I just read Doug Kaye’s “blog post”:http://www.rds.com/blogs/doug/index.php/archives/2005/01/21/a-successor-to-mp3/ (Doug runs “IT Conversations”:http://www.rds.com/blogs/doug/index.php/archives/2005/01/21/a-successor-to-mp3/) about “aacPlus”:http://www.codingtechnologies.com/products/aacPlus.htm a relatively recent audio codec. Here’s the Slate “article”:http://slate.com/Default.aspx?id=2112548 that triggered Doug’s post.

Listening to music streamed at 48kbs in MP3 format would sound like… well, sheeeit. However, in aacPlus… deeeeaaamn. Apparently, aacPlus can encode 5.1 sound at 128kbs and CD-quality sound at 48kbs. To test out aacPlus for yourself, I recommend using the “VLC media player”:http://www.videolan.org/vlc/, and tuning into Groove Salad on “SomaFM”:http://www.somafm.com/.

++*del.icio.us*++ I still haven’t moved my bookmarks to “del.icio.us”:http://del.icio.us/ as I talked about “here”:http://www.zoinger.com/archives/2005/01/stop_the_presse_1.html. I have added a bunch of new bookmarks exclusively to del.icio.us in order to try and figure out what the best “tagging”:http://del.icio.us/doc/about scheme is. I’m still not sure what the optimal number of tags is per bookmark, but at a minimum the tags should allow you to create a logical directory structure using Firefox’s Live Bookmarks. However, even if you use Firefox’s Live Bookmarks to synchronize with del.icio.us, you still have to backup the Live Bookmarks (which are kind of like the directory structure without the files).

Doesn’t it seem like del.icio.us is missing something? If you could add the ability to create and save a directory structure (the tree) to the existing bookmarks (the leaves) you would have a much more powerful product.