Goodbye John Edwards
Today John Edwards threw in the towel. I was working up a big citation post about this argument between my brother and me, comparing why in the head to head comparison between Edwards and Obama I found Edwards more compelling. He had my support and I think the best Democratic candidate has now left the [...]
Around the Podosphere, Money Edition
I felt like doing one of my roundups of interesting things I have seen or heard lately in my podcast experience. It seems like a fair bit of it overlaps with the recent discussions here of “going pro” in new media, of making money and general issues of new media as an industry. Let’s what [...]
Tags: cherylcolan, colettevogel, epicfu, podcasting, pokerroad, tanjabarnes, twoplustwopokercast, writersstrikechronicles, zadidiazI’m Voting Edwards
John Edwards in Conway SC
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Over the course of the primary season, my only real question was whether I was going to vote for Kucinich or Edwards. That question has been answered over the last few weeks, and I’m proudly voting for John [...]
Tags: johnedwards, southcarolinaThe Beancounter Bubble
Here’s a sad article but one that seems true to me about how our country and economy has been sucked dry by beancounters.
The American ship is sinking from the weight of its own economic narcissism. Our accountants and finance professionals have been richly rewarded for squeezing the last microscopic drop of profitability out of [...]
News Gang
Today I was invited to participate in a new Gillmor venture, the the News Gang. Steve’s always liked me despite whatever dicklike behavior I exhibit, so what could I do but say yes? Late in the afternoon I got a direct Twitter message from Steve inviting me. I was a little worried about the logistics [...]
Tags: newsgang, podcasting, stevegillmorAdd Album Art To an MP3 from Command Line
As I work on Super Secret Project X, one of the things that would make it a little handier would be the ability to add album art to MP3s from the OS X command line. I had been using mp3info2 as my tool for manipulating ID3 tags from the command line, but it doesn’t do [...]
Tags: eye3, mp3, podcastingPodcasting and Money: Round Two
Here is a guest blog piece that follows the post the other day about new media serving either the audience or the sponsors but not both simultaneously. J Wynia wrote me a very thoughtful email on the subject and with his permission I’m blogging it here. Everything from here out is him talking.
I started two [...]
Tags: givemeyourmoney, jwynia, monetization, podcastingLooks Like a Dingo
One of the things we hear all the time about our dog Koga is that he “looks like a dingo.” We hear this in our neighborhood when we walk, when we go to the dog park, everywhere. Imagine my surprise when I was reading my feeds yesterday and I saw an actual photo of an [...]
Podcasting: Who Will You Serve?
There are certain debates in new media that I’ve had so many times that I end every exchange thinking that I will never get embroiled in that particular turdfight again. The “make money fast” end of podcasting is one of those I’ve sworn off many times, just like someone who quits smoking over and over. [...]
Tags: podcastingMike Huckabee, Theocrat
Here in South Carolina, there is a campaign ad for Mike Huckabee in which he says “I will put values above politics.” I’ve always thought that was a coded message to his supporters that was really said “I put Jesus above the Constitution.” That turns out to have been the correct parsing, because now he’s [...]
EGC Clambake for January 13, 2008 – “Getting it Together For One More Year”
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for January 13, 2008.
I play an uplifting song from Thacker Dairy Road; I talk about rebooting GTD and getting my projects rolling; I lay out why this show is the first one of the post-Bittorrent era; I talk about the endless podcasting advertising debate and [...]
De-torrenting Begins
Over the course of this weekend, I will be removing the bittorrents from my site. It is going to be quite the pain in the ass, as I’m going to edit every one of the 200 posts with a torrent as well as its enclosure metadata. Hopefully PodPress will make this easy. I’m not that [...]
Inbox Zero
Last night I achieved the mythical “Inbox Zero” for the first time in four months and only the second or third time ever. It required some ruthlessness for sure. One advantage is that as you dig older and older in the queue some of the things have taken care of themselves or become so old [...]
Making a Zune Holder Out of Trash
I’ve been doing a lot of video watching at my desk at work since Ken Kennedy was kind enough to give me his unused Zune. One of the downsides of watching at my desk is that the viewing angle is really bad when it is sitting down. Laid flat it is way to low and [...]
Again with the GTD
I’ve made several runs at implementing the GTD process in my life. It has to this point never rooted into my life to the point where it is indispensable and intrinsic to my days. Interestingly to me, despite my failed attempts I haven’t decided that the system either doesn’t work or isn’t for me. I [...]
In My Second Month on Twitter, I Reject Your Commandments
I resisted the Twitter fad for a very long time. My sense was that it was just another time waster, high signal to noise and full of generally irrelevant stuff. I signed up about six weeks ago and found that while all of the above was indeed true I enjoyed it anyway. I’ve been a [...]
Tags: twitterYAP (Yet Another Possum)
YAP (Yet Another Possum)
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We have caught a possum yet again. The count is getting fuzzy but this is probably the seventh one or so overall. We started hearing funny noises from the crawlspace last night when it got really cold, so I [...]
Nicola Griffith’s New Novel Blog
My dear friend Nicola Griffith is performing her own interesting blogospheric experiment. She is writing a novel about Hild of Whitby and to aid in her research she has started a research blog about it. I think this is a smart move. By sharing what she learns, she attracts whatever community there is about that [...]
Tags: hildofwhitby, nicolagriffithA Little Food Based Making
I’m a charter subscriber of Make Magazine, I follow Bre Pettis’ videoblogs for the site, etc. This may be more Craft than Make, but I did a food based Maker project tonight. Following a link provided by my wife, I found this guide to making bird feeders from stale bagels. At my work they buy [...]
Chris Ferguson on Running Bad
Chris Ferguson is far and away my favorite poker professional. He has a post on the Full Tilt website about how to handle it when you run bad. I think this is all good advice. I’ve found his bankroll management tips to be the single best advice for the meta-game. It’s possible to avoid situations [...]
