Just saw that TiVo is now offering Rocketboom broadcast downloads. This is part of a larger project to offer videoblog content, and as such they're also soliciting your videoblog content. Cool — now it's not just the Akimbo folks getting fresh vlog content delivered to their TVs. Of course, many folks these days are forgoing the DVR altogether and hooking up computers to their TVs to function as media centers (raises hand). Out of curiosity — how many of you get your vlog content a) on your laptop or desktop, b) on your TV via attached computer, c) via DVR like Akimbo or TiVo? I suppose the related question is really "how many of you watch vlogs"?

[Via Dave Zatz]

SoundTransit takes you travelling like Wayfaring, but the journey is for your ears. SoundTransit is a collaborative community dedicated to sharing field recordings and phonography from around the world — folks who've recorded ambient sound from their environments in different locations across the globe upload their often wonderfully unintentional soundscapes for others to share. On the site you can book audio "journeys" by selecting a start point, end point and how many "stopovers" you'd like. The result is a mashed up MP3 file you can download or play in your browser which contains sounds from points along the path, each with an attendant description and artist information. Everything is Creative Commons Attribution licensed, so remixing and reuse is encouraged with attribution to the contributing phonographer. This site is a very well done execution of a great idea, and will end up having an appeal beyond the already active global phonography community.

[Via LiveWeb]

Wayfaring is a service that allows you to create your own customized and annotated Google Map and share it. Or, just browse the maps others have created — from the Philadelphia Marathon route to LA gay bars to best places to snorkel on Maui. You can leave comments on each map or contact the mapmaker directly with questions. This is cool on a large scale to share points of interest with a wide audience, or on a small scale to set up a map of your family's recent road trip to share with your friends, e.g. — I like that it works on both levels. The keys will be getting people to come contribute to another data silo, and making sure folks can easily find something interesting when they're browsing/searching.

[Hat tip to Marshall Kirkpatrick and Narendra Rocherolle for the heads up!]