WEBVTT 00:12.000 --> 00:25.000 Well hello, welcome to the socials code for Tuesday, September 20th. 00:48.000 --> 00:49.000 and Brussels is... 01:03.000 --> 01:08.000 And then I've got most of the audio stuff all worked out and I only have let's see 01:08.000 --> 01:12.000 Five external boxes have to carry around with me in addition to my laptop 01:12.000 --> 01:16.000 But I want to record something it's still pretty mobile. I had to take two trips because we're 01:18.000 --> 01:21.000 stairs in what I'd call the deadest room in the world. 01:24.000 --> 01:26.000 Yeah, dead. There's no echo. 01:27.000 --> 01:31.000 I just wanted to try it and see if a different sound would put me in a different mood or 01:31.000 --> 01:34.000 give you a different vibe when listening to the show. 01:34.000 --> 01:39.000 And also it has an added advantage of being directly above the bar area where the wifi 01:39.000 --> 01:44.000 setup is so I have 100% full signal because it's just beaming right up through the 01:44.000 --> 01:45.000 floor. 01:45.000 --> 01:49.000 So this is the source code we use as a developer's party together again Tuesday, September 01:49.000 --> 01:49.000 21st. 01:55.500 --> 02:00.500 I have a speaking gig tomorrow and I still have to prepare and think about what I'm going 02:00.500 --> 02:01.500 to talk about. 02:01.500 --> 02:02.500 Although you can bet it's going to be a lot about. 02:04.500 --> 02:10.500 And what we're doing is something that a lot of folks now are calling podcasting. 02:10.500 --> 02:12.500 I picked it up from Dave Slusher. 02:12.500 --> 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 02:18.500 --> 02:23.500 refers in his refer log for podcasting.net. 02:23.500 --> 02:32.500 And on the iPod developer list, an email showed up from Danny Gregory or Gregoir, I think it is. 02:32.500 --> 02:37.500 He says, wow, I got back from Weekend Away to find podcasting mentioned in both Dave and Adam's show. 02:37.500 --> 02:40.500 I conjured up the term while writing a post to this list last week. 02:40.500 --> 02:42.500 Then after good night's sleep, it struck me. 02:42.500 --> 02:45.500 Check to see if any of the names were available. 02:45.500 --> 02:47.500 They were, so he registered it. 02:47.500 --> 02:50.500 And I'm glad he chose podcasting.net. 02:50.500 --> 02:56.500 Instead of his original thought, he had named it episode. 02:56.500 --> 03:01.500 And then the I and the P and the I and the O and the D are all uppercase. 03:01.500 --> 03:06.500 Right. Okay. I think podcasting.net. 03:06.000 --> 03:10.000 is fantastic so props out to Danny for coming up with that. 03:10.000 --> 03:14.000 Couple of things that I've run into as we're learning more and more about how to do these 03:14.000 --> 03:16.000 shows and what setup is needed and... 03:18.000 --> 03:22.000 Doing that through iPod er. Oh, you know, I gotta blow my nose hold on a second 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 Now that I have this different setup 03:26.000 --> 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 03:31.000 --> 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 03:39.000 --> 03:41.000 Who wants to hear this? 03:42.000 --> 03:44.000 shoot 03:45.000 --> 03:46.000 Okay 03:46.000 --> 03:50.000 We need to have some nose blowing music then so you don't have to listen to me 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 Snottering and snooting away 03:53.000 --> 03:54.000 Okay 03:54.000 --> 03:56.000 Let me get back here 03:56.000 --> 03:58.000 Plugging the headphones again. Okay 03:59.000 --> 04:05.000 One of the advantages of iTunes is it's always kind of right there. Let's see 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 About some dialing music, what do we have? 04:13.000 --> 04:15.000 Not dialing music. We want some nose blowing music 04:15.000 --> 04:18.000 Anything under. Oh, I know we'll get 04:21.000 --> 04:22.000 Ah, got a song for ya. 04:25.500 --> 04:26.500 Uhhhh... 04:26.500 --> 04:28.500 Okay, I'll play this song. 04:28.500 --> 04:29.500 Psst! 04:29.500 --> 04:31.500 I'm gonna go blow my nose. I'll be right back. 04:33.750 --> 04:45.000 [ Music ] 04:45.000 --> 04:53.000 She wanders through the world But something's wrong with her 04:53.000 --> 04:54.000 She wanders through the world But something's wrong with her 04:57.000 --> 05:02.000 better. There we go. A little bit of Mo Jones there, how the wind blows. Okay, so 05:02.000 --> 05:06.000 I've been getting a lot of comments about the size of the files. Now I've never 05:06.000 --> 05:11.000 really paid much attention to the actual file sizes because 05:11.000 --> 05:16.000 the whole point is that you can have these massive files that are 05:16.000 --> 05:19.000 going to be downloaded overnight, presumably, although it seems like people 05:19.000 --> 05:24.000 are still using these news aggregators and checking every single hour for 05:24.000 --> 05:31.000 new updated shows. But there is a lot to be said for the size and 05:31.000 --> 05:36.000 we might as well, yeah, we're gonna have to deal with this stuff. We're gonna have to 05:36.000 --> 05:41.000 deal with bandwidth and file storage. So we might as well do it as much as we 05:41.000 --> 05:47.000 can right now. And let's see, I have some notes about this particular topic. 