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Monday, November 14, 2005

New comment line phone number

The deal with K7.net: Use it or lose it. That’s what I learned after I got an email comment from Bryan Person, who tried to call the comment line but got a notice that it was inactive. When I logged into my account to reactivate it, K7.net assigned a new phone number. I guess I’ll have to call the line once a month if nobody else does, just to keep it active! In any case, here’s the new number: 206.222.2803. Somebody call and leave a comment just so we know it works.

Posted by shel on 11/14 at 03:58 PM
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Friday, September 09, 2005

Podcasts for Katrina relief efforts

As part of our discussion about Hurricane Katrina in show #66 yesterday of For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, Shel and I discussed an initiative by Podshow that enables podcasters to promote and offer appeal messages for supporting disaster relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina.

If you visit the Podshow Cares page, you’ll find close to 60 (as I write this) recorded appeals from podcasters.

Shortly after finishing our show yesterday, Shel and I recorded an appeal message. We talk about the online places to make your donation regardless of the continent you’re on or the currency you use.

This was a true no-brainer for us to do so we can add our voices to the collective voice of podcasters around the world who want to help.

If you’re a podcaster and would like to use any of the podcaster appeal messages in your podcast, feel free to do so. If you’d like a copy of ours, it’s a 700Kb MP3 file, about 1:40, and you can directly download it here.

Every little will help.

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Posted by neville on 09/09 at 01:55 AM
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Thursday, August 04, 2005

Direct audience engagement with live podcasting

Today’s edition of For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, show #56, will be a little out of the ordinary.

The show will be recorded live from a McGraw-Hill internal conference taking place in New York at which Shel is presenting. I’m in Amsterdam as usual and Shel and I will be connecting via Skype as usual.

What’s different is that the show will be, in effect, the presentation that Shel will be making to a live audience in New York City, with me here in Amsterdam participating remotely. We’ll have active audience involvement during the presentation and discussion. Indeed, the audience will be part of the show - the most direct audience engagement for a podcast.

We’ll be doing the show at about 6.30pm GMT today, a bit later than we normally do. As a result, show notes won’t be posted until tomorrow morning. The show MP3, though, will be online today so if you subscribe to the RSS feed, you’ll get the show automatically as usual.

Yet more experimentation!

[UPDATE 9pm GMT] The show is recorded and now available. If you subscribe to the RSS feed or via iTunes, you’ll receive it automatically. If you’d like to download it directly, here’s the link:

Show #56 - direct download (MP3, 24Mb).

Show notes will be posted here during Friday morning GMT. There will be a PowerPoint presentation to accompany the podcast; a download link will be in the show notes.

Posted by neville on 08/04 at 06:33 AM
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Monday, July 25, 2005

Production Challenges

Production has been a bit of a challenge with today’s edition of The Hobson & Holtz Report, show #53.

Not especially because I was doing it this time rather than Shel; no, more to do with using an audio recording and editing application with which I’m not yet fully familiar. So doing things like clicking on a button or icon to answer the question “I wonder if the sound improves if I do this…” definitely was not a good idea today.

The application in question is Adobe Audition 1.5 for Windows. Excellent program, without doubt. But my unfamiliarity with it meant that producing the final MP3 file has taken much longer than usual with some major fixing needed during the process plus, in the end, some essential correcting work with good old trusty Audacity.

Anyway, finalizing the show MP3 file is a bit delayed, sorry to say. It will be up on the server as soon as possible, and if you subscribe to the RSS feed, you’ll get it automatically.

The usual detailed show notes will be published here, also as soon as possible.

Posted by neville on 07/25 at 10:57 AM
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Did I say Flash?

I mispoke in #51. In discussing the RSS newsreader BlogBridge, I’m pretty sure I said it was a Flash application. It’s not; it’s a Java app. Sorry about that.

Posted by shel on 07/19 at 05:13 PM
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

iTunes issues

We don’t know why, but Apple’s iTunes is grabbing the wrong shows. If you subscribe to “For Immediate Release” through iTunes, you could get just about anything. One subscriber got the last show (#48), another got #47, another got the Siemens interview. Subscriptions through other podcatching software is all working just fine. If you didn’t get show #49, you can download it from the “For Immediate Release” blog or subscribe through an alternative podcatcher. In the meantime we’re in touch with Apple to see if we can figure out what’s up.

UPDATE: This appears to be fixed. I’ve downloaded the correct show three times in a row from iTunes.

Posted by shel on 07/12 at 02:07 PM
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Thursday, July 07, 2005

FIR #48 is up and Neville is safe

“For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report” show #48 is available for download now. Show notes will be up on Friday, July 8. It took Neville longer to get back from London than he anticipated for reasons that should be obvious. You can read about his experience during and following the attack, and even listen to an audio file he recorded on his way to Heathrow, over on his blog.

Posted by shel on 07/07 at 03:29 PM
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