RasterWeb!

Ok, Google Talk is new. Thanks goodness they went with XMPP (aka Jabber)! Windows only client? Lame… Other clients? Good… Fire not supporting more than one account per service? Lame… (I really should try some other clients…)

Oh, phil wilson points out a current shortcoming in that Google does not connect to the wider Jabber network. Google, please fix this ASAP! (Supposedly they are working on it.)

What other talk is going on? I finally got around to installing Gizmo Project, and it’s very nice. It hope it kills that proprietary fubar known as Skype. Die Skype, die! We want open protocols and standards. One Gizmo gotcha: I was able to use my existing SIPphone accoung with Gizmo, but I only found this out by guessing. Gizmo folks, you really should make this more apparent. I guess the Gizmo application replaces the Xten SIP client.

Oh, my Jabber user id has been on the contact page for a long time now, but if you want to try to message me while I test Google Talk, try raster plus the rest of a gmail address…

Enough talking, I’ll shut up now…

I did a phone interview with the Journal/Sentinel last week about videoblogging. This is the result: JS Online: Podcasts are so last year

(Sorry if you have to register to read it, when will old media learn to bug me not…)

Aaron from theVoiz.com posted a video of his interview. If I get around to it, I might post the audio from my interview.

And don’t forget to visit tinkernet!

(Update: I’ve been told a photo of me is on the front page of the newspaper as well. Yikes…)

I guess there was a tornado in Wisconsin last week. I missed it, and luckily, it missed me…

I was pretty much offline, or too involved in my own projects to hear about it, and since I don’t generally watch the news, or local TV stations, I was clueless. This is actually one of the things that sometimes bothers me about being so in control of the media I consume. I mean, a major disaster happens in the state I live in (granted, not real close to where I live) and I don’t know about it for days. Obviously if it was big enough news, I’d probably hear it, but still… It’s strange.

On the same front, I’ve noticed that when people say “Have you seen that commercial where…” very often I haven’t, as most of the television I am watching is pre-recorded, and I’m skipping the commercials. (Plus I tend to watch Cartoon Network and IFC more than anything else.)

Is this something we need to worry about in the brave new world of We Are The Media?

On a “citizen’s journalism” note, is this bit from a news story on the tornado:

A witness captured the Stoughton tornado on his camera phone.

Hooray for that. I wonder if it made it to Flickr or mefeedia though…

Of course, true to the Wisconsin spirit, it takes more than a little weather to put a damper on things:

The tornado tore the roof off the country club, said the club’s executive chef, Lenny Peaslee. As the storm approached, golfers started coming off the course, and about 40 people huddled in the basement and waited, he said.

“We were … hiding behind the bar,” Peaslee said. “We had beer, anyway.”

We wish you well in these troubled times, citizens of Stoughton Wisconsin…

“So, two syndication formats walk into a bar…”

No really… The RSS Version 3 Homepage. Hmm, checking calendar… Not April 1st… Didn’t we already do RSS 3.0? I think that now makes 10 different versions of RSS. Sounds good to me!

I think Matt summed it up well:

heh. Good luck with that.

I had to file this under syndication+humor… sigh…