Soon to be "POD casts"

Let the POD casts begin

Howdy again, etheral readers. Again, we stumble toward the 21st century with bleary eyes and heavy feet. Though I have yet to post my rant on the lowbrow term "blog", I will refer to that here for a moment...

Like "Blog", there is another dumb net word made up by semi-geeks and latched onto by the talking heads of the world. Podcast. It's a friggin MP3 you can transfer into your MP3 player of choice and listen to while jogging, traveling to work or in the bath tub. Sort of like radio shows of old, but on your schedual.

The only reason this word irritates me, is the iPod is a marketing hook for an MP3 player not unlike the hundreds of others out there, including the ones that came before the apple version. Now I wish them luck, and am quite glad to see that someone other than Sony or Microsoft is doing well (though Apple is 51% owned by Bilbo Gates, holder of the One Disk to rule them all). Anyone who has dealt with the happily colored but under useful iMac's was probably a little wary of the iAnything idea...

So why the hell could we have not called this a WebCast or that 90's classic "CyberCast"? I do not know. Oh well.

There is another device out there, made by a company called Line6, called a POD. It is a red, kidney bean shaped box, about a foot wide with lots of knobs and buttons. It is intended to process an electric guitar for recording or a live performance. You have heard this device if you listen to any modern music at all, as they are everywhere in studios being used for guitar, bass, keyboard and even vocal processing. Mostly the POD digitally emulates famous guitar amps, but it does a whole lot more.

So why do I mention this? Soon we will start putting out PODcasts; music and spoken word works processed entirely through our mixing boards and POD's, for people to listen to on their iPod's.

Or any other MP3 player they might want to use.
Stay Tuned!