the(new)mediaslut

Flacknet Productions finally released Digital Podshots Episode 3 after a delay of two weeks.

In Episode 3, Vishnu Mahmud and Leslie Joseph explore the two imaging capturing technologies that dominate the Digital SLR market today: CCD vs CMOS.

Find out which digital SLRs brands are behind the technology and how they affect your photographs.

To listen to Digital Podshots, click here or visit www.flacknet.com.

Digital Podshots is brought to you by FlacknEt Productions and, in collaboration with John 3:16 Photo Supplies.

John 3:16 Photos Supplies is at 109 North Bridge Rd #05-46 Funan Digitalife Mall Singapore 179097, Tel: (+65) 6337 2877

Previous episodes:

Subscribe to Digital Podshots - The Digital Camera Series by Email

Canon 400D - Digital Podshots Episode 2
Is the Canon 400D for you? Vishnu Mahmud quizzed Leslie Joseph of John 3:16 Photo Supplies on the features of the camera.

Nikon D40 - Digital Podshots Episode 1
The Digital Podshots team sent Vishnu Mahmud to John 3:16 Photo Supplies to find out more about the Nikon D40.

PS: FlacknEt Productions is using the latest Wordpress2.1. Though it has new features, some plugins on the site needs to be updated too. So bear with the site if a certain link or app is not working.

themediaslut has been busy lately @ work, and recording, editing and launching the Digital Podshots series with Aaron Koh, Vishnu Mahmud and Leslie Joseph on the topic of digital cameras.

Since the Digital Podshots series was launched last Tuesday, there have been 81 downloads of the two episodes (according the to hipcast.com graphs and accurate as of the entry post.).

You may find the Digital Podshots iPod unfriendly but it was designed to be more desktop friendly.

There is a reason for it.

"People spend more time on their desktops and laptops surfing the Internet," explained Aaron Koh, one of the producers of FlacknEt productions.

"So why not let visitors open the browser, go to the site, click on the play button and listen to the Digital Podshots, while they open another tab in the browser or browser and get on with their daily routine on their desktops and laptops."  

When you start doing new things, you learn new things too and more about yourself too.

For example, Leslie Joseph of John 3:16 Photo Supplies has this penchant of adding the word "basically" during the recorded conversation especially when the word does not create any drama to the point being made.

The worst part is that it became very infectious during the recording.

If you listen to the Canon 400D recording, you would noticed Vishnu Mahmud adding "basically" to his sentences somewhere in the middle of the podshots..

themediaslut bet that you go down to John 3:16 today and talk to Leslie, he would sprinkle his explaination of a camera with a couple of "basically".

One of the more popular question that themediaslut had to answer to friends is whether one is able to make money out of podcasting itself.

For the moment, to get revenue from advertisers for a podcast, similar to traditional mass media, is tough.

This is because podcasting is still seen as a very new medium and not many companies, especially those in Asia, would be quick to adopt new things.

Only until podcasting goes mainstream than would you see advertisers looking to put their money in podcast.

But this means your podcast must already have a strong following to acheive this.

However, if you consider using podcast as an extension of your marketing activity to position your company as one of the thought leaders in the industry, it might work.

For example, John 3:16 Photo Supplies do not have a working website but with the podcast, it helps the retailer to reach out to the Internet generation to go get a camera from them.

This is not done by promoting on the podcast with how good their prices or services are, but rather amplify their knowledge of phtography through the podcast.

The marketing tactic here is to highlight that when you go to John 3:16 to get a camera, you are not just getting a camera, but a shop who help you as you embarked on your photography journey.

Aaron also highlighted to themediaslut that she needs to beef up her knowledge on wines as Aaron has been approached by a local distributor of Australian wines to help her start a podshot series on wine appreciation.

The wine podcast is target to launch in Feburary, so keep your ear buds, or rather taste buds, open for it.

Check out the podshot review of the Canon 400D at http://www.flacknet.com !

Brought to you by FlacknEt Productions in collaboration with John 3:16 Photo Supplies.

John 3:16 Photos Supplies is at 109 North Bridge Rd #05-46 Funan Digitalife Mall Singapore 179097, Tel: (+65) 6337 2877

Previous Episodes 

Digital Podshots - The Digital Camera Series: Nikon D40

Digg iT!!!  

themediaslut has entered with a joint collaboration with friends to come up with FlacknEt Productions.

FlacknEt Productions will be themediaslut’s production house for podcasts and YouTube series.

Check out the first edition of Digital Podshots: The Digital Camera Series which looks at the new Nikon D40.  

The tms techcast was short lived.

All techcasts will now be hosted on the Flacknet.com domain, where all the flacks hang out at night.

See you there. 

themediaslut got fellow techcaster, Aaron Koh, a special invitation to the Comex Show 2006 on the eve of the opening.

Aaron took a 30 minutes walk down the halls and highlighted some the show’s features in the following podcast.



MP3 File

Show notes

00:55 Melvin Koh, the organiser of the Comex Show, introducing the show to Aaron Koh.

01:50 Melvin explains why this year’s Comex Show is in Singapore Expo and not at the Suntec Convention Hall like in the previous years.

02:10 Aaron enters the show hall.

02:30 Aaron starts to round down the show details. The halls are seperated into two. The big brands are in Hall 5 and 6, and the smaller shops selling the accessories are in Hall 4.

Left: Sony and the other big brands are in 5 and 6.
Right: Smaller resellers can be found in Hall 4.

03:10 Aaron notes the big walking space about 7m wide.

Left and right: The wide walkspace noticed by Aaron.

03:25 Aaron notices Dell’s explosive new payment scheme. Pun intended.

Left: The Dell computers have not arrived yet.
Right: Dell buyers can pay via installments with credit cards from the major banks.

03:36 Aaron notices the very pink Sony DSC T10.

The Sony DSC T10 is so pink it turned the whole photo pink.

04:00 Aaron highlights some fo the new brands he noticed at the show.

Left: New LCD player in town, Chimei.
Right: One of the Chimei LCD players on display.

Pluto got kicked out of the galaxy and landed in the Comex Show 2006.

04:55 Aaron notices the show is filled with Plasma and LCD TVs almost everywhere.

Plasmas and LCD TVs on display and on sale at the Comex Show.

05:04 Aaron highlights where is the best place to rest after you have walked the entire show for 2 hours or more.

You can choose the iGallop or the horse.

05:25 Fiat car display at The Comex Show 2006.

05:30 Aaron highlights the lucky draw prizes.

The lucky draw prizes.

06:00 Show ends (As there were some recording problems at the end of the show, Aaron had to retape the last section at home. Aaron apologises for the cut and paste effect.)

themediaslut approached her friend Aaron Koh to host a techcast for this site.

A big thank you to Aaron and his friends, Grahame and Vishnu, for taking the time off to do this techcast.

Here’s the show

MP3 File

TMS techcasters: Aaron Koh. Grahame Lynch and Vishnu Mahmud

Show Notes:

2:15 Apple and Creative settles lawsuit

8:25 Gadget plug: AcePlus Melody

9:55 Exploding Dell notebooks with defective Sony battery

15:20 The new generation of digital travellers

20:11 Internet withdrawal symptom

22:05 The tech words that technology vendors abuse everyday

25:20 “Apple walk of shame“

Comments? Please email them to tmstechcast (at) gmail (dot) com.

The theme music “That’s no dream” was by Derek K. Miller (SOCAN), downloaded from http://www.penmachine.com/ and used under his Creative Commons License.