msb-0294 Smoke gets in your eyes.
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I just got "Twitter". [ http://twitter.com/msbpodcast ]
Check out the side bars on my "blog" [ http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ ] and my "podcast" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ]
Like photography before it, newspapers are dying. "This" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/media/28link.html?ref=business ] article points to what and why.
But its not a sad and dreadful message. We'll get back into why on the next post/episode.
---- "Smoke and Mirrors" by: "The Receiving End Of Sirens" http://www.merchdirect.net/TripleCrownRecords/CDs/The_Receiving_End_Of_Sirens_The_Earth_Sings_Mi_Fa_Mi_CD?productid=8273
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"
---- "Mary Jane Ive Smoked My Last One" by: "The Den Collective" http://www.purevolume.com/thedencollective
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"
---- "Smoke & Mirrors" by: "Anthony Rankin" http://www.anthonyrankin.com/
"Thesis:"
Here are some people taking my advice about inhalation, (using a large permeable membrane designed to let materials pass through in one direction; [like a diode in electronics.])
---- "Clouds or Smoke?" by: "Derek K. Miller" http://podcast.penmachine.com/
"Synthesis:"
Up in Smoke
A report [ http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/080213/marijuana-use-among-ms-patients-raises-risk-for-cognitive-mood-problems.htm ] came out today that said that MSers who use pot to ease symptoms have a slowing down in their ability to process and remember information and a rise in mood disorders like anxiety and depression.
Not really a big surprise. Our cognitive skills diminish as we ingest a mind altering drug. The study only involved 10 patients so it's not really big enough to make sweeping conclusions about the use of pot. The folks who used pot were using illegally obtained pot, so there's no verifying what else, if anything, was in those funny little cigarettes that may or may not have contributed to the findings. And the folks who used pot were not evaluated before they started using the drug so who's to say they hadn't already had diminished skills and revved up anxiety to begin with.
But let's think about the uses of pot for MSers.
To ease neuropathic pain. Pain is such a subjective thing; it's difficult to quantify how much is acceptable to any individual. But if it's keeping you awake at night or keeping you from leading a relatively normal life (with its usual aches and pains) then it's unacceptable.
To ease muscle spasms. Spasms can be painful. They, too, can keep you awake at night and prevent you from leading a relatively normal life. (And speaking from experience, they can cause you to hit the wrong button on the computer at work.)
To ease anxiety. Let's face it, life can make us anxious. We all have different coping mechanisms for anxiety. Some of us kick the dog, some of us drink to excess, some of us wash our hands 1000 times a day. Not great coping mechanisms. Now add a degenerative disease to the mix of life's usual anxieties. Would a joint once a week, say on a Friday night at home, be an any worse method of coping? Personally, I think not. Do I do it? Nope, but I have a healthy fear of a criminal record and luckily I haven't had pain or spasms bad enough to make me seek it out (almost, but not quite).
So we have a population of people with pain, spasms, and anxiety, and a disease that is destroying their brain, seeking out relief. All these stressors contribute to diminished cognitive skills and reduced mental health. The bigger issue I think is, Is the use of pot by MSers detrimental to their life.
Before we determine that pot is bad for MSers, remember that MS is bad for MSers.
---- "Smoke filling in car" by: "Momo-J" http://www.fareastpeach.com/
"Conclusion:"
While I never picked up the habit, there is a lot to be said for, uh, inhalation therapies. (Some of it might even sound coherent! :-)
Its not a moral judgement on my part. My clients used to be banks and other major financial institutions, so I never indulged. (I was "straight and sober" while the people handling mortage-backed securities must have been smokin' "something" [ http://hightimes.com/ ] clearly mind altering to have got us all in the sub-prime mess, [just a clearly, it was "not" reality altering. {"Bye Bye Bear Sterns...". Meanwhile, for the IT staff, its "either urine or you're out".}])
As for my younger days... I played Classical Guitar. That didn't do much for my "stoner status". Come to think of it, I enjoyed myself a whole lot more.
