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A Podcast from Network Administrators
MakoStorm writes "The guys over at wehatetech.com have been working really hard on their Podcast. "After This Week in Tech", and others. It was time for a Podcast that others might enjoy. With a bit of ranting, whining, and over all dislike for the dreaded stuff we need to fix every day." The site also offers an open forum to dump your horror stories in an effort to prevent technophiles from going postal.
I used to want Geeks in Space to return as a podcast, but I don't think that would fly anymore. The half dozen or so episodes they managed to pull together were all before 90% of the community developed a sincere hate for the editors.
Also, it was back when there weren't 400 different editors that nobody could remember.
What was once simply common folk making interesting podcasts will soon (if not already) become yet another communication medium saturated with advertisements and promotions, reducing its value.
Possibly, but I disagree, a few posts pack there is an article about independent net radio and similar media, someone brought up 9/11 Truth radio.
There is an enormous appetite for this kind of stuff these days because it's simply not being delivered by the so called mainstream broadcasting at all. On those very rare occasions I switch on the TV, it's just one terrible slice of goverment press releases. It's unwatchable.
When I discovered podcasting (which I'd long avoided as it seemed another shallow buzzword like blogs etc) I was really impressed at some of the content out there which I would call as good as if not better than any commerical mainstream outlet would produce. Even the crap podcasts are well...no more crap than the crap you would hear on the radio.
Ads aren't neccesarily a crime. It really depends on context. Targeted ads (although I tend to block all web page ads) are at least better than generic stupid TV ads or worse still 'state broadcasting' and if it's a podcast rather than a stream you can always skip them of course.
In a nutshell IMHO, if you have something to say ads are ok, if you don't then ads aren't gonna help you anyway.
What I really want to see is a Geeks in Space podcast. I think it's time to revive the show in some form, and Podcasting is an ideal way.
"With a bit of ranting, whining, and over all dislike for the dreaded stuff we need to fix every day." I browsed the forum for 2 minates, and the ONLY thing I could find was ranting, whining and genuine dislike to anything. Why is slashdot even posting about their forum when the story's about podcast? In short, their forum wasn't newsworthy (I'm not sure the podcast is either though)!
I would say as a rule podcasts are not newsworthy, unless they are recorded by someone perticularly noteworthy, or they are particularly popular.
"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Is it just me, or are 99% of the podcasts out there completely braindead."
Tell me about it...I logged into iTunes yesterday and now George W. Bush's weekly radio address is now available as a podcast! I had to subscribe out of morbid curiousity.
Seriously though...there is a lot of crap to filter through, but there are some good ones. My two favorite podcasts are The Word Nerds and Catholic Insider. The Word Nerds are these three DC-area high school teachers that talk about the history and meanings of different words in the English language. Each week focuses on a different aspect of language and there is a "Rude Word of the Week." Catholic Insider is a weekly show hosted by a young Catholic priest in Amswoort, Netherlands, Father Roderick Vonhogen. It is not as overtly religious as you might think. He takes his listeners on soundseeing tours and is somewhat otaku about Star Wars. I'm not a Christian, but I'm a huge fan of his show because it is engaging.
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