Test podcast

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 “SmartCastâ„¢” option, Feedburner finds any MP3 or other attachment and surrounds it with an enclosure tag. Right now it’s finding the [...]

Google video service – can we use it for sermons?

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. [...]

People under 30 listen to podcasts

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.

Microsoft video detailing their RSS announcement, includes demos

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 [...]

Channel 9

“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.

Big news on RSS coming from Microsoft tomorrow

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.

Made me think

Frank Johnson of Strategic Digital Outreach offers an interesting theological foundation for his view on church websites. I’m pondering it now.

Professional web designer will help raise more money?

It’s sort of an odd claim, yet backed up somewhat by interesting stats.

Is Feedster better than Technorati?

Seems like it might be. Terry Storch is complaining about Technorati too.

Web 2.0 explained

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 [...]