Friday, December 28, 2007

msb-0241 Relating and Connecting

msb-0241 Relating and Connecting

intro

Feedback comes first, so...

Welcome back "Jaime". [ http://mymsjournal.blogspot.com/ ]

I'm glad to count you amongst my audience of podcatchers out there.

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This is the last 'cast of 2007 (I'm taking New Year's Eve off,) and its an ending of sorts, of types, of a class for me.

I am now engaged in making a success of this podcast and levering open the marketing minds of the world to the possibilities of connecting one to one the people who are looking for a market and the people in that market.

I am stopping wasting my skills and my thirty year long efforts at trying to get others in my old profession, IT, to even see what they are looking at.

Maybe I'll have more luck with the companies that are doing things for MSers.

---- "Tait-Relate" by: "Fresh Music" http://www.freshmusic.co.za/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
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This just in, and I agree with [name withheld].

If you wanna learn how the learn how the record bizness works (as opposed to the music business) you have "got" to check out "Before the Music Dies" [ http://www.beforethemusicdies.com/ ].

From the web site:
"Narrated by Academy Award® Winner Forest Whitaker, BEFORE THE MUSIC DIES is an unsettling and inspiring look at today’s popular music industry featuring interviews and performances by Erykah Badu, Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews, Branford Marsalis, ?uestlove and a wide variety of others. The documentary film has built a passionate following as “the most important film a music fan will ever see” (XM Radio) by providing “a balanced overview of the state of the rock scene of America” (The Wall Street Journal) and adding “passion to the eternal debate about the industry” (The New York Times).

Last year, BEFORE THE MUSIC DIES filmmakers Andrew Shapter and Joel Rasmussen walked away from traditional Hollywood distribution to instead pursue a large-scale grassroots release with B-Side Entertainment. Since its release in November 2006, the film has screened over 200 times in over 130 North American markets with hundreds of additional events anticipated worldwide during 2007. Use this site to learn more about the film, where you can see it, ways you can own it, and - most importantly - how you can get involved in sharing it with others.
"
They have a page where you can buy the documentary.

Its was a bit of a struggle but I downloaded it and have watched it

Its really worth it.

Right on and thanks [name withheld].

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Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

And I would apreciate if someone could write a review of this podcast on iTunes [ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 ] You can just select the link and, eventually, scroll down the iTunes page to "Customer Reviews"

---- "vapor_pressure_relationships" by: "terrychilders" http://rippyfest.com/terrychildersatemybrain

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"

---- "NEW RELATIONS" by: "the Black Beauties" http://theblackbeauties.net/

"Thesis:"

Its a time for ending old things and starting new things.

I am referring to my old profession, toiling in the fields of IT, and my new profession, playing at, with and for podcasting.

---- "connecting" by: "MAXFIELD" http://www.clashuk.com/cometomaxfield

"Synthesis:"

Part of trowing over the past is to get it out of my sight.

Let me get this out of the way:
"The power of computing is being choked off by the failure of its practitioners on the software end to recognize what the universe is truly comprised of: "Objects" answering a few basic questions ("who, what, where, when, why" ) and "Relationships" and instantiated by "Connections".

The limitation of object oriented computing, and the failure to take advantage of the multiple threading available in high power computing hardware, is due to the failure of imagination which repeatedly embeds objects inside of other objects when they should be dealing with the externalized concepts and implementation of "Relationships" between simple objects and "Connections" between instances of the simple objects.

Computing will remain a failure of accelerating encumbrance, hitting the metaphorical wall, until its practitioners successfully answer this question:

"What is a wall?"

There...

Its over.

I'm done.

If they ever wake up, they can go suck an egg and leave me the fuck alone.

I've left enough clues along the way."
Now, let me get on to "Podcasting".

There are several reasons why it does and will continue work, both as a concept, and in reality.

Its uses the same thing that computing "in the cloud" uses: "The Internet".

This legacy from the "Military Industrial Complex" of "Eisenhower"'s era is having unforeseen consequences; bushels and pecks of unforeseen consequences.

By threading through a tortuous path, we arrive at the internet in its present shape, its present topology: unknown in dimensions but pervasive in its influence.

It connects things, like us MSers, and unites us in our purposes, those myriad disparate things that join us in our needs, those needs that we all share.

---- "Steel Away - Spiritually Connected" by: "Wade Austin" http://luv-productions.com/

"Conclusion:"

Its an time for ending old things and starting new things.

I'm no longer looking back. Not even wistfully. I heard the door slam.

I am breaking with the past, making a shift and cleaving from the shackles of past expectations and those ties that bound, and gagged, me.

"Hello podcasting!"

I'd really rather make a success of "it" than fail at IT, (sorry but its a pun that only works when written down, and only in English too, [which IT thinks it knows, and, in stark reality, is failing to see what is glaringly obvious.])

---- "Connected" by: "Psykosoul" http://www.myspace.com/psykosoulmusic

Outro

Ahh... Wait 'till next year. :-)

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

msb-0240 Boxing Day

msb-0240 Boxing Day

intro

Feedback comes first, so...

Damn but I'm saddened by Oscar Peterson's passing.

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This sort of belongs in YOUR Feed Forward section.

I've been going back over my most downloaded episodes, which is a kind of feedback I guess, and, dang if I didn't have some kick-ass music on those shows.

I sounded like crap but the music was great.

Apart for that, Nuttin' yet...

