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I was exposed to this quote yesterday:
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Robert Scoble reads and get access to an amazing amount of technical information. I learn a lot from his blog (where is his podcast?). Here are some things that recently caught my attention from his feed:
I just finished listening to Bloggercon III Podcasting session posted to IT Conversations.
There is a lot of things going on in my mind after listening to this twice – twice because of using the Muvo and my iPAQ while trying to drive, and do fast forwards was extremely hazardous to my health. It was just better to listen again then be distracted while commuting to/from work.
One thing that has begun to resonate with me even before listening was that my audio.xml file is "my station" and one of the shows that I produce, edit, and author is "Tech Rag Tear Outs" that includes content that probably should be considered it’s own show on "my station":
Since I don’t want to waste anyone’s time, I think that posting timecodes is one solution. But there is also the option of just breaking out all the pieces that "my station" offers into individual productions, and subscribers can sort it out on their end to what one wants to consume. This also shortens the production cycle on my end for what I consider my bread and butter – insight on technical items. But it still means that bandwidth and storage will be used that may not be as efficient as possible.
Getting a handle on the structure of the METADATA needed for fast, effective, and useful podcasting is really a driver for this. Key for me is to be able to offer one audio.xml file that users can pick and choose from all the content categories I am offering before downloading.
To do this second idea, I think the client applications need to change along with the posted xml or I need to have seperate xmi files for each show?
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I am on the Crutchfield mailing list but I have only bought one thing from them – auto harness cables for my wife’s Toyota Sienna.
As a geek consumer I really like their catalog because it has details and tips that are from people who know what they are doing. It would be cool if a future edition had a "How to listen to podcasts …" page or "How to get wi-fi running in your car … " 😉
Some things that caught my eye but aren’t in the budget:
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Finally … all the pieces for my new home computer came from NewEgg.
This company came highly recommended by a co-worker and the price was great, but the time to ship was a little slower than the site comments suggest.
Now I just have to find some time to put it all together. Here are the parts:
I have a new edition of a Tech Rag Tear Outs (TRTO) podcast done. Here is the manual link: Download TRTO_009_11-09-2004.mp3 (8517.5K)".
I look at articles of interest in the Primary Content portion from Communications of the ACM and Forbes.
The details of the primary content includes:
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I just listened on my Tuesday lunch run to MWGBlog update and there was good information about: new header graphic, BloggerCon, Podcasting 101 (coming to Southern California Mac Conference), and the Cinephile Series.
It is only 7 minutes long … highly recommended.
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Engadget Podcast.11 11.04.2004 has a neat pointer to Junxion that lets you build portable hotspots using wireless carriers/pc card modems from AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless, Sprint, and Verizon Wireless.
San Diego’s The Old Globe just finished with a long run of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with John Lithgow.
It was an amazing show.
I am sorry I didn’t get to see it sooner, so I could do some promotion.
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I am playing around with Feedburner. If you read this blog via RSS client please update your subscription URL to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/sholden. I don’t think the other one goes away, but the nice thing about Feedburner is that it gives about 1000% better stats than Typepad.com (which is a great blogging tool but they don’t do stats very well IMHO).
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