WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:17.000 Hi everybody, it's the Source Code and today is September 7th, 2004. 00:17.000 --> 00:21.000 I'm Adam Curry and good evening or good morning or good afternoon wherever you're listening 00:21.000 --> 00:23.000 to the Source Code. 00:23.000 --> 00:26.000 Thanks for downloading, thanks for subscribing. 00:26.000 --> 00:31.000 Welcome to you today or this evening I should say from the bunker in Amsterdam. 00:31.000 --> 00:36.000 That's the house that we've had in the middle of the city for the past four years. 00:36.000 --> 00:44.000 We call it the bunker because it used to be a museum and it's completely fortified. 00:44.000 --> 00:49.000 It's got alarm systems up the yin yang, double enforced doors, bulletproof glass, all this 00:49.000 --> 00:51.000 crap. 00:51.000 --> 00:53.000 And Patricia and I are staying here tonight. 00:53.000 --> 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. 01:00.000 --> 01:01.000 We got up, let's see. 01:01.500 --> 01:06.500 I got up at six o'clock, which is still my time to rise, apparently. 01:06.500 --> 01:14.500 I still haven't gotten out of the morning show rhythm, I guess. 01:14.500 --> 01:15.500 I was going to say algorithm. 01:15.500 --> 01:18.500 I haven't gotten out of the morning show rhythm yet. 01:18.500 --> 01:25.500 And at 6.30 we have to get up to get Christina off to school properly anyway. 01:25.500 --> 01:33.500 And we had to drive for about an hour and 15 minutes to Grandmaster View today, which is 01:33.500 --> 01:38.500 a flat-screen company that I own a share in. 01:38.500 --> 01:43.500 I've been around since it's half inception. 01:43.500 --> 01:48.500 And it's actually, you should check it out, grandmasterview.com. 01:48.500 --> 01:50.500 And it should be coming to the States pretty soon. 01:50.500 --> 01:55.500 We're already in Germany, in Spain, in Italy, and of course the Netherlands and Belgium. 01:55.500 --> 01:57.500 Really huge flat screens. 01:57.500 --> 02:01.500 I'm talking like, what do we have? 02:01.500 --> 02:02.500 Two, I see the largest. 02:03.000 --> 02:07.000 stock model we make is two meters and 25 centimeters diagonally. 02:07.000 --> 02:09.000 So that's, what is that? 02:09.000 --> 02:10.000 That's about seven feet. 02:10.000 --> 02:12.000 So these are pretty big. 02:13.000 --> 02:16.000 And so just, you know, I try to get up there once a week 02:16.000 --> 02:18.000 and hang out with everyone. 02:18.000 --> 02:20.000 Basically, you know, production is running. 02:20.000 --> 02:21.000 So it's all marketing. 02:21.000 --> 02:26.000 And I am part of the whole marketing scheme. 02:26.000 --> 02:28.000 Everyone knows in Holland, Adam Curry, 02:28.000 --> 02:30.000 helicopters and flat screens. 02:30.000 --> 02:33.000 And after that, we went off to one of our partners. 02:33.000 --> 02:35.000 And Patricia, by the way, had never been up to Grand Master View. 02:35.000 --> 02:39.000 So it was really nice to show her that and I had a quick meeting. 02:39.000 --> 02:43.000 And then we went 15 minutes further up to Kuehlenburg, 02:43.000 --> 02:48.000 which is just around Utrecht in the middle of the Netherlands, 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 to a company called Design Concepts, 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 the one of our partners with Grand Master View. 02:52.000 --> 02:54.000 What they do is they do these really beautiful frames 02:54.000 --> 02:57.000 around our flat screens and do them in leather 02:57.000 --> 03:00.000 and different types of material. 03:00.000 --> 03:03.000 And they have a showroom where they're selling their furniture. 03:03.000 --> 03:04.000 And they have... 03:04.500 --> 03:08.500 at least five different setups where they have the living room setups. 03:08.500 --> 03:11.500 Only now they have it in addition to a beautiful living room. 03:11.500 --> 03:17.500 They also have one of our screens custom designed to fit that particular style. 03:17.500 --> 03:21.500 So Patricia and I checked that out and I think we probably bought a couch or something. 03:21.500 --> 03:22.500 I'm not sure. 03:22.500 --> 03:25.500 She saw something she liked a lot, but it was really cool. 03:25.500 --> 03:29.500 And I think that's a great way to combine two different products. 03:29.500 --> 03:33.500 And it's working because we actually have one of our salespeople sitting there in 03:33.500 --> 03:35.500 the in the design concept store. 