Eric Rice has emerged as on of the cult podcasters/bloggers.
He has even come to Toronto, see Eric Rice :: Video: Toronto Podcasters Meetup.
Audioblog.com: A commercial blogging/podcasting service
Audioblog.com is a commercial video and audio blogging service that are setting things up to make it easy for us to podcast or vblog. They seem to use Flash recorder utilities to make it easy. In the basic service that you get audio clips of up to an hour and 1 Gig of downloads a month (which they say would be 5000 downloads of 1 minute audio clips.)
How long before someone offers this for free?
Make: A Suitcase PC
A suitcase computer? Neat. See www.chriskaufmann.com/suitcase/.
This from the Make:Blog.
First Cellular Phones
The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was one of the first modern cellular phones. It was a brick, but consumers lined up for them in 1984. See the story at CNN.com – First modern cell phone was a true ‘brick’ – Apr 27, 2005.
The new cold-war: Ready.Gov
The Department of the Homeland Security now has a site, Ready.gov to help us ready for biological, chemical and nuclear threats. It is full of wisdom like,
Studies have shown that taking steps to temporary seal off a room using common materials enhances the safety of a room against the impact of a chemical plume. (Ready.gov – FAQ)
Reminds me of the paranoia I grew up with during the cold war. How to prepare for the end of the world. Perhaps that’s the point – a bit of fear goes a long way. Look at the graphics from the ready.com home page. The women looking up to a “ready” man. The Buisness looking confidently at us like the Ready Kids (who are coming soon.)
Ready-to-fear.
So why is the Ad Council advertising Ready.com on the Guardian Unlimited site? That’s where I saw the ad … Is the Department of Homeland Security so insecure they have to advertise in a left-wing UK online news site? Is the Ad Council just randomly buying advertising space? Is someone trying to make fun of Ready.com?
Design: the new business skill
After years of making fun of the arts, it turns out that design skills are the new IQ (Imagination Quotient) for business (and, for that matter, engineering.) From a meeting with Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) folks and from Audrey Carr I have heard about the new Rotman & OCAD collaboration, see The Business of Design.
Griffin iTalk
So I bought a Griffin Technology iTalk – Voice Recorder for iPod. Why you may ask? … Well I want to play with podcasting and it seemed cheaper to get the iTalk for my iPod than to get a separate voice recorder.
Does it work? Well, I’m getting used to it after a bad start. I think I need to get a Lapel Mic and the right set up on my Mac for recording. (Tell me its easier than Engadget describes it!)
Screen Shot of Arabic
From a spam e-mail – this is a screen capture. Rather bizarre effect.
feedmap: a BlogMap for your blog
At feedmap .net (BETA) : Where Blogs Meet Maps I created the following BlogMap,
Wayzgoose 2005: Book Arts in Grimsby
Thanks to a note from Paul Lisson who commented on an earlier post on Letterpress in Hamilton, I went to the 2005 Wayzgoose in the town of Grimsby, Ontario. Delightful event that has been happening for decades. I picked up the 2005 Anthology that has sampling of print signatures of artists and printers. I also met book artists and printers from the area like Will Rueter of Aliquando Press in Dundas. Anyway, I assume it was Rueter.
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