---- "Tin Sardine Box" by: "Jordan Ogg" http://myspace.com/jordanogg

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

And I would apreciate if someone could write a review of this podcast on iTunes [ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 ] You can just select the link and, eventually, scroll down the iTunes page to "Customer Reviews"

---- "The Boxer" by: "Carbon Leaf" http://www.carbonleaf.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"

---- "chocolate box" by: "Played all the wrong games" http://www.myspace.com/playedallthewronggames

"Thesis:"

"Boxing day" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day ] is an interesting holiday.

It began in England.
"The term originates in Victorian era Britain, for the day after Christmas, when the rich would box up gifts and bring them to the poor. The Christmas carol Good King Wenceslas sings about giving gifts of flesh, wine, and pine logs to a poor man on St. Stephen's Day.

The term also refers to the fact that children traditionally opened their money-boxes on this day to access the money they had received over the Christmas period."

---- "A Box" by: "Eddie Ramirez" http://www.eddie-ramirez.com/

"Synthesis:"

What started as a Victorian attempt at assuaging the conscience of the rich by making a token gesture towards the rest of the world, which they had firmly under the thumb of an iron glove, must seem old fashioned and quaint, now that the locus and focus of world power has shifted across the Atlantic.

I wonder: Are we better or wiser than they were?

Perhaps, it goes back to Saturnalia, the ancient Roman holidays from December 17-23 which celebrated the festival of Saturn, at the end of the vintage and harvesting, with feasting and unrestrained merrymaking.

They exchanged presents and offered sacrifices. Masters served their slaves as a token of the equality of rank and the lack of class distinctions during the golden age (which was supposedly ruled over by Saturn).

In this season of mirth and merriment, I find my lips strangely unsmiling and my heart unsettled.

---- "Black Box" by: "Nervosa" http://www.myspace.com/nerv0sa


"Conclusion:"

Christmas has always been a strange time of year for me and people like me.

You see us at the doors or the windows of stores holding Boxing Day sales, or whatever the US equivalent is, gazing at the throng inside and shaking our heads, partly in disbelief and partly in bemusement at the feverish acts of greed, lust, unselfish pleasure and the host of other motivations being consummated inside.

Christmas leaves me staring at my fellow man in wonder.

---- "i cant do anything with a box" by: "the other chris hardy" http://www.theotherchrishardy.com/

Outro

Is my melancholy an aberration, a passing cloud in the azure sky of my mind, a temporary wisp of smoke, a moment in time, or is it a reflection of my soul?

Am I looking up to the night skies from the surface of a lake or am I floating face down staring unblinking at the inky depths?

Does it really matter?

Life goes on ... until it doesn't.

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

msb-0239 Mery Merry

msb-0239 Merry Merry

intro

---- "Christmas Here on Mars" by: "Bubble" http://www.planetbubble.com/

---- "Christmas Tree Farm" by: "Pushstart Wagon" http://www.pushstartwagon.com/

---- "Will You Come Home To Me This Christmas" by: "Blues City Blues Band" http://www.tommalafarina.com/BluesCity.html

---- "Christmas Ball Blues" by: "Blues City Blues Band" http://www.tommalafarina.com/BluesCity.html

---- "Blue Christmas" by: "Wiser Time" http://www.wiser-time.com/

---- "A Jerry Springer Christmas" by: "The Essentials" http://www.essentialsmusic.net/

Outro

Oscar Peterson died today (December 24, 2007.)

Dang.

Monday, December 24, 2007

msb-0238 Okay, Okay, Its X-Mass Eve

msb-0238 Okay, Okay, Its X-Mass Eve

intro

Feedback comes first, so...

It's the obligatory X-Mass show featuring tunes that are written months or years ago by people who are desperately trying to cheer themselves up. (Sound like us...)

---- "Christmas in Jersey City" by: "David W. Jacobsen" http://davidwj.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

And I would apreciate if someone could write a review of this podcast on iTunes [ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 ] You can just select the link and, eventually, scroll down the iTunes page to "Customer Reviews"

---- "Ill Always Feel This Way Christmas" by: "Johnny Proctor" http://www.soundclick.com/pro/?BandID=220644

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Ill Be Home For Christmas" by: "Twisted Sister" http://www.twistedsister.com/

"Thesis:"

Its X-Mass and I don't really want anything that I don't already have.

In fact I have something I'd get rid of in a heartbeat if I could so without having to do anything drastic.

---- "Merry Christmas" by: "The Fabrications" http://www.thefabrications.net/

"Synthesis:"

I'm expecting a power supply from Santa this X-Mass. How thrilling is that...

I'm also expecting a router because the WAN connection on my existing router won't release/renew the DHCP address. (Another hundred bucks down the toilet.)

---- "The Christmas Cheese Polka" by: "A Dont Hug Me Christmas Carol" http://www.adonthugmechristmascarol.com/

"Conclusion:"

On the plus side, podcasting connections are slowly but surely happening.

And this next song is just to say "thank you" to all the people who are working on this day.

---- "We'd Have Christmas" by: "Jim Merillat" http://www.jammusicals.com/

Outro

Friday, December 21, 2007

msb-0237 Rollin'

msb-0237 Rollin'

intro

Feedback comes first, so...

There isn't any... Again...

What? You're downloading the shows furiously (I'm getting sustained numbers of downloads that make me think podcasting for niche markets like MS "is" working,) but all of you are out shopping for the holidays and can't spare a minute to email me: charles (at) MSBodcast.com

"Oh, woe is me...[put wrist to forehead and sighs]" :-)

----

Next: ScottSigler [ http://www.scottsigler.com ] has a PDF file about podcasting and on page eighteen he says pretty much everything that needs to be said about podcasting:

"First, repeat after me:
  • I do not need an iPod to get podcasts
  • I do not need an iPod to get podcasts
  • I do not need an iPod to get podcasts

You know how a newspaper subscription works, right?
  1. You pay for the subscription
  2. They make a newspaper
  3. The paper is delivered via the mail
  4. You get it, you read it you are happy.
A podcast is basically a subscription for internet media.
  1. You subscribe to the podcast, (It don't even cost nuthin'.)
  2. Some dude(s) (or dudette[s]) record(s) a podcast.
  3. The podcast is delivered to your to your computer.
  4. You get it, you read, listen or watch it, you are happy.
That's it?

