Techaura

After switching over to Feedburner for all my feeds and turning on statistics I’ve come to the conclusion that there are definitely some ill-behaved readers floating around out there…

This is a partial snapshot of the clients that have been hitting my feed and by far Opera is just hammering my feed for the few clients that are using it….

In comparison NetNewsWire has 4 times the number of clients and is 1/20th the bandwidth hog vs. Opera RSS Reader.

This is the first product I’ve seen that’s been developed specifically as a “podcast console”. It comes from a company called TinyScience and I’ve included a link to a quicktime demonstration of the software. It’s Windows only and requires the .Net framework installed. I haven’t used it yet but the demo looks pretty good for a basic system.

BTW: Their website renders like garbage in Safari and I’ve already complained. James Prudente the author of the software and website in question sent me a very nice response saying he’d try to fix it ASAP.

Spent a little time upgrading the graphics on the site. Still don’t have all the bells and whistles in yet… but will work on it.

Also, installed the plugin for WordPress for gravatars. If you don’t know about gravatar, it’s a global system for your avatar. Any weblogs and forums that you use be a user of might support gravatar and if they do it will automagically install your predefined avatar for your account.

You can get you own avatar at the Gravatar website.

How sweet is this… I can now reduce my applications down to my favorite news reader. It just needs a couple small features to complete it’s usefulness, like individual settings per feed… the last thing I want to do is download every mp3 file from something like the blogdigger feed.

If you’re a podcast junkie and want the very best of the RSS world go get the latest beta of NetNewswire.

AuctionTalk: Overstock starts podcasting a weekly show.

Impressive… and exactly what we’ve been talking about for the past couple months. It’s all about the conversation ….

I hope they work on the quality of the sound on the show. They need to buy a decent microphone and maybe a breakout box. Maybe they could get a cheap set from their auctions.

Check it out! The feed can be found here