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Radio RSS FeedsMoving - I'm finally taking the plunge and switching to "MT". I'm not going to bother importing this weblog, at least not initially. Too much work for too little benefit. My archives can stay here indefinitely. My new home page and weblog. Feeds are available in RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0, and RSS 2.0 flavors. I'm not going to set up RSS redirects. I don't like Userland's solution because any aggregator that doesn't understand the format will barf on it. HTTP 301 redirects are better supported, but I don't feel like reconfiguring Apache to allow .htaccess files. For the couple of people that subscribe to my category feeds, I'll get around to re-cre...Feed Source: radio.ntwizards.net Distributed Tivo cracking -
With the newest version of the TiVo software (Version 3.2), TiVo has once again changed the secret password to enter "backdoor" mode, which lets advanced users enable hidden features. Unlike last time, people were not able to quickly find the new code, so a distributed computing project was started to find the backdoor codes. You can read about it Here, grab the Linux or Windows clients and pitch in some CPU time for a good cause." [Slashdot]... Not moving Radio - Lots of things blew up while I was trying to move Radio to another PC. I'll give it another shot once I figure out why Radio is crashing whenever I try to compress weblogData.root.... Peeve: Large Screenshots - Why am I seeing so many screenshots lately that are so large that I have to scroll my maximized browser window on a 1280x1024 display? Is there any application that truly requires 750,000+ pixels to demonstrate a single screen or task? Give my mouse hand a friggin' break.
800x600 ought to be enough for anything.... Moving Radio - I'm about to try moving my Radio installation to another computer, including moving Radio.root.
Crossing my fingers that this doesn't blow up ... More spam stuff - Microsoft Research published A Bayesian Approach to Filtering Junk E-mail way back in 1998. The Adaptive Systems and Interaction group has done quite a bit of research on filtering and classification.
Amy Wohl is ranting about Spam and Irresponsible ISPs. I find it interesting that a web hosting provider is using a blacklist to reject incoming mail. Is this a transparent feature that nobody knows about, or do customers have to opt-in? In my experience, web hosting customers are an unforgiving lot when it comes to anything that interferes with email.
I've always been anti-blacklist because they are subject to so much abuse. They've mostly been run by zealots demanding that commercial messages not be transferred across the Internet unless it was explicitly asked for, twice (doubl... POPFile, Part III - The mail parser has been updated to handle Outlook .MSG files.
There's a thread on corpus drifting that covers my thoughts on using positive reinforcement to help POPFile to learn. On the mailing list I am training POPFile on, it has missed 3 of 22 messages today. I'm thinking that POPFile needs about 100 messages in the corpus to get accuracy into the high 90s for mailing lists.
On the spam front, I seem to be in the middle of a drought. POPFile has missed 1 of 5 messages since yesterday.
I've found another bug, POPFile seems to top out at 8 simultaneous connections. I have 10 POP accounts in three of Outlook's "Send/Receive Groups." They have staggered times for checking mail but every so often they all overlap ... Run D.M.C. - Anil Dash:
You can't miss the music. Check out the current Top 5 on the Billboard charts, you'll find Missy Elliot's "Work It". The last minute of the song is a straight lift from Run-DMC's "Peter Piper". The incredible breakdown to Bob James' Mardi Gras, which Jay cut up for the song, is still so purely grooving and ass-moving that it can top the charts a decade and a half later. Chuck D said it best years ago in one of his rhymes, "Run-DMC first said a DJ could be a band." The "band" behind Run-DMC is still echoing out of people's rides in Queens today. There's no better legacy.
I came across a Run D.M.C. timeline. In spite of being the first rap artists to go gold, platinum, and multi-platinum, they have no Grammy awards. Eminem has five.... Jam Master Jay, RIP - I'm blacking out for the rest of the day in remembrance of Jason Mizell, aka Jam Master Jay.
Jam Master Jay, the D.J. who provided beats and scratches to the rap group Run-DMC's groundbreaking records, was shot and killed in a recording studio in Queens on Wednesday night. [ ]
For most of its history, rap has been criticized for promoting violence, and several rappers who sang the praises of the gangster life, including Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G., were murdered. But Run-DMC and Jam Master Jay, all middle-class natives of Hollis, Queens, a mile or so from where Mr. Mizell was shot, created rap with a social conscience, urging listeners (between boasts) to stay in school, fight prejudice and respect one another. [NYTimes via ... Airport security leads to topless checkpoint -
A French tourist got so fed up with having her chest wanded by airport security in the USA that she took off her shirt and bra to demonstrate her bomb-and-boxcutter-free chestular region. The airport was closed for 10 minutes. Under the USAPATRIOT Act, she faces up to three years in jail. Link (German-English translation here: Link) [via Boing Boing Blog]
This would be funny if it weren't so friggin' sad. America has become such a fearful place that even a half-naked woman threatens us.
