Missing Friends and the Podcast Industry

So Podcast Expo came and went without me. Even if I had gone, it would be over by now and I’d be on my way home. I’m sad that I didn’t go, but not as bummed as you might think. I’ve been sanguine about the whole thing. Wednesday night I realized how insane it would [...]

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Happy Birthday, JD

My nephew Johnny One Sock turns two today. Congratulations, little man!
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Coulton and Fan Videos

Jonathan Coulton discusses all the music videos his fans have made for his songs. He notes that fans at his shows do the dances from these fan made videos and generally his work is made more valuable and fun and given even more exposure by the amateur contributions. I think that’s really fantastic. Suck that, [...]

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You Suck At Poker

I had a comment left on here that I really had a hard time telling if it was a spam blog or not. I dug around the site and decided not, and while doing that found an article I liked. It is the negatively titled but nonetheless accurate 7 Reasons Why You Suck at Poker. [...]

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Most Podcasts are Bad

Let me address an issue touched on in my podcast award post. One of those bits of received wisdom that you hear over and over is that “most new media is bad.” A few specific references I can remember from recent listening was Carol Coletta on Smart City and Jon Udell in his various shows. [...]

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Podcast Awards

It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of podcasting or new media awards of any kind. If the Emmys and Oscars are horseshit 2/3 of the time, there is zero chance of getting it right in even broader and even more niche content. The day I believe that anyone has actually listened to the [...]

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The Big Rewrite

A few years ago, Derek Sivers announced a plan to rewrite CD Baby’s web interface in Ruby on Rails, and he had a blog for his progress. That blog went dark a while ago, and recently he announced his plan to abandon that project. His insights are interesting, and I in general would agree with [...]

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Lost Weekend

The weekend got off to a rough start when I ended up staying at work until about 1 AM Friday night. Saturday was a relatively normal day without a lot of extra sleep. We took the dog to the dog park and did our normal kind of Saturday things. By Saturday night I was really [...]

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Anniversaries Uncelebrated

The busy summer kept me from even noting a number of anniversaries. Here are a few:
In late July, we hit the 5th anniversary of this blog. It was originally a wag done off the user account I had at Hurricane Electric at evilgeniuscorp.com (a domain I no longer have). I had the account to try [...]

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Plane Leaves Conway, Crashes into Restaurant

Here’s an ugly story about a plane that left my town and then crashed into a restaurant into North Carolina. If there was an upside, it was that it was before the restaurant opened. One person was killed, but during lunch hour it could have been fifty. This story hits a little home because [...]

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More Things I Won’t Be Doing

Last week Alice Cooper was playing at the House of Blues, and I would have liked to have gone, but couldn’t swing it. Tonight George Jones is playing at the Alabama Theater (across the parking lot from the House of Blues, actually.) I’d like to see that one too, but also can’t swing it.
I [...]

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No Me at PNME

Sadly, I had to cancel my attendance at this years Podcast and New Media Expo. I really want to go and give my talk but I just can’t swing it this year. The summer and into the fall has been brutal at the day job and I can’t spare the time or the energy. From [...]

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Long Pants Day

This is always a melancholy day in the Grand Strand - it’s the first day I felt I needed to wear long pants and closed shoes for weather reasons. Generally for me, around April the sandals and shorts come out and stay out until I just can’t stand to wear them any more. Today is [...]

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GMail Spam Filter Gets Too Frisky

I went into my GMail spam box yesterday to look for something, and was a little shocked at how much righteous email was in there. Warning notices from Plesk on a hosted box, two different emails from people I know, as well as every moderation message to date from the Grand Strand Bloggers blog. Good [...]

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Burning Man

Here’s how disconnected I am from the Burning Man community. Until I heard the people on Puzzling Evidence talk about attending this year, I didn’t know it had already happened. I vaguely thought it happened in spring, but I didn’t really know. Apparently I don’t read any blogs from anyone that went or even discussed [...]

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RIP, Robert Jordan

On Sunday, Jim Rigney aka Robert Jordan passed away. He’d been ill for some time so it is not unexpected but it is nonetheless sad news. I’m not a reader of his, but I did meet him and find him a very pleasant and kind man.
I interviewed him for Reality Break back in 1994. At [...]

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Gator Eats Man’s Arm

Here’s an ugly story from my part of the country: An alligator bit off a man’s arm in Moncks Corner. In order to reattach it, they cut open the gator and retrieved it from his belly. Good lord. It’s kind of amazing that it could be retrieved and put back on the guy.
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Blogstipation

For much of the last two months, I’ve been so busy that blogging has been something that has been deferred or intermittent. This weekend that is not the case but I found that I had so much stuff I wanted to write and talk about and even discuss in podcasts that it kind of froze [...]

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Early Morning People

Walking the dog at 6:45 AM I saw a surprising number of my neighbors up and about. Some were puttering in their kitchens, which is hard to miss when they are standing in the window with the lights on when it is dark out. Others were out in their yards or walking around or getting [...]

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Yowza

Been quiet on the blog front. To get some insight into my recent life, today is Friday morning but for the first hour I was awake I thought it was Wednesday. It feels like I was just granted a special weekend now. It’s all about expectation management, I suppose.
In what tiny bit of spare time [...]

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