05:48.000 --> 05:57.000 See, yeah, so I always thought that I should just record, you know, stereo 16 bits and I 05:57.000 --> 06:00.000 chose 96. 05:58.500 --> 06:03.500 What is that 96 kilobits as my sample rate? 06:03.500 --> 06:07.500 And now I got berated by a couple people over email saying, you know, how come you don't 06:07.500 --> 06:09.500 use VBR, which is variable bit rate? 06:09.500 --> 06:13.500 And I really don't know what VBR does or what the best quality is. 06:13.500 --> 06:14.500 I just, I want to, you know, I want it to sound great. 06:14.500 --> 06:20.500 I want the, if I'm playing an MP3, I want it to sound like an MP3 on your iPod. 06:20.500 --> 06:25.500 I don't want it to sound like God forbid like some audio books I've purchased in recent 06:25.500 --> 06:26.500 history. 06:26.500 --> 06:30.500 So if, you know, if we want to get a conversation started about that, if anyone has any 06:30.500 --> 06:34.500 pointers to what can best be used, you know, what is, what is going to be appropriate? 06:34.500 --> 06:38.500 Now, granted, if you're only using, if you're only doing voice, then you may be able to 06:38.500 --> 06:40.500 get away with a much lower quality setting. 06:40.500 --> 06:43.500 But still, you know, just think about the audience. 06:43.500 --> 06:46.500 They're driving there in their car and they're checking out the zapping through the playlist 06:46.500 --> 06:49.500 and all of a sudden it's like you're switching from FM to AM. 06:49.500 --> 06:52.500 So, you know, and that's not always a pleasurable experience. 06:52.500 --> 06:53.500 Although you don't get used to almost 06:55.500 --> 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. 07:00.500 --> 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 07:07.500 --> 07:09.500 But if you have a long 07:09.500 --> 07:10.500 title 07:10.500 --> 07:14.500 It doesn't scroll or in the in the playlist 07:14.500 --> 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 07:20.500 --> 07:24.500 You know, you just you can't scroll to the whichever episodes you want because you 07:25.500 --> 07:29.500 Literally can't see it in the playlist on the iPod, which I do consider it to be a bug. So 07:31.500 --> 07:33.500 Even though I hate doing this I 07:34.500 --> 07:37.500 shortened up the daily source code, which is how I titled all of my 07:38.500 --> 07:42.500 All of my shows the file names were daily source code 07:43.500 --> 07:45.500 Dash and then a date structure dot mp3 07:46.500 --> 07:49.500 and I shortened that to DSC and 07:49.500 --> 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 07:57.000 --> 07:59.000 standards and 08:03.000 --> 08:06.000 And I think that I'm gonna go with the European Convention, 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 which makes the most sense to me since, you know, 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 you can kind of parse it logically 08:10.000 --> 08:14.000 once you've taken a look at it, which is it'll be DSC-, 08:14.000 --> 08:19.000 then it'll be the year 2004- the month- the day. 08:20.000 --> 08:21.000 That way there can be no confusion 08:21.000 --> 08:23.000 because you're going in descending order. 08:23.000 --> 08:27.000 Whereas if you do it, if you do date or month 08:27.000 --> 08:29.000 at the beginning, then Europeans and Americans 08:29.000 --> 08:33.000 will be confused if there's a month and day 08:33.000 --> 08:35.000 or both under 12. 08:35.000 --> 08:37.000 So that's what I'm gonna stick with for now. 08:37.000 --> 08:39.000 And I'm sure lots of people have other opinions, 08:39.000 --> 08:44.000 but it's almost majority rules with what I've heard. 08:45.000 --> 08:47.000 Another thing that I was asked, let me see, 08:47.000 --> 08:52.000 there was an email that I got from a source code listener 08:52.000 --> 08:53.000 in New Zealand. 08:55.500 --> 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 09:02.500 --> 09:08.500 Wow sounds all of a sudden like it all the stuff is dropping out is that the box here 09:10.500 --> 09:14.500 Uh-oh. Let me just pause this for one second, see what's going on. 09:14.500 --> 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. 