So, it’s sort of a techie thing, and I wouldn’t encourage even the techies to venture over too much. But digg.com is a pretty cool site, keeping tabs on the latest in tech related things.
The problem is you can spend entirely too much time over there.
Those who think racism doesn’t really exist these days are naive at best.
So, another note to those who are interested to hop over to my blogspot if your looking to hear daily audioblogs form me.
But don’t worry, I’ll repost the good ones here.
audioblogger is really really easy to use. I’m quite a fan. My only frustration at this point is that it doesn’t allow you to post as a draft first, and then add a title and notes before you publish it.
the beginning of a daily audioblog
So, I’m realizing it takes a bit of work to post a podcast on any regular basis. You have to record the audio, save it as an mp3, upload the audio, wait for it to be uploaded, and then link to it in your post. A grueling process if you haven’t tried it (okay, it’s really not that tough).
But, I ran across audioblogger from google and found an EXTREMELY easy way to post a regular podcast. All I have to do is call in on my phone and…TADA! I have a podcast. The next thing on the list is to try the call in with three way calling so that I can interview somebody at the same time. That would be pretty sweet.
For folks here, I’ll be reposting ones that are relevant to my thoughts and ideas here. I’ll probably post a lot more podcast on that site: http://ariah.blogspot.com
For, now enjoy another little podcast.
To better meet the needs of my readers and subscribers I’ve switched my email subscription service. I’m going to be using feedblitz, which is a commercial site, rather then doing it on my own. The reason I’m doing this is because they do much better at it then I will. I hope you enjoy it.
For those already subscribed don’t worry about changing it, the other one still works fine, but I think you might prefer feedblitz better.
I haven’t written much this week. Taking off on Friday and coming back late on Monday turned the past two weeks into 12 hour days at work. The rest of my time was spent catching up at home. But, never fear I’m back. For now. Lot’s to write about.
So, I write EVERYTHING into my little pocket calendar (courtesy of a wonderful bank in Minnesota). There are periods of time where I didn’t have a planner, and I tried my own little inventions. I made this tiny tiny little notpad out of one sheet of paper and a rubberband and I used it to write everything.
Well, I ran across this sweet site, that took the “a single sheet of paper makes a great organizer” idea and elaborated it.
For those of you who don’t have your own planner currently I STRONGLY suggest this site.
I printed off one with storyboard pages (and one game of sudoku) to post ideas for blog post.
enjoy.
February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005
“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
So, my desk is a mess, my computer files and bookmarks are randomly spread out and labeled, my in-box is jam packed, and my pocket planner has no systematic nature to it. I’ve been looking into a very interesting and cool organizing blog called 43folders. I’ve got some good organizing ideas, but what I’d really love is a good set of labels. Labels need to encompass Everything and yet be specific. It’s like trying to draw a Ven diagram, but you can’t have the circles overlap, and if they’re circles we won’t be able to cover everything so you have to change them to squares. So help me with these:
1. I’ve got 5 colors of labels I can use in my in-box. I can flag urgent post, I can leave plain unimportant post. Any suggestion on What five categories might encompass all aspects of my life? (Here is what I have as of now: Writings (blogs and comments, etc), Business (buying and selling, web-design, etc.), Friends (and family), and…
2. I’ve started using del.icio.us (a bookmark organizer) and I need to think through my tagging method before I get started. I can tag any bookmark with multiple one word tags, but I don’t want to overdue it. Any suggestions on a good method?
3. Now that your warmed up this is the important one. My planner contains work related appointments and ToDo’s, plain old life related stuff, and any random brain fart I might have. I need to think through a good plan on how to keep things organized and not forget anything.
So, I’m still researching; I’ll let you know what I decide on; For now send me some suggestions!
So, I really like the idea of podcasting. I’ve done a few silly one’s but the themes vary a whole lot. There are a couple areas I’d be really interested in doing a podcasting series in, and I’m wondering what you’d think about them.
1) Interviewing Non-Christians about Christians and Christianity. This has always been an area I’m very interested in. One, because most Christians live in a bubble of sorts and never really hear “real live non-Christians” talk about things. Christians often seem to have opinions of the outside world made up entirely on what other Christians have told them (sounds so middle schoolish). Secondly, I’ve found there are a lot of Non-Christians that are quite interested in saying something to Christians collectively. I’ve talked to liberal non-Christians who can’t understand how Christians can name themselves after the radical liberal they see talked about in the Bible (Jesus). I’ve talked to homosexual non-Christians who just want to share how hurt they’ve been by so-called Christians, and ask how they can call their faith “loving.” I’d love to talk to others, and ideally give folks a constructive place to share heartfelt concerns and criticism of Christians in our society.
2. The other series I’d love to do is interviewing businesses and organizations I think are doing things Christians should support. This would include a whole bunch of fair trade clothing companies, something I think is Very important for Christians to be informed about. Also, CSA’s and other local farmers, and other cool organizations I learn about through out the country, or just through out Nashville.
3. Maybe just for podcasting and interviewing practice, I’ll do a series interviewing my friends, spread out across the country, and finding out what their post college experience has been like. (I like this as a starting idea).