03:35.500 --> 03:39.500 You can check out design concepts at design concepts dot NL. 03:39.500 --> 03:42.500 So let's see that got us back. 03:45.500 --> 03:50.500 No, after that, then I had to go off to see the accountants for our quarterly sit down. 03:50.500 --> 03:53.500 Most of you are rolling your eyes and going, you know, accountants, tax lawyers, 03:53.500 --> 03:56.500 whatever, I actually enjoy it. 03:56.500 --> 03:59.500 There's nothing better than having your accountants and your lawyers and your 03:59.500 --> 04:02.500 tax lawyers all at the table and knowing that each one of those guys 04:02.500 --> 04:04.500 is charging you three to four hundred dollars an hour. 04:04.500 --> 04:05.500 So I just make the. 04:06.000 --> 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 04:11.000 --> 04:17.000 a pretty good time. I don't mind it. They're supposed to be saving me and helping me and 04:17.000 --> 04:23.000 usually they do. At least I think I've found a team that's pretty damn good. And that 04:23.000 --> 04:27.000 took obviously took quite a while and then by the time I got home it was time for Patricia 04:27.000 --> 04:31.000 and I to go grab a bite to eat and then of course I passed out on the couch. I 04:31.000 --> 04:35.000 think Patricia might have passed out as well. We both kind of a woke around 9 04:35.000 --> 04:39.000 o'clock this evening I said well guess what you know I want to go record the 04:39.000 --> 04:42.000 source source code and I hadn't had a chance to crack my computer all day 04:42.000 --> 04:47.000 since we left the house. Man I hate that so much you know there's so much email 04:47.000 --> 04:50.000 that's come in that I just can't even start to look at right now I'm just too 04:50.000 --> 04:56.000 tired to do it. There's all kinds of things that need my attention and 04:56.000 --> 05:01.000 that's oh man. And of course I don't even know if there's more any audio 05:01.000 --> 05:05.000 stuff that's come down the pipe. Luckily tomorrow we're driving home. I'll have a 05:05.000 --> 05:09.000 chance to catch up on any program. 05:07.500 --> 05:09.500 that I may have missed. 05:09.500 --> 05:12.500 Let's see, so I do want to talk a little bit about... 05:12.500 --> 05:17.500 Let's see about iPodder. I had a couple of updates there. 05:17.500 --> 05:20.500 What did I have? Oh yeah. 05:20.500 --> 05:22.500 Looks like we have two new versions coming up, 05:22.500 --> 05:24.500 and tomorrow I'll know for sure, 05:24.500 --> 05:27.500 and by tomorrow night I'll have updated ipodder.org. 05:27.500 --> 05:32.500 I saw on my email just a brief scan that there is now a Java version of iPodder, 05:32.500 --> 05:34.500 and there's also a Coco version, 05:34.500 --> 05:40.500 which is I believe the Mac OS X native scripting or programming environment. 05:40.500 --> 05:44.500 I'm not too sure, but I will be checking out both of those programs 05:44.500 --> 05:47.500 and putting them up in the directory as appropriate. 05:47.500 --> 05:50.500 If you know of any feeds, please let me know, 05:50.500 --> 05:57.500 because I'd love to add something to the MP3 RSS directory feed, 05:57.500 --> 06:02.500 so people can subscribe to that with their MP3 devices. 06:02.500 --> 06:06.500 Also got some feedback on using the metadata, 06:06.500 --> 06:09.500 which is a big word for all the information you're stuffing. 06:09.000 --> 06:15.000 to a file that you send along. Basically, that's the stuff that when you play the source code 06:15.000 --> 06:20.000 on your MP3 player or in iTunes or whatever you're playing it on, that's why it actually, 06:20.000 --> 06:24.000 instead of just giving you a file name, it says source code, Adam Curry, and then it 06:24.000 --> 06:31.000 may have a date. It may show you a genre which should be speech track one of one. 06:31.000 --> 06:35.000 And then maybe like the past two or three shows, I've actually put a subtitle for 06:35.000 --> 06:41.000 the show in there. And so that should run across your display of your MP3 player. 06:41.000 --> 06:48.000 And on the iPod specifically, I started off with the title is source code and then 06:48.000 --> 06:55.000 the date and I spell it full out. So it's source code September 7th 2004. 06:55.000 --> 07:01.000 Apparently when you're in the playlist menu and you're browsing through 07:01.000 --> 07:06.000 different shows, you only really get up to like half of the name of the month. 07:06.000 --> 07:09.000 So it's source code August or source code September. 07:10.500 --> 07:14.500 Clearly not handy when searching for a particular title. 