Careers in New Media and Podcasting

Wow, this is great news. Audacity has long been the goto audio app for Windows-based podcasters and others who wanted a capable audio editing environment. That said, it has had some stability problems over the years and has been slow to update. The crash recovery mode alone is worth the upgrade. You could recover from [...]

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed   A recording of our live show from February 12, 2012… Reaching Across the Distance – Love Letters for Valentine’s Day 2012 Listen to “Reaching Across the Distance – Love Letters for Valentine’s Day 2012″ Podcast A Live look at Love Letters and Poems Through History [...]

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Israel Hyman has been producing great video technique tips for years. I met him a couple of times at PodCampAZ and he is a great guy. Take a moment to visit his site, Izzy Video. There is a huge amount of information there to help you improve the quality of your videos. Learn how to [...]

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If you have an extra $2k to spend, and need to do some Chromakey video work, this is a really cool system. The video below outlines how it works and gives some excellent examples. It is portable and isn’t effected greatly by additional ambient light sources. One of those things that sort of has to [...]

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TASCAM iXZ Mic / Instrument input for iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch Want to turn your iPad or iPhone into a portable recording studio, the Tascam iXZ can do just that. This interface allows you to plug in standard XLR connector microphones, guitars or any other audio source and then record them using iPhone and [...]

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed On Thursday, January 26, 2012, I spoke to Janet Wilcox’s UCLA Extension class, Pursuing a Career in Voice Overs. I talked about New Media and the need for students to develop their voice over careers in non-traditional ways, as the industry changes. 71 Minutes Listen to [...]

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MicW Professional Microphones I had 2 separate friends mention these iPhone/iPad compatible microphones in the last several days. Both saw them at the manufacturers display at the MacWorld Expo that was held in San Francisco this week. Portable devices are now capable of recording high quality audio, but sometimes you want a better mic, or [...]

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I am so amazed it has taken this long for something like this to occur. I figured back in 2004 that podcasting would break open the media industry and provide a lot more alternatives to traditional, but media, programming. As they say, though, it can take a long time to turn a battleship. It is [...]

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed The Podcast Community on Facebook has come together this season to record an audio version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This reading is based on an edited version of the story created by Dickens himself for his own live readings. Wishing you a Merry Christmas [...]

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I had a great time moderating the panel “Tips on Creating and Distributing Mouthwatering Multimedia Content” and spending the entire day at Techmunch food blogger conference on Friday. We were talking about the technical aspects of creating multimedia content for food blogs. There were lots of great questions and some great answers from the panel. [...]

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Following my successful founding of CareerCampLA and CareerCampSCV, I am moving forward with another unconference idea I have had for a while — MediaCampLA. This unconference will focus on New Media of all sorts including online video sharing sites, podcasting and social media like Facebook, Twitter and more. I have attended many New Media conferences [...]

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My friend, and fellow Friends in Tech Member, Steve Riekeberg recently launched a new podcast about podcasting. If you are looking for great introductory information into the world of podcasting, this is a great place to start. — Douglas Podcast Perspective is the podcast about everything podcasting and new media, bringing practical tips, tools, and [...]

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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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Steve wears overalls + What’s This Food? : GardenFork Radio GardenFork Radio – Eric Rochow Steve from the Born To Farm podcast and the Farm Cast Network joins us to talk about blogging with WordPress and making your own podcast, and Daniel Delaney of What’s This Food joins us to talk about how to cook [...]

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Here are a collection of podcasts that I listened to, or watched, lately. TA: Men’s Health and Brazilian Cosmetic Surgery 28:03 BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed 2/11/11 6:02 PM 99% Invisible-09- 99% Private 4:30 Roman Mars 99% Invisible 2/11/11 5:33 PM 99% Invisible-13- Maps 4:30 Roman Mars 99% Invisible 2/11/11 5:26 PM 99% Invisible-08- 99% [...]

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Here are a few podcasts I have listened to today — Douglas Tim O’Reilly on Language as a Map 6:11 Brady Forrest Ignite Ola Helland on Getting One Million Giraffes 5:44 Brady Forrest Ignite AHOW: 085 Reformation Centenary Broadsheet 1 Oct 2010 13:51 BBC Radio 4 A History of the World in 100 Objects IOT: [...]

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The first step is documenting your audience and the amount of traffic your podcast attracts. With this information, you will be able to develop a press kit which you can use to approach potential sponsors. They will want to know that you are speaking to their potential buyers on a regular basis. ?Gathering demographic info [...]

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#13 PS-101 Proscreen Pop Filter If you are going to be “working” the microphone for your podcast — perhaps one of the mics mentioned earlier in the gift guide, you are going to want a pop filter to got along with it. These shields of material or metal break up the air from your “plosives” [...]

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# 7 GoPro HD HERO Camera – Wearable 1080p HD Video and Still Photo Camera My friend, Ric Turner, introduced me to this HD camera. It is specially designed for capturing your outdoor adventures in full 1080p HD glory. It comes with a waterproof casing and it can stand up to some extreme abuse. There [...]

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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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