- Ravi and Sonia interview John 'Johnny' Sullivan of James the Viking
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Digg for Stocks
StockDigg:
"StockDigg is a financial website that provides investors access to major financial news as well as user-submitted stories (e.g. stock picks and analysis) and individual stock rankings by investors."It's like Digg for stocks.
via [ Mashable.com/weblist ]
Mac Won't Play MySpace Music Videos
Myspace Videos won't play on a Mac:
Sorry, we currently only support Internet Explorer browsers with Windows Media Player 9+I installed Flip4Mac, but the MySpace video player doesn't seem to know that.
Does it work if you don't have Flip4Mac installed?
ccevgse
Exploding the Blog format
Jeff Jarvis syas that it's time to blow up blogs. Squible and DotClear are showing the way.
Daniel Gross of Slate says that it's the Twilight of the Blogs and Dave Winer responds, "To say blogging is dead is as ridiculous as saying email or IM or the telephone are dead". Scoble says, "I’ve been blogging for more than five years now and the “blogging is a fad” meme is one that consistently is reborn every five months."
HOW TO PRESENT ARCHIVED MATERIAL
I've been thinking about the blog format lately and wondering how to get a handle on both presentation of new content and archived material. Blogs are bad at presenting archives. You've got to drill down to much to find hte good stuff. They're also not so great at displaying video content.
Look at what Four Eyed Monters is doing to display their last six video podcasts. I like that and have played with something similar, Broadcast Machine.
JOINING A LARGER COMMUNITY
I've been spending some time over on MySpace recently. I like the community over there. I have 45 friends. [ Warning: Click that link and music plays! ] I normally wouldn't play music when a page loads, it's so 1980. But on MySpace it's kinda fun.
Demitri Martin has 18,541 friends. A few days ago he only had 9,000. That was until his video from The Daily Show went up on Google Video.
Community sites that get your content a bigger audience are interesting. I could just post my content over here on this little blog, or I could also share it else where and gain a larger audience. I like having it live in one place, but also want it to gain a larger audience. Directories help, but are so large that your content can get lost there too.
HUMAN FILTERS
Human filtered, selective directories like TopTenSources are one way of narrowing down the wealth of content in directories. Look what they put together for Boston. Here they choose ten bloggers and consolidate their content via RSS.
My favorite human filter is Adam Gaffin. He picks the best of Boston blog posts over at Universal Hub. I know Adam. I enjoy the posts he picks. I read him daily.
Daniel Gross of Slate says that it's the Twilight of the Blogs and Dave Winer responds, "To say blogging is dead is as ridiculous as saying email or IM or the telephone are dead". Scoble says, "I’ve been blogging for more than five years now and the “blogging is a fad” meme is one that consistently is reborn every five months."
HOW TO PRESENT ARCHIVED MATERIAL
I've been thinking about the blog format lately and wondering how to get a handle on both presentation of new content and archived material. Blogs are bad at presenting archives. You've got to drill down to much to find hte good stuff. They're also not so great at displaying video content.
Look at what Four Eyed Monters is doing to display their last six video podcasts. I like that and have played with something similar, Broadcast Machine.
JOINING A LARGER COMMUNITY
I've been spending some time over on MySpace recently. I like the community over there. I have 45 friends. [ Warning: Click that link and music plays! ] I normally wouldn't play music when a page loads, it's so 1980. But on MySpace it's kinda fun.
Demitri Martin has 18,541 friends. A few days ago he only had 9,000. That was until his video from The Daily Show went up on Google Video.
Community sites that get your content a bigger audience are interesting. I could just post my content over here on this little blog, or I could also share it else where and gain a larger audience. I like having it live in one place, but also want it to gain a larger audience. Directories help, but are so large that your content can get lost there too.
HUMAN FILTERS
Human filtered, selective directories like TopTenSources are one way of narrowing down the wealth of content in directories. Look what they put together for Boston. Here they choose ten bloggers and consolidate their content via RSS.
My favorite human filter is Adam Gaffin. He picks the best of Boston blog posts over at Universal Hub. I know Adam. I enjoy the posts he picks. I read him daily.
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Coffee with Carl
Boston Media Makers: Sunday Feb 19th 10-12.
I just got in from having a nice dinner with friends to find an email from Carl asking if there was going to be a meeting tomorrow morning at Sweet Finnish in Jamaica Plain.
