Peggy Noonan. Does that name sound familiar? If so, you probably remember that she was Ronald Reagan's speech writer. On February 17th, she published an article titled «The Blogs must be crazy.» In it, she provides a list of 7 things she thinks are good about blogging and offers some predictions about what she anticipates will come from this phenomenon. The link came from David Weinberger's blog, JOHO.
Doc Searls, one of the authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, has posted a significant contribution to the conversation about corporate blogs this morning. It serves to underscore how the metaphors we use to discuss these attempts to frame our thinking about them sometimes can cause us to lose sight of what we are trying to do with a blog.
Thanks to this link at Tom Simpson's Webfeed Central, I discovered Harold J. Johnson's blog, Audioblogs.info tonight. He has some interesting information about the issues surrounding podcasting and audio information on the Internet. I've subscribed to his feed because I expect to find useful information there in the future.
The Podcast Directory at www.podcast.net is one of many collections of links to podcasts that are springing up like mushrooms around the Internet. Another is Adam Curry's collection at www.ipodder.org. Still another can be found at The Podcast Network. If you have a hankering for getting in on the fun and sampling some of the fare, these three links should be enough to get you started.
The scale of quality in podcasts ranges from the proverbial ridiculous to the sublime. This one, called The Seanachai, by Patrick McLean clearly rests at the sublime end of that continuum. I find it inspirational that someone has taken the idea of podcasting and done something so absolutely wonderful with it. Highly recommended!
Annalee Newitz has a nice article on Wired Magazine about podcasting, in which she calls «podcasting, the medium that promises a future where anyone can make radio, instead of just listen to it.» Check it out.
Alex Barnett has created a highly-informative, and to me entertaining, screencast that provides an introduction to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) that he calls RSS 101.
This picture is of my new cellphone, the LG VX6000 picture phone. While I can take pictures with it and send them to any email address, including to Flickr, the quality of the photos isn't as good as those taken with my Canon PowerShot G2, but its major advantage is that this «camera» will be at my side anytime I see a picture that I want or need to take.
This is the new MP3 player that arrived on Friday. As you can see it is very small, but it has a 1 GB capacity that will hold both mp3 music files, as well as podcasts, which is how I think I will use it most often. It also has the ability to receive FM radio and to serve as a mobile voice recorder.
For those of you who haven't seen this article at the New York Times (which requires a one-time, free registration), it provides a little more explanation of the phenomenon of podcasting, which has really taken off since about last August as a new form of expression on the Internet.
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