Jan 19 2009
First Technoculture podcast — get it…
…here. It’s been a learning curve all right, dealing with various formats. I should have the RSS feed set up shortly. This is in .m4a format, MP4. It is what Apple uses but weirdly I can download it in Firefox but not Safari — doh! Anyone know why? Edits are a bit rough so apologies for that — I will get better transitions next time (Friday’s next podcast release) and if I get the chance, will fix this on the current podcast. The first episode has John Collins on MacWorld and CES, and Science Gallery director Michael John Gorman on the Gallery’s first year and what comes next. This Friday’s is just about ready too — an interview with HP Ireland’s managing director Martin Murphy on innovating in a downturn, and Chris Horn chats about why Tracy Kidder’s Soul of a New Machine is his choice of a favourite book for The Geek Bookshelf (UPDATE: Chris Horn now will be next week instead). The Geek Bookshelf will be a recurring feature for the TechnoCulture Podcasts series, in which a technologist picks a favourite book and talks about why it deserves a space on the shelf! I should have an MP3 version up of the podcasts anon as well. Do people have a preference?  Â
6 responses so far
It worked fine for me in Safari 3.1.2. Nice job, congrats on the first podcast, looking forward to more of them!
>Do people have a preference?
Seeing as how my non-Apple MP3 player cannot play m4a files to begin with, my preference would be for MP3.
It works fine for me on a PC, with IE7, although it does come up in the Quicktime application..
Doesn’t play on iphone. But then mp3 not an option either
I agree that it needs to be in MP3. How odd that it won;t play on an iPhone; I wouldn’t have thought there’d be a problem there.
Ok finally figured out where Apple had hidden away the button for converting an MP4 to an MP3 file and the MP3s are posted to the site. Next: getting the RSS feed sorted so people can subscribe and I can get these onto iTunes…