So, who is going to start the Cornell Hockey Podcast

A podcast is a tape recording (so to speak) you download to your iPod or other music player.

With a radio, you listen to stuff in real time. If you're not listening when the announcer is speaking, you missed it.

With a podcast, you listen to stuff when you want to, not when it's broadcast. It's news, commentary. Some of it is repurposed, meaning it's a recording of a broadcast. In some cases it's created only as a podcast.

Sort of like an MP3 but it's not music. Or like a talking book.

One example would be podcasts of Ari's weekly eLynah columns. Rather than read him online, you'd listen to him.

Another would be a downloadable recording of the game broadcast. Something the powers that be will probably think about for a year or two to make sure this podcast thing has legs.

One reason for podcasts is convenience for users. Another is that you can for very low cost get the information in the hands of more people and maybe stick a commercial at the beginning and end as well.

I think Liz was being ironically sarcastic, Bill.

Edit: but then again, maybe there are people reading this thread who don't know what a podcast is, so nevermind me.

[Q]RichH Wrote:

I think Liz was being ironically sarcastic, Bill.

Edit: but then again, maybe there are people reading this thread who don't know what a podcast is, so nevermind me.



Edited 1 times. Last edit at 11/02/05 01:30PM by RichH.[/q]

I actually had never heard of a podcast. Thanks, Bill, for the description...it's a lot what I thought it might be (especially as the conversation continued), but I did want confirmation.

[Q]Liz '05 Wrote:

I actually had never heard of a podcast. Thanks, Bill, for the description...it's a lot what I thought it might be (especially as the conversation continued), but I did want confirmation.[/q]

My mistake. Like I said, nevermind me. BTW...I'm also iPod-less, and only know how podcasts work in theory.

I had been listening to Podcasts long before I had an iPod. With iTunes you can access a ton of them. Not a bad thing, and iTunes updates them frequently. Slate.com reads one of their articles daily. A reading of Ari's article could be fun.

Really? Well, I also don't have iTunes. Blame it on the old computer that ran Windows ME (I know, I know) and the music downloading programs that can't be run with that OS.

My brand-new computer has XP, though, so I may have to explore the world of podcasts.

So...if someone were to read Ari's article into podcast format, how do we make it accessable to interested parties? Put it up here? Give it to iTunes?

And most Podcasts are in some format compatible with other players (most are MP3). I usually listen on my Creative flash-based player -- just drag and drop out of iTunes). I've heard that the iPod can keep track of where you are in the Podcast if you switch away from it which would be nice, but otherwise other players work fine too.

(fwiw, I think Microsoft refers to them as "Blogcasts" -- wonder why )

LGR!

[Q]jbeaber1998 Wrote:

A reading of Ari's article could be fun. [/q]

With all due respect and no offense to Ari, I think we can do better than that (i.e., something totally original).

Sounds like the ideal solution would be to have a weekly panel discussion abou the team. Include people like the WVBR radio announcer, one or two student / alumni "experts", and an occasional guest or two (coach, current/past players, web owners like Age, Greg or John, etc). Have a weekly radio show, record it and later release it as a podcast.

That being said, perhaps we need to sell the idea to WVBR. Do they have any non-gametime Cornell Hockey content?

[Q]KenP Wrote:
That being said, perhaps we need to sell the idea to WVBR. Do they have any non-gametime Cornell Hockey content?
[/q]Well, they don't have any *gametime* Cornell Hockey content.

FWIW, Adam Wodon (years before his brief stint as Voice of the Big Red) had what was basically a podcast (except it was streamed on demand rather than downloaded because disk space was scarce back then) with his weekly show "Around the Rinks" in 1997-1998.

I'd greatly appreciate a podcast (or similar) of the game broadcasts. Living in Southern Italy means that a 7 pm start time on the East Coast is 1 am start time here - even with the late-night culture here, I'm usually a zombie by 11 pm on Friday nights!

Podcast = TiVo for radio, but better because you don't have to record it yourself, and some radio stations will record content for you that they didn't even air.

