Considering I was originally blog-tagged four days ago by Bill Deys (and then two days ago by Charles Cadenhead), I would say that I’m decidedly late getting this post out. I will spare you the excuses. However, since I’m so late on the game for this one, I’m reluctant to tag anyone else since I’m [...]
Bob and I have both lamented about the ever growing spread of social media tools geared towards expanding and engaging one’s community. I’ve dabbled in some of them, each of which addresses a specific need for community building. Today, Carter Harkins introduced us to a tool that I think I will be spending a lot [...]
This evening — before settling in to conduct two interviews – I broke a rule known well to singers, public speakers and on-air personalities: don’t have dairy before your performance.
Daryl Cognito has coined a new, industry term: sloppy mouth. It’s a highly technical term that Daryl explains as the host sounding drunk. For me, the term describes a radio host here in Ottawa that I can’t listen to because I can clearly hear tongue, cheek and lip movements — not the kind of thing [...]
For three days now (Saturday March 17 through Monday March 19), I have been trying to get through to Rogers Wireless technical support. For each of the six times I have called, I have navigated their voice automated phone system and consistently end up at a message that they are “currently experiencing higher than normal [...]
Andrea and I were just interviewed by Jennifer of Microsoft Home Magazine. We’ll post details when the article is published.
When Bob Goyetche and I first started working on Podcasters Across Borders 2006, there were a lot of reasons to be concerned — mostly relating to financial commitments and community interest. Okay, concerns may not be the right word. Let’s say Stress, with a capital ‘S’. We took a big gamble, committing personal funds to [...]
Registration for the 2007 edition of Podcasters Across Borders is officially live. If you want to attend, act quicky. There are only 160 seats available!!! Be sure to use the tag PAB2007 on all posts, photos, videos, etc… relating to the event.
It wasn’t fun. However, my MacBook Pro is networked, again, after all of the WWAN support update 1.0 stability-related issues. My AirPort is rock solid, again. How? These are the steps I followed: Backed up my data — by the way, unlike PC, Mac overwrites old backups with new ones, deleting files from the backup [...]
When I first learned of BumRushTheCharts.com (BRtC), I had reservations about the idea. In particular, I wondered if juicing the iTunes charts for an independent artist for one day would actually make any difference – and if it would actually hurt the independent movement. Perhaps because of the community-centric excitement about the project, I decided [...]
Well, this is a frustrating experience. Despite the encouraging comments that suggest the AirPort Express update of March 8 has worked for many people, it did NOT fix my AirPort stability issues. My wireless network does not restore itself when my Mac “wakes up” – although, I am able to restore the network by disabling [...]
Thanks to Nick for alerting me to the March 8 release of the AirPort Extreme Update 2007-002 by Apple. According the the notes, this update “contains an additional non-security fix for a compatibility issue when using certain third-party access points configured to use WEP”. If that includes WPA, the grief that 2007-001 caused me should [...]
I usually only watch fun stuff so I tend to miss some of the amazing uses of YouTube. For example, the Hamilton Police Force has posted footage from a surveillance video camera on YouTube in the hopes that someone will be able to help them solve a crime. While I admit that this may not [...]
I followed up with Apple this morning on my trouble report on the WWAN update. The technician said the Apple engineering is investigating a connection between the update and certain models of Intel Macs and wireless routers. You can help Apple troubleshoot and solve the problem by helping them collect as much relevant information as [...]
Update 070307: I have reconsidered my involvement in BRTC. Look for an in-depth pre-analysis to be published on this site in the coming days. Christopher Penn of the Financial Aid Podcast is leading an initiative that may turn the entire music industry on its head. It’s called Bum Rush the Charts, and Chris summarizes it [...]
The Saturday and Sunday presentation program for Podcasters Across Borders 2007 has been officially announced in this week’s episode of The Canadian Podcast Buffet and on the Podcasters Across Borders website. Registration details will be announced next week.
Editing Techniques and Decisions presentation at PodCamp Toronto [ 39:54 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThis Podcast is a culmination of my series on Blevis-ian editing, and the audio from my Editing Techniques and Decisions presentation at PodCamp Toronto. I highly recommend that you also listen to Bruce Murray’s presentation on Editing (How to make a layer cake with a butterfly and a sledgehammer). Between Bruce’s humourous and philosophical study [...]
On February 19, my Mac started to prompt me to install the newly release WWAN support 1.0 update for OSX. Since the update referenced hardware I do not use, I dutifully ignored the request to apply it. Unfortunately, there was no way to select “permanently ignore”. Yesterday, the inevitable happened. I accidentally clicked on Install [...]
