Monday, October 10, 2005

Keeping It Peel - John Peel Day links for 2005-10-11. John Peel Day The entire world gets the day off on October 13. (tags: music bbc peel) [donewaiting.com :: music commentary] 10:06:34 PM

Yahoo Also Launches Blog Search Yahoo News Search with blogs. Okay now we're talking. Yahoo doesn't put blogs in the kiddies section, instead we're indexed along with the grownups. Screen shot. That's good. Now, why did they just roll it out with the mainstream business press? Come on guys, that's half-clueful, now let's go all the way. When you roll something out, include us in the roll out, esp when the service relates to blogs. [Scripting News] 9:23:48 PM

Joel Holland's World Championship Pumpkin Winning pumpkin weighs 1,229 pounds. HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - A retired Washington firefighter won the annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off on Monday, presenting a gigantic pumpkin that weighed 1,229 pounds. [azcentral.com | thebuzz] 3:41:09 PM

podcasts.yahoo.com Yahoo Launches Major Podcasting Service. Yahoo just launched a comprehensive podcasting search, directory and listening service called Yahoo Podcasts (URL will be working in the next couple of hours). John Furrier at Podtech.net nailed this story and has posted an exclusive podcast with Geoff Ralston, Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer. More on this as it develops. podcasts.yahoo.com has not propogated to me yet, but my understanding is that it is live. I spoke to John to get more information. He says that Yahoo will be issuing a press release shortly. It’s very interesting and very cool that Yahoo did an exclusive podcast prior to issuing a press release. Right on! Tags: podcasting, yahoo, podcast, podcasts, techcrunch, web2.0, web+2.0 [TechCrunch] 6:55:21 AM