Covering Hurricane Rita, “Russell Holliman and a few fellow podcasters from Houston decided to combine the emerging audio-distribution format with traditional Internet radio,” Anick Jesdanun reports for The Associated Press.
“They established a live streaming feed called RitaCast and made arrangements to produce a new personal audio dispatch every hour, each about 20 minutes long. The group was even trying to take calls from listeners – something rare with podcasts,” Jesdanun reports.
Jesdanun reports, “Each dispatch was packaged into an MP3 file and distributed as a podcast through Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes and other networks that automatically distributing free audio subscriptions. ‘It really just did start out as a technical experiment,’ Holliman said. ‘We wanted to see if it can be done. It introduces a new format for podcasts where people can actually get the live interaction with the listener.'”
Full article here.
Here we go again. At least this time people were smart enough to get out. Not like last time when those lazy fat looters stayed behind!
Stevo, you must ride the little yellow bus. I didn’t know God made people as dumb as you.
Hey MDN, I sent that link to you. No credits?
Then again maybe multiple people passed it on.
Once again your pop-ups are getting trhough safari. I have a policy pop-ups equals no looky. Bye bye
Cya later!
Notice that the hispanic population made it out of New Orleans without any problems. You didn’t see them on the news looting. The US needs to do away with welfare and make those lazy Big Mac eating looters earn their hand outs.
1: I’m glad Rita hit as close to Katrina damage as possible
2: I’m especially estatic that New Orleans got flooded again, it means a serious project to fill in “the hole” and a rebuilding that will pull New Orleans out of it’s corruption. Meanwhile all those welfare folks will be getting jobs and finding new opportunities elsewhere.
3: The pop-unders are coming from FastClick, it’s a Javascript exploit they are using to do it. So simply turning off Javascript in Safari preferences should do the trick, blame Netscape, they supposely make Javascript. Pop-ups/under and other exploits and intrusions are normal on the PC platform, of course it shouldn’t be, but blame Microsoft.
FastClick is a big advertising/marketing abortion born from M$ inferior code and mistreatment of it’s users. So since they got all this illegally gotten money from their illegal exploits, the rule the roost (much like M$) and MDN needs the ad revenue.
4: Remember the Warner CEO and his bs talk?
Well READ THIS! HE’s a FSCKTARD! He got to be a loner amongs the labels. Apple can drop him.
http://slate.msn.com/id/1862/
hahahah, I like this one
To wit: Earlier this month, he outraged the industry by proposing that theaters charge higher prices for more expensive movies. Why, he asked, should you pay the same amount to see a $2 million movie as you would to see a $200 million one? Analysts and movie types hooted with derision–that’s “like charging for a piece of art based on how much bronze or paint was used,” sneered one.
Well Edgar Bronfman, you’ve suceeded in pissing off the music industry and it’s customers with your idiotic talk about changing the 99¢ model at iTMS.
The response to the New Orleans disaster “left much to be desired”. And the blame should be shared locally and federally. But it sure didn’t look good for George to be on Vacation AGAIN and Condoleeza to be out shopping for shoes and going to spas.
I read an interesting take on why the situation got so bad in New Orleans – firstly the people who got left there were the ones least able or likely to help themselves since everyone else who could and had the motivation had evacuated – then they took all the criminals in the local prisons and let them loose because there was no evacuation plan in place. So they had a herd of “sheep” on which they loosed a pack of “wolves”.
The response to the New Orleans disaster “left much to be desired”. And the blame should be shared locally and federally.
Most of the blame belonged on the head of the Mayor of New Orleans and Gov. Blanco for not having a plan in place to evacuate people who couldn’t from a city that could be flooded.
He ordered a mandatory evacuation just before the storm hit, when 72 hours would have been neccessary for a planned/assisted evacuation.
