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November 3, 2006 7:12 AM

Odeo. Listen to lots and lots of podcasts. Like Alan Richman's culinary assualt on New Orleans.
posted by four panels (15 comments total)

Odeo is one of those things that at first glance seems PROFOUNDLY useful, even revolutionary... except that I can't think of a good practical application for it.

I feel it may be 3 years too late.

I hope I'm wrong, I really want Odeo to be successful because I like their approach.
posted by Ynoxas at 7:20 AM on November 3, 2006

I love the audio comments that just say "this is cool". That's like Web 3.0.
posted by smackfu at 7:21 AM on November 3, 2006

im gonna take another look ... looks like the usability has gone WAY up.

is this an ad for evan though?
posted by specialk420 at 7:25 AM on November 3, 2006

Wow, even my podcast is on Odeo!
posted by parmanparman at 7:32 AM on November 3, 2006

Flickr. Look at lots and lots of photographs.

More to the point, Odeo was linked just a couple months ago. Or was Alan Richman the subject of your post?
posted by Plutor at 7:39 AM on November 3, 2006

Alan Richman makes a number of serious factual errors, which were of the easily-checkable variety, according to the Times Picayune.

He was displeased, for instance, with his trout amandine meunière at Galatoire's because "it looked and tasted fried." Although the traditional French preparation of meunière calls for the fish to be sautéed, it is still a little like dissing tuna sashimi for being raw, as Galatoire's has been serving trout amandine meunière fried for better than a century.

He also:
... wonders if Creoles are a myth, "faery folk, like leprechauns," on the basis of having "never met one." ...
Leah Chase, the most famous Creole chef on the planet, whom Richman quotes extensively, apparently doesn't count.
posted by raysmj at 8:22 AM on November 3, 2006

Um, folks? Odeo seems to have recently kicked the bucket.
posted by etoile at 8:25 AM on November 3, 2006

Twitter is the new odeo, and Alan Richman is an ass.
posted by justgary at 8:32 AM on November 3, 2006

Was this post lost in a time warp for a while...?
posted by Tubes at 9:41 AM on November 3, 2006

WTF is Alan Richman?
posted by grouse at 11:00 AM on November 3, 2006

Um, folks? Odeo seems to have recently kicked the bucket.

When did they change the meaning of 'kicked the bucket' to 'bought back by founders from investors'?
posted by jack_mo at 11:37 AM on November 3, 2006

jack_mo: I was basing that off TechCrunch's opening line: "Odeo as we know it is gone." I believe everything TechCrunch tells me, and that tells me they've kicked the bucket.

They might reinvent themselves, but the Odeo referenced in this post is apparently dead. So this makes kind of an odd FPP.
posted by etoile at 12:39 AM on November 4, 2006

That's what you get for not reading past the first line. The rest of the piece makes it quite clear that Odeo will continue to exist.
posted by jjg at 12:49 AM on November 4, 2006

Alan Richman is no Alan Rickman, that's for sure.
posted by Faint of Butt at 8:10 AM on November 4, 2006

jjg: I did read the whole piece, and I've just read it again. I still see it as "the Odeo referenced in this FPP is going away," but I suppose everyone interprets things differently.

And sort-of on the subject, I'm using Twitter and loving it, so hopefully it will do well.
posted by etoile at 9:33 AM on November 4, 2006