1 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Well hello, welcome to the socials code for Tuesday, September 20th. 2 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,000 and Brussels is... 3 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:08,000 And then I've got most of the audio stuff all worked out and I only have let's see 4 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Five external boxes have to carry around with me in addition to my laptop 5 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,000 But I want to record something it's still pretty mobile. I had to take two trips because we're 6 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,000 stairs in what I'd call the deadest room in the world. 7 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Yeah, dead. There's no echo. 8 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:31,000 I just wanted to try it and see if a different sound would put me in a different mood or 9 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,000 give you a different vibe when listening to the show. 10 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:39,000 And also it has an added advantage of being directly above the bar area where the wifi 11 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:44,000 setup is so I have 100% full signal because it's just beaming right up through the 12 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,000 floor. 13 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,000 So this is the source code we use as a developer's party together again Tuesday, September 14 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:49,000 21st. 15 00:01:55,500 --> 00:02:00,500 I have a speaking gig tomorrow and I still have to prepare and think about what I'm going 16 00:02:00,500 --> 00:02:01,500 to talk about. 17 00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:02,500 Although you can bet it's going to be a lot about. 18 00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:10,500 And what we're doing is something that a lot of folks now are calling podcasting. 19 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:12,500 I picked it up from Dave Slusher. 20 00:02:12,500 --> 00:02:18,500 He picked it up from, well, he didn't know where he got it from other than that he had seen a couple of 21 00:02:18,500 --> 00:02:23,500 refers in his refer log for podcasting.net. 22 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:32,500 And on the iPod developer list, an email showed up from Danny Gregory or Gregoir, I think it is. 23 00:02:32,500 --> 00:02:37,500 He says, wow, I got back from Weekend Away to find podcasting mentioned in both Dave and Adam's show. 24 00:02:37,500 --> 00:02:40,500 I conjured up the term while writing a post to this list last week. 25 00:02:40,500 --> 00:02:42,500 Then after good night's sleep, it struck me. 26 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:45,500 Check to see if any of the names were available. 27 00:02:45,500 --> 00:02:47,500 They were, so he registered it. 28 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:50,500 And I'm glad he chose podcasting.net. 29 00:02:50,500 --> 00:02:56,500 Instead of his original thought, he had named it episode. 30 00:02:56,500 --> 00:03:01,500 And then the I and the P and the I and the O and the D are all uppercase. 31 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:06,500 Right. Okay. I think podcasting.net. 32 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,000 is fantastic so props out to Danny for coming up with that. 33 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Couple of things that I've run into as we're learning more and more about how to do these 34 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,000 shows and what setup is needed and... 35 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Doing that through iPod er. Oh, you know, I gotta blow my nose hold on a second 36 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Now that I have this different setup 37 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:31,000 I'm actually sitting on the edge of a bed and I have a very small stool where I have the laptop set up 38 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:39,000 So I'm leaning forward with the result that oh man, this is gonna be so disgusting. I don't think we yeah 39 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Who wants to hear this? 40 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,000 shoot 41 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Okay 42 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,000 We need to have some nose blowing music then so you don't have to listen to me 43 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Snottering and snooting away 44 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Okay 45 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Let me get back here 46 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Plugging the headphones again. Okay 47 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:05,000 One of the advantages of iTunes is it's always kind of right there. Let's see 48 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,000 About some dialing music, what do we have? 49 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Not dialing music. We want some nose blowing music 50 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Anything under. Oh, I know we'll get 51 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,000 Ah, got a song for ya. 52 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:26,500 Uhhhh... 53 00:04:26,500 --> 00:04:28,500 Okay, I'll play this song. 54 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:29,500 Psst! 55 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:31,500 I'm gonna go blow my nose. I'll be right back. 56 00:04:33,750 --> 00:04:45,000 [ Music ] 57 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:53,000 She wanders through the world But something's wrong with her 58 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,000 She wanders through the world But something's wrong with her 59 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:02,000 better. There we go. A little bit of Mo Jones there, how the wind blows. Okay, so 60 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,000 I've been getting a lot of comments about the size of the files. Now I've never 61 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:11,000 really paid much attention to the actual file sizes because 62 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:16,000 the whole point is that you can have these massive files that are 63 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 going to be downloaded overnight, presumably, although it seems like people 64 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:24,000 are still using these news aggregators and checking every single hour for 65 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:31,000 new updated shows. But there is a lot to be said for the size and 66 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,000 we might as well, yeah, we're gonna have to deal with this stuff. We're gonna have to 67 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,000 deal with bandwidth and file storage. So we might as well do it as much as we 68 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:47,000 can right now. And let's see, I have some notes about this particular topic. 