From the archive

June 2006

74 posts

Some Blubrry.com Pictures are on the Net

Some pictures of Blubrry have made it on the net and as you look at them we are finishing up styling and had some elements in the wrong place but this is gonna give you a idea what it looks like. [PodcastHearld.com]

What to do when a site lies about its traffic levels

I was recently shopping for some advertising on some sites for a project I have going on, and when I approached a certain website I was told that they were getting a 100,000 hits a day. When I went to setup some Google Adwords targeted campaigns I did some analysis on the sites that I wanted to target I determined

Call to Action from IPaction.org

This just in and your help is needed in stopping another piece of legislation that will affect yoru fair use rights. This is a direct quote from the folks at IPaction.org "Tomorrow the Senate Judiciary committee continues its markup of Senator Ted Stevens omnibus communications bill. Is a lengthy and complicated piece of legislation, but hidden deep within are the

This American Life Locks MP3 Down accuse people of Illegal Linking

Some of you may have heard about the controversy that was raised when several blogs linked to the "This American Life" program MP3 which was publicly available on their server. The only difference was those sites links were in the form of a enclosure with a standard reference hyperlink in a RSS feed. According to the blogs in question "This

Blubrry.com Launch on Friday June 30th

We are proud to announce that the development team says we will be ready to open our newest Podcasting site on Friday June 30th. This will be a Beta Launch, and while the feature set in the site is not 100% complete we will be close enough to open it up to the podcasting community. Official details and information to

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GNC-2006-06-23

Congrats to our two winners tonight, $400.00 in cash and prizes. Another $100.00 winner on Tuesday. Some of you received a short show on Tuesday I cover that, and have a bunch of great articles that I review. Sponsors: [Save 15% on any order of $20 or more at GoDaddy.com!] [Check out the Honda Fit at Fit.Honda.Com] [Try GoToMeeting free

Telemarketers Targeting Skype Users?

A friend of mine in the UK was on a Skype call with another person I know out in Nevada when they were interrupted with another incoming call. It was directed at the caller in Nevada, and when he answered he was blown away when it turned out to be a recorded telemarketing pitch in Spanish. This is pretty discouraging

Net Neutrality: This is serious, No it’s a National Emergency

If you don't know who Tim Berners-Lee then I encourage you to click on the link, and read his Wikipedia entry so I will say he is justified in making the following statement. "When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that

VOIP callers will Pay Universal Service Fee Taxes

Well I know what this means for Vonage customers, your bill is about to go up, and you will now be contributing to keep small rural telephone companies in business. You will be paying to support companies that are still trying to surcharge for touch tone services. The very companies you are routing around you will now indirectly have to

Researcher Hack Wi-Fi Drivers to take control of a PC

If this does not make your eyebrows raise nothing will. I had not thought it possible to be able to actually exploit a system device driver in order to gain control of a computer. The ramifications of this revelation is huge. If you have a wireless network in your home, and all of your PC's are hooked up via wireless.

Every have someone look down their nose at ya?

Interesting Title I know, but have you ever had that happen to you, I know that I have, and when it happens it really pisses me off. It's not the workplace superior, subordinate look that people get from time to time, but it's the look combined with the tone of voice that someone uses when they are trying to asset

There is a lot of Mangled RSS out their!

Dealing with RSS, OPML and the Extensible Markup Language (XML) at the development front has been very straight forward when working with sites that have 90% of their XML valid! But at this point I am very worried in our deployment of Blubrry.com of the 10% of sites that have completely jacked up RSS feeds. As locked down as the

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