Tuesday, November 02, 2004

The national nightmare is almost over. Vote Kerry. 

Jason Kottke is collecting stories of election user experience. I voted. Got there 1/2 hour before the poll opened, I was third in line. By the time the poll opened the line went out the door. It took me about 10 minutes to fill in the ballot, with a black pen, filling in ovals. I finished first in the first group to vote, so I waited for someone else to finish and followed him out, because I wasn't familiar with this process (it was different from Calif and Mass). I fed my ballot into an electronic vote reader. That was it. My concern was that people could see how I voted. In fact I'm sure they could, and I wasn't very happy about that. But I did my civic duty, and I hope you do yours if you're an American citizen of voting age.  

While I was waiting to vote I called my mom on her cell phone. She was in Philadelphia, helping Democrats get to the polls. I was surprised and totally proud of her.  

JD Lasica wonders if he can videotape sessions at BloggerCon, and includes comments from Denise Howell, a lawyer. I'm glad they found the groundrules, stated clearly, and upfront, that gives JD and anyone else permission to record what happens at the conference, much as the Grateful Dead and Phish gave their fans permission to record their concerts. BloggerCon is, after all, the meatspace instantiation of a community that already exists in cyberspace, so the traditions of our cyber existence trump the traditions of our meaty existence.  

NY Times: The Revolution Will Be Posted. 

1/11/01: "When I started talking with Adam Curry late last year, he wanted me to think about high quality video on the Internet, and I totally didn't want to hear about it. Like a lot of people, I had tried it, and found it unsatisfying and frankly, exhausting." 

Blogharbor has support for authoring weblogs with RSS 2.0 enclosures. From a quick read of their docs it looks pretty good. I would love to hear from a user of the product that it works, then we should start a sub-directory for blogging tools with enclosure support on ipodder.org, but first let's be sure they do it (we'll then have three tools, and maybe four, that work). What does the form look like, ie how do you link an audio file with a blog post? I've done a basic checklist for enclosure support, how does Blogharbor match up with that checklist? I haven't seen their RSS output, does it pass through the debugger? I'd dive in deeper myself if I wasn't traveling today.  

Blogmatrix Jager, an aggregator, appears to support podcasting, but I'd still like to hear from an iPodder users to confirm this.