Sex, and drugs and rock-n-roll. Well, uh, "one" out of three wasn't bad at all. :-)
---- "Smoked" by: "Briareus" http://www.myspace.com/briareusmusic
Outro
And here's a song that belongs to the sound track o' my wacky life
---- "Your Red Scarf Matches your Eyes" by "Guy Marks" http://www.imeem.com/databit/music/zHWzcHM5/guy_marks_your_red_scarf_matches_your_eyes/
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
msb-0293 PodCamp NY 2.0
msb-0293 PodCamp NY 2.0
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
PodCampNYC is over and I have felt the pulse of an industry which is maturing at an extremely rapid pace.
But some of the participants are complete and utter, uh, how can I describe the rapid fire patter which assaulted me at the session on LiveStreaming.
Some of it is actually an excellent offshoot of traditional media production techniques. It is interesting and has an interesting approach, an interesting point of view.
But some of it is complete and utter bull spewed slurred-ly by some people who don't have MS for an excuse for their diction, (they're stewed, pure and simple,) and on whom any of the equipment seems a waste.
I could feed an entire third world country for a week on the drek that was wasting bits and the time to flip them. (Sorry but this was porn of the mind and these people didn't have the energy to power a single lackadaisical and peremptory moan.)
The presenter was wonderful, energetic, intelligent and really knew her stuff. Unfortunately, the stuff being LiveCast was not as good as she was.
----
Meanwhile, I was supposed to go my friend the chef's place for the next installment in her doctoral thesis. Unfortunately, I've had to beg off.
(Luckily, I just had killer ribs at R.U.B on 23rd street in Manhattan.)
----
Unfortunately I'm not feeling 100% at the moment. (More like 60% with chilly flurries. [I don't walk or go out much these days {what with being unemployed and all (and it doesn't look like that's going to be improving soon [but that's a rant I'll save for another day,]} however I think that that aspect of my life will improve as I have finally seen that there's more "out there" than I can find working out of home;] yes, its more risk, but sometimes "you just gotta go fur it, dude, go fur it; hear what I'm sayin'")
----
The source for the music on this episode was suggested by Eli Smith of "Down Home Radio" [ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/ ].
I love what he's does; going back into the dusty archives of recorded music to dig out the gems from the roots of music.
-----
Oh and this just in: According to "this" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/media/28hannah.html?ref=business ] article in the New York Times, it looks like "Miley Cyrus", a.k.a. "Hannah Montana" now wants "To Be Taken Seriously As An Artist" [ http://www.wormquartet.com/ ].
Now art imitates life imitating art imitating life, or something like that.
---- "ECLIPSE OF THE SUN_olb-02" by: "Sidney Maiden" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.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.
Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "BLUES AT SUNDOWN_olb-13" by: "Jimmy Wilson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
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"
---- "SITTING HERE WONDERING_wcb-22" by: "J.W. Walker" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
"Thesis:"
What podcasting needs is what broad casting thinks it has: "Metrics!"
My presentation was about metrics.
Most of the session I attended were about metrics.
Most of the people I spoke with were deeply concerned about metrics.
Most of the problems people were having had to do with obtaining reliable metrics.
It was that kind of week-end. :-)
---- "T-99_wcb-17" by: "Jimmy Nelson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
"Synthesis:"
I'm about to say something that will either be considered extremely invasive by podcasters (everybody like to put their circulation stats in the best light,) or will be recognized as an absolute necessity.
Podcast metrics, from server IP address to client IP address, is absolutely essential for podcasting to get real measurable metrics.
Podcasting essentially deals with market niches. Potentially millions of niches.
There are a few problems though.
First: Podcasting's "long tail" doesn't fit into the current time line of "campaign" running. What podcasting offers is radically different consumption of CPM ads.
Instead of an ad campaign running and being able to close down instantaneously a podcast ad may be offering payback for years, (for as long as the show containing the ad is on a server.)
This means that the concept of a cut off and an acceptance of the tail being deliberately cut (for obvious reasons, the song "Three Blind Mice" is running through my head,) and we'll have to accept the inaccuracy as inherent.
