Monday, December 11, 2006

SuperDuper claims to back up iPods. Does it? Of course, any podcast player should either 1. Allow easy file system-level access to all the data stored on the device, including metadata or 2. Include a reliable, perfect, one-click backup utility (and not too many clicks to restore). #1 is vastly preferable. 

Dave Nanian says that SuperDuper is not an iPod backer upper. But Roger Corbin, via email, sends links to CopyPod, iPod Rip and XPort.  

And they say all the good domains are taken.  

http://www.tomdelay.com/  

http://xml.house.gov/  

David Cohn: "The strength of YouTube isn't the mass of copyrighted material and television shows, many of which have been purged. Rather, it's the loyal community of viewers and users who upload content. That's what Google was buying and what other media companies don't have." 

Rivera does rivers 

Gabe Rivera does rivers for each of his news sites.

Here's the river for Techmeme, for example.

He also explains why rivers can be so useful. "I just got back from a long weekend. Now how do I scan headlines that I've missed without plugging in different dates?"

Rivers are also useful if you can't remember where you saw an article you want to quote in a blog post.

Also, don't forget the NY Times and BBC rivers. They're still running strong, although there aren't many people fishing on their banks. :-(