Home | Babes of the Web | Word of the Day | Blogging in... | Header logos | Froogle Wish List | Referals to the Site  Wednesday, November 17, 2004  Tech News that caught my eye Tech News that caught my eye Creative declares war on Apple. These could turn out to be some very famous last words, but at a press conference earlier today Sim Wong Hoo, the CEO of Creative (the company that makes all those Zen MP3 players like the Zen Touch and the Zen Micro) literally declared war on Apple, announcing plans to try to out-spend and out-market Steve Jobs next year with a $100 million advertising and marketing designed to dethrone the iPod, and that “the MP3 war has started”. Might be tough, given that over 90% of new hard drive-based players sold in the US sport an Apple logo, but we’re always game for a down and dirty gadget war. TiVo planning banner ads for when you fast-forward. Congress considering a bill that would make it illegal to fast-forward through commercials on DVDs is already bad enough, but apparently determined to alienate their customers even in the absence of a Federal law, TiVo has quietly been cutting deals with advertisers to put banner ads up on screen when you fast-forward through commercials. Beginning in March when you try and fast-forward through a commercial you’ll see a small “billboard”; click the pop up and you’ll be automatically entered in a contest or get on a list to be sent more information about the product being advertised (all opt-in, they claim). Then by the end of the year TiVo wants to introduce a new service where’ll be able to buy stuff from your couch while watching TV (which is awesome, because there isn’t already a way to remotely order stuff from the comfort of your own home). TiVo, if you’re looking for the perfect way to drive your customers into the arms of your competitors, you’ve found it. Comment [] Trackback [] Technorati Cosmos Permalink  6:14:57 PM.  Something new There's something new in the works...Can't get into specifics yet, but there is a lot of things happening in my life right now. Mostly good, which is always good news. I will have to get back to you with more details as I am aware of them. Comment [] Trackback [] Technorati Cosmos Permalink  12:37:21 PM.  November 17th - overslept The Word of the day for November 17th, 2004 is: overslept Mainly because I did today...whoops...I don't know what happened either, because I can't even sleep that late on the weekends. Comment [] Trackback [] Technorati Cosmos Permalink  11:36:35 AM.  Sidekick 2 ad Man I wish I didn't already have a Sidekick 2...because this ad makes me want this girl to show up and give me one...WOW Comment [] Trackback [] Technorati Cosmos Permalink  12:52:09 AM.  Mini Source Code - November 16th Good evening everybody!!!! Well due to a late podcast from Adam, the Mini Source Code is out even later. (Plus I had classes tonight). So Adam does his second to last podcast from Curry Castle...Tune in tomorrow to hear his last show, and thus the Mini Source Code. I appreciate everyone tuning into the show and love to hear from you from your audio comments. Send audio comments to me@NickStarr.com or via phone at (727) 490-3578. I will be airing audio comments about the show, so make sure to keep those comments rolling in. That being said, I am promoting Dawn and Drew's Podcast today as my podcast of the day. Their new audio comment line is available at (610) 885-1605. Today's mp3 from the podcast is now up, as well as the podcast feed. Production notes are shown below:  Jimbob And Esther  Whole Wheat Radio Daily Rants Channel  Whole Wheat Radio Archives  Living In A Dirt Hole In Ohio  Christopher MacDonald  IndieFeed Alternative/Modern Rock Channel  Christopher MacDonald's Album  notetoadam re: indiefeed  Matthew Bischoff and Andrew Grumet  Esc Radio!  Testing out Skype recording  Future Tense about grokster  grokster future tense  Future Tense  NPR Europe The Islam's Front Line  comment on blog  Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:36:28 +0000 (GMT)  From: tenorman@gmail.com  Subject: [Radio] New comment on your Radio weblog  To: adam@curry.com         New comment posted on your Radio weblog.                   Commenter's name:  Aaron Email address:  tenorman@gmail.com Web site:  http://tenoarman.blogs.com/ IP address:  70.80.45.123 Domain name:  modemcable123.45-80-70.mc.videotron.ca Commenting on:  http://www.blognewsnetwork.com/members/0000001/2004/11/16.html#a6880 I wish you all a safe and happy move.  