Stacy Bond: Producing For The Ear

If you are a podcaster, you must listen to this podcast!
This Podcast Academy podcast by Stacy Bond from the Portable Media Expo may be the most important podcast for podcasters to listen to that I have heard in a long time. Podcasting is just a way to deliver content. This podcast talks about creating great and compelling audio, how to produce podcasts for the ear.

It is no longer enough to have a podcast to get an audience. There is some great compelling content that you are competing against. You need to listen to this podcast by Stacy Bond the Executive Director of Audioluxe. You need to at least consider what she is saying, even if you choose to ignore it, even if are doing video. This is a great podcast for podcasters, in my opinion. Set aside an hour and listen to it at least once!

My first hole-in-one

Perfection

Ireland

My first trip to Ireland

Final Favorite Thing Vlog: All things bridal

Here is my last vlog. Hope you like it!

We the Media Part III

There are so many details to the internet that one wouldn’t expect a simple thing to be a problem but because of legal issues and the need for companies or individuals to always sue or have conflict with each other. For example, Dan Gillmor at the end of ”We the Media” discusses the issue of Ticketmaster suing Microsoft because “Microsoft’s city-guide company was linking deep into the Tick­etmaster site, straight to the page describing the event, rather than routing people through Ticketmaster’s virtual front door (the homepage).” What i dont’ understand is how free publicity to link to another site (ticketmaster) would cause a problem. Now when someone would like to link to another site on their webpage, they have to think twice about their decision. Why are such small issues blown large than necessary? People (or companies) are too picky and eager to kills our hopes for individual freedom for our actions. A simple linking to a site, will no longer be a simple issues. One should be able to post certain things, such as links, without the worry  for linking to a completely different website they hold no responsibility for.

  (Now websites will have to think twice about links!)

Another topic of freedom is one of as Dan refers to our “cyber-liberty.” One example of online liberties being taken away is China’s filter system. “For example, sev­eral times during 2003, the government of China flipped a switch, figuratively speaking, and indiscriminately turned off access to thousands of weblogs.” That is the government’s way of controlling the source of information that is exchanged in China. That is the equivalent of forbiding people from mentioning certain topic in everyday face to face conversation. And as scary as it may be, China is not the only country censoring their internet. Govenments may have their reasons for censoring, but for the sake of human liberties, people should be able to speak their minds on the internet without restriction.

 What happen to our liberties?

 On a lasting note, my most favorite quote in the final chapter of the book is this:

“The Internet is the most important medium since the printing press.”

We are the writers of the internet for all to see. It is amazing. An open book of everything possible. From blogs to give your own form of voice to the world to a revelation to how the Journalism industry has changed in informing news. It would be so hard to imagine a world without the internet. Dan has showed us that journey of how it works as a medium for us today.

We the Media III

“Some students see no problem with cheating in class. Corporations see cheating as a business tactic.” This quote from the text of We the Media really stuck in my mind after reading it. I do not think that cheating on the web will be a long lasting trend. Like Gilmor said, there are already sites like Google and Turnitin.com that are effective in detecting different types of cheating. I think turnitin.com is fantastic. I had a political science class last spring that used turnitin.com to turn work into. It really forces the person turning in the work to have it be his or her work. Turnitin.com is the best educational website because it detects cheating as well if not better than humans. It also utilizes the power of the web; it connects people through the internet. This is why I think it is above and beyond its time. This to me is what the future holds for classes. More internet active classes, possibly less face to face classes; there might be more “stay at home” class in the future.

You know, I think after reading this book, my favorite part was the epilogue. I like to try and get inside the head of a writer. Gilmor really reflected on this book. I could tell through his writing that he was genuinely sincere in his thanks. It’s so cool that he acknoweldges his first draft of the first chapter, and posting it and getting responses. I’m sure that writing a big book like this one is a humbling experience. It was a trial and error process. You know, see what works and what doesn’t. In my opinion, I thought his book was a quick read becuase it was interesting. I got the most out of real life events that he wrote about and how he correlated them the the focus of each chapter.

Fave Thing: Update News

Check out my post on one of my favorite things, Update News.

We the media 2

What is the differences between a journalist or a blogger? They before report the news, some even have a journalism degree and other even go into the field. I think it is a bite strange how there maybe be bad feeling between the two groups. It is like pride and prejudice, two different ways of news media with different backgrounds in the training. I agree with the fact that major journalist got their rights to be called press because they went through formal schooling with a set bar to meet. But with blogger anyone can post a blog and call themself a journalist.

We The Media Pt III

We tend to be bound by our past, even when we can imagine the future.

Isn’t that an awful truth.  I could write a whole post on that alone but won’t digress.

Reading the last chapters I was almost sad to see it end but then I remembered how in the beginning I was bored and distracted by it.

Anyway… these final chapters left me with a question:

With his decision to post his book online, download for free, and use a “Some Rights Reserved” copyright, how did it all turn out?  Did he still make his estimated profit or did he regret this decision?  Or was it just his publisher that regretted this decision?  I have a hard time seeing how he would still make any amount of sum when it is offered for free.  I hope I am wrong though.