Tag Archives: radio

Ancient code drifting down the newsRiver

January 28, 2006 – 1:08 am

So, while working through some writing blockages last weekend, I started doing some hacking on Dave Winer’s newsRiver running on the OPML Editor platform. (Oh, and it is a platform, maybe more so than even emacs—don’t let the moniker ‘editor’ fool you.) Here’s the thing: It was a lot of addictive fun, and it [...]

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A bit of newsRiver hackery

January 21, 2006 – 1:54 am

Update: I moved this code over to my space over at hosting.opml.org and added some updater code from Nicholas Riley’s webdav tool, so that you should be able to just “Get Latest Code…” once you’ve got this installed. (Or reinstalled, if you grabbed last night’s version.) Also, I fixed a bug or two. So, [...]

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Look mom, I’m on the podcast!

January 7, 2006 – 11:24 am

I just caught a brief mention of Hacking RSS and Atom on Show #45 of the Mike Tech Show. Thanks for the plug, Mike! I hope you enjoy the book!

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Podcasts in my car via CDR sneakernet

October 31, 2005 – 3:14 pm

Since the recent demise of my iPod, I’ve returned to poking around at pre-iPod strategies for listening to podcasts in my car. Hopefully, the little thing will be returned good-as-new from AppleCare-land within the next few days. But until then, I’m left with what I can do using the Blaupunkt MP3 CD player [...]

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