{"id":2253,"date":"2004-03-20T20:58:41","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T00:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/03\/20\/video-aggregator-10\/"},"modified":"2004-03-20T20:58:41","modified_gmt":"2004-03-21T00:58:41","slug":"video-aggregator-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/03\/20\/video-aggregator-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Aggregator 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3050'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p align=\"left\">Great News! <a href=\"http:\/\/grumet.net\/weblog\/\">Andrew<br \/>\n          Grumet <\/a>over at MIT has<br \/>\n        taken a giant step towards one of the hottest applications of RSS on<br \/>\n        the horizon &#8211; the video aggregator.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/grumet.net\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/03\/20\/rssreader_04d.html\">ReadRSS,<\/a> released<br \/>\n        today in version 0.4d, is a nifty piece of software that sits in your<br \/>\n        TiVo and<br \/>\n        allows it to download and compile video feeds contained in RSS streams. You<br \/>\n        can even schedule the thing to record certain feeds at certian times.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">We aren&#8217;t quite to the point we had imagined, when we get<br \/>\n        home from work to find a couple of hours of aggregated video waiting<br \/>\n        for us including Strong-Bad, the weather, the Adam Curry video feed,<br \/>\n        live independent reporting from wherever the battlezone is at that time,<br \/>\n        a video postcard from an ex-student in China, the Glenn Reynolds Show,<br \/>\n        snippets containing<br \/>\n        every mention of &quot;Ecuador&quot; &quot;Big Tent Movement&quot; &quot;artificial intelligence&quot;<br \/>\n        and anything else on my list of filtered buzzwords which has appearred<br \/>\n        on the major news channels over the previous 24 hours, buffered with<br \/>\n        a minute or so of air time on each end, BluntTV from Canada, and maybe<br \/>\n        some additional streams we can&#8217;t imagine because they haven&#8217;t been invented<br \/>\n        yet.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">But anyway, out hat&#8217;s off to Andrew, and when we see him<br \/>\n        we want to be the first to tell him &#8211; What took you so long? No, really, Great work!<br \/>\n        Now all we have to do is <\/p>\n<p>        a) buy a Tivo ($150 and up)<br \/>\n        b) subscribe to a service ($13 a month and up)<br \/>\n        c) find RSS feeds with video enclosures, and<br \/>\n        d)figure out how to tell it what to do<\/p>\n<p>        The Dowbrigade trembles at the very thought of these daunting tasks.<br \/>\n          Yet the goal of the quest merits the effort: our dreamed-of video aggregator.<br \/>\n          And luckily, we have some VERY smart friends who can help even a digital<br \/>\n          idiot like the Dowbrigade to figure these things out&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Addendum: Oopps, looks like the Dowbrigade got it wrong again, or at least is a bit premature. Check out Andrew&#8217;s comment, or better yet, the complete explanation on<a href=\"http:\/\/grumet.net\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/03\/20\/rssreader_04d.html\"> Andrews Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great News! Andrew Grumet over at MIT has taken a giant step towards one of the hottest applications of RSS on the horizon &#8211; the video aggregator.&nbsp; ReadRSS, released today in version 0.4d, is a nifty piece of software that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/03\/20\/video-aggregator-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}