I prefer NPR without streams via Audible.com, but there's a free stream on Europe, Islam's New Front Line: The Netherlands.        NPR  Europe: Islam's New Front Line  Aviation  UK Aviation Roundup  Alan Jones & Ed French  Aviation Roundup  Aviation Roundup for November 16th 2004  BBC blunder  Godcasters  Gillmor Gang clips  Doc Searls needs a new pod  Paying for the GG  Learn Spanish  email  From: johan@vanrooyen.fsbusiness.co.uk  Subject: Mail from Johan van Rooyen  Date: November 15, 2004 10:56:42 PM CET  To: Adam Curry  Cc: johan@vanrooyen.fsbusiness.co.uk  Johan van Rooyen [1] sent this email to you through iPodder.org [2] regarding this page [3].  Hi Adam,  I really love the work you're doing and I don't just mean the technical and artistic stuff but also the huge effort you're putting into promoting this podcasting baby of yours and Dave Winer's - it's clearly becoming a very healthy toddler!  Anyway, I taught English in Spain for seven years and learned Spanish in the process. Also I was six years old when I started learning English and along the way I also studied Latin and German - my mother tongue is Afrikaans - baby Dutch, as you know! My wife speaks Basque, Spanish, French and English ? I only mention this because when we met we had no language in common so I ended up teaching her all her basic English ? she was my first ever pupil.  So a few years ago I was really keen on doing an unconventional audio-based Spanish course (in the sense of not blindly following standard pedagogic models and theories of language learning) for people thinking of living and/or working in Spain or other Spanish speaking countries. I wasn?t very hopeful that the established language learning publishers would be very interested so eventually I dropped the idea... until podcasting came along, of course!  I have now finally managed to buy a mike, buy a mixer, discovered what a bloody difficult art voice recording is - hats off to the likes of you (the Elitist) and Dave Slusher (the Smoothie) - and recorded my first pod-lesson called, How to Really Learn Spanish - Podcast 1. It?s available for the ipodder at:  http://www.streamload.com/Johan0808/ReallyLearnSpanish/rss.xml  I did the feed by hand and though it works on the ipodder (for Windows) ? I checked - I pinged audio.weblogs.com without any result so far so I guess it needs some more work.  Anyway I would be very grateful if you could arrange for it to appear in the ipodder directory. May I suggest a category ? ?Language Learning? (subdirectory: ?Spanish?) ? to distinguish it from ?Languages? which is currently used for non-English medium podcasts ? mine is in English. Also, it?s only 8:07 long so you might want to give it a listen. It is, as far as I can tell, a novel way of making use of this new medium (boing!) you might even want to consider mentioning it on the Daily Source Code.  Hope the move goes well and welcome to England - another very weird country!  Regards,  Johan van Rooyen  [1] http://public.xdi.org/=Johan  [2] http://www.ipodder.org/  [3] http://www.ipodder.org/  Really Learn Spanish  Johan van Rooyen  How to Really Learn Spanish  How to Really Learn Spanish - Podcast 1  email about ipodder-ear  Adam     Had a similar problem... buds are still best where unobtrusiveness is important... even on a bus, it is nice if your neighbours can at least PRETEND you are not ignoring them.  (They fit inside a ski helmet better, too)     That said, headphones sound better... a very nice review site:  http://www.goodcans.com/     Of course big serious headphones look silly and some can't even be driven well by portables... not to mention hurting battery life.  However, there are headphones made just for portables:  http://www.goodcans.com/HeadphoneReviews/porta.htm     I own and use the Koss PortaPro.  It is wonderful.  Folds small enough to easily fit in a coat pocket.  Looks a bit dorky & old fashioned.... but is robust  and sounds terrific.  (most of the Koss line-up is less impressive)     Sennheiser makes a PX100 at about the same price that sounds marginally better... it is sinificantly less robust.     TIP OF THE DAY:  Whatever phones or buds you buy.... gold plated plugs are way better at resisting crackle.     waiting for the snow at Whistler,  boB how this works And Adam's PodSquad is available here . 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