Al's Blog-o-Sphere

Amateur Radio operators are usually early adopters of technology. It’s little wonder, they work with technology in their hobby, they must be interested – inquisitive, even – about it. So, it’s no surprise to see them in podcasting. No, actually, it’s surprising how long it took! Continue Reading…

That was the announcement today at the long-idle Vinyl Podcast site. The once-popular podcast is a victim of overzealous application of copyright collections. Continue Reading…

I’ve been seeing a trend recently where it seems like every musician has to have their own podcast.

Now many do put together a real fan podcast. Liz Phair. Great Big Sea. The Lavicious Biddies. Probably many more and they are neat podcasts for their fans.

They Might Be Giants have been putting out songs that are either unreleased or special topics for their podcast. They’ve been utilizing every form of internet promotion known to geek for quite a while now.

But the trend I’m seeing is musicians who put individual songs out as podcasts. No commentary, no new information, just a lower quality version of what is on their CD. The same thing they do (or should be doing) from their website. Continue Reading…

One of my goals as a podcaster is to find ways of playing music that is different from what every other podcast is playing. Many podcasters are working from the same pool of available music, the Podsafe Music Network, and end up repeating the same songs. Continue Reading…