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Wednesday, October 26, 2005CNET OPML TOP 100 Nice to see another organisation dumping all their feeds into OPML. Very useful. Not so useful, however, is the ommision of any 'type' attributes!!! ARGH!!! Please can we have type=RSS in this lot? Thanks.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005Tuesday, October 04, 2005boi..oi.oi.oi.oi.oi.oi.oi.oinnnnngnggggg!!
Saturday, September 17, 2005Virgin RADIO guy (james) got a grilling. "You don't get it!" they said to him.
Podcast Paul the pod legal eagle is up Freespeech - music etc on podcasts...
Watching a live Richard Vobes show. Really nice to see dad and daughter doing stuff. Connectivity to my demo server seems a bit flaky so upload demos just don't seem to be happening. Argh! Hmmm....
PodcastconUK London We're here in the Berners Hotel in London for PodcastconUK. Free wifi all day. Lovely.
Saturday, September 03, 2005hi nick sdfsdfsdf
Friday, September 02, 2005Monday, August 29, 2005in somerset... old freinds.. new babies...
Friday, August 26, 2005OK... It's back... I had to do a full reinstall and slowly drop my backed up www files into the new Mydocs opml folder... phew...
Something has bazookad my main setup. grrrrr
is this thing on?? my main kossopml blog wont update. I haven't changed anything. OR done any digging and hacking for a LONG time. Just seemed to stop yesterday. Wednesday, August 17, 2005*YAWN* *stretch* Sunday, July 31, 2005STILL WORKS Signing off for now. Will probably pick it up in a few months when some things have passed and a few more versions get released. Toodle-pip indeed. Wednesday, July 27, 2005hi tris!!!! Testing New Entry Button It works! Is the Radio on? I'm wondering how much of the stuff like macro etc, which work with Radio will work here? Tested a couple of them which didnt work. Will have a dig later. Space Shuttle Discovery Launch Successful I will post the video feed from Nasa later.
Dave Winer Keynote @ Gnomedex 5.0 Tuesday, July 26, 2005Is the Radio on? I'm wondering how much of the stuff like macro etc, which work with Radio will work here? Tested a couple of them which didnt work. Will have a dig later. Space Shuttle Discovery Launch Successful I will post the video feed from Nasa later.
Dave Winer Keynote @ Gnomedex 5.0 Of course it still works!!! Now, I think I'll make my first podcast through this, the recording of Dave's keynote at Gnomedex5.0 But not until I get home and upgrade my 'main' installation! Hurrah! Hoopla!!! :)) 7/25/05; 6:13:02 PM GMT : WELL DONE DAVE!!!! You've SHIPPED!!!! It WORKED!!! YOU WORKED!!!! Congratulations! Happy Skiing!!!! :) ========================================= Now, can someone tell me names of good 'new media/tech' headhunters in the USA (East or West coast) or the UK? I have a errr 'friend' who needs to get another job asap! ;) ta. mail me at kossognome@gmail.com It's time to move on (says my friend) ;) Monday, July 25, 2005Of course it still works!!! Now, I think I'll make my first podcast through this, the recording of Dave's keynote at Gnomedex5.0 But not until I get home and upgrade my 'main' installation! Hurrah! Hoopla!!! :)) 7/25/05; 6:13:02 PM GMT : WELL DONE DAVE!!!! You've SHIPPED!!!! It WORKED!!! YOU WORKED!!!! Congratulations! Happy Skiing!!!! :) ========================================= Now, can someone tell me names of good 'new media/tech' headhunters in the USA (East or West coast) or the UK? I have a errr 'friend' who needs to get another job asap! ;) ta. mail me at kossognome@gmail.com It's time to move on (says my friend) ;) Going to try saving a file in my web folder to see if it goes up.. should it? hmm YES! testfolder and jpeg within gets uploaded when saved to MyDocs/OPML/www/instantOutliner/testfolder/dave.jpg but not when saved to www or www/blog - i think this is right http://hosting.opml.org/kossog/instantOutliner/testfolder/dave.jpg IT WORKED!!! Patience, dear boy!!! :)) Hurrah for Dave!!! Ignore the entry below, re: changes. It all seems Hunky Dory now. So much so, that I think I will listen to that album now : especially ch.ch..ch..changes ;) :) Hmmm My changes do not seem to appear on the changes.opml.org , though I believe this could be to do with our firewall, despite my proxy settings via port 80 Will try again and wait a few mins to ses if I appear on the list OK. NEW test, with FRESH folder and install - SAVE BUTTON works!! ALSO, I did not need to copy any of the databases over, which I was expected to do - in a way : my buddies list has gone though, (expected) testing from the BBC network, via version 0.54 on my laptop Ctrl+S works Not fresh folder: Save button gives error: Can't call "item #1" becuase it isn't a script. (used Ctrl+S to save this entry) Sunday, July 03, 20057/3/05; 2:20:31 PM GMT We're back in blighty!!!! Zzzzzz ;) Friday, July 01, 2005Talking of RSS Fun(d) I own a few domain names in the RSS space:
