Thursday, April 21, 2005

Podscope is the first search engine that indexes the content of podcasts. It actually understands what's being said. This is leading edge stuff in 2005, and a great addition to the set of podcasting tools. 

Sam Whitmore: "Just when we grasped what blogging was all about, along came podcasting, which in some ways is even more disruptive and exciting as blogging." 

Lake Washington from the window of my east side hotel room.  

For what it's worth, and seriously, no joke -- I don't think Rogers should give benedictxvi.com to the Vatican. I think the domain should be used for an independently-authored weblog about the policies and actions of the new Pope by someone who is expert in the papacy and independent of the Catholic Church. Imho, it's not about heaven and hell, eternal damnation or Rogers's grandmother. The church is a hugely powerful political, social and economic force, its actions are controversial and deserve some visibility, and MSM isn't doing its job. And for the new Pope, it's a chance to participate in history. It's the kind of thing you might imagine his predecessor really going for, until of course it got a story he didn't want it to get.  

My second monitor is back in Florida, the one that connects into my laptop which is here with me in Florida. WinAmp thinks it's running on the second monitor. I tried rebooting (several times) and changed the screen properties to tell the OS there is no second monitor. Every otiher app I was running "over there" has figured it out. I know, Windows sucks, but what do I do? 

Paul Jones suggests Folkstreams, "These are documentaries on American folk practices including BB King and the Blues, visionary painter Minnie Evans , and others." 

John Robb: "I am OK folks. Thanks for the concern." 

Sean O'Rourke asks if there is "a 'politeness' revisit tag for RSS?" 

Pope Rogers Cadenhead I. 

The new Pope: "Popesquatters have to be multilingual too."