Saturday, June 12, 2004

How do you spell this word? Lee asks us to listen to the "Word of the Day" in her audio post and then spell it in her comment section. Lee's Truly Canadian Musings: "Okay kids, it's my own version of the spelling bee. Listen to the audio clip and let me know in the comments section how you spell this word. No clock, no time limit, just a clever way for you to test your english." comments 12:53:41 PM  comment []    trackback []     DIGIFEST SOUTHWEST DAY 1 Christopher Coppola reports from the start of the Digifest SouthWest 2004 festival in New Mexico.  Christopher Coppola:  "Senator Shannon Robinson really helping to keep the digital indie revolution alive."   12:17:50 PM  comment []    trackback []     Dead presidents and their funerals Scripting News : "Second audio weblog post, in which I talk about dead presidents and their funerals and how many Dead Presidents we have to spend on them. Here's a place to comment on the post." 11:59:46 AM  comment []    trackback []     Hockey playoffs for the family this weekend Youth amateur hockey, which includes ice and inline hockey,  are huge in this part of New Jersey.  Some call this area, the Monmouth and Ocean area "the youth amateur hockey pocket of New Jersey."  Even though the interest and partipation in amateur youth hockey has expanded beyond these New Jersey counties over the past 30 years, it is the tradition of this area, highlighted by the town of Brick that pioneered the New Jersey youth hockey movement and continues to put New Jersey amateur hockey on the map outside this state. This weekend is the "Stanley Man playoffs", for Howell Intranural Hockey League.  Even though we live in the town of Jackson, that recently started its own receational league (minutes from my house), my son prefers to continue to play in Howell's (next town) more mature, very competive program (he has played in this league ever year since he was 8).  This season his team, the Rangers are in first place in the Midget division and play their first playoff game, a semi-final game, this morning at 10:00AM.  Anything is possible in this league as the team are very balanced with talent which really means the games are always very close.  I sure we are in for some great hockey this weekend as the playoff games are usually very exciting and decided in the last seconds of the game. Winners of today's game come back tomorrow for the finals, played in front of the whole club during our annual end of year picnic.  There are never any losers in this league.  This league is by far the best run recreational program I ever saw.  Very organized, safe and especially fair to all that participate.  The teams are drafted with an eye on keeping all teams balanced with the same amount of talent.  There is no stacked teams in this league.  The league officials have also always made sure that every kid, ever season that participates gets a trophy no matter was was the outcome of their team in the standings and playoffs. These are some of the reasons the hockey kids in this area love to play in this league.  A large percentage of them play serious club(s) and high school hockey in the Winter and always find a way to continue to come back each Spring to play against their school buddies and just have a lot of fun playing the sport they love.   Update: We lost 4 to 2.  I heard the other Midget semi-final was an upset too.  Something like 7 to 1.  What did I tell you!!  Anything can happen when the teams are so close and balanced with talent.  Looks like we will go tomorrow to help with the picnic and hopefully catch some of the final.  As they say "Better luck next year". 8:08:28 AM  comment []    trackback []     What can Technorati do for audioblog discovery? What can Technorati do for audioblog discovery? Good question.  So, I think this weekend I'll start a new project to experiment with some audioblogging ideas using some of the Technorati APIs. To use the Technorati APIs you need one of their app keys.    They are free (you can make up to 500 Technorati API calls per day) and easy to get. After I received my app key this morning, I tried using it to do a SearchQuery. "The search lets you see what blogs contain a given search string. On the Technorati site, you can enter a keyword in the searchbox and it will return a list of blogs containing it. The API version allows more features and gives you a way to use the search function on your own site." The format is pretty simple: "The call is made using a REST-ful interface. Send either a HTTP GET or a HTTP POST to http://apibeta.technorati.com/search?key=<apikey>&url=<url> with mandatory parameters "key" and "url" and ..." For some reason I can't get this a simple search query to return anything but an error page.  I sent an email off to Technorati support explaining my problem hoping someone there can give me some help.  Hopefully someone at Technorati will answer me this weekend so I can play, I mean experiment. 12:48:42 AM  comment []    trackback []

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