Bitter about missing sync in Doggcatcher

I'm a huge radio production fan and nowadays I listen to podcasts rather than live radio. A lot of special interest stuff, but also very general stuff such as the daily news. On the go, at work, at home. Managing new/listened episodes with approx. 20 steady subscriptions and continuously trialling an additional group of 10 podcasts by subscribing/unsubscribing is a heck of a job on two Android devices and two PCs... and quite frank a pain in the a**.

Doggcatcher is currently the best podcatcher app for Android. It was one of my first apps. I love it and use it as my main player. But one thing I have become really bitter about is that there is a "confirmed" issue filed as 0000038 in their bug tracker from the beginning of 2009 (current public count 0001171) to integrate with Google Reader. Which would solve my above mentioned problem.

The absence of this feature and my growing frustration makes me think about reverting to the really buggy and unmaintained Google Listen or to the actually pretty decent BeyondPod. I would like to see gPodder and gpodder.net coming to Android - that would be a blast. Maybe I would even trade in the convenience of Google Reader for that, since the Web Services API 1,2,3 of gPodder.net has position markers. Maybe even have them all: Doggcatcher, gpodder, gpodder.net (also already filed in 2010 as 0000550).

Now, you will find a bit of venting about this on the Doggcatcher forums as well. And when speaking further above of "them", actually meaning the the sole developer "eric". But I just felt like formulating my individual pain :-(

Moving microblogging to G+

I am still trying to sort myself with Google Plus. Yet, one thing is for sure, that everything of the microblogging character is going to land over there. The labels have been deleted, therefore no specific RSS feeds will exist for "microblog" and "blog".

https://plus.google.com/u/0/106936676900059375926/posts

Bryce Lawrence

The 2011 Rugby World Cup summed up for South Africa: http://www.google.com/search?q=bryce+lawrence&tbm=nws

Sybil Phoenix

Brilliant production, moving story. BBC World Service, The Listening Post: Sybil Phoenix (mp3)

Think I have a new favourite film

Twin Sitters (1994) :-) Probably needed a short period of brain-dead time, but then kind of slipped right through it.

Unconscious

I'm sure, in sports, you've heard of the term "in the zone". There is a progression to that: Unconscious. What does that mean? The Jones elaborated once on this expression (at 25:32). Want to see it for real? Check out Dirk's celebration after winning the second Finals game for the Mavericks (with his injured left hand, recovering from 15 points behind). This dude is somewhere else. At least only partially in the present.

SYSK

Getting fond of the good night notes ;) Here a quick one:

As a podcast addict, I simply have to hype the How Stuff Works Podcast named "Stuff You Should Know" (RSS) which I have been following for very long while and can generously recommend to anyone capable of hearing... or not.