Transcribing Audio Blogs

By | March 6, 2003

In brief: 27 Feb 2003 [dive into mark] While I’m going to try to add text transcription to PhoneBlogger, I don’t how successful it will be. In one of the items in his Feb 27 blog entry, Mark suggests that when you are audio/phone blogging, “any audio content needs to be supplemented with a simultaneous… Read More: Transcribing Audio Blogs »

Credit Card Companies Not Protecting Consumers

By | March 6, 2003

Wired News: Credit Card Cos. Watch Own Backs This story in Wired refers to a Gartner report. The report notes that while credit card companies’ “zero-liability” policies protect card holders from paying for unauthorized or fraudulent charges, they do not protect consumers from identity theft and the credit report hell that can follow. I can… Read More: Credit Card Companies Not Protecting Consumers »

SSN Theft at UT Austin

By | March 6, 2003

Data thieves nab 55,000 student records | CNET News.com My sister-in-law, a UT Austin law school grad like my brother, let me know that the affected SSNs were in the following ranges: 449-31-98xx – 450-91-24xx 451-12-32xx – 451-20-35xx 451-20-64xx – 452-20-40xx Fortunately, mine isn’t in one of those ranges, as I used to work as… Read More: SSN Theft at UT Austin »

My Wife, the Rabble-Rouser

By | March 4, 2003

Last week’s East Bay Express has a well-written cover story by Katy St. Clair titled Has CMJ Become the Monster That Ate College Radio? My wife Sandra is the general manager of KALX, the radio station at UC Berkeley. The music directors at KALX, like those at many other college radio stations, report their top… Read More: My Wife, the Rabble-Rouser »

Aggregator Explosion

By | February 20, 2003

In the last couple months, and especially the last few weeks, new news aggregators have been coming out of the woodwork like stolen credit card numbers out of Data Processors International. While there were plenty of browser-based (Radio, Amphetadesk, etc.) and three-pane desktop app (NetNewsWire, Straw, NewsDesk, NewsCrawler, Syndirella, spaces, etc.) aggregators, now we have… Read More: Aggregator Explosion »

Audblog

By | February 18, 2003

So I’m not the only person who decided it would be cool to build a tool for blogging by phone. These guys are offering it as a commercial service, though. I hope they succeed with it. My offer still stands to anyone who would like their own PhoneBlogger install. However, if you are just looking… Read More: Audblog »

SportsML

By | February 18, 2003

SportsML — The Sports Markup Language Over an afternoon capuccino at Peet’s, I read about SportsML in the final issue of New Architect magazine. When I invented a simple XML-based markup for SoccerPhone in around February or March of 2002, I didn’t realize that a more general purpose XML-based markup language for sports was already… Read More: SportsML »