It is a hot August day here in the middle of Dog Days in Alabamaland, so forgive me if I move slowly and take an extra nap in the afternoon in the cool of The Bunker. We also took a few minutes today to vacuum out the inside of this five-year-old blue and white G3 to try and speed it up a bit.

Meanwhile back at the cable TV, the CNN “Inside the Blogs” babes are yet to mention us on the air, which is a bit confusing since we are not only one of the best blogs around with a fair share of traffic. One of the executive producers there is an old friend who used to work for Greenpeace and we know for sure he told the blog babes about us. But no matter. It’s like everything else around here. It will happen eventually, given time.

Meanwhile back at the blog ranch, several readers are now clamoring for more options to post new content more often on The Locust Fork weblog, blog for short. This is great news to us, except for one small matter. There are limits to our knowledge of computer programming - believe it or not.

We are exploring the options and preferences under the Dynamic Publishing setup of Moveable Type, hoping to make it easier for more authors to create their own blogs, like they do over at Daily Kos, Democrats.com, and Truthout (listed and linked down the right hand side of this page).

It ain’t going to happen overnight, folks. But as always, we are always working on making progress and moving forward to make this the best damn Web site in the universe. So hang in there with us and let’s make a real difference.

Podscope, a search engine that indexes the spoken audio content of podcasts, has announced that it plans to “cover all non-music audio and video podcasts by August 31, 2005.”

The search engine crawls the web, looking for podcasts, and creates an index against each spoken word, thereby making the contents searchable. The user can search on a term, generate a list of results ranked by a variety of methods to find the most relevant podcast and click to play or click to download.

Podscope says that it currently indexes more than 20,000 podcasts from more than 3,500 sites and is on track to cover every known podcaster by the end of August. Site owners can submit their sites for indexing at the Podscope site.

A podcast is an online broadcast, similar to a radio or TV show, recorded by the audio and video equivalent of a blogger, who tend to be more like online newspaper reporters or magazine writers.