Blanco wanted 40,000 troops to return from Iraq to help in relief efforts. What a dumb broad, it would take weeks or months to return troops from Iraq and she couldn’t command them anyway. Since Federal troops can’t be used in law enforcement challenges on US soil without Bush declaring the Insurection Act, which I think he should have just gone ahead and done. (he didn’t want to appear to be invading the opponents party state)
But it sure didn’t look good for George to be on Vacation AGAIN and Condoleeza to be out shopping for shoes and going to spas.
The States need to be better prepared, but they are too busy staying bankrupt from poor planning and rest on the Federal government too much. Only Congress can magically order up a 100 billion dollars, eventully a price will have to be paid.
I read an interesting take on why the situation got so bad in New Orleans – firstly the people who got left there were the ones least able or likely to help themselves since everyone else who could and had the motivation had evacuated – then they took all the criminals in the local prisons and let them loose because there was no evacuation plan in place. So they had a herd of “sheep” on which they loosed a pack of “wolves”.
No, the criminals in the jails were moved to other jails in the state, because they would sue the State in a hurry if they were mistreated. However New Orleans did leave quite a few crimianls on the streets, with their own police force robbing and looting along with them. Shooting at relief workers, doctors and helicopters.
“The police get all the good stuff” – young NO looter
In the “Dome” they raped a little girl in the bathroom and slit her throat. What animals.
High testostertone + low IQ = violent unempathic criminals
Low testostertone + low IQ = most liberals, welfare and trailer park trash
High IQ + low testostertone = weak nerdy geeks, often rich
High IQ + medium testostertone = successful white collar criminal
It’s clear that racism is alive and well with the white republicans here. These idiots spout what they think is the truth from their ivory towers of ignorance. Yet if these exact same people were born in the ghetto they wouldn’t be any goddamn different than the people they cal “lazy” and having a low IQ. They would be exactly the same. Go do your research, fools, before you claim to know what life is like to be born a poor black man in this country. But then again, you are the exact kind of people that lacks the ability to be objective about these things. If it ain’t White & Christian, you somehow think you have the right to judge it. And judge you do. It’s about all you do, and your ignorance fills these threads with nothing but hate and stupidity, even in times of national disaster when any sane person would have the respect for the 1000’s who died down there. Assholes.
Gstank you ahole. Why is always fat lazy black people??? Why aren’t the Mexicans and other ethnic groups involved in this. They were born poor and live in ghettos. The difference is most of them are hard workers and take the initiative to better themselves. The welfare addicted scum bags sure don’t do this. They sit back with their hands out and your only too happy to feed their disgusting habit. These people have to be forced to earn their welfare or they’ll never get off of it. Of course the real handicapped, crippled, or insane people need help. They unfortunately are not the majority on welfare! So F off gstank you little piece of crap.
I’ll tell you the truth, as I’m not a racist, rebublican or christian.
Africans are our distant cousins and habor a lot of fear, which results in anger.
From my world experience and clinical studies the problems of Africans (the more native the worse, as most African Americans are white integrated) is their smaller brain size, lower IQ and amongst the males, high testostertone levels.
White Europeans branched off Africans a few hundred thousand years ago, with original Asians branching off after that.
Asians on average have a 1 cubic inch more brain matter than native Europeans and these have about 6-7 inches more than native Africans.
Average IQ of Asians is 110, Europeans is 100 and Africans (native) is about 60. (80 for African Americans)
Asians have the lowest testostertone levels, with Europeans average and Africans the highest (which explains their explosive behavior and higer crime rate)
Evolution is a real concept, war is natures way of improving the human species.
When Jesus said the meek share inherit the earth, he was right.
Paul, please provide your sources for all your facts about IQ’s and brain sizes, as I find it very interesting and would like to know if it comes from any genuinely reputable source.
Personally my black friends are a hell of a lot smarter than most people on this thread. Also, I’ve learned frm them how much racism they deal with on a daily basis. It’s pretty intense. I think Chris Rock (one hell of a funny and smart guy) really makes a lot of good points in this regard.
