Props for the My Yahoo Add post below to Ken who introduced me to the neat little easy-subscribe button. I'm not too sure I agree with his read on Newsgator's New Online Service. They are offering web services for intelligence gathering business processes. Fully integrated with that corporate mainstay, Microsoft Outlook. I'd like to give it a spin to see what benefits it has.

Other RSS related developments this evening...

The New Jazz Thing Audblog, my currently most updated weblog...my scratch-blog, has an Atom feed (courtesy of Blogger). Now it has an RSS feed, courtesy of Myelin: Feed Normalizer, which translates my Atom to RSS...which is way cool! It allows me to output my scratch pad to any RSS aggregator, so I can route interesting things in interesting (and New) directions. Coming soon.

And this My Yahoo integration got me rethinking of my wish to have a more weblog portal look to things. Or actually a couple different portals for different views of the New. A Jazz view: TNJT Live, TNJT The Tunes, Jazz 88 News, eJazzNews feed, Apple iTunes Jazz Feeds. An Enterprise Architecture View: feed, Vince Outlaw's Tech News, CIO.com sponsored feed, other search-term specific feeds. There are lots of ideas on this.

Including re-looking at http://Bloglines.com. Or some other RSS aggregator that allows me to publish a category of RSS feeds as a portal or at least combined weblog.

And Waveblog looks TOTALLY COOL!!! I have dreamed about both mobile blogging and personal broadcasting since I started blogging back in 1999. And I'm looking for the next New thing I can do to cover the Playboy Jazz Festival this year...using one of these things could be it!! I have questions and ideas, so grab your J2ME capable multi-media phone and blog...

"The location information is the hard part, and the piece of the puzzle my company fills in. First, you can use the J2ME app (called WaveSpotter) to locate a position on a map with crosshairs for a one-click post to your weblog, or in the coming months we're going to be announcing deals with American and international carriers who will provide the location information on the back end which will geo-tag email and web posts automagically. I've also added a geo-encoding form to the site as well, so at the worst case you can just enter the address information and it'll look up the location info for you.

In addition to the maps on the weblog, the RSS feed also incorporates per-post geolocation using the W3C geo proposed namespace and tags. The idea is to provide that data for others to use and to start aggregating other geotagged feeds so that using a handset - via J2ME or WAP2 - you can see which weblogs have been updated in real time near you or in another specific location ("location-based mobile aggregation"). Our pitch has to do with club-goers and other trendy what-if scenarios that carriers love, but in general it's just the next step in mobile weblogging. Going from "photo blogs" to *real* moblogging, by enabling producing and consuming of information organized not only by time, but also by location. When you combine this with the rich media that modern handsets can produce, people become "personal broadcasters" where every mobile user (everyone?) becomes a roving reporter on the scene around them."

I would love to record, reflect on, write about, and broadcast the various influences and experiences in my daily, worldly, wonderful life and tools like this and others are now making this real. Now to just find the write set of tool / service vendors that would like to work with a Dad of the New Millenium, built to share experiences and only needing a bit of help and mentoring to get there. Any takers? Apple (iLife, iTunes Music Store, iSight, NetNewsWire). NPR / Audble? International Association of Jazz Educators? SAIC? All fine establishments that I'd love to promote by integrating them into a life shared on-line. I could be like one of those Nascar Race Cars, clothes covered with patches and decals of all those organizations enabling the documenting of a life, reporting on and sharing technology, news, experiences in a most local way and Internetional way. OK, so I'm excited...what the hell...a man can dream can't he!

I can also think, I think, of interesting interaction capabilities between me as TNJT DJ on Jazz 88 playing the Tunes (and producing a real-time RSS feed of them) and folks being able to read these feeds in something like Waveblog and immediately feedback (comment) on the blog entry / Tune. Immediate, multi-media feedback from your listening audience...wow. And you could probably also toss up some aggregation view of listeners to see where everyone was listening from to find folks with similar music taste. Or folks having a TNJT Jazz Party each Thursday and not inviting you...you can invite yourself now!! Possibilities...

Questions:

What phones / devices can work with this?

How does Bluetooth figure in to this wild mix? At all? It's late.

How can I try this out and talk about some possibilities?!
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