Quick, like a bunny
I'm not supposed to link to this column by Bill O'Reilly--here's why.
Today's earworm: Scent of a Robot
First, The Gates. Now, The Crackers.
About Podcasts, Bill Seitz rants:
alternative idea for filling your dead passive-listening time - have software to generate speech from RSS and make that into an MP3 file
This makes me giggle because, well, it's one of the hacks I wrote up for my book, last week. I probably need to edit things, but I hope the goofiness and sheer hack value comes through.
Speaking of Podcasts: Check out the Battlestar Galactica Podcast. It's like getting the DVD commentary track, but about a year early. Finally, my hunch is confirmed that Battlestar Galactica's opening sequence with episode preview is "an homage to Space 1999".
Lately, my favorite thing to toss back at Podcast naysayers: Dismissing Podcasts because of issues of quality or amateurism is like dismissing eBay because people try selling their used sneakers there.
Meanwhile, I've just about got a full commute to and from work filled with pretty good quality content--or at least decently entertaining content (to me)--to the point that I've almost stopped listening to NPR. Also, it's becoming a rapidly heating issue at work--not sure if it will go where I hope it does, but I've started getting drafted to educate some co-workers in other departments.
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