“KCRW-FM General Manager Ruth Seymour was getting her teeth cleaned in February when her dentist suggested the station adopt a new technology called podcasting,” Charles Duhigg reports for The Los Angeles Times. “Seymour was unfamiliar with the software that allows listeners to download audio programs to such portable devices as iPods. Now she knows, and has plenty to smile about.”
“Apple Computer Inc. this week rolled out an updated version of its music software, iTunes, that prominently features podcasts of such KCRW programs as comedian Harry Shearer’s ‘Le Show’ and film critic Elvis Mitchell’s ‘The Treatment.’ Within a day, downloads from Santa Monica-based KCRW exploded from 3,500 a day to 100,000. ‘We’re reeling, trying to figure out what this means,’ Seymour said,” Duhigg reports.
Full article here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Apple iTunes leaves Microsoft Media Player in the dust – July 01, 2005
Apple iTunes podcast subscriptions top one million in first two days – June 30, 2005
Analyst: iTunes 4.9 helps Apple by bringing podcasting to the masses – June 28, 2005
Apple releases iTunes 4.9 for Mac and Windows with podcasting features – June 28, 2005
Christians that blindly follow GW and his cronies just because their church says so are completely ignorant of what is really going on. See, GW leads you on with all the divisive issues (abortion, gays, etc) but never acts on them. BUT what they do act on is giving corporations power and self governance which is not good for anybody but the rich. Here is the thing, either we will be regulated by the government, which is suppose to be by the people for the people, OR we are regulated by the corporations which are by the rich for the rich.
This country needs to get over the “GOD” thing. Fundamentalism is bad in any form, period.
Also ‘other steve jobs’ show me where Al Franken has ever said he hates christians. Give me proof, saying it doesn’t make it so. I think you hate Al Franken because he catches the right in their lies. It’s pretty funny how he makes O’Reilly look like a monkey.
http://www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com/
PS — And people with ‘troop supporting stickers’ if you really support the troops here is an organization that you need to send money.
http://www.fisherhouse.org/
I think it’s great that more people are gettingn a chance to listen to Franken and whomever else Jobs is pushing.
It’s going to be like when Jobs pushed that “Fresh Air” NPR show with Terry Gross show when the audiobooks section came out.. Everybody tried it out because Jobs liked it so much – then promptly cancelled it when they heard how left-of-center it is.
We (conservatives) were in the minority for years, and we never resorted to the rhetoric of some of the out-of-power lefties today. Tip: you have to convince the majority of your ideas to regain power. The left’s problem? It presented its ideas and nobody agreed…
“Christians that blindly follow GW and his cronies just because their church says so…”
Wow, that statement says a lot more about the speaker than it does about the subject – do you really think there is an army out there of robotic Bush followers, following zombie-like the proclamations of preachers and the GOP? Is that what you think of people who disagree with you?
I suppose it’s easier than considering the possibility that other thoughtful human beings might have a different set of ideas and beliefs than you do.
Take it easy there, fella…
“Al Wanken, PBS, and all those commie libs can’t get it done. Get over it, you dems lost big time. The biggest podcast is the Rush.”
Hey!
Why don’t you go F*CK yourself you moronic retard!
The “dems” lost and so did the world! The election was stolen just as plainly as if they had come in with guns and ski masks.
You mindless losers are so utterly clueless as to what is going on it makes me want to puke!
There is a word for it:
DENIAL
Look it up!
Here is another one for you:
FASCISM
Look it up!
Considering you obviously support the BS that is going on, here is hoping you are soon added in the resulting body count. No great loss. Just one less room temperature IQ equipped moron to worry about.
“The left’s problem? It presented its ideas and nobody agreed…”
Gee, I didn’t realize GW won 100% of the vote.
“God is the ultimate libertarian (little “L”) – He lets you choose Him or reject Him.”
Ha. How deluded. Yahweh is the ultimate jealous, genocidal megalomaniac. He wants to separate out a chosen few while he burns and tortures the rest for all eternity. What a freak.
God is a fantasy
Pay no attention to twdldee. He doesn’t exist.
hey wuts w/the political postings…
chill out ppl
Why does it matter if he’s liberal, Niki, the point is he’s not a good person.
And further more, what does it matter if I am from the US?
Either way you all proved my point.
You guys are funny to watch.
Dank –
How the hell do you know what kind of person Tom Cruise is? That’s like me saying “Dank is twelve years old” just from reading your posts.
Now ‘Nutjob’ – I think we can safely say Cruise qualifies for that.
That was a funny post for about the first 10 lines. Give our scroll wheels a break. Your point doesn’t warrant that much space, dork.
That was a funny post for about the first 10 lines. Give our scroll wheels a break. Your point doesn’t warrant that much space, dork.