Next: The concept of delivered ads where the content is an ad, delivered on demand to the end-user, and paying for every single delivery, is entirely new to the ad industry (No one, neither the broadcaster, nor the agencies, nor their traditional clients have "ever" been able to charge for and/or pay for "piece work".
Podcasters "can!"
We can deliver exactly wpthe content that an advertiser wants (or is legally entitled to say in the ad's content,) to a specific IP address that requests it.
The efficiency is complete.
----
I am also going to be less, uh, "risk averse" (which banks loved so I wrote software that banks loved, [until the Smalltalk vendoes shot themselves in the foot, {with a Howitzer,}]) and get my butt out there. (What the Hell? Manhattan is only a PATH train ride away.)
There's a billion things to do, "out there", and a 6.7 billion people to meet, "out there." Ain't nobody in here but us chickens. (I know I'm going again next year.)
---- "TRAIN, TRAIN BLUES_olb-08" by: "Johnny Fuller" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
"Conclusion:"
I see only one possible outcome from this situation.
Podcasting "will" develop the same kinds of attitude towards reporting accurate statistics that broadcasting has...
Advertisers and advertising agencies will come to love the long tail as being totally efficient.
I "will" get my ass out there.
---- "WHY DON'T YOU WRITE TO ME _olb-06" by: "L.C. Robinson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
Outro
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
PodCampNYC is over and I have felt the pulse of an industry which is maturing at an extremely rapid pace.
But some of the participants are complete and utter, uh, how can I describe the rapid fire patter which assaulted me at the session on LiveStreaming.
Some of it is actually an excellent offshoot of traditional media production techniques. It is interesting and has an interesting approach, an interesting point of view.
But some of it is complete and utter bull spewed slurred-ly by some people who don't have MS for an excuse for their diction, (they're stewed, pure and simple,) and on whom any of the equipment seems a waste.
I could feed an entire third world country for a week on the drek that was wasting bits and the time to flip them. (Sorry but this was porn of the mind and these people didn't have the energy to power a single lackadaisical and peremptory moan.)
The presenter was wonderful, energetic, intelligent and really knew her stuff. Unfortunately, the stuff being LiveCast was not as good as she was.
----
Meanwhile, I was supposed to go my friend the chef's place for the next installment in her doctoral thesis. Unfortunately, I've had to beg off.
(Luckily, I just had killer ribs at R.U.B on 23rd street in Manhattan.)
----
Unfortunately I'm not feeling 100% at the moment. (More like 60% with chilly flurries. [I don't walk or go out much these days {what with being unemployed and all (and it doesn't look like that's going to be improving soon [but that's a rant I'll save for another day,]} however I think that that aspect of my life will improve as I have finally seen that there's more "out there" than I can find working out of home;] yes, its more risk, but sometimes "you just gotta go fur it, dude, go fur it; hear what I'm sayin'")
----
The source for the music on this episode was suggested by Eli Smith of "Down Home Radio" [ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/ ].
I love what he's does; going back into the dusty archives of recorded music to dig out the gems from the roots of music.
-----
Oh and this just in: According to "this" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/media/28hannah.html?ref=business ] article in the New York Times, it looks like "Miley Cyrus", a.k.a. "Hannah Montana" now wants "To Be Taken Seriously As An Artist" [ http://www.wormquartet.com/ ].
Now art imitates life imitating art imitating life, or something like that.
---- "ECLIPSE OF THE SUN_olb-02" by: "Sidney Maiden" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.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.
Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "BLUES AT SUNDOWN_olb-13" by: "Jimmy Wilson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
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"
---- "SITTING HERE WONDERING_wcb-22" by: "J.W. Walker" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
"Thesis:"
What podcasting needs is what broad casting thinks it has: "Metrics!"
My presentation was about metrics.
Most of the session I attended were about metrics.
Most of the people I spoke with were deeply concerned about metrics.
Most of the problems people were having had to do with obtaining reliable metrics.
