Wow! You never know how much will be on the Internet Archive RSS feed.  It was a little slow over the weekend.  But today there is more that I can possibly sample!

I’ve never discussed what motivates listing an item in this column (show?).  I’m not sure it would help to discuss my taste in music, except to say it is eclectic with a strong emphasis in movie soundtracks and scores.  I like all kinds of music.  And videos and photographs.

But the IA RSS feed is like a river and so we get up each day and see what new has come our way.  We fish the stream throughout the day and if we see something that is fun or interesting then we tag it for this show.  At the end of the day, we review what we have found, post it to WebJay (we do that throughout the evening, before blog items like this are posted - all times are PST, btw).  So, if we are lucky, we have had a few chances to listen to the new items before we push the links out to you.

Where will this all go?  I’m not sure at all. I had no real plan when I jumped into this other than to sample and blog about new items found in the IA RSS feed.  Will we add audio of our own?  Possibly, I sometimes think about making this more like a radio broadcast.  What about video of our own?  Possibly, it would be interesting to make the experience more visual.

On the other hand, I’m not sure how much I want to review things.  Sometimes I just like to say "here, try this, what do you think?"  and leave it at that.

Another question: can I keep this up every night?  Probably not.  So expect a break once in a while.  Also, while it’s hard to imagine, it’s conceivable that there is nothing from the feed worth posting (sorry, at some point I draw the line and do not intend to post record breaking video game runs or just anyone’s wedding movies — they have to be interesting wedding movies!)  There are lots of other great things coming in on some days, but they may not interest me (sometimes because the recording quality is so poor).  It takes a bit of time and I need to streamline that with some tools.

I will be traveling next week and that may effect my ability to post new items, but we will see what happens.  If that is the case, enjoy the exiting shows, explore the IA yourselves and know that I will try to get back to a regular schedule ASAP.

Please let me know your thoughts about this column.  What do you like?  What do you dislike?  What works for you and what doesn’t? 

Anyway, just some thoughts about what we are doing here.

I’ll post the discriptions of the music shortly (this is "live" folks) — The playlist is up and more is being added to it by the minute …

As usual, you can find links to all these items on our WebJay playlist.  Enjoy!

Addendum:  I had so many items that I could not link to them all with the level of detail that I have been in the past.  So I added a good number to the list for tonight as usual, PLUS I created a few new lists to hold the overflow:

• Ambient, Electronica & Eclectic
• Podcast This!
• Internet Archive Overflow

Also, check out the playlist named

• Travelogue

I found this great little recording of Italian marketplace sounds and placed it in the Travelogue list.  It’s like a trip to Italy.

Sorry, no photograph tonight!  We need more photos submitted to IA (seems like all the photos are hanging out at Flickr).

Hello once again and welcome to our nightly post of Internet Archive submissions.

As usual, you can find links to all these items on our WebJay playlist.  Enjoy!

Tonight we have a vivid little music video called "waiting" from Rebekka Troller & Tobias Buenter that was shot near Lucerne, Switzerland in September 2004 for "Krankenzimmer 204".

Another music video uses a hip-hop soundtrack to show highlights from Youth Sounds first year of programming.  Thanks to gabriel at youthsounds.org for uploading this one.  Check out the entire Youth Sounds Collection at the Internet Archive.

I’ve been hoping to get some more time to share my continuing Shinkuro Experiments.  I made a new friend today and more people have joined the "Shinkuro Experiments" group, although it is not clear to me how they found me (I think they read one of these blog posts).  Sky (the newest friend - Shinkuro terminology - we say member in SpinXpress) claims to know Joi Ito and is interested in collaborating on music projects. Cool.

I’ve been taking some rough notes and I hope to share those later in the week.  I hope that these notes will be useful to others and will not ruffle too many feathers.  Some may find it discomforting that a developer for one collaboration product might write about and compare it to a "competitor".  While I plan to be very candid in my observations, it is not so much my intention to dwell on little "bugs".  However, I may mention some (in my product, as well as others) so that people will be able to work around them and to help developers find and correct them (or me if I’m being a dope).

I am interested in the bigger issues that are common to collaborative tools.  For example, it seems clear that one of the central issues yet to be addressed by any secure personal internet is that of finding groups or spaces.  Same for people and resources.  Once we have a large number of groups, each containing a number of resources (files, urls, people, etc.), how do we locate them?  Also, when we first start using a product like Shinkuro or SpinXpress, how do we connect with others?  These are the main things I want to look at in future posts.

In the meantime, join in on the fun.  Get a copy of one of these products (Shinkuro, SpinXpress, etc.), create a group and invite me to it.  I’m app.etitio.us!shinkuro.com (for Shinkuro) and markus@outhink.com (for SpinXpress).  If you use another tool that you think I should try out, please let me know and I will.

I was cruising through the stats listing for this weblog and noticed a referral from del.icio.us to the IAT page!  WooHoo!!!  These are the tags that the person who bookmarked us so generously used on us:
media
music
audio
movie
video
streaming
Webjay
netlabels
live
photo
creativecommons
internet
archive
blog.  Wow!!!  So I added it to my list too.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.  Needless to say (but I will), more bookmarks from other listeners would be appreciated to the max.

We’re also getting some good hits on our IAT WebJay playlist.