Year: 2005
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Odeo Studio Test
Testing Odeo’s audio recording tool out this morning. It doesn’t do much yet – just lets you record directly into the computer and spits out an mp3 file. Actually, that skips the whole Ourmedia.org step in my theoretical podcasting workflow, so that’s nice. I don’t know how long a recording Odeo allows for now, but…
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Sphere beta launches
Sphere has been promised as a Technorati-killer of sorts in the crowded but mostly-inefficient arena of blog search. I just got into the beta, so what follows are first impressions: FAST. Whoa. Very Fast. Cool – you can choose whether to search by relevance or time, and separately, you can set how far back in…
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Where to vote
Heads up – it’s election day. If you don’t know where you’re supposed to go, you can look it up here. [tags]california special election, california, elections[/tags]
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California special election tomorrow
Vote NO on everything. Seriously. I know there’s a long history of ballot initiatives in California, and I know some of tomorrow’s counter-initiatives might have some merit, and in fact, I prefer direct democracy to layers of representation whenever I can get it. I am fully aware that James Madison and Alexander Hamilton shaped the…
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Topix.net including blogs in its results
Topix.net, a news site that provides specialized seaches and feeds for the topics and locations of your choice, has begun to include results from a pool of 15,000 blogs in its results, according to this story on the Topix.net Weblog. So that’s why I saw a post I had tagged “Greensboro” in Topix’s North Carolina…