What I knew about Matthew Ebel before yesterday was only that CC Chapman would do backflips to hear his music. While I had heard some of Matthew’s music, I didn’t really connect with it — although, Lost My Way (his new a capella song), did catch my attention. Last night I saw Matthew perform at [...]
If you’ve been in audio for a while, chances are you have a lot of stories about lost audio. I have a few. Perhaps one of the most painful, certainly the most current, is the phantom recording I did last evening from the back seat of a taxi I was sharing with Bill Deys, Neil [...]
It was a great day for a drive. The sun was out, the temperature was great and the roads were clear. It was the first time since PAB that Bob Goyetche and I had hung out – a full seven hours worth in the car, alone. We recorded some discussions which will likely find themselves [...]
Just as the Entertainment Industries Summit begins in Toronto, I received a press release from the Canadian Music Creators Coalition (CMCC) that responds to two events of recent weeks: the US$222,000 judgement against Minnesota mother of two, Jammie Thomas, for the downloading of US$25 worth of music; and the Canadian government’s plans to make copyright [...]
For several years now, my father has been able to access his Sympatico mail through their hotmail.ca webmail service. Something changed a few weeks ago and he is consistently presented with an error message that reads as follows: Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page. This may be caused by [...]
The Ottawa Podcast and New Media Meetup Group held it’s second meeting of this season at the Clock Tower Brew Pub on Thursday, October 18. There were a lot of newcomers at this gathering and one of them, Natasha, won a $25 gift certificate from Steve’s Music Store in Ottawa. The guest speaker was Jeff [...]
In its heyday in the 1960′s, NASA invested in two key areas of the space program: the technology and the people. The premise of this spending decision was that NASA couldn’t get to the moon without the tools to get there (and of course, the people who knew how to use those tools) and the [...]
Notwithstanding the terrible word that we’ve been stuck with since 2004, podcasting was on shaky ground long before Michael Geohegan‘s now famous speech delivered at the Podcast and New Media Expo a few weeks ago (see his blog post, No More Podcast in the New Media Expo). It’s a discussion that has been going on [...]
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When: Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 7:00 PM Where: Clock Tower Brew Pub 575 Bank Street Ottawa, ON K1S5L7 Guest speaker: Jeff Parks Presentation: Pay It Forward – Mentoring and Podcasting Jeff will discuss his philosophy on mentoring and podcasting, and how this approach can be a model of behaviour for business and government around [...]
I’m still looking for a few submissions for my upcoming Podcast User Magazine column on fearless content creation. The best candidates will be ones that involve people taking personal or professional risks in creating content for their podcasts. Those risks could centre around embarrassment, being revealing, going where noone else has gone before (physically and/or [...]
As an interviewer, it’s always exciting when a guest delivers great answers and insight. As a producer, it makes the task of streamlining the interview to fit a specific format extremely difficult; even stressful. Miles Copeland, former manager of The Police, was an amazing guest. I published our interview on the Electric Sky podcast site [...]
As I write this, Andrea and I are struggling to stay awake. We’re flying home after an amazing weekend in Chicago where we attended the first annual children’s literature bloggers conference (known at this time as the KidLit Conference). Click here to see photos of the conference. The event was conceived by author Robin Brande [...]
I’ve done a lot of flying over the years. In the fall of 1998, I earned enough air miles in a three month stretch to fly my family to California. My air travel has picked up, again, this fall. When you spend a lot of time in flight, you expect — or at least experience [...]
For my next Defining Moments column in Podcast User Magazine, I am going to write a piece on fearless content creation. Fearless content creation can mean many things to many people. For some, it could mean turning an original poem or essay into a provocative audio program. Someone else may feel that speaking openly and [...]
