PodPress 8.8.1 has been released. According to the PodPress listing in the WordPress plugin directory, version 8.8.1 is a maintenance release to make podPress compatible with the post revisions feature introduced in WordPress 2.6.
The artwork on the jacket of a vinyl record always seemed real… substantial. In fact, I remember that some records even included folded posters that could be pinned to your wall. Perhaps I’m stuck in a different time of the music industry, when hair bands and glam rock was more of the mainstream and the [...]
The Association of Jewish Libraries has published the preliminary program for its annual convention which will take place in Chicago this July 5-8. I’m on the program to deliver a session called How I learned about Amazing Jewish Books through Social Media. I’ll be highlighting ways in which Jewish children’s books and their authors and [...]
There are countless ways to produce audio and video programs, each as relevant as the next and I practice many of them on various personal and professional projects. At my core, though, I’m a Content Paleontologist (hat tip: Andrea Ross). And, that was the metaphor at the centre of my Workflow and Creative Process session [...]
In the opening sentence of their article CRTC aims to carve out national identity online, the Globe and Mail’s Grant Robertson and Matt Hartley suggest that the CRTC is working out the details for an arts fund to support the production of Canadian content for the Internet using money levied from Canadian ISPs. Amid fears [...]
You may have heard of Flogs — fake blogs — that siphon other people’s content and claim it as their own. There are many examples of them. Content from various sites I maintain has been a target of Flogs. I learned about one particular site which boasts the tagline “If it’s worth reading, we’ve written [...]
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) parked the discussion of Candian broadcasting in new media as part of an exemption order issued ten years ago. This morning, they began public hearings on the subject. The discussions revolve around six main issues: Defining broadcasting in new media The significance of broadcasting in new media and [...]
Early on in my podcasting career, I established myself as a post-production-media-creator; a producer who relies heavily on editing and production techniques to present and craft content for strong delivery using storytelling styles. It was unusual. At the time, most podcasters were recording their shows from the hip which gave them an edge and energy [...]
Social media services like Twitter have become the new real-time Internet communications channel. Twitter has been used for crisis communications, breaking news, discussions on issues and the promotion of products and services. Companies that adopt Twitter as a communications tool reveal a lot about their commitment to communications and their desire to connect with and [...]
If you follow the Canadian Podcast Buffet, you know that Bob Goyetche and I have gone out of our way to prevent discussions of money on the show since it began. Over the last few months, though, we’ve allowed that topic to trickle in and recently, we promoted what we’ve been calling the Money Episode. [...]
Later today, I’ll pick up my daughters from day care for the last time. We’ve been part of the care community for nearly ten years and decided that the circumstances are right to have our daughters home later in the morning and earlier in the afternoon. A day care is a parent’s boldest move into [...]
The University of Ottawa Torys Technology Law Speaker Series will be hosting a panel discussion on copyright law, fair dealing and fair use for the documentary film community next week. One specific sentence in the session description caught my eye: If properly implemented in practice, the fair dealing doctrine can facilitate access to the raw [...]
The Canadian Institute has assembled an amazing lineup of speakers for their two-day Enhancing Effectiveness and Accountability in Government Communications: Maximizing Online Strategies for the Public Sector conference. I am honoured to be among the “Distinguished Faculty” that includes Mike Kujawski (Best Practices to Market Governmental Services on the Web), Brendan Hodgson (Practical Crisis Communication [...]
I’ve been doing a lot of video editing lately and have become fascinated by the various elements that go into making compelling video and how to take various sound and visual elements and weave them together to tell a story. It was time for me to do more video production. I always need to discover [...]
I’m looking for photos of podcasters doing what they do (recording, editing and mixing) as a backdrop for part of my session Workflow and the Creative Process at PodCamp Toronto. If you’re a podcaster and you have a photo of yourself doing one of these things, please send your photo (or a link to your [...]
It’s amazing the thoughts that go through your head when you’re producing audio projects. As I worked on a project, today, I was transported (for no apparent reason) back to 1995 when Robert Farrell and I were working on demo recordings for what would become his first album. On one particular occasion, we’d decided to [...]
For a couple of reasons, I’ve been speaking with the creators of The Wire, CBC’s award-winning eight-part audio documentary of the impact of electricity on music. The stories and the production ideas that Paolo Pietropaolo, Chris Brookes and Jowi Taylor have shared are the kinds of stories everyone in media production should be hearing — [...]
Around this time of year, Andrea and I celebrate our wedding anniversary. There is a real date, we (that’s right… we… not just me) never seem to remember which date it is — it’s somewhere between the 5th and the 7th of February. The fact that none of our relatives have called to wish us [...]
My daughter asked me how rotary-dial telephones worked “in the olden days”. It brought me back to those big clunky rotary dial telephones of the seventies (white, black and beige) that Bell Canada made their customers use arguing that third-party equipment would damage the telephone lines. Anyway, I found myself demonstrating dialing phone numbers in [...]
