Here's part one of my interview with Ben Heckendorn. Because it's so long, and I've got a cold, I'm breaking it up into a two parter. Check out part 1 here, add the RSS feed to your program of choice, or subscribe to the feed via iTunes.
Ben and I get into most of the questions you guys asked, along with a few tangents. Enjoy!
[The devs are working on the feeds for me, so they're not quite perfect. yet.]
Ben Heckendorn Interview (Part 1)
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Reader Comments
(Page 1)3. jim, how did you listen to it? The audio is f*ed up.
Posted at 3:10PM on Nov 3rd 2006 by sphetr2
6. The glitches on Ben's audio was thanks to skype. I had to do some exotic trickery to get it recorded into Audacity, but it worked out.
Posted at 5:31PM on Nov 3rd 2006 by Will O'Brien
7. We jumped around. It may be answered in part 2. I'd look, but this cold is killing me.
Posted at 11:13PM on Nov 3rd 2006 by Will O'Brien
8. WTF? Skype? I thought it was live! I don't know what's bothering you guys, I just used Firefox's quicktime plugin and I had perfect sound!
Posted at 4:47AM on Nov 4th 2006 by its-a-me_dewd
9. I love the tangents, the interview sounds like a conversation between two hackers (essentially what it is, I guess), and to me gives a better idea of what's going on in ben's head than if he just answered the questions set. I had no problems with the sound playing through iTunes.
Posted at 7:54AM on Nov 4th 2006 by PKM
10. There's something wrong with the XML file that defines your RSS feed. I can't access any of the items from a PSP !!!!!!!!! Can someone fix this please ?
Posted at 9:01AM on Nov 5th 2006 by Jim Reynolds
11. Nice interview, very interesting. I had no problems with the sound either- it was easier to listen to than the last podcast, cos there wasn't any music over the speech this time.
Way to lay into most haunted too!- derek acorah is such a phoney...
Posted at 4:26AM on Nov 6th 2006 by goobers
13. 11: I noted the issue to the dev guys. The feed is a work in progress.
12: I was exhausted, ben was perhaps slightly inebreated.
Posted at 10:20AM on Nov 7th 2006 by Will O'Brien
14. personally I thought you guys were pretty rude when discussing your readers questions. let's face it anyone who is asking a question is a pretty dedicated fan, and it seemed like you were just paying them out.
you spent significant amount of time bagging the wii - I thought nowadays people have stopped bagging future technology, it just too easy for it to come back and bite you in the arse.
Anyways just my opinion, it's good to see hack a day using different media forms.
Posted at 5:14PM on Nov 7th 2006 by Alex
15. Hey i have that book. the forest whatever book from radio shack, i got a copy from a friend, its a very nice book.
Great audio quality, very nice interview.
Posted at 12:24PM on Nov 8th 2006 by igsmrlmmu
16. hi,
i'm looking for somebody they can hacking(crack) the mobile's hardware,for making free call.
Posted at 5:36PM on Nov 9th 2006 by soso
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1. Is there a transcript of this?
I find it hard to listen to people talk like this.
Posted at 11:55AM on Nov 3rd 2006 by jason