so even though no one has offered a single respectable argument as to why streaming content is somehow counter productive to internetbroadcasting, some of you feel content to just dismiss this new idea as useless because its just too damn hard.
Either that, or because you refuse to acknowledge our perfectly legitimate and reasonable arguments and have thus lost the debate.
Without syndication, Geek Nights will eventually fade. Plain and simple.
Not for the foreseeable future. If you ask me, the only way GeekNights would ever die is if Scrym just threw up their hands and abandoned us to play their vid'yo games or raise their pokemans. They're far too popular and well-known to go any other way (Please don't give up, Rym and Scott! You're awesome!)
so even though no one has offered a single respectable argument as to why streaming content is somehow counter productive to internetbroadcasting, some of you feel content to just dismiss this new idea as useless because its just too damn hard. But that's fine. Without syndication, Geek Nights will eventually fade. Plain and simple.
Uploading an MP3 recording to a server somewhere is not broadcasting.
Uh-huh. Every time anybody's said any point against you thats valid, you simply ignore them or insult them. You've lost the debate by constantly shifting the target. You constatly apply an old-media set of arguments to a new-media world. In short,
I never had any longing for Ms. Reagan. Her astrology thing creeps me out.
I haven't been reading this. Is this guy's argument that consuming media together somehow makes it better? I remember a time when all that was on TV certain nights of the week were things like That's Incredible and Welcome Back Kotter. Everyone watched them at the same time. Everyone talked about them the next day. And it sucked ass.
Shaun Cassidy was a shared experience. And all who shared it were the worse for it. That alone was enough to make a person want to defect. You might end up working in a radio factory in Minsk, your every move watched by an NKVD agent, but at least you'd be spared further Shaun Cassidy. Then came Leif Garret, and things got exponentially worse.
I rarely go to see movies at the theater anymore because I hate sitting with people who laugh loudly at every stupid, cheap little slapstick thing. I also hate hearing people talk during a movie about things unrelated to the movie. I especially hate people bringing their screaming kids to movies.
Alvin Toffler called this desire to participate in a shared experienced thing High Tech/High Touch. I've always thought it was bollocks.
Internet radio, on the other hand, brings me great joy. I love listening to streaming audio. It really helps at work. However, it makes absolutely no difference to me if anyone else is listening at the same time.
In regards to live listener participation let me relate a quote from Rush Limbaugh:
"As a caller, your job is to make me look great."
Did he say this between snarfing handfuls of Oxycontin?
I see literally every TV show I want, listen to every song/podcast I want, play every game I want, when I want it.
I was trying to find the last two episodes of BSG and an epsiode of Nova the other day and I couldn't find sites that would play them well. Do I have to download torrents?
Davek, I'm the co-host of a small internet radio show. When I say small, I mean small. But I get between 250 and 500 listeners (yes, simultaneous) per episode. Which is greater than your..what, nine?
I've done amateur podcasting and streaming radio. I have to say, podcasting is FAR EASIER to both create and consume. For this reason, I'm going to stop doing the (internet) radio show within a year, and focus solely on podcasts.
Now, remember. I get 250 - 500 listeners, by your count, per episode. I'm quite certain that Geeknights exceeds that number nearly every day. I know at least 10 people who are, right as I type this, listening to the latest episode. As you can see from the website, the forums, and their convention presence, Rym and Scott have created a community.
Now, would you please stop wasting their bandwidth with this discussion? I invite you to link to your own forum, which, I'm sure, has a greater community of listeners and contributers. Take it from someone who, while not professional in the making money sense, can at least manage to get more than nine people to take time out of their day: Streaming content is becoming less popular than on demand content. Podcasting is a better medium than "Icecasting".
When TV came out: "This is the end of radio!" When portable tape players came out: "This is the end of radio!" When portable CD players came out: "This is the end of radio!" When the Internet came out: "This is the end of radio!" When internet radio came out: "This is the end of radio!" When MP3 Players came out: "This is the end of radio!" When podcasting came out: "This is the end of radio!" When Pandora came out: "This is the end of radio!" When Pandora and Spotify were integrated into cars: "This is the end of radio!"
Well, during the cold war, the US military had a 500,000 watt FM station set up to broadcast american culture/music into Russia. However, in developing nations, radio has been used as an educational medium.
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I haven't been reading this. Is this guy's argument that consuming media together somehow makes it better? I remember a time when all that was on TV certain nights of the week were things like That's Incredible and Welcome Back Kotter. Everyone watched them at the same time. Everyone talked about them the next day. And it sucked ass.
Shaun Cassidy was a shared experience. And all who shared it were the worse for it. That alone was enough to make a person want to defect. You might end up working in a radio factory in Minsk, your every move watched by an NKVD agent, but at least you'd be spared further Shaun Cassidy. Then came Leif Garret, and things got exponentially worse.
I rarely go to see movies at the theater anymore because I hate sitting with people who laugh loudly at every stupid, cheap little slapstick thing. I also hate hearing people talk during a movie about things unrelated to the movie. I especially hate people bringing their screaming kids to movies.
Alvin Toffler called this desire to participate in a shared experienced thing High Tech/High Touch. I've always thought it was bollocks.
Internet radio, on the other hand, brings me great joy. I love listening to streaming audio. It really helps at work. However, it makes absolutely no difference to me if anyone else is listening at the same time. Did he say this between snarfing handfuls of Oxycontin? I was trying to find the last two episodes of BSG and an epsiode of Nova the other day and I couldn't find sites that would play them well. Do I have to download torrents?
If it wasn't Oxycontin he was stuffing in his face, it was probably Viagra.
Davek, I'm the co-host of a small internet radio show. When I say small, I mean small. But I get between 250 and 500 listeners (yes, simultaneous) per episode. Which is greater than your..what, nine?
I've done amateur podcasting and streaming radio. I have to say, podcasting is FAR EASIER to both create and consume. For this reason, I'm going to stop doing the (internet) radio show within a year, and focus solely on podcasts.
Now, remember. I get 250 - 500 listeners, by your count, per episode. I'm quite certain that Geeknights exceeds that number nearly every day. I know at least 10 people who are, right as I type this, listening to the latest episode. As you can see from the website, the forums, and their convention presence, Rym and Scott have created a community.
Now, would you please stop wasting their bandwidth with this discussion? I invite you to link to your own forum, which, I'm sure, has a greater community of listeners and contributers. Take it from someone who, while not professional in the making money sense, can at least manage to get more than nine people to take time out of their day: Streaming content is becoming less popular than on demand content. Podcasting is a better medium than "Icecasting".
read this: they are both needed. look at modern media. I think I've been proven right since this argument started.
Anyway, we at 6thstreetradio.org are up to 4 channels. And Geeknights is still proudly broadcast every day.
-dave
I say kill it with fire.
When portable tape players came out: "This is the end of radio!"
When portable CD players came out: "This is the end of radio!"
When the Internet came out: "This is the end of radio!"
When internet radio came out: "This is the end of radio!"
When MP3 Players came out: "This is the end of radio!"
When podcasting came out: "This is the end of radio!"
When Pandora came out: "This is the end of radio!"
When Pandora and Spotify were integrated into cars: "This is the end of radio!"