From the Travis’s presentation of last class, it reminds me of the Podcasting experience in the last quarter. During the podcasting in business class, I have been following and listening to many famous Podcasts like Ninja that Travis mentioned and Boing Boing TV is one of my favorite Podcasts.
Boing Boing TV is the webTV of cultural curiosities and interesting technologies. Much like the blog, BoingBoingTV, which is hosted by Xeni Jardin and co-creator, Mark Frauenfelder, while other BoingBoing contributors will also host segments, will focus on odd bits from around the Web in daily 3-5 minute video segments, five days a week. It’s the Top 5 blog in the world, as ranked by Technorati.com, 4th popular video Podcast of iTune in 2007 and won the Lifetime Achievement and Best Group Blog awards at the 2006 Bloggies ceremony.
I think that it is targeted to the audience who are curious and open-minded for every interesting thing around the world. Here is one of the funniest episodes I think- Cell phone deep fry:
In the Boing Boing TV website, users can download the videos they like as MP4, which is the format for iPod video. Thus, users can carry and watch the video they like to anywhere. Nowadays, I believe that it is very important to make video portable.
Moreover, I found that Virgin America airline has already applied Podcasts into its personal entertainment program for passengers. I think that it’s a wonderful way to use Podcasts because passengers have more choices of entertainment when they are taking a plane and they can also keep watching/ listening to the Podcasts they have been following without carrying iPod, this kind of MP3 devices.
Above is the screen of personal entertainment on the Virgin America airline
Something I like about Boing Boing TV
- Content: diverse, attractive, interesting, and creative
- Design: simple and easy to read and be subscribed to
- I can easily choose which I am interested in from the introduction of every video and then directly watch it without wasting any time.
Something I do not like about Boing Boing TV:
- No categories:
- Simple but ugly design
- Too many Ads for me
Filed under: Streaming the media
Hi Yijen, that was a great post for international students like me. On the long flights I need to take to visit my family and brazilian friends, it is just awsome to have something interesting to watch.
I am so glad that this post is useful for you.
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