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As I posted previously, I’ve setup a wiki page for the Daily Source Code shownotes. So far it seems to be working out quite well, however a lot of people are responding that they want the shownotes in the RSS feed. Understandable.
I’ve been playing around with the wiki show notes site that I setup for the Daily Source Code. I haven’t really used wikis that much in the past, except as a casual reader of wikipedia and the like. It actually works pretty well for the podcast comments/shownotes format, although there are some big shortcomings.
The most recent Systm is a tutorial on creating your own podcast. The tutorial focuses on what an individual with not much audio production knowledge and minimal capital investment. For those who have been thinking about creating a podcast, it’s worth a watch.
More interesting for me was that they also have an interview with Leo Laporte of This Week in Tech as an example of an “advanced” setup. The video of Leo’s setup is pretty cool to look at.
Tags: Podcasting
Ah, good stuff. I’ve been watching the news lately and…I mean…you just can’t make this stuff up. The Hurricane Rita coverage is so over the top. I was watching one of the cable news networks and they decided to “expand” their coverage to include other weather related dangers. Even if you don’t live in a hurricane zone, you can still be afraid to go outside. Don’t worry. Apparently there are OVER 20 MILLION LIGHTNING STRIKES each year in the US. They didn’t cover how many of those actually cause any injuries. Probably about 2. That’s not as dramatic.
Then there was the JetBlue emergency landing where the plane had a problem with its landing gear. Of course the fun twist to this story is that since JetBlue has DirecTV satellite television service on its planes, the passengers could watch the “experts” on CNN speculate about their imminent firey death.
I think it’s a good time to listen to Chris Pirillo’s excellent coverage of Hurricane Dennis as weather correspondent for Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code from earlier this summer. This clip is from Daily Source Code #207 from July 11, 2005.
Adam Curry mentioned on his Daily Source Code today that he wants to find a different solution to publishing his shownotes. He’s gotten suggestions to set up a wiki and he sent out the general call for assistance with that. I’ve setup a page that’s a first stab.
Of course maybe nobody will use it. I don’t know. I don’t have a lot of experience running wikis so it’ll be a learning experience if nothing else. I’ve already found out that it’s a pain in the ass to delete peoples’ edits at their request.
So, does anyone actually use Google Talk? I have it installed and running on my computer, but, I don’t have anyone on my friends list so it’s kind of pointless. Then again I don’t see anything compelling in Google Talk that’s not available in AIM and/or Yahoo. Maybe the next release will set the world on fire.
There was a post on Slashdot about this CNN article discussing the publishing industry’s mixed feelings about Google’s plan to scan in a ton of books and make them searchable. Normally this is not an interesting enough story for me to mention, but this excerpt got my attention:
Richard Hull, executive director of the Text and Academic Authors Association, called Google’s approach backwards. Publishers shouldn’t have to bear the burden of record-keeping, agreed Sanfilippo, the Penn State press’s marketing and sales director.
“We’re not aware of everything we’ve published,” Sanfilippo said. “Back in the 50s, 60s and 70s, there were no electronic files for those books.”
For the record, when I talk about IPTV I’m talking about Internet broadcasting of video content. Not delivery of traditional television and cable networks over IP based infrastructure. Moving proprietary digital transmission systems to IP platforms is old and busted. Renegade content delivered over technology like BitTorrent is the new hotness.
Glad we got that clarified.
Tags: IPTV
I’ve been hearing people (online) talk about EVDO a lot lately, like Verizon was just rolling it out. I’m not quite sure what the deal with that is, as Verizon has had their EVDO network deployed in a bunch of metropolitan areas for quite a while now. I’m not sure why people are just noticing this now. Too expensive for me though…and I’m a Cingular customer anyway. Too bad I don’t have an EDGE phone.
Just as an update to my last entry, the reason I don’t have a strong opinion about Broadvoice is that I don’t use my home phone much. I make most of my personal calls on my cell phone, but I seem to always live in a place with horrible cell reception at my house.
I used to just give out my Broadvoice number to people and have my Broadvoice line ring both my house and my cell phone. I stopped doing that, though, because I get a lot of bizzare calls on my Broadvoice line. I’m not sure if a drug dealer had the number before me, or what. I get a lot of calls on that line at like 3 AM from people who don’t speak much English though. So I just let those go to voicemail and not ring my cell phone.
