1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Hi everybody, it's the Source Code and today is September 7th, 2004. 2 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,000 I'm Adam Curry and good evening or good morning or good afternoon wherever you're listening 3 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,000 to the Source Code. 4 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Thanks for downloading, thanks for subscribing. 5 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:31,000 Welcome to you today or this evening I should say from the bunker in Amsterdam. 6 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:36,000 That's the house that we've had in the middle of the city for the past four years. 7 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:44,000 We call it the bunker because it used to be a museum and it's completely fortified. 8 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,000 It's got alarm systems up the yin yang, double enforced doors, bulletproof glass, all this 9 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 crap. 10 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 And Patricia and I are staying here tonight. 11 00:00:53,000 --> 00:01:00,000 It's 10 minutes to 10 p.m. so a little bit late with the show because wow, had a very busy day. 12 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,000 We got up, let's see. 13 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:06,500 I got up at six o'clock, which is still my time to rise, apparently. 14 00:01:06,500 --> 00:01:14,500 I still haven't gotten out of the morning show rhythm, I guess. 15 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:15,500 I was going to say algorithm. 16 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:18,500 I haven't gotten out of the morning show rhythm yet. 17 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:25,500 And at 6.30 we have to get up to get Christina off to school properly anyway. 18 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:33,500 And we had to drive for about an hour and 15 minutes to Grandmaster View today, which is 19 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:38,500 a flat-screen company that I own a share in. 20 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:43,500 I've been around since it's half inception. 21 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:48,500 And it's actually, you should check it out, grandmasterview.com. 22 00:01:48,500 --> 00:01:50,500 And it should be coming to the States pretty soon. 23 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:55,500 We're already in Germany, in Spain, in Italy, and of course the Netherlands and Belgium. 24 00:01:55,500 --> 00:01:57,500 Really huge flat screens. 25 00:01:57,500 --> 00:02:01,500 I'm talking like, what do we have? 26 00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:02,500 Two, I see the largest. 27 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,000 stock model we make is two meters and 25 centimeters diagonally. 28 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,000 So that's, what is that? 29 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,000 That's about seven feet. 30 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,000 So these are pretty big. 31 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 And so just, you know, I try to get up there once a week 32 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,000 and hang out with everyone. 33 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Basically, you know, production is running. 34 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,000 So it's all marketing. 35 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:26,000 And I am part of the whole marketing scheme. 36 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Everyone knows in Holland, Adam Curry, 37 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 helicopters and flat screens. 38 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,000 And after that, we went off to one of our partners. 39 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 And Patricia, by the way, had never been up to Grand Master View. 40 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,000 So it was really nice to show her that and I had a quick meeting. 41 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,000 And then we went 15 minutes further up to Kuehlenburg, 42 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:48,000 which is just around Utrecht in the middle of the Netherlands, 43 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 to a company called Design Concepts, 44 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,000 the one of our partners with Grand Master View. 45 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 What they do is they do these really beautiful frames 46 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 around our flat screens and do them in leather 47 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,000 and different types of material. 48 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,000 And they have a showroom where they're selling their furniture. 49 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,000 And they have... 50 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:08,500 at least five different setups where they have the living room setups. 51 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:11,500 Only now they have it in addition to a beautiful living room. 52 00:03:11,500 --> 00:03:17,500 They also have one of our screens custom designed to fit that particular style. 53 00:03:17,500 --> 00:03:21,500 So Patricia and I checked that out and I think we probably bought a couch or something. 54 00:03:21,500 --> 00:03:22,500 I'm not sure. 55 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:25,500 She saw something she liked a lot, but it was really cool. 56 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:29,500 And I think that's a great way to combine two different products. 57 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:33,500 And it's working because we actually have one of our salespeople sitting there in 58 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:35,500 the in the design concept store. 