09:29.500 --> 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. 09:48.500 --> 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. 10:01.500 --> 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. 10:12.000 --> 10:15.000 and on the website, dailysourcecode.com. 10:15.000 --> 10:17.000 So you can decide if you want to download or not. 10:17.000 --> 10:21.000 But like for instance, yesterday, the album title 10:21.000 --> 10:23.000 that I used, the album title tag, 10:23.000 --> 10:27.000 it in, birds singing, you know, so what does that mean? 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 So, you know, that may or may not be a good way 10:30.000 --> 10:33.000 to make a decision if you're gonna download something 10:33.000 --> 10:35.000 or not, but I'm gonna do that 10:35.000 --> 10:36.000 because it does seem like it's worth it. 10:36.000 --> 10:39.000 And also, you know, for my own good, 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 and probably if you're listening, 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 if you're going back through an archive, 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 you can say, wait a minute, what show was that? 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 It was the show where he went outside 10:46.000 --> 10:47.000 and the birds were singing, you know, 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 if you see birds singing, you'll remember that. 10:49.000 --> 10:50.000 So. 10:51.000 --> 10:56.000 helpful because there's a lot of ground that we cover in the show. Which brings me to another 10:56.000 --> 11:05.000 request which plenty of people have been talking about is providing resource links. And Steve 11:05.000 --> 11:11.000 Ivy and I actually did post a link to his thoughts about this. It's cutting out again. 11:11.000 --> 11:17.000 I hope it's going to, I hope it holds out. Steve Ivy posted an idea how we could automate 11:17.000 --> 11:24.000 this and this is really weird. This is not, this should not be doing this. I have a feeling that 11:24.000 --> 11:30.000 something, some application is open that's dragging stuff down, but I can't really see, 11:30.000 --> 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 11:38.000 --> 11:43.000 to, you know, put up a little file with each posting saying, oh, here's all the links I 11:43.000 --> 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, 11:47.000 --> 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 11:51.000 --> 11:52.000 I'm talking about it? 11:52.500 --> 11:53.500 We don't have a production assistant. 11:53.500 --> 11:55.500 There are no production assistants. 12:03.000 --> 12:06.000 someone and there's a weblog URL associated with each person there. 12:06.000 --> 12:14.000 So that may be tough unless you put something together where maybe as you're talking, if 12:14.000 --> 12:25.000 you drag a bookmark onto a folder or something, it would set a tag and also record the time. 12:25.000 --> 12:26.000 Something like that. 12:26.000 --> 12:30.000 I mean, again, the only reason I'm not doing this, I'm just too lazy to listen to the 12:30.000 --> 12:32.000 whole show again and jot everything down. 12:32.000 --> 12:34.000 Maybe in the future. 12:34.000 --> 12:39.000 But there may be some technological things that we can do together and that we can 12:39.000 --> 12:42.000 create that will actually make some of that happen all by itself. 12:42.000 --> 12:46.000 But check out that link to Steve Ivy's thoughts on that. 12:46.000 --> 12:50.000 And again, that's from my weblog live.curry.com. 12:51.000 --> 12:55.000 And it's just a beautiful day on the iPod or developers list, which you can find 12:55.000 --> 13:01.000 a Yahoo groups after yesterday's source code where I said, you know, 13:01.000 --> 13:04.000 actually, I gave a little review of iPod or X, which is, you know, 13:04.500 --> 13:07.500 Oh, these guys are getting so close to what I think is the perfect. 13:10.500 --> 13:13.500 Today we're drinking a Schweppes bitter lemon straight from the bottle. 13:13.500 --> 13:16.500 So anyway, iPodRx is great. 13:16.500 --> 13:17.500 There's no installation. 13:17.500 --> 13:23.500 You just double click it, opens up, and it has... 13:23.500 --> 13:25.500 Wait a minute, that was... 13:25.500 --> 13:28.500 I'm sorry, I'm gonna say yesterday was iSpider. 13:28.500 --> 13:29.500 Today is iPodRx. 13:29.500 --> 13:33.500 So iSpider was really happy about because of the install process. 13:33.500 --> 13:36.500 Now iPodRx came out, which I pointed to today. 13:36.500 --> 13:37.500 And this is not something you install. 