Friday, May 27, 2005

A get-out-of-town pre-Memorial Day rambly Coffee Notes podcast. Music, massage, happiness, BloggerCon, Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen, and a way of decentralizing the podcast community to find the good stuff. 

ABC News podcast page. Great to see these new casts, but we could really use a description saying what's covered in each installment.  

NY Times on 21st century museum tours, with the people as curators, via podcasting. Bing! Bing! Bing! 

Sadly, Eddie Albert, the star of one of the most surreal TV shows ever, Green Acres, died today. In celebration of his life, I recorded his part of the show's theme song. Don't worry, you'll know what to do.  

Tod Maffin switched to the Mac, Rex Hammock continues to break his vow of silence on the Mac, and I had a long interesting phone talk today with Ray Slakinski, lead developer of iPodderX, a podcast client for the Mac OS. Meanwhile both my PCs are suffering heavily, one from spyware (installed exactly one year ago today), and the other, well I'm not really sure what it's suffering from.  

Seattle P-I: "Producing a podcast is still far from a one-click operation." 

SEW: Last Week, Google Had A Strategy. This Week, It Doesn't. 

Dutch Uncle: "Daily Source Code gets less interesting the more it starts to resemble an IPO road show." 

A Seattle coffee shop turns off wifi on the weekend and sales go up. 

Rogers Cadenhead: "FeedBurner has begun adding web bugs to syndicated feeds that enable the service to track use of individual items." 

Dan Gillmor has been calling the Bay Area housing market a "bubble" for as long as I've been reading him (and that's a long time), but if it is one, it refuses to pop. Meanwhile Dan's older brother Steve has coined a new term with sure lasting value. The Scobleizer Bunny. What an image! I'm sure Scoble will love that. Not many people know that Steve worked with Scoble at Fawcette, and believe it or not was my editor when I wrote a column for XML Magazine. Me, I'm looking forward to a Scobleizer pinata. Maybe at Gnomedex?  

Paul Krugman: "Although the housing boom has lasted longer than anyone could have imagined, the economy would still be in big trouble if it came to an end."