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Archive for June, 2008 (2008/06)

How to write a good blog post?

The title is a basic summary. The first paragraph (or opening excerpt) is a slightly more detailed summary. Then the content doesn’t ramble (like most of what I’ve written). Read on for more…

Everything, especially the title and opening/intro should say (through implication) things like “this is about…” and “you should read this post because…” and “here is what you will learn from this post…”

Then if you have enough to say (that is not just pointless rambling), you can put longer content in the main body of the post. Pointless rambling should be avoided even in the body, especially for the kind of posts I was experimenting with (intended to be useful to the point notes). Pointless posts (such as multiple paragraphs rambling about my category names) also suck.

Pictures can be good too and so can videos (of course they can also suck, and that should be avoided too).

Yes, I am aware that I did not follow these guideline in my previous posts O:-)

Pem (Admin) :: 2008/06/29 (Sunday, June 29, 2008) :: Blogging :: No Comments »

Exporting my tech-related iTunes Podcasts for iPod

In iTunes, select LIBRARY -> Podcasts, then do File -> Export. Here is my list (I deleted the ones that weren’t computer/tech related) (goes inside the <body>): Podcasts_tech_forblog_2008_06_27.opml

I watch these on my iPod. Currently in iTunes -> DEVICES -> [my ipod] -> Podcasts, I am using the “10 most recent new”. When you start to watch a podcast on your iPod, it (almost) instantly gets marked as “not new” and this gets sync’ed with iTunes. A little trick I found is that when you are watching a podcast on your iPod, you can (usually) use the back/left (when watching) to reset it back to “new”.

Pem (Admin) :: 2008/06/27 (Friday, June 27, 2008) :: Blogging :: 1 Comment »

Category: “Mobile Devices/Services”

“Phones” is a category of stuff I’ve been playing with (reading about etc) lately. Phones have become (and are becoming) “smarter” (and more digital), and capable of doing a lot more than just person-to-person voice communication, in at least 2 major ways:
1) smart phones are PDAs that are becoming more powerful internet-capable mobile computing platforms, with additional capabilities like GPS and voice-focused and portability-focused uses and interfaces
2) voice-to-voice through the traditional phone number system has also become “smarter”, so you can essentially make phone calls to computer systems that provide a variety of services (many of which are free), or interact with these systems/services outside of data plans via SMS text

My original category idea was “Hardware -> Devices”. Then I thought it should be “Phones” to cover topics like cell phone services, smart phones, voice-capable devices, phone-related services, etc. Then I thought maybe “Communication -> Phones” along with “Communication -> Instant Message” and “Communication -> Email” or even just under some broader category like “Communications – Email, IM, Phone”. Another broad category idea was “Mobile”.

Finally I decided on… “Mobile Devices/Services”

“Mobile Devices/Services” is intended to focus on the mobility / ultra-mobility aspect, while (voice / email / IM) are not necessarily purely mobile things.

I chose this category name so that it does not include standard laptop computers, but it does include web-capable software-application-capable devices like smart phones, Nokia N810 internet tablet, iPod touch. Of course it also includes services that focus on mobility (such as phone-related services, GPS devices, etc). This category view looks at mobile devices as a platform for software and services, that is conceptually separatable (though sometimes intertwined with) the traditional computer platforms (and yes sometimes there may be gray areas).

Anyway, it’s just a category name (not that important)

Pem (Admin) :: 2008/06/07 (Saturday, June 7, 2008) :: Mobile Devices/Services :: 1 Comment »