This is a wee demo

Looks like the Poetry Pizzeria which hosts the Keepers Project had a face lift and more project could be in the pipeline. I’ll look forward to the new ones, our Keepers poem for National Poetry Day October 2005 is one of the most rewarding thing we have done online so far.

At the Naace conference last week a few folk mentioned using an iRiver iFP 790 to record podcasts. i think they are out of production, amazon uk has a second hand one for £60.

I was pleasantly surprised to find them at my local argos for £39.99.

First test the recording seems pretty good even without an external mic. Interface is pretty poor compared to an ipod, way too small.

Found the software for mac too: iRiver Music Manager for Mac. For some reason the iRiver does not mount as a disk.

I am not sure the Scottish Education Blogs on Suprglu is all that useful. Seems to list all the entries for one day from one blog at once, so a prolific blogger pushes everyone else off the front page. Worse it doesn’t seem to handle typepad feeds like:

http://pienews.blogs.com/pieblog/index.rdf

properly, giving all the entries the date of the latest one. I am not sure if it handles the atom feeds in a better way.

so I am testing lilina

s a simple but powerful news aggregator written in PHP. No database is needed, RSS/ATOM parsing is done by the excelent MagpieRSS library (it is included, no additional installation needed). It features feed auto-discovery and an easy-to-use interface.

This seems a handier way to look at the scot-ed-blogs, I am testing these scot-edu-blog feeds, on a box in my living room at the moment(this may not be accessible from everywhere). I don’t think lilina will do anything interesting with flickr feeds, but seems a quick and simple way to set up an aggregator.

Back in September some of he children in primary six posted an entry on a new popular hobby. There was a wee spelling mistake on the post, but it was a common one. This has lead google to rank the entry on the first page leading to 54 comments on the post! I am not putting the title in here for fear of something similar happening.