Hi there
Hi all,
I’ve not been posting for a while, the last post was on november the 22 .
I started this blog somewhere in august i think because i needed a platform for my iPhpPodder script. A week later i published my i-podder.js script here and for a very short time i was somewhere in the center of the podcasting revolution.
I was on the top of the world when Adam Curry (the prince of pod) tested my script on his windows-laptop (yes, he actually owns one, might me the one he gave to Christina, his daughter, which is broke now) , and shouted out on the dailysource code that it was fucking fantastic!
I-podder.js was the best i could do. I am a web-programmer (html/javascript/php/mysql), trained and worked as a cobol-programmer in the past, and i-podder.js was the first ’stand-alone desktop application’ i ever made. I was challenged by Adam Curry, with his request for someone developing something simular as the applescript ipodder version for the windows platform. At that time their was only Adam’s script, get_enclosures by Dave Slusher and a python version (renco, or remco or something like that). I was looking for a way to script something for the windows-platform and found out that javascript could be used as a stand-alone application, i was not aware of that untill that time. I also found out that iTunes came with an api (application programmer interface) that could be used from javascript to controll the programm, thus adding downloaded podcasts (those where not called podcast back then, just shows, Dave Slusher came up with the term ‘bundles of passion )
So, i did learn a great deal of this project, it also was the first time i was involved in ‘a community’ and did write open-source software. Ok, the lifetime of that software was only about 3 weeks 
Thankyou all who have developped all that beautifull iPodder software! No we all can choose from several different iPodder programs, or enclosure aggregators as you call them, that are as simple to install and to use as any killer-application, for any non-geek in the world.
Development is really going fast, and this is only the start they say.
Adam’s idea has unleashed a lot of creativity. Hundreds and maybe thousands of people are podcasting now! People that have the courage (writing is easy, but showing yourself to the world with your voice is something else, it makes you somuch more vonurable, cause your voice really tells somuch more then just the words you talk) , to talk to the world through a microphone and expressing them selfs and share their thoughts with all of us!
Of course i really like the dailysource-code, like so many of you, Adam really is a proffesional when it comes to talking to a microphone and getting people enthousiastic about an idea, and even when some people may think he is a slick businessman, i believe he is honest about it, and may have been the same without any money. But also the shows that are obviously so amatueristic are great. Somehow, the way a show is recorded and the ammount of noice that is on the background, and the silences and the uhhhs and ohhs is not important in this kind of media. Its about ordinary people sharing their thoughts and lives with us, and giving them a voice! We don’t need the big media-corporations for that!
Ten years ago when i got online for the first time there where great thoughts about the internet(s) (Pieter say;s Hi to George ). It was all very idealistic, talking about the global village and real democracy by giving everyone (with a computer and a connection…) an equal voice. That idealism was lost somewhere when the internet got more commercial and porn became the nr1 online money-making machine.
Now, i’ve got the fealing back somehow. This ipodder/podcast experience got me into the blogger world, which i really was not into and made my view on life a litlle brighter. It is good to read and listen to people who are enthousiastic about stuff and have a passion for life. I’m 32 and still maturing and have learned a great deal the last half year.
Dave Slusher’s show is great! It’s strange because when i listen to his podcast i often stop listening halfway and dream off in my own thoughts. But that does not mean that its boring. What i like is that he is not afraid to show his own faults. He really can laugh about him self, and be his own critic. Maybe i recognize myself in him (though i’m not that courages to share all of my thoughts with you) and thats the reason that my own thoughts take over while listening to his show.
Anyway, i really am a podcast enthousiast and have gained from this experience. I’m currious where this ‘revolution’ will bring us and hope to share more of my thoughts with all of you in the future.
Regards, Pieter Overbeeke