bunker an infrequent blog

TiVo and the Mac: MPEG extraction, networking and general hacking. I should be enjoying getting into this soon with new hard drive replacement (120gb) and a network card recently delivered. Just need to get on top of the currently recorded list … not as easy at it sounds.

Listening to: Somewhere Across Forever by Stellastarr*

iPod dominates teenage mindshare, market share

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said today that based on a survey of 600 teenagers, Apple’s iPod is dominating “mindshare and market share.” Munster said in a research note provided to MacMinute that of all the high school students surveyed, 16 percent currently own an iPod and 24 percent plan to buy an iPod within the next year. Munster also noted that the iPod ranked fourth on the teens’ holiday wish list–behind clothes, money, and a car–even though the iPod was not an answer option and had to be written in as a response.

Plus the whole Steve Ballmer “the most common format of music on an iPod is ‘stolen‘” blatant PR “casual comment“. Plus the BPI claiming to sue 28 filesharers but doesn’t know who they are yet. Plus podcasting getting jiggy with it. Plus this leak of the next iPod – colour screen and iPhoto support on a 60GB drive.

All in one week? Matt put it rather well yesterday, that at some point it becomes more economically desirable to embrace change than support the status quo. This moment is referred to as the tipping point… (there followed some analogy about boats in water, but i didn’t really get that, or was distracted by cute waitresses).

Listening to: They Suffocate At Night from the album “Masters Of The Universe” by Pulp

Just trying it out for now as an alternative method of disseminating our monthly mixtapes, but you’ll be awfully glad to hear I’m not planning on recording some god-awful talk radio show. An invisible, background, underground, decentralised music distribution system YES! Wittering geekery about pretty much nothing NO

Seriously, most people are using it to make teeth-grindingly tedious “talk radio” shows available over the interweb. I’m using it as more of a “push” medium for my monthly mixtapes – it should just arrive on your iPod around the turn of the month, rather than that great schlep to download, import, etc. Now *that* is going to huge.

Podcasting, iPodderX, iPodder.org, More

The NeuroPodCast Feed : XML

Seems to be having trouble with serving from iDisk. Fixing…

Seems to be working now. Bloody iDisk nonsense.

Listening to: William Shatner – 09 – Has Been