Slashdot Mirror
Premiere Episode of Slashdot Radio:Geeks in Space
We've been working on this for awhile and we're excited
to announce that the premiere broadcast of
Slashdot Radio: Geeks in Space
is officially online. We plan to do this weekly at first
and pick up steam depending on demand. Essentially, hemos,
nate & I sit in a bedroom at the Geek Compound and babble
about whatever we think is interesting on Slashdot. Its
available in Real Audio or as an MP3. Thanks to The Sync for setting us up with this. The link below
has a few comments about what we're planning on doing.
- We can't currently do real time. We're getting a faster connection run to the Geek Compound (Rock on Andover ;) and then we might consider it.
- We can do call-ins, and will probably do it soon
- Too long? Too short? We don't have any real limits here, so my guess is that in the future we'll talk until we run out of things to say. I'd rather do daily 5 minute broadcasts than a weekly half hour tho- I think the rapid nature of Slashdot lends itself more towards short bits anyway.
- We didn't simply want to read Slashdot, so we go off a bit on tangents. We think it's fun, we hope you do too.
- So anyway, you can email us with questions, comments, and suggestions, we're open to constructive criticisms. And we promise next week will suck less.
Slashdot in a written format is intelligent, and well thought-out. There is a large group of people participating, which leads to some very intelligent thoughts being expressed. But a call-in talk show may have a severe quality control problem. Ever watch that call in tech help show on ZDTV? The questions are often half-answered by someone who isn't really qualified to even understand the question. (And how many times have you said, "He wasn't asking about THAT. He was asking..." ?
Of course, Rob isn't an idiot. But I would think that a call-in would have to be more, forgive me, Donahue style focused than Joe Random calling and asking why he's having trouble with beta drivers connecting to a proprietary storage area network on a version of Debian Linux that is four revs back.
Does this mean people will prank-call in to say "MEEPT!" and hang up? (:
don't get a web cam. last thing I wanna see is you 3 runnin around in your underwear no offense, just my personal opinion :)
my god you guys are nerds :)
Radio show? Fine. Just don't make it, as Jon Katz says, "as likely to see a Pokemon critter or digital camera" as a news story here these days. A site that focuses on news is good. A site that tries to be all things geeks is a site that does all things poorly.
Yes, get a web cam!!
Have a Happy.
Careful guys, don't give out your phone number for the show. Get another line or else you are going to end up with 13 year olds crank calling at 3am.
"If you are falling, dive." -Joseph Campbell
However, a couple of nitpics and suggestions.
1) Keep the 3 of you on the show, but post sticky-notes all over the place that remind you that only 2 can talk at a time. It works.
2) Ditch the guitar rifs and sound effects. Geek funny is a good thing, but try your best not to turn it into a morning zoo.
3) If you're going to take phonecalls, avoid playing tech support. It just aint entertainment.
Nice show..
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Keep it up, you'll get better. And I love the Devo-esque theme music. You might want to go one more step and actually just use Devo for your theme, perhaps slightly modified...
Are we not geeks?"
We are Slashdot!
Are we not geeks?
S-L-A-ashdot!
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There is no K5 cabal.
I am not the real rusty.
I found the original site painfully slow so I've mirrored the mp3 here.
What next? Slashdot Trading Cards?
Here in Ontario Canada, I'm actually do a ;-p ) and then an hour of a particular
:-) Anyhoo, like someone else said though, try to get a woman on the show sometimes, it will really make a big difference (Just think, three men, alone, together chatting it up about stuff they like... we all know where that goes! Or not... *blink*)
.mp3/.ra on MY radio show as the 30 minute opener? I'll plug Slashdot all you want (I do all the time anyway).. Would be cool to have more voices on air...
:)
one and a half hour radio show with my girlfriend
on all things relating to geekdom every
friday... Technically, we talk about the news
for the first 30 minutes (generally reading stuff
from Slashdot and other news sites, but mostly
here
topic (last week was history of gaming, this
week, tomorrow, will be about, er, shite, we
didn't plan anything yet!!) Anyway, you get
the point...
I wanted to write out some suggestions and stuff, since I've been doing radio for years now, I decided that'd be no fun - considering Slashdot's nature (geeky and anarchic), most of my suggestions would make things more boring...
Anyway, hearing your voices IRL will definitely be cool... Er, now that I think of it, can I ask for permission to use the
Anyway, have fun on the air waves... There's -always- gonna be something to talk about... Just don't kill each other, and you'll be fine... GL
GSM is the main method of compression in the speekfreely telephony sw (www.speakfreely.org)
Would be really cool to call in via the Net!
Maybe you could even use SF's multicast feature to broadcast.
Three people talking at once is too disconcerting to listen to. It would be better if just two of :)
you did the show. It would be even better if one of you were a chick
Like Howard Stern, has Slashdot become totally fascinated with itself? Can we expect to hear rob begging the geek of the day guest to show his transparent pilot case off to the web camera, whilst Hemos giggles insanely in the background?
...
(makes mental picture)
Argh!
I think they should just run a linux phone in problem line..
Rob: "Hi this is Rob and you're On the Air"
Caller: "Hi Rob, first, I would just like to say, I really dig your show.."
Rob: "Cool thanks, icq9 your friends to recommend us, now whats your problem?"
Caller: "Well, Rob, See, this is kinda embarassing..."
Rob: "Go ahead, you are amongst friends here"
Caller: "Ok... the problem is, i cant hack my own sendmail files, but I cant admit it to my friends.. I wanna know, like, is this normal?"
Rob: "Wow what a loser... hey buddy, dont bother us with this stuff, go call up cnet instead.."
*click*
Rob: "You know.. everymorning, as I get up and turn on the ANDOVER NET TV channel, I think to myself, gee isnt ANDOVER NETWORK a cool thing to have piped to your 3dscope, and for only 9.95 world credits a month... I personally couldnt get through the slashdot day without ANDOVER NET, and i am not just being paid to say that, i really mean it.... and now over to hemos for todays regular tip spot on microsoft ASP-2003 programming"
Also: the sooner you can take live callers, the better. I hosted a few talk shows on my college radio station. It was a lot more interesting when outside listeners called in to debate issues; without callers, my friends and I just ended up verbally harrassing each other on the air - while a lot of fun for us, this got boring to listen to very quickly.
Either of you play guitar?