“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
“Now that is hate speech.
God bless you and help you out of your misery.”
Reap as you sew fool… reap as you sew.
You people invented the fine art of HATE, so why not turn the blowtorch in your direction and see how you like it? Of course you all start crying like a bunch of little girls when anyone on the left with some balls gives you a taste of your own medicine.
Get over yourself with this “Help me out of my Misery” BS! God has treated me JUST FINE thank you very much.
Too bad He/She/It didn’t give you a brain to think for yourself with.
Must suck to be so out of touch with reality, but hey… As long as you keeping smoking that electronic crack pipe they call Fox News, I am sure you will remain fat, dull and stupid… But with a big content, and ARROGANT SMILE on your face.
MacMania,
For at least as long as Bush has been in office, anything remotely touching on Red v Blue topics has sparked this kind of reaction. Its our national divisiveness, but its also that Mac users tend to be passionate and MacDailyNews readers tend to be opinionated.
All 3 + politics = what you see
God bless you and help you out of your misery.
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What happened to separation of church and state?
eieio wrote:
“Hey †empus, shut yer rants and stop wasting space. Can’t you see we’re talking politics here?”
believe it or not… that kind of humor i can live with!
poindexter wrote:
“well, i just want to say that you all are a bunch of nutty-nutheads! sheesh!”
sho’ ’nuff, ‘dexter… sho’ ’nuff…
Hey neo, I am very smart. I own a couple of Macs, so that obviously places me several rungs above Windows users, don’t you agree
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Well, this was fun. Never enjoyed stirring up the pot so much.
I remember a consumer survey that I had commissioned once. There was some sort of correlation between Mac users, BMW owners and Democrats. On the other hand, there was a correlation between non-computer owners, Mercedes owners and Republicans.
I have no clue what it meant.
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Mike. There is nothing regarding the separation of church and state in the Constitution, which says:
Article [I.] (See Note 13)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
MW neither, as in neither promote religion or prohibit it.
If Rush was free like these other ‘bozos’ he’d be the #1 podcaster.
“If Rush was free like these other ‘bozos’ he’d be the #1 podcaster.”
You could be on to something there!
Lord knows there are millions of MORONS in this country that love to line that drug addict’s pockets.
The thing is, the word FREE just isn’t in the average Republican’s vocabulary, so don’t hold your breath.
If they can’t make a buck off of it, they have no interest in it, so… Don’t expect much in the way of FREE Podcasts from the rabid right.
“Mike. There is nothing regarding the separation of church and state in the Constitution,”
Right Ron,
We have just been imagining this for the last 229 years.
You people are simply amazing to watch.
Are you really this ignorant, or do you just pretend to be for fun?
actually, Ron IS right – there is no mention of a ‘separation of church and state’ in the constitution… there is only a ban on congress establishing religion – the expression comes from a speech by Jefferson years later…
Billy Bob Jack–
Just read the words.
I know you libs like to think that the Constitution is a “living” document.
As Rush says, “Words mean things”.
The authors are spinning in their graves right now, just like you lot trying to spin everything to your desires.
Get over it, you lost, President Bush is here for a while yet. You’re going to go into orbit when he nominates two, yes two, Supreme Court justices in the next couple of months.
“actually, Ron IS right”
Well I sure as h–l am not left, or pinko.
rolleyes
The thing is, the word FREE just isn’t in the average Republican’s vocabulary, so don’t hold your breath.
Yes we believe in working for a living, not slurping from the government trough. Work for welfare or don’t get it.
Nitzsche is dead.
Mom and Dads please take your kids with you when you go on vacation.
> Tom Cruise isn’t a liberal
Tom Cruise is a man brainwashed by the scientology “church”…
And anyone using the words communists and democrats (meaning the US party) within the same sentence and an equal sign between them is just plain stupid and disqualifies himself from any serious discussion – face it, the democratic party is more conservative than the typical center parties in more advanced parts of the world…
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Being a foreigner it’s always fascinating for me to see with how much hate the political debate in the US rages on! I wish the americans still had a great political writer like Marc Twain was to remind them that extremists are destroying the very same values they are fighting for!
Re: Freedom and July 4th
Very Christian-conservative Spain made Gay marriages legal last week, as well as adoptions by Gays and inheritance rights by one’s gay partner. They are the third country to do so. Wooo-hoooo!! I guess USA isn’t quite as free with their rights “…to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” as they think they are.
