Name your podcast episodes carefully – 52 Tiger
Dave Caolo on the pitfalls of long podcast episode names.
I look for new podcast in the iTunes application on the iPhone regularly and sometimes it’s very hard to recognise which episodes I’ve already listened to.
Podcast recommendation: On Apple and rumours
Joshua Schnell recently spoke to Jim Dalrymple and Stephen Hackett about dealing with rumours about Apple and technology in general, the process of deciding what to post on their blogs and journalistic quality in a business that often relies on pages views and ad revenue.
A very insightful discussion on the insanity that is the Apple/tech sphere that I can wholeheartedly recommend.
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I’ve completely stopped reading sites like Gizmodo, Apple Insider, MacRumours and the likes, simply because they provide nothing of value anymore; they just spew unsubstantiated bits of information at their readers.
On the other hand I really enjoy reading both macgasm and The Loop, because they provide well filtered and well written content on topics that I’m interested in. Sites like the aforementioned are a refreshing change from the incessant chatter that surrounds Apple.
A few of the other sites that I enjoy for the same reasons are asymco.com, daringfireball.net, arstechnica.com, Macworld, and The Macalope.
Oh and no one should go out of the house without the current episode of Angry Mac Bastards on their iPhone/iPod, because they cut through the bullshit like a hot bat’leth through butter.
Gimme my Bugles, goddammit.
I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Ihnatko on this issue. I am greatly disappointed.
The Conversation: Valve's Steam on the Mac
Great podcast in which Dan Benjamin talks to Gabe Newell and Jason Mitchell of Valve and John Siracusa of Ars Technica about the introduction of Steam to the Mac.
The most interesting bit I gathered from it, was that in some respect the Mac is easier to develop for, because of platform-inherent similarities to gaming consoles.
It’s really worth a listen if one wants to know where games are heading on the Mac and on the PC in the future.
