podcasting…
Is somewhat lame. Not the concept - again, it’s just more stretching the my media, whenever i want it concept, which I’m a big fan of. But a whole term for it.. really, it’s a bit over the top. Now if this was just a little widget you attached to your ipod and you were getting your subscriptions wirelessly while out and about, that would be worthy of a whole new term.
But just downloading mp3s from a website and then transferring them to your ipod, and giving it a funky name… well, that’s just being precious now, isn’t it?
Nevertheless, I’m looking forward to listening to Left, Right and Center today at the gym, courtesy of KCRW’s “podcasts”. I’m assuming it’ll have the commercials included… which just means that the next version of the iPod needs a TIVO style quick 30 second skip hack.
(EDITED - no commercials! extended crap jazz music, true, but no commercials! surely that can’t last…)
March 29th, 2005 at 8:24 pm
Have you tried iPodder? It’s a decent little app for handling your podcasts. I think the whole thing is ridiculous though. Anything that brings Dave Winer and Adam Curry into the limelight can’t be good. The funny bit is I work with the guy that invented podcasting
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100368/2005/02/18.html
Non-credit givving cocksuckers.
I’ll stick to Audible.com and paid professional content. Michael Palin doesn’t podcast.
March 29th, 2005 at 9:44 pm
yeah, i installed ipodder earlier today. it’s alright… but i agree - the main thing i noticed is the dearth of decent content. i’m a true blue audible.com believer myself. the only decent argument for the record label is being played out with podcasting… some degree of quality control.