PODCASTING

• Doug Kaye’s Cheap Interview-Recording Technique
• Warner Brother Media is getting into podcast advertising
• NBA.com is podcasting
• Podcast Tagging
• iPodder v2.0 is out
• MarketingProfs.com on podcasting

SOFTWARE

• Book Marks Home (Firefox plug-in turns booksmarks into homepage portal)
• Jabber (open source chat client & server – complete framework with APIs)
• Paint .NET (Windows .NET painting/graphics program – free)
• Car tracking using EVDO network
• Novell’s Linux Desktop 10
• Mary Jo Foley on Google Code [also Phil Windley]

ENGADGET

• New PS3 pictures?
• New very small Samsung MP3 players: #1 & #2
• Portable DIVX recorder
• Dell takes on Apple on displays?
• Blackberry risks (information exposure)

GIZMODO

• RFID starter kit [and a zapper]
• More USB color pen options (as if there weren’t enough security risks)
• Panasonic 65" Plasma Touch Screen

SKYPE (I’m at steve.holden)

• Eric Mack
• Todd Storch
• Used for babysitting … from an airplane?

Brian Bailey @ Leave It Behind  posted the following:

["FeedMap is an interesting new way to connect weblogs with real life. Chandu Thota has written a cool web app that uses MapPoint to display blog locations on a map [via Scoble]. In other words, you can get a picture of who is blogging in your very own neighborhood. You’ll find my experiment on the right-side of my blog. Check out FeedMap."

Technically I think this is really cool, but I have a concern.  That concern actually kept me from seriously blogging from when Userland Radio was released until June 2004 when I really consistently posted publically. 

The concern is the linking of my personal blog data, to my family, and to where I phyiscally live.  It seems to me that this is going to become a very gray area where people need to make some up front decisions and make sure they don’t expose too much information.

That being said, there is a ton of public informatoin out there.  I guess "geolocating" and "calendar scheduling" me is probably not that hard, but providing all the information in a nice easy space on my blog isn’t a good practice IMHO.

The following article came through on my subscription to Innovation (a great resource for $18 a year):

…AND NEW-AGE BODY SURFING

Advances in personal area networks mean that your body soon could be the
backbone that provides broadband connectivity between your MP3 player and a
cordless headset, or your digital camera and a PC or printer.

"RedTacton, a new technology from Japan’s NTT, can send data over the surface
of the skin at speeds of up to 2Mbps — equivalent to a fast broadband data
connection. According to The Guardian, RedTacton-enabled devices would enable
music from an MP3 player to "pass through your clothing and shoot over your body
to headphones in your ears … (The Guardian17 Mar 2005)"

Definitely interesting technology … but my first thought was "shake the wrong hand or bump into the wrong person, and lose your identity."

I recently did a Windows Update on my custom built home PC and a new driver update was available:

SCM Microsystems Inc – Other Hardware – USBHS DFU Adapter SCM Microsystems Inc. usb software update released on February 18 2005.

I installed it but then the multi-function reader for the small media cards stopped working.  I rolled back to the original one from Microsoft when XP shipped, and the card readers started to work again.  The USB 2.0 interface seemed to work fine with the new driver but not having the card readers work was non-functional with digital cameras, etc.