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Podcheck Sunday 3/26/06

(Updated 3/27/06 9:42am to fix Comments posting bug) Longer show today at around 30 minutes, though we share the joy of a head cold!  Warning!  Dangerously scattered and incomplete show notes ahead!

Thanks, Random!  Great “Wild Kingdom” bumper

Random also said “I wonder who actually remembers Marlin Perkins. ” - Now, let’s see how Jim is doing with the wild alligator. Sure looks like he has his hands full!”
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Holy moly, been busy.

Voicework - If you ever go to Geneva Switzerland and ride one of the tour busses, you might hear my pre-recorded voice describing the sights. I slaughtered some of the French words, but we stupid Americans will never notice. It’s Jeaque Cluseau meets Jeaque Cousteau. (my French spelling sucks, too).

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Someone famous once said:
You don’t work because you’re inspired;
you are inspired because you work!

(Complete show notes after the jump). 

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Still using MixCast Live today (Windows only!)

Tokyo Dan - http://www.whitokyo.com/  - asked in the comments at Podcheck.com - “So, What authoring tool do I prefer?”

I appreciate all of the suggestions to use PodProducer: Only three decks, fewer “instant play” buttons than CastBlaster, segue feature is too simple.

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Tim Bourquin says” “Portable Media Expo registration now open! Visit http://www.portablemediaexpo.com/
http://www.portablemediaexpo.com/wordpress/?p=9

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TechPodcasts Network has a video of a roundtable with Marc McCrery that happened on Saturday – 40,000 aggregated survey results – lots of powerpoint slides covering the results of the surveys (34 minutes into the file) Tech Podcast Round Table Video and Audio 2006-03-11 http://www.techpodcasts.com/archives/2006/03/tech_podcast_round_table_video.html

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Podtrac has sent me the latest results from the PodCheck Review Listener Survey. 70 respondents, and ALL of you are saying that Podcheck does not come out often enough, or in any manner even closely resembling a schedule. So to you, I say THANK YOU for staying subscribed!

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GoDaddy sponsors PodShow Network shows:

web, audio, and video spots on the network, which will also feature audio and video endorsement by hosts on PodShow’s most popular shows.

http://www.techrockies.com/story/0003539.html

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Congratulations to folks who are taking a stab at doing this podcasting thing full-time:

PodChick (http://www.podchick.com/) has announced that she is quitting her day job, relying on income through PodShow. She does 5-minute “Feel good about yourself and others” shows. Sure, that’s over-simplifying.

HUGE THANKS to Don from ScreenCastsOnline - He clicked the Donate button on the Podcheck Site: Next thing you know, I received a PayPal e-mail stating: This email confirms that you have received a payment of $20.00 USD from ScreenCastsOnline.

Don was interviewed on Podcaster Confessions. It was a great interview. You can hear that entire interview at Podcaster Confessions:

If anyone want’s to support a struggling indepenant podcaster trying to earn a crust, you could always play a promo from here:

http://screencastsonline.com/sco/Ads/Ads/promos.html

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Brother Love NEXT SHOW:
Thursday, April 6th, 2006 8:30 pm
Arlene’s Grocery
95 Stanton Street
NYC

http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=yjuy8tbab.0.bvk97tbab.lldcfrbab.1288&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brotherlovenotes.blogspot.com%2F

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Dallas / Forth Worth Podcast Meetup Group -
Next Meeting - March 31st, 2006

http://www.podcastpickle.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6123

Check out these images of P. Dilly at The South By Southwest Festival

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/podcastpickle/ 

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From Rob Walsh – Podcast 411Yahoo Badge – put one on your site!  By the way, this week he has an interview with “Cali Lewis,” of GeekBrief.TV – HOT. Haaaught.

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More network news: A company called PodTech just got 5.5 million in funding from Venrock, the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family, as well as US Venture Partners and some other Angel investors in Silicon Valley. I’m still not really sure what they do, or why the need 5.5 million dollars to do what they do. They say ” With this financing we are now poised to deliver on our content development goals and to play a big role in the evolving ecosystem of this new media.” http://www.podtech.net/?p=409 Founder - John Furrier is a member of the Web 2.0 Workgroup, and is well-known (and according to Dave Winer, is well-liked) in the tech industry. Their flagship podcast is the InfoTalk podcast, focusing on Silicon Valley news.Some of the channels in the PodTech network include

• Intel
• Barracuda
• (an Entrepreneurship channel)
• Yahoo

PodTech News: Dedicated independent podcasting news team
• PodTech InfoTalk™ Network: Dedicated set of PodTech original and 3rd party podcasting content
• PodTech Sponsorship Network: Aggregated set of sponsors and paid content

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I saw this post from Todd Cochrane over at the Podcast Pickle Forums - They “re-designed the techpodcasts.com website, during that time the membership application section was closed, I re-opened it yesterday with the new submission system which automates much of the processing of applications. (www.techpodcasts.com))=============== 

NY Times has 18 podcasts link

They have 18 times more truthiness than the Peoria Journal Star.
Does that make the “NY Times” a podcast network?