It was that kind of week-end. :-)
---- "T-99_wcb-17" by: "Jimmy Nelson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
"Synthesis:"
I'm about to say something that will either be considered extremely invasive by podcasters (everybody like to put their circulation stats in the best light,) or will be recognized as an absolute necessity.
Podcast metrics, from server IP address to client IP address, is absolutely essential for podcasting to get real measurable metrics.
Podcasting essentially deals with market niches. Potentially millions of niches.
There are a few problems though.
First: Podcasting's "long tail" doesn't fit into the current time line of "campaign" running. What podcasting offers is radically different consumption of CPM ads.
Instead of an ad campaign running and being able to close down instantaneously a podcast ad may be offering payback for years, (for as long as the show containing the ad is on a server.)
This means that the concept of a cut off and an acceptance of the tail being deliberately cut (for obvious reasons, the song "Three Blind Mice" is running through my head,) and we'll have to accept the inaccuracy as inherent.
Next: The concept of delivered ads where the content is an ad, delivered on demand to the end-user, and paying for every single delivery, is entirely new to the ad industry (No one, neither the broadcaster, nor the agencies, nor their traditional clients have "ever" been able to charge for and/or pay for "piece work".
Podcasters "can!"
We can deliver exactly wpthe content that an advertiser wants (or is legally entitled to say in the ad's content,) to a specific IP address that requests it.
The efficiency is complete.
----
I am also going to be less, uh, "risk averse" (which banks loved so I wrote software that banks loved, [until the Smalltalk vendoes shot themselves in the foot, {with a Howitzer,}]) and get my butt out there. (What the Hell? Manhattan is only a PATH train ride away.)
There's a billion things to do, "out there", and a 6.7 billion people to meet, "out there." Ain't nobody in here but us chickens. (I know I'm going again next year.)
---- "TRAIN, TRAIN BLUES_olb-08" by: "Johnny Fuller" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
"Conclusion:"
I see only one possible outcome from this situation.
Podcasting "will" develop the same kinds of attitude towards reporting accurate statistics that broadcasting has...
Advertisers and advertising agencies will come to love the long tail as being totally efficient.
I "will" get my ass out there.
---- "WHY DON'T YOU WRITE TO ME _olb-06" by: "L.C. Robinson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
Outro
Sunday, April 27, 2008
msb-fr-0009 Junque
msb-fr-0009 Junque
intro
Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu!
MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical.
Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens.
----
À Moi oûvre le programme...
J'ai ete a PodcampNYC 2.0.
Meh...
---- "This Is Junk" par: "Brainpool" http://brainpool.nu/
À Vous suit...
Ceci est votre segment.
Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment.
Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger.
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Junk In The Trunk" par: "Synthetic Movements" http://www.soundclick.com/syntheticmovements
À L'aide est en troisième...
Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen?
Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast.
Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.)
Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement.
Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".)
Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel.
L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle.
Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé...
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Junk" par: "Munkey Juice" http://www.munkeyjuice.net/
"Thèse:"
Le theme aujourd'hui,. c'est de la "Junk".
J'n'ais rien a dire, donc, "En avant la musique".
---- "Psychobabble Junk" par: "sarah dashew" http://www.sarahdashew.com/
"Synthèse:"
Je suis en train de recupere de ma petite sortie hier a PodcampNYC.
Dis-on que c'a s'est bien passé, mais c'a a été fatigant pareil.
Aujourd'hui je me repose.
---- "Junk" par: "Douglas Fir" http://www.douglasfir.com.au/
"Conclusion:"
Ben quoi? Un gars se fatigue a courir a Brooklyn, jacasser pendant une heure et passer le reste de la journée a marcher d'une salle a l'autre pour écouter les autres parler, avant de revenir au Nouveau Jersey pour dormir un peu.
Un peu de rock'n roll pour me réamimer.
---- "junkyard girlfriend" par: "ROCKET CITY RIOT" http://www.rocketcityriot.com/
Outro
intro
Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu!
MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical.
Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens.
Son but est de nous garder divertis, d'expliquer nos symptômes, de remarquer à propos de nos découvertes et d'élever la conscience générale envers notre maladie.
Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur.
Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances.
Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur.
Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances.
----
À Moi oûvre le programme...
J'ai ete a PodcampNYC 2.0.
Meh...
---- "This Is Junk" par: "Brainpool" http://brainpool.nu/
À Vous suit...
Ceci est votre segment.
Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment.
Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger.
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Junk In The Trunk" par: "Synthetic Movements" http://www.soundclick.com/syntheticmovements
À L'aide est en troisième...
Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen?
Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast.
Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.)
Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement.
Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".)
Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel.
L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle.
Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé...
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Junk" par: "Munkey Juice" http://www.munkeyjuice.net/
"Thèse:"
Le theme aujourd'hui,. c'est de la "Junk".
J'n'ais rien a dire, donc, "En avant la musique".
---- "Psychobabble Junk" par: "sarah dashew" http://www.sarahdashew.com/
"Synthèse:"
Je suis en train de recupere de ma petite sortie hier a PodcampNYC.
Dis-on que c'a s'est bien passé, mais c'a a été fatigant pareil.
Aujourd'hui je me repose.
---- "Junk" par: "Douglas Fir" http://www.douglasfir.com.au/
"Conclusion:"
Ben quoi? Un gars se fatigue a courir a Brooklyn, jacasser pendant une heure et passer le reste de la journée a marcher d'une salle a l'autre pour écouter les autres parler, avant de revenir au Nouveau Jersey pour dormir un peu.
Un peu de rock'n roll pour me réamimer.
---- "junkyard girlfriend" par: "ROCKET CITY RIOT" http://www.rocketcityriot.com/
Outro
Friday, April 25, 2008
msb-0292 An Interview With Joel Goldman,
msb-0292 An Interview With Joel Goldman.
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I'll be merciful and shut up because I'm actually at PodCampNYC 2.0.
I've got an interview I did on Sunday April 20, 2008 with Joel Goldman and you're getting it too...
Musically, I just couldn't make up my mind so this episode is all over the map. But whatever it was, uh, it was golden...
Rest assured, I'm only semi-insane, musically.
----
Oh, this must be a book episode.
The UPS guy just dropped off a book from Amazon. "Yoga and Multiple Sclerosis: A Journey to Health and Healing" by "Loren M. Fishman & Eric L. Small" ISBN: 978-1-932603-17-0.
You'll be hearing about it when I've had a chance to review it.
---- "Golden West" by: "Reginald Clair" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/
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"
---- "The Golden Shovel" by: "Frozen Carp" http://www.btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=5046
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"
---- "Blue and Gold" by: "Ekayani and the Healing Band" http://www.myspace.com/ekayaniandthehealingband
"Thesis:"
While I'm wandering around at PodCamp NYC 2.0, you get to hear the interview I recorded with Joel Goldman who wrote "Shake Down".
---- "Lover, Ive Been Dreamin Bout a 100 Bags of Gold" by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team" http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php
"Synthesis:"
[If you want to hear the interview, you'll have to get the show.]
---- "Goldie Hawn" by: "Butane Variations" http://www.butanevariations.com/
"Conclusion:"
I hope you enjoyed the interview.
I personally am looking forward to a lot more books about ex-FBI agent "Jack Davis".
Meanwhile, I'm wandering around PodCampNY and later eugene are going to go to R.U.B. and chow down on some Righteous Urban Barbequeue.
----
Did anyone catch ABC News Wednesday, the 23rd of April, 2008?
Now being at risk of being sick is a fireable offense. (Its got "nothing" to do with whether you can do your job. Its not your boss. Its not HR. Its the HMO that is supposedly working for you that's going to wave you "bye bye".)
Owning up to it is (you "know" they'll find an excuse to get rid of you [you were very good at that, weren't you?]) and "not" fessing up can land you in "jail" (and being a felon is usually grounds for dismissal.)
Smoke? You may get fired. (You certainly won't get hired, and if you lie on the entrance form, you will certainly get fired.)
Eat too much? Same crap?
Got in a car crash? Same crap?
