Head over to http://michaelkimsal.com/twitspeak/ to listen to my recent twitter stream.  I’ve got it listing my friends’ messages, but mine get in there too apparently.  I know people have done some integration between voice and twitter, but I’ve not seen anyone doing this yet.  Having done it, I see why   Text to speech [...]

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This is an example of the audiblab system for recording and embedding your voice messages.
Visit audiblab.com to try it out yourself…

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I’ve been wanting something like this for a long time, if for no other reason than to prove I can do it.    I looked a bit at mychingo.com, but they force java applets on you, and I’ve never had good luck with audio and java on linux.  Also, it’s a separate hosted service [...]

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These deserves more than a twitter…
1. I just got my copy of Scott Davis’ “Groovy Recipes” book – I’ll be posting a review as soon as a I can. First impression is about a 8.5 out of 10.
2. Just came across this -> http://froth-and-java.blogspot.com/2007/06/html-screen-scraping-with-groovy.html <- didn’t know about [...]

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I’ve put up the latest installment in my “Grails for PHP developers”.  Rather than delve too much more in to Grails head on, I’m taking this installment (and at least the next one) to delve more in to the Groovy language itself.  Groovy offers similarities to PHP, but also many differences which can trip you [...]

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The TSA recently (a week or so ago) put up a blog soliciting input on its operations. Within hours, there were hundreds of posts, mostly accusing the agency of either being incompetent or malicious, or of using the blog as a PR smokescreen. While all may be true accusations, the TSA responded today [...]

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Ted Neward does a good job of dissecting a post from Stu @ Relevance on ‘How to pick a platform’.  I won’t repeat everything said in those posts – they each do a better job of representing their positions than I could.  I would take exception to Ted’s comment towards the end of his post:
My [...]

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I was amazed at how much traffic my recent blog post on PHP was getting.  After going through my logs some, I noticed much of the traffic – over 80% – was coming from reddit.com.  This one post has garnered more than 3000 visitors, and that’s only by 5pm today.  I wouldn’t be surprised if [...]

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I put up a new webdevradio podcast last week, day after Thanksgiving (or was it the day before?  I forget now).  Anyway, I’ve turned on the comments – apparently there was a bug that was stopping it from working – and am inviting more feedback and audio comments from listeners.  The podcast is short this [...]

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Some area tech guys put together SocialCarolina.org, a site which maps what’s going on across the various social networks in the RTP/RDCH area.  At least, that’s what I think it does, and if it’s not doing that, it should   In any event, it’s a slick looking site with some definite potential.  Check it [...]

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