Show from Thu May 11 23:59:47 CDT 2006
PCR 2006-05-10 #025Last program description:
Who the hell is that introducing the show? Why, It’s Jeff announcing the show number and episode date. Read THIS POST for information about Jeff, why he’ll rock, etc… woot.
…followed immediately by an intro from Tom of the FogView Podcast! Thank you!
And then, we surprise the heck out of people who had not yet read the Podcheck Blog. We surprise them by introducing Jeff Oestreich (pronounced “A-Strike,” not “Ostrich”)
It’s a helluva a show, with 11-month old Sophia making a guest appearance towards the end. It’s an awfully damn good show for being the first Podcheck v3.0. Read “New Episode #25 is Imminent ” for technical details on the production. ALL of the show notes in their excruciating detail after the jump….
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NEWS
ID3 Podcast Magazine issues refund checks to print subscribers. But… they haven’t asked for the commission money back yet? Did we earn the commission by helping build their brand? Scott just does not know.
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New logo for Podcasters/Podcasting - http://www.podcastlogo.com/
From Annik Rubens http://www.schlaflosinmuenchen.com/ : More than 3000 podcast-listeners from all over the world decided that the logo designed by Peter of the Lemotox-Podcast is the winner. It is a creative commons logo and nobody makes any money off it. I just hope that as many people as possible will wear it as a badge or t-shirt as conversation starters – maybe then the way to the 100 million listeners is a little bit shorter!
Have a look and download the logo for yourself: http://www.podcastlogo.com/
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Akamai adds podcasting platform to media delivery services
Banking on a significant new business opportunity, Akamai Technologies has rolled out a podcasting platform and business model support infrastructure for podcasting. Big step in helping the corporation deliver podcasting. And isn’t it about time?
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For us little guys, the consumer-content-creators, both Flikr and YouTube are making it easier for you to upload and share your upskirt photos and videos:
http://news.com.com/YouTube+offers+mobile+upload+service/2100-1025_3-6070527.html?tag=st_lh
“The good thing about it is that you don’t have to go home to YouTube anymore,” said Steve Chen, one of the company’s founders and its chief technology officer. “People may not carry their digital cameras with them when they go out. But everybody carries their cell phone…I’m interested in seeing what kind of content this will produce.”
…go ahead, take a moment, and imagine what kind of content they will produce. I predict a lot of videos of two dogs boinking, drunken diatribes, and personal porn.
And for you cellphone shutterbugs, Nokia announced that at least three of their cellphones will be capable of uploading pictures to Flikr. The N73, N72, and N93 will all support Flickr uploading, resulting from a deal between Nokia and Yahoo. Verizon has been using a similar proprietary platform called “My Pix Place,” but the Nokia/Flickr deal sidesteps companies like Verizon and Sprint. Sure, Verizon and Sprint will continue to bill the cellphone owner for data transfer charges, but Verizon would really like to control your entire cellphone experience and keep you in their walled garden, and then charge you to smell their flowers.
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Another note: I don’t know if “Instant Publishing” is a good idea. Is it really a “good thing” to be able to instantly share a picture or a movie clip that you took with your cellphone with millions of people? I’ve personally witnessed the positive effects of technical barriers. For instance, say, maybe you’ve been at the bar and had a few drinks… You decide that maybe now is the time to “out” your gay cousin and proclaim your love and support for him, or apologize to your ex-girlfriend for giving her the clap. You shoot the video on the drive home. Before the YouTube deal, you would have left the video on your cell phone, crawled into bed, woke up the next morning, and wondered ‘what the hell was I thinking.’ NOW, all you have to do is press the “Send To YouTube” and… Congratulations! You’ve just drunk-dialed the entire world AND incriminated yourself for DUI. Thanks, YouTube! Maybe it’s OK for some things to remain difficult. Maybe you SHOULD have to pass a kind of technical Idiot Test before you’re allowed to do certain things.
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Speaking of legality in podcasting, you now have a brief reference guide that explains some of the legal issues related to podcasting. Specifically, trademark law, copyright law, and publicity rights:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide
“The purpose of this Guide is to provide you with a general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to podcasting. EFF has produced a very practical and helpful guide for issues related to blogging generally (http://www.eff.org/bloggers/). This Guide is not intended to duplicate efforts by EFF, and in many cases refers you to that guide for where crossover issues are addressed. Our goal is to complement EFF’s Bloggers FAQ and address some of the standalone issues that are of primary relevance to podcasters, as opposed to bloggers.”
As a podcaster, you will face many of the same legal questions that bloggers face. EFF’s Legal Guide to Blogging (http://www.eff.org/bloggers/) addresses many additional issues that you should consider. These include: rights related to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Communications Decency Act (aka “Section 230), on-line defamation, privacy, reporter’s privilege, media access, election law, and labor law.