69 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:57,000 See, yeah, so I always thought that I should just record, you know, stereo 16 bits and I 70 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 chose 96. 71 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:03,500 What is that 96 kilobits as my sample rate? 72 00:06:03,500 --> 00:06:07,500 And now I got berated by a couple people over email saying, you know, how come you don't 73 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:09,500 use VBR, which is variable bit rate? 74 00:06:09,500 --> 00:06:13,500 And I really don't know what VBR does or what the best quality is. 75 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:14,500 I just, I want to, you know, I want it to sound great. 76 00:06:14,500 --> 00:06:20,500 I want the, if I'm playing an MP3, I want it to sound like an MP3 on your iPod. 77 00:06:20,500 --> 00:06:25,500 I don't want it to sound like God forbid like some audio books I've purchased in recent 78 00:06:25,500 --> 00:06:26,500 history. 79 00:06:26,500 --> 00:06:30,500 So if, you know, if we want to get a conversation started about that, if anyone has any 80 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:34,500 pointers to what can best be used, you know, what is, what is going to be appropriate? 81 00:06:34,500 --> 00:06:38,500 Now, granted, if you're only using, if you're only doing voice, then you may be able to 82 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:40,500 get away with a much lower quality setting. 83 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:43,500 But still, you know, just think about the audience. 84 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:46,500 They're driving there in their car and they're checking out the zapping through the playlist 85 00:06:46,500 --> 00:06:49,500 and all of a sudden it's like you're switching from FM to AM. 86 00:06:49,500 --> 00:06:52,500 So, you know, and that's not always a pleasurable experience. 87 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:53,500 Although you don't get used to almost 88 00:06:55,500 --> 00:07:00,500 listening to it for a for a little while. Another thing is naming conventions. Now, I'm all over the map on this. 89 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:06,500 You know, there's really it's it's a bug in iPod. I don't know. I'm sure that other mp3 players do a much better job of this 90 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:09,500 But if you have a long 91 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:10,500 title 92 00:07:10,500 --> 00:07:14,500 It doesn't scroll or in the in the playlist 93 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:20,500 It doesn't scroll past, you know, like the word September which I was spelling full out in the beginning and then it says dot dot dot 94 00:07:20,500 --> 00:07:24,500 You know, you just you can't scroll to the whichever episodes you want because you 95 00:07:25,500 --> 00:07:29,500 Literally can't see it in the playlist on the iPod, which I do consider it to be a bug. So 96 00:07:31,500 --> 00:07:33,500 Even though I hate doing this I 97 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:37,500 shortened up the daily source code, which is how I titled all of my 98 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:42,500 All of my shows the file names were daily source code 99 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:45,500 Dash and then a date structure dot mp3 100 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:49,500 and I shortened that to DSC and 101 00:07:49,500 --> 00:07:56,500 Now I've narrowed it down to where people are, you know going back and forth and giving me advice and pointing to different 102 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 standards and 103 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,000 And I think that I'm gonna go with the European Convention, 104 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,000 which makes the most sense to me since, you know, 105 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 you can kind of parse it logically 106 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:14,000 once you've taken a look at it, which is it'll be DSC-, 107 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:19,000 then it'll be the year 2004- the month- the day. 108 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,000 That way there can be no confusion 109 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,000 because you're going in descending order. 110 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Whereas if you do it, if you do date or month 111 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,000 at the beginning, then Europeans and Americans 112 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,000 will be confused if there's a month and day 113 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 or both under 12. 114 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 So that's what I'm gonna stick with for now. 115 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 And I'm sure lots of people have other opinions, 116 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:44,000 but it's almost majority rules with what I've heard. 117 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Another thing that I was asked, let me see, 118 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:52,000 there was an email that I got from a source code listener 119 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,000 in New Zealand. 