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Doug Kaye: "give us bookmarks or give us..."

BitTorrent, Podcasts and Radio Userland. A little while ago BitTorrent links started popping up in my favourite Podcasts. Only one problem, Andrew Grumet's bitTorrentIntegration Tool only supports BitTorrents that are the enclosure. Most of the podcasts still include the full mp3 as the enclosure and a link to the .torrent.

What I needed to happen was for Radio to detect the enclosure, then check for BitTorrent links in the post body. If found, it aborts the full mp3 download and launches the torrent.

A few lines of code later, it works ;)

Postscript: I emailed this to Andrew a couple of days ago, still no reponse. Full credit goes out to him for making such a great tool, but since it hasn't been updated since May maybe he isn't maintaining it anymore. Andrew: if this is the case, let me know I would love to take over management of the tool. Otherwise, please check out the changes so we can roll out 0.4...

Cool, Dave Slusher picked up on the post I made yesterday tieing together the X-Prize to Podcasting. He goes on to list a bunch of nifty things that could be done over via the Podcast medium:

Poets publishing their spoken works via podcast? Candidates making all their stump speeches available? Shows like This American Life making the raw interviews that go into their programs available for "remixing?" Someone like Brad Sucks, rather than just posting links to the fan remixes of his songs publishes them via podcast? Historical societies interviewing the oldest members of communities to capture recollections before they disappear and making them available? Some brilliant but crazy shit so far out there that I can't even conceive of it? I hope so! I long to be astounded by what comes next.

Dave: sounds like your thinking outside of the box pretty well to me!

Feed your Reader 0.7 is simply amazing. I've had it installed for about a week and it works great. Koz has done an amazing job on this extension.

The new version supports a ton of different Aggregators and overloads Firefox's Live Bookmarks RSS button. The only thing missing now is the 'What is RSS page' that I mentioned in my previous post on the Feed your Reader extension.

What used to be a 'the tedious hunt for the little orange button' is now one click bliss. And as if that wasn't good enough because "Radio Userland" supports enclosures I can now subscribe to new podcasts just as easily.

If you haven't already made the switch, go download Firefox and install Koz's extension.

My second must attend session at "BloggerConIII" is Scoble's Dealing with Information Overload (getting ready for 10,000 feeds)

Dave: "Later today we'll have a form for people who have registered to say they're not coming to BloggerCon III on November 6. This will help make room for people who are on the wait list."

Steve: "I wrote a two line script to automatically post the results of my onThisDay script to my weblog each day. Yum."

Scoble:. \\"What's your product's philosophy?\"

Chris Pirillo: "http://www.scripting.com/">Dave - you're a big teddy bear."

Loud Thinking: "No, TextMate won't make you breakfast in bed. Or complete your over-due project for you. But it will hopefully enhance your productivity, and most importantly, your enjoyment in working with a graphical editor on OS X."

I've been drooling all over TextMate ever since I saw it used in a demo movie for Rails, the only problem? I don't own a Mac :(