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iFilm doesn't have RSS feeds for Daily Show episodes or Colbert Report. I've put together these two feeds using Dapper and Feedburner: Daily Show Clips on iFilm (http://feeds.feedburner.com/DailyShowiFilm) Colbert Report Clips on iFilm (http://feeds.feedburner.com/ColbertReportiFilm) Link to blog entry on this

iFilm doesn't have RSS feeds for Daily Show episodes or Colbert Report. I've put together these two feeds using Dapper and Feedburner: Daily Show Clips on iFilm (http://feeds.feedburner.com/DailyShowiFilm) Colbert Report Clips on iFilm (http://feeds.feedburner.com/ColbertReportiFilm) Link to blog entry on this

The last episode of the Linux Tech Show was just about this,
and I found it very informative.

Just skip the first few minutes of the hosts struggling with their own machinery, as always.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheLinuxLinkTechSho wOgg-vorbisFeed/~3/84750297/tllts_177-01-31-07.ogg

Last time i was there you could reorder the search results to suit you... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tcmagazine/~3/38789 079/comments.php...look like that has been removed. Guess it didn't make it past the user responses.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/geeksAreSexyTechnol ogyNews/~3/46201042/hacking-democracy-video.html
Howabout watching that video? Even without touching any of the counting machines, someone was able to make the optical scanners count something ENTIRELY different from what was put in. On touch screens, different names come up. You're saying something's NOT wrong with that?

you click the little orange RSS icon in your address bar... it brings up the RSS page, such as this one. You now get the option to subscribe to the feed using whatever method you choose, be it Google Reader or whatever

I started a podcast back in April and went with a 50GB a month plan and quickly exceeded my bandwidth. The next month I passed the hat to all parties involved in the podcast and collected enough money to get an older box (P3/40GB disk) running over a 10Mbit connection w/ 4TB metered bandwidth (more than I could possibly use). I'm lucky to have a buddy that runs a small hosting company piggybacked in the same facility as 2 very large ISPs in Atlanta.

When you're doing a podcast you need to really consider what kind of content you're pushing. This will determine the bitrate and file size. Our podcast consists of DJ sets running 80min encoded at 192kbps (or VBR with the final file around 100MB). On average we push 1600 downloads a week on new episodes and 4000 complete downloads a week on archives. You'll also have about 20-to-40% more traffic going to partial/incomplete downloads. We recently starting doing podcasts at work based on my experience with my out of work project. The requirements are very different since we're doing 15min shows with all voice content, the files are encodded at 32kbps. With the smaller files, you're hosting requirements are not much different than regular web hosting.

I've been tweaking our apache configs for months trying to tune optimal levels, but I'm still not 100% convinced we're there yet. If anyone has config tips for apache to optimize large file transfers, please.. I'm all ears.

I recommend that go for some paid hosting server where you can easily upgrade. Run some blogads or something to help recover the costs. We've always just broke even.

Also, I highly recommend that you use Feedburner for your RSS feeds. You get all kinds of great stats and subscription options in a browser friendy format if someone views your raw feed.

Here's an example:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ABrooklynLifeRadio

Also, here's the podcast blog:
http://www.abrooklynlife.com/podcast/

Cheers,
ABL:Radio

if anyone is interested in the buddy of mine's ISP, you can reach me though the email link on our blog.

If you do buy cheap hosting, wordpress has really good podcast support. We use the PHP script dirCaster on our site. It scans a directory of mp3's and outputs an RSS feed, and other than our difficulties getting ID3v2 to be read, things seem to work flawlessly. We use feedburner to make up for dirCaster's limitations.

I believe you can sign up to Feedburner and have the service take your iTunes-unfriendly RSS feed and generate a new podcast / iTunes friendly one. Also provides basic stats too. Might be a solution?

Someone has already had a hands on review of the game... Dear ole Jack won't be the first.

Plasma Speakers!

You see, the plasma reference makes it relevant...

Instead of downloading this song and forgetting about it, subscribe to the podcast and get a great song every week... there are some CLASSICS like:

All I want to do is eat your brains
The christmas song (forget the name)
and the IKEA song (great stuff)

Point your aggregators at:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/thingaweek

Better yet, support the artist and pay $1 a week via paypal

--
http://www.wormus.com/aaron/

Juice (formerly iPodder) is pretty much the go-to standard... or at least it was until iTunes added podcasting support. Personally I use iTunes and only because it integrates much better than iPodder ever did, but that's entirely a personal choice.

