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I did manage to remember one item (I think it was from Slashdot Review) that I thought I should check out from my podcast listening run: Podcast Alley.
It is a new directory with a ranking system. Check it out. If you have time please rate Tech Rag Tear Outs (TRTO).
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One of my more recent frustrations is my inability to capture audio content when I hear it for reference, playback, or commentary. I really want a universal audio snibbet capture tool.
I listen to stuff on my MP3 Player (Muvo), my iPAQ, and my TabletPC. None of the listening tools allow me to easily capture a segment I am listening to in the tool I am using to listen.
I good example of this problem was this morning’s run – Slashdot Review, Future Tense, and eDave’s Security Show – all had tidbits that I’d love to capture to look up information later or to put into a future podcast.
The current answer is to get back to my PC – play the segments again and capture via Audacity. But that is time consuming and frankly in good Getting Things Done (Getting) fashion I just end up renegotiating the priority/pay-off-factor, and just move on to better things to spend my time on.
I have finished my 10th Tech Rag Tear Out (TRTO) podcast. The URL for download is: Download TRTO_010_11-15-2004.mp3 (8642.0K). Below is the time sequence for reference:
Primary Content URLs for reference:
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Here is a list of stuff over the weekend that seemed interesting to me (I hope people don’t mind a consolidated list vice individual posts, I am a consolidated list kinda guy):
Also my RSS feed for the blog has changed to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/sholden please update your link! 🙂
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There is an interesting thread on ipodder-dev via Yahoo.com that is discussing metadata options. ID3 is one option. Also, Engadget added pictures to a recent podcast. So, this is moving fast and could enable better user experience.
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Sorry for the lack of recent blog posts, and I missed my planned Thursday & Saturday podcasts. I have been busy with family stuff and with trying to get my new PC (built-from-scratch) up and running.
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If you have a system or application crash using Audacity there is a how-to that might get your lost work recovered.
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has a good set of how to’s entitled Podcasting with Windows (as a consumer of podcasts not as a producer/content provider).
For a good source for how to do a podcast on Windows is actually in a lot of the recent Jimmy Jett podcasts.
I am recording audio on my XP system using a Plantronics USB DSP-100 headset and then mixing the content together not in real time using the opensource Audacity tool (Win/Mac/Linux).
Doing it real time or "live" like Adam Curry might be a long term goal for improving my skills but at this time I don’t think it works well into my production options.
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Washington Post is reporting the "election was stollen" rumors that I have been seeing on some of the open source intelligence list and various left leaning blogs. If I had to guess it took about a week to move from emails/blogs to mainstream press.
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Near the end of the IT Conversations MP3 of the podcasting session of Bloggercon there is a conflict on "no plugging your own stuff" rule when I think it is Dave Sifry at Technorati trying to point people to this URL: http://www.technorati.com/live/topmp3s.html.
It seems like Dave wasn’t trying to say spend $49 on my all in wonder tool, and your life will be better. The above URL is just another flavor of: http://audio.weblogs.com/ which it seems to me would be an OK topic to talk about.
More info on this topic via Dave Winer on Bloggercon and The "Making Money" Session.
Granted I wasn’t there … so it may be a complete misunderstanding of events that unfolded, and then have been transcribed incorrectly.
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