Licensed under the Creative Common’s Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
Podcasting Legal Guide (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide) © 2006 Colette Vogele of Vogele & Associates, Mia Garlick of Creative Commons and the Berkman Center Clinical Program in Cyberlaw. This Guide was produced as part of the Non-Residential Fellowship Program of the Center for Internet & Society at Stanford Law School.
Thanks WebPro News for this story: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060510TheLegalGuidetoPodcasting.html
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New Pocasting Markets (news from PRWeb): “Podcasting for the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Newest Way to Reach Your Target Audience,” is the subject of a White Paper published today by The Maxwell Group, a leading provider of pharmaceutical web conferences for continuing medical education, clinical research and direct-to-physician brand promotion.
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Scott: A new Vidcast Help Forum available at the Podcast Pickle
http://www.podcastpickle.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6433ww.podcastpickle.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6433
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Jeff: $10,000 Buys a Month of Ads on a Baby
Hmm. A baby? Why stop there? 15 years ago, a friend had an idea of giving out free t-shirts with logo’s on them to the city’s homeless population.
Jeff relays a story about how his friend gave branded t-shirts to the homeless. Send us your best “slogan” that should have been printed on those shirts, and win a used MP3OnCar MP-308 MP3 Player. Send your suggestions to show - at - podcheck.com Here are the details on the prize:
This Back-up Q audio transmitter allows you to enjoy MP3 music in your car, without spending a lot of money to upgrade your stereo system. MP-308 uses FM radio frequency to transmit the MP3’s from any attached USB Drive device to the sound system in your car. Simply plug into the cigarette lighter outlet, and enjoy your music while driving.”
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Scott — Finally! Tivo announces commercials by subscription!
http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2006-05/tivo-launches-product-watch-commercials-on-demand/
From http://www.zatznotfunny.com/ — May 8th, 2006 - As announced in November, TiVo is launching their targeted commercials service today.
Wall Street Journal says: For the most part, the marketers won’t run traditional 30-second TV commercials. Instead, they will offer longer ads that attempt to be more informative than typical commercials.
The company representative at TiVo said: Blah blah blah - the Product Watch solution is another powerful example of — blah blah blah — lead the industry — blah blah blah - enable TV viewers to get commercial information - blah blah blah blah — TiVo is committed to creating advertising products that deliver real - blah blah blah — results — blah blah blah while at the same time enhancing - blah blah blah — subscribers.”
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Nokia is working on a podcasting app for its S60 N Series smartphones.
The initial release focuses on providing a mobile podcasting client that will be able to manual and automatic updates of podcasts over 3G or WLAN networks. However, Nokia plans to develop the application to be a mobile podcast publishing platform. The release date is expected to be sometime in July, and will be a free download.
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From audio blogging tools to mobile video blogging tools:
Nokia N-Series cells phones are making some noise in mobile content creation. phones get creative with the “Nokia Series NStudio” - an online community for mobile movies. Touting their ability to shoot and edit movies with Nokia products and production software, their PR campaign features short videos produced by some famous directors, including Gary Oldman.
Nokia’s N93 phone, or as they call it, the Nokia N93 Multimedia Computer, takes 30 fps video and bundles with Adobe Premeiere Elements 2.0 for editing.
Nokia plans to open a “flagship store” in Chicago on June 21, with a New York store in the “Fifth Avenue region” opening before the end of 2006, Nokia Director of Multimedia Computers David Watkins told PC Magazine today. Both stores will sell phones not available directly through US carriers.
From http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1953830,00.asp - The N91 will play Windows Media format music and sync with Windows Media Player on PCs, but will not initially play protected songs purchased from online music stores. That capability will follow in a free software upgrade. The N91 will come to stores “soon.”
By the way, three of Nokia’s cellphones, the N73, N72, and N93 will all support Flickr uploading, resulting from a deal between Nokia and Yahoo.
And STILL, I, Scott, remain too cheap to spring for an $800 phone. Give me an Archos, a cellphone, and roll of duct-tape, and I’ll show you the ultimate combo device!
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mobiBLU Intros Podcast-Enabled MP3 Players
Sledge from I Love Knights podcast will be interested in this, because he records some podcast audio with his Windows PocketPC device:
From GeekZone.com - http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=6045
AcroDesign Technologies has released the AudioBay Podcasting application for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs. The program provides everything needed to publish a podcast from a Pocket PC. Within a few minutes, users can record a podcast episode using the Pocket PC’s built-in recorder and upload it to the Web over a wireless Internet connection for immediate access by the public.
· Simple podcast creation
· Generates standard RSS 2.0 feeds
· Generates HTML interface
· Includes free hosting for 12 months
· Includes podcast reader
Location-based podcast search
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Recording Skype with MixCast Live? Special thanks to Dennis Duffner for falling on his sword to try to get that to work. He tried the information available here: http://mixcastlive.com/2005/02/14/how-to-record-a-skype-call/ …but didn’thave any luck.
