Do you think Gridstream would ever be a podcast?

[Lukesed]

All you would have to do is put the archive in an RSS feed.

[Innari]

I'm nearly positive this has come up before, but couldn't find the threads save for one found here.

I'm sure Griddy and Tk can impart more wisdom than I can

[Nicodar]

I'm nearly positive this has come up before, but couldn't find the threads save for one found here.

I'm sure Griddy and Tk can impart more wisdom than I can

I know the topic of podcast has come up more recently than that thread. But it was in the Talk deviant forum which is probably one reason you can't find more.

[Innari]

I know the topic of podcast has come up more recently than that thread. But it was in the Talk deviant forum which is probably one reason you can't find more.

Ahh that's right. I remember that now. Thanks Nico.

[Decavolt]

Podcasts are pretty unlikely to happen for quite a few different reasons, but mostly for one really really big one: we don't archive the live stream. At all. Ever. Talk Deviant and some of the other non-regular talk shows get recorded, but that's pretty much it. The infrastructure to record 3+ hour shows, encode them, upload them and have bandwidth available for download just isn't in place. If we do one show, we'll need to do them all and with two or more shows per night, 7 days a week at 3 hours or more each... Podcasting GSP would turn into the job from hell. Yes, it's something we could do, but with live shows every night of the week it's not much of a priority.

[Lukesed]

Most podcasts come out only about once a week, and are less than an hour long. I don't know of any daily 3 hour ones. No one would listen that much.

I don't see why you would have to do them all. Many radio stations have one or two of their best shows podcast.

[Tarryk]

Most podcasts come out only about once a week, and are less than an hour long. I don't know of any daily 3 hour ones. No one would listen that much.

I don't see why you would have to do them all.

I'm not sure what you're asking, then. Considering that we have over a dozen shows of 3+ hours each that occur every week, exactly what would constitute the 1 hour per week that's released in a podcast? It certainly can't include commercial music, that's going beyond broadcast and heading straight into distribution, something we're certainly not licensed to do. And having an hour worth of random DJ's talk between songs probably wouldn't be all that fun.

[Nexeus]

Even beyond all of the valid points made above... what would an hours worth of stuff for GSP be?

GSP podcast = no, but would something similliar to Command Prompt or Talk Deviant become a podcast? maybe, right now we're just busy enough trying to DJ

[Jairyn]

Both are already technically podcasts.. They're just not regular. Command Prompt is once a month, and TD is whenever Tarryk and Lynx hook one up ^_^

[Lukesed]

You sure they're podcasts? I don't see any RSS feeds on them.

I would subscribe to that.

[Decavolt]

Making something a podcast has little or nothing to do with it being on a RSS feed, and there are plenty of "podcasts" that are not using RSS for delivery. That merely changes the delivery method by adding a slight convenience to your download. A "podcast" is nothing more than an mp3 file, and show-length mp3 recordings were around years and years before the iPod was even thought of (see www.audible.com for example), so the term itself is incredibly over-hyped.
Talk Deviant episodes are available for download from the Media Archive section of gridstream.org.

[Boinky]

What is a podcast anyway? Isn't it pretty much anything anybody wants to make and call a podcast? Or is it just the new hot term for people to toss about to show they are hip? Is hip still hip?

Wonders what a podcast would be like is somebody said e-mail 100 times

[Nexeus]

podcast 'cause Wikipedia is right for everything right?

[Boinky]

podcast 'cause Wikipedia is right for everything right?

Wiki doesn't yet rule the universe, I find no Boinky Wiki