Blogging Dogma Radio interviews me in a podcast I did a podcast with Roland Tanglao early this morning my time. My first real 'chatty' podcast, so it was enjoyable. Roland is more of a natural podcaster than me. I was all "um"s and "yep"s and coughs and halt--ing speech. But that's what podcasting's about - it brings the real live person behind the blog out into the open. Writing is always… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging Talking Blog I've recently added a neat new feature onto my blog - a "Listen to audio version of this post" link at the end of each post (only on my website). It's powered by a really cool new app called Talkr.com. Every time I write a post on Read/Write Web, Talkr converts it into an MP3 file. It's quite a thrill listening to a computer-generated voice, female… Richard MacManus View comments
Yahoo Yahoo My Web 2.0 Yahoo has a beta "Social Search Engine" called (woo!) My Web 2.0. According to the Yahoo Search Blog, it "enables people to search the expertise of their friends and community". It hooks into Yahoo 360 (which opened up to the general public last week), and it's got "personalized search", sharing controls, tagging and APIs. All beautiful Web 2.0… Richard MacManus View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 20-26 June 2005 sponsored by: This week: Wrap of Microsoft RSS news, reblog/reblg, Attention, Yahoo 360 go-live, Late Show style Top Ten for Web 2.0. Microsoft RSS Wrap The biggest story of the week, probably even the year, was Microsoft's bearhug embrace of RSS. They got Dave Winer's blessing and they made all the right sounds in their announcement at the… Richard MacManus View comments
RSS & Feeds Microsoft Embraces and Extends RSS There has been a lot of coverage already about Microsoft's RSS in Longhorn announcements, so my aim here is to distil it and get to the essence of it. I'm doing this for my own benefit really, but hopefully my notes help others grok it too. The obvious place to start is Robert Scoble's blog (Microsoft's most famous blogger). But I also recommend… Richard MacManus View comments