The title said it all

Another experiment on html5 on monmonja labs, this time its the canvas tag. I had a great time doing the experiment. check it out on the labs.

http://monmonja-labs.appspot.com/html5/?content=canvas1

Pandora, my previously favorite site until the music industry blocks it from the rest of the world might consider to shut down or discontinue their service. While the music industry thinks that they are making the right decision by taxing internet radio, they didn’t realize that these internet radio are actually doing them a big favor of slowing down the pirate scene. Now if pandora, which is considered as one of the biggest internet music site, will shut down, imagine where those people will find their music? Some will find other services that are like pandora, but most of them will return to being a pirate.

The music industry don’t know that they face more opponent now then before, previously they only have to face p2p and music downloading sites. Now they need to oppose p2p, torrents, file sharing sites like rapidshare and megaupload, video ripping site like vixy.net, sharing files via instance messaging, sending music files via mail (gmail,yahoomail), passing files through bluetooth, sharing memory sticks full of mp3s (used to be cds), forums, mp3 searches like baidu.com, etc. Now how the heck could they battle all of that?

People will pirate when they don’t have alternatives (this is my reason why i switch to linux) and not when they just want to. Pandora is a good alternative that they will kill and when that happens its the music industry will suffer not the listeners.

Read more http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/16/perhaps-pandora-must-be-our-sacrificial-lamb/

Monmonja will now use Feeds Burner to deliver items via rss.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MonmonjaMusicBlog

This is a bad news for ISO and Microsoft in a whole, first ISO will be looked as a corrupt entity and for MS while this might be a good business for them, the downside is that more people will hate them, and i believe currently this is not what they want.

Here are some of the reasons why the whole process of making OOXML a standard is questionable:

* Votes from 4 countries changed from originally No to Yes
I’m not shock on the Philippine’s vote coz its so corrupt back home
http://topicmaps.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/the-norway-vote-what-really-happened/
http://www.universal-interop-council.org/node/25
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39375179,00.htm

* There is already an standard in the name of ODF
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/07/how_a_standard_can_kill_a_stan.html

* No wide use of OOXML
This leads to the question, an iso standard that is not widely used?
http://www.odfalliance.org/resources/Google%20XML%20Q%20%20A%20(2).pdf
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/050306-iso-approves-odf-standard.html

* Use of non w3c recommendations
Use of DrawingML and the transitional-use-only VML instead of SVG
Use of Office Math ML instead of MathML.

20 more reasons why you have to say no to OOXML
http://www.noooxml.org/open:rejectooxmlnow

Comments on Slashdot Article
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/15/1749252&from=rss
It is not about "We hate Microsoft", it is about the fact
that something like WordWrapLikeWord95 should not exist in
an ISO standard.
BTW: There was a very interesting graph in the German
magazine c't. The essence was as follows:
XHTML: ~100 pages, ~400 days of standardization process
ODF: ~800 pages, ~900 days
SVG: ~600 pages. ~1050 days
SOAP: ~200 pages, ~950 days
...
OOXML: ~6500 pages, ~350 days.
WTF 350 days only???

After all this stuff, can we still believe in ISO?

I had created an experiment about the current status of the video and audio tag of html5 in different browser, it seems opera is leading the way

head over my experimental/labs site to see the other results
http://monmonja-labs.appspot.com/html5/?content=html5FirstTry

This image is so true, after buying a legal dvd you have to see the anti pirate ads even if you have a legit copy. I hope they stop this.