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Back on New Year's Day, Jack Hosley and I sat down on opposite ends of a skype call and this is the result.

I really like how smart Jack made me sound here. Like almost coherent for large portions of the interview.



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I know this only tangentially related to PB but wtf.

Daily drive to deposit spawn at various institutions of public instruction this morning, elder sprout asks:


"Hey, Dad? What's podcast?"

Two minute discourse on audiofiles delivered via rss while the machine (and network) are otherwise unengaged. Minor side talk on "watching television vs watching television show." Yes they're both television, but when one is of the cable or air, it's not the same thing as watch… Continue

I'm running a few days behind on my listening, but y'all should check out this interview with Rick and Anne Stringer on WNDR Radio. The Variant Frequencies group produced the Podiobooks title "The Failed Cities Monologues" and it's cool to hear about this Parsec Award winning effort.

WTG, Rick, and thanks for doing it, Jack.

If you're new to Ning, there's some things that you should know to cut down on the disorientation of coming into a new space.

Ning is a kind of "group blog/discussion list." There's a set of components that we share and a set of components we have in common. The shared resources, we all can contribute to. The common components we each have one of to control.

You have an extented profile which includes a blog space. I'm writing this on my blog and you can follow my profil… Continue

I *like* the idea that there's a place for us to "chat amongst ourselves" as it were and having the fans cross pollinate the conversation might be an interesting addition, too.

I've been on Ning for a while now in the Classroom 2.0 community and it was interesting to watch it grow from nothing to over 4000 members in a year. Some of the features ... like "groups" ... weren't available a year ago, so the platform is definitely evolving.

The downside is that it's "another place… Continue