120 00:08:55,500 --> 00:09:00,500 Oops cut out there for a second. I don't know what happened. I hope everything's okay. Yeah, we're still recording 121 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:08,500 Wow sounds all of a sudden like it all the stuff is dropping out is that the box here 122 00:09:10,500 --> 00:09:14,500 Uh-oh. Let me just pause this for one second, see what's going on. 123 00:09:14,500 --> 00:09:28,500 Okay, I'm not really sure what was going wrong, but most of my mic was cutting out, so I didn't want to lose all the recording, so I just made sure that this file was safe temporarily, and then I paused it and I'm back up now, exactly where we left off. 124 00:09:29,500 --> 00:09:48,500 So I was back to a source code listener from New Zealand who says, look, I've got really limited bandwidth here, so I can't use iPod or I do want to listen to the show, but sometimes the topics just don't interest me, and could you post a list about everything you're talking about in the show so I can decide whether to download it or not. 125 00:09:48,500 --> 00:10:01,500 Now I have been setting as the album field in the ID3 tags, I've been setting something that's kind of a highlight or a main theme of the show. I don't even know if that actually shows up, I think it does show up on the iPod. 126 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:10,500 I will, from now on, I'll also add that one little line, sometimes it's just one or two words, I'll add that to the description of each source code update, which will also show up on the iPod. 127 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,000 and on the website, dailysourcecode.com. 128 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 So you can decide if you want to download or not. 129 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,000 But like for instance, yesterday, the album title 130 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,000 that I used, the album title tag, 131 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:27,000 it in, birds singing, you know, so what does that mean? 132 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 So, you know, that may or may not be a good way 133 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,000 to make a decision if you're gonna download something 134 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,000 or not, but I'm gonna do that 135 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:36,000 because it does seem like it's worth it. 136 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,000 And also, you know, for my own good, 137 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,000 and probably if you're listening, 138 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 if you're going back through an archive, 139 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 you can say, wait a minute, what show was that? 140 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 It was the show where he went outside 141 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:47,000 and the birds were singing, you know, 142 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,000 if you see birds singing, you'll remember that. 143 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,000 So. 144 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:56,000 helpful because there's a lot of ground that we cover in the show. Which brings me to another 145 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:05,000 request which plenty of people have been talking about is providing resource links. And Steve 146 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Ivy and I actually did post a link to his thoughts about this. It's cutting out again. 147 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:17,000 I hope it's going to, I hope it holds out. Steve Ivy posted an idea how we could automate 148 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:24,000 this and this is really weird. This is not, this should not be doing this. I have a feeling that 149 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:30,000 something, some application is open that's dragging stuff down, but I can't really see, 150 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:38,000 no, I don't have anything else open. Well, we'll just live with it for now. But of course, I'd love 151 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:43,000 to, you know, put up a little file with each posting saying, oh, here's all the links I 152 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:47,000 talked about. And really the way, the way, the reason I'm not doing it is because I'm just too lazy, 153 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,000 you know, I can't, you know, I'm talking about stuff and then, you know, do I, do I write it down as 154 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:52,000 I'm talking about it? 155 00:11:52,500 --> 00:11:53,500 We don't have a production assistant. 156 00:11:53,500 --> 00:11:55,500 There are no production assistants. 157 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,000 someone and there's a weblog URL associated with each person there. 158 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:14,000 So that may be tough unless you put something together where maybe as you're talking, if 159 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:25,000 you drag a bookmark onto a folder or something, it would set a tag and also record the time. 160 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Something like that. 161 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:30,000 I mean, again, the only reason I'm not doing this, I'm just too lazy to listen to the 162 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 whole show again and jot everything down. 163 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Maybe in the future. 164 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:39,000 But there may be some technological things that we can do together and that we can 165 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,000 create that will actually make some of that happen all by itself. 166 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,000 But check out that link to Steve Ivy's thoughts on that. 167 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,000 And again, that's from my weblog live.curry.com. 168 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,000 And it's just a beautiful day on the iPod or developers list, which you can find 169 00:12:55,000 --> 00:13:01,000 a Yahoo groups after yesterday's source code where I said, you know, 170 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,000 actually, I gave a little review of iPod or X, which is, you know, 171 00:13:04,500 --> 00:13:07,500 Oh, these guys are getting so close to what I think is the perfect. 172 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:13,500 Today we're drinking a Schweppes bitter lemon straight from the bottle. 173 00:13:13,500 --> 00:13:16,500 So anyway, iPodRx is great. 174 00:13:16,500 --> 00:13:17,500 There's no installation. 175 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:23,500 You just double click it, opens up, and it has... 176 00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:25,500 Wait a minute, that was... 177 00:13:25,500 --> 00:13:28,500 I'm sorry, I'm gonna say yesterday was iSpider. 178 00:13:28,500 --> 00:13:29,500 Today is iPodRx. 179 00:13:29,500 --> 00:13:33,500 So iSpider was really happy about because of the install process. 180 00:13:33,500 --> 00:13:36,500 Now iPodRx came out, which I pointed to today. 181 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:37,500 And this is not something you install. 182 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:41,500 It's an application and you launch it and then it shows up and it's real simple. 