Also if any of you have the time or care to (which I’m sure you don’t) read the book “Way Past Cool” by Jess Mowry. It is a first hand account of what it’s like to grow up in the ghetto of LA, and to say the least it will wake you up to the reality of that situation.
But most people don’t want to know the truth. They want to just lump it all into the “fat lazy blacks taking our tax dollars” because those kinds of people are greedy little bitches that would rather have a bigger plasma TV than help the poor. These are the people who think the victims of this flood somehow deserve what they got. Many of them are Chrisitans which is even worse. REAL people’s kids and mothers, brothers and fathers have drowned. So much for the teachings of Jesus I suppose. So much for being a decent human being.
Just doing a little bit research reveals the following:
“70% of the population in New Orleans was African/ American. Most of whom live in poverty. They lacked the money, credit, and vehicles to flee.”
“According to the 2000 census, the black population constituted 67.3 percent of the city’s population; the whites, 28.1 percent; Asians, 2.3; Native Americans, 0.2 percent; and people of mixed heritage or not reporting race, 2.2 percent. Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders numbered 109 at the time of the census. Hispanics, who may be of any race, represented 3.1 percent of the people.”
Sorry Sebastion, for revealing the truth to you and your ignorant argument about Mexicans. I am sure the truth is something you prefer to ignore on a daily basis. Why bother acknowledging something that gets in the way of your simple minded views of how you think the world works.
The reason for the poor is not about race as much is if the person can be productive or not. We live in a capitalistic world, not a socialism one.
Our world rewards one for their usefulness to society and to keep them busy. Drunks and drug addicts who are not contributing to themselves much less to society are a plight for all of use to bare.
The people shooting up New Orleans were a plight to society and I’m glad they are dead.
I worked hard for my “toys”, they are a symbol of my contribution to society. I help many people get to their goals while serving my goals.
It’s the concept of people helping people, instead of people taking from and killing other people, which a certain segment of our society fails to understand. (intelligence most likely has to do with it)
Just because people are poor doesn’t automatically mean I should give everything I have to them.
I’ll help people get on their feet, but I won’t keep them subjective and dependent upon my handouts like the Liberals do.
I think actually Conservatives have more respect for human dignity.
Race & IQ is a very controversial subject, but knock yourself out, there is nothing you can do about it, your born with what you got.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_IQ
70% of the population in New Orleans was African/ American. Most of whom live in poverty. They lacked the money, credit, and vehicles to flee.
Your pulling number out of your butt.
The population of NO is in the millions and only a few tens of thousands couldn’t or wouldn’t leave.
The fault lies a lot in the mayors/governors hands for not using those fleets of school buses to get even more people out.
70% of 1,000,000 is 700,000 people.
Your so dumb it’s pathetic. So shut tf up.
None of the above change the fact that Bush also really dropped the ball (again).
From: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush-Struggling-with-Katrina.html
The mistakes have come one upon the other.
Even as Katrina was bearing down on the Gulf Coast that Sunday night and early Monday, Aug. 28-29, and the National Hurricane Center was warning of growing danger, the White House didn’t alter the president’s plans to fly from his Texas ranch to the West to promote a new Medicare prescription drug benefit.
By the time Bush landed in Arizona that Monday, the storm was unleashing its fury on Louisiana and Mississippi. The president inserted into his speech only a brief promise of prayers and federal help.
He continued his schedule in California, and he didn’t decide until the next day that he should return to Washington. But it took him another day to get there, as he flew back to Texas to spend another night at his home before leaving for the White House.
Once the president was in Washington, the criticism only intensified.
While a drowned New Orleans descended into lawless misery, Bush delivered remarks from the Rose Garden that were seen as flat and corporate. It was a sharp contrast to the commanding, empathetic president the public rallied around in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
In a television interview, Bush said — mistakenly — that nobody anticipated the breach of the levees in a serious storm.
Even Monday’s trip to the region was a redo, hurriedly arranged by the White House over the weekend after lukewarm response to Bush’s first in-person visit to the Gulf Coast last Friday.
