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WE PLAN TO ATTEND the BT Young Scientist Exhibition in Dublin (11-13 Jan 07) and produce a few podcasts at the event. Last year, we cranked out several 40 minute episodes. This year, we will constrain each show to the satellite-friendly 24-minute limit and that ensures we can cram up to three episodes on a bog-standard CD.
80,000 WORDS. That's how many words Wiley the publishers think can be read between the covers of a book when aboard an aircraft flying coast-to-coast in the United States.
WE FILL OUR shopping baskets with the invention of Momofuku Ando, the man who invented instant ramen and founded Nissin Foods. He died today of heart failure at 96 years of age. From hungry space travelers to peckish college students Ando's quick noodles are truly manna from heaven.
FEEDBURNER AMAZES me because it just keeps getting better. I noticed something today--without doing anything, I could see outbound clicks. That's because Feedburner integrates some clever tracking with the "email this" link (part of "FeedFlare") on my posts. It's all part of the BlogBeat acquisition and it means that Feedburner's free StandardStats service now enables anyone using Feedburner scripts to track both feeds and site audience. The info is a click away from the Feedburner dashboard.
SUMMER BACKPACKERS to Europe should plan for a warm one. Global temperatures will rise to their highest levels ever recorded in 2007, according to meteorologists in Ireland and the United Kingdom. They believe there is a 60% chance that 2007 will top the previous hottest year, 1998. I burnt my feed on Greystones Beach that year.
BETTER THAN GOOGLE READER: Google Reader Trends. This very useful metric is a Digg Killer. This morning, mine told me, " From your 151 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 2,004 items, starred 43 items, and shared 0 items." Google Reader does not measure comprehension. Nor does it measure duplications--you get credit for two reads of the same thing if they're carried in separate feeds. I also believe you get credit for "reading" something even though you only see its headline. No matter.
I carry 90 different newsfeeds on my mobile phone and I have hundreds more on Bloglines but Google Reader serves up the most current flow to my focus window. I've only three tags in my cloud and one of them is my employer. Would that mean my reading of news is job-related?
IF THE IRISH BLOG AWARDS offered a prize for the lowest noise per character (highest S/N ratio), my vote would go to Fergus Cassidy. He's the reason I buy the Kilkenny Voice and the Irish journo with the best pedigree in the space of documenting social activism as a careful participant.
Looking for a Voice Newsfeed. Please don't just shovel the paper to the web when you've got natural blogging talent marking up the pulp.
See Also: Indymedia Ireland.
THERE ARE SOME reasons that we occasionally chance our arm and play licensed music on some podcasts and the most compelling justification comes from some major labels agreeing to license months-long play of podcasts containing big name artists in deals negotiated with consumer purchases.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, renowned for his expertise in all areas, advised young men on the sort of mistresses they should choose. "In all your amours, you should prefer old women to young ones," Franklin wrote. He adduced eight reasons in favour of mature mistresses.
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