As far as Podcasts go here are some of my favorites:

Coverville : An excellent podcast devoted to covers. Always excellent.

Reel Reviews Radio : Short (and the occasional Cinephile long-form) discussions of various films. The subtitle of "Films Worth Watching" probably describes it best. Sometimes I've found stuff that I've overlooked other times it proved to be the kick in the pants that I needed to finally get around to watching something I've been interested in.

The Dawn and Drew Show : I like it personally. Then again, I also loathe Howard Stern so there's no easy decisions to be made. Free-form discussion by a husband and wife team where he's the straight man and she tends to be effusive and offensive (well... to some I guess).

The Tim and Tony Show : Two guys talk about various sexual topics. About the same intellectual level as Dawn and Drew.

The Apparat Programme (Podcast at http://feeds.feedburner.com/Apparat , info best found at http://www.warrenellis.com/ : Influential British comic writer Warren Ellis' occasionally posts new entries in his podcast which is basically just music that interests him.

They Might Be Giants Podcast : Well... if you're a fan it's an excellent podcast for Their music. Then again they've always managed to heavily experiment with new forms of music delivery.

Obviously the best out there for new music is The Indie Sermons of the Rt. Rev Fischer (RSS).

More seriously there are some from a non-geek perspective (it's good to get out a bit):

Dreadful Snake Radio (RSS
A middle aged former musician turned corporate guy. He mixes his love of folk/blues in with his world travels. It is a little "what I did today" but what he does daily is amazing. Everything from podcasting while doing a 5k with his son, while biking in Beijing, at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, to Church (state sponsored) in Beijing on Christmas.

Rocket Boom
Just great. (actually a video cast)

Earth & Sky (RSS)
A great public radio science show. It is not always just new science, it is a lot of explanations that you have probably always been curious about. And it is the best way to stay up to date on cool science events (eclipses, meteor showers, that kind of thing)

I like
* CBC Radio 3 podcast: http://www.cbcradio3.com/podcast/standard/
* Jazz and Conversation: http://feeds.feedburner.com/quietfm/FEhS

I use Google's feed reader: http://www.google.com/reader/. It has a simple but decent podcast interface with an audio player in the browser and a link to the MP3 that can easily be downloaded to your MP3 player.

• Cinecast is an excellent movie review podcasts the IMO beats the snot out of Ebert & Whoever (of course you can catch their podcast as well.) RSS Feed
• Keith and the Girl still stands as one of my regulars, although not for everyone, but very funny. RSS Feed
• Coverville is a wonderful high production values music podcast that features only covers of songs. I love it. RSS Feed

As for RSS feed readers/podcatchers (another hated word mashup), I still use the original Juice receiver (previously called iPodder). It has plenty of flaws, but every time I give other feed readers a try I always come back to it. I still haven't found one that will synch with my iRiver correctly. I use the new version of WinAmp for that.

I don't know why everyone always recommends using iTunes. I abhor their podcast interface and always get confused as it dumps me in and out of my library, search, back to their store, etc. Hate hate hate!

• Cinecast is an excellent movie review podcasts the IMO beats the snot out of Ebert & Whoever (of course you can catch their podcast as well.) RSS Feed
• Keith and the Girl still stands as one of my regulars, although not for everyone, but very funny. RSS Feed
• Coverville is a wonderful high production values music podcast that features only covers of songs. I love it. RSS Feed

As for RSS feed readers/podcatchers (another hated word mashup), I still use the original Juice receiver (previously called iPodder). It has plenty of flaws, but every time I give other feed readers a try I always come back to it. I still haven't found one that will synch with my iRiver correctly. I use the new version of WinAmp for that.

I don't know why everyone always recommends using iTunes. I abhor their podcast interface and always get confused as it dumps me in and out of my library, search, back to their store, etc. Hate hate hate!

First of all, I want to thank you all for your contributions, corrections, and suggestions. As I mentioned in the article, this is a bit of work in progress.
I will be adding many of the suggested games -- some of which I was very aware of, but just slipped my mind.
As mentioned by somebody earlier, this was mainly for console games as that is what I am most familiar with and because of their limited and standard resources.
Also, be sure to keep an eye out for part 2 (and possibly 3 & 4). Not only am I planning on continuting with the era between the Jaguar and the Dreamcast, but I am also planning on doing a section on Handhelds such as the Gameboy, and possibly another misc section.
Feel free to subscribe to my feed for updates.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/RetrogamingWithRacketb oy
Keep the contributions flowing! :)

I listen to podcasts. The DJNewStyle Show is a good one - 2 hour show nearly twice a week. Pretty funny stuff.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/DJNewStyle

It's the other way around. When an image is uploaded the Commons, you can instantly use it in all Wikimedia projects by specifying its filename. Anyone who is motivated to do so can watch the stream of newly uploaded images and add them to the right Wikipedia articles, Wikibooks pages, Wikinews stories, etc. This happens, which explains the redundancy you see -- the Wikimedia Commons is first of all a media archive for the Wikimedia projects. However, material is originally uploaded there, not the other way around.

With almost 350,000 files, it's shaping up to become the largest archive of free content photos, sounds and other media files (we're not too big on videos yet). I've personally uploaded reproductions of 10,000 public domain paintings that were donated by a German publisher, and I operate FlickrLickr, a collaborative project to find useful Creative Commons licensed photos on Flickr (we've uploaded over 4,000 photos already). So Wikimedia Commons very much has an identity of its own.

As for Wikibooks, I do not agree about its state. While most books are still incomplete, that doesn't make them useless. Take a look at the recently featured books of the month, such as Blender 3D: Noob to Pro. Sure, they can all still use work, but they're already useful resources for various topics. Importantly, this is the kind of Wikimedia project that is likely to see substantial outside grants in the future, because it ties into the whole "Let's help the developing world" vision that Wikimedia espouses (textbooks in developing countries are often more expensive than they are here!). It might be interesting to start paying people to edit and finalize some textbooks.

Wikinews has produced over 3,500 stories in the English version alone in a year, so while I agree that it's not an alternative to a newspaper (which primarily makes use of licensed newsfeeds), I think we've made some good progress, and I do recommend adding the English RSS feed to your favorite reader - it is often refreshingly different from other news sources in its priorities.

The projects you cite I would actually count as the most successful so far. Wikisource (which is mostly a Project Gutenberg clone) and Wikiquote (which seems very dubious in terms of being "free content") are of less interest; Wikispecies and Wiktionary are of little value without specialized software that adds structure to the data contained in these projects (incidentally, I am working on a project called "Wikidata" to change that).

GeekNights is a late night show for geeks. It's pretty new, but it's done by a couple of slashdotters, and I like it.

GeekNights Feedburner Feed

The weirdest podcasts ever: http://feeds.feedburner.com/weirdos http://feeds.feedburner.com/weirdosvideo not for normal people...

The weirdest podcasts ever: http://feeds.feedburner.com/weirdos http://feeds.feedburner.com/weirdosvideo not for normal people...

Space.com just launched a great new (and cool sounding) podcast here. Space.com Podcast. Feels like a Disney ride!

If you like a good, broad mix of Science - new science, hard science, pop science, historical science and very silly science, listen to Discovery.

Discovery is produced by a different subset of the team every week. We have the latest and most unusual in science news, science features and interviews.

The Discovery archives are hosted on archive.org. We put the http://feeds.feedburner.com/Discoveryradio feed to iTunes when they opened for business last week. People seem to like our production values. If you do listen and have a comment then please email us.

Personally, I download MP3 shows to CDRW and listen to them on my multi-codec CD player.

If you like a good, broad mix of Science - new science, hard science, pop science, historical science and very silly science, listen to Discovery.

Discovery is produced by a different subset of the team every week. We have the latest and most unusual in science news, science features and interviews.

The Discovery archives are hosted on archive.org. We put the http://feeds.feedburner.com/Discoveryradio feed to iTunes when they opened for business last week. People seem to like our production values. If you do listen and have a comment then please email us.

Personally, I download MP3 shows to CDRW and listen to them on my multi-codec CD player.

There is quite a bit of interesting free content if you look around. This guy has done a piece on a Fire Festival out of Japan. http://feeds.feedburner.com/kyotopodcastvideo

It's really hard to measure blogs from a number of angles. Everyone always claims that your data is biased and there's still debate over what a 'blog' actually is... Feedburner is in a good place to measure blogs. I blogged about their stats last week.

