Discovered your podcast recently and really like it so far. The content is great, and the tips are really appreciated.

Oh, and I’m all for the ‘Show a Podcaster some Love’ movement. I think it is a fabulous idea.

Regards from Belgium,

Stefaan

Thanks for the heads up.. It was a typo.. The webinar is one night, for two hours.

I’m going to record the session using the gotomeeting.com software. If the recording works properly, it will be made available only to those who attend the webinar.

Thank you for your encouraging words!

Thanks for all the excellent information you are providing the community. It is really inspiring and encouraging.

Will

You’re absolutely right that I am completely sold on the Edirol R-09 recorder. However, at the same time, I see it as a top of the line option when it comes to portable digital recorders….

When I’m selling audio equipment, I do sell less expensive options like the Zoom H2 and Tascam DR-07 units. It really depends on what people’s budgets are and where their priorities lie, not just in sound quality but also in functionality, ease of use, etc…

For this reason, the “perfect recoder” is different for each person.

But heck… Compared to four years ago… The number of options that we have today are simply AMAZING!

Thanks so much for the feedback on your experience with the Olympus DS-2.

I’m glad to have you as a listener!

Cliff

Enjoying your podcasts. Thanks for all the great info.

Dave Dufour

Thanks!

Wayne

Cliff

Thank you!!

I send the audio from the cd/tape out to the Edirol, but I monitor all the audio sounds through the headphones jack on the mixer.

Note: While I’m monitoring the audio through the mixer headphones jack, I monitor the “LEVELS” of the audio using the VMU disply in the front panel of the Edirol Recorder.

If you are ever in need of purchasing any audio gear or in need of Podcast consulting, please email me at Cliff@Ravenscraft.org or call me at 859-620-2644.

A documentary that might help with religion and gay issues you might want to check out For the Bible Tells Me So – it is an award winning film and it has helped some many people including my own mother and has helped make our relationship so much stronger.

I am a new listener to your shows and I would have to say that you do a great job and I think that any complaints on what you say or how you say it is bunch of crap!

That is about the time that I decided to buy some detailed consulting from you. And now that my WordPress site is all together, I am very pleased at how having everything based off of one easy URL, has made marketing so much easier. Not to mention how easy it easy to make blod/podcast posts, add pages, and so forth.

If I come across anyone online, or in person, that needs the “One Site” concept explained in even more detail, I will refer them to this episode of Podcast Answer Man.

Thanks,

William Kasel
xzapps

1) Hearing your GSPN.tv iPhone App designer, James from Xzapps explain his new offering was cool to listen too. Sure, it is something I can’t afford to pay for his service at this time, but it does get the creative wheels in my head spinning!

2) I agree 100% with your reasons to release all episodes of Podcast Answer Man into the free feeds. I couldn’t put a finger on it at first, but I could sense that Podcast Answer Man is its own separate type of show.

3) Thanks for mentioning my site (http://MediaVoiceOvers.com), along with the other WordPress sites that you helped customize. I am very satisfied with the screen-sharing consultation services that I paid you for!

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So this is just from yesterday… It says I’ll be contacted… We’ll see…

My issue has NOTHING to do with Yahoo Pipes. However, I do know for a fact that my address of /pam for Podcast Answer Man conflicts with an address on the Google System.

Arrgg!!!

I see where you are coming from. As you are an author primarily and you hope to use podcasting to promote the fact that your an author, that makes perfect sense!

For me, I want a majority of my income to come from people who are paying to listen to my podcast audio content. So in the truest sense of the term, I am a podcaster. That is what I want to “be” for a living.

I Facebook, Twitter, I YouTube, I Blog, Video Blog, etc… However, all of those things that I do are to drive people to my podcasts! My podcasts are marketable just as are your books.

You’re an author, I’m a “podcaster” and we can both use “podcasting” and other new media outlets to “build our brands.”

Cliff

I started dipping into the pool of podcasting back in 2006, and I really didn’t know what to expect. I’m probably ill-equipped to comment on this topic, but I did listen to Michael’s interview on Podcast Answer Man #90. I’ll probably listen to it again because there was a LOAD of information.

