My CREATE South Recap
I have posted my wrapup of Saturday over at the official CREATE South blog. It took an amazing long time to put that together, basically all evening yesterday. I think it was pretty thorough and covers a lot of it, but there is always more you can put in. It was impressive how many really [...]
Tags: createsouth, createsouth2009It’s Like a Dream
I’m in that dreamlike state, following the success of CREATE South. I’m still kind of tired in that way you don’t get in a single day or two, but that long term existential tired of having thought about and stressed about an even for months, and then the event is past. On top of that, [...]
Tags: createsouth, createsouth2009CREATE South is Done
The day of CREATE South went off generally pretty well. There were some hitches but all in all, people seemed to get value out of the day. I was inspired and edified by how everyone took to it. My partner Andre Pope cooked for two days to feed everyone, the students of Horry-Georgetown Technical College [...]
Tags: createsouth, createsouth2009CREATE South happening about … um … now
We’re in the middle of CREATE South right now. The sad truth about organizing a blogging/podcasting conference is that it makes you stop doing it. I’m getting that good “Come to Jesus” moment from the whole thing. I’m looking forward to taking this new found second wind of enthusiasm and putting it in to practice. [...]
Tags: createsouth, createsouth2009CREATE South in 48 Hours
The 2009 edition of CREATE South will be happening on Saturday, just over 48 hours from now. We’ve crossed that freeing point where a lot of the plans for things that would nice but not crucial have been jettisoned. All the good ideas that just didn’t come together, those are out the window. Now it [...]
Tags: createsouth, createsouth2009Say Hi to Tony (Kahn) for Me
I’m lucky enough to have made the acquaintance of Mr. Tony Kahn in the podcast era. I first met him as far back as Bloggercon 3 in Palo Alto, way back in the wild days of 2004 when many of us had only been podcasting a few months. Tony did a lot for podcasting in [...]
Tags: createsouth, hitony, morningstories, podcasting, tonykahn, webbyawardRIP, JG Ballard
I see that JG Ballard has died at the age of 78. He is one of my favorite writers. Those who listened to my Reality Break interviews know that one of my tics is to always work Ballard into every interview if I can. When I talked to Kim Stanley Robinson about Red Mars, we [...]
Tags: jgballardA Little CREATE South and AmigoFish Love
I was just listening to the first episode of 2 People Talking from the Comic Book Noise podcast network. It’s the relaunch of what used to be called “Indie Comic Book Noise.” At the end of the show, not only does Derek throw out a little promo for CREATE South but also talks about AmigoFish [...]
Tags: 2peopletalking, amigofish, comicbooknoise, createsouth, podcastingSee the Institutional Biases of Media Companies in their XML
Here and there over the last few months I’ve been doing some data cleanup over at my podcast directory site AmigoFish. For all of 2008 and some of 2007 the site was left pretty much on autopilot. It worked and continues to work, but there are things that need to be done to clean up [...]
Tags: amigofish, podcasting, tonykornheiser, washingtonpostThe CBC Exaggerates
While doing some data pruning and cleaning up on AmigoFish, I ran across this CBC podcast listing. What I found interesting was this claim from the info about their show. It’s in their RSS feed, which is how the AmigoFish tools found it to import as the description:
CBC Radio 3 Podcast with Grant Lawrence
It launched [...]
Nate Powell Insight
I’m listening to Nate Powell getting interviewed on Inkstuds. I’m not that familiar with him, but I might be converted to his fan by this interview. He just had an insight so profound that it might have just sold me Swallow Me Whole.
On why he chose to settle in Bloomington, IN instead of other places, [...]
What to do about amazonfail
I have a post I will author soon with my take on the whole “amazonfail” brouhaha. Very short take – I don’t think I’ve seen anyone involved on any side of the question with whom I much agree. However this post will take time to write, [...]
Tags: amazonfail, createsouth, powellsCREATE South, April 25th in Myrtle Beach
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One of the things consuming a lot of my evenings lately is planning for CREATE South 2009. It will be held Saturday April 25th, and will be in Myrtle Beach at the Grand Strand campus of Horry-Georgetown Technical College. This is a few blocks [...]
Tags: createsouth, createsouth2009, myrtlebeachWhat Do I Do Next?
This morning I listened to episode #98 of Skepticality which was a follow-on discussion to the whole “Where Do We Go From Here?” talk of a few years ago. They referenced a PDF document with 100 points of action that people can take as a skeptic. I don’t really identify as a skeptic even though [...]
Tags: kindle, podcasting, skepticalitySavory on the Kindle
My friend Rob sent me a link to Jesse Vincent’s Massively Parallel Procrastination blog, where the author is doing a lot of cool Kindle hacking. He’s created software called Savory that will do on the fly conversion of PDFs to Kindle’s AZW format on the device itself. I think that’s really an interesting and useful [...]
Tags: kindle, savoKindle Edition of Fans, Friends and Followers
It’s “credit where credit is due” time. A few days I blogged about what seemed odd to me, that Scott Kirsner’s book Fans, Friends and Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age was not available in a Kindle edition. I emailed him and asked in so many words “What’s with [...]
Tags: davekellett, kindle, scottkirsnerEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 6, 2009 – “Starting is Easy, Finishing is Hard”
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for April 6, 2009. I play a song from Glass Eye; I talk about CREATE South and Balticon and Dragon*Con, about organizing a conference and what we are trying to do with CREATE South in Myrtle Beach; I play a solo song by Kathy McCarty, [...]
Tags: balticon, createsouth, createsouth2009, dragoncon, glasseye, kathymccarty, kindleEGC Live, 4/6
Here we go, EGC episode #235 is getting recorded right now.
Update: I think I’ll be removing the embeds after I’m done with them from now on.
EGC Podcast Schedule to Record 8:30 PM EDT, April 6
Once again, I’m going to continue the experiment of recording my podcast and streaming. Tonight at 8:30 PM EDT I’ll be recording and streaming it live via Ustream. If you want to see a Kindle demonstrated, you can see it here. I’ll also once again try the experiment of posting with a ustream window embedded [...]
Tags: egc, ustreamHow I Manage My Podcast MP3s
For years now, I’ve been using whatever cheapo MP3 player I can find as my podcast player. Currently that’s a 4 Gb Insignia Sport that I got on clearance for around $50. Given my directory that holds all of my downloaded MP3s, I still need to get them from my MacBook on my player.
Over the [...]
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