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 Friday, October 8, 2004
started 10/8/2004; 8:54:47 AM - last post 10/12/2004; 7:46:48 PM
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Doc Searls - Friday, October 8, 2004 
10/8/2004; 12:54:47 PM (reads: 5488, responses: 6)
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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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lou josephs - Re: Friday, October 8, 2004
10/8/2004; 2:04:42 PM (reads: 654, responses: 0)
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Real shame about Scot Muni, lots of stuff both good and bad about him in Richard Neers book
Stern on the bird, this does change things. Jim Farley at WTOP says it could mean that radio becomes a "local source for news, weather etc). Yeah WTOP does that but the rest of this market is clueless. Clear Channel fired it's last newsman two weeks ago, Ira Melman (yeah WFIL, but here WBIG).
Soon as I get my PC or something like it back, I will try my hand at podcasting.
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Bubba - Re: Friday, October 8, 2004
10/8/2004; 2:45:30 PM (reads: 635, responses: 0)
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I have a question about podcasting and I figure this is as good a place to ask as any. If I buy music off iTunes (or anywhere for that matter), can I put all or part of those songs in my podcast?
Any advice would be helpful.
Bubba
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Rod K - Re:I want what I want when and WHERE I want it.
10/8/2004; 3:35:52 PM (reads: 646, responses: 0)
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The next step is to skip the whole download and iPodder steps for Podcasts and get right to wireless broadband iPods so I can just stream the audio/video directly from the net to my iPod.
I mean who really wants to keep track of all these 5-100 Mb files we are currently downloading to our PCs just so we can then turn around and transfer to a portable device? Let the data center guys worry about keeping all those music and video files backed up. I just want to stream "what I want," to my wireless broadband iPod "when I want, where I want."
I think at that point the whole concept of traditional Radio/TV/Cable/telephone goes away.
Rod
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Jim - Mopodding
10/8/2004; 11:05:03 PM (reads: 694, responses: 0)
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Thanks for providing the link to Terry Heaton's write up. It got me to thinking which got me to pontificating which got me to writing a blog response about how podcasting might be a bridge to finally getting web radio off the web and into people's cars.
And thanks for the wonderful mention in your October 5th entry. If we're heroic it's only because the independent artists who let us play their music without fear of RIAA reprisal have let us be so.
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Dave Slusher - Re: Friday, October 8, 2004
10/10/2004; 8:33:43 PM (reads: 773, responses: 1)
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Doc, thanks for the nice words. It was really moving, so moving in fact that I feel bad pointing out that the link you onstensibly have to my Oct 3 episode is actually to something called UberGeek.tv . I'm just trying to talk about what matters to me in the hope that it matters to others as well. That it is working that way is quite gratifying.
d
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Doc Searls - Re: Friday, October 8, 2004
10/12/2004; 11:46:48 PM (reads: 787, responses: 0)
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Aw, fuck. Hang on...
Okay, fixed it. Sorry about that!
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