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Feed2Podcast Gives Voice To Your Feed

Feed2Podcast converts the text of each individual entry in an RSS feed into a audio file or podcast. It then turns around and produces another RSS 2.0 podcast-enabled newsfeed with each podcast attached so folks wishing to 'hear' your feed (your weblog) can subscribe to that feed and have the audio automatically downloaded to their portable device. The also produce easy code to paste into your weblog to make it easy for folks to listen and subscribe. Way cool!!!

And more than cool, what an easy way to provide a podcast for a news release feed or two (one with just headlines and one feed with full text)...um....

UPDATE: If you want to add more than one on your account, you are then directed to PayPal for a cost of $12.00 US. Interesting...

For a test, here's what what automatically generated from the feed of my The New Jazz Thing - The Tunes playlist weblog:

Listen using this URL: http://www.feed2podcast.com/player/podcast_player.php?url=http://www.feed2podcast.com/podcast/44450680.xml

RSS 2.0 podcast-enabled newsfeed: http://www.feed2podcast.com/podcast/44450680.xml

and Listen and Subscribe Buttons:

Thanks to Dave and CoolzOr Super RSS Tools for the linkage.

Customer Capital Corp Cuts Out The Middle Man and Doles Out The Cash

Scripting (or is that Wordpress) Dave outlines reforms for raising venture capital for Internet-based projects in this Web 2.0 era. The very APIs and specifications, like RSS, XML-RPC, SOAP, and scripting environments like PERL and PHP have truly enabled bright, technically-enabled (or at least connected) idea folks to quickly implement their mashed-up Web 2.0 ideas and demonstrate viability by gaining early-adopters (customers, or users as Dave calls them) via social networks. Turning those grassroots into the deep roots (and cash) needed to scale up those new web-based services is the point here. And getting rid of the middle man who has served a purpose to this point in history of being in the know and distributing the wealth between the monied few and the idea-rich web developers, but is being marginalized as developers speak to (blogs), market (social networks), and directly sign-up (id management, electronic payments) new customers in the Web 2.0 era. As information begins to flow more freely and is fact-checked by viral social networks, the customers are now in the know and are investors, making their choices by sharing their email addresses and contact lists...their identity.

It makes me think a bit about how the record distribution role of the recording industry continues to be marginallized by DIY recording / editting and on-line sharing / sales and the labels new business is finding new talent and marketing it (proceses that will be further marginalized as artists speak to, market to, and sell to their fans and benefactors).

Business Knowledge Management Conference - Kent Greenes Move Forward

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Originally uploaded by Vince Outlaw.

More pictures of the inaugural conference...

This is a day of mixed emotions. It's the end of the fiscal year, so things cast away as unneeded move that way and things making the cut move this way. So strange to be moving this way when others more relevant move that way.


It was about 7 years ago that I relished the thought of a real Knowledge Management guru, in the realization of Kent Greenes, taking the prospects for communication and interation and collaboration the emerging Internet and World Wide Web offered and making it real and actionable. Alas, those prospects were made real for our customers, god bless them and their forethought and pocketbooks, but not fully realized as of yet for us, the knowledge workers of the next millenium. The ingredients of the secret sauce of capitalism. Yearning to be organized and tamed and utilized with our knowledge of cosmos and our country.


God bless those of the charter, who believe in what Kent has taught and shown, a search for the next step to greatness, taking what we have and making something new from it. Learning from our collectiveness. Making it something we can use. To make that next step. Which we can use. To make that next step. Always moving forward to the next step. The New.


Thanks Kent and Ben, and Tom, and Krista, and Marty and Sandra, and Ingrid. For a great ride to the New. The Next New.


See you at Pizza Port for the Next New!!


VO

SalonHerringWiredFool - Not So Controverial?

I'm not quite sure I understand when Dave says that SalonHerringWiredFool would be controversial today. It looks like his mashup was quite groundbreaking then, enough that the lingo and aggregation Thing is part of what we all do now:

Radio Userland Item Template Macro To Add Permalink to del.icio.us

I'm trying to give TNJT playlist readers an easy way to add any playlist entry (individual blog post) URL to the del.icio.us social bookmarking system, hopefully to seed, create, collaborate, explore around a jazz taxonomy. Since the blog is maintained using a Radio Userland category, I believe I need a macro to put in the Category's Item Template and have the macro substitute in the permalink and title fields of the post into some del.icio.us bookmarklet-like code. Kind of like the Google It macro.

I tried to just substitute the permallink and title macros into the del.icio.us 'post' url, editing the Item Template text file in Radio Userland, but it would do strange things with the permalink and title macros...like evaluate them before even saving the template text file.

Anyway, this is what I'm hoping to be able to put together from a post URL and title:

http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://TheNewJazzThing.com/categories/theNewJazzThingTunes/2006/01/12.html#a3702&title=1/12/06 8:57 pm PT - Steve Kuhn - Quiereme Mucho - Quiereme Mucho">

If anyone can help, email please at VO@VinceOutlaw.com.