• I know that Adam Curry is working on building a Radio/Frontier podcast production tool that you could use to help in the creation of a podcast.

    I have been doing most of mine actually in FrontPage because it makes it easy to take the rendered HTML and post it in TypePad.

    However, I tried on my last podcast to use MindManager Pro because all the data I wanted to use was in Outlook and there is a button that get’s inserted in Outlook after installing MindManager that lets you export Outlook selected items to MindManager. However, it only works apparently with Mail, Contacts, Calendar items, and Notes; but it doesn’t work with Posts which is what most of the RSS/blog items come in as via Newsgator.

    So, after having great visions of a well formated MindMap for my production document, I had to end up redoing all the work because I said “export” and I saw a bunch of things happen in MindManager, so I just deleted all the items that I wanted to talk about fromOutlook. Then I found out that all the Posts didn’t make it, so they were in my 1600+ deleted items folder, and it took me a good 20 minutes to find them all again (I knew I should have made them all flagged a certain color before trying the export).

    Oh the joys of trying to be bleeding edge ….

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  • Jon Udell: Electoral ebb and flow has some very interesting visualizations

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  • CNN.com “Scientists scan brains for political clues – Nov 2, 2004” is an interesting article.

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  • Here are the links discussed in the latest podcast:

    • Conferences/Training:
      • UK Security Training:
        [securitywizard]
      • ISPCON Fall 2004 [03-05Nov04 Santa Clara, CA] (Managed Services,
        VoIP, Phising, How to be better ISP, Frameworks)  
        [ispcon]
      • Wi-Fi Planet [30Nov-02Dec San Jose]
        [jupiterevents]
    • Mobile:
      • Fujitsu ST5020 TabletPC Released
        [tabletquestions]
      • RIM has a new Blackberry they are demoing that supports wi-fi and
        could have a SIP (VoIP client) also installed on the unit (7270)
        [wifinews]
      • Flaw in Java could hit some cell phones

        [news.com]
      • There is a good collection of OQO handheld reviews via TablePC Buzz
        [tabletpcbuzz]
    • Collaboration:
      • Michael Sampson’s Shared Spaces looks at the future of Microsoft
        collaboration tools codenamed Instanbul

        [sharedspaces]
    • System Admin:
      • Slashdot on which VNC software is best:
        [slashdot]
      • IBM has some new Blade servers at lower prices

        [news.com]
    • Books
    • Security
    • Web Applications:
      • FLEX 1.5 (building digital dashboards)
        [macromedia]
      • XML DevCon 2004 had a great example apparently of Amazon Web
        Services (AWS) [neopoleon.com]
      • Phil Windley had two recent items that really caught his eye:
    • Miscellaneous:
      • Brain Baily at LeaveItBehind has a point to Ted Goranson’s thoughts
        on Tinderbox (information organizer for Mac OS)
        [leaveitbehind]
      • Future US Passports will have RFID tags 
        [slashdot]
      • PhotoVu has a new 19" LCD for viewing photos or images with
        build-in
        wi-fi
        [wifinetnews]
      • Microsoft has a new Time Zone tool to all users to view date and
        time info from multiple locations but it does require you to validate
        your copy of Windows OS

        [microsoft]

    I played “Back of My Hand” (1979) by The Jags and I my podcast commentary included thoughts on the following podcasts: Leo Laporte, Future Tense, Slashdot Review, Rock’N’Roll Geek, & IT Conversations.

    The file can be found at Download TRTO_007_11-01-2004.mp3 (8543.2K).

    As always the ipodder savvy link is: http://sholden.typepad.com/weblog/audio.xml.

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  • Not a good day for Michael Moore/MoveOn.org/George Soros/Hollywood Liberals/Etc.

    John Zogby looks pretty bad, as does exit polling in general. Here is one of the lame questions that parently didn’t get answers.

    Robert Scoble picks up on the left leaning of the main technology blogs which I totally agree are left leaning in general, as are most of the popular audioblogs at the moment.

    Dan Gilmor does an accurate job of articulating the beginnings of how the Left is going to respond to the Bush victory.

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  • It is looking pretty good for President Bush … especially with the popular vote going to Bush. I guess technically a 269 to 269 Electorial College tie could still take place, but then the House would vote on that for Bush.

    It also looks very good for the Congress so we should be able to keep the Supreme Court from tilting to the Left too much as I expect there will be a lot of changes over the next four years for the Supreme Court.

    A friend of a friend send me this “Are We Winning Yet Picture?” with Joe Hagan, Karl Rove, and Steve Hadley all on their BlackBerrys.

    Doc Searls has some very agreeable things to say about the election and the road ahead. He is right-on that technologists (either R’s or D’s or L’s or I’s) need to be involved in politics. I have found that most politicians are extremely technology challenged and they need our input.

    For my friends who are on the losing end — polictics is emotional and mental warfare. And when you lose it doesn’t feel that good. But at least you are in the game and doing your best.

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  • We are back from a one week vacation cruise.

    It was fun but if I had to do it over again I would have left the 3 year old (Spencer) at home 😉

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  • The House of the Hanged Man (aka kinrowan) recently posted a review of Tech Rag Tear Outs (TRTO)

    This weblog is an excellent podcast review resource. I have been reading it since Dave Slusher (maybe it was Adam Curry?) plugged it last week.

    It is especially good for getting a sense of what the content of a show is before subcribing in iPodder or manual downloading.

    You can subscribe via your favorite aggregator (mine is Newsgator) via ATOM feed.

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  • Steve Forbes outlines his reason’s for supporting the re-election of President Bush in the Nov. 01, 2004 Edition of Forbes magazine.

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  • I just finished up my sixth addition.  This one has 15 tech topics, 1 song from The Style Council, and some podcast thoughts including some details on what technology I am using to do my podcasts and the production framework.  Here are the links:

    • www.pcmag.com:
      • Servers: Dell PowerEdge 2550 (Editor’s Choice)
      • 24-in Wide-Screen LCD Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 243T (Editor’s Choice)
    • www.crn.com:
      • 33 new HP laserprinters available: under $1K color; 55ppm B&W; $329
        entry-level B&W
      • EMC buys Dantz Development (Mac/Windows Backup Software Vendor)
    • www.pcworld.com:
    • www.forbes.com: Lok Technologies
      Airlok 525 ($20K) vs. Cisco-NetworkAppliance-HP-Etc. Integration ($123K)
    • www.fcw.com: USMC using VoIP in Iraq
      for 9 Unit Operations Centers (UOCs)
    • www.nwfusion.com: Network Modeling
      Tools: Opnet, Shunra, Analytical Engines
    • www.infoworld.com:
      • VoIP PBX: 3Com, Avay, Siemens, Zultys
      • NetApp Storage devices
      • HP ProLiant DL585 based on Opteron processors (not Xeon)
      • MOM 2005 Roadmap
      • Idera’s SQLsafe bacuk utility for SQL Server

    I will be on a family vacation for the next 9 days or so.  Posting with be sparce and I doubt I’ll be able to post another podcast until the 1st of Nov04.

    Go St. Louis Cardnals! 🙂

    UPDATE: This file has been archived offline.  Send me email if you want it.

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