Everyone’s getting into that Podcasting thing nowadays. Case in point: those wacky kids from SkinnyCorp launched their own podcast.

Mental note: get off my ass and start recording again, or at least finish working on preliminary stuff for the new podcast I want to start. (Complete with audience interaction! w00t!)

So I did pick up another domain for posting my little Vloggy bits to. Feel free to go take a look (I still need to redo the wordpress theme for it though): Boring But Short.com.

Meanwhile I’ve got a couple more random little video bits to play around with. This one’s Andrea’s aquarium. I’m not sure where Zim (her tiger oscar) is in there.

Okay, nothing coherent, really. I just finally shelled out the money for a QuickTime Pro key so I can get the videos off my cell phone converted from some random-ass format “the new mobile phone video file format” to something actually useful. So yeah, self-absorbed video portrait ahoy (aka: a 5 second snapshot of my daily commute).

(Obviously this is mostly only of interest to you if you subscribe to one of my RSS feeds. Here’s a feed that’s just Vlog stuff if you’re so inclined.)

Yahoo! Podcasts

If you’ve never listened to podcasts, you’re in for a treat. Sports, comedy, movies, food, politics, music, books, speeches, walking tours, whatever[…]

Having a web page that links to an MP3 file for people to download, does not make something a podcast. For example, Wikipedia has this to say on the subject…

Podcasting is distinct from other types of online media delivery because of its subscription model, which uses a feed (such as RSS or Atom) to deliver an enclosed file. Podcasting enables independent producers to create self-published, syndicated “radio shows,” and gives broadcast radio programs a new distribution method. Listeners may subscribe to feeds using “podcatching” software (a type of aggregator), which periodically checks for and downloads new content automatically.

C-SPAN Podcasts: C-SPAN is now offering podcasts of some of its most popular programs.

Apple Plants a Seed to Help Raise Podcasting

What, you don’t have a podcast yet?

That’s this year’s version of, “What, you don’t have a blog yet?” Podcasts — downloadable audio clips that you can listen to on your computer or on a digital music player such as an iPod — are riding an extraordinary wave of hype.

I’ve managed to decompress enough now and get some time to sit down so I can finally present: The Day Three of Flash Forward podcast!

I still feel like I came across sort of unduly negative on this one which wasn’t my intention, and like I may have come off a bit too “fanboy” on the Phillip Torrone presentation. Anyway, hope everyone (or at least someone) likes it.

This podcast features new shortened intro music (my girlfriend’s suggestion), as well.

• Phillip Torrone
• iPod Linux
• GeoBloggers.com
• TickTock Diner
• Creative Commons
• CCMixter
• Jose Rodriguez (JR Visuals)
• GameVerts.com
• Rules of Play
• R/GA
• Flickr photos tagged with “FlashForward”
• Kid Robot
• The counterfeit $20 bill

Also, since not everyone may be familiar with what a podcast is you can read about it on Wikipedia or on the iPodder website and then subscribe to the RSS feeds at either of the following URLs in order to subscribe to all my podcasts on whatever crosses my mind or just my FlashForward podcasts posts. Or if you don’t care to do all that you can just right-click on the player button to download the file.

Furthermore: another quick apology to Guy Watson for not having his name on hand when I first posted my Flash Forward pics on Flickr.

Update: In addition to the feeds above, if you’re an Odeo user you can now subscribe to My Odeo Channel.

I’m afraid that due to my having to get the heck out of my hotel and make my train home this morning I’m going to have to hold off on the third Flash Forward review podcast. I’ll record it once I’m back at home (it will save you from listening to the contruction across the street anyway, see I’m really just looking out for your best interests).

Many thanks to JD over at weblogs.macromedia.com for being kind enough to link me up so people can find the podcasts. Many apologies to my friends who I flaked out on last night and passed out in the hotel room instead of going out with.

Update: Hat-tip to Flash Insider for a link as well.

Update: All kinds of apologies for the file size of the FF podcasts, as Blue_Chi pointed out I had never updated my export settings in Audacity when I installed it on the laptop I was using so the files were coming out way bigger than they needed to be. I’ve exported the FF ones again and am uploading them now and it takes the file size down which should help some folks out (the day two review went down from 20+ megs to 14.5).

Update: the actual podcast audio for day three is in my Podcast: Flash Forward Day Three post.

Day two of Flash Forward: Macromedia Keynote and town hall meeting tend to sort of dominate this podcast, but I do want to point out that for “making technical information interesting” Aral Balkan did a WONDERFUL job of making techy nonsense seem actually interesting in his “ActionScript 2.0: A Visual Introduction for Right-Brainers.”

• Macromedia
• OSFlash.org
• Flash Lite
• Justin Everett-Church
• Geoff Stearns
• Matt Richmond
• Jared Tarbell
• Adobe/Macromedia Merge Announced
• Flash Film Festival Entries
• Oculart
• Flash Film Festival Winners
• TobyJoe Boudreaux and Michele Howley (who John and I met up for drinks with later. Incidentally, everyone should buy Toby’s Book it rules.)

I’m going to go become un-drunk now. Thanks for listening.

P.S.- Dear Kevin (Lynch), I podcasted from Flash Forward first.

Update: A warning for the faint of heart: I am known to swear like a sailor on occasion.

Another Update: Aral Balkan has put his presentation files up online on his blog.

I had originally wanted to do a brief follow-up to each session after they were done, but it turns out that there’s noplace in the building that I felt like I could talk aimlessly to my dad’s laptop without feeling like I was insane. Therefore: you get end of day wrap-up action instead. Love it!

Here’s what I have for links and resources to go along with the podcast as well.

• Ze Frank’s Creativity Reading List
• WaxPraxis.org (Hopefully Branden will have notes for his presentation up here soon.)
• Ripple open-source HTML/JS/flash framework for more easily useable (and search engine spiderable) sites by Peter Hall
• Say Design (Online Flash Game Design)
• Glyn Thomas (OOP for Flash Games)
• Craig Swann (CrashMedia)
• John (who did not, in fact, kill me)

Having the neighbors clog up all the washing machines when I need to be doing laundry for my NYC trip makes for a good time to finally record that “about the new site” podcast I threatened in one of my test posts. It’s my first attempt at recording with a laptop so there’s a bit of odd noise (and Bailey barks a couple times in the background) but I think it came out alright.

• Firefox Hacks
• Firefox Hacks: Hack #27 - Fix Web Servers to Support Firefox Content
• Comprehensive guide to .htaccess
• Mod_Rewrite
• Textpattern
• WordPress

Next week work is sending John and myself to Flash Forward. So everyone’s trying to pick what workshops and such to go to and I think for the sake of people who won’t be there (and just for my own personal edification) I’m going to try to post a podcast review of the sessions I go to.

So, keep an ear out for that, I guess. See how things go using a borrowed laptop for remote podcast action. Heck, if I’m lucky maybe I can convince some of my acquaintances who’re presenting to do little follow-up interviews or some such thing.

So, I downloaded the new version of iTunes to check out the big “integrated podcasting” features. Color me unimpressed. So far you can only subscribe to podcasts that are run through the iTunes store interface? What if I just want to sign up for a test podcast? What if I want to subscribe to a podcast that’s not going to meet their content standards?

Update: Okay, I suppose if I would have just looked through all the assorted buried menu options on my own I would have noticed the “Subscribe to Podcast” menu option under the advanced menu. Hat tip to John for the link.