07:14.500 --> 07:16.500 So I got to figure out what I'm going to do to change this. 07:16.500 --> 07:23.500 I don't know if I want to put the date first and make it a seemingly easier to parse date. 07:23.500 --> 07:30.500 So for today, should it be 09072004, source code? 07:30.500 --> 07:32.500 Or I don't know. 07:32.500 --> 07:39.500 But clearly the way I'm doing it is not making it very easy to archive and browse in iPod 07:39.500 --> 07:40.500 and playlists. 07:40.500 --> 07:43.500 So duly noted, let's see who did I get this email from. 07:43.500 --> 07:48.500 This was from Paul Pilots. 07:48.500 --> 07:52.500 And I will definitely work on some kind of naming convention that works a little bit better 07:52.500 --> 07:56.500 on the iPod and I guess presumably on other MP3 devices. 07:56.500 --> 08:00.500 And please, if you're subscribing to the source code and you have iPod are running through 08:00.500 --> 08:06.500 Windows Media Player on any other device other than the iPod, please let me know. 08:06.500 --> 08:10.500 I'd love to know people using it that way as well because the reason I'm sitting here at 08:10.500 --> 08:11.500 5 to 10 in the evening. 08:12.000 --> 08:15.000 because I'm getting a lot of feedback and I'm getting a lot of people are 08:15.000 --> 08:18.000 listening to the source code also 08:21.000 --> 08:24.000 So, you know, it seems like stuff's working. 08:24.000 --> 08:28.000 Okay, now I had promised you something yesterday, 08:28.000 --> 08:32.000 which I'm now going to bring up. 08:32.000 --> 08:33.000 It's a real clip. 08:33.000 --> 08:38.000 So I'm mixing all different kinds of media here today. 08:38.000 --> 08:41.000 I remember I told you, I was discussing, 08:41.000 --> 08:44.000 I was discussing, oh, the big DJ voice. 08:44.000 --> 08:46.000 I think it was where, you know, 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 DJs always have to talk really loud 08:48.000 --> 08:49.000 and have to really enunciate everything 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 and they're hitting on it, punch and make it sound 08:51.000 --> 08:54.000 like you're hitting home when you're talking to that listener. 08:54.000 --> 09:00.000 Now, a lot of people do this. 09:00.000 --> 09:03.000 And a lot of people record their shows, 09:03.000 --> 09:04.000 pre-record their shows. 09:04.000 --> 09:05.000 I'd like to do it direct to tape 09:05.000 --> 09:08.000 or direct to MP3, as it were in this case. 09:08.000 --> 09:11.000 Casey Kasem, we've probably heard used, 09:11.000 --> 09:15.000 I guess, I don't know if he still does the American 09:15.000 --> 09:16.000 top 30 countdown, what is it? 09:16.000 --> 09:20.000 The American or the Casey Kasem's top 40. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 He probably still does that show, it's syndicated. 09:22.500 --> 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 09:27.500 --> 09:30.500 He does something called the long-distance dedication and it's someone 09:31.500 --> 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 09:36.500 --> 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 09:44.500 --> 09:46.500 Well, so it's so early 80s 09:46.500 --> 09:48.500 well at one point 09:48.500 --> 09:54.500 You hear the real Casey Kasem as I'm I'm confident I've only met a couple times 09:54.500 --> 09:58.500 But I'm confident this is exactly the way he can be if he's extremely pissed off 09:58.500 --> 10:04.500 Certainly at the height of his Casey Kasem days when people would run around do anything for him because he was 10:05.500 --> 10:07.500 Mr. Casey Kasem, Mr. Countdown on the radio 10:08.500 --> 10:13.500 Check it out this little bit where Casey Kasem told hi. This is Casey Kasem 10:13.500 --> 10:15.500 American top 40 has moved to a new time 10:15.500 --> 10:20.500 I hope you'll join me this Saturday morning at every Saturday morning at 2 to 10:20.500 --> 10:23.500 Okay, so there you go American top 40 10:24.000 --> 10:27.000 Now listen to the dedication and listen to Casey lose it on this one. 10:27.000 --> 10:30.000 Now we're up to our long-distance dedication. 10:30.000 --> 10:35.000 And this one is about kids and pets and a situation that we can all understand. 10:35.000 --> 10:37.000 Whether we have kids or pets or neither. 10:37.000 --> 10:40.000 It's from a man in Cincinnati, Ohio. 10:40.000 --> 10:41.000 And here's what he writes. 10:41.000 --> 10:46.000 Dear Casey, this may seem to be a strange dedication request, but I'm quite sincere 10:46.000 --> 10:49.000 and it'll meet a lot if you play it. 10:49.000 --> 10:51.000 Recently there was a death in our family. 