Category: Podcasting

Listen to The Rock Show’s new project for June, ‘A Track A Day’

[audio:http://archive.org/download/TpnRockTrackadayJune0120130601234/tpn_rock_trackaday_june01_20130601_234.mp3] Bones in the Closet, by Helldorado – helldorado.no – Rock Show permalink – Subscribe in iTunes Time for a little something different (at least for me) during June. The Rock Show podcast has been ticking over for more than eight years now, going through various formats and schedules, but always focusing on bringing unknown music to the listeners. During June I’m not going to be doing any long-form thirty to forty minute shows, instead I’m going to pick one song from one performer every morning, and do a short snack-sized show you can all listen to. By all means share

EFF calls for prior art to fight Podcasting patent suit

Daniel Nazer on the EFF: We’d like to enlist your help to fight this troll. One way to defeat a troll is to prove—either in court or at the patent office—that the claimed invention was not new (or was obvious). In other words, show that the patent applicant didn’t really invent anything. To do this, we need to find publications from before October 2, 1996 that disclose similar or identical ideas (this also known as prior art). The best prior art will include publications describing early versions of podcasting or any other kind of episode distribution over the Internet. I;m drawing

Can I say the Edinburgh Fringe is under way yet?

No. But the starting gun has been fired by the Fringe Society with today’s press launch. As usual, there’s a big press release, highlighting a handful of the 2871 shows that will perform in Edinburgh during August, and almost every name in the press release is ‘big’ enough to interest the mainstream media. Still, that leaves 2821 other shows to investigate!

The implications behind the ‘who named podcasting’ question

What upsets me about Dave Winer’s re-fashioning of the origins of podcasting is not the debate about who got to the name ‘podcast’ first (as Winer points out, he heard this first on September 15th 2004, while Ben Hammersly talked about ‘podcast’ as an alternative to the then accepted term of ‘audioblogging’ on February 12th 2004). I’ll credit Winer and the iPodder-Dev list for adopting the name podcasting for their project, sure. I’ll credit Winer for adding enclosure support to RSS (and that’s the big one, tech wise). But there’s no way that Winer can take credit for creating a

Who gets your douze points this year at Eurovision?

It’s probably escaped the notice of many of you , but the Eurovision Song Contest is getting closer. Before you ask, the Grand Final is on Saturday May 18th, so you have six weeks to plan your party. Of course in four weeks I fly to Malmo to cover the Contest from backstage as the rehearsals start. Even though the UK media like to make fun of the Contest, with a peak viewership of over nine million last year, the public (that means you) still love it. So why not sneakily subscribe to the Eurovision Podcast that I host on ESC