Wow! Can you believe it!! Two in one day!
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This one is more focussed on my Second Life. Still a bit of a ramble (just the way I like it) – tangential thoughts and ideas. No outline. Podcasting by the seat of my (flexi) pants! Woo!
I made the intro music here, using sounds that the UI makes, along with some beats and stuff I threw in there 
Hope you like it!
Just trying the mp3 button in here to see if this works. If it does, hey I’m podcasting again! Hurrah!
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Wa hey!! I’m alive!
The podcast will not show up in the enclosure here, so use this feed link to subscribe
Just a welcome back from me really. A bit of a ramble on about what I have been up to with no format or preparation at all. But better than not doing one at all though, eh? In fact – don’t answer that More to come! Podcasting by the seat of my pants!!
Download “Ghostriders” (mp3)
from “The Rewinds”
by The Rewinds
Livewire Recordings
Download “Left At the Party” (mp3)
from “Yes Yes To You”
by The Affair
Absolutely Kosher
More On This Album
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OK. Now I can see how this mp3 player works here, I think I should be able to hook it up to my mobile publishing system. The things is – does it show up in m y rss feed as an enclosure? Hmm.
Answer: no.
While sat here, it occurs to me how annoying it is that I have so many old snapshots in my inventory, which are stuck here. We can’t get them out. What we need is a way to open a snapshot we have taken (not a texture) and send that as a postcard. Emailing out appears to be the only way to get stuff from one Life to the other.
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Heh. This is funny. A site which will make any webpage look like a document in Word. Here’s this site and another. Very clever Check out the fake motivation text document when you roll over the ‘Boss Key’
Over on Scripting News, Dave Winer has been talking about the concept of ‘codecasting’ whereby instead of audio or video being sent via an RSS enclosure, a software update for the receiving app could be downloaded and installed.
This is very much like the way that all Dave’s Frontier-based applications have updated for some time, I believe.
I have been suggesting alternate uses for the RSS enclosure for some time myself. But also leveraging the very nature and characteristics of OPML and RSS too.
I think that the distributed media network model provided by an approach of ‘OPML plus RSS to the Power of Users’ – as in development at podcast.com ) could also power a software documentation system. I have also suggested this could also power the perfect forum software, but more on that in another post)
Imagine a directory where all the top level folders were software vendors. The next level would be software languages and applications.
Then the next level, drilling into the folder (via OPML inclusion) would be the language/software API itself. A list of each method/verb etc. These could even be categorised prior to this list, depending on the software it is documenting.
Each method/verb link in this OPML list would link to an RSS feed. IE: Every function available has its own RSS feed. The title of the feed is the name of the verb, the description is the description of the function being documented, with an example.
Then every RSS feed item below it is actually the user/developer generated content – the cool snippets of code – the wisdom – the experience : the BEST bits. 
Look at PHP.net and see that often the most useful information on each function page is actually the list of submitted comments below the official instructions. Also see Macromedia/Adobe’s LiveDocs. Most APIs have a tree like structure which OPML lends itself to building very easily.
Touching briefly on the concept that OPML alone could power forum applications, then the depth of communication and knowledge available for future groks is incredible.
And the best thing being is that all this would be ‘WELL-FORMED’ data. It could document almost any software language ever made.
ps: I am suggesting all this to the owners of software.com – for like podcast.com, I believe that generic domains should do what they ‘have a duty to do‘. Anything else, and they are merely squatters trying to make a fast buck. (imho)
Just to let you all know that I am working on getting the new Blogger accounts working here. Google really have not made it easy, which is why it has been taking a while to get my head around it all
I think I just had a minor breakthrough in understanding how they need it to all work, but now I have to work out which bits to encrypt and how. And I have to generate something called a ‘nonce’. Which is kinda funny.
While researching how to provide support for these Google accounts, I asked an employee : Q: will the users be asked to move? Or forced to move to the new system?
To which he replied : ‘Force’ is such a strong word. But the movement from old Blogger to new Blogger is not optional.
Well, if he doesn’t make it in GoogleLand, he can always try his hand at being a politician
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