Free Podcast: National Geographic News (February 23, 2007)
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This week: Chimps seen hunting with "spears," shark smuggling pastor busted, some lizards smell tougher than others, and moon settlers may have to be expert skiers.
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Tycho:  We put Monday's strip up early, so you might have seen it already - but you might not be familiar with the EGM interview it is based on, an excerpt of which appears here.  I sometimes worry about appearing partisan in these communiques, but it is not my job to be fair.  I'm not a journalist, I'm a consumer.  I don't buy one product from each company in the interests of some karmic ideal, and I don't need to purge my posts of wrongthink because I haven't produced something suitable for use as a press release.  Sony is grinding down their goodwill with every smug, psychotic interview, and someone needs to tell them so in clear terms.
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We have some big news today for FlickrFan users, a major new source of high-def photography for the networked living room. They come from Agence France-Presse, one of the world's great news organizations, and a fantastic source of high-resolution news photography. I met with Agence France-Presse when I was in Paris in December, introduced them to FlickrFan and explained what we were doing with the Associated Press. They got excited, it took a little while to work out the technical details, but now we're ready to go. The updates are all out, here's the howto for FlickrFan users. Change #30: Agence France-Presse photos in FlickrFan. There were unique challenges in this project because their flow is huge. Yesterday we got over 3000 new photos. Because there are so many, I asked my friend Matt Mullenweg, if his company Automattic could help us out with server space and bandwidth, and he said yes. The AFP pictures are hosted on wordpress.com. Many thanks to Matt and his company for helping us out. To the extent we're bootstrapping a new use of the net, which I hope is what we're doing, Matt's company has made the kind of contribution we'd like to see more companies make. Usually the companies are happy to make the money, but not willing to help out with the bootstrap, which often costs money. Matt has always been a great guy and a visionary. I thank him and hope that FlickrFan users find an appropriate way to thank him too. And also, please consider the generosity of Associated Press and Agence France-Presse. We all hope that there's a market here, a way to monetize the flow of high-resolution photography to enrich and inform. Other content companies have been reluctant to take a chance on the Internet, we saw that in the early days of RSS and podcasting. I feel that these two media companies are playing the same pioneering role that the New York Times played with RSS 2.0 and NPR played in podcasting. Associated Press and Agence France-Presse deserve our respect and admiration for steping out, for going first, this is how new Internet activities get going. This is what we call market leadership, the real kind. Bravo!! And this couldn't come at a better time, with tomorrow being Super Tuesday here in the USA. Think of all the great photographs we're going to get in the next few days! Kevin Tofel helped test the feed over the weekend.
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A TV station in Ukraine points its Webcams at the protesting masses. A British artist retraces Shackleton's Antarctic voyage, sketching it on an unusual canvas -- a Palm Pilot.
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National Geographic writer Tim McGirk discusses post-election Afghanistan and the hunt for international terrorist Osama bin Laden.
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Shark chomps a Nikon D80 underwater housing...LiMo likes Wind River...PR people are happier than journalists...reviews of Nikon D300, Panasonic L10.
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"The operative phrase ... that sums up the week is when the president said, 'We are a compassionate nation,'"  New penalties against Sudan - check. More dollars to fight AIDS in Africa - check. via The Olympian
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This week: Arctic sea ice may be gone in summer by 2040, no-pain disorder decoded, mammal may have glided before birds, wild new species discovered, and more.
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A cat cloned to replace a dead pet for a Texas woman stirs ethical debate. Also: Scientists discover monster cockroach and mini crab in Indonesia.... EU caves in on stronger fishing limits.... and more.
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By Copyright 2007 Deseret Morning News By Jennifer Toomer-Cook and Bob Bernick Jr.
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This week: 4,000-year-old tombs opened, stilt walkers perform for Lunar New Year, fatal fire engulfs Jakarta ship, and more.
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A maverick prospector plans to scoop gold and silver from the bottom of the sea. Is it an environmental improvement or the beginning of a disaster? Plus: Nautilus Minerals' video calling card and a podcast with writer Joshua Davis from Wired magazine.
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The Star Trek icon chats with Wired News about the franchise's staying power, video games and the unintelligible language of Esperanto fans. By Lore SjÃ¶berg. Plus: My Love Affair With Star Trek