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It’s over in the sidebar. Can’t guarantee we’ll always leave it running. We also might point it in other directions.
We’re messing around with the template right now, so if things get weird it won’t last long. Promise.
When we pull in podcasts from RSS feeds to distribute as Foneshows, we now tell those feeds how many subscribers we have for their podcasts. We put the number of subscribers in the User-Agent header of our HTTP request, which has become the standard way to do this, which will let FeedBurner include Foneshow subscribers [...]
The KCBS feeds have been restructured somewhat. I’ll be updating them on our side later today.
Update: 5:20 Eastern Time
KCBS broke their feed, we fixed it (actually we worked around their bad RSS, there’s a lot of really ugly RSS feeds out there but that’s a subject for a different post) and now a bunch of [...]
R.I.P. Building 20
I haven’t been around campus much in the last 10 years…
I was kind of underwhelmed.
I thought the funniest was a CBS house ad for Letterman.
For those who need an explanation (KLR)…
Dave is from Indiana. Oprah is from Chicago. They’ve been famously feuding for aeons.
It was cute.
It’s the Christmas edition of musical disasters.
Handel’s Messiah
It’s 42 seconds. Let it play to the end…
Merry Christmas Everyone.
Erik Schwartz, foneshow – Podcamp West Originally uploaded by Steve Rhodes.
This is the rig I created for demoing mobile applications in action at Podcamp west. I hold the phone up to the iSight camera, the crowd sees it on the projector.
Seemed to work quite well.
I invented something recently. We mobile phone guys have a tough problem; how do you demo your product to a group? If it’s one or two people, you play the “gather around” game. But that solution doesn’t scale beyond demoing to one or two people. If you’re demoing web apps, you just output the computer [...]
The blogosphere is abuzz about podcast metrics. It started with the Rocketboom/ZeFrank spat. Now Scoble and others have chimed in. At the end of the day, it’s a tempest in a teapot.
The current state of podcasting statistics is analogous to measuring the reach of a billboard by counting the cars that pass it on [...]






