July 12, 2005

• Aw, come here, you.
• I read that too fast.. thought it said Beginner's Guide to procreation
• Beginner's Guide to Making Long MP3s With Part of It Being You Talking About Boring Things That People Will Listen Five Minutes Of
• I gotta get me an I-pod!
• *grr- listen TO five minutes of
• Podcasting: It's snob for "streaming audio."
• Podcasting: It's snob for significantly different from "streaming audio". If one is going to be a misanthrope, one should at least have the decency to also be right. Funny would also be good, but let's start with the baby steps, yes?
• nah.
• this reminds me I better finish editing this weeks podcast before I fly away....
• Could have been worse, I guess.
• Coming soon: Your complete guide to the bleeding obvious! Includes: * How to use your keyboard to make letters appear on a page - or even on the internet! * Using your mouse to draw *DIGITAL* pictures * Writing your daily thoughts down somewhere in this great new thing called a 'diary' - and then sharing all of your stupid teenage angst with the world. * How to use a microphone. Yes, I'm a cynical and jaded bastard.
• I think you meant: Could have been worse, I guess, pigfucker.
• Everyone's talking about podcasting, podcasting, podcasting, but no-one's ever actually told me what it, you know, is.
• Podcasting is a name given to a particular selection of tools that are as old as the popular internet. Basically, mp3s (or similar compressed audio), streaming or otherwise, served via RSS (or similar syndication framework) on the server side, and a suitable aggregator on the client side. The client may or may not involve an actual iPod™. The "podcaster" may or may not be a "blogger". Think: wanking, but with a hip name.
• Think: wanking, but with a hip name. More like flashing.
• RSS is as old as the popular internet? Coo, you learn something every day. But yes, it's the RSS and aggregator elements which make podcasting, if not cool, at least kind of an interesting development of pre-existing technologies. Seriously, though, if I was the dude who first used the term "podcasting" in a recognised publication, I think I'd be so ashamed that I'd move to Italy, or something.
• RSS is as old as the popular internet? I am not sure about the RSS standard in particular, but stuff like RDF is ancient. I remember Slashdot having an index.rdf all the way back in 96 or 97, back when they were still Chips & Dips and RDF wasn't even a w3c standard. I believe the guy who invented RDF did so before Netscape (the company) came into being. Before RDF, there were of course a thousand different attempts at cooking up a subscription model ("push technology"). Microsoft was really turned on to it for a while in the Win 3.1 and Win'95 days. Many BBSes had some sort of subscription model too. Heck, USENET, in its basic design, is no different from syndication (though, of course, netnews is far more scalable). I'll grant that syndication-over-XML didn't mature until weblogs really started getting serious, perhaps around 99.
• I've been landed with the job of getting our work 'podcasting' Lucky me. Fuck knows what we're going to talk about. I hope this link is useful otherwise I'm fucked. Fuckity fuck fuck fuck.
• Good luckity luck luck luck!
• Well, you could read all the comments in the thread for starters. Y'know, doing little voices for the different people. Heh.
• Excellent. The job's now yours! *runs away*
• And don't say "fuckity fuck fuck fuck" on the podcast. Unless, you know, it's appropriate to your field or something.
• It's OK - kitfisto is actually a dead ringer for Hugh Grant and has the same accent, so he can carry it off.
• What th'?? *looks left, looks right* "Ah Lou-ah, Lou-aye, Wooooo-ah-ooh I say ah-wee gotta go now . . "
• *presses 'record'* This is great stuff. Executive washrooms here I come!