Its so simple!
"
So you can "subscribe" to this podcast right here. [ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 ]

----

I have one word for you: "epigenetics". [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics ]

We'll be coming back to it in the coming year as part of my thoughts on genetics and MS and I'm going to try and get some discussions going with some people who actually know what they're talking about.

----

Well, lets keep this thing rollin' along...

---- "Rolling Green Fields" by: "Stratocruiser" http://www.stratocruisermusic.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

And I would apreciate if someone could write a review of this podcast on iTunes [ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 ] You can just select the link and, eventually, scroll down the iTunes page to "Customer Reviews"

---- "Rollin B Side Blues" by: "the Muggs" http://www.themuggs.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Rolling" by: "Linda Sjöbeck" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=07a003674e6da572625206a62141d30d

"Thesis:"

Okay, I'm almost done with discussing how I hope thing will happen, (the whole podcasting thing and the reasons why it makes sense to me for niche markets,) and I'm ready to go with the flow, roll with the punches and let the world take over.

Of course, I intend to "tell" the world about podcasting, and the advantages it presents over the traditional cycle of forgetfulness and blissful ignorance (until something comes up and reminds you in no uncertain terms that you have MS.)

And I intend to do it with rockin' good tunes, gentle humor and the unvarnished truth.

I also want to bring a little advocacy and a little reality to the otherwise ignorant policies of our, hum, elected officials. (It'd really be great if the ADA wasn't just papering over the holes we fell in already. [There is no such thing as employment discrimination. I'm not getting jobs offers because "Everybody knows that software developers have to dance the rumba." If you can't dance, you don't qualify. Yeah... Right... {I can code better than most of the competition out there, but I might cost more, so employers'll pass, thank you veddy much.}])

[snort!]

---- "Rollin" by: "Maria Daines" http://www.maria-daines.com/

"Synthesis:"

Problem is that we're always losing things.

If you move, you "get lost", (and face it, with MS, most of us have to scale down our lives, [and that usually means moving out to cheaper and cheaper digs {and watching lovers and friends move on.}])

If you haven't had any symptoms for a while, you "lose yourself", (guilty of that myself, [I spent 15 years from the very first attack that laid waste to my handwriting and fine motor control, before the attack that got me the grim diagnosis and another 15 years doing weights, cycling, training and getting myself into "hunk" shape, until the last attack which has left me with, uh, less than optimal leg function. {Thirty years with MS and I didn't even know it for half of that time. (I sure as hell know it now.)}])

And its hard to find yourself again, in the same old hopeless place.

That's why I "loathe" the traditional media approach to diseases.

Either they utterly ignore it completely (like, we have 86 minutes of media produced for TV out of how many millions of hours listed in the "IMDB" [http://www.imdb.com]) or they very occasionally devote some paltry few minutes on a local TV news segment featuring some local medical authority who gets it mostly wrong and never covers it again.

There is no depth to the coverage.

There is no breadth to the coverage.

There is no sustained effort to the coverage.

Well, we MSers cope with MS every damn day and it colors aspects of our lives that don't get mentioned in polite company, from defecation to fornication.

---- "Wheel To Keep Rollin" by: "Raunchtones" http://www.silkcitycd.com/

"Conclusion:"

MS is pervasive but that does not mean it takes over our lives.

We are people first and foremost.

We want entertainment, (like six songs, on a show, three times a week,) with someone who understands "exactly" what we are going through and can discuss it, because it sometimes needs discussing.

And that what this podcast brings to us MSers.

Now lets hope some advertisers get behind the concept and support us (in a self-centered self-interested way,) like we're supporting them by buying their stuff, not because we want to, but because we need to.

It would be nice if they made it easier to find their products, therapies, goods and/or services by advertising on a podcast like this.

And they wouldn't waste their advertising dollars because the audience for this podcast is extremely focussed.

If they're, say, running a rehab center in the greater San Francisco area, they don't have to worry about people outside of that area, because those people aren't likely to download their ad, now are they?

---- "Red Rolling Papers" by: "Spanking Charlene" http://spankingcharlene.com/

Outro

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

msb-0236 Macro-economics?

msb-0236 Macro-economics?

intro

Feedback comes first, so...

There isn't any.

Okay... I'm sort of fibbing.

Check out Science & the City [ www.scienceandthecity.org ] the podcast they had last friday (December 14, 2007). They had a discussion on "Daydreaming and Night-Dreaming" which was utterly fascinating. (Yes, it had the obligatory reference to the brain and its functioning. :-)

Meantime, I'm feeling serious, but not too. :-)

---- "She Wants To get Serious - 2007 remix" by: "Hudson Cerone" http://www.youtube.com/Kraftman63

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

And I would apreciate if someone could write a review of this podcast on iTunes [ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 ] You can just select the link and, eventually, scroll down the iTunes page to "Customer Reviews"

---- "TAKE ME SERIOUS" by: "BROOKE GLOVER" http://www.myspace.com/brookeglovermusic

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"

---- "A Serious Dub" by: "Quantum Soul" http://www.myspace.com/quantumsoul

"Thesis:"

What the heck does economic theory have to do with this podcast?

