“Forging A Unified System of Life [and Business] Management” -GoogleCasting (blogging by phone) about Systems, Life, Entrepreneurship, and Internet Technology
I’ve read quite a bit about the free software and the open source movements in various books and thought I knew something of the difference. I also have been using open source CMS for my websites since 2003 and I have been using and monkeying around with GNU Linux (asterisk project|puppy linux) as my operating system of choice since late 2007 (although I have known and used it as far back as 2002 – RedHat).
What is the difference? I’m not really sure.
I know that free software (software released under GPL) is open source, as in you have full access to the source code.
But I am guessing that software claiming to be open source may not necessarily be GPL free software if it does not give all four of the freedoms offered under GPL.
Today I finished the first edition of an ebook about what I call GoogleCasting.
You can get a free copy of it by signing up for my newsletter. It is a work and progress and I will be releasing future editions of it free to people who subscribe to the newsletter now. Hope you enjoy it.
Here is a [lame] example of a “GoogleCast”
Here is a sneak preview of the ebook:
Why you might want to GoogleCast
What is a GoogleCast?
A GoogleCast is when you call your Google Voice phone number and you record the call using Google Voice’s features. You talk about whatever tickles your fancy and then you can embed the recording of the call into a blog post on wordpress or other blog software. Google also transcribes your voice into text.
The Benefits
express your ideas instantly where/whenever you are inspired.
If you wait to post or record later you would have the same energy and enthusiasm.
let someone else do the typing
Google Voice converts voice-to-text. (Currently this feature is sub par at best, but when Google gets its act together it will be great.)
long (unlimited?) talk time, compared to the 30 seconds you receive with services like Jott.com.
Turning phone-interviews into podcasts takes just one click and NO extra software or hardware!!!!
Did I mention this is all FREE?
Subcribe and get a copy of the ebook free. Here’s that subscribe form:
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Hi. In this Google Voice recording or “GoogleCast” (hey, I just coined a new term!) I talk about my 13 month calendar system.
This is not a very organised Googlecast and it is also a bit monotonous. But if you can catch my point about the 13 month system I think it will benefit you.
I plan to talk much more about my 13 month system in the future. For now try to enjoy the monotony
So. Wordpress self posted blogs you can’t use dial2do directly. First I tried to get around that by blogging by email through dial2do. But that wasn’t ideal so.
Blogging with dial2do on a Wordpress self posted blog. Wordpress is the blogger software that I use. But you can only use it with dial2do as you blog to wordpress.com.
I’ve started blogging in Japanese.
I’m not only writing the posts in Japanese but the admin userface is in Japanese too!
If you can, be sure to read my new blog
I recently wrote an email to my best friend about some of the projects that I am working on. Thought I would share it here too.
I have not shared my recent projects with [you]. Self-gratificating rant to follow:
Of course I still work a bit on Nipponster.com and created a new look for it. The toolbar I created for it has grown a bit in popularity (although it needs MUCH improvement). It has had over 1100 downloads and on average about 200 active users. And I’ve made $30 in ad revenue from it. Yay
Hopefully I will be able to make it more profitable soon.
But largely I am working on solutions for small businesses.
I am trying to build up my business consultancy. But there are so many details to iron out. I want the system to handle most of the load, so I am building systems to increase my production capacity.
I have four sites that I’ve setup that will complement one another as I go forward.
I have had a website development business with revenue since last year. That’s at EagleLandGrace.com The revenue was from website projects for local businesses and the businesses that they have referred to me.
I am starting a website for my career (/promoting my ideas) at TaiyoJohnson.com. I need to rethink a few things on it. I started it just this year. I plan to put together a training package about my method of self organisation; might call it something like “the unified life theory.”
Then there is TenaciousFrog.com which is the marketing arm of eaglelandgrace.com. I’m planning to use it to educate small businesses (starting with my current clients) about new marketing.
BackSaaS.com is nothing but a thought in my mind at the moment, but itwill educate small businesses about how to use “Software As A Service” (SaaS) web applications to create business backends. I use SaaS to organise/run the business I am setting up and it will allow me to run it from anywhere in the world where I have a computer (anyone’s computer) and internet connect. Currently I do most of my work at the local library; I could do it from Timbuktu if I had a PC/internet. I have SaaS accounts for sending invoices online (freshbooks.com), genbook.com for managing appointments and letting customers book their appointments online, paypal for credit card processing, outright.com for bookkeeping, faxaway.com for super cheap faxing via email, Google Apps for corporate email and word/excel/ppt documents and calendar, Google Voice for turning my cellphone into a business and personal phone seamlessly (plus free long distance).
So, to answer your question… Google Voice is an awesome service that used to be called GrandCentral (before Google bought it). Since I was an early GrandCentral user I have an account but currently they are not give any accounts out.
Sign up for their waiting list though because they plan to offer more accounts and it is worth it. It gives you a phone number for life that you can forward to whatever phone(s) you would like. You can always change which phones your grandcentral # will ring so even if you change cellphones you have the same number.
Projects
You can read about my various projects on the TaiyoJohnson.com homepage.
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Random rants off the top of my head. Most are submitted on the fly using the TDO mini forms plugin. To see them all click here. The most recent are below:
