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Hello, loyal Cruft readers. This is an exceedingly rare audio weblog post. Collect them all.
Tonight on IRC I bet a guy named Phillip Torrone on a terminology issue. He’s a technology blogger and has a site at flashenabled.com
I bet him $10 that in a year people wouldn’t be using the term “podcast” since not everyone had an ipods. He took the bet. I know I will be victorious when the news gets out about the subliminal neurolingusitic programming Steve Jobs put into the ipods making ipod wearers into mindless drones.
This audio post is a public acknowledgement on the bet.
Let’s see where we are on Oct. 24th 2005.
You might as well spend the 10 bucks now. It’s as good as earned.
Podcasting is too complex to figure out for the ordinary computer user. Only the most hardcore geeks think it’s cool.
(My .02)
Isn’t the internet great?
Your mom can now see you and hear you.
Any developments on the stepping disc?
What’s podcasting?
complex?
its easier than getting Outlook to work well (which is impossible).
its easier than using IE.
its easier than p2p.
what it is, is limited in scope at this time. I played with it for about 2 days and realized that the only good podcast I could find was engadget’s, and the rest were uninteresting to me or poorly packaged.
Phillip, this 10 bucks is as good as won, I have been activly showing people how to us podcast, and with reviews by Chris pirillo, i am sure that a lot more users out there are beginning to ue it, it is easy to use and setup, and you dont even need an ipod to enjoy all the features of this software.
I’ve got to take you to task on two points:
First:
> I bet him $10 that in a year people wouldn’t be
> using the term “podcast” since not everyone had
> an ipods. He took the bet.
I’ve got to say that although the name “pod cast” did
originate from a bunch of iPod geeks like myself, but
frankly, it’s taken a life of it’s own now and there’s a lot
of folk, infact, I suspect, the majority of folk currently
tuning into pod casts around the world, are listening to
them with their favourite mp3 players, beit itunes,
audacity, whatever.
True sucking any mp3 file into a player in general was never
very smooth or simple, but iTunes and the iPod, on wintel
junk or a Mac, is just too simple, you drop mp3’s into
iTunes, you plug the iPod in, and oh yea, it does it all by
itself, even my mother could do it.
I doub’t that windows folk will replace the now widely used
podcast coinage with something more catchy that catches the
world’s imaginations, good luck to anyone trying, but I
can’t see something like “WindowsMediaPlayerPodCaster” is
going to have teen age dweebs grocking it at street level
😉
Second:
> I know I will be victorious when the news gets
> out about the subliminal neurolingusitic
> programming Steve Jobs put into the ipods
> making ipod wearers into mindless drones.
Huh? Even for the average blogger, this has got to be so far
beyond the edge that you’re already in free fall right?
Please, I wish it were the case, we’d have the whole world
using iPods, and spending more money with Apple and not
Microsoft, and the average PC maker, and we could get
cheaper Mac’s and more R&D and who knows, a decent platform
take on that “other” platform.
I would not be counting on that $10 too soon unless the old
MicrosoftWindowsMediaPlayerPodcastThingy takes on 😉
If it does, I’d like AUD$10 for the naming rights!
++dez;