Wired on podcasting

February 23, 2005

Wired Magazine has an article in the March issue on Adam Curry, the brains behind iPodder. It is a pretty good article that gives a good overview of the genre. Read more about Wired on podcasting

More whining about DirecWay and Ground Control

February 22, 2005

I purchase my DirecWay connection through a VAR. In the past week things have been pretty terrible. To start with they have a web accelerator, which as far as I can determine is not documented or explained anywhere. They claim it has nothing to do with the failure of XML-RPC to work properly. Here are a few facts I've asked them to explain away: Read more about More whining about DirecWay and Ground Control

MarsEdit/DirecWay problem

January 30, 2005

I've started using Ranchero Software's Mars Edit and am pretty happy with it. This post, however, is happening the old fashioned way - via the web page. This seems to have to something to do with a conflict between Mars Edit and my DirecWay Satellite Internet Connection. It works just fine on my laptop at work and elsewhere but when trying to update over the satellite link it fails to parse the XML. My guess is it has something to do with the "web page optimization" that DirecWay is doing causing problems.

Even so I'm still posting. There seem to be those who are too busy with new toys to remember all their fans.

iPod Shuffle an opportunity for Podcasters

January 17, 2005

Michael Singer's article on the iPod Shuffle demonstrates the bias that a handful of programmers would like to present. The article Apple's iPod Shuffle Stifles Podcasting quotes pundit Doc Searls, co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto, citing problems moving around inside a podcast. His take is that it is a problem on the regular iPod and instead of fixing the problem Apple eliminated the functionality.

Hopefully the people have tried to set the record straight about the incorrect stories in the tech press, will not ignore this issue because they are on the other side. Here is a bit of the reality for those who stop by. Many are a reprise from my earlier article on what Podcatchers (podcast listeners) want. Read more about iPod Shuffle an opportunity for Podcasters

Didn't take long

January 16, 2005

This did not take long. It will be a great addition to the bus.

iPod Shuffle and audiobooks

January 16, 2005

Apple has posted a tech tip about playing audio books on the iPod Shuffle. Three cheers for a superb implementation. Put it in shuffle mode and it knows to skip the audiobooks. The only minor thing that would have been nice is a way to tell Autofill to include books but putting them on manually is a minor inconvenience.

AppleMatter has a first impression of the iPod Shuffle and iRiver's CEO proves they still don't get it.

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