It seems that a few people have been emailing Carl for the details...
As far as I can see, Brittany and Carl posted a few messages about interviewing techniques under the thread for Sunday Feb 19th 10-12. And although no formal plans were made for tomorrow it sounds like there is the requisite number of people (2) who want to meet for coffee.
So I'll make it three and post this over on the forum.
Boston Media Makers: Sunday Feb 19th 10-12
Sweet Finnish
Coffee with Carl
I just got in from having a nice dinner with friends to find an email from Carl asking if there was going to be a meeting tomorrow morning at Sweet Finnish in Jamaica Plain.
It seems that a few people have been emailing Carl for the details...
As far as I can see, Brittany and Carl posted a few messages about interviewing techniques under the thread for Sunday Feb 19th 10-12. And although no formal plans were made for tomorrow it sounds like there is the requisite number of people (2) who want to meet for coffee.
So I'll make it three and post this over on the forum.
Boston Media Makers: Sunday Feb 19th 10-12
Sweet Finnish
Coffee with Carl
TurboTax - Error 11002:2,-14
When trying to update TurboTax 2005, I got TurboTax - Error 11002:2,-14 'An error prevented the update from completing'.
You've got to re-install the program to get around the error.
Plus, if you've had trouble updating to new forms, you might as well delete the following files too:
Library/Application Support/TurboTax/2005/FormAvailability.xml
Library/Preferences/TurboTax 2005 Preferences/TurboTax 2005 Preferences
Some guy on the TurboTax message boards suggested it.
You've got to re-install the program to get around the error.
Plus, if you've had trouble updating to new forms, you might as well delete the following files too:
Library/Application Support/TurboTax/2005/FormAvailability.xml
Library/Preferences/TurboTax 2005 Preferences/TurboTax 2005 Preferences
Some guy on the TurboTax message boards suggested it.
Friday, February 17, 2006
Marijuana Fights Cancer?
Cannabinoids As Cancer Hope: "
“Cannabinoids possess … anticancer activity [and may] possibly represent a new class of anti-cancer drugs that retard cancer growth, inhibit angiogenesis (the formation of new blood vessels) and the metastatic spreading of cancer cells.' So concludes a comprehensive review published in the October 2005 issue of the scientific journal Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry."
Bloggers Helping Bloggers
Google Groups : Blogger Help Group:
"Welcome to the Blogger Help group! In this com?munity, you may search or browse for answers, ask questions and assist others with their Blogger blogs. To get the most from this group, please read our welcome message, posted in the How Do I? section. Note: only posts from 'Blogger Employee' are approved by Google."Blogger now has a help group on Google Groups.
Links for 2006-02-17
- Saw that BlogCode thiks this blog is like my blog. Happy to go visit again after a long absence.
- Just signed up. Adding code to my side bar soon.
- Tim worked on Blog Code.
American Idol Contestants Not Talented
Simon says top 24 were selected for personality, not talent:
"Simon Cowell admits that the judges and producers selected people who will make good TV rather than make good records. “When we made the decisions about who was going through, we tried to mix it up as much as possible so that there would be people who the audience would genuinely be interested in,” he said."What do we learn from this statement?
1. Not only Judges, but Producers also decide who goes through to the next round.
2. Contestants are picked based on who makes the best TV.
3. Reality TV is not real.
Turn Off Blogger Word Verification
Blogger just started asking me to WORD VERIFY my posts.
This is so frustrating.
I'm already logged in to Blogger.
This happened before and when I told them about it they shut it off for me. I emailed them but haven't heard back.
What makes it worse, is that after you enter the word verification string, if you just press ENTER on your keyboard, your post is saved as a DRAFT.
The default save state should be PUBLISH POST.
skgehubk
[PUBLISH POST]
Logan Signs: The Bad, The Good
Sadly, I had to go over to Logan International Airport again this morning.
I made a concerted effort to take another look at the signs to Terminal A to figure out why they are so confusing.
I figured it out and have outlined the problems right here in the following diagrams to help future sign planners get it right the next time.
THE BAD
As you can see in this diagram, the arrows lead you to believe that the FIRST right hand lane goes to Terminal A and the SECOND lane goes to Terminal B.
WRONG.
The FIRST and SECOND lanes take you to Terminal A. It's the THIRD lane that takes you to Terminal B.