Regarding this “freedom” you Yanks THINK you know something about…
“The thing about freedom, though, is that you can’t just want it for yourself, or only for your own kind. Freedom means everybody.”
~ Mab Segrest, author ~
“Liberty and justice for all. What part of ‘all’ don’t people understand?”
~ Patricia Schroeder, representative, U.S. House ~
On this Independence Day, remember the sacrifices of your soldiers…
“The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for loving one.”
~ Leonard Matlovich, U.S. Air Force sergeant ~
If cruelty, hate, bigotry and oppression are your “family values”, the morals by which you teach your children, then I want nothing of you, your kind, or your religion!
Go, celebrate your day of “freedom” knowing not all people are free in your country; not free to express and celebrate love; not free to visit an ill loved one; not free to exercise the same rights as other couples; not free to raise and love an unwanted child. Like the minorities of the past, Gays do not seek to be special, just equal, just freedom from the oppressing majority. But that’s okay, you don’t give a damn, you have yours, right? F-k everyone else!
Is this the America that you celebrate on the 4th?
(BTW: “I have mine, f-k the rest of you!” is EXACTLY how 99% of the rest of the world sees the US. Serious! …and they’re right!)
there is only a ban on congress establishing religion –
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Ah, basically, the government cannot set up an official religion for USA, as was the Established Church of England, etc. etc.
In other words, one of the reasons the Puritans left England in the first place…
My point was, of course, let’s take the ‘God Bless our Enemies’ shit out of the dialogue please… God hasn’t done anything for me lately.. and he sure as hell hasn’t done anything for the US, or Saddam or anything going on in Iraq.
(Okay, so I’m an atheist.. should I really be using the phrase ‘sure as hell’?)
It’s always interesting to read a foreigner’s take on American internal polital debates. Mike here is obviously upset that America hasn’t embraced homosexual marriage. He sees us as saying “I have mine, f-k the rest of you!”
So tell me, BEFORE Spain recognized gay marriage last week, were Spaniards intolerant? Were they homophobic?
My guess is that you know exactly zip-point-sh*t about American freedoms, and base your opinions (I assume from your rhetoric) solely on militant activist groups, so I’ll give you the inside scoop on something: America will have the debate on gay marriage on our own terms and according to our own timetable. If we decide it’s valid, we’ll adopt it. If we decide it’s not, we won’t.
Hey Mike,
Don’t get in too much of a hurry to understand freedom. I mean, Italians were fascists just a few years ago, right? Oh, I guess the gay marriage thing wipes out that particular bit of history…
Oh, and happy Independence Day!
OnlyMacs said:
“…I remember a consumer survey that I had commissioned once”
translation:
“…I asked my mom & dad once”
“…the democratic party is more conservative than the typical center parties in more advanced parts of the world…”
well…?
would the so-called ‘advanced’ parts please step forward? I can only assume France, from the misspelling of ‘Marc’ and the lobbing of insults from anonymity…
“…If cruelty, hate, bigotry and oppression are your “family values”, the morals by which you teach your children, then I want nothing of you, your kind, or your religion!”
hey! even Italian gay guys are drama queens! small world…
Well lets look at America’s “freedoms”. 150 years ago, despite our constition, we had slaves. SLAVES. Then when Lincoln (the father of the Republican party) abolished slavery the South went nuts. The South, which is very rooted in Christianity. The South decided “screw the law” and made sure that blacks weren’t treated as equals. Liberals – yeah thats right LIBERALS, realized that this was atrocious, and went down south and risked their lives to bring genuine equality (or at least close to it) to the blacks in this country. When was that? 40 years ago? Whoa, a whole 40 years! The last group of people who have their rights withheld because of their belief system are Gays. The religious right does not want them to have equal rights, and I doubt they will for quite some time. The USA doesn’t yet live up to “freedom, and equality for all” yet. The USA sure as hell didn’t live up to it when we had Slavery, and didn’t live up to it in the 60’s. We have made progress, BIG progress though. It looks as if for the moment, however, our progress has stalled.
Shit man, if the uber-conservatives had their way, women in this country wouldn’t be able to wear skirts, and rock & roll would have been made illegal.