Month: June 2005

My three year-old crawled into bed this morning at 5:30, and for no particular reason, put his hand against mine. He paused, then said wistfully, “Still small.” Tonight, eating out for dinner, our five year-old had finished his chocolate milk. Robin had a chocolate shake (remember, she’s eating for two) and while Ricky wasn’t looking,…

That’s right, we’ve moved. Steve snaps the front of the new building: As of this morning, we’re at 549 West Randolph, between Canal and Clinton. At the very least, slightly less spartan.

It’s official, iTunes 4.9 is out and available for download. As widely discussed, it includes podcasting support — it works very easily, though it’s obvious that podcasters will want easier ways to categorize their podcasts. Apple’s podcast specifications are here, which includes specifics on Apple’s RSS extension for adding meta data about your podcast. Its…

Someone at Gnomedex (sorry, can’t remember who) asked about pinging FeedBurner, so I dug up the answer. You can automatically ping FeedBurner (details are here) if your weblog application supports it; otherwise you can manually ping us using the “resync” feature in your account.

This is funny, I saw the original post pointing out the Chicago police website, then made the same connection that Steven Levitt did: In my last post, I talked about how Chicago police have begun posting pictures on the internet of johns caught soliciting prostitutes. Based on the numbers given in a Chicago Tribune article,…

This is pretty cool… Adam Curry is doing his concluding keynote as his 200th “Daily Source Code” live. Adam’s being very gracious, talking about a lot of the sources of inspiration that got podcasting to where it is today. Is it news that Apple’s creating a namespace for podcasts? (Update: Not really.) Great discussion of…

Buzz, Denise, and Jason are leading the discussion on legal issues relating to blogging and technology. I had lunch with Denise, who mentioned that Buzz was reinstalling Windows prior to the presentation (a bizarre pre-presentation ritual?), but it looks like the machine got its issues straightened out, as they’re leading the presentation using MindManager. Funny…

Steve Rubel and his client, Chris Sloop (CTO at WeatherBug) are talking about WeatherBug’s ongoing struggle to overcome a bad business decision 4 years ago (a distribution deal with Gator, a known spyware distributor). Jeff’s got CDs of WeatherBug Plus in the back (I just installed it, holy cow — it’s 96 degrees back home…

Julie Leung is giving a fascinating presentation about the boundaries of personal and professional writing, involving family without exposing them, maintaining balance between what’s hidden and what’s revealed. I love her technique of using photos to illustrate her points, rather than the standard three bullet slides. It’s powerful, and forces you to listen to what…

I’m two rows behind P.T. of Make Magazine, and his rotary cell phone is on the table next to him. It’s a funny, clever little hack. And it really works. I hear some people got copies of Make in their swag bag… which makes me wonder why I didn’t get one… I hear it’s a…