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Weblogs Worknotes: Odeo

A Visit to Odeo

[Left to Right: ur hipster Noah Glass, prankster Biz Stone, personal publishing provocateur Evan Williams]

Odeo was an early entrant in the podcasting market that has grown and changed so much in the past year. We talked with Biz Stone and Evan Williams about Odeo’s focus, the new features they are rolling out and where podcasting might be going.

Check out Odeo and Odeo Studio, and follow the story on their blog.

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Weblogs Worknotes: hResume

Updating Ryan & Tantek On Our hResume Work

Alexander & I gave Tantek & Ryan an update on the hResume stuff we’d been working on, and while we were there we recorded a discussion about hResume and the success of Microformats in general. We’re just about ready to offer a WordPress plugin for hResume and an hResume generator. I also heard today that work has started on an MT plugin as well.

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Weblogs Worknotes: Dan Saffer

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Dan Saffer, senior interaction designer at Adaptive Path, has a new book coming out called Designing for Interaction. We met up at the AP offices when I was in town last and had a great chat about what makes for great interaction design, how you allow for (encourage?) hackability, and much more. The book was an excellent introduction for me (the non-designer software dabbler) into the current thinking about user experience & interaction.

For more, check out Dan’s blog, the AP blog, and the interviews Dan has conducted for the book. Dan & I will also be doing a panel with Kit Seeborg & Jeremiah Owyang this month at WebVisions 2006.

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This Unconference Has Thrill Rides

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Josh Hallett is throwing an unconference in his neck of the woods –check out his announcement about BlogOrlando.  A day of sessions & hanging out, a geek dinner & some time for goofying off.

Ze Frank Is Efficient With the ‘Casting Fu

A bit of ruckus over this quasi trolling post harshing on the ‘efficiency’ of podcasting.  It’s not super ‘efficient’ for me to spend time talking to just one person about things that don’t require action items, you know, like my wife or my kids, or my coworkers who just might want to share something going on.  Or my customers who might have some roundabout observation.  You get my drift.  I said some time ago that podcasting was going to bring it hard for those who wanted more personalized connections.  My human-ness with voice, faces, nonverbal.

As for efficiency, I’d challenge anyone to pack more in than does the daily video bomblet courtesy of Ze Frank.  Sportsracers, knowledge today is rapido y fabuloso.

Bonus:  Eric tells us a story that ends with snarky zombies.

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