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by Andrew McCaskey
Slashdot Review Podcast
I thought that the YouTube Comments & Responses ( From the YouTube site for this Video ) were as interesting as the video itself
Etheo (1 day ago)
As far as I know, a useless INVENTION is a “bad invention”, and a NEW thing is just NEW… nothing more. Sure, it’s cool as hell, ther’es no doubting that, but besides the first person everyone seemed to have had trouble walking through it. I still don’t see the reason behind opening each bars individually besides the coolness factor.
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Paladin27 (1 day ago)
Would be good for commerical freezers where the door would only open as wide as the person entering thereby minimizing thermal transfer and keeping the temp more consistant.
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FrogGeek (1 day ago)
@ Etheo: Perhaps someone will see this and figure something really useful from seeing this door. That’s the way progress works: a marginal idea triggers another idea, then another, and with a bit of luck the thing evolves into a nice bit of science or technology. Consider number theory: back in the 1920s, its attraction to mathematicians was precisely because it was so lovely and useless, but now it’s the central part of cryptography, data error correction, and others.
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Tetranitrate (1 day ago)
I went through that thing at nextfest, it was all buggy and the guy said it was because of the lights.
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enochthewatcher (1 day ago)
i agree with frigGeek,this invention may seem useless.but most likely somebody else with find a better application.like building blocks.who knows here this technology may end up.creativity and imagination can take one technology and lead it to unseen areas of use.thats the beauty of it.
Show Notes:
These are very rough. I am working on a system that will provide transcripts – so please accept the sentence fragments. These are literally the notes that I am now using for the podcast, and will be adding links when I can or when they are obscure.
Day Against DRM
DefectiveByDesign.org
Oct 3rd a Day Against DRM: Street Theatre demonstrations planned at Apple Stores New York and London
Eweek – Apple essentially owns the music industry right now, and a lot of folks aren’t happy about it. Apple has used its iTunes and iPod juggernaut to make its DRM software ubiquitous.
Strange Bedfellows – publish.com analysis
Free Software Foundation
Microsoft- with Zune to crack the Apple monopoly – put in their DRM
The music industry
ITMS is big enough to dictate price
DreamHost has released a new service called Files Forever -=- basically an iTunes Music Store that anybody can sell any sort of files through… as long as they have no DRM
Fly in all This Ointment
Dreamhost says they do payment processing/catalog
Allowed to ‘loan’ it to others for free after you buy it!
I think that DreamHost is a great name for such a service.
No group dream of hosting here.
Most companies are into the concept of repeat business – and I don’t see it here – not like potato chips you can sell just one.
Somatic Digital
Their “TouchBooks” let printed material connect to digital devices via sensors in the covers. Double click on the printed page and connected PC or Mac goes to the URL
Like pickpockets at a festival – PC World
Charactization of malware of all forms – pop ups, pop unders, bogus invites, ads,
drawn by the huge crowds visiting social networking sites
MySpace, etc.
Followup Page – Cingular
Mentioned Melodeo yesterday
Just signed contract with Cingular – $4.99 Mobilcast name
Combo of Network + phone
Assume Java download free outside of walled garden.
Use it more but no bluetooth headset
If you want nostalgia – PAMS jingles site
Nokia Wibree PC Mag
Bluetooth functional competitor
Same radio, antennas
CSR, Broadcom, Epson, Nokia, and Nordic Semiconductor
More power efficient 1-megabit rates up to 10 meters,about a tenth the power of Bluetooth.
ZigBee, a command-and-control technology; NFC, which is being used for wireless smart-card commerce; UWB; and Bluetooth itself,
Nokia was founding member of BT consortium
Engadget Slams Zune
At least wifi portion
Can discover, send 3×3 days/listen
Then deletes next sync
Does MS know/report which songs are taken ?
Worthless ?
Cant connect to internet
Use wifi to download from music store
Or sync your zune.
Screaming Cellphone in UK
Yahoo and CNN
Stolen: signal to scream – latches,wipes data
Pull batt -back in / even sim cardwill not replace.
EMAILS – Thanks for writing !
