I just posted on the CastRoller blog that I will be at Podcasters Across Borders this year. I wan’t able to attend last year, so I am really looking forward to the event this time around.

When I attended for the first time in 2007, I only knew one person there: Bill Deys, and it took me a while to get to know other people there. I had a great time at Podcamp Toronto last year, knowing a good number of people before hand really helped me to have a good time.  The community is very welcoming, I’m just a person that takes a while to feel comfortable with people.So now that I know a bunch of people there, I know that I’ll have a great time.

Today and tomorrow are the last days you can get the early registration price for PAB, so if you aren’t signed up yet, you should go and register. And while you are at it register for Podcamp London as well!

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This looks like a really useful service for posting to my blog, flickr and Twitter.

If this works well, I may end up using it quite a lot.

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Ever since Google launched the 2nd version of Google reader, I have been using it exclusively as my feed reader. At one point I had over 700 feeds in reader, but usually I kept it around 300 feeds.

I’ve been finding that I haven’t been actually reading most of the posts in my feeds. I get far too many posts coming in one day that I don’t have the time to read them all, I needed a solution; a better way to read my feeds and ensure that I read the good stuff, and don’t waste my time with anything else. I wanted to join the conversation and see the conversation that is happening on the web. Enter FriendFeed.

On FriendFeed, I was able to add the people that I care about, and have everything that they publish to the web appear in one place. FriendFeed has a large number of controls that let you filter what it shows to you, and it automatically sorts the items in your feed to keep the items that have the most conversation on them appear at the top.

I have now set FriendFeed as my homepage and now I can see what is happening with the people I care about quickly and keep myself involved in the conversation.

I haven’t completely abandoned Google Reader but I am now using it much less and have only kept the Feeds that I want to read 100% of the posts. I now only have about 70 feeds in GReader.

In an upcoming post, I’ll list off the GreaseMonkey scripts that I use to make FriendFeed even more useful.

I just installed the Zemanta plugin for Firefox. It is a cool little plugin that suggests a number of articles, tags and photos to go along with the blog post that you are currently typing.

This entry exists purely for me to test out its functionality. I’m assuming that it will do a pretty good job of finding posts that are related to itself.

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The library is a simple wrapper for all of the PostRank API calls. Usage is pretty simple, and I’ve included a sample program to get you started.

I’ve released it under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License meaning that anyone is free to reuse and modify the code, as long as the attribute me as the original author.

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I just switched my web host to Mosso that allows me to run both Windows and Linux servers off of the same account. This gives me the flexibility to use any technology that best suits my needs.

I’ll be moving CastRoller over to this server over the weekend. Download full movies

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