There's also a lot of debate on the quality of various Blog search engines such as Technorati, Feedster, and IceRocket. I'm thinking of creating a meta indexer which simply monitors 100 real blogs at 1-5 minute intervals and then determines how quickly the blog search engines index them.

I'd love help if anyone's interested. I just don't have much time......

• RSS/Atom feed to blog search results (blog search sites like IceRocket allow for this)
• Meta-stats on the 'blogosphere' (excuse me for using that term). Basically be able to see trends in keywords and whatnot. Like Google Zeitgeist, but for blogs.
• Integration with Google's Search History. At the moment, my blog searches on Google aren't showing up in my search history.
• Ability to add my blog - that is, let me enter the URL to my blog's RSS or Atom feed.
• Stats on the individual blog level - how many times did my blog show up in search results? How many click throughs? Eventually I hope Google provides a service like FeedBurner. They have the data and infrastructure there, so I don't see why they wouldn't/couldn't.

I tried with Firefox 1.0.6 on Mac (OSX 10.3.9) and IE 6 on a PC running XP and I could not get the RSS feed to work. I tried my own podcast feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/Supplemental and that worked just fine.

"approved list of feeds" I don't believe this to be true. My podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/Supplementalfeed works fine. (although I can't rule out an "unapproved list of feeds)

Searching on his Google ID

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&p=p ub-7461244205906982

Shows only 2 entries
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalPhotographyBlog

and the ProBlogger one.

Since he's not allowed to have multiple Google Adsense accounts, he must only have 2 sites.

1. I recently had a slightly difficult time getting the webmaster of a popular Country artist site to understand that linking a MP3 to a website doesn't make that MP3 a podcast. He was initially insulted by my suggestion he include an RSS feed to make the file a true podcast. Fortunately, there were plenty of links at http://www.ipodder.org/ to share with him that showed him how RSS is the magic ingredient. It wasn't that he couldn't roll RSS code; he was a competent coder. He, like most of the public out there, was simply misinformed. Let's face it, RSS is wicked geeky and trying to explain it to somebody is often an exercize in futility (See the end of Josh's vlog on the subject - lesson #4). After all, isn't Really Simple Syndication such an obvious sort of technology that you wonder why somebody had to invent it in the first place? ;)

   But if you want to see how completely the public misunderstands just what the heck a podcast is check out Bill Gate's first podcast as an example. The MEDC site refers to it as a "Video Podcast", but on film they just call it a podcast, so if you are new to podcasting then this is what you are going to think a podcast is: a video broadcast via WMV. Obviously there's a slight problem here in that podcasts are audio enclosures via RSS and vlogs are video enclosures via RSS. One could argue that this is a simply an exercize in semantics, or one could argure that Bill & Co. are once again trying to embrace and extend a technology/term for their own purposes. But the main result is that the common guy isn't going to have a clue about any of this. He only knows what he is told.

   So, IMO, iTunes adding podcast support is a really good thing. This will help solidify the meaning of the word "podcast" before more confusion sets in. (Of course, if Steve & Co. are also embracing and extending...)

2. As for podcasts being "Wayne's World for radio", sometimes that is the case. If I have to download another walk to the (backyard shed, park, bigwig meeting, etc) soundseeing tour on Daily Source Code I will scream, or just not subscribe anymore. Vlogs can be just as bad. I've seen some kid animate her Barbies in a sordid romance, a guy video tape his trip home from work, and somebody wash their dirty sink to music. Not winning content by any means. However, like anything out there, there is crap and there is gold. And then there's the whole realm inbetween. YMMV, but podcasts are turning out to be an alternative form of entertainment. Don't write them off before trying out some of the more interesting ones. I wouldn't recommend sampling them at random if you don't have the time or patience to filter out the dross.
   
   I know that tech podcasts get covered here a lot. Maybe some of you might enjoy these music podcasts:
   • http://carmenrasmusen.com/audio/idolupdate.xml - Carmen Rasmusen of American Idol fame gives the inside dope on what happens after the cameras shut off.
   • http://feeds.feedburner.com/BitzOfBrin - a thirteen year old girl talks about getting into the music biz and tracks her progress. She's not bad at all.
   • http://composerplanet.com/speechless/index.xml - Speechless covers instrumental music from rock to electronica. Very fascinating stuff.
   • http://www.coverville.com/index.xml - Coverville is a popular podcast featuring covers of well known music done by obscure and well

• CronCast - http://www.croncast.com/wp-rss2_2.php
• Lascivious Biddies - http://feeds.feedburner.com/Biddycast (Wonderful independent music group.)
• Keith and the Girl - http://shitecom.libsyn.com/rss
• Coverville - http://www.coverville.com/index.xml (Great little show featuring all cover songs)
• Distorted View - http://www.distortedview.com/show/index.xml (Compare to a News of the Weird report done by Conan O'Brian on steriods.

