Google Search: “Wouter Logeman” My original dutch name did not come up in search – so I am fixing that. If you find me this way you are probably a relative! “Leuk dat je me hier heb gevonden.” I changed my name in 1952 – all on my own bat when I found that children at the Oyster Bay School just made a mess of the pronounciation. At the age of 7 or 8 I was too young to really make that decision, but it stuck. Worse was that as the older brother I also chose a new name for my brother Huug. I translated it to Herbert, which was not right, and a name he hated. Later he called himself Hugh.
What is a home page?
comments to the question on the geeks.opml.org page… which uses a Minala design??? (Looks like the blogger template I use here.)… Anyway a meditation on what a Home page is, is a good thing!
Managing email
A big list of links here worth lg at: lifehack.org, Blog Archive, Essential list of links on tips and info regarding Email
Clever use of iPod Interface!
A few posts ago I bemoaned the iPod interface. Well Tod Maffin has a way to work around all this. How I Listen to 100 Podcasts A Day (I Love Radio .org):
STEP ONE: SET UP AN iTUNES ‘RIVER OF SOUND’ PLAYLIST
I have what I call my River of Sound smart-playlists (taking a page from Dave Winer’s ‘river of news’ metaphor. I have two: Podcasts-Cdn and Podcasts-Other. These are based on genres I force in place through my podcatching client: Canadian podcasts are forced with the Podcast-Cdn genre and all others get the Podcasts-Other when they are downloaded.
The criteria for these Smart Playlists is critical to making this work. They are:* Genre is Podcast-Cdn or Podcast-Other
* My Rating is 0 stars (this last criteria is the big secret. That way, as soon as I rate a podcast, it disappears from my River of Sound smart playlist, and I can ‘work through them’ much like you’d read and email then put ita folder.)STEP TWO: USE RATINGS AS A CODE SYSTEM
I use my star ratings as a way to categorize podcasts I’m listening to. Here are my five categories:* 1 star: Delete from iTunes at next sync
* 2 stars: Potential content for The Feed — I used iPodderX to convert to bookmarkable format, so that when I find a moment I think would work, I pause it right there, rate it 2 stars, and move onto the next one. Then when I’m back at my Mac, I can easily find that moment again.
* 3 stars: Great podcasts. These are just ones I really love listening to again and again, or playing for people as an example of what a good podcast is like.
* 4 stars: Take action. This reminds me to do something — email the podcaster, change the genre it’s filed under, check out their web site, etc.
* 5 stars: My favourite music. Gotta have a list.
I also have a cheat-sheet label on the back of my iPod to remind me of what all the codes mean.
STEP THREE: SET UP CATEGORY-CATCHERS IN iTUNES
Now, the last step is to create ‘category catchers.’ These are Smart Playlists that funnel your star ratings into their own playlists for you. That’s fairly simple — it’s just one playlist for each star (i.e. When My Rating equals 1 star.) This way, when you rate something as a particular star on your iPod as you’re listening (or, indeed, when listening from iTunes) they will pop into the right category here. (Note to Apple: I wish I could delete files from a playlist — you can only remove it from the playlist, not actually remove the file.)
Link Dump from my FeedDemon
Jobs announces iTunes will accommodate podcasts
Jobs announces iTunes will accommodate podcasts:
The new version of iTunes will let users of Apple’s music management program and integrated online music store find and download podcasts, which are homemade radio-style shows that have become a grassroots phenomenon on the Internet.
Probably a Good Thing, I don’t really quite get this. With FeedDemon I have excellent integration with Itunes. Would iTunes try to take that over? They could even mess it up. It is not so much iTunes that is the problem but the iPod that is the problem for podcasting
- not being able to delete files
- having half listened to files – still showing up as New
- not being able to see the full name of the podcast till you play it
- and not having an aphabetical access
And worst of all the recording function being crippled. A really good feature would be to be able to save clips to post into your own podcasts.
NewsGator Acquires FeedDemon, TopStyle…and Nick Bradbury
In this post NewsGator Acquires FeedDemon, TopStyle…and Me! Nick Bradbury explains what has happened with the aqisition & why. All sounds very promising, and I hope it will work for Palm!! I’d love to access the same data via the Palm, fat chance though. I can see it working on the PPC first, damn.
FeedDemon
I have finally done it, registered the Feeddeemon that had expired. Bradbury Software – Announcing FeedDemon 1.5 I like it. It uses IE and makes IE into a tabbed browser, lets me read stuff in a great way! Beautifully integrated with the “external browser” I had gone back to Sage in Firefox – but it is just not as good as FeedDemon. Nick Bradbury the author seems to have a way of making the best stuff in the feild. I loved homesite in its early days. Then he sells it off. That has happend again with Feeddemon. Nick’s blog and the Bradbury Forums.
Upton Sinclair
I have started, finally, reading the Lanny Budd series. In my associated browsing found: audio file! The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – Project Gutenberg also a pic from wikipedia
Dave Winer
I have been listening to Dave Winer on my walk to work and home today. Here is his blog, and link to podcasts. Scripting News I like him, he is a friend (as he puts it to his listeners). Boy, can he say nasty stuff about people though, and companies. I can see his point usually, but he must be good at making enemies! I also like his openness and reality, is an example of what he advocates, true voice, in it for the love of it, for connection. He has a great heart.
My own podcasting fell foul of having too much trouble with the tech, and then with the cost of it on my website, and mostly no time to solve all those hassles. But I want to do it again and Dave W is a role model for me. The other day one of his files appeared on my MP3 player… just him singing a song, a warm and friendly song. Now that was sweet, thanks Dave.