Interesting to see the download request statistics for my podcasts Yo Agenda and The Business. Seems to fluctuate quite much. Difficult to say whether we are stable at around 300 listeners or whether we are going down....
Yo Agenda:
The Business:
In The Business 4 Comic Strip Blogger and myself talk about:
- Meaning of the terms client and customer (part 1 of this topic)
- New segment on Web 2.0
- Current business news: InBev - Anheuser Busch, and FedEx - TNT Group
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The Business 3
In The Business 3, Comic Strip Blogger and myself explain the meaning of the term "supplier", as well as their role in business.
In the second part we cover various news items (Sources: bnr.nl and ft.com):
- Retail spending in the EU is growing faster than expected, but the services sector is shrinking
- Rush Limbaugh, the US radio host, signs a contract worth $400 million over an 8 year period
- Informa, the UK conference organiser and publisher of scientific journals and newsletters, is valued at £3.4 billion by a consortium of private equity firms making a bid for the company
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Yo Agenda 33, with audio feedback about No Agenda 33, is here:
Podsafe Music in this episode:
- Intro is "The Secret Agenda" by Mr Tunes
- The track at the end is "Fifty Cent Millionaire" by Stripwired
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While watching a Finnish Premier League football match, our 7-year old son got up after a dubious decision by the referee, and shouted for everyone to hear: "The ref is totally blind!!!".
The whole stand burst out laughing... Way to go!
In Yo Agenda 31, Comic Strip Blogger and The Candyman provide audio feedback to No Agenda 31 by Adam Curry and John C Dvorak.
The release I found was a rerelease of their 2000 album "Lightbulb Sun", consisting of a CD with a 2007 remix of the original album plus a DVD-Audio. I did not pay any attention to the DVD-Audio, because I did not own a DVD-Audio player (or actually I did, as I found out later). The package was reasonable priced, certainly worth buying it for the CD alone.
After having listened to the CD for a couple of days in my car, I decided to pop the DVD-Audio disc into my laptop's DVD drive to see what would happen. To my surprise, I was able to play the DVD-Audio tracks just fine! Even better, I discovered that the DVD-Audio played in our regular DVD player as well.
In both cases I had to use the 24-bit Linear PCM mix. I was not able to play the 5.1 DTS Dolby Digital Surround mix, because neither player supports DTS, but that is actually not a problem, as I do not own a 5.1 surround system. Nevertheless, even on my mediocre HiFi system / laptop I could hear the difference between the regular CD and the 24-bit LPCM DVD-Audio. For me it brought a whole new dimension to listening to the album. It is a superb album and it just sounds fantastic in this new format!
The outcome is that I will most probably buy more DVD-Audio releases quite soon. There is a bit of a format war going on between DVD-Audio and the Super Audio CD (SACD), but since the DVD-Audio plays on regular DVD equipment it is currently the clear winner for me. SACD would require me to buy a new SACD player.
The only benefit the SACD seems to have is that it contains also the regular CD tracks so it can be played back on regular CD players, like in cars (and it means you can rip it to your favourite MP3 player). With DVD-Audio that is not possible.
Perhaps it is also worth to point out what the CD + DVD-Audio package gives me in terms of content in this case:
- CD with 2007 remixed album
- DVD-Audio with 5.1 DTS Dolby Digital mix + 4 bonus tracks
- DVD-Audio with 24-bit Linear PCM stereo mix
- DVD-Audio with original 2000 CD stereo mix
It seems that the music industry is so messed up with looking at the negative issues, like illegal downloads and DRM, that there is no room anymore to talk about new developments that could bring some more positive interest into new music formats.
Or is everybody just happy listening to lower quality MP3s....?
The Business, Episode 2
In Episode 2 of The Business we cover 2 main areas:
Explanation of the term Cash Flow (15 minutes)- Importance of Cash Flow to running a business
- Importance of Cahs Flow to assessing the success of a business
- Different types of Cash Flow
Interesting business news (remainder of the show)
- Deregulation of French retail industry (source: FT.com)
- Companies using YouTube to promote their products
- Comcast buying Plaxo
- The EU and US issuing a joint statement on Open Global Investment (EU press release, europa.eu)
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