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In 2004, I had a feed and a blog. I had been trying to encourage other people to do these audio blog things. What I didn't get then is that I had to go first. The Tom Sawyer and the whitewash fence predicament. They're going to steal your ideas for sure. You just have to get them to steal the *right* ones. And this was probably the biggest thing I ever launched on my blog. But it took some steps, patience and constant beating of the drum. One person, a laptop, a little software and a popular blog. And something to say. :-) Those are the basic ingredients of a podcast.I went through all the steps, and out the other end came a podcast.Except we didn't know they were called podcasts yet. This was the first one that started all the rest of them. This is called a bootstrap, and if you stick with it through the end of the year, you will see the bootstrap happening right before your ears. All you have to do is listen.Twenty years later, and..Still diggin!

The second "audio weblog post," in which I talk about dead presidents and their funerals and how many Dead Presidents we have to spend on them. Adam commented on this episode: "I've been enjoying Dave Winer's Morning Coffee Notes, which is intended to be a daily audio blog post. The second post sounds completely like the Dave I talk to on the phone. After a few minutes I forgot that he wasn't talking to me. But just like a radio host, he is talking to me."

I recorded Bill Clinton on 60 Minutes, audio only, as broadcast on WBZ-AM Boston. Commercials included. The next podcast will go out on July 10, because that's when it was posted in 2004. We've finally caught up. If you want to skip ahead, you can, the full archive is at morningcoffeenotes.com.

Audio for 1/2 of the Bill Gates keynote at ADAPSO in 1991. I'm on this tape proposing that Apple and Microsoft work together on interapplication communication, which is the pre-Internet precursor to XML-RPC and SOAP. I talked much faster 13 years ago. There's another tape out there somewhere, where Gates says okay, he'll work with Apple, but I don't seem to have it. The rest of the story is here.