183 00:13:41,500 --> 00:13:43,500 How often do you want to check? 184 00:13:43,500 --> 00:13:46,500 What feeds are we checking? 185 00:13:46,500 --> 00:13:50,500 And it shoves everything over to your iPod. 186 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:52,500 It doesn't tell you or give you an update. 187 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,000 where all the new stuff is downloaded to. 188 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,000 But that's just a simple little feature that can be put in. 189 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,000 And it understands bit torrents. 190 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,000 And I presume that since it's Python, 191 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,000 that it's also cross-platform. 192 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,000 And I saw someone else working on a GUI for Windows. 193 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,000 So we're getting really close. 194 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,000 But what was so beautiful is that, 195 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000 and this did happen off-list. 196 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,000 And I've asked these guys, when they're ready to go back 197 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 is that as far as I can tell, 198 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:27,000 iSpider, PyPotter, and iPotterX are going to join forces 199 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,000 and create one single application. 200 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,000 Because it was great to see this. 201 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,000 It's like the iSpider guy said, 202 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,000 hey, this is really cool. 203 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Would you mind sharing the code of iPotterX? 204 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,000 And then they all got together 205 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,000 and they did include me on the conversation. 206 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,000 And I'm so excited. 207 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,000 This is so wonderful to see this happen. 208 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,000 And I think that we'll be pretty much done 209 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,000 with the iPotter, with the basic core elements, 210 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,000 at least from a Mac OSX perspective, 211 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,000 and considering it's Python underneath. 212 00:14:55,500 --> 00:14:58,500 which you'll be able to get the Windows gooey up pretty soon. 213 00:14:58,500 --> 00:14:59,500 I think that we're gonna be set. 214 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:02,500 In the iPodRex, I just wanted to mention, 215 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:03,500 it doesn't install anything, 216 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:07,500 so it doesn't actually put a system level cron job in 217 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:10,500 or anything, but what's nice about it is 218 00:15:10,500 --> 00:15:13,500 it's, they've tricked out the application, 219 00:15:13,500 --> 00:15:16,500 so you launch it and then it goes away, it hides itself. 220 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:18,500 If you click on the application again, 221 00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:20,500 it'll bring up the window, 222 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:22,500 and the minute you hit another window, 223 00:15:22,500 --> 00:15:24,500 or it's just gone, it disappears. 224 00:15:24,500 --> 00:15:26,500 So it kinda gives the illusion that it's 225 00:15:28,500 --> 00:15:32,500 running there and I think a lot of people do like the idea of being able to say, hey, 226 00:15:32,500 --> 00:15:37,500 I don't want to run you anymore because you're crunching my bandwidth or whatever and then 227 00:15:37,500 --> 00:15:39,500 just quit the application. 228 00:15:39,500 --> 00:15:44,500 So real simple to set up in your startup items, which I think a lot of people can't 229 00:15:44,500 --> 00:15:49,500 have figured out how to do that and if not, it's real simple to keep it in your dock 230 00:15:49,500 --> 00:15:50,500 and just to open it up. 231 00:15:50,500 --> 00:15:58,500 So kudos to the iSpider, the Pi Potter and the iPodRx teams who are now working together 232 00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:04,500 and I think they're going to cope with something absolutely phenomenal. 233 00:16:04,500 --> 00:16:08,500 Cruising through my subscription, some stuff that came in today, I know that yesterday I 234 00:16:08,500 --> 00:16:18,500 played you a bit of Raster Web Audio and there is a name behind this genius behind Raster 235 00:16:18,500 --> 00:16:29,500 Web and that is Paul Pete Produl and he has a weblog at RasterWeb.net. 236 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,000 So yesterday you had this joke about a pole and a bar, 237 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 and today there was a follow up that came in. 238 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,000 This is Raster Web Jokey for whatever day it is. 239 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,000 So a guy walks into a pole and the stripper says, 240 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,000 hey, do you mind? 241 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:44,000 I'm trying to use this pole. 242 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:48,000 I mean, do I come to where you work and get on your desk? 243 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Thank you and good night. 244 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Ha ha ha. 245 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:56,000 And there was another file attached to it. 246 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,000 It actually was a separate file. 247 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,000 I'm just going to play that one as well, 248 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,000 because it's a different joke. 249 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,000 And then I want to talk about this concept. 250 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:09,000 Welcome to Raster Web Audio for the 21st of September, 2004. 251 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,000 I got home late tonight, so I'm making a pizza real quick. 252 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,000 And I looked at the cooking instructions. 