I am sitting in my car with my tabletpc reading blogs and watching my daughter play in the front with all buttons and stuff. Nice that wifi is working … oops smelly diaper smell …
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The one bad thing about our recent cruise was that my Bose Headphones were "missing" from the bag I put them in during the de-embarking process.
Since they are $300 I have not been able to convince myself to spend that money all over again, even thought they are absolutely wonderful.
So, I am testing the $50 Koss QZ Pro Noise Reduction Sterophone. So far some differences: QZ requires two AAA batteries, QZ in noise reduction mode is not as good as the Bose, music and podcasts through the QZ seems to be the same IMHO, QZ does not have a detachable audio cable (Bose does), QZ has a volume control on the audio cable, and QZ folds up better than the Bose, but the Bose case seems like a better storage architecture for keeping the unit safer while on travel.
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The latest WGBH’s Morning Stories was in my download directory this morning (new ones come out on Fridays), and I listened to it and about three other podcasts (Slashdotreview, Eric Rice, Todays Podcast) on the way to work using my iPaq.
There was an interesting pointer to VidLit – Well-Told Sales (in FLASH). They are excellent. Most of them could be distributed in just audio form for podcast download. The main person who runs the site was the focus of the Morning Story (very funny) and in the future she is going to do a FLASH story for Morning Stories.
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I know there are mailing lists via Yahoo for podcasters (I am on them) but to be frank I rather enjoy a PHP forum without the ads and email restrictions.
Check out Podcast Expo Forum for discussion items on hardware, software, and announcements.
This is a good clean slate to get moving out on podcasters helping other podcasters do better, learn new stuff, and collaborate.
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Steve Kirks asks "Can XMLTV be a springboard to a podcasting publishing schedule?"
After quickly skimming through the above link, I think this has a lot of potential.
One thing that would be neat is that if you could list out all the ‘segments’ in your podcast, subscribers could use yet to be developed podcatching tools to get just the information they want from a broadcast.
Also a new XMLTV savvy audio players (software & hardware) could allow you to see better meta data about what you are listening to, and let you do more intuitive fast forwards and rewinds.
Something like this would also help podcasters who are trying to piece together content from other podcasters who currently are effectively ‘wasting’ a lot of time doing manual searches.
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OpenPodcast.org had a post (#131?) of a song called "I’m Coming Home" but no link to a band name, but thanks to Google I was able to find on Garageband.com as Dead by Gun (from Finland).
I gave it a listen … and if you like early 1980’s punk … this band is for you. The piano playing is really good, and when it is a punk song it is rocking.
Band has a typical punk attitude on life – bad language, rude gestures, etc. So you have been warned, if you get offended easily don’t check out their website.
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"Talking to Speech Recogition Robots" is a pretty interesting MP3.
Speech recognitation has always been one of those areas of huge potential. Maybe it is getting better for customer service types of things but I have always been left a little disappointed when I try to use it on a personal computer.
That being said … there is a new version of Dragon Naturally Speaking (version 8 – I had version 7 on my laptop before the TabletPC) that Jon Udell over at Infoworld.com got to review.
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Here is what I expect to be a monthly or so report on my advertising expermiment …
While my little site is in no means getting Slashdotted … I have noticed in the logs over the last 48 hours a surge (50+ a day) in Google hits based on "podcasting technology".
This has doubled my Google Ad Impressions from 30 or so a day to 60-ish (average is 50 since starting). The little ad has generated 3 click throughs for $0.03 (a long way from my first $100 check) but no purchases.
On the Amazon side of the house: 2 clicks on the Amazon logo, 5 searches via dialog box, and 21 clicks on text links within the blog items. No sales.
In a nutshell, I think this site is going to be a good poster child for future Bloggercon Doc Searl’s Making Money Blogging sessions. 😉
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Interesting stats in Airwise on the new Boeing Cargo 777:
"The 777 freighter will have a revenue payload capability of 222,000
pounds (101 metric tonnes) and will accommodate 27 standard pallets on
its main deck and 10 in its lower cargo hold. It will be able to fly
5,200 nautical miles (9,630 km) with a full payload."Boeing’s current 747 freighter accounts for more than half the world’s total air cargo capacity."
[Time Edit Testing via FAQ Instructions]
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You can now use GMAIL for doing POP/SMTP via your standard email client. This is neat for me because of the secure SMTP support will enable me to send email via any Internet conneciton I might be able to get a hold of with having to VPN to work or home (to use Cox.net smtp servers).
Here is the Outlook 2003 Read Me.
Steve Holden's Blog 