“When I tried the patch panel, I got the most ungodly pulsing noises. I deleted the patch cord and then went into Skype and unchecked the “let skype adjust my sound device settings” and I have my input, output and ringing set to my sound card.”
Anyone have a link to more information?
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Steve from the SG Show has been trying to record a telephone interview for his podcast. The absolute BEST way to do it yourself is to purchase a special telephone interface for around $500. Alternatively, you might try one of the telephone conference providers that are popping up for podcasters:
GabCast.com - a neat telephone conference recording system and self-contained podcast creation system. The system allows you to call up via an 800# in the U.S., some other toll-free numbers inother places, and also via Gizmo Project, FreePBX, FreeWorld Dialuo, and Asterisk.
Free accounts are available, having a maximum of 200 MB available. You also get 30 minutes of conference calling time to test the feature, but 30 minutes won’t get you very far becasue it is charged per minute per participant. You can buy more at the price of $0.10 per minute (again, that’s used up per participant).
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…another one very similar to that…
PhoneBlogz is a new service, now in beta test mode, that lets users audio blog by phone to their own blogging application, on their own server
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Jeff: Women’s International Podcasting Expo Announced
The creators of International Podcasting Expo, an online “virtual expo”, have announced the Women’s International Podcasting Expo, to be held July 14-16, 2006.
Show organizers have decided to offer unlimited access to the Virtual Expo Center Booths. Tickets will only be required for seminar and networking event attendance.
An informational meeting for anyone interested in participating in the Women’s Podcasting Expo will be held on May 9th, 9pm EST in an online audio conference room (link). — OOPS - Too late!
Expo Tickets are $20 through June 30th, $25 in July, and only during May, will include a free Expo CD. Information on exhibiting/sponsoring is available on the International Podcasting Expo site.
Scott: Will that be held in SecondLife?
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Jeff: NPR It turns out that NPR may be the leading podcaster of radio content and music in the country. Who knew?
“We counted 6 million downloads in the last month—over 20 million since we launched in August,” says NPR’s Andi Sporkin (son of John Forkin and Jane Spoonin). “NPR is the most prolific podcaster among media companies.”
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CONVERSATION
SecondLife Discussion
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..and then the technical glitch happened here.
We fired the darn thing right back up
and just kept going!
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Scott’s thoughts: “What SecondLife means to me”
- SecondLife is like a cross between an internet chat room and a junior high school dance. Bunch of avatars staing around looking at the floor or ceiling, muttering things like “hey.” “hey, man” “Cool place, huh?” “yeah, sure is. lol”
- SecondLife is like a 3D chat room with boobs.
- SecondLife is like the Chinese Food of social interaction. – I can spend 5 hours interacting with people in the SecondLife world, but the minute I disconnect, I feel empty inside, and guilty that I just wasted 5 hours of my life when I could have been meeting and interracting with REAL people.
- SecondLife is like an internet chat room that only people with Attention Deficit Disorder would enjoy. Not only do you have to woory about walking, flying, standing, looking, pointing, touching, opening, taking, teleporting, attaching, detaching, wearing, and modifying, but you ALSO have to CHAT with chat messages.
You damn near need a Cray super computer to run SecondLife, as my computer gobbles up almost a gigabyte of while I’m playing it.
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LISTENER e_MAIL!
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E-mail from KDG:
Hi Scott…….you are not part of a podcast network according to your latest podcast. So let’s create one at http://www.wwpodcast.com/
It’s just a domain name I have and wish someone would use. You read one of my emails on air many months ago and it was cool. Thanks. kdg
I have registered a couple of domain names, too. Most notably PodfaderAlley.com, but I simply don’t have the time that a 23 year old has. When I get crazy ideas, I sometimes forget that I have negative spare time. The number of hours of spare time in my life is measured using the imaginary number “i”
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Another e-mail from Micael:
hey scott, just a note to say when heard your podcast and tried to find your site, i tried podcheckreview.com, oops not it, then i did a google search and found you 3rd on the list.
podcheckreview.com is available, surf on over to godaddy.com register it and point it to your existing site. use promo code ‘radioshow’ for a 10% discount.
before you ask, i learned of you from the david lawrence show.
michael
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Audio voicemail from MetalMedic at PullingMyPod Podcast - (He and I apparently have a lot in common…)
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Frappr Shoutouts
Oblivion, vocalist extraordinaire Karmyn Tyler, Brad P from NJ, Joe from Los Angleles, Mark Z from Sacremento, Paul Sabey from England, Shelly from Texas, Matt Armstead from Minneapolis, Lynne from Portland, porti from Munich, Owlboy, and you whom I did not mention (but might have been able to mention had I not stopped mentioning names to say what I just said!)