Meta

While generally speaking it is the day after Labor Day and the time for navel gazing is over, I do have some announcements about the site. If you look over in the left hand column you will see a new link for downloads of the documentary Bush’s Brain. I watched the movie last week and it is very good and very enteraining. It basically covers the swath of destruction that is Karl Rove’s life. You can download the movie and burn it onto a DVD for $4.95. I get a dollar per download. It’s not much, but every little bit helps.

I am also in the laborious process of updating my feedburner so that it can fit within the soon-to-be-launched Feedburner Networks advertising network. I’ll let everyone know when it is set up properly. If you already subscirbe to the BooTrib RSS feed you should not be affected, but if you are, just speak up. I am baffled by this technology. Once the ad network is launched and starts selling spots, we will see “one ad on the home page (between the first and second post) and below each individual post on the individual archive pages.” Not sure what, if anything, will show up in diaries.

Much more important than all this revenue stuff is Kid Oakland’s efforts to empower the local blogging scene. Blogs United is a DFA affiliated site for local bloggers to communicate with each other. Hopefully it will be developing a Wiki as well. If you are a local blogger, contact Kid Oakland and get an invite.

Don’t miss the series of Labor diaries this week. Thanks to Kahli for thinking of such a wonderful project and organizing it herself.

Since this is a meta thread, I guess anything goes. What’s meta? And what’s mobettameta?

7 Comments

boran2 on September 5, 2006 at 12:59 pm

I believe that <b<mobettameta</b> is the new Broadway musical about the life and exploits of metajesus. Either that or it’s the name for a hive of anarchists.

homemadesoup on September 5, 2006 at 1:19 pm

Sorry to be so lame but i still don’t know what a meta diary is.

BooMan on September 5, 2006 at 1:36 pm

it’s a diary that is not about the outer world but about the blog itself.

Grandma M on September 5, 2006 at 1:57 pm

Hi Boo,

Okay my ignorance is REALLY going to show.

What is an RSS feed and can it be used with dial-up?
If I download the miserable life of Bush’s Brain (a/k/a Rove) on a blank CD;

a) Do I format it on my computer or is there
special way I can format on my DVD player?
b) Do I play the download on my computer on DVD
player? (I have a HP desktop with XP)

Thanks for helping the ignorant and bumbling!

Grandma M on September 5, 2006 at 1:58 pm

Oh Yeah – is part of this change the REAL wide panel I am getting where I have to scroll from side to side?
- BooMan on September 5, 2006 at 3:17 pm
  
  what browser are you using?
  
  As for the Bush’s Brain thing, downloading it on dial-up make take a while. You should be able to do it. You should be able to do it.
  
  The file to be delivered will be watermarked using the PixelTools “MPEG-Escort” technology recently licensed by IndiePix and included in the IndiePix Disc Factory. Licensing will be at the “forensic level” which specifically identifies every download with the information identifying the download transaction. A “slate” at the beginning of the film will replace with usual “FBI Warning” with a “Thank you for supporting Independent Film” and a notice that the content is protected by the PixelTools MPEG-Escort.
  
  Joe Mealey, co-producer of the film noted that: “each customer who purchases the title will be encouraged to make a few copies and give them to his or her friends.” This will acknowledge that the disc can be copied and that “fair use” copying is specifically supported by this download technology. Bob Alexander, President of IndiePix, said: “we believe that our customer is not a criminal, and that the best approach to protecting the copyrighted content we want to distribute is to reinforce the social contract between the customer and the filmmaker. This initiative does that.”
  
  In emphasizing the ground-breaking nature of this announcement, Alexander said: “This is not an off-television product resized for display on a thumbnail! This is a full featured, menu driven, DVD movie designed for presentation on the finest home theater systems! It has great festival credentials. And it’s got an attention grabbing theme. Releasing this film through our `Download-to-Own’ technology – at this price point — helps overcome the distribution barriers that may have prevented people from owning and seeing this title in the past.”

blueneck on September 5, 2006 at 2:07 pm

Can we please get a line added to the FAQ about the two-diary per day limit? I recently claimed that it was in the FAQ when reminding a new user of it. Much to my chagrin, I could not find it in the FAQ or any of the links in the FAQ to user guides.

This addition would help prevent confusion to a new user and prevent any misconceptions about the content of the third diary being the reason for invoking the rule. Thanks.

boran2 on September 5, 2006 at 12:59 pm

I believe that <b<mobettameta</b> is the new Broadway musical about the life and exploits of metajesus. Either that or it’s the name for a hive of anarchists.
homemadesoup on September 5, 2006 at 1:19 pm

Sorry to be so lame but i still don’t know what a meta diary is.
- BooMan on September 5, 2006 at 1:36 pm
  
  it’s a diary that is not about the outer world but about the blog itself.
Grandma M on September 5, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Hi Boo,

Okay my ignorance is REALLY going to show.
1. What is an RSS feed and can it be used with dial-up?
2. If I download the miserable life of Bush’s Brain (a/k/a Rove) on a blank CD;
a) Do I format it on my computer or is there
special way I can format on my DVD player?
b) Do I play the download on my computer on DVD
player? (I have a HP desktop with XP)

Thanks for helping the ignorant and bumbling!
- Grandma M on September 5, 2006 at 1:58 pm
  
  Oh Yeah – is part of this change the REAL wide panel I am getting where I have to scroll from side to side?
  - BooMan on September 5, 2006 at 3:17 pm
    
    what browser are you using?
    
    As for the Bush’s Brain thing, downloading it on dial-up make take a while. You should be able to do it. You should be able to do it.
    
    The file to be delivered will be watermarked using the PixelTools “MPEG-Escort” technology recently licensed by IndiePix and included in the IndiePix Disc Factory. Licensing will be at the “forensic level” which specifically identifies every download with the information identifying the download transaction. A “slate” at the beginning of the film will replace with usual “FBI Warning” with a “Thank you for supporting Independent Film” and a notice that the content is protected by the PixelTools MPEG-Escort.
    
    Joe Mealey, co-producer of the film noted that: “each customer who purchases the title will be encouraged to make a few copies and give them to his or her friends.” This will acknowledge that the disc can be copied and that “fair use” copying is specifically supported by this download technology. Bob Alexander, President of IndiePix, said: “we believe that our customer is not a criminal, and that the best approach to protecting the copyrighted content we want to distribute is to reinforce the social contract between the customer and the filmmaker. This initiative does that.”
    
    In emphasizing the ground-breaking nature of this announcement, Alexander said: “This is not an off-television product resized for display on a thumbnail! This is a full featured, menu driven, DVD movie designed for presentation on the finest home theater systems! It has great festival credentials. And it’s got an attention grabbing theme. Releasing this film through our `Download-to-Own’ technology – at this price point — helps overcome the distribution barriers that may have prevented people from owning and seeing this title in the past.”
blueneck on September 5, 2006 at 2:07 pm

Can we please get a line added to the FAQ about the two-diary per day limit? I recently claimed that it was in the FAQ when reminding a new user of it. Much to my chagrin, I could not find it in the FAQ or any of the links in the FAQ to user guides.

This addition would help prevent confusion to a new user and prevent any misconceptions about the content of the third diary being the reason for invoking the rule. Thanks.

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