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Via Engadget - DRM decreases battery life (12% for Microsoft’s “PlaysForSure”, and 8% for Apple’s FairPlay)

http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/

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Voice comment from Paul Berry from The Window to the Magic:

iTunes settings -

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E-mail from Andy Bilodeau that Scott did not read in the show:

The issue with iTunes (that I find) is that it only downloads the most recent unplayed podcast. However, all the files are indeed listed from the feed. I rarely rely on iTunes to get podcasts correctly (I’m a skeptic) so I noticed that there were 2 unplayed shows in your feed last week, hence, I was able to listen to them consecutively in cronological, rather that iTunes misguided idea of order

Regarding my aversion to the Apple iPod, Andy goes on to say:

Dude… you must come to the dark side…iPod is the way… come join me and we will rule the world. Both Belkin and Griffin are working on something to take advantage of the 44.1 Khz recording ability of the new iPods…)
I couldn’t wait for the recording attachment so I got an iRiver 799 on ebay..for $76.00 and I totally dig it

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Another one from Bill Mackiewicz (that Scott did not read in the show):

“I did some checking on iTunes, and it looks like the options for podcasts are:

Check for new episodes (every hour/every day/every week/manually)
When new episodes are available (download all/download the most recent one/do nothing)
Keep (all episodes/all unplayed episodes/most recent episode/last (2,3,4,5,10) episodes)
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Todd Cochrane announced in GeekNew Central on March 14^th, 2006

PodcastPromos.com - Using the RawVoice Engine - Submit and subscribe to feeds of promos. Pre-set categorized RSS feeds of promos, and are being fed through Apple iTunes.

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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

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A quick bumper from Scott Johnson from http://www.myextralife.com/  

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Audio/Video is a great creative outlet for young folks - Mike, used to make home movies with an early toy video camera, the kind that used the audio cassettes! He used to make GI Joe movies in the woods. (with cool sound effects).

Now, some 20 years later, kids still create!

A 13-year old in Washington state is using Final Cut Pro on a Mac to produce 4-H News (http://4-hnews.blogspot.com), a new 4-H Podcast Video Blogging Club in Jefferson County, Washington.  The Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader newspaper’s website: http://www.ptleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=70

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Give everyone a paintbrush, and discover just how many painters there are in the world.

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single6194 

From SiliconRepublic.com - March 20th, 2006- There are now more podcasts than there are radio stations worldwide. 

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How leading podcast directories select their ‘featured podcasts’
link
Do they matter? Ask Scott Shepherd about Inside Mac Radio, and how he saw 10’s of thousands of new subscribers in the first few hours after the new iTunes podcast store was activated. Ask Scott Johnson about Extra Life Radio. Ask Christoph Marquardt about his Tops from the Top Floor.Podcheck was featured by Yahoo Podcasts (THANK YOU!) But I didn’t see any significant bump. Maybe 60 at the most. They still have 4 different feeds for the Podcheck Review. It’s interesting that a small directory like Dave Slusher’s AmigoFish can coalesce the various Podcheck Feed Addresses into one single listing, but a super-duper- media giant like Yahoo hasn’t responded to my notes about the problem.That sure beats my method of selecting - I don’t. Being a veteran listener, I have a very closed and sealed list of podcast subscriptions. I also have a very closed mind when it comes to listening to something new. It’s a shame, but also a reality. Like many busy people, I have 90 minutes a day to listen, and it’s not nearly enough time to listen to all of the good ones

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AZCentral.com
http://www.azcentral.com/families/articles/0316kidspodcast0316.html

According to the Consumer Electronics Association, a quarter of U.S. households own an MP3 player. Seventy-one percent of those households have children, roughly half of whom are 12 years old or younger.The Radio Adventure of Dr. Floyd, The SG Show with Sam and Steve, The Crazy Dave Show.I listen to shows, like David Lawrence’s Personal Netcast podcast, Adam Curry’s Daily Sourcecode (to stay current), and some others that are usually kid-friendly, but occassionally drop the F-bomb. Remember: Don’t exclude me and the millions of other parents.

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I can’t keep up with all of the podcasts!!

Podzinger now searches Video!

( According to InformationWeek.com)

Podzinger, a podcast search engine, now hunts down video files. It joins an increasingly crowded field of companies offering online video search, including AOL, Google, and Yahoo.

Podzinger announces searching through 70,000 podcasts
BBN Technologies Corp had a small presence at the expo in Ontario. BBN got their start in DARPA and the defense industries. And they are very interested in improving their speech recognition -
BBN Technologies Awarded $16.4 Million in Defense Funding to Develop Advanced Solution for Rapid Foreign Language Processing

I wonder how many podcasts the “Homeland Security Agency” has indexed? Or maybe the Drug Enforcement Agency?

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Patrick Melton’s (Nobody Likes Onions) XML check tool: link
The tool works GREAT! And pointed out some missing iTunes tags and such. See, and I though Patrick was just an ass. Turns out he’s an ass with skilz.

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Listener e-mail:

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Brian Parks - (Winner of a subscription to id3!)

Scott: