Goodbye BlogDigger, Hello AmigoFish

There’s been a problem since the dawn of podcasting – how to find interesting, new things to listen to. For the past year, my strategy: subscribe to the notoriously noisy BlogDigger for say, a day or so then frantically unsubscribe – the phrase “drink from the firehose” seems appropriate here. Listen to everything over the …

CDs for Good and Not Evil

Now that the Sony rootkit fiasco is behind us. Here’s a selection of CDs that support a good cause and won’t destroy your computer. Just in time for Christmas. First Ave – The Bootlegs Commemorating 35 years at First Ave $13, proceeds support the Diverse Emerging Music Organization We’re Coming Over – The Best of …

Sex And Podcasting Replaced With 43Folders

I got word this weekend that Mike O’Connor has closed up shop on this community podcasting site – Sex and Podcasting. I’ll miss S&P – haven’t listened to the Geezercast, and love the premise. This means there’s an opening on my gPod. No worries, it was quickly filled by Merlin Mann’s 43Folders podcast. Merlin had …

Multiple Languages, Same Message – A Reason for a Comment-Cast

When I was developing WP-iPodCatter, it seemed straight-forward enough to tie WordPress’ enclosure detection with the Comments RSS feed to create a comment podcast, or comment-cast. I didn’t have a personal need for this feature (so it’s not as fully developed as the others) but I thought it’d be neat and it was easy to …

WP-iPodCatter Now v1.0

I’ve cleaned up a few things based on the feedback from the 0.9a version, and tweaked a couple more things. Decided “0.9” wasn’t as round a version as I’d like and v1.0 felt better. The Biggest Changes: – Comment-cast is now a checkbox option (there were some problems with it being supported on earlier versions …