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What Podiobooks Am I Listening To?

On my sitebar I have just added a listing of what Podiobooks [http://podiobooks.com] I am currently listening to! I just subscribed to Voices and haven't listened to it yet. So far my favorites are Brave Men Run and Pocket and the Pendent. If you have yet

Origami From Microsoft

Wow, Microsoft came up with a useable tablet computer! And on top of that it looks like they took some design nods from Apple -- make it simple. Check out the leaked promo video here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV1WGDW37c0&search=project%20origami]. Technorati Tags: microsoft [http:

Was About To Get XM Until...

I was thinking of getting XM for its music selection as well as good talk programming. But after close inspection XM Canada is missing channel 163 - Sonic Theater - which carries Slice Of Sci-Fi [http://sliceofscifi.com](I listen to Michael and Evo's line of podcasts [http:

Podcasting For Dummies

Good friend Evo Terra from The Dragon Page [http://dragonpage.com] and Podiobooks.com [http://podiobooks.com] fame also a while ago wrote Podcasting For Dummies with Tee Morris. I haven't had a chance to pick up the book until today, but when I did I found this:

Even After Elected

Even after Garth Turner was elected as MP of Halton he said this [http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/02/04/what-you-can-expect/]: > My job is to represent you to Ottawa, and not the other way around – which is why the Town Halls, the online voting, the questionnaires and the

Listening Lists

Had a quick conversation with Chris Miller [http://www.unquietdesperation.com] of Podiobooks.com [http://podiobooks.com] and he added support for Listening Lists (podcasts/podiobook rss feeds listed in OPML) for us all to use and enjoy. My Sampler Listening list of all the Podiobooks I am subscribed to

My Reading List

A lot of people are creating Reading Lists in OPML [http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/2005/10/13] which are a great way to see what people RSS feeds people are reading. One of the biggest issues is that its hard to see and maintain large lists, which doing reading lists

Telegram (1844-2006)

Western Union decides to stop [http://digg.com/technology/145_Year_old_Technology_Finally_Stops_Working] giving customers the option to Telegram. Its kinda neat that we went from the Telegram to the email we all use today.

A Win For Pro-User Zealots

Looks like the Cory Doctorow [http://boingboing.net/], EFF [http://eff.org], Michael Geist [http://www.michaelgeist.ca], the folks over at TuCows [http://tucows.com] and all the rest of us pro-user zealots have helped in the defeat of former "Hollywood" MP Sam Bulte! From Michael Geist&

Play It Again Sam!

Ross has a good commentary [http://www.byte.org/blog/_archives/2006/1/22/1719057.html] on Sam Bulte who is the running MP candidate in his area: > She also let slip that for her, the extremists are only in it “because they want to download”. Downloading? Excuse me?