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The Ottawa Podcast and New Media October Meetup

October 18, 2007 in new media, podcasts | No comments

The second meeting in a new season of meetups organized by the indefatigable Mark Blevis. ‘Looking forward to hearing Jeff Parks speak tonight, and having a pint. I don’t get out much.

When: Thursday, October 18, 2007, 7:00 PM
Where: Clock Tower Brew Pub
Guest speaker: Jeff Parks

Presentation: Pay It Forward - Mentoring and Podcasting
Jeff will discuss his philosophy on mentoring and podcasting, and how this approach can be a model of behaviour for business and government around the concept of “community”.

[event link]

NACOcast interview at Polyphonic.org

May 21, 2007 in internet, music, new media, podcasts | No comments

Ann Drinan interviewed Chris Millard and me a few weeks ago on the subject of the NACOcast and other the NAC Orchestra electronic outreach initiatives. The article now appears at Polyphonic.org, “the orchestra musician forum”, a great site for lovers as well as players of orchestral music:

Orchestras are constantly exploring new technologies that can enhance the audience’s appreciation of their concerts, from multi-media concert experiences and digital program notes to new web experiences. Since February 2006, the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa Canada has been producing bi-monthly 30-minute podcasts featuring their upcoming programs.

Full article

NAC Podcasts badge

May 11, 2007 in podcasts, web | 2 comments

NAC PodcastsNow that we’re producing more than a few podcast series, with a good number of episodes in each feed, it’s time to promote our podcast offerings at every opportunity. To that end we need to come up with an NAC Podcasts logo, or “badge” as they say, that clearly conveys a URL, the ‘product’, and works at all kinds of sizes and resolutions right down to a tiny icon at the bottom of a print ad.

Here’s our leading contender for the job. It’s a vamp on an older design by our friend Jaywest. Is it apparent that NACPodcasts.ca is a URL? Your feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Get your Walt Whitman via RSS

May 9, 2007 in itunes, podcasts, spoken word, web | No comments

LibriVox has added a really cool new feature. You can now download chapters of their public domain audio recordings via an RSS feed; Meaning you can easily grab Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, for example, by clicking on the RSS link, or even the Subscribe in iTunes link — The files will automagically be moved to iTunes or your podcatcher of choice. Neat-o.

Chris Millard posts in The Post

April 19, 2007 in internet, music, podcasts | No comments

Christopher Millard, host of the NACOcast, is this week’s guest diarist in the National Post and today’s entry is on orchestras using new media, with a nice plug for the NACOcast.

Musicians are thinking about how to reach audiences with new technologies. As orchestras bring archival recordings to their web sites, the choices for music lovers will explode. Serving listeners good content at their convenience is central to the concept. But listener- controlled programming should not be a duplication of content available elsewhere. We need to offer performances that touch people more intimately. For example, my podcast this week (www.nac.ca/nacocast) features a chat with violinist James Ehnes about his Stradivarius.

‘Cheque’s in the mail, Chris.

link: full article

An iTunes wishlist one item long

April 10, 2007 in apple, itunes, podcasts | 4 comments

Hello, Apple?

Please, please, please let iTunes use .Mac sync services (formerly iSync) to synchronize podcast subscriptions across multiple machines. Individual podcast episode’s “new/not new” status should also be synced.

Isn’t this a no-brainer?

Bob Lefsetz

March 29, 2007 in music, podcasts, web | No comments

Bob Lefsetz is a pop music industry analyst who’s been writing his Lefsetz Letter for 20 years. Whether your a fan or not, he’s always worth reading.

Lefsetz can talk knowledgeably about pop music from Loggins & Messina to Fugazi and back. He’s got opinions on the industry you wouldn’t expect from someone with his background and experience (I didn’t say age), certainly not what you’d expect on DRM or on file sharing. He’s passionate about his music and it’s always fun to hear him get in lather over a seminal album in his weekly Rhinocast segment [RSS] for Rhino Records.

This week on his blog, Bob’s taking on the music industry’s broken economic model and making some excellent points on free music.

I’m positively stunned at the blowback from business regulars about that chap giving his music away for free. Oldsters can’t understand the economics!

I’ll clue you in, THERE ARE NONE!

This is your worst nightmare. People who can follow their dream on sweat equity. Who with their computer and the money from their day job or mommy and daddy can compete with you. It’s like the North Vietnamese, all our military might couldn’t defeat individuals who would fight to the death. Same deal in Iraq.

link: full article
Bob Lefsetz on CBC’s The Hour: full interview

CBC bolsters podcast offerings

March 26, 2007 in podcasts, radio | 1 comment

From Tod Maffin’s Todbits blog:

Next week, CBC Radio will add new podcasts and increase the frequency of shows available to listeners. Starting Monday, April 2, CBC Radio will add 12 new podcasts. In addition, the flagship network programs The Current, Sounds Like Canada and As It Happens will move from weekly to daily highlight podcasts.

It’s encouraging to see our national broadcaster embrace podcasting as it’s done. Hats off to Tod for his efforts on that front.

Link: full post
Link: CBC Radio podcasts

Is the end nigh for Internet radio?

March 14, 2007 in internet, music, podcasts, radio | 1 comment

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Jason Fry outlined last week’s ruling by the US Copyright Royalty Board which proposed new performance royalty rates for online radio stations.

An online radio station would pay .08 cent per song per listener for 2006 (the rates are retroactive), .11 cent in 2007, .14 in 2008, .18 cents in 2009 and .19 cents in 2010. Seems like little enough, but it adds up — and this small change is a big change for small Webcasters. Under a deal brokered in 2002, small Webcasters had met their royalty obligations by paying artists and record labels 12% of revenue, but the new rules would do away with that exemption.

These rates would in effect kill Internet radio. For services like Pandora and “indie” stations like Radio Paradise, fees would surpass revenues. The ruling would also affect terrestrial radio stations that simulcast on the net as well as XM/Sirius satellite radio. Podcasters now operating under the ASCAP/BMI podcast licenses would also have new fees heaped on. The issue can be traced back to … The Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, natch.

This is not a done deal and Internet stations and listeners are preparing to fight the ruling.

Full WSJ article: here
Computerworld article: here

Ira Glass on storytelling

March 7, 2007 in diversions, internet, podcasts, radio, video | No comments

I’m huge fan of Ira Glass. I could listen to This American Life for days on end, no problem. And now that TAL is available as a podcast, I’m planning to do just that this summer [rss]

Here are four short videos of Ira Glass on storytelling courtesy of Your Daily Awesome, awesome in its own right.

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