Thursday, December 16, 2004

NASA has a podcast. Bing! 

Mary Hodder tells a tale of an app that tossed her data. 

NPR: "After a search of his checked bags last year at the San Francisco Airport resulted in misdeameanor drug charges, activist John Perry Barlow has fought in court to have the evidence thrown out, arguing it was seized in an illegal and unnecessary search." 

Very quietly all the Berkman bloggers got the ability to do podcasts. There's a new entry box for the URL of an enclosure on the page where you enter/edit an item. If an item has an enclosure, as the server is generating the RSS, it does an HTTP HEAD request to determine the length and content-type, and automatically builds the enclosure. I expect interesting and perhaps great things to come from this because Berkman has lots of radio projects scattered around, and podcasting is designed to bring them together. That was one of the reasons why we had the mini-seminar on podcasting at Berkman a couple of days ago.