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Apr 14, 2008 DSC-746-2008-04-14

#746 Daily Source Code for Friday April 14th 2008

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A new week and freshly envigorated, we atack it all on today's show: The EU strikes back at the 3 strikes law, World Bank food crisis, Would you give up your iPod to protest China's human rights violations? Are we guilty ourselves? Join in the conversation, you'll be wshed and dried in under 45 minutes.

Music in this episode:

Jim Gilstrap - Swing Your Daddy
Crystal Gayle - Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
Paris - What Would You Do

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Episode Comments

spyder

04/17/2008 05:12 am

So... here I was patiently waiting for the Australian N810 release and hoping the podshow deal would extend to include us, but the deal's over already?

Now I have to pay stupidly high Australian retail prices without a nice 15% discount :(

Some online stores are selling it imported but at the equivalent of US$525 each...
Wonderhelm

04/15/2008 09:24 am

CSB: Welcome to the world famous Trough of Disillusionment. It's deep and dark, and the only way out is a slippery slope...
Comic Strip Blogger

04/15/2008 08:56 am

Loek/theCandyman: hehe, yeah, they can continue but Google's Iceberg will come sooner or later - it is question of time.

Anyway I am sorry for my too harsh words... I am just a bit dissapointed with podshow tingy.
Wonderhelm

04/14/2008 11:09 pm

@CSB By that time the iceberg that will sink PodShow has already melted because of global warming, and so the PodShowBoat will float around aimlessly having run out of fuel a loooong time ago.
Comic Strip Blogger

04/14/2008 10:10 pm

Adam Schwabe: Podshow is amateurishly designed, developed by hackers, not professionals and no usability expert ever was helping in its development. Lack of Atom/RSS feeds to comments after 4 years of existence of Podshow also proves utter incompetence. Instead of hiring independent consultants, without vested interest or need to suck up, like myself who would say everything and analyze things, Podshow relies on wish-washy amateurish opinions of people who have no idea. In other words: if Podshow will not be sold by the end of 2009 it will sink like Titanic and be sold for peanuts.

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Comic Strip Blogger .
Adam Schwabe

04/14/2008 04:15 pm

Adam, love the show, but Podshow's site is driving me a little bonkers:

http://adamschwabe.com/2008/04/14/podshow-how-do-i-subscribe/

I try to approach sites in a way that I think novice users would, or those who aren't familiar with podcasting and subscribing. Even as an advanced user who's subscribed to dozen of podcasts, I can't for the life of me find the link on that main page - unless I'm missing something. Essentially, the page doesn't address some of the fundamental needs of the user.

For you, as one of the brains behind the network, this means people are facing obstacles when trying to digest your content - obstacles that will also prevent them from being exposed to advertising in the content.

If you some need some ideas, let me know :)

Cheers,
Adam.
identi

04/14/2008 03:48 pm

Moneysavingexpert.com has a good article about car insurance:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/insurance/compare-cheap-car-insurance

though they do recommend Confused.com as a place to look
Comic Strip Blogger

04/14/2008 11:25 am

Adam see my email entitled "financial"!

regarding this episode: please show your own actions before calling others for action!

Jaguar was purchased by Tata corporation so now it is Indian car - in case you didn't know.

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Comic Strip Blogger .
bejaarde

04/14/2008 10:12 am

I would say yes, I would give up my iPod to protest because I use a Zune. However, I see that my Zune was also manufactured in China. Question is, would giving up what I already have hurt China? They already got paid. In fact, I presume, they already got paid for all the iPods already in the retail channel (sold or unsold). We would be hurting the American companies that contract out more than China. Now...if those companies gave up those Chinese contracts I might be willing to pay a little more for the product. THAT is the real question.