Got high blood pressure? Diabetes? Arteriosclerosis? At risk for stroke? Maybe your parents came from the wrong friggin' country, like "France!"
Hell, you may get fired.
And then where will you be?
The same place we were in in 1970s before Nixon created this HMO crap, living with the dread certainty that a stray virus could wipe you and your family out of their savings before killing your eventually worthless asses.
---- "Tide Of Gold" by: "Frank Thewes" http://www.music-is.com/
Outro
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I'll be merciful and shut up because I'm actually at PodCampNYC 2.0.
I've got an interview I did on Sunday April 20, 2008 with Joel Goldman and you're getting it too...
Musically, I just couldn't make up my mind so this episode is all over the map. But whatever it was, uh, it was golden...
Rest assured, I'm only semi-insane, musically.
----
Oh, this must be a book episode.
The UPS guy just dropped off a book from Amazon. "Yoga and Multiple Sclerosis: A Journey to Health and Healing" by "Loren M. Fishman & Eric L. Small" ISBN: 978-1-932603-17-0.
You'll be hearing about it when I've had a chance to review it.
---- "Golden West" by: "Reginald Clair" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/
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"
---- "The Golden Shovel" by: "Frozen Carp" http://www.btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=5046
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"
---- "Blue and Gold" by: "Ekayani and the Healing Band" http://www.myspace.com/ekayaniandthehealingband
"Thesis:"
While I'm wandering around at PodCamp NYC 2.0, you get to hear the interview I recorded with Joel Goldman who wrote "Shake Down".
---- "Lover, Ive Been Dreamin Bout a 100 Bags of Gold" by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team" http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php
"Synthesis:"
[If you want to hear the interview, you'll have to get the show.]
---- "Goldie Hawn" by: "Butane Variations" http://www.butanevariations.com/
"Conclusion:"
I hope you enjoyed the interview.
I personally am looking forward to a lot more books about ex-FBI agent "Jack Davis".
Meanwhile, I'm wandering around PodCampNY and later eugene are going to go to R.U.B. and chow down on some Righteous Urban Barbequeue.
----
Did anyone catch ABC News Wednesday, the 23rd of April, 2008?
Now being at risk of being sick is a fireable offense. (Its got "nothing" to do with whether you can do your job. Its not your boss. Its not HR. Its the HMO that is supposedly working for you that's going to wave you "bye bye".)
Owning up to it is (you "know" they'll find an excuse to get rid of you [you were very good at that, weren't you?]) and "not" fessing up can land you in "jail" (and being a felon is usually grounds for dismissal.)
Smoke? You may get fired. (You certainly won't get hired, and if you lie on the entrance form, you will certainly get fired.)
Eat too much? Same crap?
Got in a car crash? Same crap?
Got high blood pressure? Diabetes? Arteriosclerosis? At risk for stroke? Maybe your parents came from the wrong friggin' country, like "France!"
Hell, you may get fired.
And then where will you be?
The same place we were in in 1970s before Nixon created this HMO crap, living with the dread certainty that a stray virus could wipe you and your family out of their savings before killing your eventually worthless asses.
---- "Tide Of Gold" by: "Frank Thewes" http://www.music-is.com/
Outro
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
msb-0291 There has to be an easier way...
msb-0291 There has to be an easier way...
..
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I actually choked on my cup of coffee when I read Shauna's bit for today.
And then I found the YouTube video at the front of this post because it just seemed appropriate, eh?
I have a treat coming up on Friday's show. Joel Goldman is a wonderful interviewee. Me ... I suck. I turned into a babbling, bumbling fan boy.
I'm trying something new to generate a transcript of the conversation. If it doesn't work, the interview will be audio only so if you want to hear him, you'll need working ears (sorry to my hearing challenged audience) and you'll need to pick up the audio at "MSBPodcast.com" [ http://www.MSBPodcast.com ].
I was late this week-end with the French-language podcast because I was very, very busy.
One of the things I was busy with was the aforementioned interview with Mr. Goldman.
