The Slakinski Log

Mahalo Daily released this yesterday:

But what made it truly great was when I woke up this morning they released a directors commentary for it

For more info check out Scientology Psychiatrist Video

I was working on an RSS feed generator for something at Mahalo and whenever I do such things I go through the RSS 2.0 Spec again to see what elements I should add to make the feed as useful as can be for 3rd party developers. I noticed a little used item called which is to link to where people can post comments to the item. Sounds simple, but no RSS reader that I’ve ever come across will use this so I asked Dave Winer why via twitter and then 2 things happened

1) Oddly enough eariler in the day before any prompting from me, Dave added to Scripting News’s RSS Feed 2) He replied to my question with this flickr link: http://flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/1876196880/ and he couldn’t have been more correct.

Come on guys, if your going to support a spec, support ALL of it!

Seems like Jason getting more involved in Podcasting.

As a blogger I hate SEO, they ruin the web. When I search for something I don’t want some stupid sales link at the top of my serp (search engine results page) I want what I searched for! Its becoming more and more common that my search results are getting cluttered with utter crap. Google, Yahoo! or anyone for that matter needs to do something about this.

One thing that will help is that more blogs and social bookmarking sites need to implement nofollow which will hurt these guys! Since its blogs and social bookmarking/news sites that these guys target.

If you want to see how slimy these guys are, watch a “promo” vid for SEO.

The guy that did the above video — Gary Ruplinger — Is taken to task by Anti-SEO Jason Calacanis (Formerly of AOL and founder of Weblogs Inc.)

Way to go Gary… go ahead and piss in the town well (i.e. digg, netscape, google’s index, etc). I mean, finding a bathroom to relieve yourself would take too much work. Forget about the fact that the rest of us drink from that well…. you go ahead and piss in it.

So I was talking to Kevin Rose (of digg, techtv, twit fame) last night, just seeing what each other have been up to for the past little bit… which was nice, being an internet bigwig has not changed him a bit. But then something haappened today, I saw the new GoDaddy commercial and who did I see in it? Mr. Rose! You’d think he’d mention that to me? So I decided to hit the net and do a quick search and it just turns out that I need to read my RSS feeds more often Anyways congrats Kevin and Alex!

So when will we see an digg ad on the superbowl?

BTW: My wife’s comments as I rewind and pause on Kevin’s image during the ad. “How did you see him among all the girls?” Erm, my only defense was he was the odd person out in the group, so how could you miss him!

As per that theme song the other day, I’m going to take a new road and if all goes well, never look back! Yesterday I quit my day job to join up with a new startup company that oddly enough isn’t podcast related. I’m not sure what this means for Transistr, but I do know that PopCurrent.com will remain running and be well maintainted still (aka It’s not going anywhere, so keep on popping) but it does mean that I’m going to try something new and fun this year!

Wish me luck!

Last week I got an email From August saying that Bill had passed away… it took me till today to make note of it here on my blog. Needless to say we are all greatly saddened by his passing, and more importantly the podosphere are even more impacted as he was a pioneer in this field and always brought something new and fresh to the table.

Again, Bill you will be missed.

I’m now at the Portable Media Expo! If your around, you can find me at the PopCurrent or Podiobooks booth or I will have my cell phone 905-399-EVIL(3845)

I have 2 talks that I’m giving. Friday at the Podango Unconference at 3:30 entitled “After iTunes”; the other one is with Evo Terra on the PME show room floor on Saturday at 2PM where we are going to be talking about PodioBooks and PopCurrent. Please come and attend if you can.

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