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The iPod Notes feature allows the iPod to support interactive personal multimedia presentations. Such presentations can be used, for example, as directed lessons or self-paced electronic guided tours. The Notes feature supports the use of text, audio, and album cover graphics for iPod models beginning with third-generation iPod (dock connector) models with touch wheel. Support for photos (JPEG files) and videos is also available for 5th generation iPods running iPod software version 1.2 or later, and requires iTunes 7.0.1 or later.

You should read this document if you want to develop such interactive guided content for presentation on iPod. If you are considering podcasting your multimedia content, or if you anticipate delivering your content through iTunes U, you should read the first chapter, “iPod Notes Concepts” (page 9), and especially the section “Podcasting As an Alternative” (page 17) to better inform your choices.

iPod Notes Feature Guide

Senior Airman Amanda Fauci's job is so sensitive she has nearly the same security clearance as a Secret Service agent. She sometimes goes on weeks-long classified assignments.

But on a recent mission, the 23-year-old was struggling. Her Texas-shaped sugar cookies made from prepared dough "blew up," she says. She ended up making a new batch from scratch at home that night. The next day, she served them to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, former President George H.W. Bush and other VIPs aboard a Boeing 757 bound for College Station, Texas.

"There was a sense of panic there for a moment" when the initial batch flopped, says Airman Fauci, a five-year service veteran.

On These Planes, In-Flight Service Is Super-Secret

Behind closed doors, a secret cabal is planning the end of the United States as we know it. Inside a paranoid vision for our time.

Try the Texas-shaped sugar cookies, they're delicious. (Have you seen Bug?)

The amero conspiracy

Perhaps the most radical element of Ellen Dissanayake’s evolutionary framework is her idea about how art got its start. She suggests that many of the basic phonemes of art, the stylistic conventions and tonal patterns, the mental clay, staples and pauses with which even the loftiest creative works are constructed, can be traced back to the most primal of collusions — the intimate interplay between mother and child.

The book is Art and Intimacy.

The Dance of Evolution, or How Art Got Its Start

Something of a follow-up to the post on Walk Score.

It is clear from all of our work that the public spaces of cities, towns and villages -- the streets and roads, parks and plazas, waterfronts and commercial districts -- are the source of this country's greatest potential to create livable, walkable, healthy and sustainable communities as well as its greatest challenge.

With this idea in mind, PPS will be offering "Streets as Places," a two-day transportation/placemaking training course on November 29-30, 2007. The goal of the course is to introduce participants to new ways of thinking about streets as public spaces and how placemaking can be used to build great streets and great communities. It is intended for anyone who is interested in creating a great street, including transportation professionals who want to learn more about how streets can help to build communities, civic and elected officials who realize that greater economic impact can result from changing the way that roads are designed, and citizen activists who understand that the time to change is now.

Presentations and discussion will center on how streets, roads, and transit facilities can be designed and managed to benefit communities, in addition to serving mobility needs. Practical tools for assessing a variety of street typologies and case studies of cities which have moved beyond solving mobility problems to community building will be presented, and participants will be encouraged to discuss their own projects as well as share experiences and ideas with each other.

Streets as Places: A Training Seminar

Real estate may be as important as religion in explaining the infamous gap between red and blue states.

I recently cited this article; now the full text is available directly from The Atlantic.

A Tale of Two Town Houses

Over the next decade, regulators will spend increasing time on the conflicts between the private interests of the wireless industry and the public's interest in the best uses of its spectrum. This report examines the practices of the wireless industry with an eye toward understanding their influence on innovation and consumer welfare.

This report finds a mixed picture. The wireless industry, over the last decade, has succeeded in bringing wireless telephony at competitive prices to the American public. Yet at the same time we also find the wireless carriers aggressively controlling product design and innovation in the equipment and application markets, to the detriment of consumers. Their policies, in the wired world, would be considered outrageous, in some cases illegal, and in some cases simply misguided.

Wireless Carterfone, by Tim Wu

Spotify is a new kind of digital music service designed to help you enjoy music a little more.

Currently in private beta.

Spotify

Print this on a poster at Kinkos.

This project was made for the Singapore International Design Festival and is about an imagined designer's day in the year 2030. The diagram goes through her day and explains how she gets things done with the help of all her smart things.

This is the work of Tom Klinkowstein and Irene Pereyra. See also, A Networked Designer's Critical Path, 1990-2090.

A Day in the Life of a Networked Designer's Smart Things or A Day in a Designer's Networked Smart Things, 2030