Tag: Podcasting

  • Hold music interviewed and podcast!

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    I had a podcast interview lined up for today with David Hayden of Jeteye. He didn’t show, so I spent 17 minutes listening to the hold music on the conference call. I had taken time to prepare for the interview and made room in my schedule today when he postponed last week hours before the…

  • Any questions for Thomas Hawk?

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    Thomas Hawk is an investment advisor in a non technology related field but it is not for that that he is known. Tom is far better known as a digital media and technology enthusiast – specifically, Tom is extremely well known for the photographs he uploads to Flickr. Tom posts several photos a day, all…

  • Podcasting partnership

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    Ed Byrne sent me a mail a few days ago to let me know about an rft (request for tender) on the Irish Government’s procurement website etenders.ie. Ed sent it to me because the rft is for a Podcasting Pilot for the East border region and Ed is aware of my significant involvement in Podcasting.…

  • Any questions for DL Byron?

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    D.L. Byron is an inventor, author, the Principal of Textura Design, now he is evangelizing Standards-based design. An entrepreneur and an inventor, he also consults with clients, co-founded the Blog Business Summit, and publishes a network of successful blogs, including Boeing’s (one of the first business blogs). I’m interviewing D.L. over Skype this week (day…

  • Congratulations Robert

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    Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s most prominent blogger is leaving Microsoft to join John Furrier’s PodTech.net. Robert himself has said that I love Microsoft and Microsoft did not lose me — at least as a supporter and friend. I am not throwing away my Tablet PC or my Xbox or my other Microsoft stuff So his departure…

  • Almost interactive podcasts on Waxxi

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    I tried to join in on Waxxi’s interactive podcast of a discussion with Robert Scoble and Shel Israel today. I signed up to join in the podcast very early on (long before Mike Arrington blogged about Waxxi). I received my email with instructions on the number to dial and I dialled the number at the…

  • Why doesn't PodZinger provide transcriptions back to the podcasters?

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    Tom Raftery
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    PodZinger is a search engine for (audio and video) podcasts. It listens to the audio content of podcasts, transcribes the content and makes it searchable. This is quite a useful service because transcribing podcasts manually would take waaaay too long. I published an interview I conducted with Alex Laats, president of PodZinger, yesterday on the…

  • GarageBand 3.0.2 update – are they watching me?

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    Apple announced an update to GarageBand 3.0.2 – this update: addresses issues with video handling, podcast exporting, and importing QuickTime markers. It also addresses a number of other minor issues. This is amazingly co-incidental timing. I run a podcast for IT@Cork and this morning, when I was trying to edit one particular podcast which I…