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Daniel Edwards is preparing to unleash his latest sculpture in a Brooklyn art museum in April. The sculpture in question is a life-size statue of Britney Spears
“…naked and pregnant, crouching face-down on a bare-toothed bear rug as the baby’s head appears on the opposite end.”
There has been considerable criticism of Edwards’ odd pro-life sculpture. And his work is now the subject of a podcast, Send2Press.
After distributing podcasting tools and guidelines to their 320,000 employees, IBM is reaping the rewards of this new medium. Podcasts have led to lower phone bills and more internal communication.
One of Edwards’ favorite creations is a weekly status update from IBM’s supply chain organization. The group previously scheduled a weekly conference call with all the employees it needed to coordinate with–a conference that involved as many as 7000 people. Now, supply-chain executives upload a weekly podcast, which staffers can listen to when they want.
“It’s dramatically cheaper,” Edwards said. “Plus you don’t have thousands of people organizing their schedules around this weekly call.”
IBM released the podcasting guidelines as to go along with the blogging guidelines created last year.
IBM has also released public podcasts, such as The Future of… series that has been downloaded over 40,000 times.
This week in iPod or TWII for short.
1) Academic institutions begin podcasting lectures. And not just to students. Now everyone can be bored by “Introductory Agricultural Business and Economics”.
2) Doctors can carry around medical images and more with an open source medical imaging program for the iPod. So get yourself and MRI and download the OsiriX Medical Imaging Software.
3) Research firm Intelliseek, also located in Cincinnati - as is one-half of YL, says that iPod owners are more likely to “create and spread consumer generated media” and to blog about the iPod. Stating that 1% of all blog posts are directly or indirectly about the iPod. So the bottom line is, if you want people to talk about it, make it iPod compatible.
The study finds that iPod users also are product innovators, significantly more likely to own digital video recorders, personal digital assistants, digital cameras, laptop computers and cell phones than non-iPod owners. They tend to link to the Internet via broadband and wireless connections, and are more likely than others to skip past or filter advertisements, especially online, a behavior that may be linked as much to high usability/interface expectations as it is to a dislike of advertising.
4) How about building the world’s largest iPod dock? For $1,015 you can build a iPod dock that will let you rip LPs to your iPod.
5) Get cartoons on your iPod directly from iTunes.
We’re packaging together some of the world’s coolest and funniest cartoons and sending them straight to your iPod each week.
Subscribe to Channel Frederator now. It’s free and easy, and each week you’ll get a fresh new 10- to 15-minute episode featuring some of the hippest animation on Earth.
That’s all for now.
Yahoo! has unveiled their latest foray into Web 2.0, Yahoo! Podcasts. It let’s users subscribe to, listen, tag, rate, and publish their own podcasts. The service is currently in beta. It reminds me a lot of Odeo. Except not as good.
The question is, do they have enough power to get every podcaster saying, “Vote for me on Yahoo! podcasts.” At first everyone wanted a vote on Podcast Alley, then it become iTunes when Apple decided to support podcasts in it’s popular client. Does Yahoo still have enough popularity to make this a universal service.
Yahoo! already has popular podcasts listed in on Yahoo! Podcasts. Such as This Week in Tech.
This service will bring podcasts to users who have yet to hear of the term. But for experienced listeners, it’s another fish in the ocean of podcasting sites.
This got lost in the ROKR and Nano announcements, but on Wednesday, Apple outlined plans to expand the iPod line of media players into more automobiles.
To some people this raises doubts about the viability of satellite radio. And with good reason, think of all the available (and free) podcasts that are online. Now compare that to paying a monthly subscription fee. To consumer radio has always been free and will be difficult to change their minds. And between commercials and the constant drone of repetiitive music, local radio stations are all but dead. Now add on the iPod’s Tivo like abilities, download podcasts and listen whenever you wish, and you got an unbeatable device.
Apple expects more than 5 million vehicles will ship with iPod support in the United States in 2006.
Already this year we heard announcements from car manufacturers that they will be installing satellite radio in the factory. Hyundai comes to mind, which will be installing XM in most 2006 vehicles. But it’s not clear whether consumers will continue to pay the subscription after the car rolls off the lot.
XM, the number one satellite provider, has stated that the iPod is no threat. But I disagree. When I bought my new car in February, my next purchase was going to be a satellite radio upgrade. Then I discovered podcasting and purchased an iPod instead. My iPod is the only reason that this writer never switched to satellite radio.
Los Angeles based Pod2Mob has a beta version of its software available online that allows you to turn podcasts into files that are playable through a mobile applet on just about every cell phone that has internet capabilities.
The software collects updated podcasts based on a update schedule, typically once a day, set by the user. The Pod2Mob web site lets users signup for the service, and to use its search engine to track down podcasts by keyword. It isn’t known how many podcasts comprise the Pod2Mob index, but the site does list 18 categories for them. Some notable names like TWIT, Engadget, Daily Source Code, and ESPN do appear in various searches.
Cut the White Cord. Listen to both new and your favorite podcasts through your mobile phone. Pod2Mob is the world’s first application that empowers you to browse and stream new podcasts anywhere and everywhere over your wireless connection. The current release is a BETA and service has been confirmed on SprintPCS and Cingular.
Get your podcasts on the go, you’ll never have to sync again. Listen to new shows as they are updated even when you are far from a Mac or PC. If you do not own an iPod, now you can find out what the Podcasting excitement is all about.
NPR has created a podcast directory to list the 130 shows you can download. You can subscribe to any shows using any podcatcher client, such as iTunes or iPodder.
Unfortunately, they still haven’t added one of my favorite shows Marketplace.
Locked-out CBC employees begin podcasting to fill the void left by the labor distribute. The employees say that they are using podcasting and blogs to get out their side of the story.
“Our listeners know us through the radio, so we had to communicate with them in an audio format,” said Jacques Poitras, a CBC reporter who wrote the script for the podcast and appeared as a guest representing the union.
You can subscribe at CBCUnplugged.com.
In any case, The first in the series of IBM PODcasts is entitled “IBM and The Future of Driving.” It explores how technology is changing the way cars are built, driven, maintained and insured. The podcasts are on IBM’s investor relations site at http://www.ibm.com/investor/.
