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Happy St. Patricks Day!
Just to wish our wonderful Irish reader(s) a Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
Hey, on a Friday too!!! Get to the pub! Quick!!
Does The Pope have a Time Machine??
Cooo, while trawling through loads of feeds today, building this system for podcasters, I was wondering why I was getting some strange results. I thought it was my code playing tricks with me, but no.
Now this is just one of the MANY MANY errors and quirks I find in people’s RSS feeds (which will be the subject of a future podcast), but it appears that the Vatican Radio One-O Five ‘Live’ podcast (among others) is being ‘future posted’. Notice the date on the most recent item? It’s in the THE FUTURE!
This could be an error in whatever time-travelling software the Pope uses for his podcasts, but I also find it very odd that this is a FeedBurner feed, and should have been ‘sanitized’ to a point. You’d think they would, wouldn’t you?
I am absolutely flabbergasted at the variations of RSS feeds out there, which people are relying on to get their voices heard on podcasts. All that effort to produce a show. We really need to help educate people on syndication feed practices. This isn’t a web site HTML page, which might show up and work in various browsers, even if the code is invalid, this is MACHINE-READABLE-CODE and should be written by machines/scripts that all speak the SAME language, or we’ll find ourselves in a right pickle.
Soon, we will be able to throw open the doors to podcast.com and see if we can collate some good, solid information, to go alongside the RSS 2.0 spec which can help people get it right. All that along with some podcast ‘grazing’ pages which we think you’re going to love 😉 We do!
It’s worth it. Trust me 🙂
ps: Still on a religious note, I have also noticed that the RSS feed for the alt.muslim.review podcast is in chronological order. RSS feeds should be in REVERSE chronological order. Now, this could be a mistake (which it is, really) or it could have something to do with the reverse order that pages and text go in Arabic (and other) languages. Hmm.. Interesting. I wonder if that’s it. If so, then all Arabic content syndication systems might need to give that some thought.
Handy MP3 player + Bluetooth handsfree thingummy whatsit
This looks handy. It’s called the iTech clip M. A little thing that you can hook up in the cable coming out of your mp3 player (no, it doesn’t have to be just a nano!) which also provides handsfree calling to your mobile phone. Cool! And cheap. Now, I wonder what the call quality is like? Does it even have a mic? Is the bluetooth audio to the phone in stereo?
Questions. Questions 🙂
I already have a pair of the Plantronics Pulsar 590 Stereo Bluetooth headphones, and the Bluetooth quality while listening to music or podcasts while walking around the house is pretty good. But the boom mic they have on it SUCKS.
After passing my dulcet tones along the tiny plastic tubing which sticks out of one of the earpieces, I’d just as well be warbling through a straw. Also, there was about a half second latency noticeable when I tried to use them as a monitor for a podcast recording. Impossible. Shame. I rather liked the idea of wondering around, totally wirelessly, recording my rants.
Yes, there are ‘kozcasts’ coming soon! If you must know, I’m just putting the finishing touches to the system I will be using to publish them 😉
O (my god) PML!!
I do believe that Rogers Cadenhead has spilled the beans on Dave’s bizarre mood recently. Here’s Dave reply. Oh dear, oh dear. oh dear. I feel sorry for them both – for different reasons. It’s no fun when things get to the lawyers. I think Rogers should probably give Dave back the money and show us what this OPML Factory is all about. If it’s anything like what Frontier does with users’ OPML, then it could be quite interesting. It all depends on the interfaces, as much as the tools and ‘share levels’ available to users. [Note: ippoder.org indiepodder.org has been running on Frontier and was down for quite a few days recently – I wonder if it has been rewritten yet? It probably is getting an overhaul via Podshow/Podcast Alley]
Another reason why all this is such an OMG moment, is that all this sounds remarkably similar to a big part of a system I have been developing, which I should be able to show you all very soon. I’m working as hard as I can and as hard as I have ever done, since leaving the BBC to follow my heart and passion to work with some great people (who I trust and respect) to build podcast.com. (coming sooooon!!!!!) 🙂
Sounds like OPML is going to hit the headlines for more reasons than expected this year than I thought!
Another OPML podcast!
It’s great to hear another podcast with loads of chat around OPML over on Alex Barnett’s blog. Present on the podcast were Alex, Adam Green, Joshua Porter and John Tropea. Maybe I’ll be organised enough to join in on the next one. 😉
Also, check out OPMLCamp. Which sounds like it should be really interesting. Hopefully I’ll be in the area around that date.
This past week has been incredibly busy, cranking out code like a you-know-what. OPML, RSS, feeds, trees, Flash, scripts, scripts, scripts!!
Hey, if the boot fits, strap it! 😉
Also, I noticed that Alex did a great job at annotating the podcast in the description. Now, this is perfect data to get organised in OPML with a ‘time’ attribute. I’m thinking that an OPML outline node with a ‘time’ attribute could point to an RSS formatted file/list containing the details, links and timestamps. Possibly in OPML itself? Either create something new in OPML – or use RSS in a different way, but utilising all the available elements?
Any ideas anyone?
Basically we need to think about simple ways we can organise and link files containing time-based annotation of the content in an enclosure. Thats data is so important. Audio search engines like Podzinger and Podscope could then output that data and enrich the data which points to and describes a podcast.
Then we need the tools and interfaces for all this. Mmmm… yesss… 😉
the bluggcast : howwedoit
here’s a little schematic of how blugg and doctoe do their podcast
Day One
Well, here we go! It’s day one here at the kozcave! Lots to organise here, then lots to explain and talk about, then lots to play with and share with you! I’m working hard to get you something to play with, instead of just look at 😉 It should be worth the wait! Heh.
Cheers!
I’ll be setting up a new blog very soon…
OPML 2.0 Draft Spec revealed
Dave Winer has revealed the draft of the OPML 2.0 specification. Woo!
I’ve had a quick read and most of it makes sense. But I have a comment to make on something that bugs me, as a developer of OPML-powered products. I’ll eat my dinner, then drink a coffee and post it on the Yahoo! Group which has been set up to manage the feedback to all this.
First impression though, is that I’m glad to see the ‘include’ type attribute.
I have a comment about the usage of the ‘link’ attribute, which may or may not be linking to an OPML file for inclusion or it may be a link to a website. Checking for .opml is a bit of a pain, when many people use php or whatever to generate their OPML. But I suppose it should be backward compatible with 1.0 for all those opml files out there which use ‘link’ to point to both web links and opml inclusion links. This new spec should get some good traction. I’ll support it. But I personally think ‘include’ should link to opml formatted files only and link should always be a link to a site. Maybe through extending OPML we can provide type flags for links to mp3 files, or video files or software updates, then build clients around this to consume that ‘opml enclosure’ of sorts.
More thoughts later…. meanwhile, have some icons 