Buzz Out Loud Podcast

Episode 843

National Novel Writing Month starts tomorrow
http://www.nanowrimo.org/

Trojan virus steals bank info
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7701227.stm
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10079593-83.html

Apple hires top IBM chip designer and blade server guru
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10079494-37.html

More on the Windows 7 UI: new taskbar will be mandatory
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081030-more-on-the-windows-7-ui-new-taskbar-will-be-mandatory.html

Fire fear sparks battery recall
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7701348.stm

OMG! Gmail Adds SMS Chat
http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/OMG!_Gmail_Adds_SMS_Chat
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078997-2.html

Datz launches MP3 download deal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_7699000/7699487.stm

Download full seasons of popular TV shows for $5 (well, sort of)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-10079171-58.html

Sprint cuts cogent off the Internet
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/31/0439245

Asus to phase out sub-10in Eee PCs, says CEO
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/10/31/asus_eee_focus_10in/

CueCat patent granted, finally
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/30/1712254

Phillies 1, Mitsubishi 0
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10079861-2.html

Voice mail

Daniel - Gaming not so recession proof
http://www.betanews.com/article/EA_loses_310_million_announces_layoffs/1225404415

Dale - DTV killed my Dad’s VCR

James in Irvine - Here’s what I meant about BitTorrent

E-mail

I bought Warhammer Online… online <.< and they had me download the
client via bittorent. It was 10GB and I was a littler nervous about
the speeds I might get, but I was maxing out my bandwidth at 2.5MB/s
the whole time. Only took me about 45 minutes to download the entire
client. I also see more and more Betas for MMOs or FPS’s being
delivered this way. Im pretty sure though with commercial bittorrent
that there probably is a dedicated seed with high bandwidth always
around to make sure the torrent doesn’t die, but it still probably
saves them a ton of money when things start getting active.

Jacob Tapp
Phoenix, AZ

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Wow, if only everyone put that much effort into their email subject lines. So, what do I or could I use Bittorrent for legally?

Open source audio books, especially Librivox
Independent music
Podcasts
Amateur porn (duh)
.iso’s for discs that have been lost, destroyed, or scratched up. This is a gray area, but if I, for example, have lost my Windows XP CD, I can download and burn an .iso. If the software isn’t cracked and doesn’t come with its own product key, then it’s functionally equivalent to the disc that I lost. And I supply my own product key, since I bought a legitimate copy of XP when I bought my computer.
Modified versions of other OS’s. This is another gray area, but it seems like I should be able to get a modified version of XP if I want to. And if I want to run OS10 on my computer? Well, assuming that I bought a copy of the software, it should be legal for me to download a version of OSX86 that has all the legwork done for me.

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Hey guys,

Sitting here in sunny Istanbul creating visual effects for a weird
Turkish feature, listening to episode 842.

I get all of my vfx training from fxphd.com (an amazing online source
of tuition) and it’s all distributed via bit torrent. Normally I have
a great broadband connection in Sweden but when I work in places like
Turkey bit torrent is really the only alternative for getting several
hours of tuition every week. I know that the school has a lot of
postgrads in parts of Asia that would never be able to get the
training if it wasn’t on bit torrent.

Love the show,

Patrick O’Casey
vfx artist

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In re: episode 842 and Tom’s request for legit uses of bit torrent - Mars
Hill Church in Seattle uses bit torrent for free distribution of video of
Pastor Mark Driscoll’s sermons. That’s not only legit, it’s holy.

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Jeremy

Hi buzz crew,
CBC distributed the final episode of the reality show “Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister” on bittorrent. I remember you talked about it on a previous show. CBC was mad at Bell and Rogers for throttling their legitimate way of distributing a TV program. People outside Canada could download the show faster than the Canadian tax payers!

