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Shout Outs:
Not a lot for this week -- just a reminder that I will be at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo with iPod and TuneTalk in hand. If you want to meet or be interviewed for The Bradcast then drop me a note: thebradcast AAATTT gmail.com

Main Line:
Riffing on a topic I broached a few weeks ago, this podcast looks at those ubiquitous PIM and email clients. I focus on Outlook, of course, because that's the one that now dominates.

Our email clients are dumb. They are not able to relate our commitments to our tasks and they have no ability to derive any context from the stuff that gets entered into them. Sure we have "rules" and routing features but we don't have the ability to provide meaning to data on-the-fly as we reply to emails.

One way we can move toward that goal is to open the proprietary nature of the data in the hope that somebody else will build a tool that does something new. As a result I looked at this blog entry on the "Holy Grail" for synchronization, the ScheduleWorld.com site and this tantalizing peak at something called Taskmaster from PARC.

This show was recorded entirely using the on-board microphones of the Belkin TuneTalk Stereo recorder for gen 5 iPods to give you an idea about the sound quality. I did get pretty aggressive with the low-pass filter and the compression. The sound is okay but it's sibilant and is prone to noise from the hard drive on the iPod. Use an external microphone if you don't want hard drive noise spoiling low volume level sounds on your TuneTalk.

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Notes:
Length:00:35:33
Recorded: 2006/09/25
Bradcast_20060925 is copyright 2006 by Brad Gibson and he is solely responsible for its content. The Bradcast is not associated with any technology blogging group or association. Opinions represented in the podcast are not those of any client, customer or employer organization, past or present.