Argh, another two-taker this week and I screwed up a Spider-man quote “becomes” instead of “comes” at the very beginning. I sure hope Spidey doesn’t mind. At the very end of the Hmmcast I leave a somewhat cryptic comment about the whole Google being sued as source of KP.

Just so I’m not misunderstood on something I feel very seriously about and to learn more about my opinion against confusing KP with children having access to legal adult content (because their parents aren’t doing anything) — which happens constantly and not accidentally — see these posts: Adult sites won’t go quietly into the night, The Child Protection act is a cover story and Freedom under assault: 2257, porn and politics. The lawsuit against Google is crazy if it really, seriously is alleging that Google is profiting from KP. Disclaimer: I own GOOG stock.

Rank and file
This isn’t part of the Hmmcast — consider it bonus coverage in the blog part — but I decided to look at the Libsyn listener numbers and rank the first few podcasts by number of listens and time. Here’s how they rank as of this writing:

1. (238) Hmmcast #3 8:32
2. (176) Hmmcast #5 11:41
3. (143) Hmmcast #1 7:29
4. (128) Hmmcast #2 9:43
5. (109) Hmmcast #4 8:59

The most listened to program unsurprisingly was the one after I went on a podcast submission spree. I suspect some (most?) of those numbers were increased by the sites that moderate the podcasts before listening to them.

The vast majority of downloads are coming through iTunes according to libsyn which indicates being listed in iTunes is important, although Feedburner only shows the subscriber breakdown as 25% iTunes. So while many listeners might download and listen through iTunes searches, not as many actually subscribe through iTunes. I’m sharing these numbers as part of the discovery process.

For newer readers, I’m not brand new to podcasting. In fact, our webmaster cookbook podcast was among the first batch of podcasts on the web (September/October 2004). I also have been doing a monthly podcast the last Thursday of the month called the Learning Lounge for over a year and a half now. Hmmcast is actually the third regularly scheduled podcast. As is the case Hmm wasn’t my first regular blog either.

Most Hmm-worthy posts from April 29 - May 5, 2006
- Faking Fido’s death, not trusting any one source and “robster craws” (5) [apr 29]
- How to access Napster downloaded songs on Xbox 360 without Media Center (2) [apr 30]
- Illegal immigrants marching only in America (11) [may 1]
- Where is the UMPC coverage at Yahoo Tech? (0) [may 2]
- Foam memory pillows (5) [may 3]
- Seeing first HD-DVDs in the stores, is your checkbook ready? (3) [may 4]
- *Why you should never use a default blog theme (7) [may 5]

This week historical news events
- Original theater-version of Star Wars will be released for three months
- Skype releases 100 person conference feature
- Rumour that Vista might be delayed until second quarter
- tracks will remain 99 cents at iTunes
- AOL/AIM to add free local number feature
- lawsuit accuses Google of profiting from KP

Comments by
Darkmoon, Diane, Dean from Des Moines and qw1j1b0

Technology used for Hmmcast
Podfeed plugin for Wordpress, Radio Shack 4-channel mixer, Sound Blaster Live 5.1, ACID Music 2.0, MP3Tag, Photoshop (for the cover art), SecureFX (FTP podcast), Libsyn podcast hosting, WinAmp.

How to subscribe to Hmmcast
RSS Feed - just copy/paste this to your favorite podcast client
iTunes - Hmmcast is now available and listed in iTunes, just search for “hmmcast” or “TDavid” in the iTunes podcast menu.

If you don’t see the download/play mp3 menu below just click on over to the website. Thank you for listening and reading.

Duration: 11:38

• Hmmcast #7: Share Your OPML, United 93, Google Subscribed Links
• Hmmcast #3: Calendars, academics, hybrids and butt equations
• BlogExplosion adds podcast streaming
• Hmmcast #25: Better late than severed
• Hmmcast #4: Xbox 360, newspapers and more
• Hmmcast #13: Life without TV begins