Where things stand:

1. Got the audiocast thing down well. I could make things sound a lot better, but I am not sure who much time and energy I have to devote to actually building (what would amount to) a sound studio that would allow me to create a “talk radio station.”

2. I figured out how to use my digital camera to capture short video images--a good place to start. I need to speak with the folks at Nikon customer service to reinstall a bunch of software on my Media Center PC and to see how I actually get that video out of my camera. The great folks at Serious Magic have given me a copy of Visual Communicator to use to build a videoblog. I’ll start simple and then go from there.

3. I want to circle back and work some more on building a personal newspaper. I’d like to create visual feeds (that is do it without exposing the underlying RSS/XML feeds) that just appear as a newspaper mélange. So, for instance, my paper would have the tech section from The New York Times; sports from the Philadelphia Daily News; food section from the San Francisco Chronicle, and so on. I will again try both Amplify and Netomat. Open to any and all ideas.