Martin's Money Mutterings 19 July 2006

Former_MSE_Archna

If you want to discuss this week's mutterings (which'll be up on the main site on Wednesday) you can do it here

sra

Audio is a good idea, thanks. Not to complicate, but wouldn't it reduce your bandwidth bill to separate the audio and video podcasts? And on that, while Martin may have better things to do (!) 8 minutes may be a bit goey for a video podcast, but it's actually quite short for audio-only. I say more detail! Why not read out the whole thing?

I'm sure that's part of the experiment and they'll sort it out.

you can't win with them on the same feed. If you have Itunes set to automatically download all episodes, you get both the Video and the audio - which doesn't make sense.

If you have Itunes set to download only the most recent episode then you have no idea what you're going to get because they've put two things on the same feed on the same day. itunes just grabs the top listing and skips everything else (So yesterday I got the audio only and it skipped the video)

sra

alexjohnson wrote:

I say more detail! Why not read out the whole thing? (Time constraints is a good answer; listener boredom isn't, IMO. You might not want to do it - and that's completely fair - but most talk rado shows are a good 30 minutes.)

here's a cray idea!

If you were going to extend the audio version, how about an "Ask Martin" section.

I've noticed some podcaststers start suggesting users send in their comments/Questions using Odeo:
e.g.http://odeo.com/sendmeamessage/sra

Then 2 or 3 questions could be played on the show and answered

Just a thought

:rotfl:

strugglingmonkey

I'm also in favour of splitting the podcasts into separate audio and video versions please. I'd like to be able to download the audio each week, without having to wait for the video. Cheers!