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Why I Like Intense Debate

Bwana — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:08:26 +0000

Intense Debate aims to improve comments on your blog. I’ll make this short and sweet:

It imports all my old WordPress comments
It allows me to easily export my comments from Intense Debate if I choose to move my data
And this:

Nuff said.

I’m going to try it out for a week or so and see how it goes. I’ll miss Seesmic comments but I haven’t received a video comment in a while so I doubt it will affect anything.

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Bwana — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:10 +0000

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iPhone SDK – Something definitely today

Bwana — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:04:20 +0000

I guess I was wrong. We’ll have something to play with today.

BlogTalkRadio listened

Bwana — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:06:59 +0000

BlogTalkRadio caught my blog post on privacy issues with their very simple podcasting API, Cinch. They’ve released an updated version of the service today which allows users to create a custom rss url. Outstanding!!

I’ve went ahead and created my own Cinch feed at cinch.blogtalkradio.com/bwana . Here’s a test sample mp3 of my test run on my iPhone

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Good job BlogTalkRadio. You’ve earned my respect by not only listening to the podcasting community, but making our lives easier.

The Problem I have with BlogTalkRadio

Bwana — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:28:22 +0000

Scoble and Winer went on record to say BlogTalkRadio’s new phone in podcast feature is revolutionary.

Call their special phone number: 646-200-0000. It records the call. When you’re done it creates an RSS 2.0 feed with an enclosure that’s an MP3 of the call.

The address of the feed is a function of the phone number you called from. I just called in a podcast from my Nokia N95, which they added to this feed:

http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/8583429663

That’s all there is to it! No registration. They have a web page for it, but it’s completely unnecessary.

While I agree on the beauty of its simplicity, I can’t help but wonder why BlogTalkRadio chose to use my phone number in the URL? I mean, some people may feel comfortable giving their phone number out to the internet, but I don’t want to advertise it. I do realize I can use my GrandCentral number as a call solution, but then that limits the mobility of the solution. I may consider using it for my podcast, but only through GrandCentral. Anyway, I think this started out as a good idea, but ultimately failed to consider privacy. Let’s hope iteration 2 addresses this.

Put that HD-DVD drive to use!

Bwana — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:02:18 +0000

Hilarious!

My favorite is the street fighter one. Kudos Team Xbox!

Jazz Ringtones For Your iPhone

Bwana — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:17:02 +0000

On my podcast, I utilize many promotional tracks for my show from IODA. I’ve gotten great feedback from my listeners and I know why: Independent music is great. I love jazz music and I thought what better way to promote some jazz music than to create some iPhone ringtones! Here are two of my favorite songs in .m4r format to import into iTunes.

Both Sides of the Fence by Thomas Marriott
57th Street Mambo by Bobby Sanabria

Naturally, I want you to support these artists and buy their music. Here is their information.

Thomas Marriott

“Both Sides Of The Fence”

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Vimeo is the Web’s HD Solution?

Bwana — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:34:12 +0000

As a high definition video enthusiast, I’m looking for an online solution for HD video. So far I haven’t found many practical solutions. I stumbled upon Vimeo a couple weeks ago after they made some improvements to their site and it impressed me. The video quality is amazing (I mean really amazing) as you can see here.

My first Vimeo from Bwana McCall on Vimeo.

One downside is that you can’t embed HD quality videos. You must visit Vimeo’s site in order to get the full HD glory. If they allowed HD quality embeds, I think I’d be sold. Either way, it’s a step in the right direction and I’m glad to see easily accessible HD video on the web.

A Word 2 the Wize

Bwana — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:41:33 +0000

Click To Play

I’m good at fixing things

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I Love Motorstorm for PS3

Bwana — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:15:37 +0000

Hear it, Love it, Digg it

Still Don’t Get Twitter?

Bwana — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:43:07 +0000

Here’s a good explanation:

What Twitter does, in a simple and brilliant way, is to merge a number of interesting trends in social software usage—personal blogging, lightweight presence indicators, and IM status messages—into a fascinating blend of ephemerality and permanence, public and private.

Brilliant! Full article here.

Lots of Sony News on #066

Bwana — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:26:05 +0000

Bwana.org Radio Number #066 is out. Listen here or face the wrath of internet yelling!

Nintendo Wii is here

Bwana — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:59:01 +0000

Kecia’s Wii is here.

So far the update process is as bad as Britney Spears’ sanity. Very bad first impressions. Let’s hope it gets better.

Beryl Screencast

Bwana — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:38:08 +0000

I made a quick screencast showing off the power of the Beryl window manager on a low end IBM Thinkpad T41 with only 32MB of video RAM. Beryl was a project I took on a few weeks ago and I haven’t regretted. I ran into some frustrating issues due to ATI’s (lack of) support of linux video drivers. After following quite a few tutorials and forum threads, I was able to get it working. As you’ll see in the video, it’s nothing short of amazing!

This was on Ubuntu 6.1 using today’s SVN version of Beryl.

[Quicktime] [Viddler]

Sony Hates Europe

Bwana — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:40:06 +0000

I mean Wow. First Europe has to pay more due to some stuff I don’t really understand, and now Sony is removing hardware from the European version of the PS3!!

The European PS3 will feature the Cell Broadband Engine™, 60 GB hard disc drive, Blu-ray Disc player, built-in Wi-Fi connectivity, SIXAXIS™ wireless controller. It also embodies a new combination of hardware and software emulation which will enable PS3 to be compatible with a broad range of original PlayStation® (PS) titles and a limited range of PlayStation®2 (PS2) titles.

What the frack Sony? Link here.