[ Note: If you make a mistake there is an outlet from A to B ]
THE GOOD
This diagram, which I spent some time designing, shows you what my proposed new sign would look like.
Notice that for TERMINAL A is has TWO ARROWS designating that both LANES ONE and TWO take you to TERMINAL A, and that LANE THREE takes you to TERMINAL B.
Thank you for your support.
I made a concerted effort to take another look at the signs to Terminal A to figure out why they are so confusing.
I figured it out and have outlined the problems right here in the following diagrams to help future sign planners get it right the next time.
THE BAD
As you can see in this diagram, the arrows lead you to believe that the FIRST right hand lane goes to Terminal A and the SECOND lane goes to Terminal B.
WRONG.
The FIRST and SECOND lanes take you to Terminal A. It's the THIRD lane that takes you to Terminal B.
[ Note: If you make a mistake there is an outlet from A to B ]
THE GOOD
This diagram, which I spent some time designing, shows you what my proposed new sign would look like.
Notice that for TERMINAL A is has TWO ARROWS designating that both LANES ONE and TWO take you to TERMINAL A, and that LANE THREE takes you to TERMINAL B.
Thank you for your support.
Demetri Martin has 9,000 Friends
Myspace on The Daily Show - Google Video:
"The Daily Show segment of Trendspotting with Demetri Martin on The Daily Show on social networking sites, particularly Myspace. February 15th, 2006."Now he has 9,001 friends. ;-)
Demitri Martin Official Site.
Demitri Martin on MySpace.
Steve Garfield on MySpace.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
TurboTax Form Updates
TurboTax Support - Federal Personal Forms 2005 Availability Dates.
Me: Get Final FormsEverything will be better tomorrow.
TurboTax: There are no new updates at this time. Your TurboTax is up to date with the latest tax forms.
Me: OK
Me: Back
Me: Continue without updating
TurboTax: Your return contains forms that were not finalized when TurboTax was shipped.
Select Check Forms Availability and we'll see if the final version is ready for you to download.
You cannot file your return until all of your forms are final.
Me: Check Forms Availability
TurboTax: Your Final Forms are ready.
Select Get Final Forms to download them.
Me: I am in a maze of twisty little passages that all look alike.
Get beer.
Freedom Pastries
Newsvine - Iran Renames Danish Pastries.
Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they now have to ask for "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad."
Free the bandwidth: Step outside peanut
Eric Rice :: Saying buh-bye to podcast bandwidth: Audioblog.com offers unmetered bandwidth:
"In the big dance hall of podcasting, there's an elephant. And its name is bandwidth. And he causes problems. Especially if everyone wants to dance with it.
It's time to ask that pachyderm to step outside. ;-) "
RSS Autodiscovery
How to add RSS Autodiscovery to your site:
Wordpress, Blogger and TypePad are setup by default to autodiscover their inbuilt feeds.
So if you use a Feedburner feed, you've got to change your code, as noted above, to point to the Feedburner feed instead of the blog's fdefault feed.
REDIRECTING YOUR RSS FEED
Once you do that, you should also redirect those that have already subscribed to the inbuilt feed to switch over to Feedburner
I figured out how to do it for WordPress by adding some code to my .htaccess file. They are talking about redirecting your Feedburner feed over on the Feedburner forum.
There also a Wordpress Feedburner Plugin for this.
I don't even know yet if I can add the redirect on hosted sites like TypePad or Blogger.
"When you enable autodiscovery for your rss feed it allows browsers and aggregators to automatically detect the RSS feed when your browsing, and it makes it easy for the user to subscribe to it."I just bumped into the feed autodiscovery issue yesterday.
Wordpress, Blogger and TypePad are setup by default to autodiscover their inbuilt feeds.
So if you use a Feedburner feed, you've got to change your code, as noted above, to point to the Feedburner feed instead of the blog's fdefault feed.
REDIRECTING YOUR RSS FEED
Once you do that, you should also redirect those that have already subscribed to the inbuilt feed to switch over to Feedburner
I figured out how to do it for WordPress by adding some code to my .htaccess file. They are talking about redirecting your Feedburner feed over on the Feedburner forum.
There also a Wordpress Feedburner Plugin for this.
I don't even know yet if I can add the redirect on hosted sites like TypePad or Blogger.
The Prettiest Idols
Becky O'Donohue and Ace Young are the prettiest American Idol Contestants.
I even have an official American Idol Blog that says so!
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