This podcast came from NYC.
Back from a long hiatus, I had just listened to Adam Curry's new Daily Source Code, and wanted to say hey, and talk about what he's doing and how it's cool to have a VJ creating in this new medium that still didn't have a name.
Then we listened to an excerpt from Sandy by Bruce Springsteen.
I had been in San Francisco and had lunch with a Sun exec named Jonathan Schwartz, who used to be a DJ in NYC at WNEW-FM. I do an impression of the DJ which I demonstrate.
August of 2004 apparently is before Apple starting encouraging developers to work on its platforms, again, after a long hiatus. The iPhone was still three years away in 2004.
Then it was on to Steve Gillmor's latest episode, not impressed with his guests, and I say so! How's that for candor. But there are good reasons for wanting to work with users, but it should be at a different level. What I talk about, the web as a strong platform, it's still missing, a way for software communities to boot up around open formats and protocols. The barrier to entry keeps going up. And of course none of the platform companies want competition from individuals, but it is technically possible.
Anyway as often is the case, I continue rambling long after the point has been made. 😀
But then we get to the iPod, what kind of feed aggregator can we put on the iPod. I hoped there was a way to view an iPod as a file system that could be plugged into the Mac. No that was not to be. Instead we got iTunes. Still to this day, the connection between their mobile devices and desktops are pretty hard to manage, at least I find it so. Too much breakage, every time they do a release it seems they break me as a user.
Then I go on to talk about how the podcast aggregator on an iPod would work. This was all new! I talk about what it would be like to have NPR programs, and how great it will be to listen to the shows I want to listen to and only those. And then BBC and PRX content, which would both be part of the early bootstrap (PRX came out of Berkman too).
The next program comes from the road in Saskatchewan, on Sept 1, and the pace picks up, with eight episodes in Sept.
The archive for Scripting News in August 2004.