The first SMS Text News Podcast – demo baby!

By on May 8, 2008 in News

So, after a ton of demand — thank you everyone who has emailed and berated us, here is the first, draft version of the SMS Text News podcast featuring me and contributor James Whatley and some rather comical ‘sweeper’ jingles. Listen out for them in the middle too.

Here’s the streaming audio link, courtesy of Nokia’s Ovi:

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  • http://whatleydude.vox.com James Whatley

    Podcast comes in at 31mins precisely – no idea why it says 2:35!!!

  • http://simonmaddox.com Simon

    Is there an MP3 available?

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    Yup… Somewhere. Will get it!

  • Mike42

    iTunes?

  • http://www.allaboutiphone.net/ stevelitchfield

    1) Where’s the video? 8-)
    2) Audio quality is quite tinny, what were you using to record it?
    3) The flash player above doesn’t work on the N95 with Flash Lite 3 8-( It’s also a bit dodgy under Windows, it’s not easy to get to the volume control unless you work out the knack…

    Apart from that, more please!

  • John

    and how are we supposed to listen to this on our phones, eh?

  • http://www.weeno.ie Ciaran Rooney

    Eh links guys? You say it like a dozen time but no sign of them :(

    Aside from that very cool I like it. The jingles are bit cheesetastic though.

  • http://www.rickyc.co.uk Ricky Chotai

    alright,
    good pod cast really informative, sound quality was a bit crap though (student dj coming out) and getting an RSS and hook it into itunes. I think you would get loads of listeners!

  • http://abinarylife.com Ana

    a guide to being james whatley…. web-bloody-rity!
    i'll never stop laughing.
    no feed though guys. got an intro and you don't have a feed. sigh.

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    Come on, it's a draft podcast, baby!

  • http://www.rickyc.co.uk Ricky Chotai

    jingles are good though!

  • http://whatleydude.vox.com James Whatley

    Need to host it somewhere – had a lot of folk tell me they want to download and listen on the move…

    Damn you Ovi.

  • http://whatleydude.vox.com James Whatley

    http://pownce.com/download/104573/podcast001.mp3

    RIGHT! If you need the mp3 – it should be accessible from there ^

    Wheeeeeeeeeee!

  • http://whatleydude.vox.com James Whatley
  • http://abinarylife.com Ana

    dude, i'd set up the feed before i even recorded anything ;)

  • http://www.smstextnews.com/author/Ben.Smith Ben Smith

    I respectfully disagree… :-) A bit local radio for my taste!

  • http://www.smstextnews.com/author/Ben.Smith Ben Smith

    S3?

  • http://www.phonereport.info Meraj Chhaya

    Have to sign up for Pownce in order to download. Isn't there another way?

    Host it at SMS Text News?

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    What you're seeing is real time experimentation :)

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    It's all sorted. We have a feed now and it'll be in iTunes shortly!

  • http://www.sevendotzero.com sevendotzero

    Some interesting stuff. A written summary of the products & services discussed would be good as well.

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    Yeah we'll do that as we go for episode 2… good feedback!

  • Mike42

    Nice work.

    re: James and the Amazing Technicolour Mobile Apps Suite, this is soooooooooooo far beyond normob that he might as well be from Mars. I'd hazard a guess that even one of those apps is a bridge too far for 95% of the population.

    Of course people (well, some people. Er, some of James' friends. er…) want to do this sort of stuff. The H.U.G.E challenge for MNO's and vendors is how to do this like Apple would. Maybe this sort of thing will remain the domain of the Alpha-Geek.

    /m

  • http://abinarylife.com Ana

    is that how they call it these days… ;)

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    Absolutely! ;-) Watch for the next revision for today…

  • http://www.techwinter.com Roger Kondrat

    I liked the conversation between you two as it makes me feel like I am in the room having a laugh with you both but I would strongly suggest you use one of those services that allows you to tag sections of the conversation as I won't listen to a 30min podcast without knowing I can skip around and get what I need and move on.

    Also a quick outline would be good too. I know its a 'draft' so they are just tips and lastly use a better player as you can't get a sense of where you are since there is no times e.g. you are at 2:30 of 31:15.. etc

    Cheers

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    Absolutely… we'll need to work on that!

  • http://shkspr.mobi/ TerenceEden

    Why not use SpinVox to transcribe it?

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    I'm not sure they'd be able to do a 30 minute transcription!

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan @ MIR

    I'm not sure they'd be able to do a 30 minute transcription!

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan

    Absolutely… we'll need to work on that!

  • http://shkspr.mobi/ TerenceEden

    Why not use SpinVox to transcribe it?

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan

    I'm not sure they'd be able to do a 30 minute transcription!

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