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| Friday, October 8, 2004 |
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Hear the spirit 
| | Somewhere around Soledad I fiddled with the iPod and found that iPodder had been doing its job, and had deposited a bunch of Dave Slusher's podcasts, including the one from October 3, where he talks about his late Aunt Christine. Earlier he modestly disagreed by Steve Gillmor's flattery of Dave's presentation as "professional" (I think that was the word Steve used). Steve said Dave's work was as good as any in the over-the-air broadcasting world. |
| | I disagree. It's better. Dave's remarks about his aunt, and about love, are moving and genuine and better than entertaining. |
| | But after a short while I stayed with Dave, because Dave was better. He was himself. He wasn't performing. He was talking, sincerely, in his own voice, to listeners whom he clearly knew were really interested, really listening; and not just consuming. |
| | This was genuine communication, in the literal meanings of both words. Looking at the California countryside, I thought, this is wild. Then I realized that it was. Literally. |
| | I too am not a bit tamed. I too am untranslatable.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. |
| | The spirt is alive. Very. |
Mopodding
| | Now, at last, I can listen to podcasts on a genuine iPod that's the same size and color as the one in the picture Phillip Torrone uses in the link above. |
| | Yesterday at Web 2.0, Yahoo gave away twenty iPod Minis, at the end of the show. Winners found a magnetic clip (like one of the big plastic ones you'd use to clip a bunch of papers to your refrigerator door) under their chairs. There wasn't one under mine; but there was one under the seat of the friend who was sitting next to me. When he pulled it out, he turned to me, said "Do you have an iPod?" I said no, and he gave the clip to me. "Here ya go," he said. I refused at first, but he said he already had an MP3 player and wanted me to have the iPod. |
| | Out of deference to his modesty, I won't mention his name, but I do want to publicly thank him for being the truly good guy he is. |
| | I haven't had much time to figure the iPod out yet. I crashed at a motel after dinner last night, then got up early to drive home. (I'm writing this from a Starbucks in Salinas.) |
| | But I've been listening to podcasts anyway, on a laptop. This morning it's Adam Curry's daily source code podcast from yesterday evening, which I started listening to in the shower at the motel. He recorded it from inside his car, which has approximately no background noise. My rental Mitsubishi Lancer is so noisy I might as well have the windows open. |
| | The thought of mopodblogging on the road has its appeals. I like the idea of listening to podcasts like this Adam's, and responding to them with audio. |
| | So yeah, as an old radio guy, I have to say that podcasting is highly tempting. (I keep wanting to call it "podblogging.") It's a perfect thing to do on these long (4-6 hour) drives back and forth between Santa Barbara and the Bay Area. |
| | I'm also wondering what the tie-in with satellite radio might be, now that Howard Stern is making his move to Sirius. Howard has become much more interactive over the Net since the FCC began coming after him in a big way earlier this year. His old Web site was just a placeholder. |
| | Okay, gotta hit the road again. Hear ya later. |
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