New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 11

New media picks of the week is my weekly basket of tasty resources, tools and services.

These are this week little gems that I have run into, have accidentally discovered or been pointed to or have read about in articles, RSS feeds and newsletters I subscribe to.

Photo credit: Karina Zantinge

Try for yourself, download, install and learn some pretty interesting things with these great new resources and tools.

Here is what I have found this week for you:

1. Personal music profiler and social networking tool


2. Dave Winer's text outliner with development platform potential


3. RSS feed mixer for would-be RSS newsmasters


4. iPod-based portable DJ mixing console


5. 3D sketching and architectural design tool


6. Faceted navigation and search of delicious bookmarks


7. Best software downloads blog


8. Video clip of Skype CEO


9. Great writing techniques, tips and tools


10. Anonymizing technology for web surfers


11. Artists and musicians publishing platform

Enjoy!

1. Audio Scrobbler
   
   
   Audioscrobbler builds a profile of your musical taste using a plugin for your media player (Winamp, iTunes, XMMS etc..). It then sends the name of every song you play to the Audioscrobbler server, which updates your musical profile with the new song. Every person with a plugin has their own page on this site which shows their listening statistics. The system automatically matches you to people with a similar music taste, and generates personalised recommendations.
   http://www.audioscrobbler.com/
   





2. OPML Editor
   
   The OPML Editor follows in the tradition of simple text-based tools masquerading as rich development platforms. Inside every text editor is the potential of platform, and every platform must have a simple text editor. It was with this simple premise that Dave Winer set out in 1988 to make an outliner that was also a programming language and object database. Now, in 2005, all the power of this idea is available in a download that's about the size of a 15-minute podcast.
   http://support.opml.org/download
   





3. Feed Shake
   
   Feedshake tool helps you to generate new feeds by merging, sorting and filtering existing online RSS feeds. You just add to the mix your preferred RSS URLs and Feed Shake does the rest. This is a great tool for RSS newsmastering tasks and to create News Radars. The service is free and does not require registration.
   http://feedshake.com/
   





4. iDJ - Ipod mixing console
   
   The iDJ portable console enables mobile DJs and iPod enthusiasts to seamlessly integrate their portable music libraries with other music and sound-reinforcement systems transforming the iPod from a personal music player into a source playback device. Compact form factor, comprehensive feature set, this Numarks product called the iDJ transfroms a double iPod cradle into a fully-featured DJ mixer powered by two iPods. Numark's iDJ features two universal iPod docking stations that accept all model iPods with the bottom connector. Featuring large iPod navigation controls, this two-channel mixer provides 3-band EQ with gain control for each channel and a dedicated microphone input with tone and level control. Each channel also provides phono/line inputs for adding additional devices such as CD players and samplers into the mix.
   http://www.gearjunkies.com/...





5. SketchUp
   
   SketchUp is a very simple but extremely powerful tool for creating, viewing, and modifying three-dimensional models quickly and easily. SketchUp is the opposite of a traditional CAD drawing program as it makes technical drawing as easy as sketching while maintaining the speed and flexibility of traditional CAD.
   http://www.sketchup.com/?sid=3





6. Fac.etio.us
   
   Facetious is a new free service that offers faceted navigation of the vast number of delicious bookmarks. Delicious is a social bokmark manager; basically an online public repository of online resources selected and categorized by individual users. With facetious you can query the delicious database and extract not only results relevant to your keywords but a useful set of complementary data including tags, creators, web site and publishing date.
   http://www.siderean.com/delicious/facetious.jsp





7. Download Squad
   
   Download Squad is a new blog by the resourceful Weblogs Inc. network devoted to spotting and reviewing all new software to download that becomes available online. Download Squad is made possible by a team of over 20 blog contributors covering all Mac, Win and Linux software.
   http://downloadsquad.com/





8. Skype CEO Video Clip from Always On 05
   
   Great micro-video published for the Always On Conference 2005 event that closed recently, showing comments and contributions by participants themselves, as well as an interesting session with Niklas Zennström, CEO & Co-founder of Skype.
   http://www.alwayson-network.com/...
   





9. Great Writing Tools from Pointer Online
   
   An extremely comprehensive list of "writing tools" edited by Poynter Online Roy Peter Clark.
   http://www.poynter.org/...
   

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11. TOR: The Onion Router
    
    Tor or the so-called Onion Router is an interesting tool that can be used for good or evil. What the creator of Tor wants you to think is that it is an anonymization tool that allows users to connect to servers free of the worry that those servers are logging every detail of your browser, email address, and other information.
    http://www.whitedust.net/...
    
12. DrupalART
    
    DrupalART is a site dedicated to helping people build and develop Drupal sites for artists and musicians. The goals are to show (through examples) various ways Drupal can be used to build artist websites, and build documentation aimed at newbies trying to use Drupal for their art or music website.
    http://drupalart.org/