Monday, August 15, 2005

Podcasting News: "Podcast has been added to the OED." 

NK News: Random Insult Generator. 

Steve Gillmor: "If I have to choose between Dave Winer and Microsoft picking my pocket, I'll go with Dave every time." 

Scoble: "It's so much easier to evangelize things that have a philosophy." 

Philosophy has played a big role on Scripting News and baseball. 

Greenspun: "What is the best way to get podcast items into the car?" 

Something really weird. ipodder.org is redirecting to scripting.com. 

That's not what's actually happening. It's framing ipodder.scripting.com, which is where ipodder.org lived when I was running it (and paying for its upkeep and bandwidth, btw, not that they gave me any stock for helping them start up). I redirected ipodder.scripting.com to scripting.com after they moved it to their own servers. I guess somehow ipodder.org has reverted to its original content, it's an error, not a gift (although it occurred to me that Ron & Adam might want to square up, no such luck). 

Roger Strickland: "I'm guessing the Podsafe Music Network is what Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia are really interested in growing." If that's it, then I'd fully support it, as long as they don't replace one set of ripoff deals with artists with another set.  

PT reports that NPR is dropping Audible in favor of an all-podcast format. 

BTW, I always use the author's name when linking to Make Mag. When I grew up "make" meant something pretty smelly.  

What Rex Hammock Said: "Let me tell you about the time in 1996 when I asked a group of 300 business owners to raise their hands if they had their e-mail addresses printed on their business card. Less than ten did. I guess from that research, I could have assumed that e-mail was not catching on with people who run businesses." 

On this day three years ago: "Thanks to the gang at O'Reilly for being such good friends." 

Update: Still walking a consistent 40 minutes a day, still not smoking. Haven't lost all the weight I'm supposed to lose, but I feel reasonably well, and my numbers are decent. Sleeping at high altitude is, as always, pretty strange, the dreams are vivid, it's hard to get to sleep and stay asleep. Today it's a bit overcast and downright cold. Wearing a sweater in the middle of August. Three years later, we're back in a cold war with the O'Reilly people, I'm not sure what changed, but it was still nice to get the get well card and flowers from them, they were the only ones in the software industry that paused that way. I think it's probably because they lost one of their own to heart disease, and wish their guy had survived it, as I did. I still feel gratitude three years later. 

RSS Extensions is a wiki for discussing RSS extensions. 

Mike O'Connor reads the tea leaves for PodShow.  

Jim Moore: "Kleenex may have seemed strange at first."