Al Nyveldt

Adventures in Code and Other Stories

Google Reader Shared Links?

I like the idea of Google Reader's Shared Links pages. I think they are a nice way to share interesting posts with friends. So tonight I added the link to my Shared Blog Links page on the navigation to my site.

I do wonder how some of the more popular bloggers feel about it. I know that Scott Hanselman puts a disclaimer in at the end of each post in his feed that reads.

© 2006 Scott Hanselman. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is likely pure evil and should be stopped.

On the other hand, I also read Robert Scoble's blog and he uses Google Reader's Shared Links page to share with others. I think he has gotten some flack, but for the most part it seems very accepted.

Anyway, I doubt my links will ever be loaded up like Robert's links and I will try to remember never to share links to Scott or anyone else who I think might be offended, but it is out there for now.

One other interesting thought on the subject, I dislike the style of the shared link page from Google. There is a feed available (of my shared feeds) and I thought I could quickly whip up a page to consume that feed and display it in a manner I prefer, but I thought that might be taking it too far. Would it?

I want to be clear that I'm not trying to take ownership or rights to the works in the shared links. If I embedded them into my site somehow it would likely seem like I was.

Productive Talk Compilation

I wrote in my last post about how much I appreciated the Productive Talk series of Podcasts by 43 Folders and David Allen, author of Getting Things Done. Anyway, this week, Merlin offered up the compiled version of all 8 episodes in one hour and a half program.

If you have an iPod, be sure to download the m4a version and rename the extension to m4b to it remembers your location if you decide to listen to other audio and then come back to it.

Podcast Review - November 2006


It has been a while since I've looked through my iTunes Podcasts and shared what I've been listening to. Here is the current run down:

Must Listen to Group:

Hanselminutes - This is still my favorite and I'll end the gushing there. It is a must listen to every week. Even when the topic is not something I'm excited about, I learn something worthwhile and enjoy the time spent.

APM: Marketplace Takeout (NPR) - Since I spend so little of my time listing to the radio, I miss out on my favorite NPR program. This weekly podcast gives me a few of the highlights from the previous week. (I've consider purchasing the full show through Audible, but I'm not eager to pay when there is so much good free content out there.)

NPR: Technology - Just like the program above, this podcast shares some of the highlights of the week in regards to technology stories.

Key Life - This is a daily Bible teaching program that I've come to appreciate. I used to catch it many years ago on the radio, but it is airs in the afternoon while I'm paid to focus on other things. Finding the podcast has been a treat.

43 Folders: Productive Talk - I've listened to a few of the 43 folders episodes in the past and they just weren't my thing (although I do enjoy the web site.) However, over the past 2 months, there have been 8 Productive talk episodes which are talks with David Allen, author of Getting Things Done. Really good stuff. Sadly, these programs ended with the 11/20 edition, but Merlin mentions there are more in the works. Be sure to find these 8 episodes if you are interested in GTD. I'm gonna stay subscribed to this podcast and give the rest of the content a try again.

The others:

.NET Rocks - Great show. I listen when the topic is of interest.

ESPN PTI - Good sports show. I listen to it when the mood strikes. If it could somehow be more current, I'd likely listen more often. I'm not sure how it could work though. The games/news of Monday is discussed in the live TV show on Tuesday afternoon, I believe. I get it loaded in my iPod Wednesday morning, but it is discussing old sports news in my mind.

Polymorphic Podcast - I really enjoy Craig's show, I've recently missed a few episodes. It has been caught in my recent listening time crunch, so this great show appears here for now. I'm sure I'll catch up soon.

tWiT - This is a streaky one for me. I can miss it for a month and then listen to 3 episodes in a row when the mood hits.

Wild Chronicles - This a video podcast from Nation Geographic. Each week has a new video on a different animal. I almost never watch these even through they are interesting. My kids find it a special treat to be able to watch one with Dad however.

Upgrade to DasBlog

Well, I finally moved over to a real blog engine. So far so good.

I'll miss my home grown blog project. It really did everything I needed and it was fun to tinker with it, but I'll admit I've gotten inspired a bit by some of Phil Haack's recent posts (here and here) regarding open source development. I figured moving to an open source engine would clean up my feature to do list and free up my time to looking into an open source project.

I've played with DasBlog before, but it has added quite a bit since than (or at least it seems that way). It does seem much cleaner now and was a breeze to get setup. It also has more features than you can shake a stick at. The development team has really done a great job with this project and I'm thankful that I can use the software, learn from the code, and extend it if I would ever choose to.

SubText did look very nice as well. I had used .Text many moons ago and was looking forward to giving SubText a good trial run, but I've been having a speed issue with SQL access on my web hosting account and SubText was effected as well. (I do realze that the SQL issue is something that I'll need to address, but it will require moving to a different web hosting provider and I didn't want to tackle that until the end of the year.)

Anyway, if any of my vast readership has problems with the update, let me know.

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BioPic Hi. My name is Al Nyveldt and I'm a software developer from central Pennsylvania, USA.

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