{"id":1617,"date":"2007-10-03T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2007-10-05T11:00:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T14:00:50","slug":"the-duh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"The Duh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> think I saw the announcement of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.boingboing.net\/\">Boing-Boing TV<\/a> on MetaFilter or Reddit, I can&#8217;t remember (Oh wait, it was via <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/boing-boing-launches-daily-online-tv-show\/\">Laughing Squid<\/a>). I generally have no problems with videocasts (For example, I always enjoyed watching &#8216;Rocketboom with Amanda Congdon&#8217; and &#8216;Ze Frank&#8217;), but the show produced by Boing-Boing was not something I could bear longer than one minute. I also know why: it smells &#8216;over-produced&#8217;, thanks to that &#8216;glossy soft-focus&#8217; look. Yeah, &#8216;over-produced&#8217; sounds like the right word.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hey: Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/story\/2007\/10\/02\/tech-zune-2.html\">announced their Zune 2.0s<\/a>. The only real killer feature of the Zune is the wireless connection feature, which allows Zune users (limited) filesharing. And talking about Microsoft, I hear that they plan to release .Net code under (Microsoft&#8217;s specific) Reference License (which falls under the company&#8217;s Shared Source Initiative, which allows you to view the sources but not to copy and &#8216;recompile&#8217; them). Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/developers\/07\/10\/03\/1626209.shtml\">Slashdot thread<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>And to top it off, at CBC&#8217;s there&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/yourinterview\/2007\/09\/hpv_vaccine_or_not.html\">excellent discussion (and a podcast) about the HPV vaccine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I saw the announcement of the new Boing-Boing TV on MetaFilter or Reddit, I can&#8217;t remember (Oh wait, it was via Laughing Squid). I generally have no problems with videocasts (For example, I always enjoyed watching &#8216;Rocketboom with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1617\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[56,53,57,55,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}