http://www.blogarithms.com Doug Kaye's Weblog Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:15:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I've been having this realy strange problem. I use OS X's Mail app along with SpamSieve for spam filtering. But recently I've been noticing that the spam detection has been hyperactive: way too any false positives. I tried re-training SpamSieve. No help. So then I shut it down altogether: ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/29/emailgremlin/ A few hours ago SpokenWord.org passed another significant milestone: 250,000 audio and video programs in the database, all submitted by our 2,287 members and 5,028 RSS/Atom feeds. http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/27/quartermillion/ SpokenWord.org calls itself a site for "finding and sharing audio and video spoken-word recordings." Sounds great, but our "finding" capabilities (search, in particular) have been pretty bad. In mid-March I started writing a fancy new full-text search module that worked across database tables and allowed all sorts of customization and ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/26/searchadventures/ Making it easier to submit content to SpokenWord.org has always been high on the to-do list. For the past seven weeks I've been working on a Submission Wizard, which I hope goes a long way towards that goal. It's a wizard because it takes what you give it and tries ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/24/submissionwizard/ Anyone out there have an idea how to solve this? Over at SpokenWord.org we're trying to figure out how to scrape YouTube pages (or pages with embedded YouTube players), then hack a video or ShockWave URL that we can include in the <enclosure> element of RSS feeds. We've been able to ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/22/crackyoutube/ Had a lot of fun Sunday. Drove up to the TWiT Cottage in Petaluma to be on Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech (TWiT) episode 199. (Wow, the last time I was on was over a year ago!) Leo and the chat room seemed to think it was a pretty ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/15/twitagain/ Today is the 6th anniversary of the first IT Conversations program, which pre-dated podcasting by about 15 months. And who was our second guest? None other than Phil Windley, who is now Executive Producer of the channel. What you may not realize is that Phil has actualy presided over IT ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/05/happy-birthday-to-you/ Nicholas Kristof wrote about an interesting survey that correlates morals, disgust and other feelings with those who identify themselves as being liberal or conservative. There are lots of interesting and fun surveys on such topics at YourMorals.org. Looks like I'm more liberal than most liberals. (My responses in green.) http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/05/29/slapyourfather/ Our friends over at SlideShare.net have just announced a much-requested feature: unlimited hosting of MP3 files used to make multimedia slidecasts. Previously you had to find a separate place for your audio file, then synchronize it with your slides hosted on SlideShare.net. Now you can host everything in one place. ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/05/29/slidesharenet-offers-mp3-hosting/ Everybody (well, Joe Sharkey in the NY Times and lots of bloggers and Twitterers) are foaming at the mouth about the trials of WiFi in commercial airliners. I must be missing something here. I flew on Lufthansa from San Francisco to Munich three years ago with a terrific WiFi connetcion. ... http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/05/18/airplanewifinews/