Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Thursday, July 6, 2023
Hiber-Nation 127 -- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Chapter 5 - LAST CHAPTER
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Hiber-Nation 126 -- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Chapter 4
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Thursday, June 22, 2023
Hiber-Nation 125 -- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Chapter 3 Part 2
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Thursday, June 15, 2023
Hiber-Nation 124 -- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Chapter 3 Part 1
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Thursday, June 8, 2023
Hiber-Nation 123 -- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Chapter 2 Part 4
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Hiber-Nation 122 -- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Chapter 2 Part 3
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Hiber-Nation 121 -- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Chapter 2 Part 2
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Hiber-Nation 120 -- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Chapter 2 Part 1
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Hiber-Nation 119 -- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Chapter 1
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Thursday, May 4, 2023
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Thursday, February 23, 2023
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Whence RSS?
A while ago in a reply, I mentioned on LinkedIn I had a better functional explanation of what RSS is. But LinkedIn posts are of limited length, and my explanation wouldn't fit. So, I'll post it here as best I can and put a link on LinkedIn.
To whit...
Okay, going to add my explanation of RSS, which stands for "Real Simple Syndication." Not explaining much of the mechanics, just what it is.
So, picture it, Sicily, 1920s... no, maybe not that long ago...
Way back when the Internet was a new thing, and the Web in particular was very new, the way one would find new websites was to poke around on the web till you stumbled across something interesting. Was fun, never knew what or who you might find. I used to do something similar with Gopherblue, which was invented at the University of Minnesota -- similar idea, not as many pictures.
So, you're finding cool new places and want to be able to tell other folks what you found. You do your own webpage, with a Log of the Websites you've found. WebLog for short. Blog for shorter.
Bloggers found each other, and would from time to time go to their friends' blogs to see if they'd posted anything new. Lots of friends, lots of blogs, lots of going and seeing. Fun when you find something, kinda tediously repetitive if they haven't posted new stuff.
Someone had the thought, "It's a repetitive task on a computer, couldn't a program do it? Go check a series of webpages periodically, see if there's something new?" And that could be done, and it sorta worked. Didn't really tell you what was new, though.
Difficult bit was, webpages were designed for humans to read, blogs were mostly designed for humans to read...
Wait... if you produced a special version of your webpage specifically designed for a program to read, that'd work better, huh? Program goes to that special page, reads it, finds what's new, copies that bit. Could go to a whole bunch of sites in one long run, find any new stuff, add that to a list, and you read only that new stuff in the program.
The RSS feed is that specialized webpage. Not all that different from the human-readable version, necessarily, but not very readable, doesn't need to be as long as the program can read it. So, you know what you want in that special RSS page, how about we automate creating that from our entries, so it's always up to date?
The magic happens in that program that goes and look at the RSS feed pages. Runs itself periodically, accumulates the new stuff, keeps it ready for the user to review.
Along come people posting audio to websites. That reader program just shows any text with it, maybe a link to the audio file... What if we make a special sort of machine-readable link to that file, so the program can grab that audio each time? And what if we automate that process, too -- I post a new audio file, that RSS feed page automatically includes a link to my file, your reader grabs that on the way by...
Lots of complicated stuff going on there. But for the listener, and (mostly) for the podcaster, it's simple.
Really Simple.
:-)
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Flatland Promo
Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions - Written by Edwin Abbott Abbott. Read by David Grizzly Smith. More info at http://grizzlysgrowls.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. A Podiobooks.com presentation.
Flatland Promo
Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions - Written by Edwin Abbott Abbott. Read by David Grizzly Smith. More info at http://grizzlysgrowls.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. A Podiobooks.com presentation.
Sunday, January 15, 2023
Episode Zero -- A Minor Local Celebrity
With "Meditation Impromptu" by Kevin MacLeod
Originally posted to Libsyn under my original setup around 02/2007. When I ran out of money, my several years worth of podcasts were deleted from Libsyn's archives, and I don't have a good record for when they were originally posted, but that first one is about right.
And yes, it was and is bloody awful, but it's still the first one.
Episode Zero -- A Minor Local Celebrity
With "Meditation Impromptu" by Kevin MacLeod
Originally posted to Libsyn under my original setup around 02/2007. When I ran out of money, my several years worth of podcasts were deleted from Libsyn's archives, and I don't have a good record for when they were originally posted, but that first one is about right.
And yes, it was and is bloody awful, but it's still the first one.
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