When I started, I simply thought about all those fake radio shows my cousin and I did with a dual-cassette recorder back in the early Nineties.

Now, I’m looking at following the Scott Sigler model for podcasting. I want to be an author, and I see building an audience through podcasting as the best way for me to go forward. I’m not looking at turning my “New Media” or “Digital Content” creation into a business. When I earn my living, I want to be selling novels.

I think I can see Michael’s point, in that if you define yourself as “I am a Podcaster,” you are narrowing your scope. There is an inherent contradiction, though, as Podcasting was defined by its opposition to broadcasting with the “narrowcasting” concept. Now you almost have to reverse field and broaden people’s perception of you.

For me, I am not defined as a “Podcaster.” Yes I am a Podcaster, but I wouldn’t put it on a business card. I would put author or writer or what have you. Authors have been around for ages. Podcasters only for about five years. I guess I think that the energy we devote to figuring out how to define ourselves only takes away from putting that energy toward doing the work.

Also, thanks for the shout-out Joe. How I came to find Joe, and leave a comment on his Growing A Greener World site, comes from when you first started updating his word press theme site, and you made mention in Twitter that we could follow the progress. Once his site was finished, I wanted to let him know I liked how it turned out. This is also the point where I made the commitment to hire you, Cliff, to consult and tweak the Word Press Revolution Pro Media theme and site I had just purchased.

Thanks again Cliff and Joe!

I’m so sorry to hear that. As a pointer to anyone else who is very concerned about loosing subscribers. It’s a good idea to have a backup site that mirrors the functionality of your current site. That way, when you go to make big changes like this, you have the opportunity to try the changes on a backup or duplicate account before applying changes to your live site.

Unfortunately, Feedburner does not have the same “support” as it did before Google bought them.

@Trevor, I’m glad to hear that it worked for you. I’d be interested in knowing what your feedburner feed was before and what it is now.

If they are relying on the iTunes Re-direct protocol, this will do nothing for those who are subscribed to your old feed with something other than iTunes. However, I revert back to that last quote that they plan to automatically re-direct all feed requests to their new feed for as long as they have the service.

With that said. I can not in good conscious advice anyone at this point to make the switch. I’ll keep you posted as I learn more from the powers that be.

I don’t see any answers in the blogosphere on how to fix it either. And the google site is no help at all.

Have a great day!

Wayne

You’re absolutely right that there’s no reason you need to surrender your password for the sake of an emailed reply service.

I’m getting good results from tweetreplies.com, and all they asked for was Twitter username, and the email where I wanted replies sent.

Thanks for the warning on Twply.

However, the most recent firmware update can be found on the Marantz site. Here’s a direct link to the PMD620 site

http://www.d-mpro.com/users/folder.asp?FolderID=4313

Cliff

I see your post in google group about the pmd620.

I can’t find the update firmware for my PMD620 and marantz doens’t answer me (nor from USA, nor from France).

Could you please mail me (and maybe other people) the update, eventually the ‘how to’ and if you have, the old firmware if you have it and if it allow to recover the first version if any problem.

Do you think now it is a good idea to update ?

Thank you form Marseille, France, Europe

Gilles FOA
gilles@foa.fr

You made some excellent points throughout the program. Actually, everyone on the panel brought up things for me to consider as I move into 2009 with podcasting (or whatever anyone wants to call it).

Praying that you and Stephanie have continued success in the coming years!

Wayne

@JoeLampl & @John – It’s an easy one to fall for. Hopefully some other method of verification can be worked out as mentioned by @RyanPrice above.

@RyanPrice & @R. Alexander Spoerer – I’m totally with you! They need to wake up and smell the coffee!

@KimFenolio – Thanks for the info on another possible service!

A year or so ago I found a site called http://www.TwitterMail.com/ and they do a fine job of keeping me up on my @replies. It’s not as timely as I’d like, but I tend not to miss anything this way. It emails me a daily summary of those who @kFenolio me with the full tweet and other person’s username.