Fundamentally ... "Everything!"

I could go on about the internet trumping everything that came before it because it operates point-to-point over the entire globe, and much farther than the micro-economic model of broadcast with its limited frequencies, limited access, limited transmission towers and our limited attention spans limiting its overall coverage and creating an economy of scarcity, but I'll limit my belaboring of the obvious.

---- "Serious Comedy" by: "Three Man" http://www.3man.net/

"Synthesis:"

What podcasting, through the internet, creates for the print, audio, video and other potential media is a damn-near free, asynchronous, perfect bit-replication distribution model for content "and" a content "discovery" model through the myriad search engines and web-sites.

Podcasting is perfect for my audience because:
  • they don't have to be there spot on time and
  • paying exclusive attention for however long he 'cast is running, not to mention that
  • they don't need broadcast quality bandwidth to
  • receive broadcast quality content.
What they have "now" is already good enough.

Connection quality and net neutrality aren't factors, since, unlike web streaming which absolutely "requires" broadband, the casts can download as fast as they can and can be enjoyed later, when the audience is ready, where ever on the planet the audience happens to be, and as often as the audience wants to enjoy it.

So much for the technical issues. What we have is already good enough.

Advertising on a podcast has a very "long tail" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail ].

I'm "still" getting downloads of episodes that are over a year old.

That aspect of podcasting is enormously interesting...

---- "Worm Quartet - I Want To Be Taken Seriously As An Artist" by: "The FuMP" http://www.thefump.com/

"Conclusion:"

By its very structure, the internet is capable of supplanting broadcast media and does so already "billions of times a day", every ... single ... day.

The only ones who don't realize this are the folks keeping their heads down in the trenches, doing battle with the hundreds of day-to-day problems of running their business and too busy to look up out of the trench to see the bulldozer that is dumping dirt on and entombing them.

While this is a problem for the car manufacturers and beer brewers, it is "not" a problem for the hundreds and hundreds of thousand of drug manufacturers, therapists, specialized vehicle modification shops, bed and mattress makers, house builders, "et alia" who could never dream of affording a spot on the mass media but instead have to rely on word-of-mouth to get the news out about their goods and services.

Likewise, it is "not" a problem for the MSers who 'till now have had to rely on the same word-of-mouth to fill their needs.

Word-of-mouth advertising is the best advertising but the problem with word-of-mouth is that it doesn't scale.

Word-of-mouth doesn't carry any further than the human voice can carry.

That is just too random to be reliably scalable.

You may not ask the right person and/or that other person may not hear you, or that person may be too busy to reply.

You as an MSer may be too preoccupied with coping with the way you've been doing it to realize that there may be an easier, faster, simpler, more comprehensive or cheaper way to cope with the particular, peculiar symptoms of your MS.

---- "Menopause Graduate" by: "Lima Charlie" http://www.limacharliemusic.com/

I wonder if anybody in the U.S. military saw "any" of this coming when they created the internet?

Outro

By the way these episodes are all labeled:
  • Intro
  • Feedback
  • Feed Forward
  • Feed Me
  • Thesis
  • Synthesis
  • Conclusion and
  • Outro
for a reason.

The Intro and Outro segments are positions for pre-roll and post-roll ads and/or reminder ads; the Feed Me segment is for all the internal ads and/or reminder ads.

They can be hosted (that means "me" speaking about the product, [and I won't endorse any product I don't personally use,]) and/or voiced-over (that means that advertisers supply their own choices of voices.)

Since the ads are all "hot" meaning that they carry links to the browser and email programs on your particular Windows or Mac machine, they can launch the browser or email programs when clicked upon in your particular player (which should ideally, but not necessarily, be iTunes.)

If you're getting this 'cast through a browser on your PC, which four of of five of you are, you aren't getting the full benefits of iTunes; but, when combined with the show notes, you can get at all the information almost as easily.

Monday, December 17, 2007

msb-0235 A Change is Gonna Come...

msb-0235 A Change is Gonna Come...

..

intro

Feedback comes first, so...

In the coming year a change is going to come to this podcast/blog in order for me to keep on bringing you music and news while keeping myself fed.

I have found out that I have done most things right with this podcast.

I could even say I have done them "S.M.A.R.T."ly (As defined in "Podcasting For Profit" by "Leesa Barnes", ISBN: 978-1-931644-57-0 )

S - Specifically
M - Measurably
A - Agreeably
R - Realisticaly
T - Timely

I have a UPM (Unique Podcast Message) and am ready for F.A.M.E (again, as defined in "Podcasting For Profit" by "Leesa Barnes", ISBN: 978-1-931644-57-0 )

F - Figure Out Your Target Market
A - Acknowledge One Problem They Face
M - Make Out Your Role in this Process
E - Explain the Solution You Provide.

I am fulfilling the roles of:
  • "Project/Program Manager"
  • "Podcast and Podcover Creator"
  • "Content Editor"
  • "Audio/Visual Engineer"
  • "Technical engineer"
  • "Podcast Monitor"
I am missing only one dimension: "Marketing", so I am of course learning about it.

Problem is that we're all still discovering how to integrate podcasting into an "integrated customer relationship management" (iCRM) approach.

It definitely has a place, fitting somewhere inside the CRM, but since it can deliver all kinds of media (text, audio and video) and solicit feedback as well, it blurs all kinds of boundaries. (Plus it has a very "long tail" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail ] [I'm "still" getting downloads from year old episodes numbered in the low eighties.])

Today I'm jazzed so the selections to day reflect that.

