Haven’t tested it out, but the latest NetNewsWire beta now supports downloading enclosures (even automagically into iTunes). It didn’t trigger on all of the old enclosures in my 300-odd feeds (I shudder to think about all of the bandwidth sucked up if I have to download all enclosures in all feeds…), and there haven’t been any new ones today to test, but this looks promising!
There are a whole buncha updates in the latest beta, too. Feels much snappier (but that might be an optical delusion), and the UI has been cleaned up a bit (including a CSS Zen Garden-ish style sheet selector widget).
I’ve heard from my brother, who is building a house in Phuket. He’s fine, and his house is still there. Can’t say the same for the waterfront, or the tourists that were going for a pleasant morning swim.
An old friend of mine is from Sri Lanka, and his wife is from India. I wasn’t sure which parts of the countries their families are in, but was hoping for the best. I heard from him last night, and all of their family members are OK, in unaffected regions.
Now, if only it would get the auto-find-on-keystroke interface (like Launchbar or Quicksilver, but just for the content in the app) done like NotationalVelocity has… That would be the perfect personal content management system…
In a world where tomorrow is different from yesterday, controlled vocabularies (are) not only inefficient, they’re dangerous. In a controlled vocabulary, not only can you not classify ‘podcasting’, you cannot even register its impact. Some librarians are getting this message. Others are not. Oh, and judging the effectiveness of a non-taxonomy based search by what Google can (only) do today? Mistake.
I’ve tried a bunch of iPodder aggregator programs. None have turned my crank. They’ve been quirky, unreliable, misbehaving beasts. All I want is a simple, faceless app that reliably sucks down the enclosures from a set of feeds.
Bashpodder is perfect! It’s a BASH script, with a grand total of 44 lines of code (many of them are comments). You feed it a list of RSS feeds, and it sucks down the enclosures. It works fine via Crontab, so it can run invisibly in the background.
I just deployed a new Wordpress weblog to manage the APOLLO Project Website. It’s a Wordpress 1.3 Alpha site, which gives me a place to play around with the latest builds of WP, and it also gives us a nice and easy way to officially publish information about APOLLO and related activities.
We were talking today about how to be more strategic with our various inter-related projects (and specifically with the communication of status and plans), and the idea of some form of blended learning strategic advisory council was raised. The theory would be to have representatives from various organizations (University of Calgary, University of Alberta, Alberta Learning, BCCampus, and any other relevant organizations) working together to share strategic planning for projects related to blended learning.
The Speakers and Schedule for Northern Voice were just announced. That looks like a pretty full docket - and one heck of a fine bunch of speakers. The problem is going to be choosing which sessions to attend ;-)
This will be the first public showing of the new Pachyderm 2.0 authoring tool, which is now pretty tightly integrated with the APOLLO frameworks.
The session is on Thursday, April 14, 2004, from 3:30-5:00pm. We share the slot with some other Pachyderm-related presentations as part of the “Introducing Pachyderm” session, so it should be interesting to anyone who has been following Pachyderm, APOLLO, or learning object authoring in general.
Another comment spammer just attempted to crap on my blog. WordPress and the plugins I use stopped him/her cold, and their subnet is now banned (I know that’s heavy handed, but screw ’em).
I checked the stats from Site Meter, and it looks like this clown found my blog by searching Google for the term “wiki” - and slogged through 29 pages of results to get to me. 29 pages of results. Do these people really value their time so poorly? I know they don’t value mine, but I simply can’t imagine slogging through 29 pages of search results in the hopes of finding a blog or wiki to crap on. Knowing full well that the crap will be removed within minutes, if it’s even allowed through in the first place.
This sounds interesting… A new dead-trees and online Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects. They’ve put out the call for papers… Not sure if this will fare better than Pitch did/does, but maybe a dead-trees journal carries more cred with the higher ed. folks?
I’d have tossed this to del.icio.us instead of blogging it, but the Del is acting up today…
