Cool sounding atmospheric track with dark bass and ghost piano.

Dark track with heavy beats and synths.

Trippy beats with rhodes piano, mandolin and various instruments. One for late nights.

Hopefully this song won't make you go to sleep. Synth bass led track.

A first ever attempt at drum 'n' bass music. It lacks wobble but that's okay. Featuring sufficiently fast beats per minute and an appropriate song name.

Come with me if you wanna live. Shifty beats, dark bass and atmospherics.

Trippy beats, glockenspiel, synths and low down bass.

Sad sounding song with big beats, synths and sine waves.

From The Economist’s moving and evocative obituary of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who died on May 18th: AS HE rubbed the horses down in the bitter cold and slush of the Eastern Front in 1943, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, then 18, sang songs into their ears. Brahms’s “Four Serious Songs”, perhaps, or a Bach cantata, both of which he […]

I didn’t have the bandwidth to learn another piece of music, but my friend Loren did. Or perhaps I just felt shy about singing for a webcam and uploading it to Youtube. It consists of 3746 videos from 73 countries, and will be mastered for installations at venues across the world with HD video and […]

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Tony Award-winning Passion, the musical of romantic obsession, will return to New York City in 2013 in the intimate setting of Classic Stage Company’s 199-seat home in the East Village, the not-for-profit company announced on Jan. 13. Tony Award winner John Doyle — who gave fresh life to Company and […]

http://youtu.be/SKVcQnyEIT8

A beautiful animated film about books, filmed at Type Books in Toronto.

This is a picture I took of Lisi Tribble and Ken Russell when he appeared at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s “Russellmania,” their comprehensive retrospective of his work (July 2010). The Russells and Vanessa Redgrave did a post film Q&A at the screening of “The Devils.” Russell passed away yesterday. You can read Shade Rupe’s eulogy of Ken […]

Illustration by Jonathan Mak

Tenor Salvatore Licitra dies at 43.

I do a lot of reading during my commute, using my iTouch and Instapaper. It’s a great way to “clip” an article or text to read offline. I’m also loving the stories I find through Longreads, which highlights the best long form stories on the web. A few stories which I’ve found interesting: Sing for […]

Are on Tumblr - not organized, just videos, links and a few paragraphs here and there.

Quote :: Audacity had automatically formatted the sound in a file type unique to the program. It took some maneuvering to convert the file to MP3, the industry standard. I had to download a small file so that Audacity could handle the task.After that, I was set and transferred to file to the Web.Three minutes later, my podcast was on podblaze.com. I coerced a friend in New York to listen, just to

Thoughts ==> I'm actually putting together two podcasts today - one on how I traced my steps to find out how I ended up in iTunes without having submitted, and another to talk about what the benefits of podcasting are for business. It's great when you're doing your research and find that someone already explained a point better than you ever could on three hours of sleep. :-D Clip ==> "What

Clip ==> "In addition to the prominent placement on Apple's home page, podcasts have a major place in Apple's iPod marketing. They are calling iPods 'podcast ready'. The iPod photo page mentions podcasts at least five times."Thoughts ==> Awwwww. Podlove.Link ==> Podcasting News: Podcasters Featured on Apple Home Page.PS- Don't forget to come by FreeTrafficTip.com tonight for a fresh podcast from

Thoughts ==> Here's another great place to ping when you podcast, complete with resources. Hopefully Pingomatic and Feedburner will support this soon. Link ==> Freshpodcasts.com.

Clip ==> "Loudblog is a sleek and easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for publishing audio content on the web. It automatically generates a skinnable website and an RSS-Feed for Podcasting. Just upload your audio files, add some notes and links, and you’re done!" Thoughts ==> Pretty slick. Link ==> Loudblog.

Clip ==> Basic Set Up1) Launch Audio Hijack Pro and create a new session.2) Select Audio Device in the first popup menu of the Input tab.3) Set the Input Device to the appropriate device, your microphone. You'll also want to set an Output Device, either a pair headphones (to avoid feedback) or Silence Output.4) Now, adjust the settings in the Recording tab as you desire. For a talk program, an

PodcastDesign.com makes podcasts so you don't have to - seens a great idea for people who have the knowledge but not the time- though you may have to wait until they have more time for you: "The HTML was written, the pages were formed, and the site was FTPd. It then took less than 2 hours for David Lawrence, the founder and lead podcast designer for PodcastDesign.com (http://

I saw this at MacDevCenter.com: last week, a tips article on recording a podcast, focusing on turning interviews into podcasts in particular. Here's a quote. : "Podcasting could be seen as just another way to push audio to people who want to listen to it, but it's really a unique combination of subscription and publication.My stumbling block? Turning interviews into podcasts using entirely

This is a quote from an article on Bling Blang Blog: Infinity Broadcasting Launches KYOURADIO, the World's First Podcasting Radio Station, on Monday, May 16: "KYOURADIO's content will be created exclusively by its listeners and available in San Francisco at 1550 KYCY-AM and streamed online at http://www.kyouradio.com/ beginning on Monday, May 16.Infinity is one of the largest major-market radio

