In lieu of Random Monday, we have three items for Random Tuesday.
Folks in Macon (and Burma and Oklahoma) got hit hard by a tornado. One creative way you can help is to give money to a qualifying charity in the Swindle Industries Charity Bowl. It gives you an opportunity to shame a rival college football team for a good cause. Just click the link if you’re wondering how that’s possible.
The redesign of the Georgia Podcast Network is live! Most of you ought to be able to see it now, but if you can’t check back a little later. We switched the domain settings last night, and it may take a little while for them to take effect in some places.
The short version of what’s new is:
Create podcasts, add episodes to them, or add your affiliate podcast to the directory without having to go through an administrator. Podcasts now work sort of like diaries on Tondee’s Tavern and other group blogs. Everybody can have one, but not everything makes the front page.
Let other members post episodes to your podcast. You can name co-hosts individually, or set the “group podcast” option to let any registered member post an episode. For examples of group podcasts, see (un)ConCast and Politics is Vocal.
Album art, channel, and other meta information can be attached to podcasts
Better performance. Up to 8 times faster under normal server load
That’s not everything, but that’s the important stuff. There are still some minor CSS issues to work out in Internet Explorer 6, but it should be relatively bug-free other than that. Have a look and let us know what you think!
Dekalb County is spending over a million taxpayer dollars, cutting down 1000 trees, and irreparably damaging Atlanta’s second oldest, largest, intact, mature hardwood forest sanctuary without community approval. Join the Three Forks Heritage Alliance in their efforts to stop the Path of Shame. Go to www.3forksalliance.org for more information.
Like I’ve written earlier, I think on the whole PATH does more good than harm. But I also believe the behavior of both PATH and the DeKalb Commission in this situation have been inexcusable and that this design doesn’t pass the smell test.
We were watching The Office Thursday night, and this 11Alive promo came on. I thought it was so ridiculous that it needed to be posted. This has inspired me to collect all the ridiculous local news promos I see and to compile them into a bigger video.
Sorry about the crappy letterboxing that occured there. Here’s a better Quicktime file you can watch on your desktop.