writerss.com listenerss.com casterss.com podcasterss.com So, if anyone fancies them, please drop me a line :) I'd really want them to go to a good and loving home, as I possibly won't have the time to do the things I dream of doing with them. You could also tap me for some ideas for them - and trust me, I have ALOT of ideas for these babies :) Thursday, June 30, 2005Hurray Monterey! 6/30/05; 2:15:46 PST: Just checked into the Hyatt Regency in Monterey. Very nice hotel resort type place, with a nice room right infront of the pool and hot tub :) Again, GPS got us here, no sweat. Lovely hot sunshine, so just off to get kitted up for some quality R&R with Dr.Jo. Mmmm... I wonder if the wifi stretches poolside :) Once a geek - ALWAYS a geek :) Heh. Later I'll upload the podcasts we've recorded since we got on this trip. The tmobile wifi is a bit flakey though. It's dumped me out a few times already. Ho hum. Cheers!!! :) Just checking out of Hilton in Scotts Valley right now. Suprised to see lack of posts on this blog? Me too! Wind back a day or two. iTunes 4.9 IS OUT AND CONFUSING Well, it looks like they still have a way to go to clean this up. Always happens when people rush out software. But it's rather bizarre to find BBC News' Front Page at the top of the list of podcasts in iTunes. Errrr.. hello? There's no podcast there matey! Is this becuase people have submitted the RSS feeds from news.bbc.co.uk, or what? Surely iTunes should be able to distuguish between News RSS feeds and Podcast RSS feeds WITH ENCLOSURES! Aiee! So, here's the funny 'Top Podcasts' list for you: 1. BBC News Front page (NOT A PODCAST) 2. iTunes New Music Tuesday (NO ENTRIES) 3. Pete & Geoff : Virgin Radio (A 'kinda' podcast) 4. Inside Mac Radio (AT last! A podcast!) 5. 'Podfinder' : Adam Curry (Seems to be just his blog) 6. In Our TIme by 'Unknown' : Errr..that's the BBC! 7. Engadget Podcast : Peter Rojas (HURRAH!) 8. Today : Unknown (ANOTHER BBC show) 9. Quirks and Quarks : Unknown etc...etc.. Virgin Atlantic Podcasts. FLY POD! Virgin Atlantic has launched a series of podcast guides to New York for travellers to download from its website. Apparently done by a UK team called Loudish. Nice idea : you can subscribe here. but, is it a real podcast, per se? Depends how often they update it, I suppose. They should be putting entires in reverse chronological order. ;p These could make a really nice travelling companion. It looks like they will cover the rest of their routes. Hmm.. I found this story via Revolution, who usually have their finger in the pulse of digital media, but when they say "the firm is also making available a branded, downloadable pice of software called Podcatcher", it makes me wonder. Is this supposed to be a product name? What's also a bit odd, is the company behind it have created this 'The Podcatcher' for downloading (presumably a branded ipodder client), but they say that it requires iTunes 4.7, but that iTunes 4.8 is reccommended.... err.. lads....??? Hello? It's Tuesday :) Guess what's coming out today? :D hmmm Wednesday, June 29, 2005Santa Blues Yesterday, we cycled over the bridge to Sausalito and had a nice wander around the harbour there, before taking the ferry back to 'Frisco with legs like jelly. More ticks in boxes. We felt very proud of ourselves for cycling so far! :) And fit. We finally got to Alcatraz today. Another one of those childhood amibitions with a tick in the box! :) Then we went and picked up a Chrysler PT Cruiser Convertible and headed on up to Muir Woods for a stroll around the Redwoods. Gorgeous! On Alcatraz, it was really cool to see the actual prison cells from the various movies I've seen about The Rock, especially the ones with the tunnels dug by Clint and his gang. With the roof down, it was so odd driving though the clouds over the Golden Gate and feeling really cold after driving through the hot city of San Francisco! The brief changes in climate are really strange indeed. After that, we headed south down the coast with my MiniGPS Bluetooth gizmo hooked up to my PocketPC with TomTom telling us which way to go all the time. GPS is truly a fantastic invention - the first time I've even been behind the wheel of a car for a very long time, let alone in a foreign country - TomTom really is a lifesaver. I'm sure we'd still be lost on the roads of Marin without it. Heh. We might