I finished listening to the first season of the Ricky Gervais Show today, on my way home from work. Here’s a recent article about Karl Pilkington, “the odd-thinking fall guy” of the show, as the article puts it. I did enjoy the show, though it falls into a bit of a predictable pattern after a while. Still, I think I’ll pop for the second and third seasons from iTunes.
Category: audio
HD Radio
I’m kind of curious about HD Radio. There was an article in Wired a while back, and one in the NY Times today. It looks like quite a few stations are broadcasting in HD now. These guys make an interesting radio that picks up HD. It isn’t shipping yet, though.
The Tom Corven Project
I’m curious about this, though I don’t think I really have the time to start listening to it, considering all the other stuff I’ve got waiting to read and/or listen to right now.
Also, the Paul Story who writes this is not the Paul Storrie who writes comics.
RadioTime
RadioTime: looks like an interesting thing. Maybe a way to listen to oddball stuff like Jonesy’s Jukebox and New Sounds in the car?
The New York Times on podcasting
Here’s an article from The NY Times today on podcasting.
podcasting stuff
I’ve been listening to a number of podcasts lately on a fairly regular basis, and I decided to take the next step today, and actually start listening to them on my iPod. I’d been simply pressing them to audio CDs and listening to them in my car via the CD changer. This works fine, but I usually don’t want to listen to a given podcast more than once or twice, so it’s kind of a waste of a CD.
I decided to use my old first-gen 5GB iPod for this, rather than clutter up my newer iPod with podcasts. Getting this set up turned out to be quite a production. The old iPod was Mac-formatted, so, at first, I set it up to sync with my “received podcasts” directory via XPlay. That worked OK, but I thought I could do better by switching to iTunes. So I reformatted the iPod and set it up to sync with iTunes. I didn’t get very far. I started getting disk errors, so I reformatted again and set everything up again. I did a little better this time. I got one disk error at one point, but it’s been good since. I’ve been playing around a bit, trying to stress it and see if it’s going to keep working or not. So far, so good.
I also decided to upgrade to iTunes 4.8, just for yuks. That worked fine, except that it broke iPodder. I upgraded to iPodder 2.0.3, and everything seems fine now.
So, after all that work, I now have an iPod full of podcasts that I can plug into my car stereo via an old casette adapter. It sounds OK, but not great. I also ordered a car charger from XtremeMac, so I can keep the thing going, since the battery life ain’t what it used to be.
this WEEK in TECH
twit.tv — an interesting podcast from Leo Laporte and a bunch of other guys who used to be involved with TechTV.
Podcasting
I’ve finally started playing around with podcasts.
Software:
– iPodder – Free, simple. Integrates with iTunes.
Sounds:
– Superburst Mixtape from Warren Ellis.
– Insomnia Radio
I’m sure there’s plenty of other good stuff out there. Just more good music to listen to in the car!