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• Tim Coyne’s Best Work is Unkempt Not that I’ve listened to any of the standard fare from the The Hollywood Podcast, but the Unkempt series is superb. Superb. This series is what podcasting is made for. These stories couldn’t be told in any other form. These stories are more intimate and more entertaining than any of the ‘Your Name Here Show’ podcasts.
• gPod Update: Joyeur replaces JoCo There’s been a shuffle over at the gPod. Since JoCo’s Thing a Week project is over (go buy the discs) - I’ve replaced it with the equally geeky and entertaining Joyent podcast. The banter between Dave, Jason and the others is almost exactly what I want from a technology conversation podcast - just that little
• Abstruse, I Am My preferences over at AmigoFish were described as ‘abstruse’ (difficult to comprehend) the other day. Good word and much nicer than, say, ‘hyper-critical’. In an effort to provide some clarity, here are a few notes on what I’m looking for in (video) podcast-land. Podcasts in General Enthusiasm and constructiveness. 2-3 people having an intelligent conversation (no panels). Big, deep, timeless
• Sex And Podcasting Replaced With 43Folders I got word this weekend that Mike O’Connor has closed up shop on this community podcasting site - Sex and Podcasting. I’ll miss S&P - haven’t listened to the Geezercast, and love the premise. This means there’s an opening on my gPod. No worries, it was quickly filled by Merlin Mann’s 43Folders podcast. Merlin had me
• Validating Replacement WordPress RSS 2.0 File for iTunes 4.9 This file has been rolled into the full WP-iPodcatter plugin for easier maintenance and more flexiblity. Apple’s iTunes 4.9 looks for special tags in podcast feeds [pdf] to populate their directory and categorize the podcast. Despite my mixed feelings on them adding new tags that seem to duplicate old tags, they’ve done it. Edd Dumbill has