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Studs Terkel: Patron saint of podcasting
I have been reading (and listening) to “Talking to Myself” by Studs Terkel and I think the podcasting community should adopt him as their patron saint and role model. Terkel famously carried around a tape recorder and captured the voices of people from around the world, producing a rich treasure trove of oral history. Listen to how he weaves his…
Still working on that windows install
Still trying to get Windows XP reinstalled on my son’s machine. I have wiped both hard drives, gone through the reinstall process and it just won’t boot up. I’m not sure if something is wrong with my installation CD so I am trying a bootable disk I found on bootdisk.com. Here’s a reminder for myself on how I created the…
Great how-to article on podcasting
Phillip Torrone put together a great how-to article on podcasting building on Hugo Schotman’s earlier piece. Both are mac based.
Links for Windows XP clean install
Had a bad technical support weekend at home. I need to reinstall Windows XP on my son’s machine and I can’t get it to read the partitions even though the utilities shipped with the disk show that they are installed and partitioned properly. This is a collection of links that might get me past this issue: * XP clean install…
Have you seen my stapler?
I am now the proud owner of a shiny new red swingline stapler. It goes really well with my new desk.
Presidential debate
I did not get a chance to watch the debate last night, but from what I’ve heard, this video posted on the Democratic Party site sums it up pretty well. I’m not sure how persistent the link to the video will be so check their site for the orginal post if it doesn’t work.
Color Management in Photoshop
Author Bruce Fraser’s collection of articles on color management and Photoshop. We have finally started messing about with our Epson scanner and color printer. I need to work on getting the most out of both.
Brandon Fuller’s plugin for iTunes incorporates iPodder and BitTorrent
Interesting update to Brandon Fuller’s Now Playing iTunes plugin for Movable Type. It now supports downloading of enclosures via iPodder and BitTorrent technologies. Haven’t had a chance to test this out and I’ll post an update once I get it up and running. Here’s his post on how he configured and is using BitTorrent More tools for podcasting.
Podcasting
Doc Searls nails some of the key advantages of podcasting in his post DIY radio with PODcasting bq. “The key virtue of traditional radio is its immediacy: the fact that it’s live. They key virtue of this new breed of radio is that it’s Net-native. That is, it’s archived in a way that can be listened to at the convenience…