Well it was bound to happen!! Google launches Google Reader, and webbased RSS client. It was linked from the labs put it dissappeared !!! It was pretty slow, but I did catch a screenshot!!
It has some sort of RSS discovery, so you can just enter the URL, e.g. www.maccarthy.org/blog finds the feed at http://www.maccarthy.org/blog/feed/ .
It also has opml import and EXPORT!!! Yeah!
The BBC is reporting from PodcastConUK, Europe’s inaugural podcasting conference, in London.
There are some interesting quotes from the BBC and Virgin radio on Podcasting:
“It won’t be too long before this [podcasting] becomes the normal route to discover new talent,” says Chris Kimber, head of BBC Radio Interactive.
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In the short term, thinks Mr Kimber, this is likely to affect the types of programmes that get commissioned for the BBC radio output.
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At PodcastConUK, Mr Cridland announced that Virgin’s new unsigned band show, Virgin Radio Extreme, had been created with podcasting at its heart
It seems you can search by tag in Google Blog Search, if you enter “tag=cambodia” or “tag-cambodia” you get different results than searching for “cambodia”.
Via Fractals of Change , a great idea from Stuart Henshall
Stuart’s idea is that Bell South ought to immediately virtualize all the nonworking phone numbers in the stricken area. VoIP providers can then immediately make it possible for the owners of these numbers to reclaim them from wherever they are, set up voice mail on them, and/or forward them to other working phone numbers. Bell South can have the numbers back when the landlines are restored to service.
Via Doc Searls..
Check out the extremely odd Rocketboom vlog coverage of Katrina. I’m not sure what to think about it at all? What do you think?
I know some people hate him, but I like Robert X. Cringely. I liked his Revenge of the Nerds series. I like listening to him on his pulpit. I even liked his Plane Crazy documentary. So that said, I am looking forward to his new IpTV series, Nerd TV which starts next week. Hopefully the content will be great, it sure looks like he has got the delivery exactly right…
For those who think of television as radio with pictures and would rather listen to their NerdTV, the complete shows will be available in three audio formats: AAC (m4a file format, just like iTunes), mp3, and ogg vorbis. The audio files are, of course, substantially smaller than the full video versions, too.
For those who don’t want to spend an hour, we’re pulling two short clips from each show — “the juicy bit” and “the nerdy bit,” which ought to appeal to the technical and/or prurient interests in most of us. Give them a try, it’s easy.
The kind of content I like, anyway I want it. Perfect. I hope this kind of broadcasting leads the way.