Streaming My Consciousness

Here’s a bunch of useful links accumulated recently during the course of my research. They’re here as much for my own recall as they are for your benefit.

• Adobe: Flash Media Live Encoder command-line reference
• Microsoft: Windows Media Encoder command-line reference
• Apple Insider: Apple launches HTTP Live Streaming standard in iPhone 3.0 (OK, they’re a little behind, but good information just the same)
• Microsoft: Windows Media Services 2008
• Wowza: Streaming to the iPhone and iPod Touch
• Adobe: Flash Media Live Encoder 3
• Microsoft: Automating the Encoding Process
• Apple: HTTP Live Streaming Overview
• Wowza Media Server Advanced Preview

• Michael Nygard misses a flight… because TSA can’t grok his MacBook Air
• Clif pours out his feelings about Vista
• Sprint is reportedly on the verge of releasing the EVDO Rev. A patch for the Mogul. I’ve been running a leaked Beta for about 6 weeks, and love the newly-activated GPS functionality.
• Chuck is in Israel, and blogging it
• The Catholic Church has expanded the list of deadly sins. Polluters, genetic engineers, drug dealers, obscenely rich people, and purveyors of social injustice, you’ve been put on notice. The Pope is coming for YOU.
• The Beatles are coming to iTunes
• The Boulder City Council seems to be suffering from terminal boredom
• Brian Shul writes about his love for the SR-71. One of the lucky few that got to fly the most amazing plane American ingenuity ever conceived. “The plane was flying a mile every 1.6 seconds, well above our Mach 3.2 limit. It was the fastest we would ever fly. I pulled the throttles to idle just south of Sicily, but we still overran the refueling tanker awaiting us over Gibraltar.” Now that is fast.
• Ericsson compares the wi-fi hotspot to the “telephone booth of the broadband age“. What’s a superhero to do in the 21st century?

• The New York Times talks about Vanu Bose and his quest to make software-defined radios ubiquitous
• Intel brings mashups to the masses
• DHS is starting to look a lot like James Bond’s world…