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I manage a team of professional technical consultants for a Fortune 100 company. I like clever uses of technology whether it's in a data center or the kitchen of my house.

Interview from BloggerCon (with enclosure)–Stephen Dulaney

BloggerCon

Interview number three brings us Stephen Dulaney, founder and CEO of Social Dynamx. Creator of FM Radio, an add-on piece for Userland's personal blogging software, Radio, Social Dynamx is a small company making it's way by selling a specialized product in the weblog world. Listen to Stephen's description of his company and BloggerCon.

This interview was in the beautiful but noisy Norton's Woods at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Please disregard the background noise.

Interview is enclosed

Link to audio file

Interview from BloggerCon (with enclosure)

BloggerCon

Here's interview number two, a brief chat with Ross Rader, Director of Research and Innovation for Tucows, one of the oldest and largest download sites on the Internet (Ross, it's a lot more than that, I know.) Ross was talking about Blogware, a new Tucows product that allows ISPs and others to resell remote hosted blogs.

This interview was in the beautiful but noisy Norton's Woods at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Please disregard the background noise.

Interview is enclosed

Link to audio file

First Interview from BloggerCon (with enclosure)

BloggerCon

I've completed the upload of my first interview from BloggerCon. In this installment, I briefly interviewed Scott Johnson, founder of Feedster, a website devoted to searching RSS feeds. With it's innovative features, it's rapidly become a favorite of mine, especially it's ability to build a search and subscribe to the result.

The interview was conducted during a break on Day 1 of BloggerCon in the main presentation room. Disclaimer: I'm not a professional and my voice sounds weird on the tape. :>

Interview is enclosed.

Link to audio file.

Checking the Manila-Blogger bridge in Radio

Radio

Checking the Manila-Blogger bridge in Radio

I'm experimenting with the Manila-Blogger bridge in Radio, in an effort to get my weblog mirrored on my Userland-hosted site (http://radio.weblogs.com/0111853) and my main domain (http://houseofwarwick.com/). This is mainly an exercise of mild interest. I should be working on a new product for Radio, but more about that in other posts.

Update: I changed the bridge settings to match the correct upstreaming settings for the server at Userland. Let's see what happens!

Update 2: changed username to just the usernum instead of the weblog URL.

Update 3: did some quick Google research to no avail. If anyone knows the magic trick to make Radio upstream to the Userland server *and* FTP upstream to another server with the *same* content, post a comment and/or email me (srk at mac dot com)

Update 4:  re-enabled the bridge, pointing to warwick.weblogger.com

Update 5:&nbsp: made a quick change to the 

#upstream.xml

file

Phil Wolff's interesting airport conversation

BloggerCon

Phil writes an interesting bit about a conversation with another person at Logan airport in Boston:

Coming back from BloggerCon, I flew out of Boston's Logan airport Tuesday afternoon. While waiting for a flight I talked with an Israeli businessman. What an education for me. 

  • He no longer employs Palestinians because he doesn't know who to trust.
  • Police are sometimes hostile to religious Jews, citing them for walking off the sidewalk, shoving them off the sidewalk to do so.
  • That a horse typically won't move forward if you cover its eyes with your hands.
  • That foreign money remains the lifeblood of Arafat and the terrorists.
  • That America's airports still have no security compared to El Al. 100% inspection of bags, carry-on and checked. All passengers are profiled and vetted. All passengers are frisked. Stronger perimeters around the airport.
  • Unlike Israel, America has yet to harden factories upwind from Boston, so someone with an M-16 and a grenade could cause chemical gasses to destroy whole towns. Take down energy suppliers.
  • That 80% of Palestinians want peace. The current Palestinian president is Arafat's puppet, so don't expect movement on peace negotiations. You can't kick Arafat out or kill him without making things worse.
  • You can't give the West Bank to Jordan or Gaza to Egypt; they won't take them because of all the terrorists.  
  • That most Iraqi's love America.  

Complete post.
Phil's weblog: a klog apart

Weblog

Boston Update

Today we're in the small south Massachusetts town of Uxbridge at a
jewelry supply company. Tammy is meeting one of her suppliers
face-to-face, much like I did with BloggerCon. Personal relationships
are more and more important in this age of Internet communications.

She's going through bag after bag of semi- precious stones, choosing
current trendy stones and some basics for the main part of her line.
Examples? She looking at some Russian and German stones right now, cut
in a fashion I've never seen. Next stp: lunch!

Recovery and Apology

BloggerCon, Radio

To Andrew Grumet, an apology:  I felt horrible this morning for
two reasons–leaving you in the lurch and because three days of less
than 6 hours sleep caught up.  I spent the afternoon with my wife,
reconnecting with her after four days of pre- and during-BloggerCon
adreneline.  I'm about to get a cold, too; lymph nodes are swollen.

I've had a decent amount of sleep and will get more in the next few
days.  I got great interviews that I will post (with enclosures,
creating a new enclosure channel) especially one from Adam Curry. 
A consumate gentleman, Adam handled my amateur questions with a quiet
grace that few people of notoriety have mastered.  His interview
is my favorite.

All interviews will be uploaded as mp3 files, linked from the main page
and in the aforementioned feed.  Second fav:  Scott Johnson,
inventor of Feedster.  He's got a great product waiting in the
wings.  Ask him about it.

I'm also using BloggerCon as an opportunity to recharge.  When I
get back, I'm going to make some major changes in the weblog. 
Wait and see, comment if you like.