I'm a podcaster, and this model is not only DRm'ed, it's also behind closed doors, and not open.
Feedburner seems to have a better tack on it, as it can reliably provide stats for free. Audible's model is a little scummy on the skim job. Feedburner coudl be the source for reliable stats for advertisers in the future.
As for revenue, I think that people are turned off by ads, but that seems to be where everyone is turning. It seems that listeners support is better, as if people like what you are doing, they might be willing to give you a couple of bucks a month via a Paypal subscribe.
The whole podcast expo seemed to be about how to sell Preparation H and iDogs in your podcast. If you feel people want to listen to that, go ahead, but podcasting's success is based largely around non-commercial radio and niche.
If there could be a non-annoying way to advertise, fine. But it seems that a ton of people are going to be begging for corporate dough, and wondering why no one is listening to their show anymore, as it has been changed to the Fibercon iDog Gizmondo Hour, fueled by Dew.
I looked around for a decent indie podcast for awhile, and found 75 MInutes, and it's great.
It has an iTunes feed that includes chapters, pictures, and links, so I can skip a song or two I don't like. Very nice. I wish more people would include that.
Also, it includes songs from independent artists from all over the world. From Japan to Belgium. I would never have found that kind of stuff on my own. Very cool.
In your case, I suppose you see what you want to see.
Oh your right, the church is really good and really right, no matter what the history or the direct quotes might attest to. Blood atonement is just another word for "happy playtime goodie goodie fun time." They weren't really killed, they were pampered and bathed in milk and honey and given three virgins to have their way with.
I don't understand this need for Mormons to defend an institution even after being hit in the face with a least a few facts. I mean it isn't as if the church today is as blood-obsessed as it was back then. What's the use in re-writing history? Are you just supposed to forget that baddy baddy icky stuff?
If you actually look into the sources, and not the church propaganda, you'll see clearly enough. But I suppose trying to convince someone like yourself is a waste of time. You will defend until you collapse, no matter the truth.
Young did have a secret police. They did dispose of heathens and non-beleivers, and dissent wasn't an option in the strictest sense. Who gives a shit whether he fought with his wives, or didn't like cattle sales or buttermilk, or whatever bullshit you are talking about. Order out here was defined by fanatical loyalty.
I mean what do you want? You think they kept records on this crap? You want the police report? The prophet dude telling you that Brigham ordered killings? Jesus...
There are many sources that back up the claim of killings and blood atonement. Just connect the dots...
LOL. You're proving my point. Perhaps you should read more history, you may surprise your assumptions over the governance of Mr. Young.
My point is simply that you cannot separate cleanly religion and politics in Utah. They coexist.
Just to fill you in, though, Young had a kind of secret police that kept people in line, and assassinated people who were out of step. Dissent really wasn't an option.
It's an interesting read, and Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about as well it in his novel "The Valley of Fear."
I was making an implication, not an assertion of truth. Are you telling me that the Church supports a pro-choice, civil libertarian agenda? Please...
Although they don't give official support in a press release, doesn't mean that they don't have a pull in Utah politics.
You obviously don't understand the political context of this state, which has had a religious element from the very beginning. After all, Brigham Young was a first elected governor of Utah with close to Saddam-like 96% (or so) of the populace.
I'm also from Utah, an ardent Democrat, and there's no chance in hell Hatch will be kicked out of office.
The problem is that he already has a ton of power and pull in Washington where seniority rules. He's chairman of the most esteemed committee in Washington, and has blessing from the Church.
The only person that has a shot to beat him is someone like Rocky Anderson, Salt Lake's Mayor, (also featured on Insomniac tonight) and they would make him out to be the next coming of the devil. After all, he's for (shock) environmental concern, and civil liberties! Utah is a recessive state. Or at least for now...
Face it, Utah politics is as complacent as it gets, and probably why Orrin can say this kind of silliness and get away with it.
How can I stand to watch the Lebanese lesbian hour, oprah-robics, the plenitude of "safe men" movies, Xena, SheCommerse, or the 5 hour relationship advice show with a black bar sitting on the bottom of the screen? Not to mention their tech show: "Web Grrrls rockin' the Net with a Message about Domestic Violence."
Damn you, Oxygen Network, shape up! Or I plan to start a campaign to boycott all of your sponsors. Even Slim-Fast.
I own both a PS2 and a GameCube because in my opinion they are the only systems worth buying. i have played Demos on several games for the Xbox and found them all to mave very poor controllabillity and for me that is the most important thing of any game.
I do not care that Halo looks graphicly awsome i tried to play it and i could hardly walk around the room. I would much rather play Perfect Dark (N64) for five minutes then to Own Halo on an Xbox. Also the football game that microsoft makes is awfull and nothing like Madden or NFL 2K2. all the games made directly by microsoft have always sucked they sould go back to making Office and windows better and lay off the games.
