Saturday, May 14, 2005

More ideas for the first broadcast podcast. Maybe we should sing The Star Spangled Banner? Or run the podcast with my parents on my birthday. Huey Lewis's Hip To Be Square. Happy Together.  

On today's podcast I ponder the possibilities for tomorrow's broadcast podcast for KYOU-AM in San Francisco. More singing this time with the MIDI of Dixie. You'll have to wade through it to get to the talk. Also includes philosophy from Ed Cone and Rogers Cadenhead.  

I winced a half-dozen times reading this interview with Adam Curry. He didn't invent podcasting, he didn't figure out that RSS would be a good transport. And he didn't write the first iPodder. Here's what Adam actually did do. He figured out the last yard was important and worked tirelessly to get people to listen to him. I was the only one who did, and I turned that idea into RSS with enclosures, and wrote the first iPodder, in 2001, three years before Adam claims to have done all this stuff. I never denied him credit for his role in this work, quite the opposite, I praised him every way I could for his insight. I also did regular podcasts for a couple of months before he started. He was listening to them, calling me all the time, ecstatic at how I was reinventing radio. There are a couple of ideas in Daily Source Code that didn't come from me, and for that Adam deserves full credit and our thanks. But these lies have gone on and on, he just doesn't stop.  

Also, as has been pointed out elsewhere, Chris Lydon's interviews with bloggers were available as an RSS feed with enclosures, starting in August 2003. I'd love to hear Adam's explanation of why that's not a podcast. That was followed very shortly by Doug Kaye's IT Conversations. My first podcasts were inspired by The Gillmor Gang, which I openly credit in those podcasts. I'm totally fed up with Adam taking credit for our hard risk-taking work. In other words, it's time for Adam to sit down and do his stinkin broadcast with his stinkin transmitter.  

Thing is -- Adam's star is fading, again. At some point he's going to need some friends, and then I'm going to kick him in the ass, and then look him in the eye and say "Shouldn't have lied so much, dickhead."