According to the AP Wire release on Mercury News: "The move by Sirius comes just days after Viacom Inc.'s Infinity Broadcasting unit said it would convert a struggling talk radio station in San Francisco to an all-podcast format. The show, which Sirius was expected to formally announce on Monday, will begin broadcasting weekdays on May 13. It will be hosted by Adam Curry, the former MTV

Not only has Infinity Broadcasting, owner of a huge network of radio stations, become a podcasting pioneer with its podcast-dedicated station. Not only are the podcasts it gets a hold of broadcast on AM radio.YOU can submit your podcast for airing at their site. You have to register for free at their site, then according to their website, you can upload any of the following formats - this is

Call it laziness. Call it busy-ness. (As opposed to busi-ness. Which is actually true... I love words...) But as much as I love to produce audio posts (which stems from back in the days of my poetry site, circa 1999-2003), it takes way too long to really do it well. Once a week I can commit myself to doing a full-fledged radio broadcast on some type of a continuous basis. But most of the time

Intruiguing concept that would automatically promote your podcast to its 1500 subscribers - you send five minutes of content to the address on the OpenPodcast.org homepage. I haven't had the chance to listen to it yet, so I wouldn't suggest sending in talk format... in fact I'd suggest you have a listen before you send anything. Here's a quote from the site. "OpenPodcast.org is a dynamically

According to msmobiles.com: "For the first time Microsoft officially recognizes Podcasting and offers Podcasting channel for MEDC 2005 ! While Symbian and Nokia are still oblivious to podcasting, Microsoft already offers it. " So much for the podcast backlash. Read the rest of the article - Microsoft starts podcasting:

Podbus.com - Podcast / Audioblog /Web Hosting: "At Podbus.com, we're here to provide you with an easy and inexpensive way to host your podcasts. For only $4 per month (less than a really good cup of coffee!), we provide you with 300 MB of space and a lot of bandwidth. There's no advertising to get in your way and all you need to do is upload your podcast to your own podbus virtual server -

Instead of trying to explain Podcasting to your audience, for a donation of $50, you could distribute this tool with your podcasts pre-loaded. Branded already. Great, great tool... when I'm done with my review I'll let you know. It's a great idea - thanks to the cats at the Internet Warriors forum for putting the word out about it.

Bill Edwards teaches you How to create streaming video on his homestead site. I can dig it...

I know I haven't been around much... I was sick all of March and the top of April. But I'm back with a bunch of free resources. Today we can start with Podscribe, which my good buddy TL Pierce of How to Blog for Fun and Profit turned me on to. The place is called Podscribe. When you reach maximum absorption go to their links page - tons of great stuff.

Interesting News from Search Engine Watch... : "Now, according to a news release, TVEyes technology will begin keyword indexing audio and video podcasts via a site called Podscope. The release doesn't mention precisely when the service will be available and the Podscope.com site currently says the service is 'coming soon.' Podcasters are also able to submit url(s) for crawling." Read the whole

Bonnie of http://www.developmentseed.org/ writes:"Today at 5pm on channel 4, NBC news will air a story on podcasting in the District featuring interviews from local listeners and podcasters.Eric Gundersen, a web designer at Development Seed (http://www.developmentseed.org/) will show how you can download andplay podcasts from your computer or MP3 player and play clips from his favorite podcasts.

What's a codec? " Short for compressor/decompressor, a codec is any technology for compressing and decompressing data. Codecs can be implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of both. Some popular codecs for computer video include MPEG, Indeo and Cinepak" from http://www.xilinx.com/publications/glossary.htmSo if you are having trouble translating a version of video that you created,

If your file is for non-commerical purposes, (free to distribute) you can have your files hosted by the Internet Archive for free. Once you create an account, you can use FTP or the Creative Commons CC Publisher. I'll have a video that shows the process up soon.

Podcasting News: Podcast Doubles NPR Show's Online Audience: "CyberJournalist.net reports that podcasting has doubled the number of online listeners WNYC's On the Media reaches, in just four weeks."Another example of what podcasting can do for your business. I'll have the free ebook on podcasting coming out in a few weeks, so make sure you're subscribed to the feed for updates.

I meant this to be one of my first posts on podcasting, but I guess I have some kind of bump to my head. With Audioblog.com, you can do a professional grade audio post of longer than five minutes (up to an hour by phone) for $5 a month or $50 a year. I can definitely dig that.

Why Personalize?

So Where Do We Start?

Software Considerations

Ways to Personalize

Times are tight. Though you may have found an online training program that will teach you the skills you need to get to the next level in your career or at your company, your boss may not want to pay for the training. With so many companies cutting their budgets and freezing spending, not many managers are open to what they see as "unnecessary" spending for employee training.