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Adam Curry's Keynote at Gnomedex

Post ImageAdam Curry is on the stage, here’s my notes as the keynote progresses:

  • He’s recording episode #200 of the Daily Source Code right here at Gnomedex.
  • That’s going to be a very historical opening for the DSC, the entire auditorium loud with applause to open the show.
  • Adam just played a mashup, and Scoble started a big party with dancing and goofiness featuring his infamous red couch.
  • Woodstock was 20 years ago today, and Adam says that today we’re jamming with new instruments, and the world is listening.
  • It’s been said at Gnomedex that we’re not the early adopters, we’re the “lunatic fringe”.
  • Adam: We need fuel. From Microsoft, Apple, Audible, etc. We’ve got things we want to accomplish.
  • Adam: The magic really happened when him and Dave Winer switched places, when Adam became the developer and Dave became the user.
  • Adam: “Here’s what I learned as a developer. This shit is hard work! Its an art form, it is 100% art.”
  • Adam: “This power of subscription is really changing everything.”
  • Sounds like Adam is a big advocate of aggregators and other applications just supporting all of the feeds and moving forward. No squabbling, just do it and go, because the end users don’t care.
  • Adam announces that he fully intends to support and use BitTorrent.
  • Music today has the advantage of promotion through radio, though it started to be less of an advantage as radio has become so encumbered by marketing and packaging, etc.
  • Adam is playing a track by Rob Coslo that he thinks is really beautiful, and it is. I turned to Dickson, the piano expert, and he says “pretty good tune.” Apparently Rob has been booked in large venues and is selling his music, and has been asked to do movie scores. The revolution is that we’re sharing, and as a result, generating revenue for Rob. He didn’t need a record label.
  • Time is up for the source code, so Adam shouts out to the developers, to Dave Winer, Robert Scoble, Chris and Ponzi.
  • Now Chris says that he and Ponzi might be doing something for Podshow, that should be interesting.

If you’re going to listen to a single Daily Source Code episode, definitely treat your ears to number 200, recorded at Gnomedex 5 in Seattle, Washington on June 25th, 2005.

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Enough already Dave!

Anyone else sick of Dave Winer complaining about Adam Curry yet? I sure am. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for giving credit where credit is due, but you gotta draw the line somewhere. For those of you new to the situation, Dave is upset that Adam hasn’t given him proper credit for “inventing” podcasting. Thing is, I seem to recall Dave being mentioned in almost every one of the early podcasting articles. Why hasn’t he been mentioned since? Well what have you done for podcasting lately, Dave? No, podcatch doesn’t count. And statistics on audio.weblogs.com is quite un-podcast-ish, actually.

I hope Adam keeps doing whatever it is that he’s doing, and doesn’t waste time stopping to reply to Dave. I mean, I agree with Dave, the new PodShow on Sirius is not podcasting, but at least Adam is out there trying to build an audience, doing some interesting new things. And when it comes right down to it, as long as the conversation is enabled, I don’t care what you call it.

I realize I have wasted time writing about this, but it was on my mind. Now, back to work on some cool podcasting stuff!

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