Archive for January, 2005
Podcasting Workshop
Welcome to the Podcasting Workshop. On this post I have some links and notes that we will need for the workshop today.
First of all What is Podcasting and why is it becoming so popular?
It is a way of setting up a radio station on the web. The good thing is that it lets your user listen on whenever they want. They don’t miss the show if they tune in late. Every listener of yours can get the program from start to finish whenever they want to listen to it. The best part is that if your listener has an iPod or similar portable audio player, the podcasts can be automatically transferred from his computer to his player.
Demand for KFC Soaring in China
Yahoo! News - Demand for KFC Soaring in China
China’s relentless appetite for the colonel’s chicken has KFC on a building boom in the world’s most populous country, with 1,200 locations, soaring profits and a menu that mixes in bamboo shoots and lotus roots.
Well, we can attest to it. The KFC near our place used to be packed. And the strange thing was that there was another KFC just across the street and that was also full. Sometimes I used to seek refuge inside the KFC and read, it was warmer inside.
This was my favourite order.
It reads lao (=old) bei jing (=Beijing) ji (=chicken) rou(=meat) ?? uughh the last character I can’t read (help!! jacky, oyu anyone..) But you can see from the bottom part of that character that it means roll. Well that is what it is, it is a roll - chicken in lovely sauce wrapped in a roti or tortilla.
wat mahatat, nakhon si thammarat, thailand
From a travel long time back. Look at the sky, so blue.
Using an Aggregator - Newsgator
Aggregators are tools that let you collect RSS feeds. RSS feeds are a new way of using the web. Instead of going to several sites, you can subcribe to those sites and the new content will come to your feed reader. It is like instead of going to the store to buy the newspaper, you could get it delivered to your home. And not only news, you can subcribe to feeds from people’s blogs, discussions etc. The feed reader or news reader software remembers how much you have read and shows you only the updated content.
Using Pubsub
Pubsub is a service that tracks your keywords for you. For example I wanted to see what people are talking about the Singapore economy. I can put this keyword on to Pubsub and track it continously. Pubsub will find articles with this keyword as they are published and bring them to you. You need to have a subscription to some feed reader or news reader tool to make full use of Pubsub.