13:37.500 --> 13:41.500 It's an application and you launch it and then it shows up and it's real simple. 13:41.500 --> 13:43.500 How often do you want to check? 13:43.500 --> 13:46.500 What feeds are we checking? 13:46.500 --> 13:50.500 And it shoves everything over to your iPod. 13:50.500 --> 13:52.500 It doesn't tell you or give you an update. 13:54.000 --> 13:57.000 where all the new stuff is downloaded to. 13:57.000 --> 14:00.000 But that's just a simple little feature that can be put in. 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 And it understands bit torrents. 14:02.000 --> 14:05.000 And I presume that since it's Python, 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 that it's also cross-platform. 14:07.000 --> 14:11.000 And I saw someone else working on a GUI for Windows. 14:11.000 --> 14:12.000 So we're getting really close. 14:12.000 --> 14:15.000 But what was so beautiful is that, 14:15.000 --> 14:16.000 and this did happen off-list. 14:16.000 --> 14:19.000 And I've asked these guys, when they're ready to go back 14:20.000 --> 14:22.000 is that as far as I can tell, 14:22.000 --> 14:27.000 iSpider, PyPotter, and iPotterX are going to join forces 14:27.000 --> 14:29.000 and create one single application. 14:29.000 --> 14:30.000 Because it was great to see this. 14:30.000 --> 14:32.000 It's like the iSpider guy said, 14:32.000 --> 14:33.000 hey, this is really cool. 14:33.000 --> 14:36.000 Would you mind sharing the code of iPotterX? 14:36.000 --> 14:37.000 And then they all got together 14:37.000 --> 14:40.000 and they did include me on the conversation. 14:40.000 --> 14:41.000 And I'm so excited. 14:41.000 --> 14:44.000 This is so wonderful to see this happen. 14:44.000 --> 14:47.000 And I think that we'll be pretty much done 14:47.000 --> 14:51.000 with the iPotter, with the basic core elements, 14:51.000 --> 14:53.000 at least from a Mac OSX perspective, 14:53.000 --> 14:55.000 and considering it's Python underneath. 14:55.500 --> 14:58.500 which you'll be able to get the Windows gooey up pretty soon. 14:58.500 --> 14:59.500 I think that we're gonna be set. 14:59.500 --> 15:02.500 In the iPodRex, I just wanted to mention, 15:02.500 --> 15:03.500 it doesn't install anything, 15:03.500 --> 15:07.500 so it doesn't actually put a system level cron job in 15:07.500 --> 15:10.500 or anything, but what's nice about it is 15:10.500 --> 15:13.500 it's, they've tricked out the application, 15:13.500 --> 15:16.500 so you launch it and then it goes away, it hides itself. 15:16.500 --> 15:18.500 If you click on the application again, 15:18.500 --> 15:20.500 it'll bring up the window, 15:20.500 --> 15:22.500 and the minute you hit another window, 15:22.500 --> 15:24.500 or it's just gone, it disappears. 15:24.500 --> 15:26.500 So it kinda gives the illusion that it's 15:28.500 --> 15:32.500 running there and I think a lot of people do like the idea of being able to say, hey, 15:32.500 --> 15:37.500 I don't want to run you anymore because you're crunching my bandwidth or whatever and then 15:37.500 --> 15:39.500 just quit the application. 15:39.500 --> 15:44.500 So real simple to set up in your startup items, which I think a lot of people can't 15:44.500 --> 15:49.500 have figured out how to do that and if not, it's real simple to keep it in your dock 15:49.500 --> 15:50.500 and just to open it up. 15:50.500 --> 15:58.500 So kudos to the iSpider, the Pi Potter and the iPodRx teams who are now working together 15:58.500 --> 16:04.500 and I think they're going to cope with something absolutely phenomenal. 16:04.500 --> 16:08.500 Cruising through my subscription, some stuff that came in today, I know that yesterday I 16:08.500 --> 16:18.500 played you a bit of Raster Web Audio and there is a name behind this genius behind Raster 16:18.500 --> 16:29.500 Web and that is Paul Pete Produl and he has a weblog at RasterWeb.net. 16:30.000 --> 16:33.000 So yesterday you had this joke about a pole and a bar, 16:33.000 --> 16:35.000 and today there was a follow up that came in. 16:35.000 --> 16:39.000 This is Raster Web Jokey for whatever day it is. 16:39.000 --> 16:42.000 So a guy walks into a pole and the stripper says, 16:42.000 --> 16:43.000 hey, do you mind? 16:43.000 --> 16:44.000 I'm trying to use this pole. 16:44.000 --> 16:48.000 I mean, do I come to where you work and get on your desk? 16:48.000 --> 16:49.000 Thank you and good night. 16:49.000 --> 16:51.000 Ha ha ha. 16:51.000 --> 16:56.000 And there was another file attached to it. 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 It actually was a separate file. 16:58.000 --> 16:59.000 I'm just going to play that one as well, 16:59.000 --> 17:00.000 because it's a different joke. 17:00.000 --> 17:03.000 And then I want to talk about this concept. 