253 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:19,000 The first instruction, do not eat pizza without cooking. 254 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,000 So upon reading that, I immediately stopped eating it. 255 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:26,000 The second thing it says is, do not allow pizza to thaw. 256 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Now I wasn't sure how to put it in the oven and bake it 257 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,000 without having it thaw from the heat. 258 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:34,500 So I'm not quite sure what to do now. 259 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:38,500 I think I'm probably just going to eat the instructions and then call it a day. 260 00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:39,500 So that's about it. 261 00:17:39,500 --> 00:17:42,500 Thank you and good night. 262 00:17:42,500 --> 00:17:44,500 Thank you and good night. 263 00:17:44,500 --> 00:17:52,500 And as I was laughing about these jokes or comedy bits, I was thinking, this is so valid. 264 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:58,500 If I have a playlist of stuff that I'm listening to, which usually is just my what's new playlist, 265 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:01,500 any new audio posts or shows that come in are in one. 266 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,000 on the iPod through i... 267 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,000 smart playlist, then you can say, okay, it has to be speech or anything containing these 268 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:17,000 words or this phrase or anything new in this playlist that hasn't been played before. 269 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:22,000 Now there's all different Boolean parameters you can set up and I'm thinking, this is 270 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,000 so great. 271 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:28,000 I could be listening to morning coffee notes, then in between as the playlist continues, 272 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:34,000 I could get a joke of the day, then it could go to evil genius chronicles, then 273 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:40,000 maybe I'd get a stock analysis and this could be a minute, it could be 15 seconds, 274 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:40,000 it could be a... 275 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:50,000 So anyone out there was thinking, you know, damn, I can't really, you know, this is too 276 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:55,000 much for me to do an entire show and just talk into space that could be complicated. 277 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 You know, damn, this is pretty exciting. 278 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:01,000 And now what I've done is I'm actually going to, I hadn't queued this up, but I'm going 279 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,000 to set it up for you. 280 00:19:04,500 --> 00:19:06,500 I can actually I can see here 281 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:17,000 And the recording is perhaps skipping, so hopefully it didn't skip too much on the recording. 282 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Alright. 283 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:23,000 On my web blog I often post a quote of the day and actually I have a category set up 284 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 for it which is QOTD. 285 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:30,000 And I said, you know, why don't I just create a feed, an RSS 2.0 with enclosures feed or 286 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,000 an iPod or feed as I'll call it from now on. 287 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,000 And just a duo spoken quote so you know you can add that to your playlist of stuff 288 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:38,000 you listen to every single day. 289 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,000 And I'm going to play you today's quote. 290 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:46,000 The most likely way for the world to be destroyed most experts agree is by accident. 291 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:47,000 That's where we come in. 292 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,000 We're computer professionals. 293 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,000 We cause accidents. 294 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,000 Nathaniel Bornstein. 295 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,000 There you go. 296 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:00,000 So if you're out there and you just want to add some little thing to the mix, 297 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,000 it doesn't have to be a general topic. 298 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,000 It could be the weather in Montclair, New Jersey. 299 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,000 You know, it could be all kinds of things. 300 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:10,000 And it could be really short, which will be a great way to kind of get your feet wet. 301 00:20:10,500 --> 00:20:16,500 and try some of this stuff out and I think that there's a huge potential because you watch then we're going to figure out how to 302 00:20:16,500 --> 00:20:19,500 Create scripts that will you know build special? 303 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:26,500 Playlist menus for you so you can really compile your own radio show or as I've been reading around the web as people have been talking 304 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:29,500 About the iPod and iPod platform 305 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:34,500 It's Tevo for mp3 right on now an audiobook review 306 00:20:34,500 --> 00:20:38,500 it's been about a week since I've last did one and 307 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:46,500 Had another I had a book credit on audible. That's really why I was bored and I would go check out a book 308 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:50,500 I still have snow crashed the unabridged version, which is about 309 00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:54,500 17 hours altogether and I haven't started that one yet 310 00:20:54,500 --> 00:21:01,500 And I didn't know what to get no, you know, I didn't really want a real long read. That's a read there and quotation marks 311 00:21:02,500 --> 00:21:04,500 And so I went to my favorite section 312 00:21:05,500 --> 00:21:07,500 Which is the staff? 