Category Archives: Radio

Reading and recording at 11PM

BloggerCon, Radio

I'm recording some audio in the background, using our Mac and a Sony hand-held cassette recorder. I did a fake interview (funny to us in the Ozarks) and did some serious speaking about my grandmother. I'm about to lose her and it hurts already.

That forces me to confront a topic I'm not sure how to deal with: edit the recordings and post, post with no edits, don't post.

Express yourself in comments. If you want to hear the funny one, let me know…

It's late and I should be asleep

BloggerCon, Idea, My Hobbies, Radio

It's 10:58 here in Springfield and I am one tired individual. I've spent the afternoon chasing a problem that makes no sense to me anymore: Radio isn't working right.

My solution? Reinstall, restore from same day's backup. Hope that missing posts can someday come back.

I think that I will “restart” the blog after BloggerCon. I'll keep most of the content that is searched on, like “Weblogs and Customer Service” or “Open Letter to the RSS Community” (linked later).

Time for sleep. Two days until we leave for Boston. Haven't packed.

Safari and autodetection of RSS feeds

BloggerCon, Radio

This is something that sounds hackable at the least.  Brent, could
something like this be done with WebKit's tools (asking out of
ignorance)?

What if Safari detected RSS feeds?.
Here's an idea for Safari: Many web sites/pages now offer an RSS feed
equivalent of their contents, not unlike this weblog! As RSS is getting
more and more popular, it would be cool if Safari would detect the
presence of an RSS feed (through the tag) and activate a UI element on its toolbar that the user could use to drag to their favorite news reading program …. Say, NetNewsWire.

mockup of Safari toolbar with an RSS item [Karelia Software]

BloggerCon, Radio

Betsy Devine says that
Google should have done some research before buying Blogger. 
Betsy, don't forget the millions of people hate Microsoft products and
*still* buy the upgrades.  :>

Lockergnome on RSS and ads

BloggerCon, Radio

Chris mentions in this post that with RSS…

“When you don[base ']t like what you see, you can delete your subscription IMMEDIATELY.”

… you can elimate the feeds carrying ads you don't like.  I subscribe to a feed that
is all ads–bringing me info on deals from hundreds of websites. 
RSS advertising has it's place and time, if done right.  The
consumer will vote with their subscriptions and dollars.  Embedded
feeds will always suck and besides, a clever person will filter them
out anyway.