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CDB Entry: Yawncasting

Sun, 19 Dec 2004 22:42:26 -0700

I feel pretty much late to the dance with podcasting. It is a technology phenomnma that seems like it happened more or less while I was out of the country 3 weeks in November. My colleagues D'Arcy and Brian are...

comment by: Chris L

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:26:33 -0700

Perhaps sometimes there's more to eating a burger than just diving directly into the all-meat patty. Almost despite myself I find that I enjoy listening to a number of podcasts despite the fact that I could absorb the same amount of information much more quickly in written form.

In fact, one can get information from the dictionary but as you so aptly quoted from Jon Udell's post on blogs and telephones, sometimes the context is important. Or at least entertaining... it isn't necessarily all about information density. Sometimes it's just about having some fun, or letting the important bits soak in while being entertained in the background. I don't own an iPod either-- I do most of my listening at work while busy with other tasks.

That being said, I think you are spot-on when it comes to refinements being needed to do deep-linking into audio and the fact that this is just one of many potential applications for RSS enclosures.

comment by: Bruce Landon

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:58:26 -0700

One interim solution might be the pacemaker addon to winamp that enables one to increase the pace of the audio without changing the tone. There is some data from Kevin Harrigan that listerners can listen at up to twice the speed that people talk so by compressing the information density in time it might be more "interesting" and effective use of time. I believe that this form of speech processing has a good potential in many areas of education including learning foreigh language where the listener can slow the pace down without changiing the tone. My personal develoopment target is to enable some way to do variable speed review (rehear) when the user has something analogous to a gas peddle to dynamically smooth out the information density to match the listerner's internal processing pace. -- BL (PS there are other uses for a pacemaker to extend the accessiblity of audio material to a broader range of users)

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Thu, 30 Dec 2004 07:18:27 -0700

Excerpt: So I did manage to get the last 40 GB iPod in New Jersey right after Christmas and I've been starting to play with it in between family gatherings and big meals.
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Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:04:20 -0700

Excerpt: Spooky! I was just about to write a blog post about how I can't really get excited about the idea of podcasting and audioblogging, and then checked out Alan Levine's cogdogblog and found him saying much the same thing. My reasons for my lack of int...
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Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:22:49 -0700

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