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Dann Sheridan echo’s my feelings about how creative the podcast area is. There are a ton of possibilities here.
I have been tossing around some ideas related to my kids: made up stories; reading books; and school material.
There is also some obvious technical topics. One thing I do a lot of is reading technical journals. I tear out a lot of information that I think is good to pass on to others. I could just summarize those in audio format once a week and post the results.
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Adam Curry is really pushing the limits of cool stuff with his daily source code podcast. I just listened on my run to the october 5 2004 edition. While his political views way to LEFT, I find his humor, insight on media+technology, and music to be very entertaining. I highly recommend getting into his groove.
Hearing his voice brings back memories of the early days of MTV and waiting for the next cool music video.
I get my mp3s from podcasts via Newsgator and then save them to my MuVo (which after a firmware now update supports Audible and Microsoft DRM).
Also … this podcast outlines some of the technology and content challenges out there. There are a lot of options for people to get involved in what I think is going to be a major new “user” space like weblogs are now.
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My reaction to Dan Gilmore’s New York Times link “How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence” is so much different. There is usually always at least two sides to every decision, and ultimately one of them is picked. The article does little to shed much light on to the opposing view because “they” are already convinced there is a conspiracy and tell the truth isn’t part of “their” agenda.
Some additional interesting info I came across in my post search after the above article: Rumsfeld Statement; Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties; and Teresa Heinz Kerry is speaking in public again (Washington Times).
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Dave posted an RFC for iPodder. His timing is perfect, ipodder.net 0.1 for windows has just been released, installs to put a system tray icon in place and offers feed and scheduling maintenance.
Adam Curry has some good info on
mp3licensing.com – Q & A – End Users and on AAC format licensing.
Costco in La Mesa, CA has Karl Strauss Oktoberfest Beer (Munich Blode Marzen) in the case for sale. Very good with brats, sauerkraut, and German Potato Salad.
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Uprising is the theme this year – San Diego’s conference start last night (very good) and continues today. It is really good idea to get your soul refreshed on a regular basis.
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The BETA product I was testing is out – Franklin Covey PlanPlus 3.0 with a Project Task List view built into Microsoft Outlook.
I like the feature a lot for getting started on a project or to plan simple things that don’t need coordination with others. But it definitely is not Microsoft Project and it definitely is a full featured outlining tool. Also there is no way currently to take the PlanPlus Project View with you to your PocketPC.
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Userland and Dave Winer have probably done one of the coolest things in recent memory. Release Frontier’s Kernel as open source under GPL. While the source code will make all the developers out there very excited, I think the Minimal Install: Frontier-10.0a1-win.zip (Windows) [Macintosh versions also available – soon Linux?] is really the sweet spot.
Here is why, while I was trained as a computer programmer, I have become more an “architect” or “knowledge worker” that links technologies with people, processes, and problem domains to create solutions or improve environments. One way of doing this is via prototyping before completely building out a solution when requirement definition is not or can not be as robust as really required.
Key features that can be leverage nearly immediately by other knowledge workers in similar situations:
So, as I tweak and test out the application part (not the source code), I’ll let you know how things are going.
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