313 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:08,500 tips and 314 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:10,500 So there's the entire staff of audible 315 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:17,000 is it staff tips or staff picks? Let me see. Staff picks, right. And I'm scrolling down 316 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:22,000 and they have little pictures of the staff next to their their picks. And I stop at this 317 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:30,000 one guy. His name is Brian. And he is the executive VP of content. And I'm like, okay, you know, 318 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,000 so clearly this is the guy who's, I guess the buck stops with him as it comes to, 319 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,000 you know, what content is put on. I don't know if that's, you know, what books are 320 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:44,000 in there or or the content management system or I just don't know. But all 321 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:48,000 right, I want to look at what Mark is recommending. And he recommended the 322 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:57,000 spoken word revolution, which is by Mark Eleved or a Leaved. I don't know how to 323 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:03,000 pronounce that. And it was originally in book form, but the audio book has 324 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:07,000 actual recordings. And let me tell you what, I'll just read the blurb here 325 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:12,000 for a second. This is Brian's review, which is much better than the explanation 326 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000 on the purchase. 327 00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:19,500 The Definite Introductory Course in Spoken Word Poetry starts with a nod to the beats, 328 00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:23,500 then takes you on a journey through hip-hop, performance art, and slams. 329 00:22:23,500 --> 00:22:27,500 It's an intellectual and emotional tour de force comprised of a few short explanatory 330 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:33,500 essays about performance poetry with poems performed by the poets who wrote them. 331 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:36,500 Articulate use of language is increasingly rare in our culture and articulated speech 332 00:22:36,500 --> 00:22:40,500 is arguably the most powerful tool for change on the planet. 333 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:44,500 Spoken Word Poetry is powerful articulate speech that deserves wide distribution. 334 00:22:44,500 --> 00:22:47,500 I highly recommend this title for the sheer joy 335 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:55,000 and for the opportunity to experience the undeniable power of great poetry. 336 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:05,000 And so I thought, damn, I don't want to listen to poetry. Poetry is boring. But the hip-hop 337 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:11,000 reference and performance art and slams kind of got my curiosity up. And I listened to a quick 338 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,000 sample. I'm not going to play that exact sample. Actually, I'm going to play a part of that sample 339 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:19,000 for you. And I said, all right, I'm going to download this. And it's only an hour and 15 340 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:25,000 minutes. It's not cheap, though. It was $14.95, which I thought was very expensive, 341 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:32,000 compared to John Stewart's book, which was $7.95, and a great audiobook production, 342 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,000 and was much longer in length. But of course, I was getting it for free anyway, 343 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:42,000 so that didn't bother me that much. And I was just blown away. I mean, there is some... 344 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:48,000 And I think this is probably a pure American culture. Of course, if you can speak of pure 345 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:52,000 American culture, because the culture comes from all over the world into America. 346 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:53,500 to the big melting pot. 347 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 And there's a good history lesson throughout this. 348 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:05,000 And you can almost listen to it in one commute, or at least in one day's worth of commute. 349 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,000 I'm going to play a bit for you. 350 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,000 It's a performance piece about television. 351 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:17,000 And I've often spoken about television being such a hypnotic medium. 352 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,000 In fact, it's probably time again for me to point to the Zen TV experiment. 353 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:25,000 I always have it on the left-hand blog roll links on my web blog. 354 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,000 But I'll point to it again because television is, it's something else. 355 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:36,000 And having worked in it with it and for it, I think I know what I'm talking about. 356 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,000 So listen to an excerpt from the spoken word revolution. 357 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 The young child with 358 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,000 Ah, shit. 359 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Now that sucked. 360 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 Excuse me. 361 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,000 I was trying to be so cool. 362 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Okay. 363 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,000 Let me do that again. 364 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,000 Listen to an excerpt from the spoken word revolution. 365 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:07,000 An audio recording cannot capture the full effect of New York monologous and screenwriter Todd Alcott's compelling performance of television, but we'll give it a try. 366 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:15,000 While you listen, imagine a hyper-jittery black-haired chalky complexion boob tube right up in your face. 367 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:20,000 Look out for the static in the spittle. Mr. Todd Alcott, everyone. 368 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Television. 