I don't think video podcasting will take off in the same way as audio podcasting.
It's technically pretty easy to make a decent sounding audio podcast (are we going to have to call it that from now on?). All you need is a decent microphone to record it on, a piece of software to edit it with and you're good. Recording voice so that it sounds good and natural is easy.
Making a decent video podcast is more demanding. I know good video cameras are getting cheaper and cheaper but no matter the quality of the camera you're still looking at somebody's home video unless the lighting is done properly, the sound is recorded by someone who knows what they're doing[1] and you're looking at a person who does not look like he's living in his mom's basement.
In short, a lot more can go wrong when you're moving from just sound to sound and video.
Commercial video podcasting may be interesting. It would be cool to get the news to put on your video iPod. But I think that will be made obsolete pretty quickly with some sort of wireless broadband and mobile phones.
[1] Recording sound for an audio podcast is easy. You speak directly into the microphone. If you have to film the damn thing you'd better move the microphone out of the picture or get a contact mic. Otherwise it will look extremely bad.
The main difference between Microsoft and Apple as I see it: Apple makes great software and hardware. Microsoft makes crappy software and decent hardware.
Lots of people love Apple. This has nothing to do with the company's treatment of rumour sites or any other legal matters. It has to do with the great hardware and software Apple makes.
I see, so your moral argument is "it's ok as long as were making money at it"? That's really nice. Maybe we can make some money selling crack to baby's, I hear there's a market.
I actually don't think there's a very large market for crack for babies. I mean, what parent in their right mind lets their baby smoke crack? And not many babies have money of their own to spend on crack.
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Yeah, I can tell by your sig.
I always suspected... uhm, what were we talking about again?
Yeah, a major vulcano eruption. That's just what we need after all the hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and the tsunami.
Now all they get is \. ridicule and suspicious glares.
Backslashdot!?
Slashdot: Don't fear the penguins. Fear the friggin' dolphins!
Wow that Lesbian Linux really needs to stop trying to make money off the Debian logo (which is trademarked IIRC).
What OS do you think will be on a computer that you buy two years from now?
OS X 10.6.
Faster reboots? What flavour Linux are you running?
No, really. I'm curious.
I'm all for running Linux, but the two distros I've had on this laptop (SUSE and Ubuntu) have both rebooted slower than Windows XP.
There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. And that was one.
I don't think video podcasting will take off in the same way as audio podcasting.
It's technically pretty easy to make a decent sounding audio podcast (are we going to have to call it that from now on?). All you need is a decent microphone to record it on, a piece of software to edit it with and you're good. Recording voice so that it sounds good and natural is easy.
Making a decent video podcast is more demanding. I know good video cameras are getting cheaper and cheaper but no matter the quality of the camera you're still looking at somebody's home video unless the lighting is done properly, the sound is recorded by someone who knows what they're doing[1] and you're looking at a person who does not look like he's living in his mom's basement.
In short, a lot more can go wrong when you're moving from just sound to sound and video.
Commercial video podcasting may be interesting. It would be cool to get the news to put on your video iPod. But I think that will be made obsolete pretty quickly with some sort of wireless broadband and mobile phones.
[1] Recording sound for an audio podcast is easy. You speak directly into the microphone. If you have to film the damn thing you'd better move the microphone out of the picture or get a contact mic. Otherwise it will look extremely bad.
Will the release of this thing be delayed just like with the PSP?
Who can offer an educated guess?
The main difference between Microsoft and Apple as I see it: Apple makes great software and hardware. Microsoft makes crappy software and decent hardware.
Lots of people love Apple. This has nothing to do with the company's treatment of rumour sites or any other legal matters. It has to do with the great hardware and software Apple makes.
BSD never seems to get the mainstream headlines like Linux does - anyone know why?
No cute penguin.
Perhaps EU will recognise now the political and business gain in open source development.
Nelson Muntz voice: Ha ha!
I actually don't think there's a very large market for crack for babies. I mean, what parent in their right mind lets their baby smoke crack? And not many babies have money of their own to spend on crack.
I'm just saying, that's all...
(avoid the i* stuff and only go with the power* stuff).
There is a PowerPod?
There is an iPC processor?
How To Survive A Zombie Attack
Good thing my password is *********.
The operators of the scanners are only allowed to scan people of the same sex as themself.
So only free pr0n if you're a homosexual, then?
It takes a Terminator to defeat Skynet. It takes a script kiddie and a buffer overflow to defeat Windows.
Did you not see Terminator 3?
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I'm in Europe, you insensitive clod!
(Oh well, I wouldn't watch the damn thing anyways...)
I don't get it. Are you implying that Slashdotters change their underwear?
Damn! You beat me to it!
It wasn't all that great. I might not show up next time (i.e. in your "future").