This episode was recorded on October 1, 2004 . Today's Trade Secrets is about everything of importance to the world today. The only thing we missed is Jon Stewart's outburst about the President's "group of folks" line. Group of folks? Group of folks?, Stewart raged. A group of folks is what you run into at the Olive Garden. The President was referring to Osama bin Laden and the group of worldwide terrorist... folks. Okay. At no extra cost, a few little soliloquys, nothing earth shaking, just lit...
Oct 02, 2024
This episode was recorded on September 28, 2004 . From the show notes, preserved on archive.org , written by Adam: "I've learned over the past weeks to always have the audio recording setup ready when Dave and I chat. We always talk voip and have been trying different setups and applications. But inadvertantly, one of will say "we should be recording this" and I flip the switch. This morning Dave was up early and we recorded a podcast, where we talked about 'leakage', played some prince and fina...
Oct 02, 2024
This episode was recorded on September 28, 2004 . "An audio blog post about the Bloglines API, the commons, fair compensation for centralized services, what's not fair." 14 minute podcast .
Oct 02, 2024
This episode was released on September 28, 2004 (recorded earlier). "Today's Morning Coffee Notes explains the open source release of Frontier. Jeff Sandquist previewed the audio and said he had never understood what Frontier was before. It's good that this event which is probably one of the largest releases of open source code ever, may mean that more people appreciate this interesting and unique piece of software. Or it may be a time capsule, a message in a bottle, or a bridge to the future, a...
Sep 30, 2024
This episode was recorded on September 27, 2004. "I was interviewed today by a reporter on Yahoo's efforts in RSS. I gave them a pretty negative review. I didn't want to be misunderstood, so I did an audio recording of what I said to the reporter, so you can get an idea of the thinking behind the soundbites that may be in the news article." The Scripting News archive for that day. 14 minute podcast ....
Sep 29, 2024
Here are the original shownotes from 9/16/2004. And the Scripting News archive for that day. 66 minute podcast .
Sep 16, 2024
This podcast originally aired on September 13, 2004 . A lot of technical information about email as an API. In 2024 I am surprised at how much I knew about email back then! :-) Not exactly sure where I recorded this, sounds like I was in the car, but by the end of the day I was at my destination, Seattle. These were the good days, a new medium in its early stages of booting up, after years of trying to get it to go. In the next few days, if I recall correctly, it'll really start going. You can s...
Sep 13, 2024
This podcast originally aired on September 5, 2004 . Driving from Banff to Kelowna. A bunch of pictures on the davetravel site. 27 minute podcast .
Sep 07, 2024
This podcast first aired on September 2, 2004 . My studio is my Lexus RS-300. Good acoustics. Recorded after listening to Adam's Daily Source Code. "It seems to work," said your humble podcaster. Toward the end I really sound like I'm high, but I wasn't. I was just having a blast doing something new that was working. 22 minute podcast ....
Sep 02, 2024
This podcast first aired on September 1, 2004 . I was driving on the Trans-Canada Highway in Saskatchewan, on a drive from NYC (I think) to Seattle, where I'd rent an apartment and stay through the election in November. If I recall correctly. 😀 Lots of random bits with very little premeditation. 43 minute podcast .
Sep 02, 2024
This podcast came from NYC. Back from a long hiatus, I had just listened to Adam Curry's new Daily Source Code, and wanted to say hey, and talk about what he's doing and how it's cool to have a VJ creating in this new medium that still didn't have a name. Then we listened to an excerpt from Sandy by Bruce Springsteen. I had been in San Francisco and had lunch with a Sun exec named Jonathan Schwartz , who used to be a DJ in NYC at WNEW-FM . I do an impression of the DJ which I demonstrate. August...
Aug 15, 2024
"Second audio interview with Don Means, senior political advisor at Meetup.Com . Again my co-hort is Natasha from Pacific Views." The blog page for 7/27/2004.
Jul 27, 2024
"Audio interview with Minnesota candidate for the House, Patty Wetterling . I did the interview with Natasha Celine of Pacific Views. We're in the Democratic News Service; they are 'dedicated to getting great stories for the bloggers.'" The blog page for 7/27/2004.
Jul 27, 2024
"Today's audio blog post includes an interview with Matt Gross, formerly of Dean For America, and now chief blogger for North Carolina Senate candidate Erskine Bowles." The blog page for 7/26/2004.
