Re: [Swprograms] Listening To Internet

[Peter Bowen <peter.bowen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I am the odd-man out here, because I only listen when I listen.
I do nothing else when I am listening--no reading, no computer stuff,
no other work of any kind.

The only exception to that is walking. 

Like Rich, I too record programmes for later use, for times when I can
fully focus on what I am hearing. Otherwise, it is a waste, as I miss
too much (like Will implied).

I record almost all that I listen to, because:

1) My schedule will not allow me to listen to a show at the particular
time it is broadcast "live". or

2) To allow me to listen to them while out walking in the park. (When
that happens, I focus more on listening than on seeing what's around
me. A bit of a waste, mind you, but at least I am getting some
exercise while listening.)

When listening at home, I go off to a quiet part of the abode, and let
family know that I am not to be disturbed. (I'm disturbed enough as it
is.  :-)  Phone calls go unanswered (that's why we have an answering
machine, after all).

Some (many?) might be able to multi-task while listening, and pull it
off, but not me. Besides, I'm greedy enough to want to hear
*everything* that is broadcast.

73,
pb

On 27/07/05, Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Good comments!
> 
> As someone a few years your junior, Will, I generally *am* doing
> something else while listening -- either washing dishes, doing e-mail,
> paying bills, writing a grocery list, or driving.  I confess that I
> don't follow John Figliozzi's sage advice of listening in a quiet,
> distraction-free environment.
> 
> I listen 3 different ways.
> 
> 1.  I have a little $30 wireless FM transmitter that I plug into the
> speaker jack on my laptop; I then listen to an FM radio in the kitchen
> or on my Walkman.  Works if I am doing something around the house.
> 
> 2.  If I am at my desk, I simply listen on the PC's speakers.
> 
> 3.  Most of the time I plug in a cassette recorder and patch cord to
> the speaker jack on the laptop, and save the audio onto cassette.  I
> then listen to the cassette in the car while I'm driving, or in a
> Walkman on those rare days when I exercize.
> 
> Notice that "podcast" doesn't appear on this list...although that's a
> variation of #3, except you are directly downloading a digital file to
> a portable player.
> 
> Why didn't Kerbango succeed at the time?  Two guesses:  1) It was too
> expensive for the value delivered; 2) the user interface didn't work
> well.  As you know there isn't a "frequency display" for a webcast.
> 
> Nowadays, with WiFI-based home Internet networks, along with these
> citywide WiFi initiatives like in Philadelphia, this makes the
> portability issue largely vaporize.  You move the computer -- or
> whatever Internet access device you imagine -- to where you are.
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA
> 
> On 7/27/05, William Martin <wgmartin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Some of you know that I don't have a computer; I get on-line either
> > at a local library, or, mainly these days, on my next-door neighbors'
> > system.
> 
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