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October 2005

127 posts

Note to the Countrywide Financial Staff!

For all of you that are coming to this website today visiting for the first time after attending the podcasting training webinar that Rob and I put on for you. I encourage you to check out our shows and check back often. Feel free to drop me an e-mail it has been a pleasure doing the training Podcast and live

September Geek News Central Podcast Stats

I knew as people got their kids back in school we would start to see the numbers increase again, and I am pretty happy with the September increase. Overall about 10% gain in listeners this month but the number of people downloading older shows was up nearly 13 percent. I am pleased to say the least. Thanks for staying subscribed.

Music Industry needs to remove DRM?

How many of you are locked into buying Music from Apple because you have a lot of money invested in music from them that is locked down and legally keeps you from moving it to another device. Personally I have a iPod and a IRIVER so what happens when I want to take the music I have purchased legally on

Podcast Academy Survey

Doug Kaye is putting together the Podcasting Academy event that will be going down just before the Podcast Expo on Nov 10th he is looking for some info from podcasters that are thinking or will be attending and has created a survey for the event. [Podcast Academy Survey] More info here!

The iPod Halo Effect, You Betcha!

Apple said it sold 1.24 million Macs and 6.45 million iPods during the past quarter, which ended Sep. 24. That's up from both the prior quarter and the same quarter a year earlier. In the prior quarter, Apple sold 1.18 million Macs and 6.16 million iPods. In the fourth quarter of last year, Apple sold 836,000 Macs and 2.02 million iPods.

Yahoo Blog Search implementation is very odd!

I was jolted this morning when I realized that although Yahoo is including blogs in their regular news search be it in the margin, that I thought they had a direct way to get blog only results. Thier implementation is really weird, and you will see what I am talking about in the next paragraph. Unless I am missing something,

Would you Pay $17.00 for a Video on Demand

There is a catch to that question. What if you paid that $17.00 and then several days later received the DVD of the movie you just watched. Personally I don't think the model will work and here is why. Usually the only DVD's I buy is if I have already watched a movie and thought it so good that I

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GNC-2005-10-11

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Microsoft wants to change the XML, RSS Icon

First of all I thought it was a joke, second when I went to the site to take a look they had 5 images on the site that they want comment on. My comment was simple leave well enough alone and quit trying to re-invent the wheel. I bet I know what the conversation was. Hey let's piss Dave Winer

Yahoo Podcasting Site First Impression!

Nearly 1 am here but I wanted to get this on the street before I went to bed, I went through the Yahoo Podcast site for about an hour tonight, here are my conclusions. From a listeners stand point it will be a very good resource, people will be able to search and find specific topics they are looking for.

Yahoo Launches Podcasting Site

In a expected move Yahoo has launched their podcasting site, first glance and it looks pretty good but very similar to iTunes were they are highlighting a lot of comercial content. You can subscribe to the Geek News Central Podcast Here and check out the Yahoo Podcasting SIte. Help us out and make sure you Rate our podcast over on

Video iPod Leaked

Looks like the video ipod is going to happen if this story is accurate, reported today. I am not understanding why cell phones (Vcast) and now ipods are getting video. I agree with what Todd said on a previous podcast, if they made the screen the size of a PSP screen, maybe, but I don't see the fascination in straining

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