some music and stuff

-> Quicktime Video: Jem - They 40mb
-> Windows Media: Jem - They 6.5mb

Quite possibly the most simple and pointed song that is also a statement about our current social climate in the west with regards to terrorism (or the Bush administration... one or the other).

Lyrics:

Who made up all the rules
We follow them like fools
Believe them to be true
Don't care to think them through

And I'm sorry so sorry
I'm sorry it's like this
I'm sorry so sorry
I'm sorry we do this

And it's ironic too
Coz what we tend to do
Is act on what they say
And then it is that way

And I'm sorry so sorry
I'm sorry it's like this
I'm sorry so sorry
I'm sorry we do this

Who are they
And where are they
And how can they possibly
Know all this
Who are they
And where are they
And how can they possibly
Know all this

Do you see what I see
Why do we live like this
Is it because it's true
That ignorance is bliss

Who are they
And where are they
And how do they
Know all this
And I'm sorry so sorry
I'm sorry it's like this

Do you see what I see
Why do we live like this
Is it because it's true
That ignorance is bliss

And who are they
And where are they
And how can they
Know all this
And I'm sorry so sorry
I'm sorry we do this

Here's the new song I just finished.

This is also now available as a bittorrent download. If you need a bittorrent client, I highly recommend Azureus.

-> repeating_it.mp3 5mb MP3 192k
-> repeating_it.mp3.torrent 8mb MP3 320k for use with BitTorrent
-> Azureus - BitTorrent client
-> Macrobyte Resources - my free blog hosting, they rock!!!

There has been a great shift since the DNC in the way people are blogging. It's called VideoBlogs or Vlogs.

Along with MP3 blogs, this is an emerging use of media in blogging. As Laurence Lessig mentions Richard Florida's book The Rise of the Creative Class, it seems that media is becoming yet another tool for social networking.

BlogDigger now has a media page with links to WMV, MP3, MOV, and Torrents.

DownHillBattle.org wants BitTorrent to be easier. There are also projects that work on the "convergence" of RSS and BT.

But the *real* culture is birthing right now with VideoBlogs. Jay at MomentShowing is covering this initiative to have more video produced by people like you and me to proliferate over the Internet. It is amazing the possibilities. Imagine in the very near future, if you will, the ability to sit down at your TV and quickly watch a montage of your friends' and relatives' day?

Ultimately, highly distributed and aggregated video promises even more... like *local* news that *local* again... Experts or on-location reporters providing you with their uncensored, and unfiltered reports. WebJay already allows one to stream all the mp3s found on a blog! Why can't we do this with video? Actually, you can, they did, and they are.

The guy from WebJay and may others are discussing these possibilities right now in the Yahoo! group videoblogging. (feed)

The call is out, however, to programmers and scripters alike: we need tools ... I program some, but to enable to masses to generate their own media and distribute it timely and with appropriate meta-data, we need blogging utilities and standards that will bring unity between Blogs, RSS, XML-RPC, and all of the other social networking technologies in use today...... Would Nielsen like trackback???

-> BattleTorrent @ downhillbattle.org
-> MomentShowing
-> Blogdigger: Media
-> WritTorrent
-> WebJay
-> Yahoo! group videoblogging