About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
TwittergramHijacking is a little Applescript glue that makes it easy to send Twittergrams by connecting AudioHijackPro to Dave Winer‘s Twittergram service.
More info at the TwittergramHijacking page.
Thanks to Adario Strange at the Wired Epicenter blog for the link.
Like ququoo.com, I see Twittergram front-ends existing on-top-of, but for all intents and purposes independent from Twitter.com proper – using Twitter’s infrastructure for authentication, messaging, but otherwise very distinctive from Twitter as it has stabilized. The above sketch is heavily inspired by Twitterific, which is an OK fit. Something is still missing from it though.
I’ve got a couple *cast domain names that have been waiting for something like this. 🙂
28 Jun 07 Update: This is idea coming along. The mechanics of about 50% of the sketch’s functionality are in place. The next 50 is where it gets interesting.
30 Jun 07 Update: Started building out the interface. Not happy with how it coming along. It shouldn’t be this hard.
Benn’s post is one of the many articles online showing how little compensation musicians receive from the business organizations that are said to be supporting them. While, it’s unfortunate that he mistakes piracy for lack of compensation, he highlights the need for an easy way to give money directly to musicians, and others who’s creative work you enjoy.
In the end, Benn admits:
“I make most of my living from licensing and composition.”
Bingo.
As you know, as much as I love writing this blog, I don’t make my living from it directly. I could….if you showered me with piles of PayPal donations.
Update 26 Jun 2007:
On the flip side, Dave Slusher describes an much needed aggregation and subscription service. Swap out mini-comics for local musicians or filmmakers and the same need exists.
Side note, as I read Dave’s post, I had a little deja vu. Always a good thing in my book.
Dave just did something I’ve been thinking on and off about for a while now: Twitter meets podcasting. Behold – the promise of podcasting as voicemail….of _actually_ having a conversation via the ‘space phone’. I think I’ll dust off the FastCast idea after dinner tonight.
So the FastCast workflow tweaked for Twittering:
Record via Audio Hijack Pro -> HijackingWP script uploads to WordPress -> TwitterTools pushes Title and mp3 URL (not permalink) to Twitter.
Hmmm…HijackingWP could ping Twitter as well….more to come.
30 Jun 2007 Update:
Now, I’ve got an idea on how to work video into the mix. Not that video of any length could be under 200k, so there’s some work to do there. 🙂
Verb. To do a manually do a process that either is or should be automated.
Usage:
“I haven’t had time to launch the new version, so we’re mech-turking the database until tomorrow.”
Origin: a verbing of Mechanical Turk
Credit for this word goes to: Peter Fleck
Another successful contribution to the pseudo-dictionary.
Safari 3.0b on the Mac seems to get overwhelmed easily. After a few dozen websites, it acts like the network connection is dead. Quitting and reopening seem to help. So does spending more time in Camino
Lunch with NickelNuts today reminded me there’s still a huge need to aggregate communities of affinity (especially my favorite combo: affinity + geography). The tools we have today still aren’t mature enough to make this easy. This isn’t about creating a new silo. It’s about herding cats.
From FlatEarthBrewing.com:
“Flat Earth is sponsoring 10 hours of awesome bands and we will release our next and long awaited beer named Angry Planet, an American pale ale made with organic ingredients.”
From AcadiaCafe.com:
Flat Earth Brewing & Acadia Cafe Present
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Time: 2:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Cover Charge: $5.00
Ages: All AgesFlat Earth Revival
All Day Music Fest and Flat Earth Brewery Organic Ale release
!!!!$1 Organic Ale Pints with admission!!!!lineup:
2pm Roe Family Singers
3:15pm Steve Kaul (Brass Kings mystery appearance?)
4:30pm Carl Johnson (The Non Brothers Johnson)
5:45pm John Wills
7:00pm Anthony Newes
8:45pm Painted Saints
10:30pm Night in the Box
Tonight, I watched Richard Linklater’s adaptation of ‘A Scanner Darkly’. As advertised, it was Philip K. Dick done by Richard Linklater and supervised by David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch with a little 1984 thrown in for optimism. Independent of Linklater’s comfort food cast (everyone is great), SD is an obvious, direct descendant from Slacker – all the characters have a cool that barely covers a festering desperation.
The first Philip K. Dick story I read where I grokked his themes of identity, reality, and questionable conspiracies was Time Out of Joint (think ‘A Beautiful Mind’ as a SciFi tale).
Since then, I’ve re-watched Blade Runner innumerable times and hoped for the best from the other screen adaptations of his work like Minority Report and Total Recall. Minority Report failed for the same reason Time Out of Joint did. The conspiracy was provable. Reality could be defined. While Total Recall leaned toward definition, it didn’t. If it did, I was distracted by how much fun it was.
If the Wikipedia entry is accurate – Linklater held very true to Dick’s original work. And he kept in what I expected from a screen adaptation of Dick’s work – the ambiguity.
Maybe the conspiracy could be proved. Maybe all the clues are there – just like in The Sixth Sense. Or maybe we, including Donna, just want them to be. Maybe we’ll know in three months. Maybe we’re on the wrong side of both the hallucination and the conspiracy. It’s the lack of clarity that makes Dick’s tales creepy, troubling, and memorable.
The brilliance of A Scanner Darkly as a story lay in the anonymity provided by the scramble suit. With it, the same character can play offense and defense without the others catching on, adding to the conspiracy atmosphere (cough * suits paid for by New Path * cough). Not to mention the breakdown of their own personality.
Not only is the movie good – best I’ve seen in 90 days according to my Netflix history – it proves I will watch rotoscoping if the story is interesting.
I’m finally getting around to setting up my Joyent Accelerator.
As I read through the ‘Getting Started with Joyent Accelerator’ wiki, things were going smoothly.
Updating the nameserver at my registrar was unexpectedly fast and easy, as was signing into webmin, setting up a virtual server, a subversion repo, and a couple users.
Now, which of the half dozen name/pass combos do I use for SFTP?
Answer: The admin of the virtual server.
How to find these credentials:
Now SFTP in, and everything should look as expected.