I’ve been asked if Yahoo Pipes is like FeedSeeder.
Sorta. Both merge multiple feeds and allow a level of filtering on the results within a browser-based interface. Though, that description includes quite a few other projects as well. So, I thought a Q&A would be a better way to compare and contrast [P]ipes and [F]eedSeeder.
Does it create really cool diagrams?
P: Yes
F: No
Is it useful to Garrick?
P: No
F: Yes
Is it free?
P: Yes
F: No
Is it live?
P: Yes
F: No
The Wege goes in-depth on all the reasons Norwegianity is a must-read.
“…my policy on swearing – I’m for it.”
So few people know how to effectively curse – The Wege does. Sloppy, ineffective, low-vocabulary cursing is so prevalent that his use of ‘fuck’ (as in “Fuck the new Republican party”) is refreshing.
“I know more about Ethiopian music than you do….I was listening to hip hop in 1981”
The Wege knows music. Frighteningly so.
” I throw in gratuitous obscenities to keep the mainstream media from linking to me, and I complicate my posts so pissed off wingnuts can’t link”
“I know what conservatism is, and it ain’t got a goddamned thing to do with Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, George Bush or Mitt fucking Romney. I respect Scientologists more than I respect Republicans. At least they had the gonads to join a real cult, and not some faux, whatever-Karl Rove-decided-to-call-it-this-week, fundraising apparatus.”
Just what an ‘about’ section of a blog should be – full disclosure and a manifesto.
Listening to the Joyeur podcast on Twitter, I made a note to look into fictional Twitter accounts.
Then I see this post by Eric Rice:
The time between when I wrote this and he hit publish: ~30 minutes.
Darrin points to the MIT SIMILE project. The lifeline/timeline visualization is similar to something I’ve been working on for the Genealogy Namespace for OPML project.
While it’s cool to see a single person’s timeline, far more interesting to me in the intersection and relationship between multiple people (a marriage isn’t just one-sided, a birth has at least 2 people involved, etc).
A nice reminder that things like MySpace, CraigsList – while not ‘designed’ – are more valuable places than some of the more ‘planned’ places.
I’ve been fighting with one aspect of FeedSeeder for quite a while now. None of the approaches I’ve taken ended up solving the problem in a useful way – many of them just mucked it up worse. The imaginary screen in my head that tells me ‘what it should be’ was blank and it was sucking up all the energy.
So yesterday, I dropped the feature. For now.
Removing it made everything else fall into place much easier. The imaginary screen flickered back on.
The need for this feature will still be there and I’m pretty sure it’ll sort itself out quite nicely when the time is right.
LATER:
Oh, so this new approach is called ‘procrascipline’.
Darrin’s raced bicycles for probably half the two decades+ I’ve known him. Inspired by Darrin’s USCF My Way post, I asked him to unpack the problems in local competitive bike racing that his points would solve.
Listen to Darrin Homme on Improving Competitive Bicycle Racing [24 min].
Congrats to Cayenne Chris and Tekdiff in reaching the 100 episode milestone. One of the longest running and still the funniest comedy podcasts around.
Back in First Crack #45 – Cayenne and I talked about Tekdiff.
Dear Garrick Van Buren,
Thank you for your interest in iTunes.
After careful consideration of your application, we believe that the most efficient way to get your content up on iTunes in a timely fashion would be for you to deliver the content through one of the several digital service providers with whom we currently work.
For your information, below is a list of several companies that can encode and deliver your music content to iTunes. Should you be interested, please determine which digital service provider is appropriate for your particular content. For Audiobook content, see below.
Please note that the companies listed below, regardless of their location, may be able to deliver content for global Artists and Labels
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Huh, where the did this come from?
The best I can figure:
Sometime between October 2004 and June 2005 – before iTunes had a built-in podcast directory – I filled out an browser-based iTMS application to sell the First Crack Podcast through their store.
Not getting a response in a timely fashion – say, within 27 months – I forgot about it. Completely.
As you see, the email give no context (i.e. ‘RE: your the application – submitted on Nov 23,2004’) and it even has a ‘do_not_reply’ in the ‘Reply-To’ field.
My opinion of iTunes has dramatically decreased over the past year and getting bizarre emails like this don’t help.
I wonder if I’d feel the same if Apple bought Audion instead of SoundJam.