Comments on: Opening up the conversation

By: IOYH - A Podsafe Hip Hop Podcast and Blog From Montreal, Canada » Conversation starters, not conversation pieces

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:41:57 +0000

[...] For those that missed the first round, I will try to summarize what we’re trying to do: [...]

By: Krash Coarse

Krash Coarse — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:42:57 +0000

Man this is an awesome idea! I had already tried to start encouraging audio comments (unsuccessfully) by having 3 channels: direct via email, phone-line, and uploading audio file to my blog page for all to hear.
In fact, I have NEVER gotten one on the blog.

No matter how I publicize it, I don’t get comments.

I have the option of 2 separate feeds with the CMS I’m using as a backend: 1 for the shows only, #2 for the shows + comments. That way you get the comments specific for the show at the same time.

By: groundctrl

groundctrl — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:10:21 +0000

S’okay, I should have done it in the first place.

By: mtl3p

mtl3p — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:05:03 +0000

hehe. :-)

thanks for placating me, julien. you didn’t have to put it at the beginning of the post though.

By: mtl3p

mtl3p — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 06:49:19 +0000

hmm. methinks I told you this idea, no? or at the very least we came up with it together?

that’s twice now in the last two weeks I’m getting burned on conversations that I’ve had with friends giving them ideas. it sucks. not saying that I deserve any credit for the actual work of implementing it or anything.

maybe i’m just being grouchy ;-)

By: groundctrl

groundctrl — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:15:55 +0000

I’m 100% with you.

Todd Sampson (who I linked to on this post) is envisioning a transformation of podcasting into a series of comments (2-3 min ones) that evolve into podcast ‘clouds’ of their own. We’ll see how it goes.

By: mhp

mhp — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:10:14 +0000

It is great that del.icio.us finally got things fixed. It will be a great testbed for gauging the responsivness of listeners to engage in the conversation. I see the long-run problems we discussed occuring, especially if Curry starts to get his listeners doing this, it will happen sooner than later. (not to mention the hitting bandwidth caps with the massive amounts of downloads)

Like you said, the only difference between most podcaters and their listeners are that the latter don’t bother recording what comes out of their mouths. Now that there are easy ways to record, upload, and (now) tag your audio comments there is no excuse. Think of posting audio comments as a first step towards becoming a podcaster. There is much less time/effort overhead involved in commenting than there is producing your own show (time – currently the single barrier preventing me from putting out a show)… so get on it people! Who knows where this will go? or where it might lead you!?

By: Life in cloudspace

Life in cloudspace — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:27:08 +0000

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:58:22 +0000

Now that’s a tight idea… good to see intersections are back at del.icio.us, hopefully Amazon will get their shit together… then we could write some buzz-word heavy web 2.0 masterpiece that mixes all these feeds together into some… thing… I don’t know what, but I do know it would be… a thing…

-ALEX

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:07:00 +0000

Interesting points mate. I’m going to have a look into this.

(I’m also looking into a decent net chess programm for our game) – do you know of one?

All the best mate.

By: ba

ba — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 08:49:35 +0000

on a totally unrelated topic.
i had to share this with you. :D

http://blip.tv/file/get/Bxa-SNLNarniaRap407.mp3