That was a funny post for about the first 10 lines. Give our scroll wheels a break. Your point doesn’t warrant that much space, dork.
“…Gee, I didn’t realize GW won 100% of the vote”
“…Ha. How deluded. Yahweh is the ultimate jealous, genocidal megalomaniac. He wants to separate out a chosen few while he burns and tortures the rest for all eternity. What a freak.”
Liberalism and atheism – they go together like PB & J.
Atheism is brought on by people who use logic as their primary source of information. Logically, it is clear that Jesus could have been some guy with a God complex at the right time in the right place. We see in our society people with God complexes fairly often (maybe once every ten years?), and with the lack of mass communication someone with a God complex could have much more easily created a big splash back in the day. So clearly, believing in Jesus as the son of God requires a lot of faith.
I leave the political rantings momentarily to comment on the subject of the article:
I live in L.A. and have listened AND subscribed to KCRW for more than a decade. They do indeed lean left, but that is typical with all academia and the KCRW is a product of Santa Monica College—a school I attended back in the ’70s. The station produces a number of wonderful programs and, IMHO, takes its community responsibility seriously. They do indeed run NPR and All Things Considered, which are also very well produced. These shows do lean toward taking the internationalist view that the USA is often “too big for its britches”, but if you can get by some of that, the shows contain a lot of great reporting. Harry Shear, who generates Le Show, from KCRW every Sunday has had his show listed as a paid subscription on Audible.com for a while. It is now free via podcasting. That is generous in my view and I salute KCRW for making their programming available, even to those that do not support the costs to do so through subscribing to the station.
To the right I say: Those on the left, with whom you disagree, are not necessarily Commies or traitors.
To the left I say: Those on the right, with whom you disagree, are not necessarily ignorant, moronic, hate mongers, gay bashers, or religious fanatics.
On this Independence Day I would hope that everyone in the USA (I recognize that we have some international posters) do a few simple things. Re-read some historical documents; they are short and clear. The Declaration of Indepence and the Constitution of the United States. Most people doing the name calling unfortunately have little understanding of the framework of our Republic. A recognition and understanding of the clearly defined rights and responsibilities of each branch of Government, along with the division of States rights vs Federal rights will illuminate for many willing to be truly open minded, the correct path we as a society should take. IMHO, most of the well reported “divisiveness” in this country would evaporate if the bulk of our populace understood the beautiy and logic of our Constitution, gave credit to the deep thought and debate that went into its formation, and lived by its edicts.
Happy July 4th everyone!
Believeing in Jesus as the son of God does indeed require a lot of faith. In fact, he was the first one to tell us that. It also, I think, requires a lot of faith to believe that a poor, obscure Nazarene living 2k years ago could be so precious and sacred and personal to the billions that came (and still come) after him, and just have been some guy with – what was it? A ‘God complex’?
Logically, a carpenter’s words would never have made it beyond his village, much less have changed the world.
“Considering you obviously support the BS that is going on, here is hoping you are soon added in the resulting body count. No great loss. Just one less room temperature IQ equipped moron to worry about.”
Now that is hate speech.
God bless you and help you out of your misery.
okay… i’m confused…
a few days ago i post something as harmless as “Lookit me! First Post!” and i get edited AND a brow beating from Guess Who for, of all things, “wasting space”. not just once… but twice!
today, in this thread folks are getting way off topic, downright nasty and taking up voluminous amounts of space and nothing happens.
so, here’s my question… what’s up with that?!
if moderators are going to edit, do it evenly and fairly across the board and keep things on topic.
and that’s my 2¢.
Tempus Fugit could not be more right.
Puto tempus fugere est.
The time fled, and now its time for me to, too.
I think personaly that regardless of wether Jesus was a man on a personal mission with a God complex or wether he was the actual Son of God doesn’t make much of a difference anymore. The fact is that so many people have prescribed to what he started and they get something out of it. That is good enough for me. I hold the same belief for Buddhists, Muslims or any other faiths out there. What bothers me about the “religious right” in this country is that most of them seem to have this burning desire to force their views upon others.
Hey †empus, shut yer rants and stop wasting space. Can’t you see we’re talking politics here?
Wow, “OnlyMacs”, you certainly have a an open-minded, more intelligent view compared to those who disagree with you. You must be very, very smart.
MDN way to turn our little Mac utopia into an American right vs. left bullshit chorus.
Surely, you could have guested how this story about Franken or whoever would have unravelled. Every time the Rush Limbauh (I don’t even know if I’m spelling these people’s names correctly) stories get posted here it turns into an American right vs. left cold war.
MDN here’s a suggestion: If you’re going to post these stories, create another room where all the Americans from the left and right can go at each other ad nausea
Now back to our regularly scheduled program…
well, i just want to say that you all are a bunch of nutty-nutheads! sheesh!