17:03.000 --> 17:09.000 Welcome to Raster Web Audio for the 21st of September, 2004. 17:09.000 --> 17:12.000 I got home late tonight, so I'm making a pizza real quick. 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 And I looked at the cooking instructions. 17:14.000 --> 17:19.000 The first instruction, do not eat pizza without cooking. 17:19.000 --> 17:22.000 So upon reading that, I immediately stopped eating it. 17:22.000 --> 17:26.000 The second thing it says is, do not allow pizza to thaw. 17:26.000 --> 17:29.000 Now I wasn't sure how to put it in the oven and bake it 17:29.000 --> 17:32.000 without having it thaw from the heat. 17:31.500 --> 17:34.500 So I'm not quite sure what to do now. 17:34.500 --> 17:38.500 I think I'm probably just going to eat the instructions and then call it a day. 17:38.500 --> 17:39.500 So that's about it. 17:39.500 --> 17:42.500 Thank you and good night. 17:42.500 --> 17:44.500 Thank you and good night. 17:44.500 --> 17:52.500 And as I was laughing about these jokes or comedy bits, I was thinking, this is so valid. 17:52.500 --> 17:58.500 If I have a playlist of stuff that I'm listening to, which usually is just my what's new playlist, 17:58.500 --> 18:01.500 any new audio posts or shows that come in are in one. 18:03.000 --> 18:04.000 on the iPod through i... 18:06.000 --> 18:10.000 smart playlist, then you can say, okay, it has to be speech or anything containing these 18:10.000 --> 18:17.000 words or this phrase or anything new in this playlist that hasn't been played before. 18:17.000 --> 18:22.000 Now there's all different Boolean parameters you can set up and I'm thinking, this is 18:22.000 --> 18:23.000 so great. 18:23.000 --> 18:28.000 I could be listening to morning coffee notes, then in between as the playlist continues, 18:28.000 --> 18:34.000 I could get a joke of the day, then it could go to evil genius chronicles, then 18:34.000 --> 18:40.000 maybe I'd get a stock analysis and this could be a minute, it could be 15 seconds, 18:40.000 --> 18:40.000 it could be a... 18:45.000 --> 18:50.000 So anyone out there was thinking, you know, damn, I can't really, you know, this is too 18:50.000 --> 18:55.000 much for me to do an entire show and just talk into space that could be complicated. 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 You know, damn, this is pretty exciting. 18:57.000 --> 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 19:01.000 --> 19:02.000 to set it up for you. 19:04.500 --> 19:06.500 I can actually I can see here 19:09.000 --> 19:17.000 And the recording is perhaps skipping, so hopefully it didn't skip too much on the recording. 19:17.000 --> 19:18.000 Alright. 19:18.000 --> 19:23.000 On my web blog I often post a quote of the day and actually I have a category set up 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 for it which is QOTD. 19:25.000 --> 19:30.000 And I said, you know, why don't I just create a feed, an RSS 2.0 with enclosures feed or 19:30.000 --> 19:33.000 an iPod or feed as I'll call it from now on. 19:33.000 --> 19:37.000 And just a duo spoken quote so you know you can add that to your playlist of stuff 19:37.000 --> 19:38.000 you listen to every single day. 19:38.000 --> 19:40.000 And I'm going to play you today's quote. 19:40.000 --> 19:46.000 The most likely way for the world to be destroyed most experts agree is by accident. 19:46.000 --> 19:47.000 That's where we come in. 19:47.000 --> 19:49.000 We're computer professionals. 19:49.000 --> 19:51.000 We cause accidents. 19:51.000 --> 19:54.000 Nathaniel Bornstein. 19:54.000 --> 19:55.000 There you go. 19:55.000 --> 20:00.000 So if you're out there and you just want to add some little thing to the mix, 20:00.000 --> 20:01.000 it doesn't have to be a general topic. 20:01.000 --> 20:04.000 It could be the weather in Montclair, New Jersey. 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 You know, it could be all kinds of things. 20:06.000 --> 20:10.000 And it could be really short, which will be a great way to kind of get your feet wet. 20:10.500 --> 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 20:16.500 --> 20:19.500 Create scripts that will you know build special? 20:19.500 --> 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 20:26.500 --> 20:29.500 About the iPod and iPod platform 20:29.500 --> 20:34.500 It's Tevo for mp3 right on now an audiobook review 20:34.500 --> 20:38.500 it's been about a week since I've last did one and 20:40.500 --> 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 20:46.500 --> 20:50.500 I still have snow crashed the unabridged version, which is about 20:50.500 --> 20:54.500 17 hours altogether and I haven't started that one yet 20:54.500 --> 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 21:02.500 --> 21:04.500 And so I went to my favorite section 21:05.500 --> 21:07.500 Which is the staff? 