Posted on Mar 30, 2005
In case you’re not too sure what podcasts are about allow me to re-iterate an earlier explanation:
“If you’re one of those gadget-obsessed, fashion victims with an ipod (or whatever type of mp3 player) then you can plug this rss feed into your ipodder, (or whatever podcast software) and regularly bathe in the gently lilting tones of some brummie podcasting — you lucky souls.”
To put it simply, download a copy of ipodder to your pc/mac and then copy and paste http://www.bongovongo.com/wp-rss2.php as a podcast feed. This will copy the latest Bongo Vongo podcast (an audio file) down to your computer. You can listen to this at this point or, if you have an ipod, you can copy this file (which is in mp3 format) to your ipod and listen to the audio file as you wander along on your daily travels.
From this point on, everytime there’s a Bongo Vongo podcast, your ipodder will know about it and automatically download some dulcet brummie waffle for you to listen to at your leisure. Program notes will always be available as an entry on the blog along with a single downloadable mp3 format audio file of each podcast.
Enjoy the latest entries!
Posted on Mar 26, 2005
I go through these phases, once every few months, where I just need to catch up with the latest developments in t’internet — hence the technical nature of the past few posts. But I’m wondering if all this technical marvellousness at my fingertips isn’t driving me away from what I considered to be the whole point of using technology in the first place.
It’s supposed to make life easier in some way — isn’t it?
I’ve just spent far too long, on a beautiful Spring day, sitting in front of a microphone and a pc in order to produce gibberish. I justify it with the thought that I’m trying to get a handle on the new technology. Why? Because there seems to be a lot of parallel and complementary developments in the field of personal publishing (weblogs, podcasts, moblogs, internet social networks and internet telephony) and I should know about them.
I expect I’ll only be truly happy with the technology when I can pick-up my mobile phone, take a few stills or a video clip with it, attach some text to these, post them to a blog and then phone in an associated podcast. It’s that last bit – calling in a podcast to a blog – that I’m missing now and I expect that that’s already being done somewhere.
But I still haven’t really answered the question why would I want to do all of this. I haven’t really got anything I want to desperately show, write or say that requires such a plethora of media methods. A petty realisation of nascent media meglomaniacal tendancies perhaps? or maybe just indulging my inner geek? I dunno.
Enough already — I’m off for some fresh air … and a kebab. Happy (or merry or whatever you’re supposed to say) Easter/ Shadinota Dibosh.
Posted on Mar 24, 2005
Yes, I know that very clever people have been moblogging for years already but I’ve only just got how all that geekery works (hey, I’m no Joi Ito).
But thanks to some clever cameraphone2blog stuff over at flickr.com I can send live(ish) pictures automagically from my Motorola V600 to here.
Of course, the question remains, what for?
Posted on Mar 17, 2005
Bushra said, “hmm. blogs are so yesterday.“
Who am I to argue — I am a blogger, hear me roar (21:22 min, 21 MB)!
(You can find some context for the roar over at Cinema Minima.)
And if you’re one of those gadget-obsessed, fashion victims with an ipod (or whatever mp3 player) then why not plug this rss feed into your ipodder, (or whatever podcast software) and regularly bathe in the gently lilting tones of some brummie podcasting — you lucky souls.
[UPDATE: 25/Mar/05 - The beeb interviews Adam Curry, a podcasting advocate]
Posted on Mar 10, 2005
The Bhutanese seemed to have stopped hiding out in their mountains.
The little Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is just a stones throw away from north Bengal and nestles awkardly between India and China. Lately, it has been courting the outside world with the energy of a … a young courting thing (they only got TV in 1999 and already Michael Palin’s made a programme about them).
And now the Beeb reveals that the Bhutanese have a thing for chillies … I like the Bhutanese. The article revolves around Dorji Ohm who is writing a book about chillies, Ms Ohm reveals,
“When we are babies, our mothers put a little chilli in our food. And they keep increasing it gradually.”
and the article states that,
Here chillies are used as a vegetable – and the national dish of Bhutan is the chilli cheese curry. It is called ema datshi. Ema means chilli and datshi is cheese.
Did I say like? I meant to say love … I love those crazy chilli cheese chomping Bhutanese.
