It’s now about 6 years since I discovered podcasts while listening to a pre-podcast podcast, The Gillmor Gang. It’s everything I ever wanted from radio talkback – niche topics, on-demand listening, access anywhere, rich metadata, and no music – I’ve chosen to listen to talkback for a reason (Hello Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
A perfect storm of [...]
Tags: Podcasting
As a podcatcher (among other things), iTunes sucks. Badly. iPodder is nicer, mainly because I can keep my follow list in the cloud at PodNova. However, it (or the combination with podnova) often ends up downloading gigs of old stuff, on some particular feeds. Worse, it consumes obscene quantities of memory and CPU, with its [...]
Tags: Bash·bashpodder·itunes·Podcast·Podcasting·shell·Unix
Conspicuous by its absence is a recording function in Skype. However, Skype competitor Gizmo has it and there are lots of third-party apps too. But what we really need is a skype recorder in the cloud.It's pretty obvious when you think about it. Most of the time when a conversation is recorded, you want to [...]
Tags: Podcasting·Recorder·Skype
Email and the web have traditionally been the two ubiquitous services on the internet (prior to the web, it was email and usenet). Podcasting (and vidcasting/vodcasting) is now becoming another ubiquitous service. The reason I mention this was an interesting quote on BBC news today in a story about the web's birthday. Despite the story [...]
Tags: Mobile·Podcasting
The guys at EBusiness Apps - Andre Charland, Dave Johnson, Alexei White - have started a new weekly podcast on Ajax and invited me along for a general chat. They're usually picking a general topic and riffing on it for a while - this week's topic is long-term planning of Ajax projects ... some companies [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·Links·Podcasting
A new DHTML boxing "game" from the Man In Blue. Not quite DHTML Lemmings or Super Maryo World, but still more fun than it should be. A bit like the Ruby On Rael thing in reverse.
Also from the same presentation is an eerily lifelike OSX clone (Firefox-only). More evidence that Ajax might be useful [...]
Tags: Conference·DHTML·Games·Gaming·Javascript·Links·Podcasting·WE05·Web
I'm pleased to announce the in-progress patterns at ajaxpatterns.org will be completed and published as an O'Reilly book: "Ajax Design Patterns". The accompanying podcast explains the details, here's a summary:
I'll be completing full-text descriptions for all the listed patterns, give or take some restructuring. ajaxpatterns.org will remain online, with full content - before, during and [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·Book·DHTML·Javascript·Links·OReilly·Patterns·Podcast·Podcasting·Software·Web
You're right, Jason - the voice behind "Developers, Developers, Developers" is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. I thought it would be fun to include the clip over my podcast theme. Hearing Jason explain he had to pull over while laughing so hard makes it all worthwhile! I've seen few things that make people laugh so [...]
Tags: Developers·Microsoft·Podcasting
One of several reasons why podcasting won't be as big as blogging, according to Paul Scrivens :
Blogging requires a browser (if you are using a webmin interface) and an Internet connection. That's it. Podcasting takes it a step further by requiring a microphone. I know many of you have mics on your computers, [...]
Tags: Blogging·Podcasting·Web 2.0