Love the show,
Jerome

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Yesterday you were talking about the Hot Topic Music Store, and someone asked why we need another music store when there are already so many DRM free stores. Think of it this way, Walmart sells CD’s, but when another store that sells CD’s opens you don’t say “Walmart sells CD’s, why do we need another CD store.” Safeway sells food, but when a Albertsons opens you don’t say “Safeway sells food, why do we need another food store”. Walgreens is a pharmacy, but when a CVS opens you don’t say “Walgreens is a pharmacy, why do you need another pharmacy.”

Competition helps business!

-Hayden

PS. When I was in the states I went to costco and walmart, where at both I saw Brain Cooley on about 50 different tvs. Also, target sells prepaid cell phones for like $12! How can you make a cell phone for $12. You guys are crazy.

Episode 841

Microsoft to offer Office online
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10077535-2.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-microsoft-office-will-float-to-the-cloud-with-office-web.html

MS offers peek through Windows 7
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7695933.stm
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10077484-75.html

Microsoft doubles reward for teen who ran away after his parents pilfered his 360
http://gizmodo.com/5069904/microsoft-doubles-reward-for-teen-that-ran-away-after-his-parents-pilfered-his-360

Dolly Parton enters ‘white space’ debate
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10077742-94.html

Researchers decentralize BitTorrent
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/28/1722214

Quantum key distribution meets the real world, fails
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081029-quantum-key-distribution-meets-the-real-world-fail.html

HD Netflix streaming comes to Xbox 360 first
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/10/29/hd-netflix-streaming-comes-to-xbox-360-first/

AC/DC confuse Donald with Excel spreadsheet video and CD-only distro
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ACDCs-Black-Ice-CD-Album/story.aspx?guid={0A29BF85-6030-4239-A18D-86082628C6A4}
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/06/poll-should-acd.html
http://gizmodo.com/5068899/acdc-excel-spreadsheet-music-video-has-us-thunderstruck

Walmart relaunches MP3 store with $0.74 MP3s
http://gizmodo.com/5070019/walmart-selling-drm+free-mp3s-for-74-cents-finally-mac-and-linux-friendly-too

The VCR is dead
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/10/28/the-vcr-is-dead.html

DTV transition will ‘puke’ on environment, says recycling group
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/10/dtv-transition.html

Voice mail

JL in Minnepaolis
War of the Worlds - twitter.com/wotw2

Mark from Florida
What use is Google Earth

E-mail
…to the internet today, October 29, 2008!

39 years old. Up next: mid-life crisis.

(The first message ever to be sent over the then ARPANET (sent over
the first host-to-host connection) occurred at 10:30 PM on October 29,
1969. It was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline and
supervised by UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock. The message was sent
from the UCLA computer to a computer at the Stanford Research
Institute. The message itself was simply the word “login.” The “l”
and the “o” transmitted without problem but then the system crashed.
Hence, the first message on the ARPANET was “lo”. They were able to do
the full login about an hour later.)

But you knew that…

Digital Dave in San Diego
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lk/LK/Inet/1stmesg.html

**********

Relatively new listener here. It’s been about 2 weeks. I heard about you guys when someone(I forget who) was on Twit. The reason I like the show is because it gives me something to listen to on a daily basis instead of once a week like Revision 3.

After listening to Friday’s show I wanted to comment on how this listener can return a Console game after opening it. You take it to the customer service desk and say I forgot my receipt and this game doesn’t work for my console. They will replace it with another. They will go and get a new one. MOST of the time they will forget to unwrap the plastic. They will give you a new game with the plastic back on and then you can go to another Wal-Mart a few miles down the road or that same Wal-Mart the next day with your receipt and get your money back.

Thanks,
Steve Rehnborg
Raleigh, NC by way of Ohio

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What’s Microsoft calling their cloud computing solution? Azure. Check out the Mac Dictionary’s definition of Azure:

bright blue in color, like a cloudless sky

Cloudless! I love it.

Richard Gunther
Washington, D.C.

EPISODE 726

Note: We are making a change to our podcast feed system on Monday, May 19. However, you do not need to subscribe to a new feed. One important thing to know: If you have your podcast catcher set to download "all unheard episodes" in a feed, you will probably find a bunch of already heard episodes in your feed on Friday as a result of the changes. To lighten the hit, set your podcast catcher to only download "the latest episode" for the week of May 19-to-23.

