Category: podcasting
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Listen To Your Kids in the Montreal Gazette
Though Canada.com won’t archive the article, I still feel pretty good about JD Gravenor’s article, Podcasts: Letting parents hear what teens have trouble saying. It focuses on Listen To Your Kids, a project started this year to connect kids with parents. Go give it a read while it’s still online.
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Three Lessons from Podcamp
So I’m in San Francisco right now, chilling in a house we rented with Patrick and a certain girl. The next few days involve recording a podcast and general vacationing, getting together with some Podshow peeps and listeners to the show. Yesterday was Flickr’s 3rd anniversary party, which was super fun. The Podcamp Toronto thing…
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Bum Rush the Charts, people.
This may actually work! Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff launched this meme the other day, Bum Rush the Charts, that’s attempting to send an indie artist to the top of the iTunes charts through a same-day purchase of one track. Here’s the blog in case you wanna follow what’s happening with it. The way I see it,…
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Having epilepsy helps you make friends
Going out to run some errands, but I just wanted to thank everyone for the load of honest, genuine emails I’ve received because of my epilepsy podcast episode. Also, something occurred to me yesterday that I think would be really awesome to do. Considering how huge my collection of podsafe hip hop is, I thought…
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Socks instead of napkins
Yesterday, I had lunch with Justin Evans of Stress Limit Design– otherwise known as the social media company that doesn’t really have a website. For some reason, the restaurant we were eating at, a self-described “atypical French restaurant,” used socks instead of napkins. The food was incredible though– it’s one of those secret out of…
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Listen To Your Kids is live
Listen To Your Kids is a project that I’ve been thinking about it since the Podcast Expo in September of 2006. Today, I am happy to say that I am launching the site. What does it do? Listen To Your Kids connects kids that want to share with parents that want to listen, all through…
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Podcasting’s 10 most under rated
So I’ve been podcasting two years, and I’ve heard a hell of a lot of shows, and been to a pretty decent number of conferences. I’ve met Dawn and Drew, been raped by Madge Weinstein, met and hung out with a fair amount A-listers. But this post isn’t about them. This is about the 10…
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IOYH Dashboard widget
My friend Ray just gave me the best Xmas present EVAR, as is demonstrated elegantly on Chris Penn‘s Mac OS X Dashboard: You know you want one. And yes, it’ll always have the newest episode. 🙂
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BMI shaking down podcasters?
Dave Slusher reports that “[a]t least one podcaster has received email from BMI telling him that he owed them money by ‘airing’ music they collect money for.” Wow, and I really thought I was safe. Dave puts up some really interesting points here – mainly, how likely it is that these people really have no…
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Why I work for Homeless Nation
Homeless Nation is a non-profit organization that focuses on giving a voice to homeless people across the country. As of last Monday, I work for them. Here’s why. First, from the site: There are tens of thousands of homeless people in Canada, with no address, no vote, nameless and faceless, and yet there is almost…