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Shoutcasting for two bucks a month I popped for the lowend 5-listener, 24k plan on wavestreaming.com. I have If it doesn't just open, paste the listen URL -- http://cuttingedge.wavestreamer.com:3418/listen.pls -- into your audio player wherever you're supposed to paste streaming URLs. For example, in WinAmp, the play URL item is under the File menu. In iTunes, it's "Open stream" under the Advanced menu. Nice place to stick it, huh, like you'd find it there.
If you tell me in the chatbox that you're listening (and I see it) I'll probably open the mic and say something surprising. Or maybe even sing. On or offline right now: Now playing: How many listener slots taken, x out of 5: Widgets are basic, just individual javascripts. I guess they intend for you to do make your own. Can't get the WMP embedded player to work. I guess you can't embed WinAmp? I think I'll make an HTML file with the contents of that box and the chat box. That way my listener -- Hil -- can save it to her desktop and see if I'm on the air without necessarily visiting my blog. I wonder if you can do what the WebX and LiveMeeting people call "spiking the license" and up the number of listeners short-term, just for the duration of an event. I'm full of wonder! I also wonder what you could do with this XML file. New message board spammer trick [a href="http://zincshoes.blogspot.com/"][span style="color: black"]zinc shoes[/span][/a] There's a built-in style for text-decoration: none, so when the spambot colors the links black, the links don't look like links. I almost didn't bother to delete it, almost worked. Has anyone ever run into one of these types in person, I mean people who write these scripts and run sites that get their traffic this way? I wonder what they are like. Has anyone ever tried to reach them in ways other than foiling their scripts? Ever since the BlogHer Blog thing -- which I'd still like to write more about sometime, maybe -- I've been thinking that if you could identify them, and talk to them about what they're doing, you might find that some of them simply don't know it's wrong (or don't choose to see it as being wrong), and some of them might be reached. Sour taste Like a bunch of other people I keep "tuning in" to each day's new Rocketboom to see how it's coming along. I think it's been uneven, but what do I know. I chalk it up to re-exploring the space and think that's a good thing in general. One thing that makes me not as anxious as I once was to check the newest episodes is the comments page. I can't not read the comments, but the over-partisan nature of them is starting to turn me off. It's coloring my overall experience of visiting the site, making it less pleasant when it's supposed to be fun. I think I'm a loyal friend, employee, wife (when I was a wife), Democrat. But I have never ever had very much tolerance for partisan behavior in any form. I hated it when the U.S. Congress split down the aisle over the 2000 elections or the Lewinsky matter, bristling when I'd see a politician on TV taking up lawyerly stances on things like hanging chads or intern relations. When you spell out the subtext of things like this you see how absurd it is to line up in teams: "I belong to X political party, therefore it takes X number of points of connection for a sliver of cardboard to qualify as being attached -- this year." "She's my friend, therefore I disagree with everything said by that person she is having a disagreement with, and I hate his shoes too." "Dave shut down my blog's server, so I don't like him, therefore unconferences must not be a good idea and RSS is not a good format." "Our departments are not getting along very well right now, therefore that funny thing you said isn't really very funny." "I liked Amanda, therefore Joanne voice is too husky." "I liked Amanda, therefore Drew is too artsy." "I liked Amanda, therefore the sound quality is bad." "I liked Amanda, therefore I am determined that everything I see here will suck and I will tell you about it and tell you about it and tell you about it." I wonder how the top Digg users feel I've only been following the Calacanis offer to pay top Digg users in a skimming way, reading the usual suspects. Is there something to read from the top 50 Digg users? I mean besides comments on Digg. I guess I'm not interested enough to do what would amount to reporting on it by digging through the comments. Later: By way of Matthew Ingram I see that Mark Glaser has done some reporting. |
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