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4/30/2009 Search for a better RSS feed solutionI have been using RSS for a number of years and I kinda think I’m in a rut. Yeah, my simple RSS program works but it doesn’t:
So I took a very small sample survey by walking down the hallway. Everyone want these kind of services and more. But no one had taken the time to go out there and find a great solution. So in this the first part of my research I further define my wants for the new system. Put my lists online I have different RSS feed lists for my different interests. The CRM reading list is at about 100 blogs. The friends and families is smaller. And the music and jazz RSS feed list is approaching 200 feeds. But depending upon where I am there are multiple copies of the same thing. At work I have three computers. At home I have two that I use regularly. No two machines have the same lists and that is a problem. I know I can copy my feeds to a SkyDrive and copy it to another machine but serious, that would be a weekly activity to keep the lists in sync. Shared Lists I want to be able to share my lists. I want to be able to scan lists that my friends, family and coworkers share. I can do this manually a number of ways. But I want it to be as easy as a check mark when I add a feed; do you want to share this feed? Yes. No. Auto Archive Wouldn’t it be nice if you RSS would periodically at an interval you selected pop up and say, “You haven’t used the following feeds for over a year. Do you want to keep them?” I don’t wanna even think about pruning my many, many RSS feed lists. Rating Feeds I’d like to know which feeds, out of the hundred I read, are the most popular by my accesses. I’d also like to know which are the most popular by traffic to the feed. In my perfect world each Link string would be followed by a color coded icon for each statistic. My accesses a head icon colored Green for top 20%, Yellow for middle 60%, and Red for bottom 20%. And the traffic info might be a star icon with the same color scheme. No really. So I write this in hopes that some of the power users like Elaine, Ed, or Molly will respond with a, “Hey doofus, that functionally already exists using *this* technology. It would save me a lot of time that I will probably be using to test many different Web 2.0 services, from social news giant Digg to commenting services like Intense Debate and CoComment to feed readers like FeedBurner. Heck, I’m even looking at CrunchBase’s fav.or.it. I’ll post anything that comes even close to a working solution in the near future. I want the install to be as easy as ieSpell though. :o) 4/29/2009 Machine of DreamThis is the fine work of Sylwia Skubis a photo-manipulator from Poland. Her work here it's mostly photo-manipulations and some of her first steps in this particularly interesting photography style. Read more…
For my many Sci Fi friends and writers, “Sylwia is open for commissions like CDs, book covers, and etc. 4/20/2009 How Cool is This? Greg Bear and Halo Next.Mostly this is for my grandson Nicky who luvs the Halo series of games and my Dad who likes Greg Bear’s SciFi works. Star Sci-Fi Author to Write Halo Trilogy
Many of you may remember Greg Bear from his Darwin’s Radio series. I think of Bear as the Robert Heinlein of the 21st Century. This promises to be very interesting. 4/18/2009 Musical Offenses and Corresponding FinesFound on the Contrabass Web site. Thanks Grant. Musical Offenses, and Corresponding Fines
Apparently compiled by a trumpet player. 4/16/2009 An Exciting Weekend of Music ahead…Suzy and I are looking forward to an exciting weekend of music and family. I’ve purchased three new sax quartet charts from professor Russ Peterson including his just finished Lil’ Darlin’, ‘A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square’, and ‘Georgia On My Mind’. Greg won’t be making it but Tina has agreed to sit in. Life is good.
“Nicole Barnes is a recent graduate from the New England Conservatory, where she received her Masters degree in saxophone performance. In 2005, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Bachelor of Music in Orchestral Instruments degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. Ms. Barnes was the first undergraduate in the United States to premiere David Kechley’s “Restless Birds Before the Dark Moon” in 2004. In 2003, Nicole won first place in the 12th Annual Concerto Competition at the University of Washington. As an international performer, Ms. Barnes has toured the Netherlands with the Boston-based Thump Saxophone Quartet and in 2004, performed for large audiences with the University of Washington Saxophone Quartet in Japan. Nicole has also been a guest performer for many well-known groups, such as the Boston Civic Orchestra, the Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra and the 2006 Tanglewood Contemporary Orchestra. To further her musical career, Nicole has attended master classes with Harvey Pittel, Eugene Rousseau, Ken Radnofsky, Jean-Marie Londeix and the Rascher Saxophone Quartet. Her previous instructors include Tracy Knoop, Michael Brockman and Ken Radnofsky.” We are also attending HMS Pinafore at the Second Story Rep where a number of our friends are playing in the pit orchestra. You might remember that we have played in the Second Story Rep pit orchestra for “Anything Goes” in 2007 and “Chorus Line” in 2008. 4/15/2009 Tower of Power’s in town… again!Jazz Alley is hosting the Tower of Power at the end of the month. That’s where you go for some very funkilious music if you are in the Mood.
Roy’s Place, a music studio for rent run by Kennelly Keys are offering a TOP horns clinic on May 2.
4/10/2009 YouTube as a Musical Reference
Once a month or so I get an email from YouTube with highlights from the people who’s videos I subscribe to and it looks like this. From there I cherry pick the new videos and listen to them, promote them on Twitter or Facebook. Many of the YouTubeage videos that I’ve discovered for vintage jazz are performances I would have never seen, often taken at jazz festivals overseas, or recorded years ago off of black and white TV. Fascinating stuff, if’n you ask me. 4/9/2009 New Project: Add Swing Dance Music to setlist
I started a thread in the Woodwind Forums and got a lot of pointers there. One of my favs is http://www.swingarchive.com/ and I’ve bought three combo charts to check out the quality of the arrangements. They are Lil Darlin’, Moten Swing, and Cute all of which are Basie numbers. I do like Basie. The lady in charge likes music like this plus the Charleston and Boogie Woogie. I'm trying to build a book of 50 charts. And I'm not finding an easy way to locate this sheet music at the normal places. I've found some sites with these kind of listings: Title - Artist - Time - Year - Dance
4/1/2009 Come blow your nose…
“Musical instruments are prosthetics for body parts we never had. They can extend and transform voice, gesture, and exhalation. The mystery of their forms is matched by the invisible oddity of their sounds. But what if the prosthetics were unnecessary? This series imagines bodies with musical anatomies, referencing musicians from a variety of genres and traditions.” Shawn is also working on some other projects like BFF which is 127 composite drawings combining people with their friends. As I read his bio I wasn’t surprised to find that he is a musician: “As a bass guitarist, composer and/or improviser, I have performed with musicians such as Jack Dishel (Only Son), Regina Spektor, LoVid, Shawn Phillips, Paul Buckmaster, J. Peter Robinson, and the Austin New Music Co-op, in venues from NYC's Town Hall and The Stone, to the American Repertory Theater and the Austin Museum of Digital Art.” What is his undergraduate degree in you ask? Music through Harvard College. But of course. :o) |
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