And so begins the inaugral episode of the Hmm podcast which I’m choosing to further distort the ‘cast’ name to be Hmmcast. No, I’m not thinking hmmcasting will have some great cultural impact, but it seemed like an appropriate name.

This isn’t the first time a podcast has appeared here. We’ve had interviews rolled out as podcasts, there’s even a section (oops, that should be singular: one interview) dedicated to these, er this, interview, but I felt after crossing the 3,000 post mark a little while back, it would be nice to pick out the most hmm-worthy posts of the week. It would then make the process of some sort of year end best of easier to compile too.

Of course if I had actually started doing this at the beginning of the year it would have made the most sense, but oh well, we start with second quarter and move forward.

In the spirit of podcasting I wanted to keep this effort short, so it will be billed as a five minute show. Might go less, might go over, but that’s the target time. Five minutes on five or more Hmm posts from the week. What’s in this for readers? Well, if you leave an inspiring hmm-worthy comment on one of the chosen posts then you just might be mentioned. Everybody loves a plug, right?

So gather around the Hmmfire as we look back at the last week in what hopes to be a weekly feature every Friday around, well, now.

Most hmm-worthy posts from March 23 - March 31, 2006
- Live chat on a blog not really for me, is it for you? (6) [mar 23]
- Slingbox Mobile available for download, hurry before they start charging (1) [mar 24]
- Spider Shoulder Voyeur (4) [mar 26]
- Facebook jumps the $750 million shark (0) [mar 28]
- Loren’s Perry Mason moment (4) [mar 28]
- Blending FeedBlendr and Alertbear shows common weakness (4) [mar 29]
- *Yahoo Groups weakness obvious and embarassing (1) [mar 29]
- Huh? What? I can’t hear you, Apple (2) [mar 30]
- Amazon CTO’s naked conversation over blogging value (0) [mar 31]

Technology used for Hmmcast
Podfeed plugin for Wordpress v4.31 (released today 3/31), 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.

Duration: 7:29