Live From the Formosa Tea House, Session Two

Great improvements! I love the intro, where do the voices come from? Are they human or software?

Excellent focus on topics. You have convinced me that a conversation, even though it can't be parsed/searched word for word, is a very worthy thing to put on the web.

I have been a phone geek since childhood, and was riveted by Peter's Asterisk discussion. I was inspired by your Asterisk posts in the LAB section of this site. I now own two Digium cards, and had success with setting up Asterisk. My foray into VOIP has been stalled because of a higher telecom calling (I'm on a contract supporting UMTS equipment provided by Nortel to AT&T Wireless).

I know there are projects throughout the telecom industry to implement VOIP Media Gateway servers in Canada, even within Aliant's network. So the costs and features will improve shortly.

Asterisk is the most exciting thing in telecom i have ever heard of, and I thank you again Peter for drawing my attention to it. I need 'product radar' like you have!

Bravo! Kudos! Brilliant! Can't wait until the next one...

Really enjoyed this! The comments on Firefox were great.

Keep up the great work!!!

Hey I'm listening as I type to your radio program. I love the theme, and I love the ambience of the Teahouse. I also think your sound quality is fine -- I can understand every word and you have a nice balance between your voices and the background sound.

I don't really understand most of what you're talking about, so the content I can't really comment on. Stylistically, however, radio is my business, and I would say you're doing it well. A good rule of thumb I think is the less contrived things can sound the better, although a certain degree of contrivance is almost impossible to avoid.

I like your show because it seems like you're being yourselves, which is alot harder than it sounds when there's a microphone in front of your face. I hope you keep at it.

cheers,

steve

I recall a trick for microphone distance from college radio days. Spread your thumb and pinkie as far apart as you can - pinkie on mike and thumb on chin should be the right distance. I do not know why there is a direct correlation between hand spread width and vocal volume but there you go.

The windows version of iPodder doesn't download your feeds. Possibly something to do with the type="application/x-bittorrent"/ attribute inside the feed?

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 PR

Azureus (Bittorrent Client)

iTunes

Windows

Windows iPodder (http://www.ipportunities.nl/wordpress/index.php?p=31)

Can you please look into this, as I'd like to set up iPodder to download the Formosa audio file automatically. I suppose I could download this myself (which I did) but it sort of defeats the idea of ipodder.

Thanks.

Feed fixed. Content-type changed to audio/mpeg. Sorry about that -- a cut-and-paste error.

Thanks Peter, I appreciate the quick reply and fix.

I'm now faced with another problem where the windows ipodder script throws an error only with your feed. Even with a clean ipodder install.

It might be worth talking to the developer (if you have time) and see why this error is happening?

Thanks again.

I'll see what I can find out, Chris. Thanks for the help.

Greetings and thanks for great content , my personal tastes are for slightly more close mic-ing so the authorative and valuable information has more presence as the levels of voices in relation to background; sounds as if you are too far from your mic(s) .

As Podcasts go it is one of the more valuable ones I have listened to and enjoyable as well. I hope you guys keep at it since there is a definite ease to your rapport / delivery and the content is valuable .

Chris D.