A Brief Message about Why My TiVo and Treo, Rule 

"This is the confirmation email I received from TiVo after I:

• Heard that Michael Moore was going to be on 60 Minutes
• Was miles from home and wished I could somehow schedule my TiVo to record this show
• Turned to my trusty Treo 600, and pointed the browser to Tivo Central Online to sign-in and schedule this recording
• Return home to find 60 Minutes recorded perfectly per my request.

I know I live in the future a bit, being an early adopter and all, but the future is grand - and highly recommended." [shellen dot com, via buzzmachine]

I'm going to start using that last line everywhere! I'll have to try to use my Treo 600 to access MyReplayTV to see if I can schedule a recording on one of my ReplayTVs!

Tangent: check out this great quote from Jeff Jarvis:

"Feeding me -- sending me any kind of content anytime anywhere on any device -- is the promise of this medium in an ever-connected world and RSS will be at the core of that. This is just the beginning."

Sounds familiar, doesn't it?  ;-)

Interestingly, I was interviewed by a reporter this morning for a Redeye article about RSS. Let's hope this is the first sign of a clue over at the Tribune Company!

Great job for somebody

"In another time and place, this would have been my dream job." [rc3.org Daily]

I can see why, as LJ World does some a-mazing stuff online (check out the Little League Cell Phone Updates!). But check out the customize link next to the XML button on Adrian Holovaty's site.

"Want to syndicate my blog's content? Want to use a personal aggregator to read it? You're in luck. I've set up an RSS system that's limited only by your imagination....

My custom feeds include the headline, full text and permalink from the 5 latest entries that include a word or phrase of your choosing. This lets you filter which Holovaty.com content you get.

To access a custom feed, use the URL convention holovaty.com/rss/filterstring, where "filterstring" is the word or phrase you want to require in each entry. To separate words, use the ASCII space character %20 or just a plus sign (+). You can also require an exact phrase by using putting double quote marks around it."

Google News and every major newspaper ought to emulate this setup. Today.

More Yahoo! RSS

"We've been busy adding RSS feeds all over Yahoo!

We had previously released Yahooligans! Joke of the Day.

Today, Ask Earl (a daily question and answer for kids) is available too.

In Education, we now have Word of the Day and SAT Tip of the Day available.

More to come soon!" [Jeff Boulter's Weblog, via Jeremy Zawodny's blog]

Sweet! It may finally be time to give 10-year old Kailee a Bloglines account. I've been toying with giving her one and preloading it with the National Geographic feed, but there wasn't much else to add. Until now....

"The NY Times is now providing its own RSS feeds, with several new categories including media and advertising, most-emailed, real estate, theater, Times on the Trail, multimedia, theater, Circuits, Week in Review and the Sunday magazine section. Unfortunately the education, dining and wine feeds and perhaps others are gone. The continuing feeds redirect, so most aggregators should adust automatically." [Scripting News]

A very good thing, and a note to myself to change the URLs in the slides for my RSS class and presentation.

SMS Speed Record Sets Guinness World Record

"A 23-year-old Singaporean woman appears to have set a world record for sending text messages over a cellphone, underlining Asia's growing obsession with cellplhone technology.

Kimberly Yeo thumbed 26 words in 43.24 seconds into her phone, beating a world record of 67 seconds for the same words set by a Briton in September 2003, said Singapore's dominant telephone carrier, Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), on Monday.

Cellphones are an ubiquitous accessory in technology-savvy Singapore where more than four out of five people own a handset, giving the wealthy city-state one of the world's highest cellphone penetration rates.

At a contest in front of a department store on Sunday, Yeo was among 125 people timed by SingTel and a panel of independent officials to see how fast they could type the following 160-character message: 'The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.'...

Yeo, who won a S$17 500 (about R64 000) in cash for her nimble thumbs, said she sends out about an average of 1 500 text messages a month to friends and family." [iol, via textually.org]