I would love to own Halo but not on the Xbox i would like to play it on my PC as with most of the Xbox games. they are mainly PC games made into a console game. On the PS2 and Cube they have been making games for consoles for 15 years or more microsoft is just starting and SUCKS at it.
To me there are really no games for the Xbox that make me want to go buy one
For my GameCube i have
Suber Monkey Ball (VERY FUN My favorite)
Super Smash Brothers malee
Madden 2002
Pikmin
Waverace
For my PS2 i have
Twisted metal
Grand Theft Auto 3
Super Bust-A-Move
Final Fantasy X
I am a hard core Nintendo fan and have had every system since the NES so i guess you could call me a Nintendo bies. but around christmas i was thinking of buying one of the other systems for a wider variety of games. so i compared the Xbox and the PS2.
Before i even looked at the game selection i compared just the look and feel of the two systems. The PS2 had a nice feeling and easily controllabe controller and the console is about the size of a normal DVD player and looks very nice.
On the othe hand the Xbox controller is Much to big. it simply is not desined correctly for my hands at all it just did not feel right and the jewel buttons that it has are awful. the console is a Gigantic compared with the other two. It is the size of a PC tower and way to big for a gamming console, i really don't like how it looks eather it is trying to be to flashy with the big XBOX bubble thing in the middle and designed like a big X. I feel as thogh Microsoft is trying to program me into buying their product
They are both Equally pricend and both have a DVD player
then i noteced their game selection. since the PS2 had been out for a full year it odviously had more games than did thee Xbox. but i the large advantage to the PS2 is that it ans the hundreds of good quallity games for the PS1 i could play. I love final fantace and more so Grand theft auto 3. i saw no games that even came close on the Xbox that i would love so much
So in short THE XBOX SUCKS. I don't care about it's "better graphics" if it does not have good controllabillity. I think Nintendo and Sony will continue to peoduce great console games in the future and be far better then everthing that the Xbox can put out. I think that all the defects the Xbox has is due to the fact that it is not really a game console but a PC in a pretty box that you hook up to your TV and has a controller insted of a keybord and mouse. The PS2 and Cube are much better gamming CONSOLES and will outlast the Xbox in the future due to their loyal gammers that want the best games there is to have.
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I'm a podcaster, and this model is not only DRm'ed, it's also behind closed doors, and not open.
Feedburner seems to have a better tack on it, as it can reliably provide stats for free. Audible's model is a little scummy on the skim job. Feedburner coudl be the source for reliable stats for advertisers in the future.
As for revenue, I think that people are turned off by ads, but that seems to be where everyone is turning. It seems that listeners support is better, as if people like what you are doing, they might be willing to give you a couple of bucks a month via a Paypal subscribe.
The whole podcast expo seemed to be about how to sell Preparation H and iDogs in your podcast. If you feel people want to listen to that, go ahead, but podcasting's success is based largely around non-commercial radio and niche.
If there could be a non-annoying way to advertise, fine. But it seems that a ton of people are going to be begging for corporate dough, and wondering why no one is listening to their show anymore, as it has been changed to the Fibercon iDog Gizmondo Hour, fueled by Dew.
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http://www.75minutes.com/
I looked around for a decent indie podcast for awhile, and found 75 MInutes, and it's great.
It has an iTunes feed that includes chapters, pictures, and links, so I can skip a song or two I don't like. Very nice. I wish more people would include that.
Also, it includes songs from independent artists from all over the world. From Japan to Belgium. I would never have found that kind of stuff on my own. Very cool.
Well.
In your case, I suppose you see what you want to see.
Oh your right, the church is really good and really right, no matter what the history or the direct quotes might attest to. Blood atonement is just another word for "happy playtime goodie goodie fun time." They weren't really killed, they were pampered and bathed in milk and honey and given three virgins to have their way with.
I don't understand this need for Mormons to defend an institution even after being hit in the face with a least a few facts. I mean it isn't as if the church today is as blood-obsessed as it was back then. What's the use in re-writing history? Are you just supposed to forget that baddy baddy icky stuff?
If you actually look into the sources, and not the church propaganda, you'll see clearly enough. But I suppose trying to convince someone like yourself is a waste of time. You will defend until you collapse, no matter the truth.
Young did have a secret police. They did dispose of heathens and non-beleivers, and dissent wasn't an option in the strictest sense. Who gives a shit whether he fought with his wives, or didn't like cattle sales or buttermilk, or whatever bullshit you are talking about. Order out here was defined by fanatical loyalty.
I mean what do you want? You think they kept records on this crap? You want the police report? The prophet dude telling you that Brigham ordered killings? Jesus...
There are many sources that back up the claim of killings and blood atonement. Just connect the dots...
Well, here's a start:
Secret Police
And here's a longer explanation:
Direct quotes on "blood atonement"
I'm sure there's more. I guess your ancestors' dissent was negligible.
LOL. You're proving my point. Perhaps you should read more history, you may surprise your assumptions over the governance of Mr. Young.