21:07.500 --> 21:08.500 tips and 21:08.500 --> 21:10.500 So there's the entire staff of audible 21:12.000 --> 21:17.000 is it staff tips or staff picks? Let me see. Staff picks, right. And I'm scrolling down 21:17.000 --> 21:22.000 and they have little pictures of the staff next to their their picks. And I stop at this 21:22.000 --> 21:30.000 one guy. His name is Brian. And he is the executive VP of content. And I'm like, okay, you know, 21:30.000 --> 21:34.000 so clearly this is the guy who's, I guess the buck stops with him as it comes to, 21:34.000 --> 21:38.000 you know, what content is put on. I don't know if that's, you know, what books are 21:38.000 --> 21:44.000 in there or or the content management system or I just don't know. But all 21:44.000 --> 21:48.000 right, I want to look at what Mark is recommending. And he recommended the 21:48.000 --> 21:57.000 spoken word revolution, which is by Mark Eleved or a Leaved. I don't know how to 21:57.000 --> 22:03.000 pronounce that. And it was originally in book form, but the audio book has 22:03.000 --> 22:07.000 actual recordings. And let me tell you what, I'll just read the blurb here 22:07.000 --> 22:12.000 for a second. This is Brian's review, which is much better than the explanation 22:12.000 --> 22:13.000 on the purchase. 22:13.500 --> 22:19.500 The Definite Introductory Course in Spoken Word Poetry starts with a nod to the beats, 22:19.500 --> 22:23.500 then takes you on a journey through hip-hop, performance art, and slams. 22:23.500 --> 22:27.500 It's an intellectual and emotional tour de force comprised of a few short explanatory 22:27.500 --> 22:33.500 essays about performance poetry with poems performed by the poets who wrote them. 22:33.500 --> 22:36.500 Articulate use of language is increasingly rare in our culture and articulated speech 22:36.500 --> 22:40.500 is arguably the most powerful tool for change on the planet. 22:40.500 --> 22:44.500 Spoken Word Poetry is powerful articulate speech that deserves wide distribution. 22:44.500 --> 22:47.500 I highly recommend this title for the sheer joy 22:51.000 --> 22:55.000 and for the opportunity to experience the undeniable power of great poetry. 22:56.000 --> 23:05.000 And so I thought, damn, I don't want to listen to poetry. Poetry is boring. But the hip-hop 23:05.000 --> 23:11.000 reference and performance art and slams kind of got my curiosity up. And I listened to a quick 23:11.000 --> 23:15.000 sample. I'm not going to play that exact sample. Actually, I'm going to play a part of that sample 23:15.000 --> 23:19.000 for you. And I said, all right, I'm going to download this. And it's only an hour and 15 23:19.000 --> 23:25.000 minutes. It's not cheap, though. It was $14.95, which I thought was very expensive, 23:25.000 --> 23:32.000 compared to John Stewart's book, which was $7.95, and a great audiobook production, 23:32.000 --> 23:35.000 and was much longer in length. But of course, I was getting it for free anyway, 23:35.000 --> 23:42.000 so that didn't bother me that much. And I was just blown away. I mean, there is some... 23:42.000 --> 23:48.000 And I think this is probably a pure American culture. Of course, if you can speak of pure 23:48.000 --> 23:52.000 American culture, because the culture comes from all over the world into America. 23:52.500 --> 23:53.500 to the big melting pot. 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 And there's a good history lesson throughout this. 23:59.000 --> 24:05.000 And you can almost listen to it in one commute, or at least in one day's worth of commute. 24:05.000 --> 24:07.000 I'm going to play a bit for you. 24:07.000 --> 24:11.000 It's a performance piece about television. 24:11.000 --> 24:17.000 And I've often spoken about television being such a hypnotic medium. 24:17.000 --> 24:21.000 In fact, it's probably time again for me to point to the Zen TV experiment. 24:21.000 --> 24:25.000 I always have it on the left-hand blog roll links on my web blog. 24:25.000 --> 24:29.000 But I'll point to it again because television is, it's something else. 24:29.000 --> 24:36.000 And having worked in it with it and for it, I think I know what I'm talking about. 24:36.000 --> 24:40.000 So listen to an excerpt from the spoken word revolution. 24:40.000 --> 24:42.000 The young child with 24:42.000 --> 24:43.000 Ah, shit. 24:43.000 --> 24:45.000 Now that sucked. 24:45.000 --> 24:47.000 Excuse me. 24:47.000 --> 24:50.000 I was trying to be so cool. 24:50.000 --> 24:51.000 Okay. 24:51.000 --> 24:52.000 Let me do that again. 