LOGin was the name of the podcast from TermiSoc.

It was intended to fortnightly show recorded every other Thursday. It is then usually released the weekend after. However, as time progressed it devolved into 'whenever we had time'. There were 12 episodes before people moved away/became too busy and the entire thing fizzled out in 2009.

The concept behind the podcast was simple enough - get some geeks in a room and get ranting!

Not to be confused with Skippy's 'VodCast' idea (dismissed on the grounds of not owning a video camera, and 'VodCast' being dismissed as a 'silly name' by Ben A'Lee, this idea was spawned whilst Ben, Rich and Dan were trying to sort out the society paperwork the day before it was meant to be handed in. Talk about procrastination!

The podcast revolved around 3 areas:

• The current things the show's cast were loving and hating;
• A discussion of a selection of news topics over the past fortnight; and
• What tea they were enjoying that week, which was varied as much as possible.

Later segments included 'What are we using as a mic stand this week?' and 'Who's pretending to be Dan whilst he's off galavanting about the country?'. There were also one-off segments.

Also, guests are freely invited to join in on the discussion, which included Chris Morris and Gemma Peter. Alas, no-one was interested enough in the podcast to ask to be a guest from outside TermiSoc.

The first LOGin podcast was recorded on Thursday the 24th of May 2007 in Rich's flat. Apart from hiccups from a low volume and plenty of 'umms' and 'errs' in regard to content, it went rather smoothly. It was presented by Dan Cosser, Rich Jeffery and Ben A'Lee. Christine Harrison also lent a hand.

Its intended release was on the weekend of the 25th, but due to a nasty flu that was going around and Rich wandering off somewhere for the weekend, it wasn't released until the 3rd of June. On the same day, the Podcast's website went online, but due to an error with the DNS wasn't widely available until a few days later.

Podcast 01 - 27th May 2006!

In this one:

• This week's Loves and Hates!
• Ubuntu on Dell!
• Firefox 3!
• Crazy GPL authors!
• Intel vs. OLPC…
• A Greener Apple…
• The Downfall of Society…
• and Tea!

All this and more in this first ever… LOGin!

Episode 5 was released 10th of September, featuring the usual gang, our sound-man Chris, and a live studio audience! In this episode:

• Rejection!
• Googlification!
• Abandonment!
• Tea!
• Loves & Hates!
• and Satan's Armpit!

Episode 6 was released (after a few technical troubles), featuring just Rich and Dan… Ben's in Bangor.

 In this episode:

• Apple vs. the third party (and the Zune 2, and Apple themselves)!
• Unicode domains vs. the phishers! (plus Starbucks is an ancient tourist attraction and a Chinese clone of the Wii!)
• Radiohead album giveaway (plus BluRay, HD-DVD and a general lack of trust)!
• Foreign Hard Drives vs. the FCC (… and… um… stuff)
• Loves & Hates!
• and the British standard for making tea!

Featuring:

• Firefox 3 still leaky
• 3 stories about the PS3
• …and some other things we don’t want to mention

Yet more topical discussion from the gang at TermiSoc. This episode’s topic: The Internet.

Featuring discussion on:

• The potential downfall of ‘netiquette’ and the prevalence of ‘trash-talking’ online;
• Domain squatting and ‘ad-sites’;
• Content providers, ISPs and the ‘two-tier web’; and
• Household appliances that should be networkable.

…plus “Loving & Hating”, Tea drinking and now: ‘Today’s Microphone Stand’!

Dan’s off cycling around the countryside, so instead, it’s just Ben A’Lee, Gemma Peter and Rich Jeffery ranting about IP laws and people’s attitudes towards it.

The topics in question:

• Are software patents a good idea for developers and producers to secure their code?
• With online piracy and the failings of DRM dominating the media, what’s the next step for content providers?
• With all the new exceptions and rules being added to the GNU Public License each revision, is it becoming too restrictive for developers?
• Will physical media ever die, or is it all media hype?

All this and tea, lovings and hatings, cake, faux microphone stands and much more in this week’s LOGin!

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