369 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:28,000 Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. Look over there. There's nothing to look at over there. 370 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:34,000 Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. Are you looking at me? Is everybody looking at me? Do I have everyone's attention? 371 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:41,000 Don't get the wrong idea. I'm not trying to take over your life. You need what? What do you need? What do you need? You need to what? 372 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:47,000 Go to the bathroom? Fine. Get up. Go to the bathroom. Come back. Look at me. You need what? You need to get something to eat? Fine. 373 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Get up. Go to the kitchen. Get something to eat. Come back. Look at me. You need to what? What? What? Sleep? Fine. 374 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Get up. Go to bed. Go to sleep. Get up. Come back. Look at me. Okay. So, we have an agreement. 375 00:25:58,500 --> 00:26:01,500 You will do what you absolutely have to do and when you're done, you will come back and 376 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:02,500 look at me. 377 00:26:02,500 --> 00:26:04,500 Don't worry about your schedule. 378 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:05,500 I am here for you. 379 00:26:05,500 --> 00:26:06,500 I am here for you. 380 00:26:06,500 --> 00:26:09,500 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, I am here for you. 381 00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:11,500 I am here for you. 382 00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:12,500 You need me. 383 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:13,500 I'm here. 384 00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:15,500 Fair and foul, thick and thin, I am here for you. 385 00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:17,500 I am here for you. 386 00:26:17,500 --> 00:26:19,500 People try to tell you I'm bad. 387 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:20,500 You tell them that I am bad. 388 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:26,500 I am here for you, pe- 389 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:37,500 grapes. 390 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:46,500 Death Drills comedy all here all in the next eight minutes. Can you believe it? You can't believe it. You can't believe it 391 00:26:46,500 --> 00:26:48,500 It's unbelievable. You can't believe it 392 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:03,000 Look at me. Oh man, how good is that? And perhaps this guy should try decaf 393 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:09,000 All right more thoughts about what we can do with these wonderful with this wonderful 394 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,000 iPodder and the 395 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000 podcasting is 396 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:20,000 Something else that I've been a lot of people have been using this as an example and we'll say well imagine 397 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,000 You could listen to your favorite NPR shows which of course you can get on the internet 398 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,000 You can listen to it on radio stations around the country 399 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:34,000 There's you know, there's there's different ways to get it, but it's not available in download form yet 400 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,000 And so this example is used very often, you know, so the iPodder 401 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:42,000 Oh, it's perfect because then instead of having to tune into your favorite NPR show 402 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,000 you could 403 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:50,000 You have it automatically stored on your on your mp3 player and then whenever it's convenient for you 404 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,000 You can listen to the most recent show 405 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:58,000 And in fact until streaming that came on vogue and I've never been a big fan of streaming in fact I've always been 406 00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:05,500 trying to shift the transfer of data to when I'm sleeping, because then it doesn't bother 407 00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:12,500 me. There's no click and wait. This is my infamous last yard essay that I wrote. You can just 408 00:28:12,500 --> 00:28:17,500 type into Google, Adam Curry, last yard, and it'll pop up. 409 00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:20,500 And so the answer is, of course, that would be wonderful. And all that we need is just 410 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:26,500 one person who maybe isn't quite ready to do their own audio show, but is interested 411 00:28:26,500 --> 00:28:30,500 in contributing and wants to help out with some cool stuff that we can all 412 00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:35,500 listen to. If you take Audio Hijack Pro as an example, you can set it, it has a timer 413 00:28:35,500 --> 00:28:40,500 function built in, and you can set your stream to, it can actually talk to a URL. 414 00:28:40,500 --> 00:28:45,500 You can say, hey, open up this application, so real player, open it up with this URL, 415 00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:50,500 which would be the URL for the most recent or at two o'clock whenever, you know, 416 00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:55,500 what is it, car talk or whatever show comes on. And it'll automatically record 417 00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:59,500 that right away to a file. And with a little bit of automation that could be 418 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:07,000 an Apple script or it could be Jake's DIR2RSS script, a whole bunch of different... 419 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:14,000 It would just auto upload that show and you could have this practically running in the background of any 420 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000 any modern day PC and 421 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,000 It would make a lot of people happy now. I'm not sure about the legalities of this of course 422 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,000 So let me just put that caveat caveat in there 423 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:31,000 But you know, maybe the NPR guys and gals will get a clue and start doing that for 424 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,000 All right time for a song of the day and there's a bit of a story that goes along with that 425 00:29:40,500 --> 00:29:42,500 After this is this song 426 00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:44,500 Of course he recently passed away 427 00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:46,500 In Montrose, Switzerland 428 00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:48,500 Well I met him 429 00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:50,500 About eleven years ago 430 00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:52,500 He's every kind of people 431 00:29:53,750 --> 00:32:36,250 [ Music ] 432 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,000 2004. 