I noticed with some amusement and glee on Monday that the Wall Street Journal published a list of the fastest-growing employment sectors in the latest jobs report, and what was at the head? “Internet content producer”! OK, it’s not 1999 all over again, and thank goodness for that; the actual number of new jobs in the field (2000) was small. But hey — after what this business has been through, any good news is good news.
I haven’t gotten it together to spend the money on one of those PC-to-stereo bridges that lets you stream music from your computer to your home audio systems, but when I do, I’ll look first and most closely at the Slim Devices Squeezebox — not only because it looks like a good product, but because the company that makes it lets anyone play with the open-source software that runs it: Slimserver. I’ve been having fun with Slimserver: You install it on the computer that has your music library and you can then access your library from any remote computer with a decent Internet connection. Requires a little effort to get the hang of it, then seems to work like a charm. A browser interface lets you control what’s playing. Very cool.
I’ve turned on “item level titles and links” in Radio Userland, so instead of handcoding my little headlines, they should appear in RSS 2.0 feeds as properly coded titles. You can do this too — just look under Radio’s preferences under “item level titles and links.” Thanks to Tim Bishop for the tip.
Another useful piece of open-source software I’m making a note of (thanks to Jon Udell for the pointer): Audacity, an audio-file editor.
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