WSJ: You are currently starring in an ad for XM and recently appeared in an ad for T-Mobile's Sidekick. How do you decide what products to endorse?

Mr. Broadus: Basically, it has to be a product I like, or it has to be a big money deal. ...The check has to have a whole bunch of zeros at the end of the number. It doesn't matter what the front number is, as long as it has lots of zeros at the end.

Playlist: CMJ NMR 940

Contents:

• My Morning Jacket, Z
• Franz Ferdinand, You Could Have It So Much Better
• The Go! Team, Thunder, Lightning, Strike
• Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine
• Various Artists, This Bird Has Flown
• Wolf Parade, Apologies To The Queen Mary
• Sun Kil Moon, Tiny Cities
• The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Armed Love
• Rogue Wave, Descended Like Vultures
• Gang Of Four, Return The Gift
• Metric, Live It Out
• Matt Pond Pa, Several Arrows Later
• Tom Vek, We Have Sound
• Death Cab For Cutie, Plans
• Sigur Ros, Takk...
• Ladytron, Witching Hour

Source: Interview: FeedBurner's Dick Costolo on RSS Ads

Looks like we're heading into the next wave of photo sharing apps with Slide and FilmLoop. Just like we're starting to see RSS get pushed down into the plumbing layer, we're also going to see p2p start to become more invisible and "just work". I think the next test of community apps will be "can I just install this on my parents' computer and just have it work and update?" I've been using FilmLoop (thanks for the tip, Eric) and I've been very impressed, even though it's still very beta and there are lots of kinks to work out.

How do I know this? I create a new email address for every service that I sign up for ... that way, if I get some spam, I know where the leak happened. Sure enough, I have gotten rolex spam sent to united [at] luntfamily.com. The only place I gave that email address was as part of my united.com Mileage Plus account. Thanks, United!

My question is, does anyone know of a way I can re-up my membership before the price change goes into effect on Nov 1? I've been an annual subscriber since May, but if I could reset my contract from today that would be sweet. Trying to find a way to contact Y! about anything is painful -- they obviously have gone to great lengths to minimize any kind of customer feedback.

Playlist: CMJ NMR 935

Contents:

• Sigur Ros, Takk...
• Death Cab For Cutie, Plans
• Wolf Parade, Apologies To The Queen Mary
• Franz Ferdinand, You Could Have It So Much Better
• Nada Surf, The Weight Is a Gift
• Devendra Banhart, Cripple Crow
• Ladytron, Witching Hour
• The Dandy Warhols, Odditorium Or Warlords of Mars
• Super Furry Animals, Love Kraft
• Broadcast, Tender Buttons
• Ok Go, Oh No
• Coheed & Cambria, Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness
• The Go! Team, Thunder, Lightning, Strike
• Her Space Holiday, The Past Presents The Future
• Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine

Flower15

Anyway, if you use Yahoo Music Engine and you want to gear up for the shows, I've created a Flower15 playlist that includes the following albums:

• Local H, Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles?
• Detachment Kit, They Raging, Quiet Army
• Hopesfall, A Types
• Minus The Bear, They Make Beer Commercials Like This
• Pelcian, some of Australasia and some of The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
• Criteria, En Garde
• Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Shake The Sheets and Hearts Of Oak (two albums because Ted r0x so hard)
• These Arms Are Snakes, Oxeneers Or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home
• The Essex Green, Everything Is Green
• Just A Fire, Light Up
• Jimmy Eat World, Stay On My Side Tonight and Futures
• The American Analog Set, Promise Of Love
• Maritime, Glass Floor
• Smoking Popes, Destination Failure
• The Promise Ring, Very Emergency
• Make Believe, Make Believe
• Tristeza, Spine And Sensory
• Isis, Panopticon
• Evergreen Terrace, Sincerity Is An Easy Disguise In This Business

In the several months since I've started using Yahoo! Music Unlimited, it's become a larger and larger part of my daily music experience. I've ditched the iPod and replaced it with a Creative Zen Micro, which works with Yahoo. There are a hundred things that could be improved with this setup (the service, the client, the player, and the DRM), but the fact remains that this is the best way to consume massive amounts of music.

One of the cool things about the Yahoo! Music Unlimited (which I'm going to shorten to "Yahoo Music Unlimited") is that you can share playlists which are captured as xspf files. So, I'm going to start sharing xspf files.

The first best place you can go to fill up your player is to go to Ian Rogers blog. Of course, it's hosted at Y! 360, so you'll need to submit to a full body cavity search before being allowed to read it. But once you straighten up and get past that, you'll find Ian has done a wonderful thing: he's created xspf playlists for recent issues of Mojo magazine. There's no better way to get exposed to a wide range of new music than to download one of the Mojo playlists and hit "shuffle". There's a lot of great stuff and a lot of crap, but it's all new.

Here's the Sept 2005 Mojo playlist.

I'll follow this entry up with lots more music. And you really owe it to yourself to at least give Yahoo Music Unlimited a try. You may not think you'll like music rental, but you might be surprised.

At least this error message is somewhat poetic. And not really that disingenuous: I'm sure they are making updates to the site. Frantically!

I'm a bit worried that once again there are t-shirts commemorating parties. "Hey! Let's tempt fate!" Jesus, people, don't wake the bear, he's resting.

Source: this is sippey.typepad.com: miscellany

Check it out -- an RSS feed for this page. Alrighty, they must be podcasting the trailers so you can subscribe to it right in iTunes, complete with the iTunes namespace extensions. Great idea, Apple.

Then I looked at the feed:

<rss version="0.91">
<channel>
<title>Apple Movie Trailers</title>
<link>http://www.apple.com/trailers/</link>
<description>Popular movie trailers presented in QuickTime.</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>Copyright 2002, apple.com.</copyright>
<item>
<title>Chicken Little</title>
<link>http://www.apple.com/trailers/</link>
</item>
<item>
<title>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Trailer 2)</title>
<link>http://www.apple.com/trailers/</link>
</item>
<item>
<title>Syriana</title>
<link>http://www.apple.com/trailers/</link>
</item>
...


RSS 0.91? No enclosures? No itunes elements? Everything linking to the same URL? There's not even enough information to run this thing through SmartCast.

Apple movie trailer page people, if you'd like to enable this feed for podcasting, please let me know and I'd be happy to help. As it is now, it's ... well, a little shameful.