About these Authors
Matt May is a Web accessibility specialist, and has written on the interaction of people and technology since 1995. He keeps his own weblog at
bestkungfu.com, and produces a podcast called
Staccato, which features Creative Commons-licensed music.
Alex Williamsblogs, consults and produces unconference style events, where people immerse in DIY media. These are fun occasions, designed for people who want to get together with authors, artists, technologists and leading thinkers to converse, eat, listen to music, write, shoot photos and post podcasts and videoblogs. Alex also works with companies to establish DIY approaches, where writing, photography, voice and video come together to create new conversations and communities. Alex is currently fascinated with digital photography. His girlfriend calls him a Flickrholic. Send Alex a nice message: alexhwilliams at gmail.com.
Nicole Simon loves blogging and podcasting, dashed with an European view. As consultant she helps to facilitate such tools for business purposes or personal publishing empires. She can be found at
cruel to be kind and on her private blog
Useful Sounds.
Roland Tanglao is a well known podcasting enthusiast and a passionate advocate of blogs, RSS, and social software as a means of online expression for people, organizations and businesses. He is a prominent participant in the blogosphere and online communities and one of the founders of Bryght and as Bryght's Chief Blogging Officer reads hundreds of blogs daily. He graduated from the University of Waterloo, worked at Nortel Networks where he ran its first internal corporate blog, has has been blogging since 1999, and was the first business blogging consultant in Canada.
Alex Williams
Matt May
Nicole Simon
Roland Tanglao
1. Brian Ibbott on June 16, 2005 11:55 PM writes...
Nothing to report yet, I'm afraid. There have been ideas sent back and forth, but nothing solid. The RIAA would love for someone to develop an mp3 format that would not allow you to cut, or extract the individual music tracks from it. But that's the only preferred solution that they've wanted from the start. They're discussing and evaluating the other ideas (like bit rate, for example), and hopefully we'll hear something soon.
Permalink to Comment2. Rob S on June 18, 2005 11:14 AM writes...
I am completely opposed to podcasters attempting to open up a dialog with the RIAA. Why? They're the corporate version of North Korea. Completely irrational, technologically isolated and morally bankrupt as an organization. They spend their days figuring out how to prevent artists music from being heard. This is an organization that goes out and sues 13 year old children whose parents can barely pay the rent, and then says, "See, we won!" Give me a break. To hell with the RIAA. Podcasters should spent their time and efforts promoting original music that's created by non-RIAA owned artists.
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