03.31.07
Posted in Music, Podcast Reviews, Raves
at 10:51 am
I went to a concert last night. Not my usual low-budget bar-crawl, but a real show in a real concert hall - Rockwell Hall at Buffalo State College.
I saw Roger McGuinn, best known as a founder of The Byrds, although that seems so inadequate a way of describing his talent and influence on modern music. (Even though my wife didn’t know who he was…) I have been wanting to see him for a while now. He played the same venue a year or so ago, but I couldn’t get clear to go. Read the rest of this entry »
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03.29.07
Posted in Rants, Tech Stuff
at 3:14 pm
I have a cell phone. Actually, I’ve had several cell phones. It’s a love-hate relationship.
First of all, it’s something I only marginally need. I got along fine without one for probably 45 years. I still go out and forget to carry it with me, even though it’s not even the size of a pack of cigarettes. I go forever without getting a call on mine and when I do it’s 50-50% that it’s a wrong number. Read the rest of this entry »
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03.20.07
Posted in Tech Stuff, Website
at 10:15 pm
I upgraded the software on this site today. Both Wordpress and Podpress are now up-to-date. I recently did the same to my podcast site.
Okay, so the blog software is updated, but why Podpress? Why podcast support in a blog the rarely has audio content? Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Music, Podcast Reviews, Rants, Tech Stuff
at 9:42 pm
Recently, the Copyright Royalty Board set new rates for internet radio to pay to play music. Acting in a way that greatly benefits the Recording Industry, who must be rubbing their hands together in glee right now counting their profits, they set them so high it will make streaming radio on the internet prohibitively expensive for even the largest entities. Even large new media outlets like NPR, AOL Radio and Live 365 are threatened by this.
Here’s what one blog, Linux Journal had to say:
In a move that recalls the Vogons’ decision to destroy Earth to clear the way for a highway bypass through space (a thankfully fictional premise of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy), the judges comprising the Copyright Royalty Board have decided to destroy the Internet radio industry so the Recording Industry won’t be inconvenienced by something it doesn’t know, like or understand.
Read more about this and how you can take action against it:
Save Our Internet Radio
Save The Streams
At this point the only possibility is to persuade our government to change this action. Contact your Senator and Representatives and tell them you don’t want internet radio to be priced out of existence.
How this affects podcasts isn’t clear, but you can bet they will either try to apply this to it, or come up with something just as bad soon.
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Posted in Tech Stuff
at 7:24 pm
I’ve been hearing about this Web 2.0 for about a year now. No one seemed to be able to really define what it is, though. It finally dawned on me one day after all the new cool stuff (that’s a technical term…) I’ve been seeing for the web. Read the rest of this entry »
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03.18.07
Posted in Podcast Reviews, Raves, Tech Stuff
at 6:42 pm
I went to a conference - actually, an un-conference - a couple weeks ago in Toronto about podcasting. It was called Podcamp Toronto and was held at Ryerson University right in downtown Toronto.
I had a great time, of course. I’ve always liked Toronto ever since our days in high school when my class went there for a class trip. We liked it so much, we went twice, two different years. We went to Crystal Beach one other year, and I don’t remember the fourth, so Canada in general was pretty popular.
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03.12.07
Posted in Rants, Tech Stuff
at 6:44 pm
It’s been a long time since I wrote anything here. I’m not on a schedule or anything, but some activity might be nice.
So for the three people who read this (I have no idea of the number - BTW, but I know my sister reads it … ) here’s what has been going on. Read the rest of this entry »
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