I’ve been meaning to write this post for about a year, ever since I called M-Audio technical support to talk to them about my setup and the technician I spoke with had never heard of anyone with the same monitor recording configuration I’m using. In addition, I get a lot of questions about the high [...]
I participated in a conference call today. It was a support call during which I mostly sat back and listened to the interraction between a colleague and two technicians. It was hard not to notice that the instructions given were rarely to just perform a procedure, they almost always involved the invitation for my colleage [...]
I upgraded the Cubase 4 installation on my MacBook Pro from 4.0.3 to 4.1, yesterday evening, and discovered that I was no longer able to import and export MP3 files. The symptoms included: Error: Medium type not supported or invalid medium! when trying to import MP3 files; Missing export preferences for MPEG 1 Layer 3 [...]
I’m beginning work on my December submission of Defining Moments, my column in Podcast User Magazine. My theme for this installment is Striking an Emotional Chord. If you have any stories, experiences or thoughts on podcasts that strike an emotional chord for you — whether you listened to the program or created it — please [...]
Today, twenty campers came from Ottawa, Gatineau, Kingston, Montreal and Guelph for the first, and likely not last, PodCamp Ottawa. They made themselves comfortable on pillows (sitting up and laying down), participated in a lively discussion, ate pizza and collectively raised $200 for the Snowsuit Fund. That’s right. In my books, PodCamp Ottawa was an [...]
The Canadian Government in partnership with the National Arts Centre, and the help of Collectik, launched a new directory of Canadian podcasts earlier this week on their culture.ca website. The directory is available in English and French versions and focuses on podcasts that have a Canadian cultural slant. The definition of culture seems to include [...]
Don’t forget that PodCamp Ottawa happens this coming Sunday (November 25), from 10am to 4pm in the Panorama Room of the National Arts Centre. Be sure to check out our Guiding Principles, then register and volunteer to facilitate a discussion.
I’m a little late in posting this… I was a guest of the fantastic podcast, Inside Home Recording last week. Derek Miller invited me to participate in a discussion about the Zoom H2 portable digital recorder, and others. You can hear our discussion in IHR episode 49… Mp3 version and M4A version.
Seth Godin started a thread (see: Thanks) and Rob Safuto of Awakened Voice picked up on it (see: Losing Your Users). In summary, Seth points out that blog [and podcast] followers give their creators the gift of attention, and Rob follows that up with a thought that ad services are a specific and directed invitation [...]
The latest issue of Podcast User Magazine includes a photo of me, taken by Steve Garfield, as the header for my Defining Moments column. While I submitted the photo as a candidate for the header, I didn’t expect it to run without a credit. More importantly, use of the photo without clearing it with Steve [...]
A few years ago I heard an interview with Stewart Copeland in which he was asked if he missed being on the road. His response went something like this: “When I’m home I miss the road about 10% of the time; when I’m on the road I miss home about 90% of the time.” I [...]
I hopped online to see what’s going on in Ottawa, specifically news of the snowstorm that everyone here in Vancouver is bugging me about. I’m not encouraged by what I saw from the vantage point of the Parliament Hill webcam.
As of this morning, the Petition: Facebook, stop invading my privacy! group has 10,141 members. At some point the group should get the attention of the powers-that-be of Facebook and their advertisers. I have joined the group and signed the associated petition because I can see how Facebook is bending a number of social rules [...]
While uploading to my Flickr account last evening, I had fun labeling some photos I had of Tod Maffin; which leads me to this post in which I identify some of the many different versions of Tod. Collect them all and let me know if you have any others. Urbanite Tod Dapper Tod Vaudeville Tod [...]
Jules and Eisha (pron. I-sha) interviewed and featured me on their amazing blog, Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast. And, as though the interview wasn’t enough, they said some amazingly nice things about me. Last week the light shone on my partner and Just One More Book! co-host, Andrea Ross. 7imp, as it is known, is [...]
Terry O’Reilly, host of the amazing CBC program, The Age of Persuation, announced on his blog a few days ago that season three of the show will hit the airwaves again beginning in January.
