Hugo Schotman

Typepad layout problem solved

It was caused by an extra </div> tag that creeped in through autoformatting in the web-based editor of Typepad.

Typepad layout problem

The layout of my main weblog page breaks a bit at the moment.

It may have something to do with the embedded videos I posted using the new visual editor from from typepad. I'll have to do some debugging when I have time.

Snowfix video podcast

Negative Gravity from the UK have started a video podcast about snowsports: Snowfix.
The makers are based in Val d'Isere, France but they bring up-to-date information from resorts around the world including weather reports and cool action videos.

More background in an Article from Snowboardclub UK.

World Economic Forum Podcasts

The WEF is podcasting some of this year's press conferences and sessions.
For example: Digital 2.0: Powering a Creative Economy with speakers John Chambers (Cisco), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Eric Schmidt (Google) and Niklas Zennström (Skype).

Do not leave the subject line of emails empty

Emails that arrive in my inbox without a subject line will be marked as SPAM and then they are deleted. I do not read them.
If you want to ask me a question, (post a comment on this site or) send me an email with something in the subject field.

Proper use of the subject field is good netiquette anyway: it makes it easier for the recipient (me) to sort and prioritize emails.

As predicted: 'Podcast' word of the year

Last year it was 'Blog'.
As I predicted, this year it's 'Podcast'.

Go for the skiing Dave!

Dave contemplates becoming a ski-bum for a season.

Having done that myself (as a ski instructor in St. Anton) I'd say: definitely go for it!

If you have a good internet connection you will be able to participate in daily global life and just as easily 'zoom-out' with some relaxing ski activity.

For me it worked kind of like that although working in the ski school and training for higher level certifications was not just relaxing and kept me somewhat occupied.

BTW I'm sure you could find some great acoustics for the Morning Coffee Notes in the mountains.

TED Global 2005

TED Global 2005 was really great on many levels! A treat for the mind, meeting great people, interesting subjects, good laughs, a diet (Gala dinner) and much more.

The interesting discussions took place off stage. That is something I thought could have been started on stage with the speakers. The conference could still have been as on-schedule as it was if the host would have facilitated it properly.

Some people have blogged about the conference:
- Black Looks: TED Global
- The Post Money Value: TEDGLOBAL vs. well, everything else
- Seth's Blog: Stuck (with a bump on the head)
- "Hello_World": TED Global -180 seconds of fame
But some expect more:
Blackbeltjones/Work: Thread-bare TED

I hope more posts trickle in this week.

A lot of photo's are available from the Tedsters and on the official site.
My contribution? An explanation of a little yellow thingy.

Layout temporarily fixed

I changed the layout of this blog because I noticed that it broke for individual archive pages.

Correction (Amazon link broke layout)

Update: that turned out not to be the cause...

(I noticed that the Amazon link to Podcasting Hacks that I put on the left of the page broke the layout of single articles.
Now temporarily disabled...
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St. Anton has a blog

My favorite ski town has a weblog and a Wikipedia entry (in German).

I work in the Skischool in St. Anton sometimes, usually over Christmas and New-years and spend a lot of weekends and vacation time there.

Accused of fraud

Someone's accusing me of fraud:
http://googlefraudalert.blogspot.com/2005/06/beware-online-business-owners-click.html

To me, the single article I linked to a while back was good original content, a podcasting summary that consolidated some topics in a nice way. I didn't do a thorough analysis of the other content of the website in question and I don't intend to.

The post in question on my weblog does not show up in my recent access logs, meaning: few to no people are reading it anymore.

I may remove the article in question if someone has convincing arguments for me to do so.

Making people aware of potential abuse is good... but please do your homework first!

Credit vs. Fame

Credit = recognition by your peers and people who know you.
Fame = The role you play and/or your public character is known to the man on the street.

Credit can be more personal. Fame pertains to the 'public' you.
What is more important? Depends on your Character.

GRR!! smtp doesn't work on wireless hotspot!

Very frustrating! I don't have time to figure out how to break through this stupid block from swisscom-eurospot that blocks me from sending emails from my normal mail program!
Hmm... Should get some sleep anyway...

Dynamic outline needs Fixin' !

It seems that the nice dynamic outline in the previous post doesn't work in Firefox! Arghh!

Back from vacation: more Podcasting

Sooo... it was a long vacation and busy!
The past week I spent most free time on a DVD conversion project, converting 6 DVDs' video format from NTSC (American) to PAL (Europe and other regions). Unfortunately this is not an easy task. (But now I know a lot more about video formats, frame rate conversions and codecs.)

Right. Now it's time for more focus on Podcasting and especially the infrastructure behind it.

There will be a conference on podcasting in the UK, mid-April that I am invited to. I will share my prep-work for that conference here.

On vacation

I have been on vacation for almost two weeks now and have had no opportunity to post. On the to-do list: more Podcasting related posts and some snowsports posts. Maybe next year...

QOTD "Standards" - Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Andrew S. Tanenbaum: "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."

(Via Quotes of the Day.)

Yeah... :-\

QOTD about prejudices of your social environment

Albert Einstein: "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

(Via Quotes of the Day.)

I had to look up equanimity.

This helps you put into perspective and not take too seriously a lot of crap you read and hear.

Test podcast feed created

Here is the URL for my testfeed for RSS with enclosures:

http://podcast.hugoschotman.com/index.xml

At the moment it redirects (points) to the Feedburner feed of my regular weblog feed. This means that I can add enclosures to it.
Warning! This feed may change at any time and strange things may happen to it!
It is a test feed!

UPDATE: Didn't work with NetNewsWire and probably other RSS readers. I had to change the forward a bit and add index.xml.