The News Review:
- The Round-up: Week 6 Podcast
- How to do everything faster
- Ars celebrates iTunes Store’s birthday with our own wishlist
- Alison Asks: Is This Story Sexist?
- InstantConference(R) Sponsors ”Instant Conversations’'…
- Post Politics Hour
- How to deal with difficult people
The Round-up: Week 6 Podcast
abc.net.au – Apr 28, 2008
The Cats snuck home by a point away to Fremantle on Friday night to move to 6-0 while the Hawks were tested by Richmond before winning by two goals in Sunday’s twilight fixture at the MCG. Grandstand’s Matt Clinch reviews all the round six matches in his weekly podcast The Round-up.
How to do everything faster
InfoWorld – Apr 28, 2008
Whether you’re doing something creative like making a podcast or building a blog or slogging through chores such as backing up data removing viruses or calibrating your high-def TV screen you want to get things done and move on to the fun. By Lincoln Spector PC WorldApril 28 2008… You can arrange to have more than one reminder scheduled and you can set them to alert you up to a week ahead of the actual appointment time. Scan for malware with online tools The best way to keep your PC free from viruses and spyware is to run a good antivirus application and keep it updated. But if you’ve been bad and left your computer exposed to the depredations of the malevolent you can quickly find and eliminate skulking intruders either by running a portable security program–one that doesn’t have to be installed onto your system–or by using a Web-based scanner. Conveniently Ewido Networks (now part of Grisoft which produces the AVG antivirus utility) provides excellent tools in each category–and both of them are free. Try the online Ewido scanner (which works only with Internet Explorer) or the free stand-alone program which is available for downloading. Both versions update their definitions when you use them. Other good options are ClamWin Portable and Kaspersky Lab’s Web scanner.
Ars celebrates iTunes Store’s birthday with our own wishlist
Ars Technica – Apr 28, 2008
The amount of content "exploded" as iTMS increased in popularity and labels scrambled to get their music on the hottest online music store. Apple also introduced digital box sets with Complete U2 and added iTunes Originals exclusive live sets. 2005: Podcast became part of the popular lexicon as Apple added a podcast directory to iTunes. Video also came to the store via TV show and music videos. The video could be viewed via iTunes or downloaded to new video-enabled iPods. iTunes itself added features to handle episodic content for automatic downloads and tracking with episodes have been viewed and which have not. Catching up on the latest on Survivor on the train to work suddenly becomes as easy clicking "Buy This Episode.
Alison Asks: Is This Story Sexist?
NPR – Apr 28, 2008
What’s the deal folks? I felt mixed while reading this portion of the NYT article. Being broadcast on traditional terrestrial radio suggests stability and greater standing within NPR. However I almost always podcast the program every morning and listen all the way through. Sent by Dan M | 5:07 PM ET | 04-28-2008 The paragraph is indeed tonally weird but I agree with the general consensus that the issue at hand is the lack of consistency with the hosts… I liked that the BPP was different in both hosting style and the spread of stories that were -and are- covered and without that I might not have come back day after day. As it stands I doubt the revolving host system is adversely affecting the listenership. Good luck with the wolff cub 
Sent by Sarah Lee | 5:59 PM ET | 04-28-2008 Hey Guys love the show! I have been listening since the very first podcast. I know that it has to be tough to get the BPP on the air. Morning Edition is so entrenched (and so good) I still listen to it as I get ready each day. I listen to the BPP in the car on my IPOD. I think we all want to know what is going on with the BPP.
InstantConference(R) Sponsors ”Instant Conversations’'…
Earthtimes – Apr 28, 2008
“InstantConference embodies the whole concept of Web 2. 0 by increasing collaboration and communication among online users” said Alex Cory CEO of parent company Global Conference Partners. “Our technology continues to evolve focusing on ‘user-managed’ communications serving social networks and blogging communities with simple automated tools that are free or very low cost.
Post Politics Hour
Washington Post – Apr 28, 2008
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How to deal with difficult people
Times Online – Apr 28, 2008
What is the intent of the employee? If their actions are for the greatergood of the company then perhaps you should be more accommodating. If theirbehaviour is to seek attention or because of their own particular pathologythen you need to act quickly 2. Think clearly about the signals you are sending in working with adifficult employee.