---- "That Hilarious Key Of G" by: "3rd Man" http://www.acmerecords.com/thirdman.php

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share:
  • A recipe,
  • a funny story,
  • a flame about something that's bugging you,
  • a thought,
  • an observation, or
  • just bitching about my tastes in music. (I don't play any "Country and Western" on this show because of a reader comment about it, [even though I personally don't find anything objectionable about some good foot stompin' tunes I find on the PMN {the Podsafe Music Network.}])
If you want to you can do what MDMHvonPA did for a while, and may do again, and have me read out your text.

If you want to you can record it yourself and I can include it on this segment or I can make a whole 'cast out of it. (I know, I know. Everybody "hates" the sound of their own voice [... at first, {but then you grow to appreciate its depth and or timbre or sonority, (as if it wasn't your own!)}])

Drop me an email: charles at MSBPodcast.com

And I would apreciate if someone could write a review of this podcast on iTunes [ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 ] You can just select the link and, eventually, scroll down the iTunes page to "Customer Reviews"

---- "Melissa De La Sol" by: "David Lauber" http://www.myspace.com/theartistformerlyknownasdavidlauber

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Brindisi" by: "Mike del Ferro" http://www.mikedelferro.com/

"Thesis:"

Change is inevitable.

We all get older and maybe even wiser every day.

We "all" get a little more disabled every day, some times its natural, it happens to everybody, and sometimes for MSers and other sickos its quite a bit more drastic, uh, episodic you might say.

---- "Suburban Stardust" by: "Kwyjibo" http://www.acmerecords.com/kwyjibo.php

"Synthesis:"

What happens during an MS episode is highly individual.

There seem to be as many types of MS as there are MSers. Its because the symptoms, blurry sensations incoming and/or shaky control outgoing, are only related indirectly to the actual disease, which is that our myelin is being attacked by our immune system.

But there is hope on the way.

I heard on "Science Friday" [ http://www.sciencefriday.com/ ] a "discussion" [ http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200711304 ] about pluripotent cells and their potential use for all sorts of treatments for all sorts of diseases, (including diseases of the nervous system [which would be very useful for "repair" of damage inflicted by MS] and the immune system [which would be very useful for a "cure" for MS.])

As confirmation of this, I found a report on this very thing in the local fish wrapper. While the scientists are being their usual cautious selves and predicting lengthy trials and hope in the receedingly distant future, it is so fundamental and applicable to every and any treatment to every and any disease that, because science works cooperatively, it will make rapid and serendipitous progress in seemingly unrelated fields, like cell repair and immunology.

Since these cells are modified skin cells, the medical establishment can avoid the entire ethical mine field of embryonic anything and get down to some real research.

I haven't heard of anything this interesting and this worthwhile in years in "any" domain.

That's mainly because its taking medicine from mumbo-jumbo, with its mystical baffle-gab, to engineering, with its own baffle-gab; but its a learnable and repeatable baffle-gab.

---- "If I Had One Wish" by: "DJ Suicide" http://www.cpmusicpub.com/

"Conclusion:"

Change is indeed inevitable.

"Everybody" gets a little more disabled every day.

Some times its at a leisurely pace of senescence and sometimes it quite a bit more drastic, uh, episodic you might say.

I wonder where you are, how far along the process you are.

I wonder how far along the research is that will enable us to putter along happily until we finally just drop in our tracks. (Death is inevitable, but getting there could/should/would be a whole lot more fun than we MSers have.)

---- "The Whoa Zone instrumental for themes LIVE" by: "Tequila Mockingbirds" http://thetequilamockingbirds.com/

Outro

Here's an action item for you all:

Drop me an email charles (at) MSBPodcast.com and tell me that I don't stand a snowball's chance in Hell.

(I should be getting this for months because podcasts have a long tail. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail ])

Friday, December 14, 2007

msb-0234 Going Nuts, Making Everybody Else Nuts Too

msb-0234 Going Nuts, Making Everybody Else Nuts Too

intro

Feedback comes first, so...

I "hate" being unemployed.

Its much worse than being underemployed, (which is my usual curse.)

I'm quietly going nuts and making my poor wife nuts too.

The sleeplessness and worrying is really not helping me.

I have to learn to relax. (Or start doing these shows everyday. [If you can't be really useful, you can at least be busy.])

Having a regular schedule is a very important part of relaxing for me.

Its not that the work itself has to be regular, (read: "repetitive and boring",) but I have got to re-establish a regular schedule for myself.

I'm still trying to like the system and editor at LibSyn but its a bit of a pain in the butt to use; unlike the Blogger.com User Interface (UI) it feels like it was designed by a geek who never studied human factors engineering.

I really "don't" like the way that you can't depend on a series of actions because the damned thing resets itself to the first page even when you were working on the n'th page.

I don't like the show note UI for operating all on the same level and making it lose focus whenever you want to copy from one page and paste it in to your page.

[sigh] I'll get used to it.

Today, the music is all about working it.

---- "All I Want For Christmas Is A Day Off Work" by: "The Volume Brothers" http://www.myspace.com/thevolumebrothers

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop me an email: charles at MSBPodcast.com

And I would apreciate if someone could write a review of this podcast on iTunes [ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 ] You can just select the link and, eventually, scroll down the iTunes page to "Customer Reviews"

---- "Working Girl" by: "The Krinkles" http://www.myspace.com/thekrinkles

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "WORKING, SWEATING" by: "girls stuff" http://www.9t9.ch/

"Thesis:"

Part of being a crusader for the establishment of a regular podcast (despite the asynchrony of the medium,) for MSers (and for the wider world of the disabled,) is that it is essential for me to maintain a healthy mind in a healthy body ("mense sano en corporare sano".)

