We in new media have enjoyed access to smaller, lighter, less costly equipment as the years have gone by. I remember when my father got our first VHS video camera. It shot at 320 x 240, 30 fps, weighed 17 pounds, sat on your shoulder, and cost a thousand bucks. Today, I carry a small…
Is C.C. Chapman a podcaster? Does he produce podcasts? Recently, I tried out the Songbird browser, which is part iTunes clone, part Firefox. When you browse any web page with MP3 links and/or RSS feeds, Songbird brings up a panel, kind of like iTunes’ mini-store, that lets you listen to the MP3s, download them (or…
Another fantastic seminar with master teacher Stephen K. Hayes has come to an end, and this one is even harder to put into words. Meditations, martial arts, and mind science all blended together for an eye-opening weekend. A few takeaways that I can put into words come to mind… Second Life. Was there Second Life…
There are an awful lot of URLs from friends that go by in Twitter. I’d like to not have to go through all my archives just to find them. This, then, is a Yahoo pipe that does a content analysis, permits only items with the https:// URL handler, and exports as RSS, which I then…
Someone reminded me recently that I haven’t posted the click tracking software I mentioned during PodCamp Toronto. This is it – to use it, edit the URL at the top of the code, then copy and paste it into its own directory on your server, naming the file index.php. Next, link to that directory –…
Whitney just got a new MacBook Pro and is wondering what cool stuff I recommend. Being an avid Mac user, I offer the following list. Items marked with a ($) are not free. AdiumX – nice multi-protocol chat (update: with iChat’s support for Jabber, I use iChat now) Audacity – great editor for audio when…
C.C. Chapman talks on his blog about Twittering beyond the box – uses of Twitter beyond your personal community, and suggests applications like politics, storytelling, celebrities, erotica, news, and sports, and wants to know our thoughts on what else Twitter can be used for. What is Twitter? Ultimately, Twitter is length limited asynchronous multicast IM.…
Chris Brogan has a thing he calls Friend-Sourcing; others have called it collaboration, the wisdom of the crowd, etc. Regardless of what you call it, here’s the situation at PodCamp NYC. The event is moving along smoothly except for one thing. Due to liability and regulations which they have little control over, the New School…
