There has been a great deal of commentary in weblogs and elsewhere on John Battelle’s original post on saving the WSJ and others from irrelevance. You can track the full response here: bq. WSJ Responds to John Battelle’s “Joining the Conversation” Here’s where I think Battelle makes his most salient point. The importance of the conversation is paramount and rss,…
Testing Rojo
I just received my invite to Rojo and on first glance it looks pretty polished. I’ll take it for a more in-depth spin later.
Just Blog It
I have been on a quest to make posting from my newsreader du jour as frictionless as possible. My first blogging tool, Radio Userland, had that wired. Built-in aggregator, simple publishing options. I then moved to NewsGator and Movable Type and have never been able to post successfully to my MT weblog. While I liked reading my subscriptions in Outlook,…
Windows XP install finally worked
New 120gb hard drive: $100 New drive cable: $19.00 Finally getting my son’s computer working again: Priceless What a painful journey. I’m still not really sure what solved the problem but I think it came down to using a bad drive cable and improper jumper settings on the hard drive. I had issues getting Windows XP to install on his…
Google’s Desktop Search Released
Quick update: I selected search in my task bar and it launched in Firefox. It also looks like it will index Outlook files as well. This is very cool. I just downloaded Google’s Desktop search tool and my drive is currently being indexed. I’ll give it a test drive a bit later. Battelle mentions that it is IE only, but…
Public Radio Exchange is podcasting
The Public Radio Exchange has a podcast. You can subscribe to it here.
Studs Terkel: Patron saint of podcasting
I have been reading (and listening) to “Talking to Myself” by Studs Terkel and I think the podcasting community should adopt him as their patron saint and role model. Terkel famously carried around a tape recorder and captured the voices of people from around the world, producing a rich treasure trove of oral history. Listen to how he weaves his…
Still working on that windows install
Still trying to get Windows XP reinstalled on my son’s machine. I have wiped both hard drives, gone through the reinstall process and it just won’t boot up. I’m not sure if something is wrong with my installation CD so I am trying a bootable disk I found on bootdisk.com. Here’s a reminder for myself on how I created the…
Great how-to article on podcasting
Phillip Torrone put together a great how-to article on podcasting building on Hugo Schotman’s earlier piece. Both are mac based.
Links for Windows XP clean install
Had a bad technical support weekend at home. I need to reinstall Windows XP on my son’s machine and I can’t get it to read the partitions even though the utilities shipped with the disk show that they are installed and partitioned properly. This is a collection of links that might get me past this issue: * XP clean install…