59 00:03:35,500 --> 00:03:39,500 You can check out design concepts at design concepts dot NL. 60 00:03:39,500 --> 00:03:42,500 So let's see that got us back. 61 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:50,500 No, after that, then I had to go off to see the accountants for our quarterly sit down. 62 00:03:50,500 --> 00:03:53,500 Most of you are rolling your eyes and going, you know, accountants, tax lawyers, 63 00:03:53,500 --> 00:03:56,500 whatever, I actually enjoy it. 64 00:03:56,500 --> 00:03:59,500 There's nothing better than having your accountants and your lawyers and your 65 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:02,500 tax lawyers all at the table and knowing that each one of those guys 66 00:04:02,500 --> 00:04:04,500 is charging you three to four hundred dollars an hour. 67 00:04:04,500 --> 00:04:05,500 So I just make the. 68 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:11,000 best of it. I make sure I get plenty of all the tea I want and I make jokes and we have 69 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:17,000 a pretty good time. I don't mind it. They're supposed to be saving me and helping me and 70 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:23,000 usually they do. At least I think I've found a team that's pretty damn good. And that 71 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,000 took obviously took quite a while and then by the time I got home it was time for Patricia 72 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,000 and I to go grab a bite to eat and then of course I passed out on the couch. I 73 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,000 think Patricia might have passed out as well. We both kind of a woke around 9 74 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,000 o'clock this evening I said well guess what you know I want to go record the 75 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,000 source source code and I hadn't had a chance to crack my computer all day 76 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,000 since we left the house. Man I hate that so much you know there's so much email 77 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,000 that's come in that I just can't even start to look at right now I'm just too 78 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:56,000 tired to do it. There's all kinds of things that need my attention and 79 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:01,000 that's oh man. And of course I don't even know if there's more any audio 80 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,000 stuff that's come down the pipe. Luckily tomorrow we're driving home. I'll have a 81 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,000 chance to catch up on any program. 82 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:09,500 that I may have missed. 83 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:12,500 Let's see, so I do want to talk a little bit about... 84 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:17,500 Let's see about iPodder. I had a couple of updates there. 85 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:20,500 What did I have? Oh yeah. 86 00:05:20,500 --> 00:05:22,500 Looks like we have two new versions coming up, 87 00:05:22,500 --> 00:05:24,500 and tomorrow I'll know for sure, 88 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:27,500 and by tomorrow night I'll have updated ipodder.org. 89 00:05:27,500 --> 00:05:32,500 I saw on my email just a brief scan that there is now a Java version of iPodder, 90 00:05:32,500 --> 00:05:34,500 and there's also a Coco version, 91 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:40,500 which is I believe the Mac OS X native scripting or programming environment. 92 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:44,500 I'm not too sure, but I will be checking out both of those programs 93 00:05:44,500 --> 00:05:47,500 and putting them up in the directory as appropriate. 94 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:50,500 If you know of any feeds, please let me know, 95 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:57,500 because I'd love to add something to the MP3 RSS directory feed, 96 00:05:57,500 --> 00:06:02,500 so people can subscribe to that with their MP3 devices. 97 00:06:02,500 --> 00:06:06,500 Also got some feedback on using the metadata, 98 00:06:06,500 --> 00:06:09,500 which is a big word for all the information you're stuffing. 99 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:15,000 to a file that you send along. Basically, that's the stuff that when you play the source code 100 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:20,000 on your MP3 player or in iTunes or whatever you're playing it on, that's why it actually, 101 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,000 instead of just giving you a file name, it says source code, Adam Curry, and then it 102 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:31,000 may have a date. It may show you a genre which should be speech track one of one. 103 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,000 And then maybe like the past two or three shows, I've actually put a subtitle for 104 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:41,000 the show in there. And so that should run across your display of your MP3 player. 105 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:48,000 And on the iPod specifically, I started off with the title is source code and then 106 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:55,000 the date and I spell it full out. So it's source code September 7th 2004. 107 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Apparently when you're in the playlist menu and you're browsing through 108 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:06,000 different shows, you only really get up to like half of the name of the month. 109 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,000 So it's source code August or source code September. 110 00:07:10,500 --> 00:07:14,500 Clearly not handy when searching for a particular title. 111 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:16,500 So I got to figure out what I'm going to do to change this. 112 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:23,500 I don't know if I want to put the date first and make it a seemingly easier to parse date. 113 00:07:23,500 --> 00:07:30,500 So for today, should it be 09072004, source code? 114 00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:32,500 Or I don't know. 115 00:07:32,500 --> 00:07:39,500 But clearly the way I'm doing it is not making it very easy to archive and browse in iPod 116 00:07:39,500 --> 00:07:40,500 and playlists. 