Another one was going to my friend the chef's apartment with four other people to help her out with her doctoral project. (They give doctorates in cookery. Who knew?! :-)
She had cooked three delicious chickens, paired them with three wines and we had to "test".
I won't, uh, spoil the results (poor choice of words, I'm sure) except to say that it was absolutely the tastiest meal (well three of them really) that I have eaten. (My wife is a great cook, and I love everything she puts on a plate, but this was "beyond the pale," [which is a strange way of putting it since "beyond the pale" actually refers to the border between England and "Cymru" {"Wales" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales ]}])
---- "Biscuits n Molasses" by: "Big George Jackson Blues Band" http://www.black-and-tan.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"
---- "The Biscuit Blues" by: "Derek Sonderfan" http://www.esoderek.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"
---- "Tea & Biscuits -Terrus LP-" by: "Marc Reeves" http://www.myspace.com/mjronline
"Thesis:"
This episode seems to be all about food.
I had a friend in Montréal who once cooked a meal for the woman he was about to make his wife, after consulting on the recipe with his mother of course.
He made a very basic error of turning his brain off at the kitchen door and trying to eat the results.
He lived and he even got married to his girlfriend at the time ... but it was a near thing. :-)
---- "Randy Newman's Theme from Seabiscuit" by: "Paul and Storm" http://www.paulandstorm.com/
"Synthesis:"
There has to be an easier way to make biscuits....
My parents are a source of on air material for me. They are very funny people and some of their experiences are amusing to relate here as well.
About 13 or so years ago, my father, an electrical engineer for all his working life, decided he needed to learn how to cook. And bake. And generally be able to look after himself when my mother was away. At the beginning of this new phase in his life he asked my mother to teach him how to make biscuits.
He had a pen and paper and wrote down the ingredients as she was making the biscuits.
A few weeks later he was ready to try them on his own. Mom was out, so he asked if I wanted to help. Hindsight is 20/20, as they say, and maybe I should have helped, but my father is also like a bull in a china shop, so I declined. After much banging around, Dad came out to the family room with a wide band of flour across the waist of his pants. He asked me what he was supposed to do with the waxed paper.
"The what?"
"The waxed paper. Your mother said something about waxed paper."
Dead silence, then, "I really don't know, Dad."
So off he went into the kitchen again....more banging around...until finally he came back and said, "The biscuits are in the oven, but I couldn't get the waxed paper out of them".
This truly intrigued me so I had to go check them out. Sure enough he had a pan of great looking biscuits baking in the oven with bits and pieces of waxed paper sticking out of them.
My father is of a rational and scientific mind. He is a very logical and linear thinker. My mother and I are both a little bit like that, but with a more creative way of thinking, so when Dad told us that "There has to be an easier way of making biscuits", she and I were truly confused. I mean, really, how difficult is it to make biscuits?
"Dad, where's your recipe?"
"On the fridge."
I take it down and try to read his chicken scratch. I want to go through the steps with him from the very beginning. "Dad, you read to me what you did."
"Well, I got three cups of flour, then I added-"
"Wait. you got a bowl, right? For the flour?"
"Bowl?"
Aha......
"How did you mix everything?"
"I had the waxed paper on the counter, put the flour on it, made a well- what are you laughing
at?"
My mother and I are in hysterics at this point. You should probably know that my mother values easy clean up above almost anything else, so when she's baking or making pies she uses sheets of waxed paper , FLOURED first, to roll the dough. When she's done, the paper is rolled up and tossed. Easy.
My mother and I are both crying from laughing so hard, imagining my father mixing ingredients on a sheet of waxed paper without the benefit of a bowl. A hat tip to Dad for managing this feat, but it also explains that, as the ingredients mixed, the dough stuck to the waxed paper and it started to tear off in little pieces.
We had the biscuits with dinner that night, and while tasty, we did have to take little bits of waxed paper out of them.
"There has to be a better way to make biscuits" has become a catchphrase for our family ever since.
