And TransLink should hire Paul Hillsdon to do it!

Respond | 1 cheer | Cheer this | 6 months ago (Nov 04, 01:41PM)

They’ve done it! The link to it is even on the Google Transit home page.

Respond | 1 cheer | Cheer this | 6 months ago (Oct 31, 02:29PM)

I’m a bilingual Canadian, having taken French Immersion in school. I’d prefer to have subtitles when a news report translates a French speaker, so that I can choose to ignore them and listen in instead. The state broadcaster should reward those who understand both of Canada’s official languages.

Respond | Cheer this | 7 months ago (Sep 22, 01:10AM)

This should be possible, as KEXP publicly displays what song’s playing on their website in real time. I’d like it to show up in my Last.fm playlist as well. Other than the buzz from creating such a plugin and maybe the radio station showing up as the “album” or putting “(KEXP)” in the Last.fm song title listing, I don’t know how KEXP would benefit.

2 responses | Cheer this | 7 months ago (Sep 19, 11:13PM)

A friend whipped up http://twitter.com/kexp_playlist which is a bootleg Twitter using KEXP’s playlist RSS feed, but they should do this officially. I favorite the bootleg tweets as a low-threshold way to say “this song rocks”. Also, it’s a way to get songs played sent to your IM (why you would want this on your phone, I don’t know), then you would turn notifications off when you’ve stopped listening to the station.

Respond | Cheer this | 7 months ago (Sep 19, 11:04PM)

Then I can get their play-by-play and commentary delivered to my phone or IM instead of having to refresh individual blog post like they did last season. That said, I did like reading the comments to get instant fan reaction.

Respond | Cheer this | 8 months ago (Sep 11, 05:07PM)

Transit in the Lower Mainland does have a history, so an official TransLink blogger can mine from the archives while also making service change announcements. This would be a supplement to The Buzzer and not a replacement for it. Interviews with frequent riders, managers and operators, and other transit employees would be interesting too. There are enough good photos of Vancouver transit on Flickr to pick out a best of the week. I’d listen to every podcast (which would come complete, of course, with transit sounds in the background like New York City Transit’s podcast), but wouldn’t expect anything more than a monthly episode, no longer than 10 minutes or so.

Respond | Cheer this | 8 months ago (Sep 11, 11:57AM)

Which means submitting their data in Google Transit Feed format. Releasing the feed to the public is probably another item entirely: that way people could use the data in the apps they build, e.g. a “next bus by SMS” service, without having to scrape translink.bc.ca.

Respond | Cheer this | 8 months ago (Sep 11, 11:46AM)