Archive for March, 2008

Disqus and Diigo - BVB 16

March 30th, 2008 -- Posted in Podcast, Technology | Comments

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Disqus is a comment management system that can be installed on your Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad, blog. It serves as a social community for those that may engage in conversations at your site and at sites that may share the same topic or interest. Manage all of your blog comments in one location.

Views

Rich shares his review and comments on the Diigo social bookmarking system.
Learn more about this service from this video presented by Diigo:

Blues

Soul BluesAustin de Lone
“Ain’t Love a Funny Thing” (mp3)
from “Soul Blues”
(Broken Toe Records)

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The theme music for Blogs, Views, and Blues was created by Chainsaw Dupont. The tune is called “Funky Foot”. Find his music at ChainsawDupont.com and at the Podsafe Music Network.

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Lifestreaming, Wufoo - BVB 15

March 17th, 2008 -- Posted in Podcast | Comments

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ReadWriteWeb has a post called “35 Ways to Stream Your Life.” Author Josh Catone has compiled a great list of applications for life-streaming. Some are still in private beta, but this is an excellent start if you are looking for ways to aggregate your online life.

Views

Rich shares his views of an online tool for building forms, surveys and more called Wufoo. He has tried the free version of the tool. He finds it to be quite practical and effective. Try it out by using his feedback and comment form.

Blues

Cold SnapAlbert Collins
“Hooked On You” (mp3)
from “Cold Snap”
(Alligator Records)

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The theme music for Blogs, Views, and Blues was created by Chainsaw Dupont. The tune is called “Funky Foot”. Find his music at ChainsawDupont.com and at the Podsafe Music Network.

Background music in this episode courtesy of Derek K. Miller. Tracks featured are “Had a Plan, Had to Change It” and “More Red Than Red.”

Blogs, Views, and Blues is also sponsored by GoDaddy.com. Visit today and use coupon codes blu16 or pod16 to receive up to 10% off your web hosting and/or domain name needs.

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Wordpress Wow, Tumblr Goodies - BVB 13

March 9th, 2008 -- Posted in Podcast, Technology | Comments

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Rich shares reviews of : WordpressWow.com and Tumblr.com Goodies.

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Wordpress Wow — This site has some tips, tweaks, suggestions and resources to help you improve or update your Wordpress blog.

Tumblr.com — Rich recently updated his blog using a “goodie” from the Tumblr service. Mark Forman suggested that Rich try the “Bookmarklet” to capture sites and places that he has been reading. These are collected in the Tumblr log and shared with others that subscribe to it or visit Rich’s Tumblr site. To enhance this service, embed the script provided by Tumblr to your widget text blog in Wordpress. You can now feed the sites that you’ve captured with your bookmarklet to the sidebar of your main blog. Rich is using it as a “read list.”

Views

Rich shares an update about FreeScreencast.com. Jason Askew contacted Rich to help him correct some of the problems that he was having with the application. Don’t forget to download/update the Windows Media Encoder and be sure that you have Microsoft .NET framework in place.

There is a small bug that is being worked on for the next release of the Screencast recorder. When there are multiple monitors, the application will record the blank space of the second monitor, regardless of the chosen recording area. A quick fix is to unplug the monitor, reboot the machine and record using only one monitor installed.

Blues

West Side StrutEddy Clearwater, Ronnie Baker Brooks
“Hypnotized” (mp3)
from “West Side Strut”
(Alligator Records)

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The theme music for Blogs, Views, and Blues was created by Chainsaw Dupont. The tune is called “Funky Foot”. Find his music at ChainsawDupont.com and at the Podsafe Music Network.

Background music in this episode courtesy of Derek K. Miller. Tracks featured are “Had a Plan, Had to Change It” and “More Red Than Red.”

Blogs, Views, and Blues is also sponsored by GoDaddy.com. Visit today and use coupon codes blu16 or pod16 to receive up to 10% off your web hosting and/or domain name needs.

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Triggit and FreeScreenCast - BVB13

March 2nd, 2008 -- Posted in Podcast, Technology | Comments

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Rich shares his review of two services: Triggit.com and FreeScreenCast.com.

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Rich talks about two services that might be useful for your blog needs.

FreeScreenCast — Rich tried this one. He installed it as directed and is able to bring up the software fine. However, when it comes time to record the software stops functioning and an error message is delivered. The potential for this service is great. There are many good instructional and informational videos featured on their site. Give it a try and let Rich know about your experiences!

Triggit.com — Rich has tried this service. He likes the fact that he can place media such as photos and videos into his blog. He can also place ads into text within his blog. This is useful for affiliate ad links. However, he’s not be very successful at getting the application to find the embed codes at Amazon.com.

Views

Rich shares comments from two persons about his last show.
Daniel Johnson Jr.
Jack Hosley

Blues

Big PlansThe Mannish Boys
“Gotta Move” (mp3)
from “Big Plans”
(DELTA GROOVE PRODUCTIONS)

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The theme music for Blogs, Views, and Blues was created by Chainsaw Dupont. The tune is called “Funky Foot”. Find his music at ChainsawDupont.com and at the Podsafe Music Network.

Background music in this episode courtesy of Derek K. Miller. Track featured is “Had a Plan, Had to Change It”.

Blogs, Views, and Blues is also sponsored by GoDaddy.com. Visit today and use coupon codes blu16 or pod16 to receive up to 10% off your web hosting and/or domain name needs.

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