Category: Podcast
Carbon Trading in the US and Minnesota
If you caught the NPR/National Geographic segment on the European carbon trading efforts you may have gotten the impression that:
- the price of being carbon neutral is so low (+2%) that it’s irresponsible not to pay it.
- a market for carbon dioxide, mandatory or otherwise, didn’t exist stateside.
True on the former, false on the latter. First Crack 102 is a conversation about the Chicago Climate Exchange and the University of Minnesota.
baldguyshow calls it my best show to date.
After New Orleans…
“After New Orleans, the people in Baghdad said, ‘Oh, now I get it.'” – Thomas P. M. Barnett
I’m 2/3 of the way through the presentation, and it just keeps getting better.
Why Buying Local, Frontier House, and the Trade Deficit are All Silly
Russ Roberts’ EconTalk is consistently interesting and engaging podcast covering economics as a perspective and a practice.
I spent the first half of this week listening to his hour long conversation with colleague Don Boudreaux on the economics of buying local for the sake of buying local.
Boudreaux and Roberts expand on many of the same points as Roberts’ conversation with Mike Munger on the division of labor and boil it all down to: the division of labor creates wealth. Trade is simply an extended division of labor and a trade deficit with another country is as silly a notion as having a trade deficit with another state, town, or the local grocery store.
Betch’ll Listen
Mark Kermode’s film reviews are quickly approaching ‘must listen podcast’ status. Not only are the reviews hilarious, Mark is at his best when he’s terribly off-topic, like this insightful tidbit from the 23 Feb 2007 installment:
“He’s a Methodist, we don’t bet”
Huh, I wonder if that’s why I’m not a fan of gambling.
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 bit over my head, and completely unserious – except when they’re completely serious.
Color Me Stressed
I took the ColorQuiz 3 times this afternoon. Hear the results
Doc and Hugh, To the Rescue
Because I’m such a Doc Searls and Hugh MacLeod fan, I re-subscribed to a podcast I long ago dismissed (only because I couldn’t download the individual files from the podsh** website.)
Looks like I’m not the only one regretting this decision:
Same goes for Hugh Macleod.
Tip to everyone else in this situation: the roundtable from hell starts after the 4 minute mark.
Leo Laporte Gives Up on Podcasting
I’ve subscribed to the Daily Giz Wiz for quite a while now – the combination of goofy banter, unloved gadgets, generally silliness, and it’s brevity makes for great podcasting. It’s the only TWIT-family podcast I was still subscribed.
Unfortunately, in today’s – #166 – the new TWIT intro calls it a ‘netcast’.
Lame. What’s a ‘netcast’? Do I need a boat and a body of water?
I heard Laporte’s rational for attempting to change the name at the recent 2006 PodcastExpo – he wants Apple to claim trademark of ‘podcast’. A term and media form developed by the podcast community – not Apple.
Double Lame. Rather than standing up to Apple, supporting the podcast community, simplifying the explanation for new listeners, keeping things simple for existing listeners – Laporte gives up.
Like Dave Winer said about RSS vs Atom: Two is more than twice as bad.
This thing – a multimedia file distributed via an RSS feed – is a podcast.
I’m unsubbing from DGW until it’s called a ‘podcast’ or at least a ‘clambake‘. I can’t support a name change and the software I’m using only understands ‘podcasts’.
RELATED 06 APRIL 2007
I completely agree with Tony @ Deep Jive Interests when he says:
“I just don’t see what [leaving Twitter] is going to solve.”
This is another silly publicity stunt from the big twit.
RELATED 09 NOV 2007
Introducing the HijackingWP Script
One of my biggest problems with podcasting is the production process. Even without editing the audio, the process is far too manual to repeat without inherent discouragement (65 podcasts in year 1 and 20 in year 2 should speak to that).
In an effort to publish more and make podcasting as effortless as writing this post, I spent a couple hours last night writing the HijackingWP script.
It’s a little Applescript glue to connect AudioHijackPro (recording), Transmit (uploading), and WordPress (publishing and distribution).
More info at the HijackingWP page.
Oh, and yes, First Crack 86 proves it works. 😉