Cox, Comcast biggest BitTorrent blockers in the world
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080515-us-isps-biggest-bittorrent-blockers-in-the-world.html
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006967.html

Facebook Disconnects Google Friend Connect
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207800461
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9945308-2.html

RIAA defendant Jammie Thomas may get new trial
http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9945643-38.html

Microsoft, OLPC officially team up
http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9945438-56.html

Details for Guitar Hero 4 released
http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/05/15/216205.shtml

Analyst: Amazon.com’s Kindle to generate $750 million by 2010
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9945112-1.html

TiVo extends lifetime subscription offer
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9944974-7.html

jDome offers unique experience to gamers
http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/05/15/ jdome_offers_unique_experience.html

50 Years of DARPA: 5 Good Inventions, 5 Lousy Ones
http://gizmodo.com/391157/ 50-years-of-darpa-5-good-inventions-5-lousy-ones

VOICE MAIL

Shalin
CBS idea.

Drew Phoenix
Battlestar Spoiler

E-MAIL

Semantic web searching

Not to harp on an old subject, I am behind a few days in my listening. Semantic Web searching caught my ear when you mentioned it in episode 722. I am one of those who thought Jeeves could answer my every question.

Last night my wife and I couldn’t figure out the answer to a factual question and didn’t want to hit the computer at the time. This morning I went to Powerset.com and asked it “What artist wrapped an island in pink?” Thinking a perfect semantic search engine would simply give me the answer. Powerset gave me a bunch of results, the musician Pink, the Pink Panther, but nothing about the artist who has wrapped islands and the German governmental buildings in pink fabric.

I went to Google and pasted in the exact same search criteria and the Artist Christo came up as the 2nd result from a New York Times article.

I went to Christo’s Wiki page, since Powerset only index those pages, and sure enough all my terms: island, wrap, pink, artist were on his Wiki page.

As with Jeeves, Powerset is not quite ready for prime time. Let me know the next time to check Semantic searching again.

P.S. Let’s Go Pens!

--PittCaleb

Cut off in traffic? Get their name and address via SMS

Hello,

For a bit over a year now I have been commuting from Lausanne to Geneva, and reading the free papers while listening to BOL on my iPod.

Today I came across a story that I found a little sinister, and thought you might find interesting. Here is the French version (for Molly to practice):

http://www.lematin.ch/fr/actu/suisse/ a-geneve-le-sms-permet-de-traquer-chauffard-et-belle-fille_9-156371

Here is the Google Translate version (which does an OK job):

http://translate.google.com/translate?u= http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lematin.ch%2Ffr%2Factu%2Fsuisse%2Fa-geneve-le-sms- permet-de-traquer-chauffard-et-belle-fille_9-156371& hl=fr&ie=UTF8&sl=fr&tl=en

Basically, you can SMS the local government a license plate number, and they will send you the name and address of the owner. I can’t even begin to list the reasons that I think is a terrible idea (full points though to one of the people that they vox pop’d in the paper version of the article, who suggested you that could get the address of someone driving an expensive car, and then go a burgle their place).

Of course, I am relatively smug since I don’t own a car, and am completely happy surviving on public transport (which is possible here, unlike most other places I have lived).

Cheers,

--Shaun
The Australian lawyer in Geneva

“Nobody solved it?” Not so fast, Leo

Dear BOL gang:

On BOL 725 when you and Leo Laporte were talking about all the outages of Twitter and similar sites, Leo mentioned offhand that scaling to massive usage is “a tough problem and nobody’s really solved it.” I agree that it’s a tough problem–but that’s why you need good engineers. I, for example, wrote the software behind Wikipedia in 2001 when it was having problems with its earlier software even though there were only a few thousand users then. I redesigned the database carefully, and gave serious thought to the trade-offs between performance and utility of every feature, solving the problem–and I was just a volunteer. Since then, other volunteers from the free software community and Wikipedia employees have scaled it up to its present level and built on to the software to the point that there’s hardly any of my code left–and they did all this while it was up and running.