Any site you give your username and password to has full permission to do whatever they want – including change your password. Don’t give out your password to anyone – anywhere – ever. It’s that simple.

Seriously; congratulations on getting Michael Geoghegan to appear on the Podcast Answer Man podcast. It was a great interview to listen to, and Michael did make a ton of excellent points.

However, it is hard for Michael to understand that you go way over-and-above what most “Online Digital Media Providers”/Podcasters do, in that you continually educate your listeners in various ways how they can subscribe and get every episode of as many gspn.tv podcasts as they want. Although Michael is of the opinion that hardly anyone subscribes to more than a couple podcasts anymore, and that most people just go out and hunt-and-peck to find what they want, I find it hard to believe. I don’t want to miss any podcasts from any of the people I subscribe to, so I ALWAYS subscribe. I’m the same way with my DVR, I subscribe to 90% of what my wife and I watch on tv. Now, of course, I may not be the norm, but who knows?

This episode of your “Online Radio Program”/Podcast is a keeper.

Thanks again for all the information that I’ve learned from you in 2008, whether from your free podcasts, your Plus podcasts, the consulting I’ve paid for, and your blogs. Best of luck in 2009, as it should be “awesome”! “No doubt”!

Wayne

I’d like to just touch base on two of your comments.

1) Headphones jack on the Edirol. I use the Edirol recorder every single day. In fact, I have one that goes with me everywhere I go and one in the studio at all times. I have both the original R-09 and the R-09HR…. Both of these recorders work just as great today as the day I bought them. No problems here with the headphones jack and I’ve sold 8x as many Edirols as I have PMD 620’s and no clients have had issues either.

2) The sound quality. I’m very big into the sound of audio. At best, I’d say they sound almost equal.

Other notes…

Don’t forget that the Zoom H2 also has a built in Tripod connector.

With all that said.. I don’t regret selling the Marantz PMD 620 to any of my clients and, in fact, I still have it for sale. However for reasons covered in a number of various episodes, I VERY STRONGLY SUGGEST either the Edirol R-09HR for those who can fit that into their budget and the Zoom H2 for those who can’t.

There is no latency, the auto level control (ALC) works great, the data formats are all correct (as far as I can tell from use in Adobe Audition, Windows media player, Winamp, and various other wav, mp3 players and editing programs.

The noise floor on this unit is very very good and the recording quality is pristine.

I have made several recordings of just me and my Taylor guitar. The recordings were so convincing that my wife thought I was playing when I was I was simply playing back the music on my home system.

The battery life claims of 4 hours are grossly conservative. I use 2200mAhr NiMH rechargeables (that are a year old btw). I get 6 hours from these batteries. I have 2600mAhr AA’s on route. I suspect that one could get as much as 7 hours of recording on a good set of NiMH rechargeables …. that should put a smile on your face.

I have recorded using both the external mic and my PA system line out with everything from the previously mentioned acoustic setting, to my entire band blaring at club levels. Everything came out sounding fantastic.

Marantz support was great and responded to my request for a firmware update in a polite and quick manner. With my update Marantz stated the following:

“Please note, we strongly recommend using Lexar and SanDisk SD and SDHC
cards with the PMD620″

I have a 4Gb SanDisk SDHC headed my way from NewEgg. We will see how it goes

The ability to mount the unit on a tripod (my camera tripod) is perfect. Other recorders require an additional purchase for this.

I researched alot before making this purchase. I compared the Marantz to the Edriol 09HR, The M-Audio Microtrack II, and the Sony PCM-D50.

The Edriol had lower audio quality to my ears, and persistent quality issues with the phone jack breaking.

The M-Audio’s use of a proprietary battery that must be sent back to the manufacturer to be replaced (think iPod esque) removed it from the running despite its good recording quality.

The Sony simply got disqualified because of price. If money were not of any concern, it would have won. I would have missed the MP3 and mono capabilities of the Marantz anyway.

In this price category, it is the best unit presently being made IMHO.

I think your suggestions for Libsyn to revise their support/notification policies are great ideas, that I hope Libsyn will consider implementing asap.

