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Found those links I said I'd find my post about integrated group comments. Here it is. Then four days later Roger at JournURL said on his blog that his software does something like that. I never did get around to checking it out. I'll see if I can do that yet tonight. Later: Nope, I'm out of gas. Dear Fran: Somehow it seems dumb to carry on a conversation between bloggers in blog entries, but that's what a lot of us seem to be doing. Oh well. That's why I keep thinking about integrated group comments. I'd link but I broke my blog's calendar and feel too lazy at the moment to hunt down my post and a response from somebody who makes a blogging tool that does this. Not suggesting anybody use that tool instead, but maybe study it and see how it handles comments. Oh, I should use OPML search. I'll do that after work and edit this if I have any energy left over. Anyway, Fran, on iTunes, you said your subscription to my podcast game is coming through fine. Right, if you're subscribed, iTunes seems to work right off my feed and updates instantly. It didn't work that way when my podcast first was listed, but within a day or two it did. The trouble now is the stage before a listener subscribes, in the podcast discovery process within the iTunes store. If you search or browse by category, you get an old podcast. In the case of my podcast, the most recent one shown is a month old if you've searched on a term that puts my podcast among the four top podcasts. If you search on a term that doesn't rate me a slot in that featured spot, or if you browse by category, the sample podcast is 10 weeks old. I churn out two or three rounds of my game each week, so timeliness counts. Interesting, your choice of words, "Subscribed to you." These one-person homemade podcasts are so personal, you do tend to think of it that way. I know I do. Glad you and your dad play the game. I'm working on ways to make it not quite so challenging. I wonder, now that Dave is all Appled up, if he'll start defending iTunes' way of handling podcasts. I doubt it. Between the proprietary namespaces and the company's manner of communicating with the producers and other stuff, it would be hard to defend. Y'know, though, Dave. You know how you objected to Apple putting a trademark in a namespace? (Now, don't yell at me; I'm a mouse and I get scared when people yell -- when anybody yells, not just you. I'm just saying... with a smiley ;-) ) I noticed that "Radio Userland OPML document" is the description of the OPML file type in Windows. It's not quite the same thing, because lots of file extensions apply only to one branded product. And I know this is beta. But if you want OPML to transcend all that, maybe Userland should come out. I got nothing Anybody else have trouble with your Windows clipboard not working right in the OPML editor? Sometimes I can't seem to paste the most recently copied or cut piece of text. Worst case scenario Now it's sounding as though New Orleans may not get the worst of Katrina, but it'll happen someday. Here is the CNN piece on the worst case scenario. War against the people A lawyer's blog devoted to the RIAA's lawsuits of intimidation brought against ordinary working people. (Found on A Copyfighter's Musings.) This guy's language gets you all stirred up. |
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