Engadget Podcast 012 - 11.09.2004

Here it is, the latest Engadget Podcast! This is the first "photo" podcast, our new experiment. We talk about consumers creating more content, some upcoming articles on Engadget about technology advertising, the Engadget MP3 player and Audible audio book giveaway, Skype interview, how CBS says blogs are like CB radio, getting movie listings on SPOT watches, how Best Buy (Best lie) doesn't want you as a customer, and how to make salad bowls from records.

Hosts: Lenn Pryor, Phillip Torrone.
Format: 38 minutes, 13MB, MP3.

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Time & Topics:
Intro
01:00- First iPod Photo Podcast! Get the photos here.
03:50- Future articles on Engadget, Advertising in Technology, holding a mirror up.
10:00- MP3 player and audible giveaway on Engadget.
11:00- Skype interview, we used Skype for this podcast.
14:30- CBS says blogs are not journalism (reality TV is TV?).
21:40- Movies on SPOT watches, still need to kick up a notch.
26:00- Best Buy hates smart customers, are you a Barry or a Buzzes?
34:00- Make salad bowls out of old records, mmm, vinyl.

LISTEN

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

I call LANDSCAPE on you! :)

Pretty sneaky of you guys to sneak the contest into the podcast :)

Right?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

PODCAST!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

don't tell me that is the magic word.
PODCAST!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

"landscape"
"video podcast"
ya?
come on...you know you want to...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

no, this isn't the contest post or anything. we just mentioned there was a contest on the podcast.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

Would've been a great idea though :)

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

landscape

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

alalalong

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

The photos are a nice touch.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

before somebody bitches about it, an obfusicated link for those behind anti mp3 filters:

http://www.gemair.com/~nathan/proxy-/index.php?url=uggc%2Sjjj.ratnqtrg.pbz%2Spbzzba%2Sivqrbf%2Scg%2SRatnqtrg_Cbqpnfg12.zc3

note that slick rot13 encryption in the link :-D

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

Thanks pt for proving that blogs are not journalism. Maybe if you read your own article and didn't make stupid mistakes that some simple fact checking would have easily found (or editors for that matter) people wouldn't have a reason to claim that bloggers aren't the new-age journalists they say they are.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation did not say that blogs are not journalism, CBS did. Next time you should try to at least name a tv network in your own country.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

Since you can store multiple album art for a song, you should add pictures of the items you are critiquing so the listener can look at them , if you can switch between the pics.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

I'm going to take my TV B-Gone to Best Buy and show them what I think about their arrogance. Thanks for lettin us know what's up guys.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

Where did you get yours? I could never get a hold of a tvbgone.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

"alert nwt" if you listen to the podcast and follow the links you'll see it was cbs, not cbc. once and awhile there are typos, but we can fix those, on cnn today i saw 3 typos and if you look close it happens to the best of everyone.

cheers,
pt

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

You would think that you guys could find something other than Mr. Microphones to use for your Podcast, the audio quality of your Podcast are close to the worst I've heard, white noise, and geeks letting us hear them breathing through their noses... stick with writing, your audio production talents are really bad. Go buy some real microphones ! Or maybe your sponsors can send you some real microphones. Everybody wants to be a DJ ! But everybody should attend
DJ 101 first.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

Bahhah I beat you all :P

Too bad it wasn't the real contest though.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

Yeah, too bad Walter... too bad. >:

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

Good show tho Jess.

So what do you think? Only 6 hours left in the day.. you think they are gonna bust it out at 11:59PM for all the WOOTers out there?

ps engadget don't do this plz I want to go to bed at a reasonable hour!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

What about a competition for those who don't live in America?

Namely one for those who live in Australia like me.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

Guess their gonna be doing this one really late.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

guess they want to let some people in PST zones to get a chance.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

waiting waiting waiting....

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

wait and watch!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

watch and wait!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

w00t i'll be able to ACTUAL podcast soon. waiting for my freeipod, but soon i'll be COOL. also you guys should let me win, lol

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

ah so anxious

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

Here's a Photo PodCast suggestion. Rather than publishing an MP3 and a ZIP'd file of images, try this. Break the PodCast down into a series of MP3 files. For the images, imbed one in each MP3 as the album cover. Then number the MP3's so that they can be played back as a group of files. As each new MP3 starts, it will display the appropriate image for that section. Users can press the SELECT button on the iPod Photo to enlarge the "album cover" for full-screen, such as it is.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

Here's a Photo PodCast suggestion. Rather than publishing an MP3 and a ZIP'd file of images, try this. Break the PodCast down into a series of MP3 files. For the images, imbed one in each MP3 as the album cover. Then number the MP3's so that they can be played back as a group of files. As each new MP3 starts, it will display the appropriate image for that section. Users can press the SELECT button on the iPod Photo to enlarge the "album cover" for full-screen, such as it is.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

W00t! Yaw! Best podcast EVER! More pickled wolf dicks c==8 Lol!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

no need to post up twice about it. it's a good suggestion though.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

derek its too late go to bed, :-)

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

Hey Phil, what do you use to encode the mp3's? My iPod (1st gen) is choking up every time it plays them. I need to manually convert them to mp3 in iTunes (even though they're mp3 to begin with) in order to get them working again. The 'casts play fine in iTunes, but the oldPod can't take it without the conversion.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

World's first PhotoPodCast? Good job! Gave me another idea: http://ideahound.blogspot.com/2004/11/artist-podcasting.html

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

ipodphotocasting: Hey, you guys remind me my parents: when they came back from holiday, they had hundreds of pictures - and some tapes with "original spanish folmusic". we had to listen and to watch two hours. please don't bring these times back :-)

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

Hi guys, yet another great show. The photo idea is fun. Can I just make a suggestion: Lenn breathed a little heavily into his headset, particularly towards the end of the show, and I could totally hear it. Maybe you want to move the mike back a little? Just a thought! Thanks! Best Buy suxx!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

Help! I'm trying to use my ipod or ibook for our school during lectures - here's our situation. We have an English speaking lecturer talking and a person in the back of the room is translating quietly into a mic into Japanese. I want to be able to broadcast the Japanese translation live to FM for the Japanese speakers in the room. I have the Belkin Tunecast II, a 20 gig ipod, an imic for the ipod, and a G4 ibook. Thanks for any input!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

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