[Q]RichH Wrote: I think Liz was being ironically sarcastic, Bill. Edit: but then again, maybe there are people reading this thread who don't know what a podcast is, so nevermind me.[/q]Me too. I paused before composing because I thought also that maybe she was being tongue-in-cheek -- how could one not hear of a Podcast, but in reality as technology/development/style moves forward so quickly, a whole group of people can be in the know and others are still coming to awareness. I was in Detroit in 2001 talking with some automakers and one senior mechanical systems guy told me his daughter kept talking about "this MP3 thing" and dad wanted to know, "does this MP3 thing have legs?" And that is why only now are you starting to see cars being able to play MP3 CDs with OEM equipment. You, ah, had some sense in 2001 that MP3 was going to have legs, I suspect. But shame on me: I was back a year ago and Corvette's design guy points to the bare frame and says, "We're especially proud of the ruggedness of the IP." "Cool, you've got wireless?" I asked, and about thirty mouths in unision said, "No, Instrument Panel," and you could hear the implied, "Instrument Panel [you jackass]." And somebody at East Hill Flying Club is thinking, Instructor Pilot.

A couple people I know describe their friends as being a "3-3-3 kind of guy." Meaning always hyper, in a hurry, the guy who pushes 3-3-3 to skip ahead 3 seconds in his voicemail.

There's some kid right now making a Christmas list with a Von Dutch cap at the top of her chart not knowing this was hot, what, two years ago, and even the knockoff Von Bitch caps are out. Unless they're so out they're back in.

Whoever starts the podcasts, be prepared for a time sink if you do it well.

[Q]Chris H82 Wrote:

I'd greatly appreciate a podcast (or similar) of the game broadcasts. Living in Southern Italy means that a 7 pm start time on the East Coast is 1 am start time here - even with the late-night culture here, I'm usually a zombie by 11 pm on Friday nights![/q]

Wuss. I was at the office listening at 1am every Friday and Saturday night the two years I lived in Switzerland. (Often after going to a hockey game followed by a bar.)

JTW - Yeah, it sounds lame, but between 10+ hours a day of work (crazy project to coordinate for my company) and 2.5 hours of commuting a day (the only school my wife and I could find that works for our kids is 130 km from my office, so guess who does the commute), so by Friday night I look like this- Oh well....

[Q]Chris H82 Wrote:

JTW - Yeah, it sounds lame, but between 10+ hours a day of work (crazy project to coordinate for my company) and 2.5 hours of commuting a day (the only school my wife and I could find that works for our kids is 130 km from my office, so guess who does the commute), so by Friday night I look like this- Oh well....[/q]

Wow. Maybe you can listen to the podcast on the train.

So, as it seems we will be getting podcasts of things in the Cornell hockey vein, I'll step up and ask the next stupid question....

I have an ipod. It's pink I know what a pod cast is (at least in theory)...now what? Or to rephrase...how do I get the podcast onto the ipod so I can listen at work?

<bracing self for long winded responses>

[Q]judy Wrote:

So, as it seems we will be getting podcasts of things in the Cornell hockey vein, I'll step up and ask the next stupid question....

I have an ipod. It's pink I know what a pod cast is (at least in theory)...now what? Or to rephrase...how do I get the podcast onto the ipod so I can listen at work?

<bracing self for long winded responses>[/q]

Judy,

If the WVBR podcasts are simply mp3 files that you can download from their homepage (I assume this is what they will do), all you need to do is download it and import it into your Itunes library. From there you can either listen to it or upload it to your ipod. If they do the podcast through the itunes music store, all you have to do is go to the store, search for the podcast and then "subscribe" to it. It will then download the podcast to your itunes. Click on "podcasts" on the left side of the screen and you can play it. Everytime there is a new one added Itunes will automatically download it for you when you start Itunes.

Rob

Judy,

I have iTunes set up as a manual update so I can choose what goes onto my iPod. That way, let's say you download a podcast and listen to it on your computer, but don't want to have it automatically taking up space on your ipod -- it gives you more control.

Plus, if you delete stuff from your iTunes but still want it on your iPod, you don't have to worry about it being automatically deleted. I did this with a couple of CDs that I put on the iPod, but didn't want to take up space on my computer.

Setting to manual update - first thing I did to iTunes. I'm a bit of a control freak

I've just never dealt with podcasts before. Heard about them...never really 'interacted' with one.

So...I thought we were going to get some podcasts going...
Need something to listen to at work to keep me from strangling people.

Does the thought of the people on this forum having more of a 'forum' to voice their opinions frighten anyone else?

[Q]Ben Rocky 04 Wrote: Does the thought of the people on this forum having more of a 'forum' to voice their opinions frighten anyone else? [/q]Podcasts would be a mixed blessing. When the devil's hands*are busy creating podcasts (and it's a big time sink to do it, an even bigger time sink to do it well), they're not doing anything else, like airing more opinions.


* NJ haters note it's not the "Devils' hands" referred to here