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A Podcast from Network Administrators

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the it-customer-service-breeds-malcontent dept.

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.

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  1. Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by benna · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So true. Seriously, why is slashdot advertising someone's podcast?

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    1. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by Saven+Marek · · Score: 5, Informative

      ok I finished listening to the podcast and I must say it's disappointing this is on the front page of slashdot. If the poor quality mp3 wasn't bad enough, the shrieking and random burping out loud while babbling on like 14 year olds is.

      No wonder some of the commercial station podcasts are climbing up the charts as popular if this is what counts for an amateur one.

  2. Rant rant stupid users by ReformedExCon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Work is so tough.

    But I got time to make a podcast! ;-)

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  3. Businesses Jumping into Podcasting by dotslashdot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Podcasting has really taken off. Many companies are trying to jump into podcasting to target consumers with ads, etc. 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.

    1. Re:Businesses Jumping into Podcasting by uprock_x · · Score: 5, Interesting

      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.

  4. Podcasting eh..? by hagem01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The minute the guy that repairs my bike started to babble about how podcasting was cool I knew it had no future. Bike-guy: "Did you know you can download music and radio stations from the interweb and play it whenever you want? LIVE!" Me: "Live? As in, the radio people wait for you to turn on your MP3 player and then start their show?" Bike-guy: "YES! Is that not fantastic?"

  5. Horror story. by Vo0k · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, I created this site, podcast, forums, submit your own horror story. Spare bandwidth of my company, not much, maybe 1000 hits a day, server working at leisure, no problem. And then some moron submitted the URL to Slashdot...

    First, the corporate site went down. Then I got a call from the ISP that we're taking up 99% of their bandwidth and their customers are complaining. Manager called and told me to stop it at once or I get fired. So I shut the server down, but it didn't help, hordes requesting documents, storm of retry packets. The router began overheating and entered thermal shutdown mode, cutting off most of the LANs of the company. Boss showed up, just nodded watching as a glass of coffee I left on a tiny hub connecting the router with the main modem starts boiling, took his phone, called the CEO and said "Give them all a day off. We're slashdotted." and then looked at me and in terribly calm voice announced: "You. Fix that."

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  6. I hate podcasts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it just me, or are 99% of the podcasts out there completely braindead. I couldn't listen to more than 10 minutes of this one. If you took all of the actual things said in this thing and put it together, you'd end up with 5 minutes of content. Do people actually listen to this junk?

    1. Re:I hate podcasts by Saven+Marek · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'm disappointed in many of them. It seems to be a great way to give broadcasting to the masses, so just anyone can make a radio show as easily as a large commercial radio station.

      Unfortunately as the old cliche goes, this means that just anyone IS making their own radio shows. I'm finding the same stats as you, about 99% are trash, and the ones I've kept listening to are commercial/professional stations who just put their existing radio shows online.

      We need a good freely accessible ratings service for podcasts in different categories. help people sort the chaff from the soap.