08-04-30 >> the DailySplice Podcast [7:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Thanks for checking out today’s DailySplice Podcast! Today we’re talking about fun stuff like Harold and Kumar and selling your daughters. Have Fun!

Intro Music: IndieFeed Indie Pop: Golden Shoulders - I Will Light You on Fire

Humans May Have come to North America 1000 Years Earlier

CNN You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: 2 - 3 min. Produced on Fridays

Scientists believe that humans may have migrated to North America 1000 years before previously thought. How did they make this revelation? By the discovery of new fossilized human poop that’s over 14,000 years old.

Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

CNN On Screen: 1 min.Produced 3 times per week.

Harold and Kumar are have graduated from buying burgers to escaping from prison. They get caught up in terrorism end up in Guantanamo Bay… and at some point get stoned with George W.

Tea Additives: The Dos and Don’ts

Tea Tips With Dr. Tea: 2 - 3 min. Produced on Mondays.

In this video podcast, Dr. Tea discusses the pros and cons of a variety of tea additives. For example, putting dairy milk in your tea is a big no-no! It neutralizes some of the anti-oxidants present in tea. If you need to use a sweetener, at least use natural sugar.

Sell Your Daughter Online

Distorted View: 10-30 min. Produced weekdays.

Marryourdaughter.com, Marry your daughter off for $5,000 to $99,995. Buy/Sell daughters of any shape or size. Earn a little extra cash, get out of the trailer park, and go on vacation! 5% surcharge for the webmaster.

I know this isn’t a regular scheduled blog post… but probably very few people have even noticed that we publish posts at 12 noon on weekdays anyway so I’ll just go ahead and squeak this in. haha. Just wanted to give a shout out to IndoChino, who I noticed on TechCruch today. These guys are really giving it their all and deserve every bit of exposure they can get, so good on them!

Here’s a good podcast if you like the traditional morning radio show format. It’s called the Bryant Park Project, and it’s recorded in New York. It’s actually just a radio program that has been put on online for the public to download as a podcast. They cover world events as well as light fun stories and of course add in the wacky morning DJ element. This version is a 15 minute segment of the program.

 

 08-04-29 >> the DailySplice Podcast [7:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hello again and thanks for checking out today’s podcast from DailySplice. We’re talking about cool stories from the podosphere as usual today. We’ll be chatting about such things as teleportation and Iraqi school closures.

Intro Music from Global Apathy: Electric Wizard - Weird Tales, Electric Frost

Physics of the Impossible

Science Channel: 5 min. Published occasionally.

• Class 1 impossibilities: becoming invisible, moving things with your mind, levitation, teleportation an object
• Class 2 impossibilities: time travel, teleporting a human
• Class 3 impossibilities: perpetual motion

How Smoke Works

BrainStuff from HowStuffWorks.com: 2 - 3 min.; Published occasionally

BrainStuff from HowStuffWorks.com is a short podcast that explains how scientific or natural phenomena work. This episode discusses smoke and the components of wood and what happens to it as it burns. Other episodes in this series cover other interesting topics such as rainbows, cold viruses, and the little dimples in a golf ball.

Canadian Snow Days vs. Iraqi War Days

UNICEF: 3 min. Produced twice per week.

An interview with a 16 year old student in Iraq reveals that the Iraqi version of a snow day isn’t quite as fun as they are in Canada. When there is a lot of gunfire, schools get closed, but there is no going outside to play with friends. The kids stay at home hiding with their families for days at a time, and can only talk to their friends by phone. It’s also tough to study for exams with all the noise and the pits of fear in guts.

Iceland’s Clean Machines

Nova PBS: 4 - 5 min. Produced weekdays

This episode discusses Iceland’s progress at creating a hydrogen economy. Because fossil fuels are so expensive in Iceland, finding alternative sources of energy is very attractive. Iceland’s capital city, Reykjavík, has a hydrogen fueling station but very few cars use it. Iceland is hoping to have developed a hydrogen economy by the middle of the century, which is much sooner than most industrialized nations’ targets.

 

 08-04-28 >> the DailySplice Podcast [7:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hey, thanks for tuning in once again to our podcast! At DailySplice we get all our outside information on the world from podcasts, and today we are excited to talk about a number of totally rad stories from the podosphere. Here’s what were up to:

Intro Music: Amy Campbell - All I See

New YouTube Features on the way

dotBoom: 3 - 4 min. Various publications

The puppet web designed with the acerbic wit, Gideon, interviews Geoff Stearns from YouTube. Geoff Stearns is a “backend” programmer who works on the Flash player and YouTube’s syndication features. He talks about some new features that are rolling out at YouTube, including better picture quality on certain videos.

They’ve Landed on the Moon!

Jim and Them: <1 min. 2 per Week.

The world witnessed a miracle on April 19, 2008 when Jim and “Them” landed on the moon! It was all made possible by Miley Cyrus. Despite speculations of fraud, this reporter had a tear in his eye as he witnessed “them” hi 5 in zero gravity and as the first podcast moonlanding words were heard around the world: “Hi! And um, more videos coming soon from the planet moon!”

hi5 releases OpenSocial-compatible platform

Mashable Conversations: 27-28 min. Produced on weekdays

Social networking site hi5 has released an OpenSocial-compatible development platform. The features is up and running and has over 200 community-developed applications. Mashable has an in-depth discussion with two developers from hi5 about the platform and how it has been adopted by the community.

