Some of you (okay, only one of you,) questioned my putting my plans for January 3rd 2010 on the feedforward already.
I'm starting in July because these shows have an enormously long tail.
Some people may not pick up this show until December. I wish I was kidding.
My upload stats read like a novel in two dimensions.
One dimension is the monthly total downloads, which seems to be stable.
People come from the web or via iTunes and the web ones come and go, ebb and flow. (That what you get with podcasting. That's not what you want with web streaming...)
The other dimension transverses across the entire history of the podcast and reveals downloads of positively ancient shows. (Since they're not current affair shows, that's okay. [What I find funny is the people who like a show so much they download it multiple times. If they would just use iTunes, this would not be a problem {or cost me multiple times the bandwidth.])
Podcasting might be fine for some messages but its absolute death for others.
If you're running a contest or promoting an event, don't even think of using podcasting unless you're willing to start real, real early.
You'll get people replying long after its all over.
I am getting a lot of hits from people doing Google searches because I have complete show notes (for any listeners out there with cochlear implants, [you know who you are , :-] or on the days I mumble, mutter and chew my words its nice to have written backup.)
What's even more amazing to me is that a lot of those people, the ones who find me through googling, download the show, (even after they've read what I'm about to say and can read the text of everything they're going to hear.)
Creepy isn't it?
Must be that some people want to hear the indie music I pick.
I seem to have some taste and its not just in my mouth.
This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.
I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.
Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]
Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.
It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.
MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.
I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.
I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.
I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.
Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.
The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.
It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.
If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.
There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.
They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.
I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)
I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.
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I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]
The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.
BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of off every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
I am also wondering the role of the internet, this accidental world changer issued forth from the US military as a means of communications that was capable of surviving a nuclear holocaust, as possibly defining a new supra-nation-state class of organization.
Its tantalizing to see the nation-state reactions in the face of recent events in Iran and the attempt of China to have PCs come pre-installed with "filtering" software, ostensively for stopping kiddy porn.
(Give me a break These people sold their children into servitude until Mao Zedong took the country away from the pre revolutionary influences of war and opium. [Yes, Mao used to be the GOOD guy.])
Once filtering software is installed who is going to control it? Not the people who are stuck with it, that's for sure.
The internet, since the creation of the web and its release from its non-profit and military limitations in 1995, (just a little over a dozen years ago,) has become absolutely indispensable to any complex society.
We're not talking about the Taliban and other pathetic psychopathic losers who actually want to turn back the clock about a millennium to make sure that they're in power, (over a bullet-strewn dung-heap, but they'd be on top, for a little while, until they ran out of food or bullets.
[What were the Taliban demanding before "Bush the Lesser/Latter" invaded Afghanistan? FOOD!
The Arabs world wasn't helping him either. They couldn't have cared less about the one eyed hate filled nut-job.
Bush only had to wait a few months and they would have traded Bin Laden in for a "Quarter with Cheese" and a six-pack...
BUT NO!
He had to send in the military to shuffle rubble with bombs and bury the evidence.
{Mullah Omar was a far worse threat to the ideology of a militant Islam than the west ever was.
(Bush was a simpering semi-simian who should have been prevented from running for any office higher than a dog-catcher in some Louisiana parish.)}])
[ Climbs down from soapboxes and gets back to the topic at hand.]
Does the internet make inevitable the emergence of supra-national globe-spanning complex civilization divided, not along arbitrary nation-states but along linguistic barriers.
Organization of people via linguistic affiliation spans the globe.
Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, whatever... This method of aggregating people, and tying them all together with the internet is emerging, inevitably, inexorably.
Because of the nature of technology, the internet and its utter disregard for who's actually using it, means that we MSer are another way of aggregating a subgroup of the world population not merely by language but by interest, in this case, medical interest.
In this case nationalistic division makes absolutely no sense; it runs counter to logic and even to common sense. , (not that I'm claiming that humans ever show much of either.)
The internet is what is making this podcast possible but it is emblematic of the wider range of options and of difficulties.
How do we stop nations and other state apparatus from interfering with health care, (Sticking their fingers into what is not in our interest to let them interfere. [ In fact its not even in their own interest for them to interfere with health care. ])
Obama may think he's got a hard fight but its almost trivial.
Only insure the uninsured and leave the rest alone.
Pretty soon he'll see the employers get the HMOs off of their books in pretty short order.
When its no longer necessary for them to cary all that HR debt, worry and expense, they WONT.
Then we'll have stage one of a world wide health care system.
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