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Guest Host On TPN Weekly Episode 3

Bwana — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:13:43 +0000

This week, I’m the guest host on the brand new podcast from the Techpodcast network called TPN Weekly. If you’re into podcasts, you really should subscribe to our show over there. We’ll be sampling new hosts every week so you can get a new flavor. I think it’s an awesome idea because you’ll get fresh content from a fresh host.

On this week’s show, I do a “social media special“. I talk for 25 minutes about Twitter, Facebook, Rejaw and FriendFeed. Here’s a video of my live taping from Saturday:

Also, here is the information for the Podcast if you wish to listen via audio (and subscribe):

I’ll update you all via Twitter when I’ll be hosting again. Enjoy!

BlogTalkRadio listened

Bwana — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:06:59 +0000

BlogTalkRadio caught my blog post on privacy issues with their very simple podcasting API, Cinch. They’ve released an updated version of the service today which allows users to create a custom rss url. Outstanding!!

I’ve went ahead and created my own Cinch feed at cinch.blogtalkradio.com/bwana . Here’s a test sample mp3 of my test run on my iPhone

74_90337.mp3

Good job BlogTalkRadio. You’ve earned my respect by not only listening to the podcasting community, but making our lives easier.

The Problem I have with BlogTalkRadio

Bwana — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:28:22 +0000

Scoble and Winer went on record to say BlogTalkRadio’s new phone in podcast feature is revolutionary.

Call their special phone number: 646-200-0000. It records the call. When you’re done it creates an RSS 2.0 feed with an enclosure that’s an MP3 of the call.

The address of the feed is a function of the phone number you called from. I just called in a podcast from my Nokia N95, which they added to this feed:

http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/8583429663

That’s all there is to it! No registration. They have a web page for it, but it’s completely unnecessary.

While I agree on the beauty of its simplicity, I can’t help but wonder why BlogTalkRadio chose to use my phone number in the URL? I mean, some people may feel comfortable giving their phone number out to the internet, but I don’t want to advertise it. I do realize I can use my GrandCentral number as a call solution, but then that limits the mobility of the solution. I may consider using it for my podcast, but only through GrandCentral. Anyway, I think this started out as a good idea, but ultimately failed to consider privacy. Let’s hope iteration 2 addresses this.