Its not as simple or as easy as it seems.

Of course I wonder why that is...

---- "Working Sunday" by: "Dorado" http://www.doradosound.com/

"Synthesis:"

I've had some uptake on the number of people who come to my show and I've got a lot of people downloading episodes (I suspect that, while the topic of MS isn't for everybody, its for everybody who bothers to find the podcast and get the show.)

I know that about three quarters of my listeners are coming from the web while around one quarter of them are subscribers through iTunes. (Hey, why not subscribe? Its free! You'll get the updates auto-magically through iTunes on your PC or your Mac.)

In an effort to stave off poverty, I am trying to make a go of podcasting.

I am in a bit of a quandary since I know MSers need all their money for medicines and therapies for this disease. (Believe me, ... I "know!")

That means that this will always be a free podcast.

However, I feel I should remind you of
  • the CafePress buttons (for those of you who's like a sweat-shirt, or a hoodie or some other piece of apparel,) and
  • of the PayPal donation button. (If you like my musical selections, you can show me,)
or if you'd like to request a particular genre of music (I can't promise a particular song but the Podsafe Music Network [the PMN] has lots of great artists. [The RIAA and ASCAP/BMI is the reason why. They would charge me an insane amount of money and leave it to me to extort it out of "somebody", "anybody" or go bankrupt failing. {Unfortunately, failure is "not" an option...}])

I could also limit my online podcasts to the same list as iTunes' 100 and make the earlier ones available as MP3 CDs with all of the artists' information, images and links to their websites as well as my own blatherings for USD$9.95 + shipping and handling...

I am also offering my services as a podcast project manager to all chapters of the various MS Societies in my listening audiences (since that includes everybody with an internet connection, in 120 countries, I figure I'll be lucky to limit it to people speaking English and/or French as their first or second languages.)

---- "Clockwork Family" by: "Dan Warren" http://www.myspace.com/danwarren1

"Conclusion:"

I'm going to go to Tai Chi and see if the "sensei" has any sage words of advice. (later: We shared a smile about the drive to and from Canada. The eighteen wheelers bearing down on me while spraying muck brought out some familiar feelings from both of us as he was on the road too at the same time and he too found he had to do some "'Tai Chi' breathing" exercises to stay focused.)

In the mean time, tell your MS Society chapter about the podcast.

I can always use more listeners and ... "more feedback".

Heck, tell your neurologist, physiotherapist, rehab specialist, pharmacist, handicap car or van modification shop, cleaning service and anyone else you think would care to listen to and advertise on this podcast to MSers.

---- "Work Out Fine" by: "Brad Sucks" http://www.bradsucks.net/

Outro

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

msb-0233 Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz

msb-0233 Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz

intro

Feedback comes first, so...

I am bringing up Helmholtz because it saves me from thinking about a depressing weekend spent with my mother.

One bright spot was seeing my sister again, but I still feel pretty bad.

Today the music is semi-quasi-pseudo classical because, just because.

I needed the distraction.

---- "Crinoids" by: "Graeme Hindmarsh" http://music.podshow.com/music/producers/producerLibrary/artistdetails.php?BandHash=f29e353b720936778fbfd7c9637bc76b

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop me an email: charles at MSBPodcast.com

And I would apreciate if someone could write a review of this podcast on iTunes [ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 ] You can just select the link and, eventually, scroll down the iTunes page to "Customer Reviews"

---- "Overture, Suite from Les Fetes by Rameau" by: "Magnatune" http://magnatune.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Blowing Snow" by: "Marco Raaphorst" http://melodiefabriek.nl/

"Thesis:"

So who was "Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz"? [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_von_Helmholtz ]

I found out about him quite recently but he's the person who determined that the a person's hearing would have to work in exactly the way it does.

---- "Fantasy in f by Chopin" by: "Linda Holzer" http://www.ualr.edu/lrholzer/bio.shtml

"Synthesis:"

Its a tube, (not a series of pipes and definitely not a truck,) a tube located in the ear. Its the main, but not the only, reason for the shapes of the inner ear.

The main shape of which is a coiled tube, like a snail, the inside of which is coated with fine hairs, called cilia, that start out sensitive to low frequency sounds at one end and tapers down to being sensitive to high frequency sounds at the other end.

Because a frequency gets shorter as it increases, the cochlea gets narrower, doan 'cha kno'.

The hairs, the cilia, that line the inside of the snail's shell, the cochlea, are sensitive to sound vibrations of one and only one frequency, they do not respond to anything else: temperature, light, shock of a frequency other than the one a cilia is tuned for by peculiar physics of its size and the size of the cochlea at that point.

The cilia are anchored, just like hair, to nerves which sends their signal to the auditory processing functions of the sensing apparatus of the brain.

Just as with the eye, some processing and encoding is done right there, (leading to certain kinds of perceptual errors,) and some is done further along on path to the brain, (leading to different kinds of perceptual errors.)

With MS, there are some further effects of "echoes, muffles, ghosts and shadows" caused by the sclera itself.

---- "The Men Who Were Slaughtered By Henry Ford" by: "Hugh Flynn" http://www.hugh-flynn-composer.com/

"Conclusion:"

The ear is an amazing structure.

When combined as a pair, the ears are capable of directional detection so we can tell where a sound originated from.

That in and of itself is an incredible feat of pattern matching since two sounds reach the ears and it must process the sounds and encode them and compare both signals and crate further signals that tell the brain, not only that there was the sound of a twig breaking but that the bear stalking the woods is behind and to the left, and that you'd better run faster than your trekking partner or you'll end up being shit in the woods.

