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.
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 :)
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.
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?
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(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?