Fagstein » podcasts http://blog.fagstein.com Can you think of a better name? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:54:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Burgermongers http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/11/28/montreal-burger-report/ http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/11/28/montreal-burger-report/#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:20:55 +0000 Fagstein http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=7608 The Gazette's casual dining critic Sarah Musgrave interviews Chris (Zeke) Hand (formerly of the Zeke's Gallery craziness) and Ed Hawco (of Blork Blog) about their current project, the Montreal Burger Report, a radio show for CKUT, audio podcast and blog, all about reviewing local restaurants for their burgers.

The article, which was apparently written from the mythical "casual dining headquarters", includes an absolutely adorable picture of Hand taken by Hawco.

You can subscribe to the Montreal Burger Report podcast here.

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]]> http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/11/28/montreal-burger-report/feed/ 9 Follow the Main with La Presse http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/30/la-presse-main-podcast/ http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/30/la-presse-main-podcast/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:13:51 +0000 Fagstein http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=2742 La Presse's Émilie Côté has put together an interesting little project, Michel Dumais points out: an audio guide to St. Laurent Blvd. The idea is that you download the "podcast" (media outlets need to learn what "podcast" means: putting audio or video online doesn't automatically make it a podast - a podcast is something you subscribe to which doesn't apply here), and listen to it as you follow its instructions and walk slowly up the Main from La Presse's office to the Plateau.

The audio is very professionally done, and it shows that La Presse got professionals to produce and narrate this project instead of having some clueless in-house person to muddle their way through. I haven't listened to the whole thing (I don't have an hour and a half to spare), but it seems to work.

There is one nagging problem though: I can't for the life of me find an MP3 download link, even in the extended user's guide. You can listen to it live on the site (which is completely useless if you're intending to listen to it while following its instructions), and you can click on a link to download it through iTunes, but if you don't have iTunes you're screwed. I don't see the point in having website visitors forced to use a particular piece of software. Is Apple paying them or something?

UPDATE (Sept. 30): They've added a link to an RSS feed that has links to the MP3 files.

That said, if you don't mind jumping through that unnecessary hoop, and you have a couple of hours to kill, it's something to do.

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]]> http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/30/la-presse-main-podcast/feed/ 3 Bloc-cast http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/23/bloc-cast/ http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/23/bloc-cast/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:24:30 +0000 Fagstein http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=2678 Last week, the Bloc Québécois started running a minute-or-so-long podcast in which Frédéric Savard gives a fast-talking roundup of political news and ends each item with a pun or other bad joke about other parties in the election.

As a master of punnery and bad jokes myself, I have to say that some of them are funny (black holes and Denis Coderre) and some are beyond groaner territory (Stéphane Dion being "tragically un-hip").

Still, it's pretty entertaining as far as party activities online go. The Liberals and Greens don't have podcasts that I can find. The Tories' podcast is nothing but stump speeches by Stephen Harper, and the NDP podcast hasn't been updated since 2005.

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]]> http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/23/bloc-cast/feed/ 1 In Over Your Head is back http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/02/16/in-over-your-head-is-back/ http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/02/16/in-over-your-head-is-back/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:17:12 +0000 Fagstein http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/02/16/in-over-your-head-is-back/ Montrealer Julien Smith is resuming his In Over Your Head hip hop podcast after an extended absence (and some sponsorship).

So if you like hip hop mixed with a guy talking about himself (and really, isn't that what hip hop is all about?) go ahead and subscribe to the feed.

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