Thanks for sharing your detective-work here in your blog. Wayne

I wanted to let your readers and listeners know that I was so satisfied with the information and guidance that you provided me, that I came back for more! In mid-December, I ordered some additional consulting from you. This time around, I needed some training in how to customize my recently purchased WordPress Pro Media theme, as well as how to set-up Feedburner podcast feeds, etc.

I am pleased with the level of experience, and the willingness to tweak your Podcast/New Media consulting to fit my own particular needs. The screen-sharing process you use Cliff, helped me to understand what you were doing to help me from about 2,000 miles away! The value for the money also saved me well over 40 hours of work, research, and trial-and-error. And as they say, “time is money”!

Thank you yet again Cliff! I won’t hesitate to pay for your Podcast Answer Man consulting services, as the need arises.

Wayne Henderson
Voice Actor and Podcaster

We will be listening, watching, reading, etc.

Wayne

Yes, 3G and Edge are limited to 10 megs…

As for subscribing to a podcast…. You still need iTunes for that. However, you can open the iTunes App, search for your podcast, and then click to download an episode…. But, technically, you are not subscribed to it.

Also, I’ve noticed that if the podcast you’re downloading is larger than a certain amount of memory, you can’t do it over 3G or a cellular network and must connect to WiFi.

I didn’t realize this podcast DL directly to iPhone was a new thing as I just discovered podcasts for myself recently..so I think I know the answer BUT originally I was going to ask if there is a way to subscribe to podcasts directly from the iPhone, so that I don’t have to DL the Wall Street bit manually every morning and I could read it on the subway. Would be nice.

Can’t wait to record a podcast with you in Vegas.
–Steve

Is there any way of setting any of these embedded players with a LIVE STREAM? I have a website KED281,com and I have an ASX, XSPF and M3U file set up. But I can’t st any of these to work with an embedded flash player.
If you feel like trying the files are at:
KED281.com/281.asx
KED281.com/281.m3u
KED281.com/281.xspf
If you it working let me know?????????

Tom

I understand your frustration, and am glad you have your gspn.tv iPhone App available to fill in the gaps.

I guess you won’t be as giddy on the next Help iGot a Mac, as I thought you would be, when I posted in your iPhone 2.2 thread at the gspn.tv forums.

Wayne

Thanks for the great info.

JB

I just got off the phone with Griffin Tech Support.

They have heard about this issue. They said that from everyone they’ve talked to, simply deleting the software and reinstalling it has cleared this up for them.

This does not sound like a fix to me. Especially since it’s happening on two different iPhones that we have.

However, I’ll play along. I’m deleting the iTalk Application off both our iPhones and off iTunes.

I’ll download it via iTunes this time, instead of via the 3G connection over the iPhone.

I’ll keep you posted!

I hope they can track down the root cause of the glitches, because this App’s potential is very exciting!

Wayne

Basically, you dial into the number. You have the other person dial into the number, you press the commands to start recording and their software records the audio of the call.

Don’t want to make your interviewee call in? If you have three way calling, you can call the conference bridge, have it start recording. Put that call on hold, dial the person you’ll be talking to and then conference those calls using three way calling.

Hope this helps!

Podcasting is going strong but one downfall is trying to find the right podcasts to (listen to/watch) in a sea of clutter. There could potentially be some great podcasts out there that I will never find. That’s the only part that bothers me about new media.

Cliff

I’m not sure I understand… As far as I know, the new Revolution Themes ARE FREE! As far as I can tell, you can download any or all of the new themes for free. However, there is simply no “support” available for learning how to get the theme to do what it is supposed to do with “your” content without either 1 year or lifetime support membership. The support “IS OPTIONAL.”

Have a look at this screen capture from the website. Look at the area I highlighted.

Oh well, your blog entry here helped clarify it (especially after I looked all over the RevolutionTwo site for Download links. Their new themes still look cool, but it will be after Christmas before I can look to using them.

I’m glad your blog post spelled things out more clearly than what I was understanding at RevolutionTwo. I’ll have you in mind Cliff, for when I am able to make the jump. Please keep us posted on the Podcast Answer Man podcast when you, or someone you know of, starts using one of these new themes.

