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Yo, Bob P Bob, I'll help as much as I can. Maybe a little later tonight, or tomorrow. But I'm new too and not a real programmer, so don't expect much! Sometimes I don't do things the most efficient way; I just do them the way I know how to do them. For example you'll probably be better off listening to somebody who knows how to do a feed inclusion some way other than my Feed2JS way which uses Magpie. Funny that you discovered the newbie list feed was a new feature on my blog's sidebar by subbing to my outline and seeing it on my to-do list for today. Did you have any questions about my laundry, or my closet cleaning project or my grocery list or my sure-to-be-unkept promises to myself? ;-) If something feels true it probably is I don't remember what the context was today for thinking about trusting your gut, but it reminded me of a Jingle Gypsy's visit to the radio station I worked at a long time ago. There are semi-customizable tunes you can buy for commercials. Places like these would give a local business an exclusive to the instrumental bed only within their own market, so it made jingles affordable for some pretty small enterprises. Neat idea. It may not even be much of a business anymore, because jingles are not used so much as they used to be. Anyway, once of the country examples he played cracked me up. It was a jingle for a law firm! Somewhere in the Southwest, I think. It was a typical twangy country song, straight country, not a bit of anything mixed in, and the lyrics were "If you think you need a lawyer, you probably do." Who Said? New passage in my lit game. Passage #79 Auditory learners and podcasting Amy Gahran talks about podcasting and learning styles, and points to an online learning style assessment. Turns out she's an auditory learner. I'm a mix: 44% visual; 31% auditory; 26% tactile. Tactile is usually called kinesthetic, I thought. Tactile's probably a better word. I know 2 or 3 people who can't get the word "kinesthetic" straight and call it kinetic. Love narrow targeting; don't love iTunes I've rambled here before about how I think the longtailedness of podcasting is its strength, about how narrow is good, and how podcasting shouldn't try to be too much like radio. iTunes has one of its temporary categories featured in the music store right now -- alternative sports. Some of the podcasts are about sports that might conceivably have radio shows dedicated to them, but probably not curling! Isn't that great? An endeavor that I wouldn't think could support a magazine can have something like a radio show about it. I love that. I think it's pretty cool that iTunes gathers together a bunch of podcasts in a given area that may or may not be a regular category and promotes them on the podcast index in the music store. It's probably the most helpful thing Apple is doing to expose podcast listeners to some of the non-MSM podcasts. Too bad, though, that I can't point you to what I'm talking about. I took the trouble one time to make a screenshot of the page, but I'm too lazy to do that this time, and I'm sure most bloggers wouldn't fuss with making a screenshot. I'm talking about something that's in the iTunes music store, so you'd have to have iTunes installed, and launch the application to see it. And if I wanted to point you to it, I couldn't just link to it; I'd have to be inclined to go into a very long convoluted un-internet-like rap about how to find it.
Don't they have this available somewhere on the web, where you don't have to be in iTunes already to see it? Doesn't it seem like they should? |
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