Category: UsefulLinks

Already podSites.com is showing us how to make podSites, how to publish podSites, compiling a directory of current podSites, and providing a podSite emulator.

Podcasts caught my eye today. Friend Marilyn Matty said she thinks they will replace e-Books and RSS feeds. She sent me a list of resources on the topic.

• ipodder.org/whatIsPodcasting
• podcasters.org
• engadget.com
• ipodderx.com

Doc Searls has also done a lot on his blog about podcasting – a search should give you some good results. And the US public radio station, NPR, has been covering and doing podcasting for a while.

Even more resources have come in since Marilyn povided hers. Check these out, too.

• Podcasting resources
• Audacity Sound Editor
• Yahoo Podcasting Group

2005: The Year of Languages
– American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. “The limits of your language are the limits of your world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

“To know another language is to have a second soul.” – Charlemagne

“Learning a language is more than just learning words in the new language. It’s also learning the culture of the people, understanding their dreams, their spirit, and their values. When you learn another language, you can see the world with a whole new set of eyes.” – Anu Garg

The originator of Listamatic, css.maxdesign.com.au, now has Listamatic 2 which uses nested lists to create CSS driven menu systems.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Screensaver tackles spam websites: “Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail.

Lycos hopes it will make the monthly bandwidth bills of spammers soar by keeping their servers running flat out.

The net firm estimates that if enough people sign up and download the tool, spammers could end up paying to send out terabytes of data.”

Here’s a tip explaining how to see and edit an .htaccess file on a Mac from OSXFAQ – Technical News and Support for Mac OS X