brainwagon

Yahoo! has decided to try to break into the podcasting arena. Apparently you can even use their Yahoo! Music Engine to download and listen to podcasts, at least if you are using Windows XP. The website looks nice, I’ll have to check it out further when time permits.

Todd over at Geek News Central notes that the iTunes 4.9 release with podcasting is blasting him with traffic: I just checked my latest Libsyn Stats and downloads are through the roof. I am getting reports that sites like Dawn and Drew are down, servers have melted all over the podcasting sphere. Thus far this […]

Everybody else seems to be yapping about it: got to apple.com and get your fresh tasty new iTunes, complete with support for podcast subscriptions. I didn’t have a chance to install it yet, but will tonight.

Take a look at their announcement, especially concentrating on the What is Gnomedex… section. Someone, please, explain it to me. Why is Gnomedex significant? Useful link: Technorati: gnomedex2005 Addendum: Just what here requires a license at all, much less a Creative Commons License? We don’t need licenses for other data formats like HTML.

Every once in a while, you read something that makes you just shake your head. Dave Slusher mentioned David Coursey’s anti-podcasting article. I’m not so opposed to his opinions on the grounds that he’s a knee-jerk-off (although he does seem to fit the description) but rather from the simple fact he’s hopelessly off target in […]

Where your host waxes philosophical about crab as he visits the Bay Fung Tong Restaurant on the occasion of Sam’s birthday. Also, my upcoming weekend as a SIGGRAPH sketch juror.

A bonus podcast, relating mostly why I’m neither excited nor dismayed by commercial podcasting ventures. Just a short one piggybacking on my previous one.

Where your host finally gets around to recording another podcast detailing his brief weekend trip to Reno. Find out what sports book kind of blows, which ones are okay, and what hotel had rooms overlooking the scenic air conditioner on the roof. You can also find out what I’m doing this weekend and what I […]

The more things change, the more things stay the same, and the snake continues to eat its tail. Dave Slusher expressed a certain disgruntlement with KYOURadio, a commercial venture that would air podcasts produced by amateurs over the contentional radio spectrum. I wonder how he would react to the news that PodFather Adam Curry is […]

I’m freshly back from a whirlwind trip to Reno to scout locations for my father-in-law’s 80th birthday party, and I’m going to be tied up with SIGGRAPH sketch jury duty through next weekend, and the following weekend I’ll be trying to paint my garage door and run (or more realistically, walk) the Bay To Breakers. […]

Carmen told me about this: Infinity Broadcasting on Wednesday said one of its San Francisco radio stations will carry programming created exclusively by listeners using podcasting technology. I wonder what this will be like. Addendum: Some people don’t seem to like the idea: What an uncompelling proposition for me and any other podcaster. In fact, […]

One of the things that draws me to blogging and podcast (and which I mention from time to time) is that it allows individuals to participate in the creation of culture as well as its consumption. That’s why I’m keeping my eye on DTV and Broadcast machine from participatoryculture.org. Cool!

As a public service, I thought that this might be of interest: a Python program to load your iPod Shuffle.

Paris Hilton is podcasting.

While driving home today, I flipped on KQED, our local NPR affiliate and heard a voice I’m rather accustomed to hearing: the director of The Incredibles, Brad Bird. I get quite a few requests about what it’s like to work at Pixar, and you could do a lot worse than hearing it from Brad’s mouth. […]