Jul 26, 2024
"Today's audio blog post, recorded while traveling from the Westin hotel in Copley Plaza to Fleet Center. Interviews with people along the way. Some very rough audio at the beginning with one quite large silent spot, but some really good stuff I think. Designed to go with the pictures, above." The blog page for 7/25/2004.
Jul 26, 2024
"Today's audio blog post, about developing the Convention Bloggers software, pictures from New Mexico and microphones." The podcast is 18 minutes long. The blog page for 7/24/2004.
Jul 26, 2024
Coming to you from New York on July 22, 2004. I have the sniffles in this audio blog post. Talking about what I'll do at the DNC. The small picture. I actually use that term, thought I came up with that much later . My goal is to give you an idea of what it's like to be there. The DNC is next week, in Boston. They're "importing bloggers" -- they really did roll out the red carpet for us. We had a site called Convention Bloggers -- it was a feed reader, clearly done with Frontier, of blogs run by...
Jul 22, 2024
My first on-the-road podcast, July 16, 2004. As the name implies, I'm driving on Interstate 25 in New Mexico between Truth or Consequences and Socorro . Two days since downloading email. Different times. Wifi is scarce as are cellphone signals in 2004. 2004 nerd heaven: iPod, Nikon Coolpix camera, laptop, USB connection to camera, power adapter that hooks into cigarette lighter (cars used to have them). Remember it's 2004, long before ubiquitous connectivity. But I still don't have cell coverage...
Jul 16, 2024
This is the second time I pushed out an audio from my meditation teacher from the 1990s, Jeru Kabbal. I've done this meditation many times over the years. Just sit on a pillow on the floor, close your eyes and breathe. If you go with it, before long you're in another space, inside yourself. One that you might not even know is there. A link to the shownotes for the previous meditation tape. Here's the post that went with this episode. On that same day I explained my travel plan through the rest o...
Jul 15, 2024
I was interviewed by a reporter from the Chicago Tribune with questions about RSS. What is RSS? Automated web surfing. Is RSS ready for civillians? I didn't know then but the answer is no. Until it's very easy to subscribe to a feed you'll have to do a lot of difficult work to subscribe to a feed. I didn't know it at the time, but two years later a product called Twitter would be introduced that solves the subscription problem and that event would put a cap on the growth of RSS. If you could tel...
Jul 14, 2024
Begins with ice coffee from Dunkin Donuts. W3C-developed standards aren't better. I wanted to say that I was pleased with Brendan Eich's interview with Steve Gillmor. This podcast unlike the previous one sounds like stuff I still support, even applaud. I talk about how I found something on the Netsape site during the development of RSS saying they don't want to be part of a standards process, they just want to make software. That's where I come from too. People who gather around standards often/...
Jul 13, 2024
These are my notes as I listen to the July 12, 2004 podcast 20 years later. Oddpost bought by Yahoo. I talk about "dynamic html apps" which today we'd call web apps, I guess. Oddpost was kind of a miracle, done by the team that did HalfBrain, a browser-based spreadsheet. Apparently Oddpost came out before GMail, which if I recall correctly came out around that time, maybe May 2004? I remember I was in St Augustine when it came out. I still use that GMail account all the time for basically everyt...
Jul 12, 2024
From the original blog post: "Talking with Steve Gillmor this afternoon, he got on my case, again. Where are your audio blog posts, he wanted to know. I said there was a technical glitch, but I think I've solved it. So here's a new audio blog post, thanks to Steve for the motivation." In this podcast, from July 11, 2004, I get back on track. I was driving, at the beginning saying it was "live from NY." I don't know where I was coming from or going to, and I don't want to take that too literally ...
Jul 11, 2024
This podcast came out 20 years ago today. I was just beginning to figure out how this new medium worked, and rather than record my own thoughts, as with the previous two episodes, I published audio from another source. This one was from my meditation teacher, Jeru Kabbal. Starting with the next episode, tomorrow -- we'll have an original audio blog post. Here's the description from 2004: "I started an MP3 audio archive for my teacher, Jeru Kabbal. I started with a scan of a tape called Sunrise o...
Jul 10, 2024
I recorded Bill Clinton on 60 Minutes, audio only, as broadcast on WBZ-AM Boston. Commercials included. The next podcast will go out on July 10, because that's when it was posted in 2004. We've finally caught up. If you want to skip ahead, you can, the full archive is at morningcoffeenotes.com .
Jun 20, 2024