Wayne

If I run into troubles, and my budget allows, I will definitely be contacting you to set up one-on-one consulting Cliff!

Wayne

I can’t wait to hear other thoughts on your article Cliff.

Wayne
The “Tuning In With Wayne Henderson” podcasts at http://whpodcast.com

Anne

I’m not saying that no such problem exists. Is it possible that this is occurring with high capacity sd cards? I’ve noticed a few slight issues with those types of cards in many different devices.

Overall, the Marantz PMD 620 is a great unit. However, since the Edirol R-09HR came out, I can not imagine recommending anything but the Edirol in this price range. It is simply amazing!

Some technical information:
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.arts.movies.production.sound/2008-03/msg00862.html

RR

Post was helpful though.

http://next.yahoo.net/archives/32/easylistener

“Easylistener is a Flash music player which can literally play any page on the web. Simply point it at your favorite music blog, RSS feed or playlist document and it will crawl that URL and start playing back any mp3s it finds.”

Also I think the example player is showing the last generated, so be ready for an autoplay.

Cliff, thanks for posting this. Very helpful.

odeo has a darker option. I found searching the web: If you don’t like pink, there is a darker version. You just have to replace _gray with _black in the second line of the code.

http://www.varal.org/media/niftyplayer/ simple player

these are a few of the different ones I’ve seen while searching.

I did this as research for consulting clients. I leave the decision up to them based upon the benefits and drawbacks mentioned.

So, which one did you decide to use based on your original Twitter question?

Peace to your weekend!

-BarbaraKB

Memeo has saved my bacon numerous times. Even a complete hard drive failure on my wife’s machine (although a nuisance) was uneventful data-wise — nothing was lost. Once all of the software and drivers were reinstalled, Memeo restored everything in a matter of 75 minutes. (That sounds like a lot of time, but my wife’s machine has boatloads of music and family photos.)

We have legit copies of Memeo on all our machines — except for my Ubuntu laptop. Rachel, put in a good word with your bosses about coming up with a Linux/Debian/Ubuntu equivalent.

Thanks,

Wayne

Thanks,
Rob Greenlee
Zune Podcast Lead

Too funny!

Thanks
Martin

One is to combine the storage of all the devices so that they show up as one large drive on your Operating System. This option is what I believe Leo was using, but I may be wrong. I do know that on this setting if your RAID card goes down you lose all your data on all the drives.

Another is where you have at least 2 drives (or more) with the exact same storage capacity and they show up on your Operating System as 1 drive with the size of one of the single drives. The reason it only has the space of one of the drives is because it mirrors all the data onto all the drives attached so if one of them goes down or your RAID card goes down you do not lose any data. This is the backup (maybe there are more) setting of RAID. It is basically to keep you safe if one of the drive’s die.

That’s my knowledge of RAID. I’m sure there are other ways that RAID works but those are the 2 I know about. I have an uncle who was using the first setting and lost a bunch of data so now he is using the second one for backup’s.

A true and critical backup should always off site via physically. transporting it or backing up online. The “backups” I have at home or more for opps moments as if my primary hardware goes bad but if my house caught on fire, etc. it wouldn’t make a difference.

I haven’t noticed any of those Jungle Disk issues someone else mentioned. Of course I don’t backup everything via Jungle disk that would take forever and cost more but I do backup about 2-3 gigs worth of stuff. The cost is very minimal but I have always said if you lost your primary copy almost all backup solutions will be a bargain.

Having said this, you can use Drobo’s to achieve data security: you would have to buy two of them, plus two of their Ethernet addons; equip them with roughly equivalent disk space; store them in physically separate locations (so that one disaster cannot destroy both of them) that both have high-speed Internet access (and I do mean high-speed); and then use their web update model to keep both boxes in sync. Expensive, but it is safe.

At home, I am running a server (Windows 2003, but you could use any technology for that). All 3 machines on our network are backed up to that server every night. I keep backup copies of “static” material (e.g. older pictures, the bulk of the mp3 library, etc.) on two sets of DVD’s, one set is kept out of house. The server uses Mozy to run a backup of frequently changing data every night into “the cloud”. I regard this combination as reasonably safe.

