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Archive for January, 2006

An Intimate Performance

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006 Posted in Music | No Comments »

This weekend I was invited over to my friend’s house to enjoy a “home concert”. The concept behind the event is that the host opens their home to friends and colleagues and invites musicians to perform a show in ...

SF Podcaster Meetup

Thursday, January 26th, 2006 Posted in Podcasts / Podcasting | 1 Comment »

I received an IM the other day from my friend Dave C. over at Libsyn. He told me there would be a podcast meetup going on in the city and that Dave M. from Libsyn was in town to ...

O’Reilly FooCast Podcast Posted

Monday, January 23rd, 2006 Posted in General Media / Stuff, Podcasts / Podcasting, producing | No Comments »

About two months ago I got an email from my friend Jack Herrington asking if I wanted to join him for a podcast session. Since I am always down to work with Jack it was a no brainier. It ...

Technical questions and ramifications of DRM

Friday, January 13th, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff | No Comments »

Here is an interesting list of questions posed by the CEO of a software firm about the legal ramifications of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and how aggressive DRM can affect hardware and software security. Some of the questions may ...

Why does conference call audio suck?

Thursday, January 12th, 2006 Posted in General Media / Stuff | No Comments »

I had a wonderful conversation at my day job today (FS is not my full time job, yet. More on that later this month). One of the things we deal with at the office is routine conference calls. ...

Betamax v2.0?

Friday, January 6th, 2006 Posted in Distribution, Film, General Media / Stuff | No Comments »

Being a self-described technofile I like to keep my eye on new technologies and watch them mature into real products. One of the hot topics that are finally starting to make waves is the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD battle. ...

The Extra Second

Thursday, January 5th, 2006 Posted in Music | No Comments »

There have been a lot of posts, articles, and discussions about the leap second, so I am not going to rehash it. What I do want to do is point out a brilliant little project started by Peter Kirn over ...

Narrowcasting (and why I love it)

Monday, January 2nd, 2006 Posted in Podcasts / Podcasting | No Comments »

Over the holidays I was lazily watching TV and surfing the web on my laptop, talk about being the ultimate couch potato. Anyway, I realized I hadn’t popped over to the iTunes podcast portal in a long time so ...