My point is simply that you cannot separate cleanly religion and politics in Utah. They coexist.
Just to fill you in, though, Young had a kind of secret police that kept people in line, and assassinated people who were out of step. Dissent really wasn't an option.
It's an interesting read, and Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about as well it in his novel "The Valley of Fear."
I was making an implication, not an assertion of truth. Are you telling me that the Church supports a pro-choice, civil libertarian agenda? Please...
Although they don't give official support in a press release, doesn't mean that they don't have a pull in Utah politics.
You obviously don't understand the political context of this state, which has had a religious element from the very beginning. After all, Brigham Young was a first elected governor of Utah with close to Saddam-like 96% (or so) of the populace.
So religion has everything to do with it. Guess who's going to be picking our pro-life judges and anti-consumerist judges. Our friend Orrin. And the church has supported campaigns against gay-marriage in Vermont and Hawaii. So you can blow it out your own naiveté.
As soon as the church gives money to a cause outside of its dogma, we'll talk.
I'm also from Utah, an ardent Democrat, and there's no chance in hell Hatch will be kicked out of office.
The problem is that he already has a ton of power and pull in Washington where seniority rules. He's chairman of the most esteemed committee in Washington, and has blessing from the Church.
The only person that has a shot to beat him is someone like Rocky Anderson, Salt Lake's Mayor, (also featured on Insomniac tonight) and they would make him out to be the next coming of the devil. After all, he's for (shock) environmental concern, and civil liberties! Utah is a recessive state. Or at least for now...
Face it, Utah politics is as complacent as it gets, and probably why Orrin can say this kind of silliness and get away with it.
Yes yes, quite right!
How can I stand to watch the Lebanese lesbian hour, oprah-robics, the plenitude of "safe men" movies, Xena, SheCommerse, or the 5 hour relationship advice show with a black bar sitting on the bottom of the screen? Not to mention their tech show: "Web Grrrls rockin' the Net with a Message about Domestic Violence."
Damn you, Oxygen Network, shape up! Or I plan to start a campaign to boycott all of your sponsors. Even Slim-Fast.
I own both a PS2 and a GameCube because in my opinion they are the only systems worth buying. i have played Demos on several games for the Xbox and found them all to mave very poor controllabillity and for me that is the most important thing of any game.
I do not care that Halo looks graphicly awsome i tried to play it and i could hardly walk around the room. I would much rather play Perfect Dark (N64) for five minutes then to Own Halo on an Xbox. Also the football game that microsoft makes is awfull and nothing like Madden or NFL 2K2. all the games made directly by microsoft have always sucked they sould go back to making Office and windows better and lay off the games.
I would love to own Halo but not on the Xbox i would like to play it on my PC as with most of the Xbox games. they are mainly PC games made into a console game. On the PS2 and Cube they have been making games for consoles for 15 years or more microsoft is just starting and SUCKS at it.
To me there are really no games for the Xbox that make me want to go buy one
For my GameCube i have
Suber Monkey Ball (VERY FUN My favorite)
Super Smash Brothers malee
Madden 2002
Pikmin
Waverace
For my PS2 i have
Twisted metal
Grand Theft Auto 3
Super Bust-A-Move
Final Fantasy X
I am a hard core Nintendo fan and have had every system since the NES so i guess you could call me a Nintendo bies. but around christmas i was thinking of buying one of the other systems for a wider variety of games. so i compared the Xbox and the PS2.
Before i even looked at the game selection i compared just the look and feel of the two systems. The PS2 had a nice feeling and easily controllabe controller and the console is about the size of a normal DVD player and looks very nice.
On the othe hand the Xbox controller is Much to big. it simply is not desined correctly for my hands at all it just did not feel right and the jewel buttons that it has are awful. the console is a Gigantic compared with the other two. It is the size of a PC tower and way to big for a gamming console, i really don't like how it looks eather it is trying to be to flashy with the big XBOX bubble thing in the middle and designed like a big X. I feel as thogh Microsoft is trying to program me into buying their product
They are both Equally pricend and both have a DVD player
then i noteced their game selection. since the PS2 had been out for a full year it odviously had more games than did thee Xbox. but i the large advantage to the PS2 is that it ans the hundreds of good quallity games for the PS1 i could play. I love final fantace and more so Grand theft auto 3. i saw no games that even came close on the Xbox that i would love so much
So in short THE XBOX SUCKS. I don't care about it's "better graphics" if it does not have good controllabillity. I think Nintendo and Sony will continue to peoduce great console games in the future and be far better then everthing that the Xbox can put out. I think that all the defects the Xbox has is due to the fact that it is not really a game console but a PC in a pretty box that you hook up to your TV and has a controller insted of a keybord and mouse. The PS2 and Cube are much better gamming CONSOLES and will outlast the Xbox in the future due to their loyal gammers that want the best games there is to have.