117 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:43,500 So duly noted, let's see who did I get this email from. 118 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:48,500 This was from Paul Pilots. 119 00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:52,500 And I will definitely work on some kind of naming convention that works a little bit better 120 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:56,500 on the iPod and I guess presumably on other MP3 devices. 121 00:07:56,500 --> 00:08:00,500 And please, if you're subscribing to the source code and you have iPod are running through 122 00:08:00,500 --> 00:08:06,500 Windows Media Player on any other device other than the iPod, please let me know. 123 00:08:06,500 --> 00:08:10,500 I'd love to know people using it that way as well because the reason I'm sitting here at 124 00:08:10,500 --> 00:08:11,500 5 to 10 in the evening. 125 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,000 because I'm getting a lot of feedback and I'm getting a lot of people are 126 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,000 listening to the source code also 127 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,000 So, you know, it seems like stuff's working. 128 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Okay, now I had promised you something yesterday, 129 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,000 which I'm now going to bring up. 130 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,000 It's a real clip. 131 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:38,000 So I'm mixing all different kinds of media here today. 132 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,000 I remember I told you, I was discussing, 133 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:44,000 I was discussing, oh, the big DJ voice. 134 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,000 I think it was where, you know, 135 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,000 DJs always have to talk really loud 136 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,000 and have to really enunciate everything 137 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,000 and they're hitting on it, punch and make it sound 138 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,000 like you're hitting home when you're talking to that listener. 139 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Now, a lot of people do this. 140 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,000 And a lot of people record their shows, 141 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:04,000 pre-record their shows. 142 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,000 I'd like to do it direct to tape 143 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 or direct to MP3, as it were in this case. 144 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,000 Casey Kasem, we've probably heard used, 145 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:15,000 I guess, I don't know if he still does the American 146 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,000 top 30 countdown, what is it? 147 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,000 The American or the Casey Kasem's top 40. 148 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 He probably still does that show, it's syndicated. 149 00:09:22,500 --> 00:09:27,500 around the country actually around the globe I've heard it all over the place so at a certain point in the show 150 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:30,500 He does something called the long-distance dedication and it's someone 151 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:36,500 You know who lives in one part of the world or one part of the states and have a song played and dedicated to someone else 152 00:09:36,500 --> 00:09:43,500 And there's always a story behind it's a little bit sappy in fact the whole show KC Kasem show is so sappy and is so 153 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:46,500 Well, so it's so early 80s 154 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:48,500 well at one point 155 00:09:48,500 --> 00:09:54,500 You hear the real Casey Kasem as I'm I'm confident I've only met a couple times 156 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:58,500 But I'm confident this is exactly the way he can be if he's extremely pissed off 157 00:09:58,500 --> 00:10:04,500 Certainly at the height of his Casey Kasem days when people would run around do anything for him because he was 158 00:10:05,500 --> 00:10:07,500 Mr. Casey Kasem, Mr. Countdown on the radio 159 00:10:08,500 --> 00:10:13,500 Check it out this little bit where Casey Kasem told hi. This is Casey Kasem 160 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:15,500 American top 40 has moved to a new time 161 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:20,500 I hope you'll join me this Saturday morning at every Saturday morning at 2 to 162 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:23,500 Okay, so there you go American top 40 163 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Now listen to the dedication and listen to Casey lose it on this one. 164 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Now we're up to our long-distance dedication. 165 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:35,000 And this one is about kids and pets and a situation that we can all understand. 166 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,000 Whether we have kids or pets or neither. 167 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,000 It's from a man in Cincinnati, Ohio. 168 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,000 And here's what he writes. 169 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Dear Casey, this may seem to be a strange dedication request, but I'm quite sincere 170 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,000 and it'll meet a lot if you play it. 171 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Recently there was a death in our family. 172 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,000 He was a little dog named Snuggles, but he was most certainly a part of... 173 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Let's come start again. 174 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,000 I'm coming out of the record. 175 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Play the record, okay? 176 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:01,500 Please. 