In normal healthy humans, the pair of organs make up a sense that is permanently "on", unlike the eyes which can close, the nose which shuts down after exposure to a particular scent or heat sensing which is too general to make any difference.

That bear is not sneaking up that easily.

---- "The Marionette" by: "Two Star Symphony" http://www.twostarsymphony.org/

Outro

The "Ouch! podcast" [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/ ] held their Christmas Special on December 10th, 2007 (today as I write this) and they have a special song for the "Cripples At Christmas".

The lyrics are on the show notes. (I'm keeping something for the podcast downloaders.)

---- "Cripples At Christmas" by: "Mat Fraser" http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/xmas/cripples_at_christmas.shtml

Monday, December 10, 2007

msb-0232 That River in Egypt

msb-0232 That River in Egypt

intro

Feedback comes first, so...

On my last blog and podcast about drug inhalation instead of injection "Miss Chris" [ http://azchick.blogspot.com/ ] said: "Here here! Can I get an AMEN?"

Thank you all for downloading these podcasts.

We're all part of a very selective vanguard, beyond the razor thin edge of mass-media detection.

But collectively we're a bunt weapon with which cudgel the media into doing our bidding and creating content for "us".

---- "No Use Denying" by:"The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop me an email: charles at MSBPodcast.com

And I would apreciate if someone could write a review of this podcast on iTunes [ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 ] You can just select the link and, eventually, scroll down the iTunes page to "Customer Reviews"

---- "All Just for Another Night" by: "The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Not Coming Home" by: "The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/

"Thesis:"

The New York Times had a fascinating "article" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/health/research/20deni.html?ref=science ] on denial.

With MS, this is a very easy trap to fall into.

I spent over twenty five years there myself, (pretending that everything was fine, [and it was mostly, {except for those times when I would have died if I had not had around the clock care,}]) so I am well aware of how slippery that slope is.

---- "Hell or Highwater" by: "The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/

"Synthesis:"

Denial is an easy grizzly bear trap to step into when a disease is episodic; relapsing and remitting as it does.

I've had MS for years.

For most of those years, from sixteen to forty-eight, I was in great shape. I exercised, ran, biked, swam, danced and walked. (Oh, how I walked [I loved to walk.])

I would still be in denial, if I could ... but now that I "schlep" around slowly with a cane, MS will not be denied.

Nor can I deny any of the effect on other people's perception of me.

I have not got any stupider since getting MS, but I have been talked to as if I was. (I will "never" forgive the nurse who talked to me that way, even if it has made me far more tolerant of people delivery. [Sometimes, through no fault of your own, you only "sound" like a clod-hoppin' rube.])

I have not got any less ambitious since getting MS. (You're getting this 'cast as an example of the "wind mill charge" level of near megalomania I claim as an integral part of my personality. [Its was and is that part of me that had me playing guitar, learning about computers, later learning Smalltalk, talking at symposia, writing articles, learning podcasting, talking at symposia again. {And I will continue to "boss my own shit" until they put me in the ground! (Maybe I'll even be dead when that happens. :-)}])

I have not got any less callous, shallow or any of the hundred other faults I know I have. (They've been "told" to me, [that is one of the benefits of being married, after all.])

Denial has its place, just not when dealing with health issues.

---- "2 Car Garage" by: "The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/

"Conclusion:"

In its proper place, denial is a "good" thing.

Its what keeps us together, as we keep flying apart.

Its what keeps the sheep running from the wolves.

Its what keep the wolves running after the sheep.

Its what keeps from merely accepting things and being resigned to our fate. (I still hear the echoes of my Catholic upbringing echoing in my memory. ["No Father, I think that 'just accepting our fate' is an extremely 'dumb' idea. Its what gets the sheep slaughtered and makes for extremely fat and lazy wolves."])

In the "improper" place, denial "is" something which prevents us MSers from seeking the help which we eventually need.

Keep denial in it place, as a river in Egypt.

---- "Don't Forget Where You Came From" by: "The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/

Outro

Friday, December 07, 2007

msb-0231 Blast my wider conscience.

msb-0231 Blast my wider conscience.

intro

Feedback comes first, so...

Told you I'd resume my little crusade this episode...

Who likes getting jabbed with a hypodermic needle? (Are you going to seek help for that? [Masochism is usually "not" regarded too well in the wider world, {I mean except for religious organizations.}])

I've got the "The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy" blasting through the PC speakers, and, damn if I don't feel responsible for waking you "the fuck up!" (Time shift, now I've got "Mocean Worker" [ http://www.moceanworker.com/ ] playing sweet retro jazz as I type this particular edit cycle.)

I know that I'm actually savaging my personal hero, Marshall McLuhan, because he has proved irrelevant in the internet age.

The connectedness that we all feel as MSers it the antithesis of what McLuhan was teaching, indirectly anyway. The mass media is dying the death of a thousand cuts.

I can only wonder what he would have made of "America's Funniest Videos" [ http://abc.go.com/primetime/afv/index ] when it is juxtaposed, against the anti-democratizing influence of the quasi-infinite bandwidth and asynchrony of the internet and podcasts like this one.

Medium hot? Medium cool? Medium tepid? Lets ask the fuckin' corpse...

Fundamentally it doesn't matter anymore...

It may take twenty years for some little kid to grab the brass ring, (because he still believes in some part of the American dream I guess, [I fervently hope so anyway,]) and stops the senseless killing, the wanton destruction of life as we knew it, and actually tallies things on a spreadsheet that takes more more into account than the mere thirty year appreciation and amortization schedule of the accountants and the other soulless jerks who don't expect any of us to live longer than 30 years. (Shades of "Logan's Run" [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/ ] or what?)