If I may gloat a bit, this is not the first time the free software community has shown that it can outperform highly paid engineers in real-world applications.

--Lee Daniel Crocker

Fun while it lasted

Hey buzz team,

Just wanted to send my condolences in regards to the recent news of the acquisition. Quick question though, when will you be making the switch-over to the boring, dry news that only targets the elderly?

--Shane

Google Street View

Hey TMJ,

I was so excited yesterday when I drove past a Google Street View car on the highway. I made a few funny faces and gestures and thought that now I’d be forever immortalized as the funny guy with the Cardinals hat (Go Cards!). Then I got home and listened to episode 724 and heard that Google will be blurring faces as a measure to ward off privacy concerns.

Also, who knew that KC would be one of the next cities to be on Street View? It’s not like we’re a tech hub like SF or NYC, the previously available cities. Most of my co-workers don’t know the difference between a PC or Mac, or even which OS they are using. They just say that they use “the computer.” But, it’s still pretty cool.

Love the show!

--Dave the Engineer (or maybe Dave B. in KC, it rhymes after all)

Icahn has Yahoo-Microsoft merger?

Greetings!

I’ve always believed resistance is, in fact, futile, so I was compelled to not resist from making what I believe should be a candidate for best “lolhuman” to date, and no-one will appreciate a tech-related ‘lol’ as much as you.

http://www.lanxon.co.uk/index.php/2008/05/15/icahn-has-yahoo-merger/

In related news, maybe Icahn wanted the existing board to reject the Microsoft bid because he appreciated how much the deal would annoy shareholders, thus reducing share prices, thus making his purchase of millions of them less painful, and he’d get his way at the end of the day anyway. Smart dude, in my opinion.

Warmest,
--Nate

EPISODE 685

comScore releases February 2008 U.S. search engine rankings
http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2119

Google queries decelerated in February–comScore--Silicon Alley Insider
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/3/ google_comscore_says_queries_decelerated_in_february

Google data watch: Enough with the overanalysis
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8272

Adobe realizes SDK not enough for Flash on iPhone
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9898166-1.html

Cablevision / Optimum coaxing CableCARD users back to HD set-top box (Thanks Dustin!)
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/19/ cablevision-optimum-coaxing-cablecard-users-back-to-hd-stb/

DRM-free BitTorrent video store from Sweden
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/19/ drmfree-bittorrent-v.html

“Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister” to be found on P2P
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080319-canadas-next-great-prime-minister-to-be-found-on-p2p.html

Android: HTC calls Android phone Dream, feels like one already
http://gizmodo.com/370098/ htc-calls-android-phone-dream-feels-like-one-already

E-voting vendor blocks security audit with legal threats
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080320-e-voting-blocks-e-voting-security-audit-with-legal-threat.html

XPERIA X1 white paper reveals yet more details
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/19/ xperia-x1-white-paper-reveals-yet-more-details/

Scientists create room temperature superconductor
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/19/229225

Cyborg insects survive to adulthood, ensure our doom
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/ cyborg-insects-survive-to-adulthood-ensure-our-doom/

VOICE MAIL

Kirk?
One man’s reaction to the outage.

IBCRandy
Microsoft’s gaming platform.

Fordo
Cut off.

E-MAIL

More to say!

Hey you guys -

Your mailbox is full so I got cut off after about 10 seconds into my second, yes second, message to you. I just wanted to say that meeting Molly tonight was seriously like meeting half of Brangelina to me. It would totally have been a full Brangelina if you had been there, Tom.
Swear. No lie. Not kidding. Did I already say that in my first message? I may have but, again…to review…the Fordo is somewhat hammered right now after the BOL meetup at Puck’s Fair so I’m not really sure what I said in that first message. So if I DID happen to mention that you and Molly have achieved Brangelina-like status in my mind, then great. But if I did not mention it, I would be remiss if I did not now mention it.

