Yesterday, I listened to a terrific episode of Radio Open Source, Christopher Lydon’s wide-ranging podcast, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein. The show focused on his popular musical, West Side Story. I have played several arrangements of West Side Story and other Bernstein works in concert band and marching band, and they have been some of my favortite band pieces. The conversation between Lydon and Nigel Simeone is a fascinating analysis of many of the songs in the show and looking at the influences of classical, jazz, and Latin music on Bernstein’s creative process. Check it out!
Read: Java’s Forgotten Forbear
An interesting history of an early Pascal development environment. Turbo Pascal was also an early success for PC software development.
A cool River5 trick to update subscription lists
Frank McPherson has created a wiki page on his usage of RSS, which includes River5. One aspect of using River5 is that the default setup is to have subscription lists within the folder where the app resides. On Frank’s wiki page, he gives a tip on how to use an OPML file to refer to another OPML file on a server to update the subscription list. Neat!
Read: For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain
Great article by Glenn Fleishman – the impact of corporations on copyright law has been quite significant, too bad that Lawrence Lessig’s work on copyright law was not successful in stemming the tide..
I did not know that the University of Texas was involved in this.
In The Car Podcast Episode 3 – Some similarities between microblogging and podcasting
In Episode 3, I talk about some similarities between microblogging and podcasting.
References:
- Micro.blog
- Episode 2 of In The Car podcast
- Wither The History of Podcasting – my thoughts on a podcast discussing the history of podcasting
Update to RSS Revival post
In the past two weeks, I wrote a post about RSS revival. Chris Aldrich noticed that the Twitter posting by Taylor Lorenz had been deleted. I was able to retrieve most of it in Google’s search cache, so here is a link to the cache, and to an offline copy of the Twitter conversation. I have also updated my original post with these links.
Spent some quality time with a garbage disposal this afternoon, going to spend some quality time with a plumber tomorrow…ugh
I am trying out Dialog, the Android app for micro.blog, seems to be working well, can monitor the timeline and respond to posts..
I liked this perspective on the Gutenberg editor. My site is still on WordPress 4.7.2, so I have not made the jump yet.