Tag Archives: podcasts

Frustrations in using iTunes and iPod to capture podcast listening behavior

Update (15 Mar 2007): So, long rant, but I may have found my problem - I had set podcasts in iTunes to sync only “unplayed episodes” to the iPod, which also seems to imply that they never sync / record data about having been played. Or ratings from the iPod, for that matter. [...]

Podcasts in my car via CDR sneakernet

Since the recent demise of my iPod, I’ve returned to poking around at pre-iPod strategies for listening to podcasts in my car. Hopefully, the little thing will be returned good-as-new from AppleCare-land within the next few days. But until then, I’m left with what I can do using the Blaupunkt MP3 CD player [...]

Spaceship Radio is nifty

Remember when I wrote that I wanted to do a podcast of old time radio scifi? Well, I’ve been beaten to the punch by Andy Doan of Spaceship Radio. Hooray—he’s doing a briliant job, so I don’t have to! Now, if I can just find the spare time, I might work on [...]

Ancestor rocks like a (creepy) rocking thing

The Ancestor podcast, like its predecessor EarthCore, is a fairly formulaic sci-fi slasher tale. But, it sure as hell beats anything on the SciFi Channel’s Saturday nights. And, as I’ve started to get sucked into NBC’s Surface, I keep finding myself comparing it to Scott Sigler’s work. So far, he’s better by [...]