When I lived in Europe, I made a concious effort not to blend in. I was a proud American and rarely wanted to conceal that fac... POPFile, Part II - I got "POPFile" working, at another user's suggestion I exported some mail folders as .csv text files instead of individual .msg binary files. So far I've put 5500 messages into the corpus, with about 5% being known spam and half of the remainder coming from 16 mailing lists.
I'm keeping all of my Outlook rules in place until I am confident in POPFile's classifications. I've added two rules for POPFile, for spam and a mailing list that I just joined. The new list is a good test of how quickly POPFile can be taught. The intial corpus was just 15 messages, so far it has correctly classified 3 out of 5 new messages.
One problem I see with teaching POPFile is that the web interface only allows for negative reinforcement, ie: this message is classified wrong, it should be this. For a small corpus, my gut feeling is that positive reinforcement would be more beneficial. There's probably a tipping point where that sort of feedback loop would have a negative affect on accuracy,... POPFile - Decided to give POPFile a whirl tonight. Exported a few thousand messages from Outlook 2002, upgraded to the latest version of Perl, uninstalled SpamNet.
The program that builds the corpus doesn't seem to like me. It acts like it is importing my messages but the corpus file winds up empty. I suspect that it has problems with Outlook's binary message format, in spite of the documentation saying otherwise. Tried the latest version from CVS, no difference.
I filed a bug report, we'll see what happens ... I Have a (Backup) Dream - A few months ago I wrote about the pains of backing up large drives. I use a 60GB drive for backups of important files from my main 120 gigger, but I think that I'll outgrow this solution in 6 months. Fortunately I have a pair of 30 giggers lying around
Looking at the files I am backing up, well over 90% of the space used is static -- changes are rare, additions are infrequent. I need a long-term archiving solution. Burning those files to CD isn't very appealing, I would need about 100 of them (I'd want two copies of everything because I have little faith in CDRs for long-term storage). DVDs would be more practical, I could probably find a Firewire burner to borrow
What I'd really like is a hybrid online backup service. My upstream bandwidth is about 8KB/s on a good day, doing an initial backup of this data over the Internet would take an insane amount of time. NetFlix has the right idea for moving lar... Client-side Spam Filtering - I've always wondered why client-side spam filters for Windows are designed to work only with certain mail clients. SpamNet and Spam Assasin Pro only work with Outlook 2000+, SpamNix for Eudora 3+, etc These tools could reach a wider audience if they were built as generic POP/IMAP proxies.
Open Source to the rescue. POPFile is a POP3 proxy that uses "Naive Bayes" for classification, written in Perl but geared for Windows users. Pop3proxy and IMAPAssasin use the Spam Assasin engine.... Radio and the 55-foot-tall Lava Lamp - This video is not new, but many of you haven't seen Seth Godin in action before. And this particular presentation is a version of his keynote at NAB a few years ago. The message is as fresh and fragrant today ... How to build a better radio station website - Here's the best website I've ever seen for a Christian radio station. Wait, you say, it's for a church, not a radio station. Right you are. But what if . And why not .... An open letter to Satellite Radio - Dear Satellite Radio: You have 20 million subscribers, and you have the name, address, and email for all of us. How come you have never asked me what I listen to? How come you have never built schedules custom-tailored to ... The slow pace of Podcasting growth - From eMarketer: Nearly one out of five (19%) Internet users in the US say they have downloaded a podcast, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Pew's researchers said that was up from 12% in August 2006. However, ... "Local media sites have a significant lead over portals" - From the Center for Media Research: According to a new report by the Online Publishers Association, local media sites hold a distinct advantage when it comes to delivering results for advertisers. The study finds that consumers trust advertising on local ... Sprint is in the NFL Radio Business - Here's yet another tidbit you won't read about in the radio trades: Sprint Offers Subscribers NFL Radio - The live, cell-phone-accessible radio broadcasts will be available to all Sprint wireless subscribers who purchase a basic data plan as part of ... Making better Billboards - Technically, the advice here is how to make presentation images as well as IKEA makes billboards, but I thought I wold make the more direct connection: How to make better billboards, period. Here are six pointers (but go here for ... Here comes "Social Radio" - While not a new concept, the idea of "social radio" is certainly not something we read about in the radio industry trades. We know what "social networking" is, of course. And sharing playlists through iTunes and other sources has been ... Radio goes live - with video - from the Democratic Convention - Radio live - on the web - from the Democratic National Convention. Well done, WMAL. Interesting when the show is not live a refresh of this page shows you one ad or a few logo screen images. Wouldn't it be better ... Engagement, not Impressions - The most important sentence you will read this year: We're much more interested in measuring engagement and attaching a monetary value to it and less interested in looking at impressions. So says Mike Monroe, VP-media and advertising operations for JCPenney, ... Copyright © 2008, Marketershandbook.com. All Rights Reserved. |