
give customers increased opprutunity for customization
– plug-replaceable standards-compliant components
– extensible architecture
– scripting cuspport
look for hidden service business models
leverage collaborative development processes and participatory interfaces
slide twenty-two: watch the alpha geeks
new technologies first exploited by hackers, then entrepreneurs, then platform players
two examples
screen scraping predicted web services
wireless community networks predicted ubiquitous wifi
slide twenty-three:
“the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.” – william gibson
(aside: gosh my fingers hurt)
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chris’ birthday! July 26, 2003
just watched a “behind the computer” special on chris pirillo in celebration of him turning 30 today. hopefully he’ll get it up on lockergnome.com later – y’all need to see this.
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jim louderback. July 26, 2003
microsoft bob and chris pirillo = separated at birth.
goals of project
home media server- music (mp3, wma, etc)
video
-tv
-dvd
photos
network around house
why build your own:
up-sampling beyond 480 p
- dedicated sealers cost more than $1,500 up to $30,000
all your music in one place
avoiding drm issues
street cred
system board and case (aside: i’m completely in over my head at this point)
shuttle sn45g
motherboard and case combined
1 pci. 1agp slot
nForce 2 chipset
no integrated video
fan
compact design
cool looking
processor and memory
AMD athlon
-2700
512MB PC2700 DDR
-corsair
-cas 2.5
i love that satisfying snap sound!
audio
integrated nForce 2 audio
optical out for home theater
optical in
decent sound
saves isa slot
other options
audigy 1
external USB options
graphics and tv
ati all in wonder 9000
s-video, digital output
time shifted recording
tv looks good
options
nvidia persona cinema 2
radeon 9800 not an option
hdtv decode still “emerging”
(aside: oh my gosh it is freezing in here…..)
networking options
100 mbps switched ethernet
dlink isa 802.11g
other options
-802.11b – slow for video
-802.11a – dying from home
power line and pna
-viable but slow
hint* keep a little tray for all the screws while you’re building
hard drive and dvd
maxtor diamondmax plus 9 160gb
- get biggest hd available
- space for two drives in shuttle
- firewire drives also an option
- maxtor/wd tivo spec
plextor dvd+rw
- cd rw
- dvd burning too
- +r making inroads
- burn proof
- consider combo drive from pioneer and sony
keyboard and pointing devices
logitech wireless
gyration mouse
ati remote
snapstream remote
software
ati pvr software
- flexible
- wizards
- easy to use
snapsteam – $50
- networkable/hpc
- controls sat and digital cableboxes
intervideo winpvr2
- new version on the way
EPG
ATI
-gemstar guide II
conclusion
you can build the home media server/network
early in cycle
components are improving
easier to tie it all together
added flexibility
give it a try
extreme tech is there to help – all reviews at www.extremetech.com in build it section.
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