RAID systems with redundancy continue working without interruption when one, or sometimes more, disks of the array fail, although they are vulnerable to further failures. When the bad disk is replaced by a new one the array is rebuilt while the system continues to operate normally. Some systems have to be shut down when removing or adding a drive; others support hot swapping, allowing drives to be replaced without powering down. RAID with hot-swap drives is often used in high availability systems, where it is important that the system keeps running as much of the time as possible.
RAID is not a good alternative to backing up data. Data may become damaged or destroyed without harm to the drive(s) on which it is stored. For example, part of the data may be overwritten by a system malfunction; a file may be damaged or deleted by user error or malice and not noticed for days or weeks; and of course the entire array is at risk of catastrophes such as theft, flood, and fire.

RAID was never meant to be a backup solution. It is a solution for redundancy/high availability. RAID (not the same thing as a drobo) keeps things running. Drives are more likely to fail than the data sub-system, IDE, SCSI, SATA. So RAIDs, just keep your data available, not as backup/archives. A drobo is just a way to have lots of room for data. Anyone that things their data is “safe” on a drobo by itself has been mislead. I use JungleDisk, but you can use anything that can be located off site. Tapes, external drives, Iomega Jazz drives (or whatever) are just a part of a smart solution. RAID keeps your data available, backups keep your data secure.

Make copies. Put them somewhere else. Data safe.
Use RAID. Data available.

Also, browsing your files is not all that simple. It uses whacky naming conventions, whereas a piece of software like S3 Bucket Explorer will let you name the fulders/buckets whatever you want.

The problem with S3 Bucket Explorer — as slick as it is — is that it does not provide a drive letter for you to integrate with your backup solution(s). All operations have to be manual…at least for the time being (even though they promised the backup/sync feature back in early 08 and it never happened).

I also have tried Carbonite. It has the flat annual rate going for it, though I suspect that’s a ruse to get new customers and then jack up the price — after all, who’s going to want to back up all their data again once it’s off-site? I have yet to find a software bundle that is not ugly and slow when it comes to recovering your files.

As for JungleDisk, getting that monthly bill from Amazon Web Services can hurt a little bit, but you have to view it as a security investment. I also use SyncBack locally. It sounds like we have pretty much the same setup, Cliff.

Even given all that, I prefer S3 Bucket Explorer since i can just drag a folder and tell it to overwrite all similar files. It works like Windows Explorer, so there’s no learning curve. There’s no whacky 24-character hashes before my folder name.

Good luck!
Jeremy

For the other machines in the house, I’m thinking about getting a time capsule and just letting them use that.

I’m a Mac.

was that really bill gates’ email at the bottom of the screen? Or will some poor secretary get killed with spam?

I’m a PC…. I study genes…. Major laboratories run use PC’s…. Windows servers are powerful…

I’m a PC… I broadcast…. I have affordable and professional sound engineering software programs that are rival that of the MAC equivalent.

I’m a PC… I turn Doooo into energy…. Windows servers are pretty powerful…

I’m a PC… I’m connected to a billion others world-wide… Okay… so are macs, but a strong suit of Windows has been it’s widespread adoption.. I still watch all the tech gadget shows… “There is no mac version available” is still the most used phrase when reviewing new products.

I’m a PC… I’m more affordable!!!!!

I think this is the first step in the right direction for them.

HOWEVER VISTA STILL SUCKS!

Now that I have used both a Mac and a PC, I think the user experience is probably better on a Mac, while the Windows “run on any PC” strategy is its greatest strength and weakness. I did have a horrible experience with Vista installed on a new laptop with the vendor’s added software. When I reinstalled with “plain” Vista Home Premium and just the applications I need, Vista runs like a champ. Too bad the average user doesn’t know how to do that, or want to go through the hassle.

http://gizmodo.com/5051273/how-apple-picks-which-apps-make-it-to-the-app-store

I’m a PC and I run Linux instead of Windows, though.

