Fw: [Kfone] tv and radio a broadcast you can listen to
- From: "Dave Hutchins" <dhutchins@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:47:53 -0600
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From: "Kevin Kwan" <kevinkwan@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Dave Hutchins" <dhutchins@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 11:21 PM
Subject: Fw: [Kfone] tv and radio a broadcast you can listen to
> this is an article I snipped out of the Calendar section of today's La
> Times. I thought it might be interesting to some on this list.
>>
>> All you need is a computer, a phone and a gadget from Radio Shack and an
> audience awaits on the web. By John Jorgensen Hartford Current. Jeffrey
> Carokese doesn't need a powerful antenna or a licence from the government
> to
> be a one man radio station. The New Haven, con Psycho therapist put
> together
> his most recent talk show at the kitchen table. Wearing slippers and
> sipping
> a cup of tea, he used a lap top computer, a cell phone, and a thirty
> dollar
> gadget from radio shack to record his weekly program. The final product,
> unlike the conventional radio shows it resembled, never hit the air waves.
> Instead Carikeese posted the show on his web site: introspective.com where
> visitors can download it directly to their computer or, using free
> software
> schedule it to show up automatically on an ipodder other digital music
> player. That is the difference between a broadcast and a podcast, as a
> production such as Carokeese is called. Like am radio on demand, podcasts
> are the audio equivalent of the personal blogs that have proliferated on
> the
> web in recent years, and as such these do it yourself creations have
> literally given voice to a growing cleek, of virtual network of podcasters
> since the technology took off a few months ago. "There are no barriers. I
> can do this whenever and wherever I want," says carokeese 32. Because he
> moonlight's as a web designer, he has the computer skills it takes to
> easily
> launch his podcast which he thinks of as a way to attract clients and coax
> people past the stigma of seeking therapy. "In some circles, it's hip to
> have a therapist but not for everyone," he says In the middle of the night
> they can download the show and noone has to know. The technology making
> that
> possible is a program called Ipodder. Developed in part by Adam Curry (a
> former Mtv video jockey) the acragator available for free at: ipodder.org,
> looks for the shows you subscribe to, grabbing new ones as they appear and
> downloading them to MP3 files or a computer or portable music player that
> you can listen to when you want. Since curry's show, The daily source
> code,
> debuted in august, podcasts have mushroomed across the web. As a sign,
> that
> the trend is emerging from it's infancy, National Public Radio, the BBC
> and
> other major networks have recently started offering some recorded programs
> as podcasts. In Southern California, kcrw fm 89.9, is aggressively
> promoting
> the fact, that many of it's programs are available for downloading. But
> most
> podcasts are home grown affairs and ashamedly amateur. For example, after
> a
> catchy musical intro, Carokeese began his most recent show by apologizing
> to
> his listeners (a few hundred so far) for the shitty sound quality. Even
> though curry's productions are more polished, and more widely heard, he
> often refers to the new equipment and techniques he's tinkering with. The
> town commons of this still insiller community is podcastily.com a clearing
> house and directory of about one thousand, six hundred, podcasts. Though
> there are other directories, podcast alley is where quay size stars are
> made
> via the podcast top ten. Though they generally do not pump out music, that
> could get them in legal shit with the recording industry, Plenty of
> podcasters feature underground or burgeoning bands. Others shows inhabit
> such niches such a wine, films, weight lost and Christian evangelist.
> .
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