10:51.000 --> 10:55.000 He was a little dog named Snuggles, but he was most certainly a part of... 10:55.000 --> 10:57.000 Let's come start again. 10:57.000 --> 10:58.000 I'm coming out of the record. 10:58.000 --> 10:59.000 Play the record, okay? 11:01.500 --> 11:01.500 Please. 11:06.000 --> 11:10.000 See when you come out of those up-tempo goddamn numbers man, it's impossible to make those transitions 11:10.000 --> 11:15.000 And then you got to go into somebody dying. You know they do this to me all the time 11:15.000 --> 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 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 I don't understand it is down on the phone 11:21.000 --> 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 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 I do a goddamn death dedication 11:30.000 --> 11:35.000 Now make it and I also want to know what happened to the pictures I was supposed to see this week 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 It's a god last goddamn time 11:38.000 --> 11:42.000 I want somebody uses fucking brain to not come out of a goddamn record 11:42.000 --> 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 11:50.000 --> 11:52.000 Ponderous fucking ponderous 11:53.000 --> 11:55.000 Ponderous 11:55.000 --> 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 12:01.000 --> 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 12:07.500 --> 12:10.500 fucking dead dog dedication. Perfect radio history moment. 12:10.500 --> 12:14.500 Now let me take you right into a song because it's our song of the day I felt like playing 12:14.500 --> 12:19.500 something by the motel so sit back and enjoy. Only the lonely. 12:21.250 --> 15:01.250 [ Music ] 15:04.500 --> 15:07.500 You're early 80s, huh? 15:07.500 --> 15:14.500 The motels, only this summer on your daily source code live from Amsterdam, coming to 15:14.500 --> 15:18.500 you from the bunker on the Emperor's Canal. 15:18.500 --> 15:20.500 I'm going to leave you with one final thought. 15:20.500 --> 15:23.500 As I said today was going to be rather short just because it was so hectic and so much 15:23.500 --> 15:29.500 to do and I haven't really had a chance to even look at my aggregator really barely. 15:29.500 --> 15:33.500 I was reading a Q&A with Bill Gates. 15:33.500 --> 15:35.500 I think Dave Weiner pointed to it. 15:35.500 --> 15:40.500 And at one point, and it's obviously talking about competing devices with the iPod 15:40.500 --> 15:46.500 and with iTunes and their competing service with the service that will 15:46.500 --> 15:48.500 compete against the iTunes music store. 15:48.500 --> 15:51.500 And here's the quote that Bill Gates gave says, 15:51.500 --> 15:56.500 but the work we've done with these device manufacturers to get them to build 15:56.500 --> 15:59.500 support for subscription music in. 15:59.500 --> 16:00.500 That's a big contribution. 16:00.500 --> 16:05.500 It's kind of a weird sentence, but basically what he's saying that with Windows Media Player. 16:06.000 --> 16:12.000 The work that Microsoft has done to get them to build in support for subscription music has been a big contribution. 16:12.000 --> 16:16.000 I'm thinking, you know, subscription, this is exactly the stuff we're doing. 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 This is real subscription stuff. 16:18.000 --> 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? 16:25.000 --> 16:27.000 Stop focusing just on music. 16:27.000 --> 16:30.000 These things can be used for a hell of a lot more than just music. 16:30.000 --> 16:34.000 Pure transfer of information, data, you know, just like the source code. 16:34.000 --> 16:38.000 But it is good that they've got that subscription all built in. 16:38.000 --> 16:41.000 Anyway, that's it for the source code for today. 16:41.000 --> 16:46.000 I'm going to hit the hay tomorrow's reasonably easy day for me. 16:46.000 --> 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 16:51.000 --> 16:54.000 to do a Dutch version of, I think it's the Apprentice. 16:54.000 --> 16:57.000 Well, that would be nice if we could rent this place out. 16:57.000 --> 16:59.000 And pretty soon we're going to be looking for new digs in the UK. 16:59.000 --> 17:02.000 So I'll keep you up to speed on that when we meet again tomorrow. 17:02.000 --> 17:04.000 On the source code. 17:04.000 --> 17:05.000 Take care everybody. 17:05.000 --> 17:07.000 The power. 17:07.500 --> 17:16.500 And of course, if you want to respond, send email to adamantcurry.com or leave a comment 17:16.500 --> 17:17.500 on my weblog, live. 17:19.500 --> 17:29.500 The power of your intelligence.