can i re-sell audio hosting or is that against their TOS?

basically the technology of testimonials is:

• user calls a 1-800 number
• i get their call recording in my email box
• i can embed their call recording into a metanote
  • test this of course
• i can embed their call recording into a “testimonial page”

i will do this indeed

tinyvox is a bigger idea than tinyurl.

basically,

people want to talk on the internet.

i believe they are willing to pay for this.

so i will charge people so they can leave individual instantaudio messages on their websites.

you can call a 1-800 number to leave a “testimonial”.

maybe i can resell this as one-off embeddable messages that can be set to autoplay.

like the real users of this service don’t want to pay $25/month.

we’ll see, i am going to check

you come to tinyvox.

you get hyped up to want to leave a message on your own blog.

you want this to be just like an instantaudio widget – in other words like a youtube video but without the video part and just on your own site or your friends’ site.

the problem of course is that such users wouldn’t be willing to pay.

how many separate testimonial pages can i set up ?

how would i keep such a thing organized?

you could maybe set one up for unamerican, one for stickernation, one for metanotes

but would there be any way of organizing everyone’s stuff efficiently?

the name is more important than what actually goes in the box.

it would seem that I can hear all of the testimonials as they come into my account…

...but they aren’t actually hosted until I embed them.

this means that calls that come into my 1-800 line come in as if they were online voice mail.

and the good ones I can publish

and all of them can go in metanotes for later work

so people will call a 1-800 number to express their opinion about some hot topic

and i’ll get the best calls and host them on tinyvox.com so people can hear the answers

isn’t this exactly like seesmic though ???

obviously it must be free.

a message comes in

i need to email the embed code for that message to the person who sent it

THIS MAKES NO SENSE

gotta think about other stuff right now

basically my memory and guess is that all calls that come in are plopped into the same inbox

that means i have to have a rigorous listening process

basically, i create an ontology of calls.

• discard abusive or nonsense or badly recorded ones
• file them as embeds into various metanotes spaces

how much storage space do you get?

METANOTES is a system for brainstorming. It can also be used to put up video mixtapes and scrapbooks, but the exciting part is when you sit down with a dilemma or an opportunity and set up a space to think it through. The METANOTES space you create for your brainstorm will be up there for others to chime in. We are still in an early alpha phase of the project so please support METANOTES by being a good citizen of the system. To create a new account, just click the “login/register” option on the menu bar, above. Thanks and spread the word !

until bavl is ready, this is the only tool i know about that’s so easy to use.

it costs $25/mo.

this includes a “testimonial” tool.

LEONARD PITTS: IN DEFENSE OF US FAKE AMERICANS Today’s most-viewed stories

FRIDAY’S SCORES Sheriff tracks down 51 offenders Shoe clerk feels wronged, says she never noticed racial slur Robinson’s two sides displayed OPINION LINE Excuse me while I say a few words on behalf of us Fake Americans. Not that I really think of myself as such. I mean, here in Fake America, life proceeds much as it does in Real America. We are raising our kids and paying our taxes, trying to keep up with the dishes in the sink, going to the movies now and then. In fact, if you didn’t know better, you’d never realize our America was fake.

But envoys of Real America keep insisting that it is. As in Sarah Palin, who declared at a recent rally in North Carolina what a joy it was to be in one of the “pro-American” parts of America. And Nancy Pfotenhauer, a top aide to John McCain, who recently proclaimed his popularity in the “real Virginia”—in other words, everything south of the state’s Democratic-leaning Washington, D.C., suburbs, the area McCain’s brother, Joe, calls “communist country.” Rep. Robin Hayes, R-N.C., told a crowd that “liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God.”

As near as I can tell, you are a Fake American if you live in a big city. Or on the coasts (Gulf Coast excepted). Or shop at any store ritzier than Wal-Mart. Or worship at a mosque. Or hold a college degree (Bible colleges excepted). Or - most important of all - espouse any ideology that is not hard-core social conservatism.

It’s ridiculous that this needs saying, but: Fake Americans are Americans. And if we disagree with so-called Real Americans politically, our passion is nevertheless rooted in the same place theirs is. Love of country.

Many Real Americans won’t believe that. For them, love of country and social conservatism are inextricably linked, one and the same. Me, I don’t care for the straitjacket of ideology, preferring the freedom to accept or reject ideas on their merits. So when social conservatives championed, say, individual accountability and responsible fatherhood, I was happy to join them. But that was back when I knew what “conservative” meant.

Years later, I find I no longer do, if I ever did.

Nor am I alone. Consider all the prominent conservatives breaking with the GOP lately. Consider in particular former Secretary of State Colin Powell, staunch Republican and American icon, decrying a party he says has become “narrower and narrower” in its approach.

The narrowness Powell condemns has seldom been plainer or meaner. To a degree, I understand the anger of Real Americans; they are often treated with condescending dismissiveness by the rest of us.

But cultural chauvinism on the one hand doesn’t excuse hate-mongering on the other. In their headlong, end-justifies-the-means pursuit of victory, some conservatives have forgotten, betrayed and sacrificed the very ideals that supposedly defined them, one of the most important of which was simply this: decency.

Leonard Pitts is a columnist for the Miami Herald.

people should be able to leave testimonials.

that’s still a great idea.

but they should then be excited to browse the answers of other people.

this is ideally suited for a “question of the day” type thing.