Bush had raised eyebrows on his first trip by, among other things, picking Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss. — instead of the thousands of mostly poor and black storm victims — as an example of loss. ”Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott’s house — he’s lost his entire house — there’s going to be a fantastic house. And I’m looking forward to sitting on the porch,” Bush said with a laugh from an airplane hangar in Mobile, Ala.
In the same remarks, Bush gave FEMA chief Brown — the face for many of the inadequate federal response — a hearty endorsement. ”Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job,” Bush said.
Later in Biloxi, Miss., Bush tried to comfort two stunned women wandering their neighborhood clutching Hefty bags, looking in vain for something to salvage from the rubble of their home. He kept insisting they could find help at a Salvation Army center down the street, even after another bystander had informed him it had been destroyed.
And at his last stop that day, at the airport outside of New Orleans, Bush lauded the increasingly desperate city as a great town because he used go there and ”enjoy myself — occasionally too much.”
Unlike his galvanizing appearance in the rubble of the World Trade Center just days after the 2001 attacks, Bush has stayed far from the epicenter of New Orleans’ suffering. His only foray into the city was to its edges to watch crews plugging one of the breached levees on Friday.
On Monday, he skipped the hardest-hit coastal areas entirely, choosing instead to visit Baton Rouge, the state capital about 80 miles northwest of New Orleans, which sustained no damage. He also went to Poplarville, Miss., to walk the streets of a middle-class neighborhood that seemed to suffer little more than snapped trees, a couple off-kilter carport roofs and a downed power line or two.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the president avoided New Orleans to stay out of the way of search-and-rescue operations.
”It’s going to be almost impossible to overcome the perception about the president that he didn’t show compassion and didn’t get control of the policy failures,” American University political scientist James Thurber said. ”The vivid images that are coming across the television are really destroying his image as a leader.”
I especially liked the comments Bush made about fixing Trent Lot’s porch and the reminiscing about getting drunk there.
The President of the Unites States has his job to do and the Gov. of La and the Mayor of New Orleans have their job to do.
It’s because of the incompetance of the latter two that the first one had to step in.
You should feel proud of yourselves.
You hear the one about the three liberals who almost died of hunger in their hotel rooms?
They were waiting for room service.
What really happened
Gov. Blanco: “We want 40,000 troops back from Iraq to help in relief efforts in New Orleans”
George Bush: “Sorry can’t do that, we can have you liason with a Lt. General who can command elements of the military based here in the United States which would be faster and more effective.”
Gov. Blanco: “No, I have to be in charge, I’ll say your delaying relief efforts unless you give me what I want!”
George Bush: “My satelight photos of the heat signatures of your states school buses in New Orleans shows them as having not been running for a least a week prior to the hurricane ariving. Care to explain?”
Gov. Blanco: *click*
Just before the hurricane hits…
*Phone rings*
George Bush: “Bush here”
FEMA Director: “We are going to have a problem in New Orleans”
George Bush: “You mean the leeves may fail and the city will be flooded as a result, making rescue operations difficult?”
FEMA Director: “Yes, and it takes 72 hours for a effective evacuation of the city, they all planned for it, but the storm is going to hit tommorrow morning and they haven’t done a thing about it. They need to order a mandatory evacuation and get those people out.”
George Bush: “Why hasn’t the Mayor called for a mandatory evacuation and used the police force to do a house to house check in the flood zone?”
FEMA Director: “Well it seems a good portion of their police force is… missing.”
The number is from the national census. If that is pulling from my butt then you are a mud golem. Strange how upset it made you.
..and Paul, your link didn’t work. I suspect that the “facts” you spouted won’t turn up to be facts at all, anyway. I highly doubt you’ll be able to turn up any well respected scientific evidence for your claims.
Paul says “The reason for the poor is not about race as much is if the person can be productive or not.”
Wow. Your need to simplify the world into nice little idealistic chunks has sabotaged your intelligence.
Gspank, you are a fool!