I just don’t understand this latest rash of horrible decisions made by Apple regarding this type of application – and I wish they would stop making the decision for me if something is useless or not.

I think that the major issue will be what Apple decided to do with what they will do with the Digg and Mobility Today applications. If they decided to keep them, then they are really being hypocritical about the whole process (and we know that they don’t have a problem getting rid of apps that were already in the store). However, if they take those two apps out of the store, then there is less of a case to be made about the GSPN app.

This isn’t to say that I think that Apple is in the right here because I don’t. A pretty big Mac developer, Rogue Amoeba, has had major problems getting into the store as well. The whole situation is quickly becoming a farce.

For the second time in under a week Apple has rejected a Podcasting Application from The Apple App Store. Earlier in the week Cliff Ravencraft of GSPN had his Podcasting Application Rejected from the App Store. Then today the folks over …

I think that Apple wants to release their own app for people to subscribe to podcasts…

But really what apple should have done is listed what applications they would put up on the apps store and the apps they would reject..

Cliff has wasted a lot of money if Apple doesn’t take up the app…

Its enough to make your blood boil

As for being able to side-step, the only way to do it is to push it out on the Jail Broken Community. I’m not comfortable with suggesting people void their warranty just to be able to stream my podcasts.

Beyond podcasters, I imagine there are a TON of applications out there that we are not getting because Apple doesn’t like them.

Just publish some darn guidelines so we can make sure not to throw hundreds and thousands out the window to have the stuff developed. That’s my other main beef.

But I can also see their side. Redundancy can cause some problems in their world. (As it has shown in many many issues with PC). So they may be either trying to avert a future problem, or they have tested things like this and found problems.

But then again, I am just playing devils advocate. You should be able to publish your apps…can you do it any other way? Kinda side step them?

God’s blessings on your future!
Vickie

p.s. I would become a plus member if I could, but right now all of my expenses are going towards school. Keep up the great work & don’t quit because I hope to become a plus member eventually.

Congrats,
Sharon

I bet that you don’t I remember how we found each other.

I started watching the first season of LOST in Octoboer 2005. Around November, I was so intringued with the show that I googled LOST. Your blog showed up and I made a comment to your entry. The rest is history.

My friend, if you need to toot your horns, go for it. You certainly deserve it. You don’t know how proud I am of you. And you know that I am spreding the word out there for you.

Apple folks, if you are reading these comments, please reverse this decision. Cliff co-hosts a Mac user podcast (among the many he produces), and he is a great evangelist for the podcasting movement, which sells iPods and generates traffic to iTunes. Good for Apple’s bottom line!

On the archive page you’ll find even more tutorials all the way to the very basic use of Pixelmator. You can also subscribe to the tutorials on iTunes.

Cliff

Thanks for mentioning Podcasters Across Borders! We’re busy putting the final touches on the sessions and this year’s conference (our 3rd!) promises to be another blast! Registration opens March 15th.

Hope you can join us!

Bob Goyetche
co-founder, Podcasters Across Borders

Thanks for your inspirational talk at Podcamp Nashville.
Just checking out your site, enjoyed hearing your interviews with Mitch and Dave.
Best of Luck!

It sounds like the crowd there really liked what you had to say. Good job, brother!

-Chef Mark

Jason Rakowski

FYI I use the M-Audio Nova and I’ve been very happy with it. I got it on Ebay for around $60. Just food for thought.

I don’t have a recommendation for you just yet. However, I’m waiting for some feedback to come in on some other folks use of their favorite mics and they may have some great feedback with some suggestions for you.

If you find a mic that you are interested in, shoot me an email at Cliff@gspn.tv and I’ll see what price I can get it for you at.

Thanks
Cliff

Clay

I, too, use PodProducer, mix-minus, and the rest. I record with PodProducer and use a Marantz for the backup. I also use a separate UB-802 (the first one I started with) that I bring input in from the “Skype laptop” or the digital hybrid and output to a single input on the bigger Yahmaha mixer. This keeps me from having to make changes for when I do a skype call or a digital hybrid call.

Ditto the rest!

Robin Maiden