World Link TV good for something!

VARTTINA

Wow. Just wow.


Well, that's something, but nothing compared to the new 2007 (World) Link TV music site!

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Nudge, nudge.

RSS Help

The following is an example of an improper RSS feed url:
http://citrixcommunity.com/blogs/MainFeed.aspx

results from running the same run through a validator:
http://www.feedvalidator.org/check?url=http://citrixcommunity.com/blogs/MainFeed.aspx

Below is a non-working example of an "opml" feed url:
(merely a page that explains what xml or opml is)
http://citrixcommunity.com/blogs/Opml.aspx

Again, results from running the same run through the same validator:
http://www.feedvalidator.org/check?url=http://citrixcommunity.com/blogs/Opml.aspx

Although I actually use the Citrix products, I am saddened to see the lack of deatail in the simplest of forms represented in their poorly constructed xml and opml references and application.
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Next, what follows are 2 good examples that will actually work:

proper RSS feed url:
http://feeds.pixelcorps.com/feeds/macbreakipod.xml
(This can be dropped in both an aggregate reader AND iTunes for the audio portions)


and then a
working example of an "xml" podcast feed url:
http://www.stratfor.com/reports/podcast.xml
WOW, (notice the ACTUAL "xml" extension used at the END of the url - this is a clue!)


If you cannot see the difference in the urls, look closer or stop trying to make bad urls -

OR

try this, and make good:

http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/sbFeedsOPMLFeedBlender.html

and then try this:
(it's fun)

http://www.justinpfister.com/gnewsfeed.php

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Not to worry, for those of you who just want to USE rss in your readers or don't want to get all that technical, you can try IE7 - RSS is built in!

http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2006/12/microsofts_cont.html

(Although, I disagree with Nick's assesment that Microsoft's patent application here is due to the degredation of the Patent Office. More likely this represents continuing frivolity of legal eagles)

and then follow Nick's advice and read:

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060288329%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060288329&RS=DN/20060288329

then follow someone else's advice:
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/forum/index.html
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Copyright vs. Copywrong or the fight between YouTube and Dailymotion.com

In a Forbes.com article about the new GoogleVideo/YouTube-on-the-blockster "Dailymotion.com" recently reported a college law professor - clearly out of touch with current copyright issues and law - saying that, in effect, merely linking to a site that contains illegal content is violating law (for this arguement, copyright act law).

Not only this passed March 2006 did the US Supreme court say that any site linking to other sites cannot be held legally or otherwise responsible for any other content than what is on its own site, but that also no site linked to can expect nor can they legally hold liable nor can they force any linking entity from linking to their site.

Even Forbes.com dropped the ball on this issue. Yawl better stay up on the info.

Miles Davis' "AURA" and the album of the same name...

So Long's article is pretty good at describing - musically - what Aura is all about. Or is he missing something obvious. Yes.

Obvious to me as I am a percussionist. While listening to Aura the first time - I bought it on vinyl the day it was released - AND while perusing the titles listed, the various hues and so forth, I noticed something. I noticed that some of the songs were in odd meter (you know, 5/4, 3/4, 12/8 and then...) and one in particular was a song in 11. 11? Yes, 11. It happened to be also TRACK 11.

That got me investigating, using the tone arm as my tool Track 5 (on my hunch) was/is indeed in 5/4 time. Track 3 is in 3/4. Track 1 has no discernible main beat but a pulse of - one would say - conducted in 1. Track 7 is in 7/4 or7/8 depending on how slow or fast you want to count it.

Furthering the infinity of numbers, the musical thematic material (ignoring the colors for now) brings similarities of track 1 in track 11. Track 5 in track 10. Track 2 in 4 and then in 8. Now, bring in colors = since Green has Blue & Yellow in it......guess what matches this time, not time, but chords. Yep. The chord changes are interrelated using color matching. On a 12-tone (Long incorrectly identifies track 1 as having only a 10 note theme*) system, assign the number 1 to track one's color then see if when you match tonal centers of the Blue track and the Yellow track that you don't see a correlation in the Green track? Freaky, huh?

Listen again if you think I am exaggerating this.


The Amazing Aura of Miles.

*This assumes that my mathematical application is the correct one, for there lies the possibility that the 10 notes Long identifies are mathematically related to a different number base. In other words, taken to its extreme, the numbering theory here would be that of adding or subtracting a melody line based upon some formula I have not yet uncovered, but indeed someone here is not counting on something!
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