Saturday, March 25, 2006

Mike's Manic Minute 25 Mar 06 Podcasts without an iPod?. . .well of course!! Designtechnical.com reports that TDG Research is doing a new study about podcasting which reveals that according to a study by Bridge Data, 80% of podcast never reach a portable music player.    Well, duh!    Just because it can be done doesn't mean you have to listen that way.  I often listen to podcasts on my laptop while I'm doing something else.  It's the ability to multi-task and time shift that's important, not just the portability. http://news.designtechnica.com/talkback109.html       Podcast of the day. . . PodLit The podcast of creative non-fiction. http://creativenonfiction.libsyn.com/   In the wake of A Million Little Pieces, the world is discovering creative non-fiction. This podcast is brought to you by Lee Gutkind, the godfather of creative non-fiction who, among other things, refutes the claims by the New York Times that the world is going through a "moment" but instead reveals creative non-fiction to be a "movement".   Manic Minute Recommendation: Listening in to minds at work is always intriguing.   And that's your Manic Minute for March 25th, 2006, brought to you by www.Business-Podcasting.com! 5:36:33 PM    comment []

Mike's Manic Minute 24 Mar 06 Brain Speed. . . The folks at http://www.positscience.com/programs/brainspeed_next.php Positscience have a new test to determine the speed of your brain based on how fast you respond to auditory stimuli.   Accordint to Posit Science, "Auditory processing speed is important because much of the information we receive each day is communicated through sound--especially speech.  The faster we can take in information accurately, the better we can keep up with, respond to and remember what we hear."   They sell a product to help improve your brain speed and claims it makes you younger.   I guess that makes the Manic Minute a great daily trip to the mental gym!    Woo hoo!     Podcast of the day. . . My Storied Life   http://www.mystoriedlife.com/   James Vest started My Storied Life as a project to better understand web design and hist serve customers but it has since turned into a celebration of all his favorite and forgotten projects.   Manic Minute Recommendation: Learning always leads to results.     And that's your Manic Minute for March 24th, 2006, brought to you by www.Business-Podcasting.com! 5:35:57 PM    comment []

Mike's Manic Minute 23 Mar 06 AJAX Write. . . When you're the big guy on the block everyone wants to take a share of your market and Microsoft, it seems, even more so.   Today Michael Robertson, formerly of MP3.com and Linspire fame, launched a new web-based "word processor" called AjaxWrite as a self-described replacement for Word.   I'm singularly unimpressed.  First, no spell checker, hello?!?  Second, It won't even launch in Internet Explorer.  You *have* to have Firefox, and Firefox 1.5 at that!   Jeff Nolan, over at his blog, Venture Chronicles, http://jeffnolan.com/wp, says "The server was largely unavailable and loading the app caused my browser to reset several times. Can you imagine using this service for critical documents and facing that kind of reliability challenge? No"   I know many people think web-based software is the future, and I'm in full agreement that web-based functionality is great, you just can't deliver a service that will ever work as well as a dedicated solution, and there's a time, place and scenario for both.   Podcast of the day. . . The Alan Watts Podcast http://www.alanwattspodcast.com/   The late Alan Watts was one of the most read philosophers of the past century.  His son Mark has sifted through the hundreds of public appearances he made and now they're being delivered as podcasts.   Manic Minute Recommendation: Thinking at its finest delivered straight to your brain.     And that's your Manic Minute for March 23nd, 2006, brought to you by www.Business-Podcasting.com! 5:35:01 PM    comment []

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