Technorati Blosxom Plugin

I’ve been running this thing on my blog for almost 4 months now, and I’ve just been too lazy to release it (even though the release process for now took maybe 6 minutes). Here is the 0.1 version of the technorati_api plugin. I’m submitting this to the plugin registry as soon as I post [...]

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Backporch Boy

I’m spending this morning sitting on the back porch in the screened-in section. It’s a little cool but not so cool that I’m not comfortable in just a pair of shorts without a shirt. The wifi signal is strong, and I’m blogging and doing my general stuff that I do on weekends and serving up [...]

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Audioblog for Sept 25, 2004

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the audioblog for September 25, 2004. I talk about iPodderX, the most recent Gillmor Gang and their podcasting discussion, I invite listeners to send me audio feedback, I clarify my feelings on the P2P blanket fee and pool of money and play a song [...]

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Gillmor Gang on Podcasting

Yesterdays episode of the Gillmor Gang had a lot of discussion on podcasting and iPodder. There was a little bit of misinformation like in what Scott Rafer of Feedster said on various points (Adam Curry was not a “VH1 VJ”, there do exist Windows and Linux ipodders, etc.) By and large, though, there was a [...]

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The iPod Economy

From Blogarithms comes this post about the “iPod Economy”. He cites this article in Business 2.0 that states there are nearly four million iPods out there and Apple has 54% of the MP3 player market. When I was talking about all the pieces being there for an absolute explosion in podcasting, I was shooting [...]

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Audioblog for Sept 24, 2004

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the audioblog for September 24, 2004. I talk about a way in which the world of podcasting resembles that of Stephenson’s Diamond Age, the glamorous life of professional fiction writers, why excerpted RSS feeds still drive me nuts but NetNewsWire ameliorates that, and Doc [...]

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Approval

Hugh MacLeod is writing a book proposal based on his “How to be Creative” outburst a few months back on his blog. I thought the original stuff was full of painful truths and blogged about it mightily. Here’s a wise nugget that is actually just a section header from his new post about it:

“The best [...]

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P2P Money Pool

From Adam Curry comes this post citing an article by Andrew Orloski talking about iPods, touching on podcasting but also calling for collecting buckets of money to distribute to music makers. I’ve written about this before and here is Orlowski saying similar things:
So here’s a modest proposal. Stop trying to prevent file sharing, and [...]

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Enclosures plugin

For those of you who have been looking for the Blosxom enclosures plugin that I use to drive my audioblog, it has now been cleaned up and released by Keith Irwin. He’s submitted it to the Blosxom plugin registry, so it should be there soon. Thanks, Keith!
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The Writing Life

Poppy Z. Brite tells a sad tale of what it is like to live the life of a writer. Bear in mind that Poppy sells pretty decently, gets acclaim and has a vociferous fan base and yet, that post is still a sad tale.
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Audioblog for Sept 23, 2004

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the audioblog for September 23, 2004. In this episode, I salute late blogger Aaron Hawkins, talk more about NetNewsWire and MarsEdit, give my thoughts on my first ever listen to WebTalkRadio, tell the story of how I ended up with the Mexican wrestler mask, [...]

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Better Test for MarsEdit

According to Brent Simmons you actually can set Blosxom categories with MarsEdit. If you see this post it and actually is in a category (should be technology/computers/weblog) then it worked. As you were, citizens, nothing else to see here.
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Music Evangelism Seems to Be Working

I’ve been using this weblog to push music I like since the beginning, and recently I’ve actually seen some evidence that it is working. I know that Josh Jacob became a fan of the Siderunners after I played them in the audioblog. Right on! He’s in Illinois, so maybe they’ll tour to where he is [...]

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Audioblog for Sept 22, 2004

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the audioblog for September 22, 2004. In this episode, I talk even more about my screwup with Coral I wonder why audioblogging seems to be such a “guy thing” so far, another disruptive technology use case of podcasting, Shrook vs. NetNewsWire for Mac OS [...]

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RIP, Aaron Hawkins

Aaron Hawkins (aka Uppity Negro), a blogger I used to read and with whom exchanged blog-to-blog commentary, has died. This is quite sad. I don’t know that much about him personally, but thought he was quite a sharp cookie as a writer and blogger. I ran across him through the Chicago Localfeeds, and he often [...]

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Coral Experiment: Failed

Well, that will be my one and only shot with Coral. As it turns out, when I checked my mail this morning I found messages from people for whom the Coral link wasn’t working, some because they couldn’t get to the port 8090 that it uses and some for whom it just didn’t work for [...]

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America’s Favorite Charlatan

Now that Uri Geller is no longer on the scene and Miss Cleo is off the air and Crossing Over has been cancelled, I think Dr. Phil is now America’s most beloved completely full-of-shit and quacklike fraud. Just looking at him makes my blood boil. In an earlier time, he’d be grifting from town to [...]

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Coral

I’m kind of torn here. I found via inbound links this post from Nathan McFarland. He’s the guy who proposes automatically Coralizing urls as they get downloaded (and did a patch to get_enclosures to do just that.) I’m not sure that’s a good idea. My main problem is that the big media people might freak [...]

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Audioblog for Sept 21, 2004

Here is the Bittorrent link, direct MP3 download (through the Coral service) and direct MP3 download (directly from here for those who can’t get it from Coral) for the audioblog for September 21, 2004. In this episode, I talk even more about the experimental Bittorrent RSS feed, smacking my lips while I [...]

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Scramble Time

Remember those experiments where William S. Burroughs would take a length of prose, cut it into strips and repaste it together in random order? Well through the magic of a weird partial Bittorrent download, Daniell has a copy of one of my audioblogs that is just like that. The experience of listening to this is [...]

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