Posts tagged ‘podcasts’
Podcasty things
March 3rd, 2013 at 9:57 pm by Dr. Drang
A podcast potpourri post, pedantic and possibly piquant. First, Gabe Weatherhead has posted the lastest episode of his Generational podcast, with David Sparks, Brett Terpstra, and yours truly. The topic is how to pick up women text editors and text editing. A good time was had by all, and Gabe gathered enough links from the…
More Engst
January 31st, 2013 at 6:33 pm by Dr. Drang
I’m a little behind on my podcast listening, so I just heard Gabe Weatherhead’s interview with Adam Engst today. It’s very good. In addition to the nominal topic of digital publishing, Adam also gets into the value of banner ads, mailing lists, and knowing your customers. I thought his comments on the success of Marco…
A little podcast programming FU
January 3rd, 2013 at 8:40 pm by Dr. Drang
The reason I haven’t done the fashionable thing and eliminated comments from my blog is that my readers1 are invariably polite and helpful. Case in point: the people who made suggestions—in comments, tweets, and emails—in response to Sunday night’s post on turning recordings of streamed radio shows into private podcasts. Their ideas were interesting and…
Turning recordings into podcasts
December 31st, 2012 at 12:04 am by Dr. Drang
In the last couple of years, as iCloud ramped up and iOS matured, I’ve found myself connecting my iPhone to my computer less and less. You’ve probably gone through the same transition. Back when contacts and calendar events synced through a wire, I’d put my phone in its dock as soon as I arrived at…
New filtered After Dark feed
October 11th, 2012 at 9:17 am by Dr. Drang
Once upon a time, 5by5 didn’t offer combined feeds that allow you to subscribe to both a regular show, like Back to Work, and its After Dark coda. There were simply feeds for the shows proper, and a single After Dark feed that gave you the ADs of all the shows. So even if you…
Thanks
July 24th, 2012 at 11:03 pm by Dr. Drang
I can’t stop myself from mentioning that I thoroughly dominated Dan Benjamin’s 5by5 network yesterday. Not only was I Katie and David’s guest on a Mac Power Users workflow show, but I was also mentioned a couple of times by Merlin on Back to Work. Total pwnage! I hope that Dan, who never misses on…
Downcast All Played playlist
July 8th, 2012 at 9:43 pm by Dr. Drang
I like to delete podcast episodes from Downcast manually instead of setting up a rule for when to delete them. I do this because I often listen to podcasts late at night and fall asleep while they’re playing. I don’t want Downcast to delete an episode that it thinks I’ve listened to just because it…
Why Downcast
June 29th, 2012 at 3:14 pm by Dr. Drang
At some point in the 53 hours of podcasts Merlin Mann was on over the past week or so, he mentioned Downcast, the iOS podcast player/manager, and likened it to Emacs—powerful, but probably not appropriate for most people because of all its options. It’d be a shame if people pass up Downcast because of Merlin’s…
XSLT, of course
May 17th, 2012 at 12:35 am by Dr. Drang
A couple of days ago, I stole Jason Snell’s idea of using Yahoo! Pipes to filter the 5by5 After Dark podcast feed to limit it to just the After Darks of shows I listen to. In the first comment on the post, Gabe (Macdrifter) asked whether it was a good idea to rely on Yahoo!…
Stealing ideas
May 14th, 2012 at 10:24 pm by Dr. Drang
Tonight I saw these two tweets from Jason Snell and smacked my forehead. Of course! The “Smart Playlists” feature in Instacast 2 isn’t smart. I’d like only @5by5 After Darks from certain podcasts, but it can’t filter that. — Jason Snell (@jsnell) Mon May 14 2012 (Solution: I made a Yahoo Pipe that takes in the…