This post was drafted during PodCamp Boston 2. My plan was to collect some funny remarks I heard people say and then put them out as a package. I only collected this one quote and I believe it stands quite nicely on its own because it can paint any number of images in your mind. [...]
Airlines can be amazing. On Friday night, the Chicago to Des Moines flight I was on backed out of the gate and stopped a few moments later. We sat for about five or so minutes before the Captain announced that a “little person” had left something of “significant value” in the terminal and “beyond all [...]
It’s funny how much music knows and how it crafts a relevant soundtrack. I’m approaching the middle of an eight-day working trip. I haven’t traveled this much since the fall of 1998 when I spent only three of twelve weeks at home. For the occasion iTunes has been taunting me with tunes including So Far [...]
I’m thumbing this post on my BlackBerry by gate 16 of Ottawa International Airport following the seed of a conversation with Donna Pappacosta on my earlier post about Carbon Copy. No matter your platform, no matter if you’re a hobbyist or professional, how do you protect your electronic data? Which software do you use, if [...]
I just checked the Canadian Podcast Buffet website and see that it is back online. Sorry to our loyal listeners that became anxious when they couldn’t get their fix this morning.
There will be a podcast meetup tonight in Toronto. Here are the details… Toronto Geek Dinner/Podcast Meetup (RSVP in Facebook) Thursday, November 15th at 6:30pm Imperial Public Library (54 Dundas Street E) See you there.
CPB episode 81: Win A Behringer B1 Mic Bring Da King And A Deeper Look At Portable Recorders Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThe Canadian Podcast Buffet website is experiencing some problems today. We have determined the source of the problem and we expect things to be back to normal later today. Thanks to Bill Deys for being the first reponder with a solution to get the latest episode. For your convenience, I’ve added it to this post.
I brought my MacBook Pro to an authorized Mac service depot to upgrade my internal drive from an 80Gb/5400rpm drive to a 200Gb/7200rpm drive. The service I arranged included a cloning of the data of my existing drive to the new drive so that, other than the sudden increase in available disk space and speed, [...]
While most of my back catalog of Electric Sky podcasts make me cringe because of quality issues relating to either me or the audio production (or both), I’m particularly proud of an episode I produced two years ago today: A tribute to Remembrance Day. So, even though it’s a bit cheap to re-release something from [...]
PodCamp Ottawa is a one day UNconference taking place at the National Arts Centre from 10:00am to 4:00pm on Sunday, November 24 25, 2007. The event is intended to take the community back-to-basics and it is doing so with a well defined set of guiding principles: BE SMALL: Attendance will be capped at 80 because [...]
I’ll be in Toronto and Vancouver later this month. During both stops, I will be attending geek dinners/podcast meetups. Toronto Geek Dinner/Podcast Meetup (RSVP in Facebook) Thursday, November 15th at 6:30pm Imperial Public Library (54 Dundas Street E) Vancouver Geek Dinner/Podcast Meetup (RSVP in Upcoming) Monday, November 19th at 6:00pm Steamworks Brewing Co., Gastown location [...]
I’ll be doing a whirlwind bout of travel this month — three destinations in nine days and a full schedule to boot. I did something different with my air travel this time. I followed the link to zerofootprint.net from my airfare confirmation page and bought carbon credits to offset my air travel. I’m not sure [...]
Try as I might, I have not been able to sync my Blackberry’s calendar with my computer for over a week. I’ve even wiped my Blackberry clean and started fresh. Accepting defeat, I decided it was time to call Rogers Wireless for some help and just like it was seven and eight months ago (see [...]
Click To Play play_blip_movie_464549(); play_blip_movie_464549(); PodCamp Boston 2 Through My Eyes is a collage of photos and videos I took at PodCamp Boston 2 (October 26-28, 2007) set to the song Join the Conversation from Matthew Ebel‘s latest CD, Goodbye Planet Earth (released at PodCamp Boston 2).Thanks to everyone who made it a great weekend, [...]
