I’m using Feedburner to take a Blogger blog and turn it into a podcast feed.
The Appian Way podcast feed is simply the Feedburner feed of The Appian Way blog. When you enable the “SmartCast™” option, Feedburner finds any MP3 or other attachment and surrounds it with an enclosure tag. Right now it’s finding the MP3 [...]
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Check out this FAQ regarding the Google video service. They let people upload videos to their servers. Searchers can then find the videos and play them in the browser.
Could we use it for sermons? Resurrection currently doesn’t meet their “preferred video specs“. (They want MPEG4 video with MP3 audio. We use Windows Media Video. They [...]
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A little blurb in the May 24 issue of PC Magazine reports that 50% of people in the 18-28 age group have downloaded at least one podcast (compared to 20% of people 29 and above). This according to the Pew Internet Project, April 2005.
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This video is one hour long, but very interesting. Scoble with his digital video camera in the office with various Microsoft folks. Gives a good idea of Microsoft culture, explains their thinking on RSS, and demos how it can go way beyond podcasts.
If you can’t afford an hour, Scoble has full coverage on his blog [...]
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“5 guys from Microsoft” who are actually doing and/or trying to do all these Web 2.0 technologies and Cluetrain Manifesto ideas. They’re well funded, passionate, and on the leading edge. We can learn from them.
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Dave Winer gives a preview of tomorrow’s announcement by Micrsoft.
Also, did anyone else notice how prominently RSS was featured on Microsoft’s home page a couple of days ago? Looks like they’re changing their lead story frequently, so it’s gone now.
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Frank Johnson of Strategic Digital Outreach offers an interesting theological foundation for his view on church websites. I’m pondering it now.
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It’s sort of an odd claim, yet backed up somewhat by interesting stats.
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Seems like it might be. Terry Storch is complaining about Technorati too.
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Informative podcast of a previous Public Radio broadcast with a panel of experts explaining the idea of Web 2.0. Chris Lydon moderates.
Dave Winer repeats some of the things he said in his podcast I previously linked.
David Weinberger and Doc Searls, two of the co-authors of the Clue Train Manifesto, add their points of view.
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Listen to this 25-min podcast by Dave Winer, one of the Internet’s great innovators and strategic thinkers. It puts the innovations of RSS and podcasting into a strategic framework. I know it’s 25 minutes, but it is a good use of your time.
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This is an amazing tool for search engine optimization and site optimization in general.
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Here’s the ultimate epilog to a story of colossal IT project failure that made headlines in the national popular press 10 years ago - the ill-fated baggage system at Denver International Airport. It’s a good reminder of why it’s best to keep IT projects small, to deploy as soon as possible in order to start [...]
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A couple of years ago Jason Kottke shared insight into how power law distributions relate to the web.
Quoting from the post: “Many systems and phenomena are distributed according to a power law distribution. A power law applies to a system when large is rare and small is common. The distribution of individual wealth is a [...]
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Alex Yefetov says we should be building content on our site that relates to the most searched terms on the web, such as: sex, love, dating, health, and career.
Alex lays out the foundation of this approach:Bridge Strategy part 2
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Kerry Woo has some interesting stats about podcasting sermons.
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Linked In is another piece of social networking software. Some people I know are using this, including Ruv and Terry Chapman, the IT Director at Fellowship Church.
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Chuck Russell sent me to Socialtext and asked my opinion. I’d like to hear from Leo who doesn’t see how this is any different from web-based forum software we’ve had for years.
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Another couple of RSS readers to evaluate:RSS BanditAmphetaDesk
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