177 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,000 See when you come out of those up-tempo goddamn numbers man, it's impossible to make those transitions 178 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:15,000 And then you got to go into somebody dying. You know they do this to me all the time 179 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,000 I don't know what the hell they do it for but goddamn it if we can't come out of a slow record 180 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 I don't understand it is down on the phone 181 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Okay, I want a goddamn concerted effort to come out of a record that isn't a fucking up-tempo record every time 182 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 I do a goddamn death dedication 183 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Now make it and I also want to know what happened to the pictures I was supposed to see this week 184 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 It's a god last goddamn time 185 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,000 I want somebody uses fucking brain to not come out of a goddamn record 186 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:49,000 That is that's up tempo and I got to talk about a fucking dog dying. Well, he's a fucking ponderous man 187 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Ponderous fucking ponderous 188 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Ponderous 189 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:01,000 And don't we all feel like that once in a while there's a yelling everybody and boy does it sound good when you yell at someone and 190 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:07,000 You've got that compressed mic sound you've got the headphones on you can hear your voice really well and just go yell about your 191 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:10,500 fucking dead dog dedication. Perfect radio history moment. 192 00:12:10,500 --> 00:12:14,500 Now let me take you right into a song because it's our song of the day I felt like playing 193 00:12:14,500 --> 00:12:19,500 something by the motel so sit back and enjoy. Only the lonely. 194 00:12:21,250 --> 00:15:01,250 [ Music ] 195 00:15:04,500 --> 00:15:07,500 You're early 80s, huh? 196 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:14,500 The motels, only this summer on your daily source code live from Amsterdam, coming to 197 00:15:14,500 --> 00:15:18,500 you from the bunker on the Emperor's Canal. 198 00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:20,500 I'm going to leave you with one final thought. 199 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:23,500 As I said today was going to be rather short just because it was so hectic and so much 200 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:29,500 to do and I haven't really had a chance to even look at my aggregator really barely. 201 00:15:29,500 --> 00:15:33,500 I was reading a Q&A with Bill Gates. 202 00:15:33,500 --> 00:15:35,500 I think Dave Weiner pointed to it. 203 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:40,500 And at one point, and it's obviously talking about competing devices with the iPod 204 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:46,500 and with iTunes and their competing service with the service that will 205 00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:48,500 compete against the iTunes music store. 206 00:15:48,500 --> 00:15:51,500 And here's the quote that Bill Gates gave says, 207 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:56,500 but the work we've done with these device manufacturers to get them to build 208 00:15:56,500 --> 00:15:59,500 support for subscription music in. 209 00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:00,500 That's a big contribution. 210 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:05,500 It's kind of a weird sentence, but basically what he's saying that with Windows Media Player. 211 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:12,000 The work that Microsoft has done to get them to build in support for subscription music has been a big contribution. 212 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,000 I'm thinking, you know, subscription, this is exactly the stuff we're doing. 213 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,000 This is real subscription stuff. 214 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:25,000 You know, you can always build in a money channel if you need to, but you know, why is it all music that we're talking about? 215 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Stop focusing just on music. 216 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,000 These things can be used for a hell of a lot more than just music. 217 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:34,000 Pure transfer of information, data, you know, just like the source code. 218 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,000 But it is good that they've got that subscription all built in. 219 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,000 Anyway, that's it for the source code for today. 220 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:46,000 I'm going to hit the hay tomorrow's reasonably easy day for me. 221 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:51,000 We have a production company coming to take a look if they actually would like to rent this place for several months 222 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,000 to do a Dutch version of, I think it's the Apprentice. 223 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Well, that would be nice if we could rent this place out. 224 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 And pretty soon we're going to be looking for new digs in the UK. 225 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,000 So I'll keep you up to speed on that when we meet again tomorrow. 226 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,000 On the source code. 227 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,000 Take care everybody. 228 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 The power. 229 00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:16,500 And of course, if you want to respond, send email to adamantcurry.com or leave a comment 230 00:17:16,500 --> 00:17:17,500 on my weblog, live. 231 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:29,500 The power of your intelligence.