I often think back to the days of elementary school. In the early years I recall that the class was split up into separate reading groups. I would always end up reading a real paperback book while other kids read Spot, Clifford or the Berenstain Bears. In 4th grade they gave the entire class the same book. I was able to read it out aloud with no challenge whatsoever. Most other kids would stumble over every third word. It was very irritating to say the least. Recently, due to the advent of podcasting, this irritation has made a triumphant return.
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Apreche Opinion podcasting
You may or may not know that I host a podcast called GeekNights four nights a week. Well, I’m also an avid podcast listener. They are simply the best thing to entertain me all day while I commute and sit at work in front of the computer. There is a thing called OPML that allows people to share lists of subscriptions to various RSS feeds including podcast feeds. So if you like what I like just grab my OPML and combine it with your favorite podcatching software. That will get you subscribed to all the podcasts I subscribe to. I change my subscriptions fairly often, but you’ll always be able to get my newst OPML with the link on the right side of this blog.
Apreche Personal podcasting, RSS
I sort of have this pet peeve with computer software. When something doesn’t work exactly the way I want it to I have to fix it. This sort of explains why I keep switching and tweaking window managers and themes. My current peeve is with RSS and Atom feeds, especially when it comes to podcasts.
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Apreche Technology blogging, podcasting, RSS
You my remember the audioblog I made in June of last year. I can’t even remember what I said, and I really don’t want to listen to it again. When I came up with the idea I thought it was so great, but I didn’t feel to good when I actually recorded myself. But it appears now I have come full circle.
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Apreche Personal, Site News blogging, podcasting
With the advent of sites like The Hype Machine, del.icio.us tags like for:joshua and RSS feeds on torrent sites I think it is time to get rid of the M3U and other playlist formats in favor of RSS. It would take so little effort to take existing media players and add RSS playlist support to them. I’m imagining a world where everyone stores their playlists in RSS and shares them so people end up listening to music by aggregating the playlists of others and listening to cool music as people discover it. This looks like the direction we’re headed, let’s move there faster.
Apreche Ideas, Technology music, podcasting, RSS
I finally got around to making an audioblog like I promised, but I don’t know how well received it is going to be. I’m actually kind of disappointed with the end result. I used rawrec and sox to make the ogg file as that is the simplest way possible. The more feedback on this the better, I want to experiment with this idea and hopefully do something creative and awesome. I made it with ogg, that way no matter what software setup you have there is a player than can play it. Also there are free tools to convert it if you want.
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Apreche Ideas, Technology blogging, podcasting
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