A new version of the VideoPop Plugin is available.
I had to make some changes to reflect changes in the recent WordPress 2.1 release. Added instructions to add your own dimensions to the page.

Zum Glück habe ich letzte Woche nachts um 5 noch den Fernseher angemacht, sonst wäre mir dieses Gespräch mit Eugen Drewermann, den ich bis dahin noch gar nicht kannte, entgangen.
Thema der Sendung: Wer liebt und leidet in uns? Es geht um “die großen Themenstellungen der Menschen: Tod und Liebe, Verzweiflung und Angst, Vertrauen und Hoffnung, Suchen und Scheitern”, Drewermann spannt einen riesigen Bogen und trifft.
 
Link zum Video
Link zum Audiofile

There is this now playing plugin for winamp which lets you send current IDtag data via GET/POST. Nice.
It’s beta and there are still some issues but it works. I have build a little flashticker showing what’s now playing on my winmap. The time of the last update is shown too. It updates on page reload, there is room for improvement. The update checking and display could be moved to flash, so it doesn’t depend on reloading.
 
The possibilities of what you could do are endless. You could save and build an interface to your whole playlist of recent x days/weeks/months. Or display the cover with a link to amazon. Or..
 
What I like most about it, is the connection between the real life of the blog owner and the blog as hers/his web representation.

Version 1.3 of the VideoPop Plugin is up.
Added support for 3gp video and flash files and fixed some bugs. I added some information regarding streaming video on the page.

About 2 weeks ago I started using feedburner for my main feed. It took a while to decide because I prefer being independent as far as possible but feedburner offers some interesting services like stats (currently 1! subscriber [me]) I wanted to try.

The actual feed page looks like this by default. This is the feed for the b-sides category, just as an example. For my main feed I chose a different style.
The default style looks much nicer but I decided against it, because it looks to much like a regular web page.
Today a friend emailed asking where he could find the link to the feed, pointing me to the feedburner address.
 

Well, this is the feed, it just doesn’t look like it. I think a lot of people who are not geeks just got used to the pattern “if I read XML and there is a lot of crazy code on the page, this is a feed”.

So if the audience of a blog consists of rather regular internet users, using a styled feed can really be a disadvantage.
Even if they are right on it, they might not identify it as a feed and might eventually not subscribe.

While playing around with my new Illustrator CS2, I got some ideas for wordpress themes.

There are some great DJ mixes on musicismyworld.com.

My favourites: Chill Xmas 05 set & Latte Monaco