Wikinews currently has a human-maintained RSS feed here, and a feed of all new pages here; as I replied to the other poster, code for category RSS feeds has been written. It has been temporarily deactivated for security concerns, which should be addressed in the next few days.

• Apple - RSS
• Microsoft - (RSS)
• Google - (RSS)
• Yahoo! - (RSS)
• IBM - (RSS)

• Apple - RSS
• Microsoft - (RSS)
• Google - (RSS)
• Yahoo! - (RSS)
• IBM - (RSS)

• Apple - RSS
• Microsoft - (RSS)
• Google - (RSS)
• Yahoo! - (RSS)
• IBM - (RSS)

• Apple - RSS
• Microsoft - (RSS)
• Google - (RSS)
• Yahoo! - (RSS)
• IBM - (RSS)

• Apple - RSS
• Microsoft - (RSS)
• Google - (RSS)
• Yahoo! - (RSS)
• IBM - (RSS)

That started at least two years ago.

The major search engines will pick up the majority of RSS/Blog based tools this year to intergrate or just to 'have'.

I predict FeedBurner will be one of the next to go

Nothing is free. If you want free music, the closest you can get is music that you don't have to pay a fee to download. But because you don't have a record label filtering out crappy content for you, you have to spend time and effort either (1) lucking into quality content or (2) finding a free filter. On the other hand, it doesn't take too much time to find a handfull of quality podcasts. It's probably pretty cheap to invest a couple of hours finding good free content filters for yourself. If you can entertain yourself with free content, go for it. I recommend starting here or here. Cheers.

Sony may be able to do that with the 65nm final design, when it arrives some time in 2006. Then we'll see.

Even then, there are other considerations that may make it a less-than-ideal fit for a general purpose computer - all those vector units are great for number crunching, but how much of that do you do each day? And when you're not, that's 3/4 of the cost of your chip sitting around idle. There are more cost-effective alternatives.

64-bit PPC on it has VMX. That's Altivec, baby. Sure, the SPE's don't have the full functionality of VMX but so what.

Read Part II of the article - it's not a full implementation of VMX (the SPEs don't have VMX at all - they have a different instruction set altogether). Hannibal believes the weak VMX implementation will be a major downside for Apple. Then there's the lack of out-of-order execution etc.

The biggest issue I see is that the Cell's design requires the programmer to have full control of the machine.

Not so. That's what operating systems are for. SPEs would be treated as a shared resource - you ask the OS to loan you one, and if you get it, you run your code on it. Or, you ask the OS to run your code, and it schedules it onto an available SPE when it can.

My only problem with this, is that I run a small site on a 512KBps(down)/1024KBps(up) connection, and I get the equilivant of a slashdot effect every 30 minutes because of all the RSS feed readers.

1) Are you sure you're setting the correct HTTP response codes to let users know that content has/has not been updated? This can solve the problem for about 85% of your users, I would imagine.

2) Consider using a 3rd-party feed provider, such as FeedBurner. It will even give you most of the statistics you would get if you hosted the feed yourself.

There's a very interesting post on kottke.org that discusses online applications in relation to weblogs. I quote:

Taking the weblog example to the extreme, you could use TypePad to write a weblog entry; Flickr to store your photos; store some mp3s (for an mp3 blog) on your ISP-hosted shell account; your events calendar on Upcoming; use iCal to update your personal calendar (which is then stored on your .Mac account); use GMail for email; use TypeKey or Flickr's authentication system to handle identity; outsource your storage/backups to Google or Akamai; you let Feedburner "listen" for new content from all those sources,
transform/aggregate/filter it all, and publish it to your Web space; and you manage all this on the Web at each individual Web site or with a Watson-ish desktop client.

And an RSS feed.

Everyone restart your browser at the top of the hour ;-)

Use FeedBurner as your public newsfeed to let their smart servers handle the brunt of the attack, plus you get stats and format independence (publish both RSS & Atom from 1 feed).