I brought this idea up with Dan, and wanted to bring it up here for public discussion. I’ve been listening to various “podcasts” lately (even though I really hate that term), and thinking about doing one myself, just for fun, with the help of Dan and/or whoever else would want to be involved.
For those not familiar with them, at a high-level, they are basically just MP3 radio shows that you record yourself and publish a certain way, so that RSS-capable applications can “subscribe” to your show (among others) and have it automatically downloaded to their listening device whenever they want. In reality, I think Dan summed up their true nature pretty well: “just somebody speaking their blog, instead of writing it” or something to that effect.
If I did do it, it probably would be something like that for me - a lot of the same topics that I post about on here. It would probably lean more toward the technical stuff, specifically computer security related topics (or maybe what some would label “hacking”), and probably very little political-type discussions, just because I don’t think that format really supports the kind of open dialog that that type of subject requires. I was asking Dan if he could do reviews on all the tech stuff he buys all the time and then turns around and sells on ebay (just kidding) and also he could talk about any Mac-related issues, so that I can poke fun at them. It might be entertaining.
Of course, it wouldn’t be limited to that either, we could talk about anything that came up: blog culture and technology, movie & music reviews, showcasing free music artists, etc. (maybe we could get Nathan to do the music reviews) My main question is whether anyone would listen, and whether it would be worth the time. I suspect that it would actually end up drawing more traffic here, since (at least right now) podcasts (like blogs) always start small, but seem to get popular much more quickly than blogs, just because there are fewer of them out there. What do you think?
I saw this on TV the other day, it was really good. I’ve always liked Springsteen, but I really liked his walk-through of his new song Devils & Dust. I may have to check out the CD if the rest of the songs are good.
February 9, 2005 – 9:32 pm
This is one show that gets progressively worse as it goes. The tryout episodes are entertaining; the in-between ones (on right now) are halfway bearable; and once it gets down to the final 10 (or 12, or whatever the number is) it’s just plain annoying.
December 12, 2004 – 11:08 pm
Good article on common web site design mistakes made not only by musicians, but lots of “artistically inclined” people setting up web sites. Tip #1 involves a pet peeve of mine: Flash.
Excerpt:
Use Flash like you would cilantro—sparingly and for a single high-impact effect. Nobody wants to eat a whole bowl of cilantro
December 12, 2004 – 11:08 pm
Good article on common web site design mistakes made not only by musicians, but lots of “artistically inclined” people setting up web sites. Tip #1 involves a pet peeve of mine: Flash.
Excerpt:
Use Flash like you would cilantro—sparingly and for a single high-impact effect. Nobody wants to eat a whole bowl of cilantro
December 9, 2004 – 3:44 pm
MC Hawking: A Brief History of Rhyme
Album Description:
What if physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking had a secret life as a gangsta rapper? Confined to a wheelchair due to Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Dr. Hawking lost the use of his vocal chords in an operation to assist his breathing in 1985. Since then he’s used a speech synthesizer that speaks for him when he types in the computer what he wants to say. After seeing the Beastie Boys in 1988, be became obsessed with rap and immersed himself in the culture, favoring the harder-edged music by NWA and The Ghetto Boyz. From this, MC Hawking was born. Here are 16 dope, booty shaking, digitally mastered tracks from the undisputed king of theoretical gangsta-astrophysics, collected on one CD for the first time. “It’s hard to decide whether the parody is downright brilliant or borderline offensive, but it certainly made us laugh”–Salon. “I’m flattered in an odd sort of way”–Dr. Stephen Hawking.
