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MIT Plans To Convert Cell Phone Users Into Podcasters
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on Fri May 19, 2006 03:41 PM
from the i-already-talk-too-much dept.
from the i-already-talk-too-much dept.
robyn217 writes "A new research project at MIT's Media Lab, entitled RadioActive, aims to turn every cell phone or PDA carrying member of the public into a podcaster, and every mobile device into a virtual podcasting studio. The project defines a large-scale asynchronous audio messaging system in which voice messages can be threaded like text in a discussion forum (like on Slashdot) as a method of 'discussion-on-demand.'"
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PODCAST IS JUST A FANCY WAY OF SAYING "PUTTING AN (Score:3, Insightful)
[x] confirm
Re:PODCAST IS JUST A FANCY WAY OF SAYING "PUTTING (Score:4, Insightful)
An mp3 on the internet is an audio download
An RSS feed that contains audio downloads for the purpose of automatic and easy synchronisation to a digital audio player is a podcast.
People like the linked article don't know what they're talking about when they say that an ordainary download can be called a podcast. You could call it a threaded audio message board, but it wouldn't be a podcast.
One disadvantage to discussion boards that are audio based is that you can't search or index the information without some kind of speech-to-text recognition.
That said, what if you could search audio by speaking into a mic and having the search engine search for those sounds. An intersting case, humm.......
Instant discussions! (Score:3, Funny)
That's nice... (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://www.creimer.ws/ | Last Journal: Friday January 26 2007, @12:40PM)
Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
Google (Score:1)
Voice conversations on the Internet... (Score:1)
I think if this public service announcement [machinima.com] teaches us anything, it's that voice debate on the Internet is a bad thing.
Great (Score:2, Insightful)
Just imagine if ever
Solution looking for a problem... (Score:2, Funny)
I guess what they REALLY need is a life. This is just bandaid'ing the underlying problem.
Ohh thats lucky (Score:1)
(http://nummog.net/ | Last Journal: Thursday July 27 2006, @04:02PM)
Wouldn't phones be a lot nicer if they were just plain and simple? I hear the Japanese market is shifting back towards simplicity in the phone market, surely the rest of the world should hurry up and follow their lead.
Just a thought..
I Don't See the Point... (Score:5, Insightful)
Follow the money (Score:2)
is a grant for this tied to the pile o cash just delivered to verizon from the boyus at NSA?
I'm sure... (Score:1)
The phone companies will love it too as users minutes skyrocket.
Now if only they could teach my sister to lock her keypad so she doesn't call me or podcast from her purse.
I can see it now... (Score:3, Funny)
not as much podcasting (Score:3, Informative)
its only 'podcasting' in the sense that you're recording audio for others consumption. its much more about the discussions within a community (local physical/social context)....
For more info here's the project website [mit.edu]
this was recently used in the elens [mit.edu] project, and its video can be found here [mit.edu].
a live demo should be up this weekend
Doesn't Livejournal ALREADY do this? (Score:1)
Already exists... (Score:5, Funny)
Similiar to Vaestro.com (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://www.wisdomproject.net/)
Slashdot is sucessful because you can skim... (Score:1)
Neither is it reasonable to assume that we could convert it all to text to scan it either - this is cell phones with tiny screens; they simply can't scan through volumes of data.
Would YOU read
Now *there's* a good idea (Score:2)
(http://ursine.ca/~baloo/ | Last Journal: Saturday August 12 2006, @01:47AM)
CB radios with bad antennas on noisy channels get better sound quality than mobile phones. This is useless...
By God! (Score:2)
(http://nullref.se/)
I call it "Soapboxcasting."
It requires a soapbox; climbing up on the soapbox somehow (I think AJAX will make that simple). Then, after exchanging headers with the recipients, you simply start talking, utilizing the already largely available atmosphere to transmit the soundwaves.
This is going to completely revolutionize the world as we know it! Just think about it, one soapboxcast at every street corner. And how simple it is, using nothing but the basic technologies, I imagine this will be very useful in China for example!
The best way to make something lame (Score:2)
(http://www.macromobility.com/ | Last Journal: Saturday March 25 2006, @01:33AM)
LiveJournal already has something like this... (Score:2)
(http://www.eyrie.org/~robotech/index.html | Last Journal: Thursday August 26 2004, @12:10PM)
Meanwhile, Odeo.com [odeo.com] allows anyone with a computer and a microphone to become a podcaster, using simplified Flash-based audio tools [odio.com]. Hook a phone interface to Odeo and you'd probably be set.
First throughts..... (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Lovely! (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Tuesday May 30 2006, @08:29PM)
Antitrust (Score:1)
In which case, I'll take RLC, and I'll see y'all around.
How delightful! (Score:1)
Re:Like Slashdot, you say? (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Thursday December 09 2004, @09:25AM)
Re:UK Law May Criminalise MIT Plans (Score:1)
The UK government is already proposing to criminalise its use as all internet activity supports child porn and terrorist activity.
Re:Like Slashdot, you say? (Score:2)
Not quite (Score:2)
Re:One day.... (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Wednesday January 15 2003, @02:17AM)
Re:Isn't this just want the CIA (Score:2)
NSA wants to turn your phone calls into podcasts.
Redundant? WTF? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:One day.... (Score:2)
(http://www.fredshome.org/)
yay!