One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Wednesday, 10 March 2004

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RSS tipping point

Ever since we began publishing RSS feeds at InfoWorld, the requests for our home page had always exceeded requests for our Top News RSS feed. Not any more. Over the past several weeks, requests for InfoWorld's Top News RSS feed have regularly exceeded the requests for our home page. This has been going on long enough now that we're certain that it's permanent. I think it's a big deal.

< 3:31:10 PM >

Can RSS Relieve Information Overload. Great article by Ron Miller on RSS making headway into the mainstream enterprise computing environment. [Scott Young's Radio Weblog]

< 3:21:45 PM >

Every now-and-then, I'll run into a song on the internet that has an .ape, .shn, or .flac extension. Until iTunes supports these (as of the time of this posting, I haven't found any plugins for iTunes that were capable of pla... [macosxhints]

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The macosxhints Rating:[Score: 10 out of 10]Developer: Chimoosoft / [Product Page]

Price: Donationware A short and simple Pick this week ... in the course of setting up the new house, I was trying to find the best spot for ... [macosxhints]

Downloading now . . .

< 3:12:16 PM >

In iTunes 4.2, you can find out which playlists a track in your library is assigned to via the contextual menus. Just Control-click a track in your library. In the contextual Menu, there's a (new?) submenu "Playlists." Poppin... [macosxhints]

Clever. We like.

< 3:10:27 PM >

Tired of iPhoto playing Minuet in G as the default music for slideshows? Change the default by selecting the "Library" folder, and then hitting the "Slideshow" button to edit the slideshow settings. [snip] Whatever song you select for the whole Library becomes the new default for other folders. [macosxhints]

It's a shame one can't choose a playlist and have the default music chosen randomly with each slide show.

< 3:02:09 PM >

Portland, OR-based storage peripheral-maker, LaCie on Wednesday told MacCentral that the company is now shipping the 500GB Big Disk Extreme hard disk. In addition to its large capacity, the Big Disk Extreme also features two FireWire 800, one FireWire 400 and an 8MB buffer in the 7200 rpm drive. [MacCentral]

< 2:59:59 PM >

Happy birthday to us: Canadian choirs celebrate 50 years of professional singing
Two-day festival also honours R Murray Schafer [Gramophone - News]

< 2:58:14 PM >

Classical music sales resurgent thanks to 'easy listening' brigade, The Independent, 3/9/2004 [La Scena Musicale - News]

Calling it classical music does not make it classical music.

< 2:51:43 PM >

Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues , By Elijah Wald, Amistad, 342 pp., $24.95 [Boston Globe -- Living / Arts News]

< 2:48:37 PM >

People are entering apartment exchanges as finding a good, affordable apartment becomes more difficult in the city. [montreal city weblog]

< 12:12:38 PM >

George J. Tenet told a Senate committee that he had intervened on several occasions to correct public misstatements on intelligence matters. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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Online: Sir Richard Branson plans to tackle the online threat to his Virgin record shops head-on by allowing users to download music in-store. [Guardian Unlimited]

< 12:08:53 PM >

'So, who's to blame for the overwhelming popularity of the Prius? Cameron Diaz and Sting for starters.

Movie and music stars who have posed proudly with their Priuses at high-profile events such as the Oscars have certainly boosted sales, along with Internet chatter plugging the hybrid as the next big thing, not to mention buyers of the first-generation Prius -- launched in 2001 -- who were given early invitations to upgrade by Toyota.' [Boston Globe -- Front Page]

They can't keep up with demand. Honda has cleverly purchased an ad for their own hybrid which runs in this article!

< 2:27:06 AM >

An ecology group has developed a cheap, light system for hydroponic rooftop gardening in the city. We're talking lettuce and tomatoes, people. [montreal city weblog]

< 2:07:47 AM >

According to Rebecca Rippin, this week Portal Universia, the Hispanic world's largest university portal (over 700 partner universities across Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Puerto Rico) has included RSS in its elearning section. [Scripting News]

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Astronomers using the Hubble telescope said they reached far enough out in space to be within "a stone's throw" of the Big Bang. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]