From Screen Savers to Rad

Occasional Podcast Review: various publications

Alex Albrecht, and Dan Trachtenberg, Jeff Cannata do the OPR, and reminice on the good old days of podcasting. 3 geeks unite over a good old fashioned game of D&D. Alex: the seasoned podlebrity from Digg and Screen Savers; Dan: from the “winding down” Geekdrome; and Jeff: emerging out of his lonely hollows that is his basement. Now they have big plans in the wake of their success, including jet packs and world domination. And they still call eachother by their D&D character names.

These videos from Common Craft are always pretty good, and recently they made one for podcasting. Finally, when someone asks me what a podcast is I have something good to point them to!! Here it is:

 

 08-04-25 >> the DailySplice Podcast [7:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Thanks for checking out the DailySplice podcast, were talk about all the cool stories we’re hearing about out in the podosphere. Today we’re talking about a floating future civilizations, Disney training, lychee martinis and knee slapping jokes.

Intro Music by Lokua - Trails on Phlow Magazine

Floating buildings in Dubai

NPR Technology Podcast: 23 - 24 min. Produced on Wednesdays

A Dutch company has the solution for rising water levels: put buildings on water! The entrepreneurs have designs for a floating prison, floating hotel, even a floating island (what??) and are working in Dubai to create man-made islands.

Training for a Trip to Disney World

WDW Today: 26-27 min. Produced on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays

How should you train for a trip to the happiest place on earth? The average park visitor walks 6-7 miles per day. There is a lot of lateral movement, dodging people, moving through lines. The experts recommend doing a few laps at your local mall.

Lychee Martini

Art of the Drink: 6 - 7 min. Produced irregularly.

A step-by-step lesson on how to make a killer lychee martini.

Dr. Grant’s Joke Jamboree

The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd: 7-8 min. Produced on Mondays

Call in listeners tell their most hilarious knee slappers. Knock Knock. It’s Avery. A Skeleton walks into a drug store. What did Geronimo say when he jumped out of a plane?

There’s an interesting phenomenon on YouTube. It’s a popular genre videos that consists of absolutly horrible and/or pointless videos. Some of the masters of this genre include:

DaxFlame: Retarded or Resmarted?

Chris Crocker: You’d cry too.

Magibon: Just look at me… Literally.

Mr. Pregnant: So horrible, you can not look away!

I got to thinking, where is the genre in podcasting? I listen to a lot of podcasts and I’ve yet to come across a podcaster who’s claim to fame is being awful. There are of course, awful podcasts (ours may very well be one of those!) but I don’t know of anyone who is so bad they are good.

Why is this? Here’s my thoughts:

In order for bad content to become popular, it’s got to be viral. When it comes to the viral effect, it really doesn’t matter if content is bad or good, it’s just got to envoke some kind of feedback. That could be in the form of a rating (good or bad), a comment (adoring or nasty), or with a link (”check out this hilarious guy” or “check out this moron”).

So my conclusion is that podcasts must not be viral. When was the last time you sent an episode of a podcast to a friend? When is the last time you rated a podcast? When is the last time you commented on a podcast? I listen to tons of great podcast every day, but I rarely send them to anyone, rarely comment, and never rate them. It’s just not easy enough.

The content defiantly has the potential to be viral, but the infrastructure isn’t there to make it viral. At least for the time being. Where is the link in iTunes that lets you quickly send it to a friend? Why can’t I rate a podcast directly from my iTunes podcast panel and have that rating get reported in the store? Why can’t I comment directly in iTunes? Imagine how much easier it would be to find great podcasts (or crappy ones) if you could do all this in iTunes as easily as you can on YouTube!

I kind of see podcasts as this big ball of energy just waiting to be released. Someone is eventually going to come along with a site that has all the right wiring in place for viral activity in podcasts, and some blogger will come along and hurd the sheep and bam! Podcasts will be everywhere overnight.

Until then though, if you want to become famous for being an idiot don’t distribute your content with RSS.

 

 08-04-24 >> the DailySplice Podcast [7:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hello, and welcome to DailySplice’s daily podcast, where we do 7 podcast reviews in 7 minutes! Today you can listen to us flap our gums about the elections, stealth eavesdropping features on your mobile, and getting a divorce mentor! Here’s links to all of our sources of fun today:

• Khavi Collective Podcast: Hol Baumann / Breathe;
• MediaBytes: Big Winners in Pennsylvania;
• Pentagon “Around the Services” Podcast: Freedom Chef Challenge;
• Tod Maffin: Spy Phone’s of the Future;
• Bleeding Edge: The HP Garage;
• Divorced Dad Minute: Get a Coach;
• CNN MarketPlace Update

Leave a comment or something, you know you want to… and go to dailysplice.com for 900+ other podcasts.

I love toilet humour. It’s low-brow, shameful and rude, but if it’s in the right setting and people don’t take it the wrong way, it’s prett’ darn funny. I found a short video podcast called Ask Blackie, where the host Jamal, a puppet caricature of the stereotypical african american, answers viewers questions. His racially charged antics are hilarious and offensive to any visible minority (or majority for that matter). It ends with his friend “Kraka” exposing a weekly racial slur, usually about white people. Overall, this podcast has my kind of humour (rude and dirty) and high production quality. If you’re not easily offended, give it a watch!