On the outsourcing of Tweets, blog posts and articles to ghost writers, I am with Jason on this. I think you would most likely damage your Karma if you go down that path. But I think it is ok if used specifically for your business, as authored by the “business” as opposed to you personally. In that case it is the same as what the marketing departments of larger companies do.

Thanks also for mentioning MySkillsMap as it is designed to help people track projects and activities involving skills they want to track, grow and ultimately advertise on the market place. The associated skills widget when placed on someone’s blog can give a current view on what the blog owner is working on.
Cross-linking with CodeBoff.in could be an interesting idea to pursue. Karan you can contact me (@techarch) through Twitter if you like.
The integration with LinkedIn is actually not possible for the moment as they have closed off integration possibilities with new partners. It seems that they are trying to figure out a strategy without getting overwhelmed with requests. As a consequence I am now looking into more Facebook integration capabilities.

On Justin feeling demotivated with Pluggio in light of the issues with Twitter I can understand. But like other customers I am really bullish on Pluggio as it has the right balance of functionality and great usability.Please don’t give up!

I must say when I saw Justin’s photo on his blog, I was little surprised 🙂

So far I imagined him as an older guy in cardigan sweater sitting through winter by his keyboard typing blog posts and tweets 😉

Picture really enhanced my idea of him and now it all makes more sense, its like face and personality finally klicked 🙂

And when I saw money penny and video of Bruce willis song, and girls in t-shirts… man… you rock! 🙂

@Jason: Let us see your photo, so far Justin is leading in coolness 😉

Well I can see why it might be an issue for people you interview, but as far as using it, it can be easier than Skype once you get past the initial setup. Since Skype has a ton of issues like p2p connections dropping for no reason.

Having Jason record locally is a good option, but just as challenging. Remember Jason is going to have to adjust everything to get the right sound, and it is super touchy. I found it hard to get the right sound I wanted from Audio Hijack, and I have a semi-professional mic (Samson CO1U). I guess that is why I enjoy Mumble so much, it makes the audio capture quality dead simple, I only wish it was easier for initial setup.

So then we would have to record our own shows in a different way to shows with guests… which could prove to be a pain.

I think more likely alternative is if Jason uses audio hijack pro and we capture his sound direct to disk same as mine, and then he and my voices will sound the same level of pro and guests voices will sound the std skype level.

I think they call it a double ender

Thanks very much for all the good data thought! 🙂

William

There is another feature that is currently in their developer snapshot that makes Mumble perfect for podcasting, recording. You can record either together or multi-tracked into separate files. It adds silence at the beginning of the files to make it easy to keep the multiple tracks synced up. It records what the server gets, so if you have everything setup right, the audio tracks you record will be awesome.

Now I know your main issue is static in the background, but I have found with Mumble’s noise suppression, it cleans up things like that. You really should check it out. If you need help setting it up, or anything like that, feel free to email me.

Oh, and here is a link: http://mumble.sourceforge.net/

Looks like a one horse race so far 😉

The actual site:
http://tldr.it/

Recent TechCrunch coverage:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/18/tldr/

Recent HN discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1802207

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