dekstop weblog : A Pandora's Box of Weird Podcasts http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/ By pure chance I just stumbled over a Pandora's box of weird podcasts. Starting point was a great experimental/minimal techno track by Aldo Tamarind in the de-bug podcast -- see http://www.de-bug.de/pod/archives/1197.html. The music for that episode used to be stored on http://tamarind.podspot.de/, but by the time I got there (i.e., ... en-us Copyright 2006 Martin Dittus Mon, 22 May 2006 01:58:34 GMT MicroLinks 5.6 (dekstop.de) public@dekstop.de public@dekstop.de Comment on "A Pandora's Box of Weird Podcasts" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#241 I thought that maybe I should explain why I reacted so fiercely.

I was just pissed off by the thoughtless reaction. Your desire to protect your software seems to interfere with your reading comprehension skills. You're trying to defend an issue I did not raise. And in that way your comments are worse than spam because they appear to be meaningful.

Which serves as a wonderful illustration of my point: it's such overprotective and thoughtless behavior that harms the quality of your product.

]]> <p>- Martin Dittus]]></p> Martin Dittus http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#241 Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:02:33 GMT Comment on "A Pandora's Box of Weird Podcasts" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#240 Btw. do you guys know what happened with ippoder.org ? Suddenly it's not be found on the internet :/

]]> <p>- Hans</p> Hans http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#240 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:51:51 GMT Comment on "A Pandora's Box of Weird Podcasts" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#239 As it seems I am not the only Podspider fan around, and your remarks were seen in the first place as trashing the whole product.
Anyway Martin, don't need to get upset or smth, I got your point and we all know where to look for podcasts :P

]]> <p>- Hans</p> Hans http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#239 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:49:44 GMT Comment on "A Pandora's Box of Weird Podcasts" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#234 I don't understand what your fucking problem is. I don't judge Podspider as a software or web service. But as a website it sucks. That's all I said.

Hence the "don't go there". As in: if you want to browse for podcasts, look elsewhere.

]]> <p>- Martin Dittus]]></p> Martin Dittus http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#234 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:31:38 GMT Comment on "A Pandora's Box of Weird Podcasts" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#233 Sorry, guys, but Podspider is a Windows client software. No portal. No forum. The software includes a data base that will be updated by crawlers and a set of features that no other software includes. Just visit the link to the software description.

"Sometimes is reading of information very useful"

JoeKing

]]> <p>- JoeKing]]></p> JoeKing http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#233 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:21:33 GMT Comment on "A Pandora's Box of Weird Podcasts" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#231 So you agree with my point. Why are we then still having this argument?

]]> <p>- Martin Dittus]]></p> Martin Dittus http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#231 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:55:52 GMT Comment on "A Pandora's Box of Weird Podcasts" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#230 You are right about the poor content of the site itself, but as it seems, the site is designed only for the presentation of Podspider. I don't think the developers thought about making a portal out of it, thus attracting more people.

]]> <p>- Hans</p> Hans http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#230 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:52:14 GMT Comment on "A Pandora's Box of Weird Podcasts" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#229 Because it's an unusable trap for attention. It's been a while since I've been there, but from what I remember they didn't offer links to the podcasts' sites, but tried to keep you on podspider. There were virtually no off-site links. (This seems to have changed a bit by now.)

It's really a waste of time just to talk about it -- Podspider is the generic example of a commercial service that tries to lock you in and as a result offers a worse experience than any free site.

]]> <p>- Martin Dittus]]></p> Martin Dittus http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#229 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:43:05 GMT Comment on "A Pandora's Box of Weird Podcasts" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#228 Already knew those podcasts, but I don't understand why u say that site sucks. It is a presentation site for Podspider, which is a very nice application btw.... :/

]]> <p>- Hans</p> Hans http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#228 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:25:33 GMT Comment on "A Pandora's Box of Weird Podcasts" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#202 kein ding, gruß ins ländle ;)

(steh übrigens voll auf euren podcast.)

]]> <p>- Martin Dittus]]></p> Martin Dittus http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#202 Sat, 27 May 2006 22:43:34 GMT Comment on "A Pandora's Box of Weird Podcasts" http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#201 thank you for mentioning kraut mask replica. and yes: stuttgart. all the best: ralf.

]]> <p>- siemers]]></p> siemers http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/#201 Sat, 27 May 2006 22:38:02 GMT A Pandora's Box of Weird Podcasts http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/ By pure chance I just stumbled over a Pandora's box of weird podcasts.

Starting point was a great experimental/minimal techno track by Aldo Tamarind in the de-bug podcast -- see http://www.de-bug.de/pod/archives/1197.html. The music for that episode used to be stored on http://tamarind.podspot.de/, but by the time I got there (i.e., now) all content on that page was gone. Damn!

So I started googling which led to some page on podspider.de -- don't go there, the page sucks hard, but the podcasts the page referenced were amazing. Quote: "related categories: eccentric, classical, religion & spirituality". Chrchrchr.

E.g. http://cba.fro.at/show.php?lang=de&sendungen_id=14 -- Recordings of concerts at Posthof in Linz (where I used to live for a while), with among others Chikinki (go see them live!), Denyo, Tomte, Roisín Murphy, Adam Green, etc.

Or http://siemers.podspot.de/ -- "kraut mask replica", partially 80ies noise rock and partially modern weird guitarry stuff. Excerpts of radio programs, concert recordings, demotapes. Judging from the credits on some of their recordings the podcast is made in or around the Stuttgart area (where I'm from originally).

Then http://phlow.net/dp/ -- which looks kind of like a commercial bastard child of the debug podcast and viva2. (Though the videocast looks more interesting.)

And http://www.friedrich-witt.de/ -- a 76 year old double bass player who used to tour with Herbert von Karajan as part of the Berlin Philharmonics, telling the story of his life as a musician.

Etc.

There are thousands that regularly release new weird stuff from their kitchen tables, daily. And we as listeners can only touch the surface -- someone help me find the good stuff!

I'm now off listening to some of that stuff. And I need a bigger hard drive, I'm constantly deleting files to make room for videos and podcasts.

]]> Martin Dittus konsum links pop culture http://dekstop.de/weblog/2006/05/pandoras_podcasts/ Mon, 22 May 2006 01:58:34 GMT