Friday Night in Conway
I’m on my own for most of the night, so I’m hanging out at the coffee shop again on the wifi and enjoying the splendor of a pleasant spring evening in Conway SC. Life really is good some times.
Further examples of why I’m glad I live here.
I had a guy at a feed store [...]
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My Shorter Take on KYOU
Let me try to boil down my unease with KYOU even further with a simile. KYOU’s invitation of podcasters to fill their air signal under terms not at all favorable to the content creators brings the following to mind.
It is like being an average joe in high school when one of the in-crowd invites you [...]
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Boned Again by Audacity
Tonight I recorded and edited the episode with the first part of the Paul Melancon interview. I exported it to the AIFF, listened to it, and big portions of the vocal track .. just … weren’t … there. This is the last straw. I appreciate the program’s existence but my time is just too scarce [...]
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New Nomination for the Style Council
From Puerto Rico comes the newest nominee for the style council, Mr. PJ Cabrera. Bienvenido al grupo!
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Take your DRM and Shove It
This will be a profanity laden post, because the only way I know how to express the feelings this stuff brings out in me is with a few choice words of Saxon origin. Call me inarticulate if you will, but some jobs need a crowbar.
I keep seeing news stories about Harmony and PlayForSure and iTunes [...]
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KYOU
I saw the story in Wired this morning about the failing radio station that is switching its format to “all podcast content.” It’s calling the experiment KYOURadio. This is my early take as I’m still learning about it, but I have to say that I’m underimpressed so far.
Here’s the deal. They are taking podcasts, screening [...]
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Interviews
The interview Mike Geoghegan did with me for Podcast Solutions is now up. It was fun to do, but I’m not sure how much sense I made. I won’t be relistening to it, but I’m curious what other folks think about it.
In other news, I’m scheduled to be a guest on The Linux Link Tech [...]
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EGC Clambake Episode for April 25, 2005
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for April 25, 2005.
I apologize for being away and talk about why I was; I play a little bit of former Dr. Who Tom Baker acting out; I play a song by Camper Van Beethoven; belatedly remember I have sponsors and [...]
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Life 2.0
My car needs some brake work, so I threw my bicycle in the trunk and dropped it off at the shop. I rode over to a coffee shop/cafe near the shop and my house, where I’m having lunch and am on the wifi. Aaaaaaah.
I listened to an episode of Garrick Van Buren’s show about making [...]
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Not Quite Normal
Even though I got back home Thursday evening, I’m still tired from the Chicago adventure. I had planned to do a short podcast today, but that isn’t happening. I did talk with Mike Geoghegan on the phone for his book and our conversation will at some point be part of the podcast of interviews for [...]
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Raiding The 20th Century
I’m getting to this late because of my busy week last week but Bob’s Slacktime Funhouse last week aired in its entirety a great audio documentary called “Raiding the 20th Century”, which is about remix culture, cutups, sampling and such. I listened to it in O’Hare airport waiting for a plane and I’ve never had [...]
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A Difficult Thing To Say
I can scarcely believe that I’m typing such a thing, but young women of America - I’ve seen more than enough of y’alls lower backs and upper asses. This whole low rise jeans and bikini underwear thing means it’s impossible to walk around public places without seeing little roses and flourishy tattoos right above some [...]
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Resume Normal Life
Trade show over (for me, at least.) Resuming normal life approximately 12 hours from now. Exhausted but optimistic on this end, so all is well. Thank you for your patience. Expect another podcast this weekend, some light blogging before then. Perhaps I’ll be able to read some of the 100 unread emails and 500 unread [...]
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My So-Called Life
In Chicago. Work, work, eat, work, work, occasionally sleep, work, work, work, work. Expect few or no blog posts and even fewer (probably none) podcasts in the next week. Aaaaaaah, this is living!
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The Ethics of Soundseeing
I’m listening to Adam Curry’s current Daily Source Code on which he is doing a soundseeing tour of the Waldorf Astoria. He’s talking to folks and recording them but unless I missed something few or none of them know they are being recorded. I have a problem with that. I think it is uncool to [...]
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Theater of the Mind
Folks that deny the value of audio because it isn’t text just plain don’t appreciate the theater of the mind. I love it and have basically my whole life. I love radio dramas, becoming interested as a child in the 70’s. At that time, CBS radio had a revival of Mystery Theater which frequently featured [...]
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Law of Conversation of Gate Time
I’ve noticed that no matter when I leave the house for the Myrtle Beach airport, it takes me just long enough to get there and get through security so that when I get to the gate, the plane is boarding and I don’t get to use the free wifi there. Whether I leave an hour [...]
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George Carlin Insight of the Day
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass has grown through a crack in the concrete. It’s so damn heroic.
- from the George Carlin Day Calendar for April 14, 2005
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Brian Buck, RIP
Brian Buck recently lost his long struggle with cancer. I never met him, but I worked with and am friends with his brother and read his weblog for years. The last post there is sadly one from around the holidays last year about how Darin made him a custom controller with big buttons to allow [...]
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EGC Clambake Episode for April 12, 2005
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for April 12, 2005.
We have a winner in the iPodderX contest! I talk about living in Conway SC and buying used cars from psychics; I relate my hopes about creating a whole alternate media system; I lay out the Paul Melancon [...]
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