head further down to Monterey or Carmel tomorrow. I really want to visit Clint Eastwood's reastaurant, called The Hogs Head, as I know the guy, from the little village I grew up in Somerset, who carved the hog heads outside. Tick! I have loads of audio, and photos to upload of our exciting little adventure. So, stay tuned! Monday, June 27, 2005Enricos. Broadway and Kearney, San Francisco. Well, I think we just stumbled across one of the nicest places to hang out and eat, drink, dance or just watch the world go by - 'Enricos' is a truly wonderful place: "Since 1958, the preferred haunt of Artists, Writers, Ancient Beatniks, Ageless Bohemians, Bibliophiles, Boulevardiers, Billionaires and Bums, Critics, Cynics, Clampers and Curmudgeons, Poets, Pimps, Politicians and Profiteers, Cops and Robbers, Radicals and Revolutionaries, Rogues, Rebels and Rotters, Hell's Angels, Strippers, Musicians and Jazz Aficionados, Dilettantes, Debutantes, Degenerates, Manic Desperados and other Shady Characters, Slumming Socialites, Coyotes, Courtesans, Feminists and Cigar-puffing Adventurists, Arbitragers, Actors, Athletes and Authors, Men of Letters, Women of Numbers, Journalists, Columnists and Media Hacks, Professors, Teachers, MD's and PhD's, Winos, Cork-sniffing Oenophiles, Cuisine Weenies, Sycophants, Gourmets, Gourmands, Gossips, Gangsters and the Broadway "Kosher Nostra", Outlaws and Lawyers, Hipsters, Hookers, Hippies, Yuppies, Techies and Dot-Commies, Ex-Techies and Dot-Commies, Geeks, Nerds and Webmasters, Hollywood and East Coast Expatriates, Finocchios, Transvestites, Scoundrels and Skells, Tenderloin Touts talking trash, Ex-spooks and Green Berets, Broken Down Thugs for hire, a Detective, a Rocket Scientist, Art Hungry Impresarios, Book Artists, Fine Printers and Friends of Calligraphy from the World over." On the wall in the restaurant is a huge painting, depicting the regulars from years gone by. The cool thing was, that at at least three or four of the subjects were there in the bar, including the classiest couple I've seen in a long time. Possibly in their seventies, with dancing feet like teenagers, and smiles to match. The Lady looked like she just walked off the silver screen. Beautiful. Glamourous and amourous, with a spectacular figure and an awesome presence. The Man sure knows how to keep his Lady fine. Music, dance and fine romance. :) There was guy with a kitten and a puppy there. Another regular, by all accounts. He popped the kitty on top of the podium at the front of house, right on the sidewalk and it looked right at home. One cool kitty cat. :) Did I say how much we love cats? ALOT! Camtastic! Dr.Jo has bought a new digital camera. A Canon SD500 - otherwise known as the IXUS Digital 700. A bargain at $350. It has magnificent definition and even takes video at 60 frames per second! I'll link to some of her pictures when she gets them up on her Flickr stream. I think it was her first 'significant purchase' of a 'toy' like this. She's very, very happy to have a camera/gadget that's better than mine :) Heh. Will it last? :) Jealous? Moi? Non! Back at the hotel now to charge up the new toy. Possibly back to Enricos for dinner later. If not definitely tomorrow, after a bike ride and trip to the clink :) Good Moaning Evrehbuddie Woo, up at the crack of dawn today to pop down the road and meet the feedfatha for brekkers. Hurry up Doctoe! You look beautiful! We're going to jail today. The Rock, that is. It's one of those places which I remember from when I was very young: Alcatraz. Sure, it's a touristy thing to do. But, we're tourists here, right? I'd always loved the films they made about the place. Should do some interesting soundseeing from our cell. ) Sunday, June 26, 2005Gno Flippin Downloads! Wow, what an amazing couple of days! Gnomedex was greeeeat! I have recorded alot of the sessions and will get them and loads of photos I took up online just as soon as I get to a wifi connection that doesn't crap out every minute. I think the disconnects are a deliberate measure by the provider to stop downloads. This has to be the most annoying and frustrating connection ever from ElevenWireless. Hopefully we'll get a decent connection in San Francisco. Who knows? : We met so many great people at Gnomedex. I had arranged with a few people, including Doug Kaye, the producer of ITConversations to do us a 'Hi, this is Doug Kaye from IT Conversations and you're listening to the Bluggcast" It was a bit noisy when we had a chance to do it. So we didn't. Then we never got another chance. :( Dammit. Carpe Diem. Saturday, June 25, 200516:30 Admin takes the stage, starts DeltaSierraCharlie #200 and gets everybody up and dancing to a mashup as he delivers his keynote, while actually recording today's show. Props to Robert Scoble for 'Scobleizing' by runnig around like Steve Balmer ( ;) ) and getting people up and groovin' Adam's wearing a tie. And one of my badges ;) heh 11:30: Mark Fletcher from Bloglines, Scott Rafer from Feedster and Bob Wyman from Pubsub take the stage for a session titled 'Tomorrow's RSS' : the thing is, they seem to be talking about Atom alot. Bob Wyman seems to be an AtomGuy. I have't seen one 'TeamAtom' badge ;P heh 10:30: Day two of Gnomedex and we've had a beautifully personal and insightful presentation on blogging. It truly blew everyone away. Awesome. Friday, June 24, 2005Loads to add later when the wifi connection gets better Connectivity is a big issue when you have 400 geeks with laptops in the place, so I'll be uploading all the media I've grabbed today when I get back to the hotel later. It's been a great first day with lots of cool stuff. I've recorded most of the sessions, so I'll be sharing what I can, when I can. Microsoft Embraces RSS - and then some... They have proposed some new namespace extensions to RSS 2.0. This will enable publishers of RSS to make the feeds they supply 'smarter' when viewed in IE7. As far as other browsers? Hmm. I expect they will make a fuss about it at first, then adopt and extend. Microsoft will be publishing these specs available under a Creative Commons share-alike attribution license. A short video clip from Larry Lessig welcomed them to the Commons. IE7 will detect RSS in pages, in a similar way to the way Firefox shows an orange button on a page with a RSS link on it. Clicking on this new button in IE7 will take you to the RSS page, but it will display it in a 'prettified' way, similar to the way that Feedburner obfuscates the XML data and presents it to the user in an easy to customise (and brand) fashion. One of the tags will effectively define what 'kind' of RSS feed it is. So, an aggregator will know if the feed is a news feed, a list, a blogroll, a directory etc. This is because obviously not all RSS feeds are regularly updated, therefore reducing bandwidth. The new tags and namespaces will enable a publisher such as Amazon for example, to define a set of tags which might refer to some tags in a wishlist to say what a price, or rank, etc might be for a book. IE7's rendering of the RSS feed will show a search field, and potentially a limitless set of tools for the browser client to filter and sort the data in a feed (which might be huge). All this happening on the client side, without having to go back to the server. MSN search provides RSS feeds for search results, so you can imagine how useful this client side activity can really help people. Another example might be that BBC News could insert extra tags to define a postcode, or latitude and longitude of where the story happened, or links to a football team's information pages while describing the result of a game. The potential uses for this are endless. But will there be a 'landgrab' for namespaces belonging to different publishers? Hmm.. Need to think about the effect this will have. As long as these people publish the information in the same way, and share it with everyone, then we should be OK. We shall see. Tagging systems will LOVE this. I'm very happy that this will help me add extra stuff into feeds created by podbat so people can find and filter the content in the way THEY want it. Great for parental control, and that sort of thing.
Thursday, June 23, 2005Gnome! Well, we're off to meet everyone now at the conference centre (UK spelling! ha!) and quaff some cocktails and start the schmoozin' ;) We are REALLY looking forward to meeting everyone and getting this party started! All gadgets are charged and ready to go!!! LATER, AGGREGATORS!!! :)) Adding at the top? A new entry button would be nice :) And how do a *do* a podcast? Hmmm???
Guess what this lot is :) 47.6029666666667;-122.33477;7.3;5.05596;1119500288;0 47.603035;-122.334741666667;6.1;6.05604;1119500293;0 47.6032416666667;-122.33487;22.7;6.59312;1119500303;0 47.6032983333333;-122.334861666667;25.3;2.778;1119500313;0 47.6033233333333;-122.33494;36.4;0;1119500332;0 47.6033033333333;-122.33498;34.6;2.92616;1119500338;2 Greetings from Seattle!!! I'm in a lovely coffee shop in the Pioneer district of Seattle. Lovely old brownstone buildings and a cool vibe. Also FREE WIFI! Which always gets a tick in the box, in my book :) Hey, I'm writing this using Dave's new outliner. How cool is THAT!! :) Very, James. |
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