dotguy

Miro is, IMO, the best web-tv experience currently running.

I wanted to like Joost, and for a while it did have a bit of an edge over other available options. However the recent upgrades to Miro (the player previously named Democracy) from the Participatory Culture Foundation really comes the closest we’ve seen yet to the sweetspot mix of some of the best media distribution and playback technologies rolled into one application.

Miro blends VLC support for pretty much every video format (except those that are truly crippled with evil and heavy doses of DRM poison), RSS, and BitTorrent. Not quite TiVo yet, but getting closer all the time.

Do you love Miro? Help keep it alive!

We are working relentlessly to improve Miro with new features and bug fixes, but we need your support to keep working. We are a non-profit organization, which lets us focus on building software that works for people. But it also means that means we rely entirely on donations to keep going and we’re running very low right now. Can you make a contribution?

http://www.getmiro.com/donate

All donations are tax-deductible.

Miro is the video player that is fighting to make television more open than ever. Help us build a better system.

Thank you so much for your support–it will go directly to making Miro better.

Sincerely,

nicholas reville and everyone on the miro team

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Congratulations to Chuck K. and our alt^I production crew whose podcasting efforts in iTunes U are recognized as one of the “Five great courses” of iTunes U in the current issue of MacWorld magazine (October 2007).

“The iPod study buddy” articles dedicates a good percentage of ink to educational podcasts, and specifically to iTunes U. Excellent.

Link to the Ask a Biologist website. Also, find the Ask a Biologist podcasts on our ASU iTunes U site.

Google up the term “shift happens” for an updated version of this presentation. While I can’t verify the ‘facts’ presented is this stack, it is a rather compelling view just the same.

Yes, folks have already started lining up for the Apple iPhone. Inevitable I suppose. :-/ So if this is where the line starts, I would suggest this video shows where it may logically end.

I still don’t Twitter, but have started to Tumbl. Perhaps Tumbler is a gateway blog to the crack that is Twitter. Geez, I hope not.

Here is a link to:

dotguy on Tumblr.com