I think we've proven that we don't need the East Coast for: the PC revolution, the Internet revolution and the Mobile revolution.

They can sit out the electric car revolution as well...

Who the hell wants to go to "Milford, Conn." anyways ;)

> I could teach myself more in an afternoon than I would learn in a 10-week class.

>The culmination of my second year was a 0.33 GPA.

it was painful to watch.

i had to press pause on the dvr several times (and check twitter) just to get through a few of the episodes.

what hit me hardest was: if you are going to devote a large percentage of your air time to party scenes (each episode was 25% - 75% party scenes) there has got to be better people to follow to parties than techies.

of all the people on the program I thought Kim came off the best (she seems pretty legit), Dwight wasn't a total tool either.

Advice straight from the movie "Disclosure" (1994)

and don't forget, Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar!!

yeah this is a pretty classic example of what startups have to deal with: irrational customers.

the guy is getting $3k from a transaction that breaks all kind of rules, and is upset that a _SCAN_ of his Driver's License might be intercepted in a "man in the middle" attack on a sent email!?!?!?

And if I weren't upset with it, someone else on the internet would be calling me stupid and telling me I deserved it when my identity was stolen or some account was compromised because I was sending things over unencrypted email. Some days I guess you just can't win.

Again though, issue number 1 is unresponsive, unhelpful technical support.

my guess about the car industry is it had to do with the interaction between diverse customer preferences (car colors, options) and the realities of car production (large batches, economies of scale).

basically, the economies of scale cause the production of large batches of cars that then all needed to be sold (even that last white one on the lot).

Still don't want to read it.

> It's this years school MIS that claims not to be an MIS.

it seems like you are claiming not to be an MIS!?!

I use Stitcher. and they've put a lot of work into it...

I have been using Stitcher too, and love it. Interestingly, after The Talk Show moved from 5by5 over to Mule Radio, I contacted all of the parties involved to try to get the new version of the show on Stitcher, so that all of my postcasts are managed in one app.

I got a reply from someone at Mule (whose name I didn't recognize) that said that they did not like Stitcher's business model. This strikes me as strange because I figured that the larger the audience, the better deal the podcast is giving its sponsors. But, no, apparently they don't want Stitcher to host their podcast and then serve iAds (which I ignore) in the app. But yet they have no problem with Apple hosting the podcast on their servers.

This really sucks because Stitcher does a lot of things that lend to a great user experience including (but not limited to) transcoding the podcasts so that they can be efficiently streamed.

Hopefully this new app from Apple will allow me to gather my podcasts under one umbrella.

Edit: Ugh...no, this new app is nowhere near as pleasant a user experience as Stitcher.

> But yet they have no problem with Apple hosting the podcast on their servers.

Apple doesn't host podcast episodes on their servers.. content is loaded directly from the provider's published URLs

You don't see why taking advertising money for repackaging someone else's content is wrong?

I figured they were taking advertising money to fund both their work on the the app itself (which is free) and for maintaining the server infrastructure that allows them to stream quickly (which can't be cheap to them).

Which would be an appropriate arrangement of it was their content. But it isn't. Would you be willing to pay for those two products without the podcasts themselves? Of course not, the app and the servers are valuable to a consumer because of the content. If the content creators don't get a cut of that advertising money then the business model isn't fair.

Not to mention that stitcher removes any editorial control over the kind of advertising associated with any given program.

Sure. At the same time it is all of the content on Apple's own iTunes servers that gives value to those servers, and Apple uses that value to sell more hardware. Are podcast creators getting a cut of that? If not, then why might they think that business model is fair?

Edit to reply to below: that has been the case for the download model. How certain are you that this is still the case for the streaming model of this app? Have you sniffed the traffic?

Podcasts aren't hosted on apple's servers. iTunes simply links to them, without ads.