Useful podcast guide
For Socratic reasons, it is sometimes necessary to approach complex concepts from the perspective of someone ill-informed and unpleasantly facetious.
So says Tim Dowling introducing a hilarious beginners’ guide to podcasting. His survey takes in the many technology podcasts among others:
Stuff magazine now produces its own monthly podcast, the inaugural episode of which I can only describe as 12.8 megabytes of my life that I will never get back.
Though I’d love an iPod I know I don’t have the time for one. Instead I get my kicks from updating Anna’s Nano with the latest software and upgrading iTunes. But I also like to step back from time to time and be amazed the technology we have today — in a rare moment of seriousness Tim does capture that amazement, too:
If advent of podcasting has proven anything, it is this: computer memory is not the precious resource it once was. Four years ago, an hour-long audio file of some guy gassing about his new phone would not have been worth the space it took up on your hard drive, much less the time it took to download it.
On the bus yesterday I saw a man having an actual videophone conversation with someone. He was holding the phone in front of him, looking directly at his friend on the screen, while she shouted excitedly to him and the rest of the passengers. Not even Star Trek had those things. (Then he pinged the pinger, the bus stopped, and he stepped out. Star Trek did at least have a more dramatic transporter.)