So...there ya go. I have mentioned it. My work here is done.

Carry on, my peeps. Carry on.

Fordo, Queen of Fordovia

New AJAX wiki inspired by BOL

Hey buzz out loud crew!

A few months back you announced that you had launched the Buzz Town wiki on Wikia. That was the first I heard of Wikia. But since you decided that a having a wiki was worthwhile, it inspired us to start thinking about a wiki.
If it was good enough for you, it was good enough for us!

So today we are launching our own wiki on AJAX and it would be great if you could give it a plug.

The wiki is targeted to Web application developers (and their bosses) who want to use AJAX to develop cool interactive Web sites (such as CNET.com, Hulu, Mint.com.) or full fledged Web applications (like call centers or financial trading sites).

The wiki at http://ajax.wikia.com identifies a list of UI components most commonly used in business software applications to develop a rich Internet application user experience. Developers and technology decision makers can use the wiki to benchmark which AJAX toolkits support the UI components that meet their specific requirements at the level of user experience.

A little technical sounding I know, but since you were the inspiration for the wiki, and I know a lot of your audience is Web developers searching for tech news, I thought it might be relevant.

Thanks and as always, keep up the great work.

FYI: My must download podcasts are NPR, Slate, NakedScientist, Cringley, and Buzz Out Loud! So in my book, I rate you up there with the best!

Tony DeYoung
Catalyst Resources

Numbering system

Hey Buzz crew,

This is regards to the number-base thoughts posed on episode 1E4. (http://www.convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/Calculators/Math/Base_Converter.ASP
)
There was a civilization that had a base 20 system. It was the Maya who lived on Yucatán.
http://www.michielb.nl/maya/math.html

As to whether shoes or numbering systems came first, that is still unclear to me. This site shows Maya shoes, however you’ll notice that they are open-toed so would allow for the counting of toes for the base-20 system.
http://www.mayashoes.com/

Love the show!

Dave the prof

Electronics recycling

Hey Jomlly,

In episode 684 you guys were wondering why Clover would recycle old and broken electronics for free. The answer is simple, high commodity prices; sure it costs them money to properly dispose of the hazardous chemicals and materials contained in these electronics, but that is more than made up for by the precious materials also contained in those devices. They get to harvest the now very expensive gold and copper in exchange for doing the environment a little good.

Thanks,

Kevin from Ontario

On yesterday’s show Tom mentioned that he kept cable so his wife could see Lost the day it aired. I wondered what that actually meant he was paying per episode of Lost. Lost started (according to IMDB) on in Sept. of '04 so that is 43 months ago. I guess at $50 per month for cable (although that is probably low if you have HD stuff) which comes out to $2,150. They have had 76 episodes (according to the Lost wikipedia page.) When you do the math that means Tom is paying $28.29 per episode of Lost! I know Tom sleeps on a bed of money but that is one heck of a premium to pay to see a show the same day it airs!

Love the show.

Eric Higgins-Freese

EPISODE 674

Yahoo, Time Warner reportedly talk deal to thwart Microsoft
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9886157-7.html
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9886254-7.html

Gates to Google: 'Your business applications stink'
http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9884752-16.html

Adobe bites its tongue after iPhone Flash jab
http://www.news.com/8301-10787_3-9886265-60.html

Warning: Your iPod may get you mugged
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9885873-7.html
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/ 1282422/researchers_ipods_attract_violent_crime

Is Microsoft’s ‘Singularity’ the OS of the future?
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9886184-7.html

NIN’s music experiment sells big numbers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/05/076221

Ask.com seeks makeover as women’s site
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080305/ap_on_hi_te/ask_makeover

Rumors of Facebook music service bubbling again
http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9886214-36.html

AOL gets it right with Open AIM 2.0
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/05/ aol-gets-it-right-with-open-aim-20-embraces-meebo-and-ebuddy/

