Steve Kirks DynDNS Tool for Radio UserLand
Something to explore in my spare time...

DynDNS Tool for Radio UserLand.
I've written a tool for Radio UserLand that automatically updates a DynDNS name with the IP of your PC running Radio. Would this be valuable to you? It's for sale, $1.99 a copy. If there are any takers, leave me a comment and I'll send you the tool.
[Steve Kirks: house of warwick : Radio notes]

 

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Radio UserLand Feature Survey
My biggest pain point isn't on the list.

Radio Feature Survey. We're running a survey over on the Radio site to see what features Radio users want us to focus on. Please take a moment and choose your favorite.
[Steve Kirks: house of warwick : Radio notes]

 

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Overture and Feedburner May Ratchet RSS Advertising Up A Notch
RSS ads head for the big time.

Overture and Feedburner talk RSS advertising. (via Steve Rubel) Paidcontent is reporting that Feedburner and Overture are talking about an RSS feed/ advertising tie-up that may well see inserted advertising on the feeds of blogs currently utilising the service shortly. [The Blog Herald: more blog news more often]

 

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How To Change Post Dates In Radio UserLand
I finally gathered my scattered notes for this two-part solution into a summary article titled Changing Post Dates In Radio UserLand. 

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Sporting Recent Podcast Wood

I don't post much about podcasting here. I started following Adam Curry's in September and branched out from there. {Aside: If Radio UserLand supported post backdating, I'd fill in the old podcast-related posts from voice notes I made at the time. Backdating, though possible through an unsupported tool and requiring subsequent damage control scripts, is difficult and messy. All because of an incorrect assumption in the core product design. Bah! Humbug!} Now? There's always a 'caststack ready for my listening pleasure. Thanks to Dave Winer for the foundation upon which Adam, and all the subsequent iPodder developers, built the podcasting castle.

Recent Wood #1: The Gillmor Gang episode of 10/22/04 with Adam Curry, Dave Winer, and most members of Firesign Theatre. During the one-hour interview, Firesign quickly transitioned from podwhat? to Sign Us Up! They instantly understood, and were ready to use, the new media distribution channel based on RSS!

• Boing!

Recent Wood #2: Triggered by Ray Edwards from RadioBrothers. Somehow I missed the earlier episodes. Luckily, I started with the 11/03/04 episode, in which Ray counters an article in the 10/29/04 issue of FMQB.

"Radio Goes Where An iPod Can’t ... Media Positioning founder Keith Cunningham names 20 things that aren’t cool about an iPod. What does that have to do with radio? Plenty!"

Ray counters almost every "can't" point with... "Podcast!" Ray, an old-school radio guy, soooo obviously gets it! Day job in radio, personal blog with podcasts.

• Boing!

Ray also relates the head-in-sand attitude that still prevails in the terrestrial radio industry regarding satellite radio. "Competition? What competition?"

• Bzzzzzzt! Thanks for playing, you're out of the game!

Meanwhile, at work, I'm told that RSS isn't too interesting yet because only one company in our industry uses it, along with one of our largest customers.

• Sigh...

 

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RSS: The Web's Next Big Thing
In case you missed it the first time around: Mediathink's RSS white paper: RSS: The Web's Next Big Thing.

We strongly believe that RSS is the web's Next Big Thing. It is potentially most disruptive to email and applications relying on email, though it is important to understand that RSS is not at all likely to replace email. New media rarely ever replace old. Indeed some RSS aggregators need a traditional email client to function.

 

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