Lets see if there's a way to get an enclosure in here
This is a test of posterous as a podcast feed editor.
I am now entering some show notes. Not sure where I can enter the URL of an enclosure or if I can.
Dave
This is a test of posterous as a podcast feed editor.
I am now entering some show notes. Not sure where I can enter the URL of an enclosure or if I can.
Dave
As I scatter my writing over a dozen different blogs there is a valid question -- how to find it all in one place. Here's the answer.
1. If you mean in HTML, go to protoblogger.com. It's a linkblog that not only points to what I write, but also links to all the articles I push through Twitter that were written by others.
2. If you mean in RSS, you want my lifeline feed. It's rssCloud-enabled of course. If you're looking for a feed reader that does nice things with this feed, I recommend River2, another of my creations.
Journalism is like skiing in the 50s or 60s. Previously it had been a sport that very few people enjoyed, and they were all very good. But now the doors are opening to amateurs.
The pros have to share the slopes with people who don't take the sport as seriously as they do.
They're still going to be able to ski, but the rest of us are not just going to admire them for how skilled they are, we're going to do it too.
They can earn a living as ski patrol and ski instructors. Or lift operators or more mundane jobs like people who work in hotels and drive the shuttle bus.
There are still jobs in skiing after the arrival of the amateurs. But the exclusivity is gone.
This is my first post from LifeLiner to go to Posterous.
Still have a couple of holes to fill before it can work.
Let's see.
Holy moly.
Very nice.
yesterday i got my lifeliner tool working with tumblr. still some rough edges, but it's more or less doing the same stuff i have been doing with wordpress.
the goal is to have a single feed that captures all my online writing.
moving toward what i call the loosely-coupled 140 character message network.
yesterday i also spoke with the lead developer at posterous. we worked out an addition to their api that would make my software work with theirs. got a note late last night night saying the feature was in. today i'll test it, and if it works i hope to report that i have posterous working with lifeliner.
meanwhile, techcrunch has caught onto the idea i borrowed from steve rubel, almost. they noted that wordpress was growing while twitter's growth has (perhaps temporarily) stalled.
the phenomenon is not, as some have said, the "death" of blogging (i hate that word!) -- rather huge growth in blogging at the low-end as nbbs discover its joys through twitter and facebook. perhaps very few of them will want more, but even a few is a lot! expect a huge surge in medium-range and high-end blogging in the coming years, with products like tumblr and posterous and wordpress perfectly poised to capture the growth.
two things the twitter guys should, imho, be thinking about:
1. how can they capture this growth as people move up-scale? should they have a blogging network of their own? or...
2. as people branch out they're not going to want to give up their networks on twitter. an alternate to #1 is to fully open the twitter architecture before the flow around it builds. the internet routes around a funnel, which is largely what twitter is, because it's too limiting for what users want to do. maybe not today, but it's easy to see the day coming.
historically it always seems to work this way. a company boots up a new activity, then people get familiar with it and want all the power and don't need the training wheels. an industry appears where there used to be a company.
more news.. the typepad guys have also gotten in touch with news that they have a new simplified rest-style api coming for their new "micro" service. i was actually looking for it.
i totally get the sense that there's a critical mass developing. all these companies are competing fiercely, and they're sharp and focused and hungry. and attaining some success.
i got a note from david karp at tumblr saying that for the first time his site is in the top 100 of all sites on the internet. that's pretty amazing and something to be proud of. congrats!
one step at a time. this has been a pretty good week for getting things to work together.
i'll keep you posted as things progress.
Yesterday I got my LifeLiner tool working with Tumblr. Still some rough edges, but it's more or less doing the same stuff I have been doing with WordPress.
The goal is to have a single feed that captures all my online writing.
Moving toward what I call the Loosely-coupled 140 character message network.
Yesterday I also spoke with the lead developer at Posterous. We worked out an addition to their API that would make my software work with theirs. Got a note late last night night saying the feature was in. Today I'll test it, and if it works I hope to report that I have Posterous working with LifeLiner.
Meanwhile, TechCrunch has caught onto the idea I borrowed from Steve Rubel, almost. They noted that WordPress was growing while Twitter's growth has (perhaps temporarily) stalled.
The phenomenon is not, as some have said, the "death" of blogging (I hate that word!) -- rather huge growth in blogging at the low-end as NBBs discover its joys through Twitter and Facebook. Perhaps very few of them will want more, but even a few is a lot! Expect a huge surge in medium-range and high-end blogging in the coming years, with products like Tumblr and Posterous and WordPress perfectly poised to capture the growth.
Two things the Twitter guys should, imho, be thinking about:
1. How can they capture this growth as people move up-scale? Should they have a blogging network of their own? Or...
2. As people branch out they're not going to want to give up their networks on Twitter. An alternate to #1 is to fully open the Twitter architecture before the flow around it builds. The Internet routes around a funnel, which is largely what Twitter is, because it's too limiting for what users want to do. Maybe not today, but it's easy to see the day coming.
Historically it always seems to work this way. A company boots up a new activity, then people get familiar with it and want all the power and don't need the training wheels. An industry appears where there used to be a company.
like everyone else, i'm peripherally following the fur flying about murdoch thinking about whether or not to block google from searching his news sites. in the background i keep wondering if this isn't all a misunderstanding. i mean, do a lot of people get their news on google? that's a question.
okay i know i'm not average, so i don't mean to say my experience is statistically significant. for all i know everyone else is getting their news on google. but i really don't think so. here's what i think.
i think other sites grabbed most of the flow in news before google got around to doing news, and such habits are hard to break. i guess that yahoo is still the leader in online news and cnn and msn are #2 and #3. after that, there's a lot of noise. somewhere down there is google. in the dust.
people say silly things like google would be nothing without the ny times, but it wasn't until relatively recently that the times let google index their news stories. i know this because i had a long bet with martin nisenholtz that i won more or less by default. times articles couldn't show up in the ranks on google because the times wouldn't let them! it was dumb not just cause it meant that martin lost the bet, but it was dumb because they let wikipedia become the authority on so many topics that the times would have done a better job at, imho. and they were throwing away flow, and flow is money.
so i think a lot of this debate is uninformed and generating a bit of heat and not much else. kind of like a lot of what passes for news these days.
Further, any vendor of a Twitter client would, imho, be well-advised to spread out to achieve independence from the Twitter company. One way to do that, and they should all do it, is to support Facebook on an equal basis with Twitter. But that isn't enough. They should all make an investment in the open distributed way of doing what Twitter does. What that means is to offer the user the option to create a backup of their tweet stream in RSS, as a publicly-accessible feed. And once there's a base of apps doing that, they should add a feature to subscribe to those feeds.
Further, any vendor of a Twitter client would, imho, be well-advised to spread out to achieve independence from the Twitter company. One way to do that, and they should all do it, is to support Facebook on an equal basis with Twitter. But that isn't enough. They should all make an investment in the open distributed way of doing what Twitter does. What that means is to offer the user the option to create a backup of their tweet stream in RSS, as a publicly-accessible feed. And once there's a base of apps doing that, they should add a feature to subscribe to those feeds.
Further, any vendor of a Twitter client would, imho, be well-advised to spread out to achieve independence from the Twitter company. One way to do that, and they should all do it, is to support Facebook on an equal basis with Twitter. But that isn't enough. They should all make an investment in the open distributed way of doing what Twitter does. What that means is to offer the user the option to create a backup of their tweet stream in RSS, as a publicly-accessible feed. And once there's a base of apps doing that, they should add a feature to subscribe to those feeds.