FCC: No plans for a Comcast-BitTorrent hearing at Stanford
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9885394-7.html

New video overtakes 'Evolution of Dance' for No. 1 Spot on YouTube
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2008/03/05/new_vide.shtml

DIA keeps Wi-Fi on the mild side (Thanks Wayne!)
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_8455504

Levitating haptics joystick gives good feedback
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/05/149231

Electronic tattoo display runs on blood (Thanks Chris!)
http://www.physorg.com/news122819670.html

Dungeons & Dragons co-creator dies at 69
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080304/ap_en_ot/obit_gygax

VOICE MAIL

Mark the Animator
Send letters to everybody.

Jason?
What should I call myself?

Amanda Atlanta
Fruit-naming conventions

E-MAIL

Phone wiretapping

Hey guys I love the show, but I have to take issue with Toms file-sharing comparison to phone wire-tapping. Now with phones and information going over the phone, what’s going over phone is the information relevant to the product, not the product itself. Like if two dealers were discussing a coke deal, the coke isn’t going to come through the phone, but if an ISP is looking for certain mp3 files, that file will be where they are looking, in that same pool.

A better analogy would be comparing file sharing to chasing drug cartels on the seas and in the air. Not all the ships and the planes in the air have drugs on them, or are transporting anything illicit, but if you want to catch who you need to catch that is where your going to find them.

Shoby

Insecurity of banks

yes Bank of America and AT&T have the highest number of identity thefts per month as BofA is the largest Bank in the U.S. (by far) and AT&T is the largest wireless provider in the U.S. (by a bit i believe) so of course they have the most.

It seems to me that your professor used some fancy statistics to smear his data. A more accurate representation would the the percent of customer base whose identity was stolen.

love the show

~Chirstophahahaha from MA

Warn Buzztown!

Warn Buzz-Town: MacBook Pro Power Transformer Will Burn

I fell asleep with my exposed arm on top of the white power brick of my 2007 MacBook Pro and woke up with first degree burns and a tiny second degree burn. People, watch out! Blog and photo to follow but for now, be warned.

In other Mac news, my Mac’s logic board failed in the Apple Store when I was talking Mac Tech. Poor Apple! My dog (rusty) also died this weekend. Sucks for me!

Peace out,

Ross(cbrown)

My Napster settlement phone call

Hey folks, this is “Alex” from Columbus, Ohio, wanted clear up the confusion regarding the Napster Settlement story and my call. Seems I didn’t do my research, because there are multiple settlements against Napster, and the one my company is handling is not the same as the one reported in the New York Post. Our settlement was started by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who wrote songs like “Hound Dog” and “Jailhouse Rock,” and encompasses songwriting royalties and music publishers, not the EMI/Warner/Universal case currently in the news. In my excitement to contribute something actually relevant to show, I confused the two settlements. My bad, sorry for the confusion, I’ll take a time out in the penalty box.

“Alex”

Speedtalkers

Hey Buzz Crew,

About a year ago, I e-mailed about a way Mac users could convert their podcasts to audiobook format so they could play them at a faster speed — a way for power podcast listeners to really get their podcast on.

[Refresher: The JOIN TOGETHER program http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts07.php?page=1#jointogether can be used to group several podcasts into one audiobook file with each podcast being a chapter.
For individual files, QUICK CONVERT APPLESCRIPT http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts02.php?page=1#quickconvert allows you to easily convert the file to AAC format, and the MAKE BOOKMARKABLE APPLESCRIPT http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts07.php?page=1#makebookmarkable converts an AAC into a bookmarkable (audiobook) format.]

What I’m writing to say is that after spending a year speed-listening to many podcasts from many different sources, I’ve only run into three situations where I couldn’t make out what was being said and had to slow it back down to normal speed to make the speech intelligible. Oddly enough, they’re all on BOL:

1. A Mollyrant
2. Voicemail for Fordo
3. Molly reading email from Fordo

Anyhow, thanks for an awesome podcast.

Cheers,
Jeff from Huntsville