Careers in Podcasting and New Media

Wow! This plugin steps you through the entire process of upgrading your Wordpress installs — from checking and backing up the database to downloading the latest version from Wordpress to putting everything back together. It made my day a whole lot simpler than I ever thought it could be.
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin
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A grand time was had by all as we read A Christmas Carol and sent it out, live, over both Talkshoe.com and uStream.tv. Below is the audio version for your listening pleasure. If you would like to see a partial video if the reading, you can watch it on my uStream.tv page.

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2nd Annual LIVE Reading [...]

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Wishing you a Merry Christmas, a Happy Holidays and the very best for your New Year!
Listen: Silent Night - Performed by Douglas E. Welch

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We writers often kick ourselves when we don’t act on an article idea and someone else beats us to the punch. That said, today’s article in the Los Angeles Times entitled, “Striking writers in talks to launch web start-ups” re-states exactly what I have been telling my WGA-member wife and anyone else who will listen. [...]

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I find myself facing a constant flow of arguments, both online and in person, along these lines…
“Everything on (insert Internet service here) is crap and nothing but idiots jabbering to idiots!”
Comments like this say much more about the commenter, than the actual usefulness of any online service. The commenter doesn’t find something useful so, to [...]

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Instead of my typical holiday guide, this year I present a selection of items that I would love to receive for Christmas. Although I am a big technology hound, I don’t often buy it for myself, so many of these items are sure to remain “wishes” for another year. — Douglas
That doesn’t mean the you [...]

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Wednesday night I spoke at the regular monthly meeting of the Orange County Podcasters on “What’s Next and What Needs to be Next in Podcasting.”
As is typical with podcasters, they were a great group of people and I had a great time, both during the meeting and later at some after-meeting time at the local [...]

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Last night I spoke at the regular monthly meeting of the Orange County Podcasters on “What’s Next and What Needs to be Next in Podcasting.”
As is typical with podcasters, they were a great group of people and I had a great time, both during the meeting and later at some after-meeting time at the local [...]

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Instead of my typical holiday guide, this year I present a selection of items that I would love to receive for Christmas. Although I am a big technology hound, I don’t often buy it for myself, so many of these items are sure to remain “wishes” for another year. — Douglas
That doesn’t mean the you [...]

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I have been playing around with a new, free service called Utterz.com and I quickly realized that it can be used to create an instant podcast by anyone who wants to try a podcast without jumping through a lot of hoops. Here’s what to do:
Create an account at Utterz.com and follow the instructions to connect [...]

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Instead of my typical holiday guide, this year I present a selection of items that I would love to receive for Christmas. Although I am a big technology hound, I don’t often buy it for myself, so many of these items are sure to remain “wishes” for another year. — Douglas
That doesn’t mean the you [...]

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Frank Castaneda had me on his show, The Struggling Entrepreneur, this week. We talk about working as an independent in high-tech, writing and new media.

Struggling Entrepreneur
15- Doug Welch- From Writer to High Tech to New Media Entrepreneur
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In this episode of The Struggling Entrepreneur, we have an interview with Douglas Welch. I had [...]

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Instead of my typical holiday guide, this year I present a selection of items that I would love to receive for Christmas. Although I am a big technology hound, I don’t often buy it for myself, so many of these items are sure to remain “wishes” for another year. — Douglas
That doesn’t mean the you [...]

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Are you or do you know a WGA member who is on strike?
Do you/they want to learn about podcasting, producing and distributing their own work on the Internet. Comment on this post or send email to cip@welchwrite.com to help me put together a free session for WGA members.
I am looking to gather up a [...]

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Come on down to Aliso Viejo and hear me speak on “Podcasting: What’s Next!…and What Needs to be Next!“.
Orange County Podcasters December Meetup
When: Wednesday, December 12 at 6:30PM
Where: Corpus Christi of Aliso Viejo
27231 Aliso Viejo Pkwy
Aliso Viejo CA 92656
You can find complete information on the OC Podcasters web site.
I will be recording both audio and [...]

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Instead of my typical holiday guide, this year I present a selection of items that I would love to receive for Christmas. Although I am a big technology hound, I don’t often buy it for myself, so many of these items are sure to remain “wishes” for another year. — Douglas
That doesn’t mean the you [...]

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Instead of my typical holiday guide, this year I present a selection of items that I would love to receive for Christmas. Although I am a big technology hound, I don’t often buy it for myself, so many of these items are sure to remain “wishes” for another year. — Douglas
That doesn’t mean the you [...]

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Instead of my typical holiday guide, this year I present a selection of items that I would love to receive for Christmas. Although I am a big technology hound, I don’t often buy it for myself, so many of these items are sure to remain “wishes” for another year. — Douglas
That doesn’t mean the you [...]

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Problogger points to this web site which allows you to gain some more stats from your Feedburner feed data. Averages, monthly trends and more. Don’t ask questions you don’t want to really know the answer to, though. You may not want to see that negative trend in your data. Use at your own risk! (SMILE)
A [...]

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