Careers in New Media and Podcasting

TA: Street Politics and Tahrir Square Thinking Allowed BBC Radio 4 Street Politics: protests, policing, revolution and just getting about – Leif Jerram and John Clarke discuss how the geography of cities have contributed to the development of society. Laurie also talks to Jeffrey Alenxander about ‘perfoming’ the… 28:12 4/7/11 5:18 AM Entrepreneurs Can Be [...]

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I produced this video for my “A Gardener’s Notebook” blog and podcast and thought I would share the results of this New Media project here, as well. – Douglas Douglas E. Welch from A Gardener’s Notebook visits Tomatomania 2011 in Encino, California. He interviews Scott Daigre, organizer of Tomoatomania at a dozen locations across the [...]

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Woolly Mammoths For Sale Stuff To Blow Your Mind HowStuffWorks.com You haven’t misread the title; rest assured that woolly mammoths are still extinct. However, there are several scientists trying revive mammoths — and they might just succeed. Tune in to learn more about mammoth cloning. Phil Gerbyshak on Twitterworks – Part 2 The Bigg Success [...]

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!You may have noticed my recent posting series, “Recently Listened Podcasts“. Each week I collect the list of shows I have listened to (or watched, for video shows) and place that in my blog with links back to iTunes. As someone interested in New Media, may I ask you to do the same on your [...]

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# 5 Podcasting for Dummies Although podcasting is entering its 6th year, there are still new people discovering it every day. If you are interested in diving into the nuts and bolts of podcasting, and new media in general, you would do well to look to the second edition of what was one of the [...]

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# 4 Blue Microphones Snowball USB Microphone This is one of the first microphones I recommend to anyone looking to begin audio podcasting or looking for a step up in the audio for their video podcasts. As a USB microphone, it doesn’t require a mixing board or cables to use. You simply connect it to [...]

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed My friend, Michael Lawshe, from Eclipse-1 Media hosts an annual live reading of Halloween and spooky stories. A recording of this year’s show is now available for your listening pleasure. Everyone in the Welch Family took turns reading a variety of stories from the witches of [...]

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# 2 Flip UltraHD Video Camera The Flip Cameras are an excellent way for anyone to get started making their own videos for YouTube, Facebook or their own web site. Its small size makes it easy to carry in your pocket or bag so you can pull it out at a moment’s notice. This is [...]

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This article recently appeared on LearningSolutions.com in advance of my presentation in their Online Forums. — Douglas New Media’s Fundamental Place in e-Learning By Douglas E. Welch September 30, 2010 “One of the most striking aspects of New Media is how much you can do inexpensively, even for free. As you move forward you might [...]

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View all my photos of this event on Flickr I attended this very nice event at Shutters at the Beach in Santa Monica sponsored by Bakespace.com, POM and Fiji Water. They served a POM Cosmo cocktail and some wonderful hors d’oeuvres. It great to chat with some dedicated foodie and New Media folks. I love [...]

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Podcasters and other new media folks can always use some good music for their audio and video projects. If you aren’t a musician, have friends who are, or can’t afford a lot of money to license music, Incompetech can offer you some nice, royalty-free music. They have music in a variety of styles and moods [...]

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Update: I got to try viewing this post on an iPad and, sure enough, it allows for the embedded video to play right in the page, much like we see every other video. Very cool! In this blog post, A New Way To Embed YouTube Videos, YouTube announced testing of new EMBED codes for your [...]

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Location is hot in the technology world lately. As new services are created and achieve some sort of traction it is always a good idea to try each one. You never know how useful any particular service might be, especially until you give it a try. Recently, both Foursquare and Google Places (originally Google Local) [...]

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If you use Google’s Feedburner service for managing the RSS feeds for your blogs and podcasts, you may, or may not, know that Feedburner also provides email subscriptions to your RSS feeds. Some people prefer email to RSS, so they might be more comfortable receiving your blog updates in their inbox. You can turn on [...]

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I have been blogging for a long time, even before there were any blogging services to help out with the process. I used to edit a text file that automatically loaded into my home page in an early proto-blog experiment. When Blogger.com came along, I took too it immediately. It simplified things a lot and [...]

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Yesterday I posted a note to my gardening blog, A Gardener’s Notebook, announcing that I had started a Twitter feed for the blog and the shared items I find using Google Reader. One of the first comments I received on the post talked about feeling overwhelmed at “having” to follow this social media service and [...]

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Here is a list of the Top 10 Posts from Careers in New Media. Back up your WordPress Database or lose it Audio: Douglas talks WordPress on Small Business Hosting podcast Overcoming New Media Misconceptions Video: State of the Music Industry Panel Discussion – Feb 9, 2009 New: Zoom Q3: Flip Video-type camera with better [...]

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Tracy Pattin of Voicebank.net’s VoiceRegistry blog and podcast talked with me about our recent live reading of A Christmas Carol for her voice actor readers. This is Part 1 or 2. A Live Internet Reading of “A Christmas Carol” On Sunday last, New Media Interchange Founder Douglas E. Welch, held his 4th Annual LIVE Reading [...]

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(Update 12/19/2009 – 1341 PST – Received links on how to export and import database into new 5.0 version of the database. Working with some knowledgeable others to help me do the process.) (Update 12/19/2009 – 1024 PST – Looks as if my main database is still in mySQL 4.0 format although GoDaddy support 5.0. [...]

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