Let me know how those stationary links on the sides of my blog look in a new version of IE, will you? They look great (I think) in Firefox, terrible in Safari (eek) and kinda wacky in old Mac version of IE. They should be stationary just off the bottom and side on the left and the right. Maybe somebody will proper CSS knowledge will give me a hand with it.
Is there somebody out there that can help me figure something out about audio file conversion. Here’s the things I’m dealing with:
1. Gizmo Project records in .WAV format
2. I have a Mac
3. Audacity works fine until I try to export to mp3 and then all versions I’ve found of LameLib crash the program with an error mssg.
4. Drag and drop into Garage Band sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks, who I have not interviewed.
5. I cannot find any WAV to MP3 conversion software online for Mac that works.
I’ll bet some body out there can help me figure this out. If so, please send me an email at emailmarshall@gmail.com and I’ll get back to you after New Years.
Speaking of which have a good one. And my partner Mikalina sends her regards.
UPDATE: Woo hoo! I think I figured out how to do it! The Gizmo Project forums contained advice to use iTunes to convert to MP3, and I downloaded Cacophony to do the editing with instead of Audacity. I’ll have to see how awesome that is, but it sure looks like it works. Without converting the file to any obscure formats, most importantly! Yay!
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I know you’re out there, you readers intrigued by new web tools and how they can be used for social change! Well my wonderful coworkers at Tech Soup’s Net 2 are looking for a hand or two in profiling some really exciting non-profit groups using tools like blogs, RSS, Drupal, etc. You’ve got half an hour to do a good deed!
According to volunteer coordinater Britt Bravo, “Writing up a nonprofit profile only takes 15-20 minutes. Just register on the Net Squared site, log in, go to the “Put Your Voice in the Mix” page, http://www.netsquared.org/participate/put-your-voice-in-the-mix ,
click on “submit your case study” and fill out the form.”
Britt has a long list of groups that could be profiled, or you can find them yourself. You can get ahold of Britt via bbravo@techsoup.org. Don’t be shy about profiling your own group, either!
This is just one of many opportunities for folks to help leverage Web2.0 for the betterment of the world. Check out http://www.netsquared.org/participate/be-netsquared-builder for more info on what can be done besides profile writing.
Here’s some of the most recent groups that have been profiled:
Here’s a link to the full list of profiled groups so far. It’s pretty inspiring!
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It’s true, even the US military is podcasting. Did you know that the New York Police Department has a podcast? Makes me wonder what the rest of us are waiting for.
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Hey folks, check out out this week’s TechSoup event on Web 2.0 tools for non profits. It’s a series of forum discussions hosted by a variety of interesting folks in the field. I wrote about it in a previous post. I’ll be hosting threads on wikis and RSS tommorow.
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Ok, so some folks are still having trouble getting their bookmarklet set up to be indexed by Technorati’s tag search. Below is the bookmarklet.
For some reason it appears that some users are getting code that looks like this:
a rel=”tag” href=”http://
instead of like this: a href=”http://…” rel=”tag”
Now I don’t know why this bookmarklet would give you code unlike what it gives me. I really don’t. My first guess is always to wonder wether it’s a PC/Mac thing. Are folks who are using PCs getting that funky code and Mac users are getting the correct code when they push the button? Any javascript experts out there with suggestions?
Ok, I’d really like to get this figured out and move on. This should be a big time saver once we get it taken care of.
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Several items of interest today re China, where a number of regular readers live. I love it when people from China visit this site. Perhaps primarily for the rest of us, here’s some links to interesting news today about China and the web.
I imagine we’re going to see a lot of very exciting web-related things come out of China. I hope that the Chinese web will help the world become a more just place.