{"id":131,"date":"2004-12-30T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-30T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2004\/12\/podcasting-blues-the-last-rant-of-2004\/"},"modified":"2004-12-30T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-30T08:02:00","slug":"podcasting-blues-the-last-rant-of-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2004\/12\/podcasting-blues-the-last-rant-of-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcasting Blues: The Last Rant of 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have heard the future and I am scared. I am scared for all of us. I am scared because I now know that a lot of the future is going to be very, very boring.<\/p>\n

I have always been a proponent of peer-to-peer file sharing. I made friends from using Napster. I support the principle of open source. I eat open source cornflakes. I think collage is a bona-fide art form, and that file sharing is good for artists because it increases their fanbase. I support the European anti-trust fight against Microstiff. I hate Windoze Meeja Player. Give me Liberty or give me Bad Breath. But I’m not sure I like the insidious democratic spread of technology when it leads to Podcasting.<\/a><\/p>\n

I just listened to this: http:\/\/www.mikemontalvo.com\/podcasts\/MLC_2004_12_29.mp3<\/a> – before you click the link, it’s a 6.7MB mp3 file. <\/p>\n

This is Mike Montalvo’s latest Podcast, and it’s fabulously representative of the Podcast genre. In it, Mike rambles on about a news item about a man who wrecked airplanes so he didn’t have to go to work, and the software he writes, and his christmas holiday, and Mike may well indeed be a nice man and probably is a good software coder but he has a rather boring voice and doesn’t say much with it. There’s no music at all, except the obvious lift “Radio Is Dead” as an in and outro. Mike should have been doing this at age 13 with two cassette decks. <\/p>\n

None of these wannabe internet jocks actually prepares their work. Hardly anyone edits it. And in some respects, I like the spontaneity of that. But, it’s so bland<\/font> most of this stuff. Nobody has the heart to say, the attempt is not enough. So, let me say here and now, THE ATTEMPT IS NOT ENOUGH. Just because you have an iPod, a nice microphone, some ipodder software, a blog, and mild self-obsession doesn’t make it or you cool or interesting.<\/p>\n

To seek, said Picasso, is nothing – to FIND is the thing. He was right. If you have to share something, why not be a little bit more attentive not to it’s potential, but to it’s actual ? Why not ditch the whole thing because it’s shit ?<\/strike> delete the odd line here and there ? And in audio format, why not get some basic production values under your belt before drowning us all in a blizzard of “drone drone drone drone….um.. ah.. wait a minute.. i’m not too good at this…thump.. fzzz…. drone drone drone drone….” Ever heard of scripts ?<\/p>\n

If you’re not too good at something, go away and practise, and come back when you are !<\/font>
File under: Life: General Advice<\/font><\/p>\n

I am scared because, thanks to Apple, whose hardware and software I have used for the last 10 years, soon everyone will be clogging up the Interweb with utterly banal drivel about their lives – except THIS TIME IN AUDIO FORMAT – and in their minds’ eyes they will all be just like Adam Curry<\/a>, and consider themselves cutting-edge cultural acolytes that bands and record companies will seek out and send butch motorcycle couriers winking and crackling with quasi-military radio devices to deliver sexy packages several times a week with unreleased material that’s an exclusive for your Podcast for, oh, maybe 10 minutes – until someone downloads your Podcast and chops out the bit they like from it and puts it into their own Podcast and fails to attribute the source (just like Blogging) and somehow this cultural flotsam floating like bits of a blasted and sunken ship on the high seas of the demise of ORIGINAL THOUGHT and ACTUAL FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE and PLANNING is supposed to be all in the spirit of the Jolly effing Roger.<\/p>\n

I am scared because I am the only one I know without an iPod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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