TOTP - Top Ten Annoyances About Video Podcasts

Conrad from Spainful Films teaches us about his specialist subject of video podcasts in todays show, including a few mistakes people make:-

• 10 - Web cams
• 9 - Use of music
• 8 - Title sequences
• 7 - Bandwidth/file sizes/length of show
• 6 - Codec and Compression
• 5 - Same few People
• 4 - Green Screen
• 3 - Home-made Autocue
• 2 - Women
• 1 - No verbal communication

A couple of starting points mentioned on the show for video podcasts - http://www.podguide.tv, and http://www.vlogmap.org.

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TOTP - Top Ten Things You Find In A Textbook

Adam from Yarmouth hasn't been concentrating in class, instead of working he's been writing lists and sending them to us. Here is todays mp3 of the show of the top 10 things you find in a textbook presented by Amanda and Rob:-

• 10 - Old Clothes
• 9 - Hand drawn people
• 8 - Likenesses
• 7 - Funny Names
• 6 - Defacement
• 5 - Rudeness
• 4 - Funny Accents
• 3 - Double Entendre
• 2 - Farmers
• 1 - The Class Idiot

Keep those emails flooding to topofthepods@gmail.com. Thanks to Amanda for filling in while Jon is working - if you want to hear more from Amanda then head over to http://distortionnews.blogspot.com.

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TOTP - Top Ten New Media Predictions

Its the longest show so far when Mark from the Tartanpodcast joins Rob to talk about the way media is heading. More of a serious discussion than a fun list on todays mp3 offering, but if you are interested in the way the media is heading then check out this top ten list of predictions:-

• 10 - Newspapers are on a downward trend
• 9 - Consumers will become much more multitasking
• 8 - Music industry will wake up
• 7 - TV stations are going to change
• 6 - Old media doesn’t see new media as a problem
• 5 - Advertising needs to change
• 4 - Personal video recorders
• 3 - Harder to sell
• 2 - Consumers creating media rather than companies
• 1 - People want to watch what they want, when they want to

If you are interested in these kind of topics then we recommend the Media Guardian website which has recently started a great weekly podcast. As usual keep the emails coming to topofthepods@gmail.com and add us to your Skype friends list incase we need to call you for a show - we are called topofthepods within Skype.

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TOTP - Top Ten iPod Improvements

Richard from Dorset loves his iPod, but no relationship is perfect - here is todays podcast about the ten things that Apple could improve about the iPod:-

• 10 - ID3 tags, album artwork and ratings
• 9 - Click wheel
• 8 - iTunes
• 7 - Not able to fill it
• 6 - Filling it
• 5 - iPod Backlight
• 4 - iPod Headphones
• 3 - iPod Cost
• 2 - iPod Scratches
• 1 - iPod Battery life

Keep emailing those lists to topofthepods@gmail.com, adding us to your skype as topofthepods and leaving your audio comments on Evoca.

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TOTP - Top Ten Burning Questions

Aaron from near Swansea has a great list of burner questions he just had to ask us. We couldn't resist answering them on todays show. Why not join in at home and turn to a loved one to ask them the following questions?:-

• 10 - Describe your perfect day
• 9 - Who is the last person you spoke to on the telephone?
• 8 - If you could invite any 3 people to dinner alive or dead who would they be?
• 7 - Where was your last holiday?
• 6 - How do you get your own way?
• 5 - What did you spend your first pay on?
• 4 - If you could have any super power what would it be?
• 3 - What in your mind is the worst job ever?
• 2 - What do you see yourself doing in ten years time?
• 1 - What is your favourite joke?

We want to hear some of your answers on to these questions, especially your ideas about numbers 8,4,3 and 1 - pop them on our comments board on www.topofthepods.com.

We heard an audio comment from a listener today - he didn't have any special software and neither do you, just go to Evoca and record your comments from there.

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