A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.
Europhobia summarise Tony Blair: “I’m right and everyone else is wrong”. I’ll summarise Tony Blair too: “ridiculous troll”.
Thanks for the link, Dave.
Ed Brayton: “Ah, this is what I love about the attempts by ID advocates to claim that ID is not religion - their followers always spill the beans. Here Voigt admits that the Dover case was a case “against religion”; I’m sure the DI would rather he say “against the robust research program of intelligent design theory”, but you see, Voigt has been listening to the wrong DI face and he’s not quite up to speed on the preferred terminology.”
Erik Barzeski sold his software company Freshly Squeezed Software, maker of the RSS reader PulpFiction and numerous other bits of Macintosh software. The software is now unmaintained and going nowhere. Shame. Despite it running slightly slowly, I rather liked PulpFiction. Until the maintainer gets his arse in gear, don’t buy a PulpFiction licence. Until then, Erik, why not join in with an open source aggregator and hack it to do what you want.
Audiomartini host Rick Wood is ill. Get well soon, Rick. In the mean time, they have an RSS feed, but it’s not advertised. It’s here.
Londonist: “Disclaimer for creationists: Dinosaurs, of course, never existed. The so-called ‘fossils’ that are periodically excavated at sites all over the world were, in fact, planted thousands of years ago by a youthful Richard Attenborough as a kind of ‘back story’ for his role in Jurassic Park.” “;->”
EasyBib is an online bibliography manager. I found it via Lifehacker. There are comments there about Word 2007 having bibliography functionality. Welcome to the party, Microsoft. Only you are a decade or so late.
There’s pix and natterin’s from yesterday’s podcast get-together at Dissident Vox, podcastpaul, jamesfcarter, Jo and Adrian. It was good fun. Lots of people with business cards too.
I’m really not sure what Steve Gillmor is saying in Friday’s discussion with Doc Searls on Gillmor Daily about links. Anyone care to explain what he’s waffling on about? Inefficient, “gamed” and “noisy”.
A “linkocracy”? What on earth was Steve smoking before he phoned Doc?
I just subscribed to Adam Green’s OPML Camp Participant Reading List and just realised that I haven’t seen my own feed in NewsRiver before.
On today’s DSC, Adam asked for feedback on how people listen to the show. I listen in numerous different ways. I’ve been listening to podcasts mostly on my long walks over the last few weeks. I try to do a two or three hour walk every day unless I am travelling or the weather is really shitty.
A mixture of long and short shows is good for me. Variety helps the podosphere because it lets people try out different shows to fit different tasks, different journeys and so on. I like Cory Doctorow’s craphound podcast because the chunks of story are just the right length for a Tube journey or to play just before dropping off to sleep.
One thing I would like is if the music and promos were all played together in something like this order: ideas and news and talky bit, audio feedback, then features (in Adam’s case that would be Metrosexual Moment and the like), then promos, then music. I’m ruthless in ascending order. I am very selective about the music, and if I don’t like it, I skip it. I also listen to music while doing different things than when I’m listening to voice.
What else? More Roger Smalls and less Comic Strip Blogger. Nothing personal, CSB, just not interested.
As for the music on DSC: more variety, and lots more soul. The stuff which Anji Bee plays is good, as is the stuff which Stephanie Renee plays on Soul Sanctuary Radio (though that’s not podsafe).
