Month: June 2005

This may not be for everyone, but wow, did it make me laugh. The New Yorker transcribes the first talking chimp press conference. Bite bite bite.

I recently downloaded FeedStation after Nick Bradbury mentioned it to me at Gnomedex; it originated as the podcasting client for FeedDemon and is now being worked into the NewsGator family of products. It’s a great app, and one of the things I like about it is that it gives you the option of synching the…

Was excited to see a presentation by my friends Ron Friedmann and Tania Daniels over at Ron’s blog. There’s some good stuff in there, though when they got to “Who’s out there?”, I was surprised my former employer, Interface Software (er, that’s LexisNexis Interface Software. Or is it LexisNexisInterfaceSoftware?), wasn’t on the list. When we…

Very interesting: on the podcasters mailing list, Russell Holliman discovered that iTunes will download video enclosures as well as audio enclosures, and because iTunes can render Quicktime movies, it’ll play them too. Neat. I think demand for displaying show notes will grow pretty quickly — which Apple could easily do — which would make iTunes…

My friends at Echo Ditto (many of them are Dean campaign veterans) need a CTO, to replace Jim Brayton who’s leaving to join Barack Obama’s senate office as the Internet Director. Details follow: If you live near DC (or would consider relocating), have strong technology management experience, and would enjoy using your expertise to fight…

Brad Feld (who is an investor in and board member of FeedBurner) has a great post today about capitalization strategies for growing companies. I’ve never been much of a financial whiz (cue punch line: “That’s why he went to law school!”), but having gone through one IPO, a stock split in a privately-held company, and…

From Taegan Goddard: “It’s not a pay raise. It’s an adjustment so that they’re not losing their purchasing power.” — House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX), quoted by the AP, on a vote to increase congressional salaries. [Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire]

RibFest is a big deal in Naperville, we regularly get 100,000+ people over 4 days to come, gorge themselves on ribs, and enjoy the music. This year’s assortment of acts — David Lee Roth, Loretta Lynn and Kenny Wayne Sheppard on the “main” stage, with Blue Oyster Cult (”Cowbell! More cowbell!“), Adrian Belew, and Urge…

Earlier today we announced that we’re implementing support for iTunes “really soon”; the specs behind Apple’s RSS extension are here. Dave notes that it leaves a bit to be desired, and Sam suggests that there’s some inconsistencies between the spec and the examples, which will make it hard to validate. It’s exciting to see the…

I really like this post from Matt Homann. Something tells me it would be wise to start hanging out at a Starbucks near Matt’s office… Rosa Say passes on a great way to spend your marketing dollars: This morning Kerwin and I walked into a Prescott Starbucks and both ordered their strong-brew coffee of the…