24:52.000 --> 24:55.000 Listen to an excerpt from the spoken word revolution. 24:57.000 --> 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. 25:07.000 --> 25:15.000 While you listen, imagine a hyper-jittery black-haired chalky complexion boob tube right up in your face. 25:15.000 --> 25:20.000 Look out for the static in the spittle. Mr. Todd Alcott, everyone. 25:20.000 --> 25:22.000 Television. 25:22.000 --> 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. 25:28.000 --> 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? 25:34.000 --> 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? 25:41.000 --> 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. 25:47.000 --> 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. 25:53.000 --> 25:58.000 Get up. Go to bed. Go to sleep. Get up. Come back. Look at me. Okay. So, we have an agreement. 25:58.500 --> 26:01.500 You will do what you absolutely have to do and when you're done, you will come back and 26:01.500 --> 26:02.500 look at me. 26:02.500 --> 26:04.500 Don't worry about your schedule. 26:04.500 --> 26:05.500 I am here for you. 26:05.500 --> 26:06.500 I am here for you. 26:06.500 --> 26:09.500 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, I am here for you. 26:09.500 --> 26:11.500 I am here for you. 26:11.500 --> 26:12.500 You need me. 26:12.500 --> 26:13.500 I'm here. 26:13.500 --> 26:15.500 Fair and foul, thick and thin, I am here for you. 26:15.500 --> 26:17.500 I am here for you. 26:17.500 --> 26:19.500 People try to tell you I'm bad. 26:19.500 --> 26:20.500 You tell them that I am bad. 26:25.500 --> 26:26.500 I am here for you, pe- 26:31.500 --> 26:37.500 grapes. 26:40.500 --> 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 26:46.500 --> 26:48.500 It's unbelievable. You can't believe it 26:57.000 --> 27:03.000 Look at me. Oh man, how good is that? And perhaps this guy should try decaf 27:04.000 --> 27:09.000 All right more thoughts about what we can do with these wonderful with this wonderful 27:10.000 --> 27:12.000 iPodder and the 27:12.000 --> 27:14.000 podcasting is 27:14.000 --> 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 27:21.000 --> 27:25.000 You could listen to your favorite NPR shows which of course you can get on the internet 27:25.000 --> 27:28.000 You can listen to it on radio stations around the country 27:29.000 --> 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 27:34.000 --> 27:38.000 And so this example is used very often, you know, so the iPodder 27:38.000 --> 27:42.000 Oh, it's perfect because then instead of having to tune into your favorite NPR show 27:43.000 --> 27:44.000 you could 27:44.000 --> 27:50.000 You have it automatically stored on your on your mp3 player and then whenever it's convenient for you 27:50.000 --> 27:52.000 You can listen to the most recent show 27:52.000 --> 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 27:58.500 --> 28:05.500 trying to shift the transfer of data to when I'm sleeping, because then it doesn't bother 28:05.500 --> 28:12.500 me. There's no click and wait. This is my infamous last yard essay that I wrote. You can just 28:12.500 --> 28:17.500 type into Google, Adam Curry, last yard, and it'll pop up. 28:17.500 --> 28:20.500 And so the answer is, of course, that would be wonderful. And all that we need is just 28:20.500 --> 28:26.500 one person who maybe isn't quite ready to do their own audio show, but is interested 28:26.500 --> 28:30.500 in contributing and wants to help out with some cool stuff that we can all 28:30.500 --> 28:35.500 listen to. If you take Audio Hijack Pro as an example, you can set it, it has a timer 28:35.500 --> 28:40.500 function built in, and you can set your stream to, it can actually talk to a URL. 28:40.500 --> 28:45.500 You can say, hey, open up this application, so real player, open it up with this URL, 28:45.500 --> 28:50.500 which would be the URL for the most recent or at two o'clock whenever, you know, 28:50.500 --> 28:55.500 what is it, car talk or whatever show comes on. And it'll automatically record 28:55.500 --> 28:59.500 that right away to a file. And with a little bit of automation that could be 29:00.000 --> 29:07.000 an Apple script or it could be Jake's DIR2RSS script, a whole bunch of different... 