One last thing before I head to bed tonight. I just found BlogPulse tonight. The have a cool feature: Trend Search. You enter up to three search phrases, and it will give you a graph of how many bloggers are talking about the phrases you are looking for.

I entered podcast, rss, and atom (Warning: it loads slow). I found it pretty interesting. If the trend continues, Podcast should pass Atom by the middle of November (if not sooner). 

Scott Guthrie has a great post describing where Whidbey is currently at. The best part of the post though, is the description of the process they go through to fix bugs. I've never been on a project big enough to warrant the Tell & Ask phases, but the ideas intrigue me. I know in the next few weeks, we'll go through our own bug squashing process similar to Microsoft's ZBB process. But for us, that's usually a means to get to a closed system test, and not just to a further bug killing process.

I saw this post from Jason Clarke about Scoble's link blog, and I tend to agree with Jason.

I've looked through quite a few of Scoble's feeds on bloglines and most are full text. So what's the big deal if someone else uses your full text feed somewhere else? It's obvious from the way he's branded the link blog that he's not claiming to have written it himself. Plus, I don’t have time to click on most of the items in his link blog - but if the whole item was there, I'd read it. And if it’s good, then I'll click the link, and most likely subscribe to the feed.

The exposure from Scoble is good. I got a lot of traffic coming from his link blog today, and who knows how many from their own syndicators (my traffic yesterday was unreal - more than twice as much as ever before). He dropped four of my posts there Friday night.

On another note, I've considered starting my own link blog. I read a lot that of posts that I think are worth reading, but I don't have the time to blog about most of them. I take the best I see, and blog about those, or (rarely) blog about my own ideas. But there's a bunch more that's useful. But to do this, I would need to have something like Kunal's OutlookMT setup. And since that tool won't post to anything I have access to (I have a couple of .Text blogs, but they are community bogs, and no MovableType blogs), I'll have to try to find something else. It has to be as easy as OutlookMT is though - drag and post.

One more side note. Maybe Scoble should sort his feeds by people who have given him permission to use full text feeds and those who haven't. Then he could linkblog the full content ones as full content. I'll be the first to give him my permission!

Here's another post about how to get Podcasting into the mainstream.  I found one of his suggestions interesting: Use Speech synthesis to read blogs. Why is this interesting? It goes against the buzz that consuming lots of podcasts is harder than consuming lots of blogs. And it's the opposite of my suggestion - podcast to blog post.

He also mentions publishing tools. I found an MP3 encoder for the pocket pc. No, I'm not starting my own podcast, but my wife rented a Doppler to listen to the baby's heart beat (she's pregnant) and we want to record the sound to post on our website. But if this works, it could work to podcast with too.

His last section mentions a rating system. I agree. Right now, I basically go off of recommendations from blogs I read, but it would be nice to see the reaction of more than one person.

Mondays. That's the name of the new show. And he's looking for a tagline to go with it. How about, "Mondays: Even though it's Friday" since it's being recorded Friday night, right after DotNetRocks.

I have just started getting back into listening to DotNetRocks, and having it be shorter will help me get through it easier. I listened just the other day to the Fritz Onion interview, and it was very good. The quality of that show is good (from a technical perspective).

I'll definitely be listening to the new show - at least to see what it's like! They are looking for some big name guests. I think they should contact Mark Cuban and get him to come on the show. He's a big name, and is "blogger friendly."

For those who visit the site, you’ll notice the changes. For those who use an aggregator, you won’t. Either way, here’s what’s changed.

• The coloring is better (in my mind, which isn’t saying much).
• I added links to subscribe automatically for Newsgator Online, Bloglines, and LiveMessage alerts.
• I added a link to my OPML file, which is maintained by Newsgator, so as I use it and my subscriptions are updated, it will be too.
• I added a blogroll to all of my subscriptions. That’s also through Newsgator, and with 300 of them, it’s a little long. But you can now see what I read on a daily basis.
• I got rid of my (lame) intro text on the right side. I suck at describing who I am and what this whole thing is for. Just read the site, and you’ll get the idea.
• I changed my tagline. You’ll have to visit the site to see it – right at the top.

Let me know what you think of the new look!

I saw an interesting post on Raindrop about types of content that isn’t “feedable” – not that doesn’t offer syndication, but that the type of site doesn’t lend itself well to syndication.

But that wasn’t what caught my attention. Here’s the first few lines in the article.

Over lunch I thought I'd indulge in a little guilty pleasure and scan espn.com. Rather than just going to the site, it seemed like the perfect time to try Rojo, so I clicked sports in the Rojo nav menu and lo and behold there was espn. Another click and I had the latest headlines. Perfect. 

So I thought, “What is Rojo?” and went to their site. It’s an invite only site, meaning my interest is even more piqued than it was before. A site that can syndicate any site? That sound’s interesting? Anyone else know anything about this, or how to get invited?

Earlier I posted about Podcasting, and wanting to listen to it in my car. I think I've found the solution, and it's pretty cheap!