wow. that was exhausting!
So tonight was the night that the first Sunnyside Comics Podcast went up.
You'll all be able to tell your grandchildren were you were when you first saw the embedded player on the blog. Although I've suspected for a while now that when my grandkids ask me my whereabouts for every major current event of our times, my answer will invariably be:
"Well kids, I was lying on my back with my laptop on my stomach when I read the news".
It's true though. Just about everything that happens in the world today I find out via one of 3 screens; the 13" one on my MacBook, the 20" one on my iMac or the 3.5" one on my iPhone. Nothing else.
I've all but stopped listening to the radio, I never buy a newspaper anymore and I can't remember the last time I turned on the TV to see the news. No, wait, I can. It was to find out more about Michael Jackson's death, but by that stage my iPhone, and Twitter specifically, had already fed me all the details that were pertinent. Who gives a damn if they were accurate?!
And so it has become a new ritual, replacing the old one of flipping on BBC News 24 in the morning while I ate my Crunchy Nut Cornflakes. The first thing I do, when I wake up, is to reach for my iPhone, tap in my 4-digit passcode, check my email and then hit the button for the Byline app, an excellent Google Reader interface. If you have an iPhone, and are prepared to do the prep required to amass a useful collection of RSS feeds, I can't recommend it highly enough.
I have headings for News, Comics, Blogs, Comedy, Apple, Tech and probably a couple of others I've forgotten. Just about my only request would be a 'Mark All As Read' button at the top of each category, and a universal button that does the same thing for ALL articles.
So if you couple this with a using Google Reader on your desktop or laptop, or better yet using it in a SSB (site-specific-browser) created using Fluid or something similar, you have a pretty nice synchronised news-reading solution.
I'm not sure why I felt the need to tell you all this tonight though. I'm ridiculously tired at this stage, having been staring at Garageband for hours, and cursing at it for it's (read 'my') stupidity. Still, I'm pleased with the results, and honestly believe it can only get better over time.
Or I may just be deluded by tiredness.
