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Wherein your movie going host gives a brief update on his experiments with Asterisk, and reviews the mediocre new movie release Team America. Sorry folks, it just wasn’t very funny.

There has been an explosion of podcasting stories around, and one of the absolute best that I’ve found so far can be found here. There is lots of good stuff to absorb here, including equipment reviews of radios, tips for producing radio programs, and reviews of public radio programs. I haven’t listened to his podcast […]

Here is a little tip that I just figured out. I was trying to use a smart playlist to create a special playlist which contained all of my most favorite daily podcast shows that have arrived in the last three days. The normal smart playlist interface allows you to specify a list of conditions, but […]

Where your host tries to get in touch with his inner geek, ponders the world of functional programming, and then rambles about VOIP and Asterisk. I like Geek News Central. They have begun podcasting too. You can learn about Haskell, Ocaml and Standard ML on the web. I’m taking advantage of dreamhost.com’s 7th anniversary deal […]

While digging around, I found out about mod_torrent, a project which appears to be moribund, but also mod_bt: making things better for seeders, which appears to be alive. Both are Apache modules which are supposed to be able to transparently server files via bittorrent. I think I might have to give this a try. I’ll […]

Well, my experiments with podcasting are revealing a couple of problems with the current podcasting solutions, and I thought I’d write a couple of them down so that others can comment and/or integrate them into their future developments. Please, please, please, set the user agent fields in your ipodder requests… Programmers out there, please set […]

Wherein your host has an exhausting Saturday filled with a charity walk, general networking problems of great mystery, and ends the day in a tuxedo for The Incredibles wrap party. Other links of interest from the show: Ben Gross sent me a nice email. The Linux Link Tech Show is a great show, and they’ve […]

Wherein your host talks once again about the nascent field of podcasting, gives his impressions of tonight’s debate, and describes a busy weekend. I also mentioned the short story Report on the Barnhouse Effect by Kurt Vonnegut, which is part of the book Welcome to the Monkey House.

I am the King! I am the King! Well, my little podcasting video was an enormous success, so enormous in fact that I am left scrambling looking for a better site to host my files. As of three o’clock this afternoon, over 58 people had downloaded at least some part of it, which choked a […]

I’m getting hammered pretty hard by requests for my “podcast.wmv” file. Anyone want to create a mirror for it? Send me an email.

I just finished listening to the latest of Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles (love the show Dave!) and thought I’d merely give my comments about a topic that he brought up: the common criticism that the only thing podcasting is talking about is podcasting itself, existing only for the self-gratification and aggrandization of people who […]

During my last audio podcast, I promised that I was going to make a short video showing how I record my audiopodcast sessions, and here is the resulting video, encoded in as a Windows Media file. It runs for 6:42, and is about 10Mbytes in size. (Normally, I would use a more standard format like […]

Wherein your host describes his future plans for drawing up some useful information for other podcasters, configures BitTorrent, plays far too much with Stair Dismount, plays some unusual music tracks by Stark Effect, and talks about the gaff by Dick Cheney during the debates yesterday.

I passed another minor milestone: according to my script which peruses my http logfiles for downloads of my podcasts, over 100 unique IP addresses have accessed at least one of my audio podcasts. Kudos to me! Long live the king! But success comes at a price: I host my webpages on my home machine (ssh, […]

Engadget has a nice article on getting and making podcasts. It’s mostly Mac-centric, but still could be of use to others.