"The dircaster thing is great though. I'm just anticipating much bandwidth suffering in the coming weeks."
Me too. And the Bit Torrent hack is great. But until someone writes a deadly, stupidly simple podcasting guide that does things like explain where the RSS enclosure data is actually supposed to go when you're posting -- I've read ten and not one of them illustrate that -- then non-technical artists are going to need things like Dircaster, and may fall prey to heavy bandwidth use. It's the trade-off.
That said, no way in hell would I leave five 30-meg-plus files in my podcasting directory...!
"But until someone writes a deadly, stupidly simple podcasting guide that does things like explain where the RSS enclosure data is actually supposed to go when you're posting -- I've read ten and not one of them illustrate that"
I know. I've written something along those lines.
It takes the code line by line and explains what needs to be changed and in some cases even why. But it's light on the why.
Best thing about it is it works for people who are not familiar with coding.
It's going through some corrections and should be posted in the podcasting lj community and the yahoo group today.
We're not months into all this, we're WEEKS into it. Knowing that, it's come pretty far.
"That said, no way in hell would I leave five 30-meg-plus files in my podcasting directory...!"
You mean for publishing or for downloads? That's not superhero talk, man. lol
With a little more hackery, you could generate playlists as well, stitching different segments together Frankenstein-style into your own show. Anything from variety to news. Put this app on a PVR, have it download video via BitTorrent, and you could be watching a customized news show that’s anything from We Don’t Kiss Corporate Ass Journalism to Keep Me Entertained And Ignorant News. Imagine getting producers to compete at the level of individual segments instead of whole shows...
I read the article. Great, wonderful, I now have some idea what podcasting is after a fruitless search for an explanation that wasn't all star trek speak. A google search and trowling through lots of web muck and still couldn't find a website that told me what the point of podcasting was and what it was supopsed to achieve.
Then I read the comments you got on here, some of which are very interesting. Some of which are more star trek speak which scares the shit out of me. Podcasting sounds wonderful, but there's all this technical stuff people spout and reading it is like chewing razor blades. It's not something you're going to want to do again.
Thanks for making this simple for puny mortal humans like me, it encourages us to do something creative rather than just give up and leave this fantastic new innovation to boring tech heads spouting star trek ones and zeros at each other.
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You can bet money a chunk of those only update weekly, and that a chunk of them were done once or twice and then given up on.
Open field.
-- W
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bandwidth suffering in the coming weeks."
Me too. And the Bit Torrent hack is great. But until someone writes a deadly, stupidly simple podcasting guide that does things like explain where the RSS enclosure data is actually supposed to go when you're posting -- I've read ten and not one of them illustrate that -- then non-technical artists are going to need things like Dircaster, and may fall prey to heavy bandwidth use. It's the trade-off.
That said, no way in hell would I leave five 30-meg-plus files in my podcasting directory...!
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I know.
I've written something along those lines.
It takes the code line by line and explains what needs to be changed and in some cases even why. But it's light on the why.
Best thing about it is it works for people who are not familiar
with coding.
It's going through some corrections and should be posted
in the podcasting lj community and the yahoo group today.
We're not months into all this, we're WEEKS into it. Knowing
that, it's come pretty far.
"That said, no way in hell would I leave five 30-meg-plus files in my podcasting directory...!"
You mean for publishing or for downloads? That's not superhero talk, man. lol
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Joy. Does it tell you where on your website to put the code, and how?
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KOMO radio is one.
I think someone out there is doing a kind of digest, but nothing
that speaks to me in any way. Kind of generic. We need more subbuhcultchuh.
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Could you? That's well into the zone of I Don't Give A Fuck for me, I'm afraid... far more webmonkery than artmaking.
New rule for 2005: quit thinking about what you can do with other people's stuff, and start making your own.
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Then I read the comments you got on here, some of which are very interesting. Some of which are more star trek speak which scares the shit out of me. Podcasting sounds wonderful, but there's all this technical stuff people spout and reading it is like chewing razor blades. It's not something you're going to want to do again.
Thanks for making this simple for puny mortal humans like me, it encourages us to do something creative rather than just give up and leave this fantastic new innovation to boring tech heads spouting star trek ones and zeros at each other.
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