AListen to the podcast and pay attention to the number of times (many times in a sentence) where you pause and go “uhhh” or slip “uhhh” into the sentence. The other one that’s very common when speaking is slipping in “you know.” I only caught the “you know” once but I think it was in context of your sentence.
The funny thing about this, is that people do it without thinking, it’s almost second nature, you don’t realize it until someone points it out. Then you’ll be aware and notice how often you do it!
They used to call me the “you know” man, and now they always call on me to give presentations.
Good luck with the new format!
I just wanted to say that I like the new format and I think it will
improve the overall podcast. It will make it more interesting and not
so processed sounding.If you are looking for opinions……… I say “Full Steam Ahead!”
1. I can’t say I miss the music. I enjoyed it, but honestly I usually only listened to the first 30 seconds. If too many listeners complain and you want to keep some music, maybe you could add music just to the Monday shows or such like.
2. If you can make your time more efficient, that is great.
3. I appreciate your focus on keeping things concise. I only have a fixed amount of time to listen to podcasts each day (during my commute) and it is not enough time to listen to everything I want to. So I have to be very critical and only keep the podcasts that keep the useful information dense. (ie. high signal to noise ratio)
4. I am not convinced the “informal” approach to news items will work. The Slashdot editors already put a lot of time into keeping the stories concise. I would recommend leveraging their work and keep on just reading the stories. I enjoy your commentary in the middle, but really feel like the news portion is losing density rather than gaining.
5. Other news sources are a great idea, but you need to make it clear where the news if coming from. I often lookup and read more on the topics the interest me. Either have a link to every story in the show notes or be careful to site the source in the podcast. On the 10/2 show I had a hard time following where each story came from, also some relates stories kind of ran together.
You have a great show. I just listened to the new episode and the new
format is a lot to adjust to. I know that you just came back from the
podcasting conference where you must have gotten a lot of advice. You
should not take all of it. The show has a lot of good things going
for it. The pre-scripted, NPR’ish, AM radio’ish delivery makes this a
great no-nonsense show. You may evolve into a great ad libbing
podcaster, but I worry that you will loose a lot of us along the way
and that that will mean you have to create a new base of listeners.
Change is good, but not for the sake of change.
I think I may be in line with others that skip over
‘most’ of the music
at the end of the podcast -but- regularly hear some absolute musical
‘gems’ that I really enjoy.
I’m going to miss that.
I listen to Slashdot review every morning at work and it is a great way in a 10 minute segment for me to get the broad brush view of technology, what’s new and emerging or issues that may be arising.
I work for an ISP in a regional area of Victoria, Australia and I know that a lot of people listen to your pod casts.
The new format certainly has a more conversational style and if I might say a friendlier tone, the old Slashdot review was more formal and speaking at the listener and not to the listener.
Its great that after almost two years that you are still focused on what is relevant to your listener and it is obvious that your recent trip to California and the ideas and thoughts you picked up has had quite an impact on you.
Thank you for your pod cast it really is excellent and good luck with the new format, you have many dedicated fans in Australia, we will be listening!
On October 12, Slashdot Review will complete 2 years of the podcast service – with a format that is virtually unchanged since day signed on.
It’s time to shift gears in several areas..
First – Music track gone
Lots of great indy music, break for artists – lots of other podcasts, but surveys, emails and conversations indicate that if it’s a choice, most listeners want news and editiorial opinion. By design, the musics was placed at end so could skip – kept it because survey data about 2/3 either liked or were OK.
Plus, reduced bit-rate of encode – smaller files, less space, faster upload and downloads.
Second : 5 days per week. Drive time or during work week at desk – so will produce five shows per week not six.for consumption during the work week. Gotta be honest – I understand podfade – don’t want to do that but got to
Third – 10 mins or less .tried to be consistant, to provide highlights in ten mins or less and will continue.
Fourth – More concise - awareness not in depth understanding. Pointers, references – better show notes Outline, speak informally bullet points.
Fifth – More informal content - Less editing means more commentary and link to expanded resources , better notes, etc.
All of this change is going to take basically the month of October – to build out SDR News to include other primary sources, make some major web site changes and put in place
We were both comfortable with the original format.
I’ve got to learn this new way of presentation
I think it will be more fun, and that in the long run we will be able to offer a better podcast service.
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