EGC Episode for Nov 30, 2004
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I talk about why it has been a week since the last episode; I tell the story of Tony Kahn’s story about his father and an email from him; more about Butler and the Rock n Roll Geek [...]
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Movable Type
I saw a trickle of posts talking about problems with Movable Type over the weekend, Eric Rice and others. [Update: there is a link now.] His post was about how MT was causing a world of hurt with his hosting provider and getting his box shut down, which might have happened. Last night I tried [...]
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Making IT Conversations Self-Sustaining
Doug Kaye emailed me to point out an interesting conversation occurring on his wiki. He primed the pump by asking about models to get his operation fiscally self-sustaining. It appears that I’m in the minority on there, because I think the way to go is via an underwriting model. Perhaps this might be because I’ve [...]
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Holiday Decompression
Our family rolled out of town this morning, leaving us most of the day to kind of unwind, clean up and get back in the groove of normal life. It was fun having my mom and brother’s family here, but after having houseguests for most of the last nine days, it also feels nice to [...]
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Tony Kahn’s Thanksgiving
For some reason, the automatic podcast download was truncated, so I had to go back and manually fetch the most recent of WGBH Morning Stories, which was host Tony Kahn telling his own story this time. I’m glad I did because it was the most moving one I’ve heard yet. The story of his father [...]
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Why I Live in Conway, Part 49
Talking with the guys in the home office in Chicago, snow is falling right now. Here in Conway SC it is 72 degrees. I walked to Subway for lunch, and didn’t wear a coat. Ahhh.
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Your Radio Voice
I mentioned in yesterdays cast about people “wishing they had a radio voice.” Here is one such post by Robert Scoble. Folks, you may not have a “radio voice everybody” but you have something far superior - your own voice. I think that is a vastly underrated asset in this world.
Be yourself, sound like you [...]
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EGC Episode for Nov 23, 2004
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I talk about why I’m dropping the term “audioblog” as relates to our clambake here; talk about Ross Rader and his interview with Bret Fausett who is trying to get his podcast licensed under webcast rules; I say [...]
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Apple Firewire Audio Interface for Consumers
Even though I’m pretty happy with my Griffin iMic, I’ll admit that one of these Firewire audio interface boxes looks pretty sweet. Assuming the levels could be worked out right and pre-amps are no longer necessary, this would be able to take two XLR inputs from actual microphones, getting rid of the need for mixers [...]
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Busy Days
Not much blogging time lately, unfortunately. Our houseguest from round 1 leaves at lunchtime today, and our guest from round 2 arrives Thursday morning. I’d like to record a new podcast today or tomorrow, but there are no promises. We’ll see how it goes.
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Shooting Too Low
As you that follow this blog or podcast know, concision of expression is not my strong suit. I’m trying to boil down a notion I have scattered through casts and blog posts down to an absurdly simple sound bite. If anyone can help me digest this even further, please jump in.
To think that podcasts are [...]
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Cinema of Dust
Since we moved here over 3 months ago, we haven’t attended one movie or rented a single film. We’ve watched a few on TV or cable and watched The Station Agent as a test of our Time/Warner video on demand system (pretty sweet, we thought, even if we forgot to use the coupon to rebate [...]
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Audioblog for Nov 20, 2004
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I talk more about the ever-more-tangible Myrtle Beach blogger shindig; play a little snippet of Eric Rice and discuss a little about his Stanford Bloggercon wrapup; talk more about the results of the Bittorrent switch experiment; and I play [...]
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Few Songs Short of a Playlist
On Cult of Mac I’ve been following this story of the people camping out to get into the newly opening London Apple store. I’m a big Apple fan - I’ve never paid money for any other brand of computer - and yet I wouldn’t wait 90 seconds to get into an Apple store, much less [...]
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Podcast Microphone
People keep asking about my microphone that I use for podcasts. Let me post it here once for everyone (including Roland Tanglao, who says no one is telling him what mike to use). I use a modest Radio Shack mike, 33-3004 is the number. It costs $40, and you can see if they are in [...]
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Myrtle Beach Blogging
OK, I have been overwhelmed by the response to floating this idea. I was honestly wondering if I would be able to get 20 or 30 people to drive up from Charleston and Columbia in order to make it worth pursuing. I had no idea people would be willing to come from RTP, Nashville, New [...]
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Bittorrent Experiment, Iteration 2
OK, a new episode of EGC has been published. This is the second stab at the bittorrent experiment. I’m trying something that should ameliorate the slow times people were seeing. I think it is working, as it’s now 30 minutes after the publish became effective in the RSS, and there have been 40 serves of [...]
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Audioblog for Nov 17, 2004
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the audioblog for November 17, 2004.
I talk about autumn in Conway SC; play a song by Twin Six; talk about the feedback to my “southern voices” and encouraging people to sound like themselves; I discuss the possibility of the Myrtle Beach blogger shindig;
play a [...]
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New Voices in your Head
A new episode of Voices In Your Head is up! This one is with SF writer Eileen Gunn. I had seen her around and about in various SF fora for the last decade and had read the online SF magazine she edits, Infinite Matrix but I don’t remember reading that much of her fiction until [...]
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Egos and Boosts
I ran across a couple of things that made me feel good. The first is my brother discussing the merits of my podcasts. Such is the nature of our relationship that I had to read through all the way to the end to make sure he wasn’t winding me up only to drop the hammer [...]
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