Seattle based podcast discovery and management service Pluggd is unveiling a major new feature at DEMO this weekend that combines speech recognition and semantic analysis to let users search for and skip to parts of an audio file that are related to topics of interest to them. It
Tags: analysis, language, MP3, Podcast, semantics, speech, topic
RadRails is the Eclipse-based IDE for Ruby on Rails. Learn about installing RadRails, the structure and use of the application window, and the primary steps in developing an application. Ruby on Rails has hit the big time. With that popularity has come the desire by developers for an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes Rails even more accessible. RadRails, a Eclipse-based environment, fulfills that need for many developers.
This article introduces the RadRails IDE
Tags: application development, developer, developing, development, IDE, programmer, programming, RoR, Ruby, ruby on rails, Web 2.0
Mark Pilgrim has some pointers on accessibility.
Tags: accessibility, guidelines, How To
Back in July, I began an article on How to Manage Your Blogroll. Managing your blogrolls and managing your RSS-feeds is really all about “staying in touch” with wonderful, intelligent, funny or witty people. Be careful who you delete. Be careful who you add. It’s all about reputation. It’s about the global conversation, and taking a ride on the ClueTrain. It’s all about loving and respecting people. It’s all about the cycles of life, your circle of concern, and your circles of influence. It’s all about listening more than you talk.
God gave us two ears and one mouth, to remind us to listen more than we talk. My blog roll is full of links to many people that I have never met-in-person. I may disagree with some of the things they write, but I love and respect them all.
So, I was talking about various rules you might use — to know when to delete blogs from your list. Is there a book on blogroll refactoring? How do you know when to delete a link from your blogroll?
Tags: blogging, blogroll, blogs, community, conversation, listening, refactoring
Started reading Zeldman’s Designing With Web Standards, 2nd Edition today… More about this later…
Tags: CSS, How To, Web Standards
or.. How to Clean Out Your Sock Drawer
Right on the heels of reading Getting Things Done, a friend told us about FreeCycle.
Using the GTD method, you are encouraged to fill up your trash can every day. The inbox is your friend. The file drawer is your friend. The trash can is your friend. And now the FreeCycle re-cycling network is your friend. You can get lots of FREE stuff from FreeCycle and you can give away all your junk on FreeCycle.
Example: I was cleaning out my sock drawer and found I really had 3 sock drawers and way too many white socks. So I put a listing for 1 dozen pair of white socks (no holes, clean, almost new) - FREE.
My friend Cartrel had an expression for something that is quickly completed: “Boom. Done.” So easy to do, and so quickly completed. Within minutes — 9 people contacted me who wanted the FREE socks. Boom, somebody picks up the FREE socks off my front porch. They are happy and I am happy. Boom. Done. Freecycle is cool!
Tags: GTD, recycling, social network
I finished reading “Getting Things Done” on Sept. 5, and plan on reading (reviewing) it again in March 2007. Chapters 11 and 12 really summarized everything nicely.
My basement office is transformed. My bed-room is clutter free. My project list is longer than ever, but I’m getting that “feeling of relaxed control” more often than the feeling of panic.
All this is nice, and it’s more than just a 30 day expirement. Real change has happened in my life. But is there a downside to being so driven by lists? What good habits will slip (decay) in the next 6 months? Will any inbox get too full, neglected, and tossed into the “back room”? What buckets will spring a leak?
Note to self: Conduct a rigorous self-audit in March 2007.