The curse of "Hope", (the last demon which only "almost" escaped from "Pandora's Box" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora ]) is that it offers us all the possibility that tomorrow won't be made up of the same crap as we put up with today. (And is this a blessing or a curse?)

---- "Smoke and Mirrors Mix" by: "Channel" http://www.channel-music.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop me an email: charles at MSBPodcast.com

And I would apreciate if someone could write a review of this podcast on iTunes [ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 ] You can just select the link and, eventually, scroll down the iTunes page to "Customer Reviews"

---- "smoking sunshine" by: "the specialist" http://www.myspace.com/in4rmrecords

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

---- "Mother of all Smokescreens featuring George Galloway" by: "Stressbitch" http://www.myspace.com/stressbitch

"Thesis:"

Lets get the topic back to the large permeable membrane which tobacco manufacturers have been using since the 15th century to hook us to smoking.

Now, I'm not calling these people saints. They have probably been responsible for more deaths from emphysema and cancer than all the wars of the twentieth century managed to kill, (and maybe even more people than Henry Ford killed during the same time.)

But, putting that carnage aside, it was one hell of a good idea. (makes a blowing sound...)

---- "Smoke and Mirrors " by: "Grand Atlantic" http://www.myspace.com/grandatlantic

"Synthesis:"

The lungs are an essential component of any earth-bound organism.

I mean, if you're alive, you breathe, right?

Now, the tobacco plant has been totally adulterated with hundreds of compounds from arsenic to zinc, all in the hopes of getting you addicted (as if nicotine wasn't enough,) and they've been amazingly successful in the face of overwhelming evidence from the medical authorities that smoking will fuckin' "kill your ass."

So lets de-construct what has actually been done.

They've managed to cajole, convince and addict us into using the lungs to deliver nicotine and carcinogens into our systems.

Now lets take a closer look...

The lung is a huge permeable membrane capable of letting crap pass into our systems.

Heck, that is its job.

Blood on one side, say side "A".

Air and crap on the other side, say side "B".

Lung in the middle, just doing its job, letting stuff, like oxygen, virii, smoke, shit and, uh, shit, get from side "B" to side "A".

Now, instead of letting William Morris get its way, lets say "we" co-opted the transport mechanism into carrying our medicines into our bodies (instead of relying on hypodermic needles ["YUCK!"] to force the skin to do it for us by using the same mechanisms that the tobacco manufacturers discovered [instead of putting holes in it and causing all kinds of problems for chronic drug therapy recipients.])

Now instead of having to burn crap and inhale it, we could use the same mechanisms that the makers of asthma medicines have been using for years, and just make an inhaler to get the micrograms of drugs into our bodies.

Think of it.

No more creeping ourselves out at the very thought.

No more having to pick a new spot every time because the body knows when you're using it as a pin cushion, and "resents" it.

No more strange bumps, pains, aches, rosacea, cysts and other crap that happens when you try poking holes through your skin. ("Ouch!")

---- "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" http://www.juliet-hotel.com

"Conclusion:"

I wish the drug manufacturers would wake the fuck up and use the existing route to glory and riches that the tobacco industry walked down centuries ago.

I really "resent" having to turn myself into a pin cushion just because of the lack of vision or of imagination of the freakin' drug manufacturers.

---- "Smoke-The-Night-Away" by: "Nathan Anderson" http://www.nathananderson.org/

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Thursday, December 06, 2007

msb-0230 Back to the Ol' Grind

msb-0230 Back to the Ol' Grind

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Feedback comes first, so...

Phew...

I'm back.

After:
  • driving Thursday and Friday of last week, from Jersey City, Noo Joysee to Ottawa Ontario, Canada,
  • getting stuck in one of the worst and most widespread white-outs in many a year, (both coasts of both countries were hammered by record snows and/or rains,) and then
  • driving two days back,
my wife and I are back at our apartment and looking back in relief,

("Yay!" my driving didn't leave us both lying freezing and looking like a pile of bloody broken "Q-Tips" in a ditch somewhere in between.)

I can definitely recommend "Tai Chi" breathing exercises while driving at night or on a road during a blowing snow squall while 18 wheelers are bearing down on you. They calm your ass right down and give you perspective into your driving experience.

Not to mention the two lane bridges at the border. "Jeezuss". That was "sca-ree..."

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Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop me an email: charles at MSBPodcast.com

And I would apreciate if someone could write a review of this podcast on iTunes [ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 ] You can just select the link and, eventually, scroll down the iTunes page to "Customer Reviews"

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Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send me an email at: charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

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"Thesis:"

Health insurance in these United States is no insurance at all.

The way its implemented guaranties that when you need it, it won't be there.

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"Synthesis:"

Case in point, the cost of COBRA for my health policy just "tripled", from an exorbitant $400 per month to over $1,200 per month, for no particular reason.

My ex-employer is still raking in the bucks and their stock just split.

But, to look better to their investors, they are jettisoning expenses, like paying for COBRA, on their US operations. (What the heck? If employees get sick, they just fly them home to India where the poor "schmucks" are covered by the government health policy.)

And their US based counterparts are just ground up and spat out by the gummint here.

And the fiction that you can afford COBRA is just that fiction.

This no way to run a country or an economy, specially when everybody else is using fully or semi socialized medicine.

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"Conclusion:"

I can no longer afford my medicines, so the drug manufacturers are biggest losers here.

I will make plans to move back to Ottawa or Montréal and the podcasts can continue from there.

On the internet there are no national boundaries.

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