Archive for December, 2004

Is this thing on?

Friday, December 31st, 2004

I finally had a chance to sit down and play with my new audio set-up today.
The MXL vocal condenser mic sounds great. The sound board works wonderfully and I’m really just overjoyed at the quality of gear I got for such low prices (thanks for the help Dan!).
In fact, I have a 5 minute clip […]

iTunes: 80 cent tracks

Wednesday, December 29th, 2004

In case you’ve missed it, Amazon has a great deal - buy 4 $15 itunes cards - get 5th card free - so in essence you get 75 tracks for $60 bucks. It ends 1/2/05 so hurry.
I’m not a huge fan of pay-to-download music. I prefer to buy CDs and rip them or download […]

It’s better than bad it’s BLOG

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004

Freewheeling bloggers can boost your product—or destroy it. Either way, they’ve become a force business can’t afford to ignore.

A few notes for FORTUNE:

When you mention a blog, link it for crying out loud
NewsGator gets a mention in the paragraph about RSS (no mention of ATOM), not BlogLines (the most popular feed reader).
Ummm… links again. Mena’s […]

johnny staccato

Thursday, December 23rd, 2004

He’s smooth on the ivories, hot on the trigger and cool in a jam…
His real name is Jeremy Messersmith and he is a pretty dang good song writer and musician. Head over to GarageBand.com and listen to Novicane (make sure to rate it!).
If you like it, download a bunch more tracks from JohnnyStaccato.com. While you’re […]

Radio/Podcasting Tips

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004

Transom- A Showcase & Workshop for New Public Radio
Made for public radio, but has great tips and tools from gear to techniques to inspiration. Submit your work and possibly get on NPR.
Radio Diaries: handbook
Written for “audio journalers” but the tips apply to anyone doing their own audio show. I know PodCasting is supposed to […]

TechTV Video Clip

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

My binary converter has been on TechTV twice. I just found a video clip of the second mention.
It’s so cool so see my little web site on TV. Wow.
What started as a joke now gets me 2000 visitors a day and pays for my web hosting many times over (thank you Google!).
You can watch […]