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October 2005

127 posts

Convergence of Windows and Apple continue

As I know have been using my Mac off and on for about a 9 months while still living in a Windows world most of the time I can say that the thing that annoys me the most is the lack of toolbars on the applications I find myself getting irritated that the menus are not on the applications top

Blogs Defined

With Todd shopping for a new blog service, and anyone else, I decided to finish up a article I started a few weeks ago for GeekNewsCentral. Blogs Defined When I first heard the word "Blog" it sounded like something that was a waste of time. I could not seem to grasp what exactly a blog was, or what the point

Shopping for Blogging Software that Scales

I have been doing some shopping for a blogging application that will scale the way I need it to, and I have figured out one thing. I am not leaving Movable Type. No other blogging tool on the market will scale they way Movable Type does. Hands down it wins! During this search I had a dozen or so people

Blog Search Engine Traffic

I keep a pretty good watch on the traffic coming into the website, and I must say that Scobles post that talks about minimal traffic coming from Blog Search Engines had me busy for a couple of hours tonight. Causing the room temperature to go up from hard-drives hammering away running the past 12 months of logs thru a log

OPML Validator

I was working with Angelo today our programmer and web developer over at Podcaster News and we were discussing OPML and he said to me I wish I could check and see if these outputs are correct. I smiled internally an said Angelo did you know Dave Winer released a beta of a OPML validator last week. Angelo was surprised

Not enough hours in a day!

I looked at my task list tonight on timelines for the next week and I about cried. I have a very full week, but as soon as Podcast Expo is over things will slow down a little bit. This is like the race to the finish line were in the last quarter mile. We are on track with the Podcaster

Write a review on our Podcast on Yahoo

I noticed a tactic a couple of spoilers are using on Yahoo in going in and trying to lower people's top 100 ranking on the Podcast Listings by giving shows a poor review. If you want to write a review positive or negative I would be most grateful. [Write a Review of Geek News Central Podcast on Yahoo] [Subscribe to

We made a top 10 list

I am doing some late night surfing the net tonight, and found a link to Blogniscient As I am looking at there service, and through the listings I about fell on my face when we showed up in their Top 10 list for science and technology. Quite shocked to be honest with you, but cool none the less. [blogniscient.com]

Almost Two-Thirds of U.S. Homes Have An Online Computer

According to the most recent U.S. Census data, 62 million households in the United States have an Internet-connected computer. That means just over half, 55 percent of homes have relatively easy access to the net, including e-mail and web resources. This data, current as of 2003, shows a five percent increase in connected computers, compared to the 2001 data, and more than triple the 18 percent connectivity rate reported in 1997.

BBC Annotatable Audio project

Hey I caught a whiff of this today and man this project looks pretty cool. I hope the BBC releases this as Open source i would love to have this incorporated over here for all of our Audio files it would allow people to find commentary in the archive very easily. So very cool! [BBC]

Are you a 10% User?

Are you part of the 10% of Internet Users that use 80% of Time Warner's Bandwidth. If you live on the net, stream audio, play games download lots of files you probably are. What would you do tomorrow if Time Warner said we don't want you as a customer anymore and canceled your service for putting to high of a

BensBargains.net

Are you looking for some coupon codes. This is a site that is full of them and may save you some money on your gadgets. [BensBargains.net]

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