Monthly Archives: January 2006

TiVo and Video Podcasts

I am not much of a TV person. I have one, but I never turn it on. I am a podcast listener and a blog reader. Right now, you can download the Rocketboom video podcast to your Tivo. Tivo …

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Killer Innovations Podcast forum now with RSS

Phil McKinney of the Killer Innovations Podcast let me install the phpbb2 plugin that generates an RSS feeds for the forum. http://www.techtrendgroup.net/community

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Ruby on Rails Podcast

My first contribution to the open source community! I did the post-production audio editing for the last Ruby on Rails Podcast interview with Sean Chittenden who reworked Penny-Arcade.com from PHP/MySQL/Apache to Rails/Postgresql/Lighttpd (I think). The new show …

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Conversations: the new form of advertising

Adam Curry has been commenting in his podcast for quite a while about how to using advertising in a podcast. Not necessarily 30 second spots (which are dying), but just talking about a product he likes. But …

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Why We Download Music (“illegally”): A Manifesto

This is a post I did on Panda’s Hideout Podcast via SpoiltVictorianChild.co.uk regarding an articel on BBC’s website about downloading music. The article suggests that ease of accessibility to music by downloading it means a lower appreciation of …

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Budget Allocation and Good Design: A Catch 22

Some of the panels from the 2006 CES are downloadable as podcasts. I would like to point out an interesting observation in one of the panels. One of the panelists sates that that good design is more expensive …

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Mixcasting

Check out the new idea I came up with today I am calling Mixcasting on my wiki http://www.suggestions4ipodanditunes.com”. As far as a name for what I am proposing, it looks like it may be taken by some …

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CES 2006 follow up

Regarding CES meetups, I just found this: http://ces.bubbleshare.com/index.php?wiki=CesCamp :(

Didn’t get to meet with Phil, but he mentions me here!

Other than meeting with Phil and checking out new toys and technology, I did not have any business to do there. …

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CES 2006

I will be flying into Las Vegas on Friday night for CES 2006. If anyone knows of any blogger meetups going on there, let me know. I may get a chance to meet with Phil McKinney …

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