CDs of Lydon's interviews were distributed as an example of the high-quality MP3 content enclosures could deliver. In October, Winer and friends organized the first Bloggercon weblogger conference at Berkman Center. Announcing the feed in his own weblog, Winer challenged other aggregator developers to support this new form of content and provide enclosure support. Lydon, a former New York Times reporter and NPR talkshow host, posted his in-depth interviews with bloggers, futurists and political figures, which Winer gradually released to the feed. In September, Winer, also a Berkman Fellow, created a special RSS-with-enclosures feed for Lydon's Harvard weblog, which previously had a text-only RSS feed. Chris wears his headset and David is sitting at a studio microphone. "Chris Lydon never sounded so good," he said, after one all-night editing session.Ĭhris, his producer Mary McGrath, and David Weinberger in Chris's studio at DTV Group after David's interview. The screen shows the sound editing software that Chris used to sweeten the sound of his shows. The DAW is Chris' digital audio workstation. We described the new technology on the Web site. He self-produced more than 50 interviews, posting a text description to the Harvard weblog that Winer built for him, with an audio link to my media server at. We launched to document the research in adding audio to blog posts, especially our building Chris Lydon's Portable Web Studio.Īfter 25 years of being surrounded by the cream of broadcast engineers in state-of-the-art studios, Lydon was alone with his recorder, a laptop editor, and tools to upload audio to a media server. Starting in July, we investigated a bunch of portable recorders, audio editing software, and compression tools, and taught Lydon to use them all. Lydon said his gift was a radio voice, not merely a skillful pen, and Winer suggested that Lydon come to the Desktop Video Group in Cambridge, the former NewMedia Lab, to see if there was a way we could create an audio blog. Winer urged Lydon to write a blog to restart his career. Thanks to Dan Bricklin for the original pictures we stitched together and the shot of me and Dave at dinner afterwards. It was a great success.Ĭlick on this image to open a big composite panorama of Day 1 at BloggerCon, from Big Dave Winer on the left, to Chris Lydon holding a microphone and me videotaping in the center, to Charlie Nesson on the right. He organized the 2003 BloggerCON meeting of his fellow bloggers. Lydon came to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard.ĭave Winer had also come to Harvard as a Berkman Fellow. A close reading of his contract by the station manager, Jane Christo, and Boston University president, John Silber, showed that as a WBUR employee Lydon had no rights to his work, and he was summarily fired. One of the early talk shows syndicated widely across the country, The Connection was the sparkplug in a fund-raising drive that raised WBUR from a $5 million a year operation to $25 million per year.Īt that point Lydon had locked horns with WBUR management over the rights to his content, specifically long-term rights to his shows playing over the Internet. After a failed run for mayor of Boston, Lydon switched to radio and created The Connection at Boston University radio station WBUR. Chris did a long stint as television anchor for the Ten O'clock News on WGBH Channel 2. Bob got to know Winer pretty well along the way.Īt the OSCOM conference, Bob met Christopher Lydon, the longtime television and radio personality from the Boston area, who was a Fellow at the Berkman Center. The Desktop Video Group videotaped all the major presentations. Working with Professor Charles Nesson, the founding director of the Berkman Center, Bob Doyle was one of the organizers of the conference. As the architect of several Web standards like XML-RPC, SOAP, and RSS, Winer garnered enormous respect from his developer audience. Dave Winer, the creative genius and enfant terrible of the blogosphere, was invited to give the keynote address to a couple hundred Open Source CMS developers from all over the world. It all began with the third international Open Source Content Management ( OSCOM) conference at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society in the spring of 2003.
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