“Besides, it would be extremely hard to justify introducing a licence for something which is rapidly becoming obsolete.”

That is a very good point and I think your right. However, I can’t really see the major networks abandoning Television as a medium. They still haven’t really understood “downloading”. They are firmly entrenched in this idea that TV is there to make money at the cost of its audience. None of them actually deliver content efficiently to meet audience needs. The constant battle of the people have to endure to actually watch a show, shows just how little commercial networks value of the audience they are trying to supply content to.

It was suggested a while back that there be a separate ongoing thread for all things tech-related – can we please revisit that idea??

James Talia would be Damien Day, given half a chance. (I jest – I’m certain of your scruples)

I seem to recall a similar accusation made against the ABC regarding promotion of commercial ventures when they screened the rehearsals and production of ‘Mamma Mia’; I also agreed with the criticism.

Finally, that quiz question was a cracker which took a a fair amount of thought, and yet so obvious when I finally worked it out (assuming I did get it right, obvs.)

And while often it’s the conservative side of politics which criticises public broadcasters it’s certainly not always. Ask Greg Dyke.

Is a descent budget one that keeps going down?

There’s no way that a TV license would defuse the haters’ criticism about what the ABC does with its budget. The system in the UK is intrusive and expensive to enforce and really isn’t any different from direct funding of the BBC by the government – apart from the cost of sending sheriffs around to any household that doesn’t pay for a license. Ergo, conservatives are still going to make up complaints about political bias on the ABC and use that as a reason to argue to further reduce the amount of funding.

As controversial as this might sound. I would like to see the ABC adopt a TV license strategy. It would talk all the Political pressure away and more than likely give the ABC a descent budget.

an mp3 with embedded graphics is still an mp3. mp3’s are able to contain metadata like album art, lyrics, shownotes, artist, track number etc. download the latest fulltimecasual, kermit the frog is the embedded album art.

yes i did read that itunes worked fine for you. awesome. it didnt for me.

as for itunes trying to push safari onto you, well thats an act of pure bastardry from apple.

An mp3 with embedded graphics? That’s no longer an mp3 file.

And did you people read what I wrote about iTunes? I said “iTunes worked fine for me…”

Serious advice on the updater issue is ventured.

for the album art its probably simple, iTunes shows your spiffy new art for the feed, but each episode needs to have the album art embedded into the mp3 as well for it to show up on your device.

its an annoying step i often forget to do myself.

as for the feed, i’m sure if i waited everything would be fine.. itunes only pings the server every 24hrs for new episodes, unless you force ping it. Podpress for wordpress will force ping itunes as soon as an episode is published. do you guys use it?

anyhoo, thats way to geeky. feel proud i care this much.

Perhaps I’m pushing shit uphill trying to get the insider goss on the show…

iTunes worked fine for me this week. No problems with the episode showing up at all. Maybe it’s a local issue. Now, if someone could just tell me how to stop the updater telling me there’s an update for iTunes or Quicktime when it’s just another push for a fricken browser I don’t want, I’ll be slightly happier.

Is anyone having any luck finding an archive of December TV listings?

As for James, I have a very different recollection of the Marieke Hardy incident… she will always be my 4th Boxcutter.

I blame Bill Gates. And the Melbourne smartcard people. And that’s all. Anything to avoid a Brett tech rant. The Channel Nine rants are bad enough.

Let me know if it works.

I have other issues with iTunes like: Why doesn’t our beautiful new logo get imported into the feed as album artwork?

It’s a frustrating application because it’s so convenient but causes little problems. However, let’s not get started because Ross will go on his rampage, Brett will start talking about Apple and we’ll get stuck in that horrible loop all over again.

just letting you know the itunes feed hasnt auto-updated for me for a few weeks now…

come tuesday night or wednesday morning i normally think ‘where the hell is boxcutters?” and have to manually donwload it.

you may want to check the xml file itunes is getting.

sorry to geek out, but i’d hate for my itunes brothers to unsubscribe cos they thought you werent updating..

They are quite nice. Better than Gloria Jeans.