Yesterday I reported that Daniele Rossi (Stuttering is Cool), Melinda Mason (My Marilyn) and I will be on the Friday edition of CBC’s Sounds Like Canada. Unfortunately, we’ve been rescheduled for Monday (June 23).
Daniele Rossi (Stuttering is Cool), Melinda Mason (My Marilyn) and I will be on the Friday edition of CBC’s Sounds Like Canada with current host Kathryn Gretsinger. We’ll be talking about being independent producers of audio content and this weekend’s Podcasters Across Borders conference in Kingston, Ontario.
Turn your radios to CBC Radio 1 this Friday between 10:00am and 11:00am.
Today’s Ottawa Citizen features an article by Kate Heartfield about Just One More Book!!, a children’s book podcast I produce with my wife, Andrea. It’s a great article with only one minor mistake — it was actually Andrea’s idea to merge our two passions of podcasting (me) and children’s books (Andrea) to create what has turned out to be an amazingly fun project we do together.
You can read the online version of the article at Books go global from Glebe Cafe. The print version is in the City section, page D5 D4.
Just One More Book!! has also been interviewed recently for the Kerrville Daily Times (Texas) and Parenting Magazine (article expected in July), and has an interview date with the Canadian Parents magazine podcast in May.
Photo: Pat McGrath, The Ottawa Citizen
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.
Mark Ramsey (Hear2.0) has published a great post (Beware the Insider’s Perspective) in which he challenges radio stations to reconsider their thought process to be outward, not inward, looking. It’s worth a read by anyone (including podcasters) who may be looking for ways to reinvigorate their own projects.
The print edition of Canadian Living magazine’s June issue includes a brief write-up about the Just One More Book! children’s book podcast.
There seems to have been an increase in the number of articles about podcasting in print publications over the last two weeks. As I read the articles, I noticed something common — they have failed to do a complete job in the online editions of the report. They have done so in one of two ways:
Hyperlinking is the foundation of The Web. Indeed, it’s part of the user experience and has become an expectation of everyone using the Internet. Any site that does not offer this core functionality is not just missing the point, it’s doing a disservice to the readers/visitors of that site — fee-based subscribers or the general public.
It’s time for newspapers and other media organizations to update their style guides and reporting policies to require clickable links to all sites mentioned in their articles.
Shannon Proudfoot has written a great article on podcasting for Southam News. The article, which includes quotes from Brian Hogg (dotBoom) and Bob Goyetche (representing the Canadian Podcast Buffet), has been picked up by The Vancouver Sun. Let me know if you find it elsewhere.
Andrea and I were just interviewed by Jennifer of Microsoft Home Magazine. We’ll post details when the article is published.
Everyone who knows me knows that CBC radio’s Ottawa Morning and All In A Day have been my daily staples for several years. In fact, All In A Day served as inspiration for my own Electric Sky Podcast.
At the Montreal Podcast meetup this week, I publicly announced that 2006 was the year in which I abandoned my beloved radio shows. Both have undergone some radical changes in the last year, the most obvious are new hosts with styles that, even after many months, I have not been able to warm up to. This of course means that I have nearly wrapped up my love affair with terrestrial radio.
I remain a subscriber to several CBC Podcasts including The Digital Extra, Quirks and Quarks, Editor’s Choice, Ideas and Ontario This Week - a show that is hosted by the talented Michael Bhardwaj and features highlights of Ottawa Morning, Ontario Today and All In A Day.
Now, if CBC could Podcast Vinyl Cafe and O’Reilly and the Age of Persuasion…
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I served as bass player for various, early, incarnations of the Robert Farrell Band, last performing with Robert in 1997. After a long hiaitus from music to focus on family and a career, I started working on my first CD, real, in 2004 — before I discovered Podcasting.
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