SXSW Podcasts

I’ve been listening to the audio podcasts from this years SXSW. I’ve got to say, it’s a very mixed bag. I’ve enjoyed the keynote speeches from Bruce Sterling, Kathy Sierra, and Phil Torrone and Limor Fried. The Dan Rather was barely OK, about exactly what you’d expect and nothing more. Thus far, I’ve tried to [...]

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The Secret

I’ve been hearing about this nonsense about “The Secret” and “The Laws of Attraction” here and there. Thank you, Oprah, for inflicting yet another ridiculous meme, as if you weren’t already in the hole for Doctor Phil. They mentioned it on Girl Meets Girl/Makena Music a few weeks back and I just got an email [...]

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EGC Clambake for March 27, 2007 - “Hippies and Punks - Blowback”

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for March 27, 2007.
I play (another) song from Conconquidore Truidore; I discuss Scarborough Dude’s (over)reaction to the previous episode and Ted Riecken’s response; I play a song by Oxford Collapse, reference my enjoyment of the SModcast and then I too collapse.
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Arguments I Have Known and Loved

In my last show, I talked about hippies and punks. That seems to have really set off Scarborough Dude, who did a show responding to mine. Ted Riecken of Island Podcasting responded to both. I have both shows on my player and the dicksnjanes episode came up yesterday but I skipped it. Ted warned me [...]

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Marshall Rogers, RIP

Damn. A comics artist I always liked a lot, Marshall Rogers, has died at the age of 57. I was a big fan of his Doctor Strange, Batman and Coyote. I have most or all of the Cap’n Quick and a Foozle series from the heady days when independent comics were weird and exciting.
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Busy Weekend

Dinner at people’s house Friday night, family trip to North Carolina yesterday and today. Lots of stuff is shaking but I have had sporadic time and connectivity. More blogging soon. I did catch up with a bunch of email offline today, while watching the Nascar race. Offline time with your laptop can be highly beneficial [...]

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Beach Walks

Yesterday at lunchtime, I went towards the water and grabbed a quick bite to eat and got a cup of coffee. I then kicked off my shoes, rolled up my pants cuffs and walked on the beach for about half an hour. As a boy who grew up landlocked in Nebraska and Kansas, it seems [...]

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Why I Won’t Be Bum Rushing the Charts

I’ve seen a number of references to this Bum Rush the Charts deal. Tomorrow is the day, and they want you to buy the song “Mine Again” by Black Lab from iTunes. The first most basic reason is that I’ve never put a cent of my money into the iTunes system and there is no [...]

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The Return of CFR!

After a 200 day layoff, there is a new episode of Caribbean Free Radio! Thank god. Georgia makes a point of pointing out in the beginning of the show that this is almost enough time to have had a baby between shows. I’m just happy to have it back. I thought my 18 day layoff [...]

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EGC Clambake for March 20, 2007 - “Hippies and Punks”

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for March 20, 2007.
This is a particularly foulmouthed episode, including an F-Bomb explosion that came from some sort of anger repository I had not realized I was tapping. Be warned.
I play a song from Conconquidore Truidore; I talk about internet radio and [...]

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Managing the Podosphere

I listened to this interview Chris Pirillo did with Alex Williams about mostly Podcast Hotel and podcasting in general. At one point in there they stated that “there are no good tools for finding podcasts”, which implies that either they’ve never heard of AmigoFish or that they don’t think it is good. Either of those [...]

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You Tube Confession

When you IM me your links to YouTube videos, I don’t look at them. When you embed them in your blog posts, I don’t click them. Even when you tell me that they are the most fantastic thing ever, I don’t do it. I hate the interface, I hate the shitty resolution and frame rate [...]

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XML View in Mozilla

Here’s a lazy web question. Does anyone know how you can change Mozilla’s handling of XML back to the way it used to be? If I’m loading an XML page, 19 out of 20 times it’s because I am examining it for correctness or to extract information from it. I hate how it does that [...]

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Dapper to Edgy

I’m extremely conservative when it comes to upgrading OS’s on my work-a-day machines. That’s why I never upgraded my iBook from 10.3, since I was earning my living on it when 10.4 came out. For similar reasons, I dragged my feet on upgrading my work laptop from Ubuntu Dapper to Edgy. Last night I bit [...]

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The End of Penn Radio

Around XMas, I got really behind on my podcast listening and only recently have I been catching up. One of the shows I was farthest behind on was the Penn Jillette radio show. I think at the high point, I had 20 shows in my queue. Just recently I was down to only a few [...]

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Me and the Podcast Expo

It’s been busy times lately, and I haven’t bothered submitting a proposal to speak at this year’s New Media Expo (aka Portable Media Expo aka Podcast Expo.) On the one hand, I hate the thought of not doing it. Having spoken at the first two, I’d like to keep that streak going. Also, as I [...]

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Believe the Hype

Not much blogging lately. After work yesterday, almost immediately we headed towards North Myrtle Beach because Public Enemy was playing the House of Blues. We’re getting on towards the 20th anniversary of when I first saw them live, and they still kicked it. They messed with expectations some by playing several songs without Flava Flav. [...]

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Pod Dorks at the Beach

The oddest thing happened during our vacation in Wilmington. We were watching the local news last night, and a story came on about podcasting. More than that, it had an on-camera interview with Adam Curry, who apparently was in the same town as me at the same time. He was there promoting some locally produced [...]

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At the Beach

I’m semi-offline line now as we take a long weekend in Wrightsville Beach, near Wilmington NC. It seems weird to leave a beach community to go to a different beach community but there is a value in chilling somewhere that isn’t home. We’ve had dinner at Red Robin, ridden bikes almost the entire length of [...]

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Rev. Magdalen Still Can’t Win For Losing

Those of us in the Subgenius world have been following the sad travesty of justice that is the child custody case of Rachel “Reverend Magdalen” Bevilacqua for a long time. It continues forward, and just when it looked like she had prevailed the whole thing got kicked up to appellate court. Thus, she needs another [...]

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