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• Selections from IndieFeed.com’s Performance Poetry I’ve been on a spoken word fix lately, thanks to AmigoFish sending down a selection from the IndieFeed.com’s Performance Poetry feed a while back. My current favorites include; Taylor Mali’s “Like Lily Like Wilson” and “How to Write a Political Poem” Chad Anderson’s “Legacy” and “Audio Class”
• Betch’ll Listen Mark Kermode’s film reviews are quickly approaching ‘must listen podcast’ status. Not only are the reviews hilarious, Mark is at his best when he’s terribly off-topic, like this insightful tidbit from the 23 Feb 2007 installment: “He’s a Methodist, we don’t bet” Huh, I wonder if that’s why I’m not a fan of gambling.
• Call for Testers: WP-iPodCatter 0.9a Hey all, I could use some help testing the new version of WP-iPodCatter Changes in 0.9a: All variables from the replacement wp-rss2.php file moved into the WP-iPodCatter section in WordPress admin Options tab. Updated wp-rss2.php file Support for itunes:block at an individual post level Support for itunes subcategories Support for itunes:explicit at overall podcast level and individual post level Enter itunes:keywords manually
• Carbon Trading in the US and Minnesota If you caught the NPR/National Geographic segment on the European carbon trading efforts you may have gotten the impression that: the price of being carbon neutral is so low (+2%) that it’s irresponsible not to pay it. a market for carbon dioxide, mandatory or otherwise, didn’t exist stateside. True on the former, false on the latter. First Crack
• It All Comes Back To One A year ago, I wrote about how podcasting’s underlying technology biases really, really small audiences. Audiences of 1. This morning, listening to the latest Evil Genius Chronicles, Dave asked how small the audience size has to be before I (you/we) stop. Turns out, my number is 1. Good to know.