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BloggerCon Podcasting session audio is up

By Donovan | November 9, 2004

Listen to the Bloggercon podcasting session audio recording. You’ll hear yours truly asking the first question about how to get radio stations on board. You see, I want to transform the way [Making Contact](http://www.radioproject.org “Making Contact”) is distributed, and cut out the CD mailing process.

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Blogging in the rain

By Donovan | November 8, 2004

Looks like rain today. Maybe. Maybe not. I never can tell until the drops start to fall. Here’s watts up with me right now.

[Bloggercon](http://www.bloggercon.org “Bloggercon”) was fun and I met some interesting people. I interviewed [Adam Curry](http://live.curry.com “Adam Curry”) and [Dave Winer](http://www.scripting.com “Dave Winer”). Be on the lookout for a new podcast of [iceplant radio](http://www.iceplant.org “iceplant radio”) soon to hear it.

I’m working on getting out a special edition of E-Current this morning. CORAL is encouraging [E-Current](http://www.coralreefalliance.org/ecurrent/ “E-Current”) subscribers to fill out a survey so they can better understand their audience. There’s a drawing too so you might want to get on the email list if you want a chance to win.

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Adam’s up…

By Donovan | November 6, 2004

My man, Adam Curry is leading the current session on podcasting. This is why I came here.

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Sylvia Paull, Agent Provocateur

By Donovan | November 6, 2004

At breakfast I met Sylvia Paull, and we talked about naming conventions in Denmark. She says one can’t name their child with a “weird” name or else the rest of the community can protest.

Sylvia knows Dave Winer from way back when and she’s quite an interesting person. She invited me to a weekly tech salon in Berkeley and I can’t wait to attend, starting next week. She also helped with the food here and I must say, the muffins were great.

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Flickr: Photos tagged with bloggercon

By Donovan | November 6, 2004

Want to play along and see what’s happening here in real time? Check out Flickr photos tagged with bloggercon

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Blogging at Bloggercon

By Donovan | November 6, 2004

Here I am at BloggerCon. Posting my thoughts. Fun so far..

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Radio 8.1 is Shipping

By Donovan | September 30, 2004

UserLand: “Radio 8.1 ships tonight.

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BloggerCon and Podcasting

By Donovan | September 28, 2004

This is the one session I will absolutely attend at BloggerCon. It’s Adam Curry’s discussion about podcasting, which is where I’m focusing much of my time these days. I have been maintaining a behind the scenes audio blog, getting my chops. When ready, I’ll start releasing them via my personal blog RSS feed.

As well, I’m near completion of a redesign of the National Radio Project site, with over four years of high quality audio documentaries online. The new site was created in Radio UserLand and I’ll release each week’s new 1/2 hour show as an rss enclosure. Radio makes this very easy to do. We’re hoping that listeners as well as stations will subscribe and have the show delivered to them over the internet while they sleep. Sound good? Stay tuned for the redesign to be made public in the very near future.

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Playing with MarsEdit

By Donovan | September 28, 2004

Paolo tried MarsEdit and asks a question that’s been on my mind. How extensible are weblog editors such as MarsEdit? As Paolo says, it’s easy to extend the UI in a browser but how can that be done in an application such as MarsEdit?

“Will there be a way to extend these applications?

If editing is done in browsers extending UIs and features is relatively simple. For example we have developed tools to allow users to add ENT data in their posts using Radio, Manila and MovableType. ENT is a little thing, there are many emerging types of microcontent and there will be the need to edit them somehow.

What about some kind of plug-in architecture to allow developers and users to extend tools feature sets? Are current API extensible enough to allow such features?” - Paolo Valdemarin

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Today’s Morning Coffee Notes explains the…

By Donovan | September 28, 2004

Today is a milestone. Today, Frontier, Radio’s big brother, goes open source.

Dave Winer: Today’s Morning Coffee Notes explains the open source release of Frontier. Just trying to preserve a life’s work of programming, so it doesn’t end up lost or forgotten. Peace brother.”

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