In the UK, this service will ID "any" song played into your cellphone.

I wonder if there is a market for a service that simply records all the audio you play into it and makes it all available via web-dav.

just hit 2580 on your mobile phone and identify music

A few weeks ago someone called me from a rock concert in Texas, held the phone up, and told me to listen to one of the songs. The person in this email claimed they were busted by security at a rolling stones concert for doing the same thing. Ubiquitous cell phones means ubiquitous audio recording (and surveillance), ubiquitous cameras, and soon video. What are the implications of this? For privacy? IP? Media?

Cellphones and copyright

] I'm talking about this: http://techlist.org/slashdot.jpg.
] It's annoying, because I have to scroll through a whole page
] of those before I get to a comment. Why would I want to look
] at an entire page of links to the exact same thing, with no
] comments? Am I missing something? I often am!

What you and Randy are both missing is that Memestreams is not a finished product.

1. There is no way for me to tell the difference between when someone simply links to a page and when someone provides a link along with commentary. The purpose of the threaded view is to allow you to find out what people are thinking about a particular link. I want all that information in one place, so that in the future when you are out in the internet and you click on the discussion bookmarklet you get everything that people are saying about a URL.

2. There are going to be hundreds of posts on each URL at some point in the future. It should be obvious that the current method of viewing the threads is temporary. There is a reputation system in MemeStreams for a reason. You will ultimately be able to sort the discussions for highly rated posts and posters just as you can on slashdot/kuro5hin, but based on a multi-higharchical reputation system instead of a mono-higharchical moderation oligarchy.

3. A lot of people are going to have very similar things to say about a url. There is no way that I can eliminate similar posts. The technology to do that properly simply does not exist, anywhere. The reputation system will allow you to filter threads for posts made by your highest ranked posters, the highest ranked posts in the thread, a hybrid view of those two, and for posts made after a certain timeframe. That should be more then effective at cutting the threads down to size.

This is not in place right now because:

1. Writing code takes time.
2. I JUST posted the threading code a week ago. In most places this kind of capability isn't needed yet.
3. I wanted to get the discussion capability out before the presentation at phreaknic. I didn't want to hold it off for a month because I needed to work on this filtering capability.

It will not be in place until I am able to get some of the database scalability fixed up.

Yesterday Randy called me up all annoyed because he didn't think the discussion bookmarklet was in an "intuitive location." Look, I'm not stupid. I have previously stated that I cut a lot of corners to get the discussion code out before Phreaknic. There will be minor details that are not right. This isn't because I don't realise that they need to be different. This is because in the interest of time some things have been given a higher priority then other things.

RE: Quit Slashdot.org Today!

] "Incoming economic data have tended to confirm that
] greater uncertainty, in part attributable to heightened
] geopolitical risks, is currently inhibiting spending,
] production, and employment."

Iraq War keeps you poor.

Fed cuts rates by 50 basis points

] "If New Orleans is "the Big Easy," then Detroit is "the
] Big Ugly."
] A convenient metaphor for all things scary and doomed,
] the city has long served as a bleak backdrop for writers
] and filmmakers who paint it as a desolate, dangerous
] melange of burned-up buildings and forgotten dreams."

I'm fairly interested in seeing this movie. Making it out of a ghetto as a rapper is a difficult road, especially for a white guy. There is a very powerful story to tell here if they do it well. The thing is that Americans put so much focus on rock stars and basketball stars, and the fact is that most people who do get out of the ghetto are much more likely to come out of it as accountants then as rock stars, and the challenges associated with that are every bit as real. Focusing on talent based activities instead of skill based activities encourages people to focus on stuff that most people will never be good at no matter how hard they try.

Of course, right now you are thinking, who would go see a movie about an accountant. I'll offer that if we can't make the right message interesting its because we're not trying.

Detroit Shows Its True Grit in '8 Mile' - 11/6/02

] "Republicans consolidated their hold on the U.S.
] government on Wednesday after a historic sweep of both
] chambers of Congress gave President Bush (news - web
] sites) new power to enact his agenda."

I found this fairly surprising. I would have preferred the dems holding a card.

Republicans Seize Control of Congress

] "The crowd trampled the 25 people out of ignorance
] rather than panic."

United Press International: Altruism, not panic, prevails in disasters

This is an interesting set of observations to think about. Consider this in the context of "The Time Machine." Bliss causes ignorance?

Domestic Mammals and Behavior--Wolf Herre and Manfred Rohrs

This flyer was found in Baltimore...

How to convince poor people not to vote...

] "A missing chapter from hacker Kevin Mitnick's recent
] book has been published on the Internet."

After nearly a decade, Mitnick's voice is heard.

Wired News: Mitnick's 'Lost Chapter' Found