29:09.000 --> 29:14.000 It would just auto upload that show and you could have this practically running in the background of any 29:14.000 --> 29:16.000 any modern day PC and 29:17.000 --> 29:20.000 It would make a lot of people happy now. I'm not sure about the legalities of this of course 29:20.000 --> 29:24.000 So let me just put that caveat caveat in there 29:25.000 --> 29:31.000 But you know, maybe the NPR guys and gals will get a clue and start doing that for 29:33.000 --> 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 29:40.500 --> 29:42.500 After this is this song 29:42.500 --> 29:44.500 Of course he recently passed away 29:44.500 --> 29:46.500 In Montrose, Switzerland 29:46.500 --> 29:48.500 Well I met him 29:48.500 --> 29:50.500 About eleven years ago 29:50.500 --> 29:52.500 He's every kind of people 29:53.750 --> 32:36.250 [ Music ] 32:44.000 --> 32:45.000 2004. 32:45.000 --> 32:46.000 I hope the skipping isn't too bad. 32:46.000 --> 32:49.000 I'll listen back to the show to see if most of it's on. 32:54.000 --> 32:58.000 my outburst when the wrong song got queued up there. That was another problem because I 32:58.000 --> 33:03.000 have this wonderful DJ 1800 deck player but if I want to play an excerpt from an audio book 33:03.000 --> 33:08.000 I have to use iTunes because of the DRM. It won't play on anything else but iTunes or 33:08.000 --> 33:13.000 on the iPod. But of course it was simple just play iTunes and just route the audio through 33:13.000 --> 33:19.000 to Audio Hijack Pro you know so much for the DRM stuff. So Robert Palmer used to be 33:19.000 --> 33:23.000 well this I think still every single year there's the Montrose Jazz Festival which 33:23.000 --> 33:28.000 is held in Montrose Switzerland and it's a there's a big casino there and and 33:28.000 --> 33:35.000 that's where the Rock Festival where the Jazz Festival is held and it used to 33:35.000 --> 33:41.000 be back in the up until I think like 90 maybe 92 or 93 one or two weeks just 33:41.000 --> 33:46.000 before the Jazz Festival would be the Montrose Rock Festival and that kind of 33:46.000 --> 33:53.000 stem from a story that you know the song Deep Purple Smoke on the Water in fact 33:53.000 --> 33:57.000 let me just consult iTunes while we're talking about it 33:55.500 --> 34:04.500 They were recording in a studio which at the time I believed belonged to Queen. 34:04.500 --> 34:06.500 If not, it does now. 34:06.500 --> 34:09.500 Hold on, let's see if I have smoke on the water here. 34:09.500 --> 34:12.500 Just a quick search for smoke. 34:12.500 --> 34:15.500 Shoot, no, don't have. 34:15.500 --> 34:22.500 Anyway, the casino caught on fire while they were there recording in Montreux. 34:22.500 --> 34:25.500 If you listen to the lyrics and I'll have to get that tomorrow, it's just too much hassle 34:25.500 --> 34:27.500 to try and download it while I'm... 34:30.000 --> 34:35.000 The Lyricos see we all went down to Mantro yada yada yada smoke on the water 34:35.000 --> 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 34:41.000 --> 34:43.000 Anyway, I digress and I apologize 34:44.000 --> 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 34:54.000 --> 35:00.000 and let's see Steve Wynwood was there and Robert Palmer who has a house there in Montrose, 35:00.000 --> 35:05.000 Switzerland was also at the festival and I was interviewing them right right on the side 35:05.000 --> 35:06.000 of Lake Geneva. 35:06.000 --> 35:10.000 We had two chairs out kind of on the promenade and it was a beautiful sunny afternoon early 35:10.000 --> 35:15.000 afternoon and we're chatting away and and you know the cameras have this video footage 35:15.000 --> 35:18.000 somewhere the cameras really close up on him and he's telling me. 35:19.500 --> 35:21.500 Look at this bird here who's coming down. 35:21.500 --> 35:23.500 Hey, look at this bird. 35:23.500 --> 35:26.500 And so I turn the look and it's Patricia. 35:26.500 --> 35:28.500 And I say, yeah, that's my fiance. 35:28.500 --> 35:31.500 And we have this perfect close up of Robert Palmer turning beat red. 35:31.500 --> 35:33.500 It was fantastic. 35:33.500 --> 35:34.500 And of course we really do miss him. 35:34.500 --> 35:36.500 He passed away way too young. 35:36.500 --> 35:39.500 He was in his early 50s and we do miss Robert Palmer. 35:39.500 --> 35:41.500 And that's it for the source code for today. 35:41.500 --> 35:47.500 I'm going to go check the file, see if we have lots of skipage or if it's broadcastable 35:47.500 --> 35:49.500 or should I say podcastable. 35:49.500 --> 35:52.500 And I will be with you tomorrow for another... 35:54.000 --> 36:01.000 As always if you want to send a comment, keep an email me at imedcurry.com. 36:01.000 --> 36:01.000 See you all next time. 36:13.500 --> 36:15.500 The power of your intelligence. 36:15.500 --> 36:17.500 DailySourceCode.com 36:17.500 --> 36:20.500 And of course you can subscribe to the feed. 36:20.500 --> 36:23.500 It's the iPod of VRSS 2.0 with enclosures. 36:23.500 --> 36:27.500 And DailySourceCode.com slash rss.xma. 36:27.500 --> 36:29.500 See you tomorrow. Bye!