Another podcast that I deleted in a fit of reclaiming disk space is Blugg and Doctoe talking about the London bombings from July 2005. This happened in their backyard, and shares their experience of the bombings, communication tools and the use of technology spread.
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I’ve been thinking more and more about the historical podcast archive.
We’re really only talking about tracking down content spanning the last couple years. That’s good.
I’m sure we’ve already lost some content as podcasters have come and gone. That’s not good.
Some may be short lived and once the event is over, the links die.
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There are moments in history that we’re capturing in podcasts that will disappear as we clean off hard drives. I know I’ve deleted a few I’d like to have back. If I could remember what they were, I’d hunt them down.
The one that jumps out right off the bat is Fr. Roderick of the Catholic Insider.
He’s on the roof of the Dutch College listening to the bells of Rome (listen).
“The Pope has died”.
The natural sound is fantastic. The bells, the traffic, the barking dog. A true moment in history. This was done more than a year ago – April 2nd, 2005.
We’ve got the the Wayback machine for websites, but do we have something similar for podcasts?
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Following up on the previous post about the NY Times and ID3 tags.
Interesting enough, if I download a NY Times podcast through iTunes – I get all the meta data. Properly named, sorted and stashed. But if I use another aggregator, I don’t get anything but confusion.
I’ve only tried a couple Times podcasts and NetNewsWire/iTunes, so your mileage may vary.
If NY Times experience is better through iTunes, is the Gillmor Gang better through iTunes, too? It would appear so. Named, sorted, filed.
I think it’s worth exploring deeper and asking some questions. What about the other aggregators?
Maybe it is true – you learn something new everyday.
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I guess I may be a little slow on the uptake and missed the NY Times podcasts until Dave mentioned that he created their OPML file for them. For me, get the OMPL andl import that into NetNewsWire. All is well, so far.
NNW goes through on the next update and downloads all the new podcasts. It’s quite a few.
The next morning in my sync before I head to work, I figured I might as well stick some Times podcasts on my iPod (I manually manage my audio podcasts) and have a listen. In looking at the smart playlist which captures any new podcasts in the last 2 days, I can’t make any sense of what is the most recent. I have an idea.
No Artist, no album, poor titling, file management pain down the road……
Easy come, easy go. I’ll stay subscribed to one of these to see when the experience becomes more user friendly.
I guess I can give that tip to Steve Gillmor on me staying subscribed to one and not completely abandoning them. After listening to 23 gillmorgang-14601-07-18-2006_pshow_6153, the Gang gets onto folks complaining anonymously and unsubscribing to podcasts and/or feeds.
Here’s my reach out to the NY Times (and Podshow) folks to see if they might be able to work out the proper titling and considering us users at the end. I hate renaming podcasts after I’ve downloaded them.
As with the NY Times (Restaurant Update), I’ll stay subscribed to the Gillmor Gang to see if things improve.
The promos at the beginning of the Gang do seem to be getting shorter. It’s almost easier to fast forward through 5 minutes of commercials than a 30 second lead in.
Here’s towards working together.
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Via nomadic_audio (and Eric Rice) comes word about an online identity manager. Quick and easy to set up a profile and start adding. Just a minute or two and I’m off and running with a profile.
online identity multiple personalities:
onxiam! online identity manager
i just learned about onxiam, an online identity manager, from eric rice – thanks, eric!
I had a feeling this was just around the corner. It’s been the topic of a few conversations.
I had to take my Element in for it’s first oil change this morning (Gwinnett Place Honda). You know the drill. Go to the dealer, sit in a stuffy waiting room. Watch crappy tv, read old magazines, etc. What a relief to remember the free wifi in the waiting room. Sure makes time fly by when you can actually get something accomplished.
Add to that my dentist’s waiting room, wifi enabled.
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The National Hockey League is poised to launch a social networking site, Paidcontent and Pete Cashmore report, in time for the 2006/2007 season. The service, called NHL Connect, is in private beta. However, you can find a peek here.
Via Steve Rubel
I just had a listen to #417 Daily Source Code for Saturday July 8th 2006 to hear a summary of the feed “issue” that’s been circling. Basically, pointing to internal feeds vs. the podcaster’s original feed.
I can understand the mistake. Things do happen. I give AC and the Podshow folks credit for reacting and responding to the buzz.
QA is usually the last step before something is out the door. Yeah, they get pinched for time, things get missed. In this case, QA (and the hundred’s of beta testers) all seemed to miss this one little mistake. It begs the question of why no one noticed this (until it was public), since the first thing a podcaster is going to do is check their own content. Was QA just pointing and clicking, or did the QA folks get an overview of what they should be on the lookout for. How come the beta testers missed it?
Understand that the podcast community is a fickle one, and highly protective of their own content, as they should be.
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