XKCD Nails Linux

Penguins are not big fans of Flash, that’s for sure. But they are a little out of touch and sometimes need a reality check. This reminds me of the old days when you had to do a little dance to get Linux to show the floppy disk icon on the GUI desktop. . . . → Read More: XKCD Nails Linux

RSS Mystery solved: for optimal solution go to the source

WARNING:  This post is about RSS, which is normally a pretty fluffy topic, but this article assumes you have a fairly technical appreciation for how it works.

I recently posted about what I hope is a trend to RSS feed bloggers’ articles into local community based social networks. If done correctly, this is a win-win. Blog article teasers can be automatically sucked in and recorded via RSS, providing a constant stream fresh content to the local social network with no effort other than the setup on the part of anyone, and the readers could be linked back to the original blog for full articles so that the blogger gets the traffic. This is the future and it will happen, and people like me can guide the process by pointing up the glitches. But there were a couple of mysterious things that I couldn’t figure out, (and I am pretty good at figuring things out.) I solved the mystery by talking directly to the people who wrote the software.
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StumbleAudio: a great way to discover new tracks

Stumble Audio

If you like stumbleupon for discovering websites and blogs, you are gonna love stumbleaudio for discovering new artists and tracks.   Warning: it is a flash site but the interface is well-done and intuitive.

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How to make an audio post

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Audacity
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The body of this post is audio. You should be seeing a little player icon. One of my test computers failed to display it. If you can’t see it, leave me a comment with your OS, browser and version so we can compile some data for the plugin author.  Thanks!

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TalkR — Audio of your blog

What is it with me and Text-To-Speech? Just fond memories, I guess. At one time I had a TalkR widget in my Blogger blog. It had a list of all the posts and it would speak whichever one you picked. It must have worked at one time or I would have . . . → Read More: TalkR — Audio of your blog