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You Have to Hustle
There’s this great Steve Martin bit from Saturday Night Live, where he tells you how to be a millionaire, and never pay taxes. “First.. get a million dollars.“ And how do you create a successful and...
View ArticleDifferent Advice on Starting
One of the scarier parts of podcasting is getting started. There are a ton of questions people want answered before they even begin to record their first show. Most of them have to do with technical...
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Guerilla Podcasting: How To Put Your Voice Out There, Fast
To podcast, you have to set up a website, get your RSS feed in order, set up a podcasting plugin (if you are using WordPress, which I recommend you do), get your artwork together, submit your first...
View ArticleRedefining Pod Geek
When Pod Geek started, my first thought was to run it like a business. I would have a schedule for posting certain things, offer advice and tutorials, and talk about the craft of podcasting. But that...
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Tutorial: Combining Audio Devices in Macs
This is going to be for the Mac users, so if you are a PC user, sorry. This functionality is exclusive to Macs (as far as I know, but I will investigate). Lets say you started out your podcasting...
View ArticleMust Listen – Joe Frank: Old Man
Must Listen is a place for me to put things I heard that I really enjoyed. The title says it all. Unfictional is a show from KCRW. As they say: UnFictional is a program of storytellers and...
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Mark Ramsey’s Idea Festival for Radio
If you love podcasting or radio, or both, you should be reading Mark Ramsey. Hands down, there isn’t a guy I know of working harder to turn radio into a content provider and “save” the medium more...
View ArticleMust Listen: Ivy and Work
I’m putting together a few posts about NPR’s Bryant Park Project, whose closing was almost five years ago. I’m fascinated by their decision to shut it down, and where it fit in NPR’s landscape, as...
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Two Upgrades I Won’t Be Buying
Just a few days ago, Avid announced an upgrade to their Pro Tools software, from version 10 to version 11. The main selling point is that it works faster and more efficiently, and that you can bounce...
View ArticleMust Listen: Dan Benjamin on Podcasting
Dan Benjamin owns and runs the 5By5 podcast network, which focuses mostly on technology . His network has been around since 2009, and is his full time gig. When he talks about podcasting, you should...
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The Big Ask: Would You Listen?
Sometimes, it’s the simple questions that have the biggest impact. The ones you think about asking yourself, but maybe aren’t sure you are going to like the answer. So this is The Big Ask. Sometimes...
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Splitting Audio in Audacity Is Easier
I use Audacity, the free multitrack audio editor, for one thing and one thing only: splitting stereo files (I described the process here). So I don’t often look at new versions when they come out. If...
View ArticleDigital Audio Doesn’t Stair Step (video)
If you look at the way analog audio is converted to digital audio, you would be forgiven in thinking that the conversion back to analog would lead to a stair stepping effect. Analog audio is sampled...
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Being Anonymous
For the first few years of my hockey blog, I was anonymous. It was a conscious choice on my part, because of some of the silliness and vitriol I saw around the hockey blogosphere. I wanted a degree...
View ArticleThe Reset
You may not know what it is by name, but if you’ve listened to radio, you’ve heard it. It’s a staple of talk radio, and comes up a lot in music radio as well. You should know what it is, and why you...
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Why You Should (Maybe) Buy a USB Microphone
This is going to be a little painful for me to write. A few years ago, I wrote that you shouldn’t buy a USB microphone. I laid out my case, and I even left a few reasons out, for fear of sounding like...
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The Worst Podcast I Ever Made
Sometimes, a bad idea seems so good at the time. Something easy and silly or just plain dumb hits you and you think, “I can do that. I can’t see any reason that shouldn’t succeed.” And sometimes the...
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Must Listen: TLDR
A little over five years ago, NPR cancelled it’s experimental show, The Bryant Park Project, after only ten months. They poured a lot of money into it, and it’s now considered a cautionary tale of...
View ArticleTutorial: Editing Audio in Logic
Several months ago, I took a class from Coursera.org called Introduction to Music Production, offered by Berklee College of Music. It was a fairly basic course, but it was nice to get a certificate...
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What I Learned From Letterman
Photo Credit: Alan Light via Compfight cc I am not much of a late night TV person, but I was on a bit of a Craig Ferguson kick for a while. When you have a job that doesn’t get you home until 11pm,...
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