Jan 27
Michael Martine phones in the show while safely parked on the way back from Washington DC, and Michael Rowe and Matt Simpson are safely seated at work. The show focuses on various methods for productivity and recent news from the world of SecondLife.
Dogear-Nation - Episode 37 - State Patrol Rest Area [42:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (262)
Listener links:
Paul Makowenskyj Workplace Productivity - https://w3.webahead.ibm.com/w3ki/display/EFTVC/2.+Workplace+Productivity
Bill SweeneySlashdot / IBM Won’t Opensource OS/2 - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/22/0258213
Social NetworkingDigg Revolt - http://revoltnation.blogspot.com/2008/01/digg-is-game-lets-play-for-real-this.html
3D Internet News
NASA CoLab - http://nasacolab.org/
SecondLife Changes Banking Rules - http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/01/08/new-policy-regarding-in-world-banks/
Havok4 Starts Early Adopter Program - http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/01/23/havok4-early-adopter-program-returns-to-second-life/
Dogear-Nation - Episode 37 - State Patrol Rest Area [42:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (262)
January 30th, 2008 at 2:01 am
I finally got caught up on this!
I noticed that you’d put out an enhanced podcast last week and I definitely liked that. There are only a couple of podcasts I regularly follow that do that, but having the audio stops to jump to, and to some extent having the images, can really help.
Lots of other things to comment on… as a former BeOS user… oh and on Second Life banking, if you get a chance to read The Entrepreneur’s Guide to SL there are a number of good mentions in there of the importance of keeping the in-world economy stable so I wondered whether LL really would “welcome” a big RL bank in, as that could destabilise things.
Now, I’m off to play with Sametime 7.5.1 … I have to do that, because my Notes 8.0.1 ST client has been disabled
January 31st, 2008 at 7:35 am
Andy,
Thanks for the feedback. We are still experimenting with the enhanced podcast, as many of listeners do not use itunes or a ipod. We are also looking for feedback on a redesign of the website.
The thought on the banking in SL really does seem like an interesting activity. Is Linden setting up for “real world” banking? Are they actually closing down functions? Is this the first step to start requiring GAAP for SL businesses? As we said in the show - Watch this space!!!
Michael
January 31st, 2008 at 10:56 am
If you redesign the website you could try making it easier to click a comment link - at the moment you have to click on a post title to get to a page to add comments.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:01 am
More on redesign:
- make the categories and archives drop-down lists so they don’t take up so much space.
- you have About links at the top, side and bottom (overkill?)
- you don’t mention anywhere obvious that it is possible to subscribe in iTunes
- you don’t mention what tools to use or what tags to add to get links mentioned on the show
- blogroll is empty
- you could host and link to my DN Dashboard widget
- on the About page, “gleened” should be “gleaned”
January 31st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
We really need the ability to set the homepage at dogearnation.com as the page with the most recent podcast. For example, if a user goes to http://dogearnation.com they would get the content for http://www.dogearnation.com/2008/01/27/dogear-nation-episode-37-state-patrol-rest-area/
April 9th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
So Andy, what do you think of all of Matt’s Hard work???