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  • Fast Forward Podcast Ads?

    November 27, 2004

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    In the BBC show that showcased podcasting and Adam Curry, has some comments from by David  Docherty that said ‘people will zip through … fast forward … the ads.’

    I disagree because fast forwarding on current players is not very useful to get back to the content.  And if you are driving along it is actually very dangerous to try to do any fast forwarding because you really need to be hands on the players to do it effectively.

    I am with Adam … who says that podcasting is ripe for "good advertising" and that listeners will pay attention and listen to those that are well done. 

    A good example is in the U.S. and the Superbowl.  A good majority of people watch the football game just to see the ads.

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  • Critical Java Bug Targets Java Virtual Machine

    November 27, 2004

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    eWeek has a good summary of "Critical Java Bug Targets Java Virtual Machine".  I have been following this since early on Tuesday I think.  It seems pretty critical that folks do some patching to protect themselves.

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  • Podcast Alley – Feedback (or lack of it)

    November 27, 2004

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    OK … I guess I only got two podcast listeners because I only got four votes on Podcast Alley and two of them are from me. 🙂

    Here is the URL to get to Tech Rag Tear  Outs (TRTO) on Podcast Alley.

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  • Podcast #11 – Tech News, Music from Dead By Gun, & Commentary

    November 26, 2004

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    Here is the manual link: Download TechRagTearOut_011_11-24-04.mp3 (9243.6K).

    The show details are as follows:

    • (00:00-00:52): Show Theme + Target Audience
    • (00:53-01:13): Sample #1 from DJ
      Amber
    • (01:14-03:06): Introduction (11th Podcast; Show Overview;
      Jimmy Jett Content Label,
      Garageband.com’s Dead By Gun)
    • (03:07-19:21): Primary Content (Forbes, InfoWorld, Network
      World, Federal Computer Week, Chief Security Officer, Chief
      Information Officer, AFCEA’s Signal Magazine, and two ads from tech
      magazines)
    • (19:22-22:16): Dead By Gun "I’m Coming Home"
    •  (22:17-25:54): Podcast Commentary (Session
      Records Podcast
      , Tech
      Shorts
      , The Bitterest
      Pill
      , Todays Podcast,
      Dawn & Drew, DJAmber’s
      new album
      )
    • (25:55-26:18): Short sample #2 from DJ
      Amber

    The topics talked about in the primary content section includes:

    • Forbes:
      Majors: Google, Yahoo (no Microsoft); Minors: Pluck,
      Blinkx, Groxis, Fractal Edge; New: A9, Clusty, Icerocket,
      Info, Snap
    • InfoWorld: Updatedcollaboration tools from IBM & OpenText; HP Proliant DL360 G4
      vs. Dell PowerEdge G4
    • Network
      World
      : Sony Vaio U Ultra Portable PC; Sharp IT-TVs; DMTF’s SMASH
    • Federal
      Computer Week
      : UPS Wireles Security
    • Chief
      Security Officer
      : Bruce Schneier “It’s an interesting paradox
      in the computer world. Products are never ready for prime time until
      after they’re widely deployed.”
    • Chief
      Information Officer
      : Three Steps to “BETTER” Risk
      Assessments
    • AFCEA’s
      Signal Magazine
      : USFK’s JCISA High Resolution COP Display
      Systems (Information Systems Support & NCI Information Systems)
    • Two Ads: AT&T
      Audiovox PPC4100 Pocket PC
      & SafeNet

     

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  • San Diego Area Podcasters or Webloggers?

    November 25, 2004

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    I am wondering if there is a group of San Diego area podcasters and/or webloggers interested in getting together on a regular basis (monthly) or at least once a year in a conference format like Dave Slusher is proposing on Evil Genius Chronicles with a Myrtle Beach Blogging Conference.

    UPDATE: Dann Sheridan created a Yahoo Email Group (sd-bloggers) [all are welcome].

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  • Copernic Desktop Search

    November 24, 2004

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    There is a new "free" Desktop Search Tool available for download and evaluation.  I remember using this tool way back when, but I have no opinion on it now. 

    I am still pretty happy with X1 on my primary system (HP TC1100 TabletPC)  … maybe I’ll try it on my new home PC.

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  • Some Weblog Items Of Interest

    November 23, 2004

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    Here are some links that I thought were interesting from the 100+ weblogs I monitor:

    • Chris Lyndon’s Audio Recording Setup [via Dann Sheridan]
    • Beer Theories Podcast (Politics/Humor)
    • Hardware review of the Averatec C3500 Tablet PC convertible
    • Fashion Centre at Pentagon City is going Wi-Fi
    • Offline Blogging Tool – BlogJet Mini-Review
    • Nick Duffill examines mindmap types
    • AWSTAT looks like a good webserver statistics anaylsis and tracking tool [from channel9]
    • Counterinsurgnecy Operations (U.S. Army 3-07.22) in a Wiki [from John Robb]
    • "Screencast" (the output from capturing a user interaction using a technology interface?)
    • Dan Gillmor says he is impressed with Drupal 4.5 (open-source content management software)
    • ExtremeTech reviews Creative Zen Micro
    • Engadget looks at the Motorola 5-GB M500 MP3 player (there is a nice table that does a comparison with other devices with the same feature set)

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  • Podcast Gems for Tuesday

    November 23, 2004

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    Here are some interesting links and pointers from some podcasts that I listened to today:

    • Radio Daddy (voice overs) from Daily Source Code
    • Dan Klass "Pitterest Pill" #7 made me laugh during his Disney segment
    • Tech Shorts sounds interesting
    • And I am impressed with Useful Sounds by Nicole Simon
    • UNIT-E is a pretty good electronica band [via OpenPodcast.org]

    I also decided to stop subscribing to the Dawn & Drew Show.  The topics, the language, etc. is just not something I am choosing to listen to.

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  • Example Kartoo Search Pictures

    November 22, 2004

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    In a recent past podcast (I have another one almost done) I referenced an academic article on search tool visualization research.   One of those was Kartoo, and here is a picture of the search on "podcast sholden" and "podcast rock roll geek."

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  • Pivot Tables, PubSub, & GigaDial (Podcast Gems)

    November 22, 2004

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    I am a big podcatcher fan.  I feel like I am listening to a lot of stuff.  Today I got two good pointers.  The first from Slashdot Review with Pivot Tables (a new book is out that reportedly explains them better). And the second from Geek News Central with PubSub (new weblog ranking and search site).

    I also created two stations called Morning Drive To Work & Monday Run over on GigaDial to point people at the podcasts I am listening to because it is very easy via GigaDial to build a playlist that includes all the good meta data and links.

    Instead of creating a single Steve Holden Station I figure I will just create new ones for each event that I am listening to so the link stays permanent as possible.

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