My blogroll has always been accessed via BlogLines, though it has recently fallen behind since I started using FeedDemon. So, to get things updated quickly, I exported my FeedDemon list of blogs into an OPML file, which I then imported into Bloglines. And it works!
Blogging
Link icon
This afternoon, I ‘designed’ a quite frankly rubbish link icon for this blog, in the style of the little rectangles one sees on many blogs, including this one. Here it is:
The font is Jason Kottke’s Silkscreen, perfect for this kind of small scale work.
Godcasting, anyone?
This piece from today’s Guardian:
If you’re up to date, podcasting – an automated way of making audio files (such as radio shows) available to download – should be old hat. The latest spin-off from this technology, said Ellen Lee in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, is Godcasting.
According to Lee, Godcasts – “religious and spiritually themed podcasts” – have become “the most popular use of the new online technology since it debuted less than a year ago”. They “range from a daily dose of Scripture to a weekly dose of the Bible translated into Klingon”, continued Lee, who explained that “the vast majority are Christian-based, but they also include New Age, Jewish and Buddhist podcasts.”
is along rather similar lines to this entry on the BBC News site, last Wednesday:
Thousands of people have downloaded a Suffolk vicar’s sermons after he posted them on the internet last month.
The Rev Leonard Payne, Vicar of St Nicholas’ Church in Wrentham, said the response had been overwhelming after he posted them on the Apple iTune store.
“We were stunned. Within a short period of time, over 2,000 people had downloaded one of them,” he said.
At one point demand for the sermons was so great they had to change servers, Mr Payne said.
The church in the small rural parish first developed its own website where the sermons could be accessed.
It was set up so people who could not attend church could download and listen to sermons at home.
Header changes
Have put in a new photo to the header – one from my trip to Cambridge, squashed, filtered and generally fiddled with. Still a little way to go, so forgive me for it looking, er, a bit shit at the moment…