If you’re using my TagMaker script with MarsEdit, shaners 0 matic 8000 posted a patch for better Technorati placement: Reworked tagmaker script.
Month: September 2006
Sunday, 24 September 2006
Saturday, 23 September 2006
More FeedSeeder Demos – Organized and Otherwise
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ll be at Portable Media Expo a this coming weekend. If you see me, feel free to introduce yourself and ask for a FeedSeeder Demo. I’m looking for comments and suggestions.
Also, as soon as I get back from PME, I’ll be doing a more formal presentation as part of the University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies’ Emerging Digerati series.
UPDATE: Sounds like Tim from the Winecast, Frosty from ITRadio, and Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial will also be representing PodcastMN.
Friday, 22 September 2006
Who Buys Lunch in a Draw?
Today, Aaron Abramson and I enjoyed a very heated lunch conversation on the strengths and weaknesses ad-subsidized wifi networks. No conversions, definitely an agree-to-disagree situation.
The work he’s doing with the wifi guys sounded so similar to the work I did years back (see paragraph 6) I had deja vu.
Thankfully, he didn’t mention anything like this.
Thursday, 21 September 2006
Ready for Some Stories
Stephanie Quilao explains RSS in 3-panels.
Now, I can cross that off my Things To Do list. Thanks Stephanie.
Note to ‘Self-Proclaimed Experts’
35.1 Days vs ‘Back to the Music in 60 Seconds’
NetNewsWire has been working overtime this week (just like me) and there’s less than 500mb empty space remaining on my 40gb 3G iPod. According to iTunes, that’s 35.1 days of audio entertainment. More than a month – without repeating.
Contrast that to the few minutes we had the radio on this morning, back-to-back commercials. As I turned it off and headed to the office, I heard them ask me not to, “Back to the music in 60 seconds’.
Ha. It doesn’t take me that long to hit ‘play’ in iTunes.
See you in 35.1 days. 😉
Wednesday, 20 September 2006
Podcasting Gets You a Better Job
While I’m piles of work away from another podcast, I wanted to share a nice story about the power of podcasting.
I received an email earlier this week from someone in the archives of the First Crack Podcast. They said they got a new job thanks in part to our conversation. As they tell it, the prospective employer found the mp3 Googling for our friend’s name. Liking what they heard, they extended an offer for VP-level position.
Now that’s how to make money podcasting.
They Probably Paid Off Their Student Loans Faster, Too
Amazing Race Season 10 – Episode 1
If having racers rappel up the Great Wall of China on the first leg is any indication, the Amazing Race is on an upswing. The lame events, purposeless pitstops, and music-video editing might be a thing of the past – much like the awful Family Edition.
Despite my continual confusion between the cheerleaders and the beauty queens (half way through Return of the King I asked, “Are two sets of hobbits in the Lord of the Rings?”) the character and distinction between the rest of the teams was nicely accomplished.
I thought the introduction of Peter and Sarah did a great job of laying out both their strength (experienced tri-atheletes) and their weakness (3 legs between them). With Tyler and James a second – ex-addicts turned male models. The rest of the introductions felt like cheap match-making reads;
Likes: travel, a million dollars
Dislikes: the other teams
How un-Amazing.
The introductions not-withstanding, this feels like the most diverse groups of racers yet, devout Muslim team, Indian-American married team, black single moms, and rural Kentuckians! . That said, the stereotypes are still there; a gay couple, white chicks, brothers, a dating couple where he’s probably gay, parent and child, moms. Again, hopefully, the show will transcend the stereotypes.
Oh, and Lindsey – I’d eat the eyeballs.
- Garrick’s Favorites:
- Peter and Sarah
- Tyler and James
- Duke and Lauren
To make it interesting, I say Rob and Kimberly are Philiminated in the 4th show.
Tuesday, 19 September 2006
Tags Less For Me and You, More For Us
In working with FeedSeeder, and interesting transformation has happened.
I actually see value in tagging text.
For video, audio, and pictues – text tagging is a no- brainer. There’s really no better way to get the media categorized than by asking the community to do it. Text for me was a much tougher sell. I kept asking – aren’t the tags already in the text? Can’t text parsers pull them out and ‘tag’ appropriately?
I still think in 95% of the cases the answer is yes. In those cases, tagging isn’t really useful – in-fact, it’s annoyingly redundant.
What I’ve discovered is a great desire to tag not for me (I’ll just post it on my blog) or for everyone in the word (that’s what Google is for) but rather tag for a small, defined, active group, in a folksonomy that only makes sense to them. This translation, re-organization, and re-contextualization of all information (whether image, audio, or text) leveraging words (and meanings) unique to a specific group – this is where I see the real value in tagging.
As an added benefit, it reduces the synonym problem (‘movies’ vs. ‘film’ vs. ‘cinema’).