Month: October 2006

“Statistically Nobody is Listening to Your Podcast”

“…at the beginning of the year Feedburner had 1 million subscriptions to podcasts it helped deliver. That number has now grown to 5 million subscribers for 71,000 podcasts. For you math fans, that means the average podcast has … 70 subscribers. – Frank Barnako” (emphasis mine.) 70 is a great number. It’s not a number […]

Severe Cold Alert

Monday night, I stopped by the Target cold and flu aisle on the way home from the Emerging Digerati presentation. I’m thankful that cold remedy makers put they symptoms on the box front; body ache, sore throat, fever, headache. Tuesday, all the symptoms were turned up to 11. The few conversations I had, were hastily […]

Shure is Quiet in Here: A Review of the E2c-n Sound Isolating Earphones

Noticing I get more work done with headphones on and music drowning out the rest of the world, I picked up a pair of Shure E2c-n Sound Isolating Earphones – thinking I wouldn’t need the music up so loud. I don’t know how I could have handled airplane travel without them. The rest of the […]

First Crack 85. Jeremy Messersmith Talking about the Alcatrez Kid

Here’s my long-awaited conversation with Jeremy Messersmith talking about his new album, the Alcatraz Kid ($13.00 PayPal, City Pages review, Pulse review), and playing a couple of the songs of from it – two of my favorites (Day Job, Snow Day) and one of Jeremy’s (Great Times). Listen to Jeremy Messersmith Talking about the Alcatrez […]