Sun - July 17, 2005

Soul Provider live at West Seattle Street Festival 


I'll break from voice for this podcast and present some music. I said I wouldn't do music because of the RIAA problems with copyright, but this music slides right past the RIAA. The West Seattle Junction Street Festival has one great feature which sets it somewhat apart from the other, great, street festivals here in Seattle - on Saturday night from 8:00 pm to midnight - there's always a great band on stage in the middle of California Avenue SW and the music is always jamming because it's "Dancing in the Street" time. For four hours several hundred residents, kids included, gather in the street and dance, wear blinking LEDs on their bodies and generally jam in one giant community blow-out. This is a 27-minute presentation of this year's music by the Seattle soul and funk band "Soul Provider." The band is comprised of very accomplished musicians and they've been providing what they call a "sensational soul funk revue" for quite a few years now. The band has a large number of MP3s on their download page coupled with the fact that this capture is in a public setting gives me the feeling that there won't be any RIAA concerns. Enjoy - the recording is pretty good and definitely captures the live, jive, feeling of the night.


 

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Sun - July 10, 2005

Podcast Mechanics 


In this 9 minute audio exposition I explain how my podcasts are created. The essay is applicable to anyone using Windows, Macintosh or Linux (or any BSD or *nix system with appropriate shareware or open source libraries). The methodology I use is more complicated than necessary because I'm recording the audio while walking which requires a bit of editing to remove pauses and hard breaths (I'm climbing hills while talking). This was recorded on Friday, July 8, 2005.


 

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Sat - July 9, 2005

Nicknames 


This is a 23-minute audio exposition on the theme of nicknames. We Americans will take any name and shorten it. Some of these nicknames we come up with are for our cities and regions and others impact us in various ways. I explore a variety of these nicknames and comment on the general effects of this ubiquitous domestic approach to "naming" things, places, companies and people.


 

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Fri - July 1, 2005

Radio Free Redmond 


This is the fourth in what will be a continuing series of podcasts - audio-to-go - from me as commentator. This one merely cites the name change and gives a little background on what has driven me to want to "talk" and be such a media geek. It's five minutes (5:13) and represents probably the shortest MP3 I'll likely publish.


 

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Tue - June 28, 2005

Seattle Monorail Project's Plan and Finance Approach 


This is a 16-minute audio discussion about the finance plan and total cost of ownership of the proposed Seattle Monorail Green Line. Recorded Tuesday, June 28, 2005.


 

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Fri - June 24, 2005

Macintosh with Intel Inside 


What's up with this - or perhaps more to the point - what does it mean? This is a 14-minute audio discussion about the changes to the Mac hardware compliment involving a trade-out of the IBM/Motorola-Freestyle PowerPC chip for an as-yet-identified Intel chip. Recorded Saturday, June 24, 2005.


 

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Thu - June 23, 2005

Seattle Housing Market Bubble - yes or no? 


This is a 10-minute audio discussion about whether or not there is a housing market price bubble about to burst here in Seattle. Recorded Thursday, June 23, 2005.


 

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