Looking for the best route for the first leg next week’s roadtrip (Minneapolis to Rapid City), Jen and I checked out MapQuest and Google Maps and found something very interesting: MapQuest drives across South Dakota at 71 mph Google has the cruise control set at 61 mph
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One as the Ideal Podcast Audience Size
In television and radio, it costs the same to reach 10 people as 10,000 or 10,000,000. In fact, the sunk costs of transmitters and FCC licenses inherently bias toward larger audiences. If everyone within range of your transmitter isn’t paying attention to you, there’s still marketing to be done. On the other hand, the distribution …
My 7 Most Influential Albums
Inspired by Kottke’s list of favorite albums, I offer mine. After looking at the list, I’m surprised at the emerging pattern. Yes, this is roughly in chronological order. Anthrax – I am the Man Take 5 white guys, a simple beat, some dorky lyrics, and hit record. I ate up the DIY attitude and the …
PodcastMN and the iTunes Effect
‘Podcasts get lift from ‘iTunes effect’ in today’s St. Paul Pioneer Press does a nice job of reviewing how iTunes 4.9 impacted the PodcastMN.com podcasters.
Heading for the Mountains – Where Else?
Later this month, Jen and I are taking a quick road trip west to break in the PT Cruiser. We’ll be getting as far as Boulder, CO and swinging through Kansas City, KS on the return trip. I’m itching to see some mountains, and I’ve heard great things about both Boulder and Denver. Outside of …
“America’s waking up to the news”
Out of context, the above statement seems so optimistic. In context, my radio alarm clock offered reports of the London explosions just as I was waking up. Blair’s address from G8 to be precise.
Introducing the WP-iPodCatter Plugin
The WP-iPodCatter plugin help podcasters running WordPress create a valid feed for iTunes’ podcast directory. WP-iPodCatter adds 2 iTunes specific fields to WordPress’s post page; one for itunes:category, and one for itunes:explicit. The zip file also contains a replacement wp-rss2.php file with all the iTunes specific tags in it. Download WP-iPodCatter v0.5 For suggestions, comments, …
We Edit Each Others Media in a Post-Filter World
Previously, I’ve talked about the a Business Model for Abundance and what price means in an age of abundance. Seems like a meme going around. “Soon everything will make it to market and the real opportunity will be in sorting it all out.” – Chris Anderson Yes, I see Attention.xml playing a big role in …
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Giving the Gift of Listening
David Weeks from Peppermint CDs invited me to join him at a talk by David Isay of the StoryCorp project as part of MPR’s Broadcast Journalism breakfast series. It was an amazing way to start the morning. Inspiring. I see StoryCorp and podcasting solving the same problem – getting everyday stories heard. Your family’s stories, …
iTunes, Bringing Back Old Friends
Our CDs, DVDs, and VHS tapes are still in the boxes we packed them in when we moved from Chicago 3 years ago. The other night, Jen and I were trying to figure out the lyrics to Kenny Rogers’ Gambler, so we dug out the boxes. Most of the CDs in our collection went right …