| Feeder RSS Editor for Mac OS X Updated To v.5
Reinvented Software has updated Feeder, an RSS editor for creating news feeds, podcasts and appcasts. Version 1.5 includes: an updated user interface for Mac OS X Leopard support for thumbnails for video podcasts with the Media RSS extension password-less SFTP improvements for tagging MP4 video files, item editing and Sparkle appcasts. For podcasters, Feeder includes full support for the iTunes RSS podcasting extensions, drag and drop episode creation, an iTunes Store preview and the ability to tag all popular podcast media files. Feeder can publish feeds and associated files via FTP, SFTP, .Mac and file export. Update Details: In Feeder 1.5, video podcasting support is improved with thumbnails using the Media RSS extension. This version also improves performance when tagging MP4 format files, including those used for iPod, iPhone and Apple TV and has the ability to redirect uploaded enclosure files through sites such as blubrry.com for tracking podcast statistics.
Helping Lara Logan (updated 1/26)
Sometimes it's hard to swim in the mainstream. There has been much heated debate over the past few years over media coverage of the Iraq War. The Bush administration has repeatedly attacked the 'liberal bias' of the mainstream news industry, claiming that it doesn't report enough of the "good news" from Iraq, and focuses instead on the sensational and violent. Those critical of the war and the occupation say just the opposite; that the mainstream news media has ignored much of the 'bad news' coming out of Iraq, leaving Americans with an impression of the war based more on a desire to follow the official White House narrative than facts on the ground. MediaChannel has long been in the latter camp, sponsoring (for example) last year's 'Show Us the War' project, which published video pieces showing an Iraq overrun with violence and chaos –and an administration that seemed more intent on faith and 'spin' than reality.
CleanFlicks sues over porn backlash
That business is now defunct, but police said the purportedly clean video business was being used as a front for the creation and distribution of pornography. CleanFlicks got into legal trouble with Hollywood for copyright violations and lost its case in federal court in 2006. But its effort to make a comeback as an online retailer -- now of unedited movies -- is being hampered by the past association with Thompson, according to CleanFlicks co-founder and partner Ray Lines. On Friday, Lines and his attorney announced a $1.1 million trademark infringement lawsuit against Thompson, who they say made use of the CleanFlicks name to do business. Thompson has tainted the company in the eyes of customers, the lawsuit alleges. Lines said that all ties with Thompson were severed in 2003 when the company dissolved its dealerships nationwide in a move to become an online DVD rental retailer.
The Weedpatch Gazette
Still, anything concerning an afterlife remains only speculation and a matter of beliefs including those of Jesus. For me, life on earth is enough of a living hell without the prospect of being plunged into the eternal flames of the "lake of fire" when I die. And no one sensitive to the amount of human suffering throughout the world can fail to understand my thought on the subject. Sure, I can hope this is only purgatory rather than hell; that the evil I have done will be purged here rather than being consigned to the fiery pit and I may yet rejoin loved ones and friends in a heavenly hereafter. But as I said, no one has come back from the other side to either assure or condemn me, and I consider religious people of whatever belief system pontificating on the subject to be delusional at best.
Software Windows Vista SP1 Performance: Mixed Results
Upgrading to a new OS, just for the sake of updating makes no sense. There's got to be a tangible, financial benefit achieved by doing so.For most companies it will not be a matter of staying ahead of the curve, it will be a matter of cost. Windows XP is fast, stable and its drivers are mature. Vista, while having numerous new security and usability enhancements, is plagued by stability and compatibility problems. The decision, as to whether or not to upgrade to Vista, should be a product of a cost/benfit analysis.I'm pretty sure that right now Windows XP has a lower TCO than Vista. .
Google Sites - spoiled by usability issues
As I pen this, the fanfare around JotSpot Revista aka Google Sites is just getting underway. I'm not impressed. In fact I'm deeply disappointed. To call this - as noted by Dan Farber: "This is a key last hole in the Google Apps suite," Matt Glotzbach, product management director for Google Enterprise told me. "It is the nucleus for other pieces to fit into for online collaboration." …is absolutely spot on. Hole - a black hole to which chunks of this should be consigned until they're fixed. Rafe Needham took a look and says that: I spent a little time with it and found it to be a very strong wiki. The service's editor is simple and clean, and there's no whiff of the weird Wikitext markup code you see on earlier-generation wikis. While that's both welcome and true, it is hardly unique.
Dutch citizen journalism site to pay contributors by launching pay-per ...
Dutch citizen journalism site Skoeps is to introduce a pay-per-view system for its users, as part of plans to increase revenue for its contributors.
The site already offers a daily reward of €250 for the best photo or video submitted to the site and gives contributors half the fee for any content sold to other media.
It is hoped the new payment system, which will be implemented in the next two to three months, will encourage more contributors and increasing traffic to the site, Marcel Houtman, managing director of Skoeps International, told Journalism.co.uk.
In smaller markets, such as Holland, payment to citizen journalists is essential to encourage them to participate, Houtman added.
Skoep will cease spending on advertising this year and instead use the same sum to pay contributors.
Microsoft Expands Online Services
Microsoft Corp. today plans to begin new tests of business programs offered as online services, in the latest attempt by the software giant to adapt to the changes being wrought by the Internet on the traditional software business. The Microsoft services come as Google Inc. and other companies are investing in similar services that in coming years could compete with Microsoft's products. The new offerings, called Microsoft Online Services, are an early salvo in that emerging battle. .
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