Blogs, Views, and BluesBlog reviews, technology, thoughts, and blues music hosted by Rich Palmer

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The Disqus service has chosen Seesmic as their option for letting you offer video comments on your blogs.  Imagine how well the message might be interpreted if you could actually see the body language, hear the voice inflection, and experience the overall mood of the person leaving comments.

Want to try it?  Click on the comments field for this post at the official Blogs, Views and Blues blog.

Views

According to their web site, Evernote is a service that “… allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at anytime, from anywhere.”

The Evernote service is available across many platforms.  You can use the desktop client on Windows and Mac operating systems, on the web, and even on your mobile phone.  Everything you put into Evernote synchronizes across all of your devices.

Rich has been trying it and is quite please so far.

Blues

Michael Burks
“Strange Feeling” (mp3)
from “Iron Man”
(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.
Original guitar interludes are by Rich Palmer.

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Rich shares his visit to Mario Sundar’s Blog, Marketing Nirvana.  On this post, Mario cites “7 Online Tools a community manager can’t live without.”  These are described.

Do you have more ideas?  Are there tools that you think should have been added to the list?  Please respond to podcast at gmail dot com with your comments.  Or call 888-223-5108.

Views

Rich talks about the new service, Brightkite.  This service is in closed beta.  Features and benefits of the service are described, as well as a few “shortcomings.”

Blues

The Electric Flag
“It’s Not the Spotlight” (mp3)
from “Live”
(ItsAboutMusic.com)

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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.
Original guitar interludes are by Rich Palmer.

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Apture is a blog plugin that lets you add dynamic content to your site. Rich shares his enthusiasm for this new application. You can add dynamic links to words and phrases in your blog post. You can include text, video, audio, photos, and more by simply adding one line of code to your blog.
The service is currently in closed beta testing. You can request to participate at their site.

Views

Rich shares information about Seesmic’s new Wordpress comment plugin. He talks about why it is helping him change his mind about how Seesmic might be productive.

Comments

Dave Jackson – School of Podcasting

Blues

Julian Fauth
“Roll on In” (mp3)
from “Ramblin’ Son”
(Electro-Fi 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.
Original guitar interludes are by Rich Palmer.

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A group of social media community friends has banded together to share their thoughts, conversations and views on social media with a new blog/podcast: Push My Follow.
Recent discussions have included: domain squatters, Twitter, Seesmic, Wordpress 2.5 upgrades, Friendfeed vs. Social Thing and internet & social media fame.

Views

Rich asks for comments about the social networking site Imeem. They have recently purchased the SnoCap company that offered marketing/promotion opportunities for independent musicians.
Rich shares his experiences (rants) with SnoCap.

Blues

Marcia Ball
“Down In the Neighborhood” (mp3)
from “Peace, Love & BBQ”
(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.
Original guitar interludes are by Rich Palmer.

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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

Austin 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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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

Eddy 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.”

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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

The 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”.

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A new service called PodcastFAQ.com and new features at the Utterz micro-blog site.

Blogs

Not really a blog, per se, but Rich talks about the new service for people interested in podcasting called “PodcastFAQ.com.” This service has been made available by RawVoice, Inc. They are the people responsible for Podcaster News and Blubrry.

Views

Rich is impressed with some new enhancements and features at Utterz.com. Most specifically, the user creation screen now includes the ability to record video and audio “on the fly.” Prior to this enhancement one had to upload prerecorded content.

Blues

Sean Costello
“Can’t Let Go” (mp3)
from “We Can Get Together”
(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 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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Turn your blog into a social community complete with media, friends lists, and more.

Blogs

Rich was reading a recent Mashable article about the Wordpress plug-in called KickApps. He explores their web site and shares some of the features of this program that is designed to help you keep web site traffic. Social networks can be built from within your own blog.

Views

Rich talks about “kickin’ the tires” on some web video services, such as Magnify.net, Viddler.com, and Ustream.TV.

Blues

Elvin Bishop
“Stealin’ Watermelons”
from “Booty Bumpin’”
(Blind Pig 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. Track featured is “Had a Plan, Had to Change It”.

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As I endeavor to become more efficient and more effective I constantly look for better tools and fantastic advice.

Blogs

Rich reviews information from two blogs that recently helped him work toward time management and efficiency goals.

Freelance Switch: Minimalist Time Management: Keep Your Day Open

The Wrong Advices: Offline Blog Editing Tools

Views

Rich talks about employers that block access to specific sites. There are obviously reasons for them to do this, but not all employees fit “under the blanket.” Rich noted there is a Facebook group called “Stop Blocking” for discussing this challenge.

Rich mentions the site Wheatware.com. Various products made from wheat and entirely biodegradable. He heard about this from Dave Jackson’s podcast “Musicians Cooler“.

Blues

Pinetop Perkins
“Every Day I Have The Blues”
from “After Hours”
(Blind Pig 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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