Christian Burns is thinking things through

Chat about the twhirl app and twitter for the enterprise

Christian Burns — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:55:26 +0000

Today I woke up to the news that Twhirl had been acquired by seesmic. Fellow Newsgang live regular Dennis Howlett wrote a great post about it. Via twitter I pinged Dennis and he agreed to do a call about it. It turned into a really fun conversation about twhirl, single person development, twitter for the enterprise and small business using web 2.0 tools to save money and stay agile.

Conversation with Dennis Howlet about twhirl MP3

Making changes

Christian Burns — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:28:05 +0000

Well its high time I updated the look on this blog. I really need to post more often too. It is one of my goals this year to get off my butt and write more posts.

A new way to use Utterz

Christian Burns — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:51:32 +0000

A 7:06 long post about using utterz for capturing long rambling thoughts and concepts
Mobile post sent by Christian using Utterz. Replies. mp3

Social change using social tools

Christian Burns — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:47:14 +0000

A little talk about using the tools that we have for social change. Discuss a new site called The Point https://www.thepoint.com/ and that better times are on the way. We live in great times.

Mobile post sent by Christian using Utterz. Replies. mp3

Dinner time

Christian Burns — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:29:51 +0000

Mobile post sent by Christian using Utterz. Replies.

The future of communication

Christian Burns — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:40:32 +0000

Mobile post sent by Christian using Utterz. Replies. mp3

Busy day ahead

Christian Burns — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:08:31 +0000

Mobile post sent by Christian using Utterz. Replies. mp3

Checking in

Christian Burns — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:40:58 +0000

txt msg Spam to your cell phone

Christian Burns — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:36:06 +0000

I have been getting txt msg spam to my cell phone and I know that I am not the only one. The site that is sending the spam is also sending comment spam to our various blogs.

WTF/ALL SOFTWARE EVEN WINDOWS VISTA 80% OFF VISIT http://www.buyoems.com

I am not linking to that url, just posting it. What can be done about this?

Where did I go?

Christian Burns — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:27:49 +0000

I have not posted to my blog for 11 days! It’s OK for me to slip on this one part of my new years resolutions. I have been very busy, we could have a new baby anytime. Work and life are so busy right now. And Twitter might have played a small role in my not feeling like posting to the main blog. Its all good. For some reason I cant blog early in the morning and night time is for family and wife.

So life goes on without blogging it :)

Fastest podcast production from multiple phones

Christian Burns — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:55:37 +0000

My friend Maury asked about Free Conference Call.

It is really simple, its free and it just works. Sign up and they give you an account for 120 days, then you have to just get another account. They tell you what your call in number is and what your access code and pin is.

In a call you just push 9 and your pin code to record. At the end of the call press 9 to stop recording and end your call. Then they will email you a link of the call detail and file in WAV format.

I then run the file through The Levelator and cut the first 5 seconds off the beginning and end with Audacity.

Take the edited wav and convert to mp3 with CDex to get 44khz and 64kbps.

I like to listen to people talking about stuff and the fact that everyone being recorded is on a phone evens out the sound quality. So you don’t have a professional studio and a someone else on a call. This way everyone is equally low quality :) The result doesnt sound that bad. Here is the podcast with Eric Rice done this way

I would like to this again with others, just not sure when.

Christian Burns 004 with Eric Rice

Christian Burns — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:04:16 +0000

On the fly podcast with Eric Rice, I put out a call on twitter to see if anyone was up to doing a podcast, Eric stepped up to the plate,

Report from SWSX music,
Twitter and what is going on with it
Groups and other feature requests
Twitter within podtech.net and other companies

Direct download, 22 minutes, 10 mb MP3

Christian Burns - 003 - Twitter

Christian Burns — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:07:29 +0000

Christian Burns Podcast 003 - download 14:51

Twitter
Third party apps using the Twitter API
Some twitter feature requests
microblogging from your cell phone
Scoble vs Winer vs John Edwards, different isn’t bad

CastFire looks cool

Christian Burns — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:14:13 +0000

CastFire looks awesome but have you ever noticed that Robert Scoble’s videos tend to suck. (I got paid for that :)
http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1387/looking-at-castfire-media-management-system

The road to reducing oil dependence and becoming carbon neutral

Christian Burns — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:42:44 +0000

Today the John Edwards campaign announced plans to be “carbon neutral” in an effort of doing their part to reduce global warming. It looks like they are working with NativeEnergy and will be donating to help build clean electricity producing plants that then offset the need for standard “dirty” electric plants. An interesting idea to get the Carbon Neutral stamp on you organization.

I seem to think that what would really help would be to empower the makers and innovators of this world, all over the world. Those guys like Preston Tucker, who if they had their way, we would be driving something entirely new by now.

Jory Squibb built this micro-car that gets 85 mpg in the city and 105 mpg on an economy run. Now who in the world would want to build and even be seen in something like this? I would. This is a one of a kind, and if some folk got together and built 100 of them I am sure they would go together easier and faster and cheaper.

Here is a car made out of wood, TRYANE II
Fuel Consumption : 55-70 mpg
TOP SPEED (approx): l00 mph