What I really wanted to mention was the fact that the 8/9 edition of All Songs Considered used Skype to talk to one of their correspondents. Clearly, NPR gets mad props for using this ip telephony/voip/peer to peer technology. Of course, the broadcast had a small glitch, which they left in the podcast (I don’t know about the radio) which was amusing. It was funny cause I had realized that skype stopped working because I heard the tell-tale noises that all skype users know and love.

What I realized was that Skype is, indeed, a viable option for television and radio. Look, it has it’s issues, but so do satellite phones, and satellite video. Why are the major broadcasters still using satellite video feeds when foreign correspondents could take a laptop and a DV camera and have improved quality. I’m always surprised at the clarity of Skype when it’s configured correctly. It sounds better than a regular phone line already, and goes pretty much head to head with an ISDN line. For less money than an ISDN line.

I’m not saying that the big people should switch, but it could be used when an ISDN line isn’t possible, or if the broadcasters can’t afford ISDN, etc.

Beware kids, major broadcasting companies are starting to use off the shelf products. What’s next, everyone will realize that Mac is a much better operating system for home users?

     Well the first thing is: i’m done with high school foreva!

It still doesn’t feel like I’ve spent four years of my life at that place. It’s really crazy. But now it’s over, and I’ll probably never see most of the people there again. For some, that’s a hallelujah moment, for others it’s not-so-much.

     So Now I’m moving on to the big crazy get-away-from-home type schooling: the college lifestyle. Yes, where everyone’s a starving college student. By the way, notice the Make a donation button underneath the Feed a Starving Student in the sidebar? Yeah, so there’s that.

     Pretty soon I think I’m going to do that whole divide Frayedwires to have tech/geek/etc things on the homepage. I’m going to have the still separate blog, and some new additions. There will be a whole blog for my college stuff. And it will be updated more frequently, so hopefully more traffic, more ads, leading to a bit of moola.

     I’ve got more to say, but I’ll save it for another day….