433 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,000 I hope the skipping isn't too bad. 434 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,000 I'll listen back to the show to see if most of it's on. 435 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,000 my outburst when the wrong song got queued up there. That was another problem because I 436 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:03,000 have this wonderful DJ 1800 deck player but if I want to play an excerpt from an audio book 437 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:08,000 I have to use iTunes because of the DRM. It won't play on anything else but iTunes or 438 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:13,000 on the iPod. But of course it was simple just play iTunes and just route the audio through 439 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:19,000 to Audio Hijack Pro you know so much for the DRM stuff. So Robert Palmer used to be 440 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:23,000 well this I think still every single year there's the Montrose Jazz Festival which 441 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:28,000 is held in Montrose Switzerland and it's a there's a big casino there and and 442 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:35,000 that's where the Rock Festival where the Jazz Festival is held and it used to 443 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:41,000 be back in the up until I think like 90 maybe 92 or 93 one or two weeks just 444 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:46,000 before the Jazz Festival would be the Montrose Rock Festival and that kind of 445 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:53,000 stem from a story that you know the song Deep Purple Smoke on the Water in fact 446 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:57,000 let me just consult iTunes while we're talking about it 447 00:33:55,500 --> 00:34:04,500 They were recording in a studio which at the time I believed belonged to Queen. 448 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:06,500 If not, it does now. 449 00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:09,500 Hold on, let's see if I have smoke on the water here. 450 00:34:09,500 --> 00:34:12,500 Just a quick search for smoke. 451 00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:15,500 Shoot, no, don't have. 452 00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:22,500 Anyway, the casino caught on fire while they were there recording in Montreux. 453 00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:25,500 If you listen to the lyrics and I'll have to get that tomorrow, it's just too much hassle 454 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:27,500 to try and download it while I'm... 455 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:35,000 The Lyricos see we all went down to Mantro yada yada yada smoke on the water 456 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:41,000 Fire in the sky because it was looking out over Lake Geneva and the smoke was coming from the casino over the water 457 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,000 Anyway, I digress and I apologize 458 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:52,000 So we were there with MTV and this must have been 88 or 89 and a lot of the big European acts would would be there 459 00:34:54,000 --> 00:35:00,000 and let's see Steve Wynwood was there and Robert Palmer who has a house there in Montrose, 460 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:05,000 Switzerland was also at the festival and I was interviewing them right right on the side 461 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,000 of Lake Geneva. 462 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,000 We had two chairs out kind of on the promenade and it was a beautiful sunny afternoon early 463 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:15,000 afternoon and we're chatting away and and you know the cameras have this video footage 464 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,000 somewhere the cameras really close up on him and he's telling me. 465 00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:21,500 Look at this bird here who's coming down. 466 00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:23,500 Hey, look at this bird. 467 00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:26,500 And so I turn the look and it's Patricia. 468 00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:28,500 And I say, yeah, that's my fiance. 469 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:31,500 And we have this perfect close up of Robert Palmer turning beat red. 470 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:33,500 It was fantastic. 471 00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:34,500 And of course we really do miss him. 472 00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:36,500 He passed away way too young. 473 00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:39,500 He was in his early 50s and we do miss Robert Palmer. 474 00:35:39,500 --> 00:35:41,500 And that's it for the source code for today. 475 00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:47,500 I'm going to go check the file, see if we have lots of skipage or if it's broadcastable 476 00:35:47,500 --> 00:35:49,500 or should I say podcastable. 477 00:35:49,500 --> 00:35:52,500 And I will be with you tomorrow for another... 478 00:35:54,000 --> 00:36:01,000 As always if you want to send a comment, keep an email me at imedcurry.com. 479 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:01,000 See you all next time. 480 00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:15,500 The power of your intelligence. 481 00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:17,500 DailySourceCode.com 482 00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:20,500 And of course you can subscribe to the feed. 483 00:36:20,500 --> 00:36:23,500 It's the iPod of VRSS 2.0 with enclosures. 484 00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:27,500 And DailySourceCode.com slash rss.xma. 485 00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:29,500 See you tomorrow. 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