Last week I came across a website called Cooking for Engineers. It has easy to follow recipes with pictures to demonstrate the process. Curious, I looked up biscuits. And sure enough, in their recipe pictures for basic biscuits, a BOWL is front and centre.
S.
---- "Expand a Biscuit" by: "The Dave Morford Hostage Crisis" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=ab15dddd3472871c4177b4580a79bf66
"Conclusion:"
My friend had read the instructions from his mother but she had a shaky hand, what he thought was 4-5 (four to five) minutes was actually forty-five minutes.
Needless to say, diner was served on his best "Chinette" (give the boy a break, at least he'd cleaned the place up, [well, he'd shoveled the debris into the closets, at least, :-]) at his little round kitchen table for two, and it consisted of two perfectly done potatoes, lightly steamed carrots, warm bread, a bottle of wine (okay, it was "Matteus Rosé, but it had "some" alcoholic content) ... and almost raw chicken.
His wife-to-be was incensed, and definitely smart enough to stick the quivering pink thing back in the oven, (the chicken, not the boyfriend.)
I'm hoping to convince my friend the Chef that "Cooking for Nerds" a.k.a. "How to put supper on the table, even if you are a rocket scientist." a.k.a. "Step by step instructions to keep your propeller-headed self alive in a kitchen." is a book that is crying out to be written.
Seriously, unlike this next song...
---- "king biscuit time" by: "Tremolo55" http://www.tremolo55.com/
Outro
..
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I actually choked on my cup of coffee when I read Shauna's bit for today.
And then I found the YouTube video at the front of this post because it just seemed appropriate, eh?
I have a treat coming up on Friday's show. Joel Goldman is a wonderful interviewee. Me ... I suck. I turned into a babbling, bumbling fan boy.
I'm trying something new to generate a transcript of the conversation. If it doesn't work, the interview will be audio only so if you want to hear him, you'll need working ears (sorry to my hearing challenged audience) and you'll need to pick up the audio at "MSBPodcast.com" [ http://www.MSBPodcast.com ].
I was late this week-end with the French-language podcast because I was very, very busy.
One of the things I was busy with was the aforementioned interview with Mr. Goldman.
Another one was going to my friend the chef's apartment with four other people to help her out with her doctoral project. (They give doctorates in cookery. Who knew?! :-)
She had cooked three delicious chickens, paired them with three wines and we had to "test".
I won't, uh, spoil the results (poor choice of words, I'm sure) except to say that it was absolutely the tastiest meal (well three of them really) that I have eaten. (My wife is a great cook, and I love everything she puts on a plate, but this was "beyond the pale," [which is a strange way of putting it since "beyond the pale" actually refers to the border between England and "Cymru" {"Wales" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales ]}])
---- "Biscuits n Molasses" by: "Big George Jackson Blues Band" http://www.black-and-tan.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"
---- "The Biscuit Blues" by: "Derek Sonderfan" http://www.esoderek.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"
---- "Tea & Biscuits -Terrus LP-" by: "Marc Reeves" http://www.myspace.com/mjronline
"Thesis:"
This episode seems to be all about food.
I had a friend in Montréal who once cooked a meal for the woman he was about to make his wife, after consulting on the recipe with his mother of course.
He made a very basic error of turning his brain off at the kitchen door and trying to eat the results.
He lived and he even got married to his girlfriend at the time ... but it was a near thing. :-)
---- "Randy Newman's Theme from Seabiscuit" by: "Paul and Storm" http://www.paulandstorm.com/
"Synthesis:"
There has to be an easier way to make biscuits....
My parents are a source of on air material for me. They are very funny people and some of their experiences are amusing to relate here as well.
About 13 or so years ago, my father, an electrical engineer for all his working life, decided he needed to learn how to cook. And bake. And generally be able to look after himself when my mother was away. At the beginning of this new phase in his life he asked my mother to teach him how to make biscuits.
He had a pen and paper and wrote down the ingredients as she was making the biscuits.
A few weeks later he was ready to try them on his own. Mom was out, so he asked if I wanted to help. Hindsight is 20/20, as they say, and maybe I should have helped, but my father is also like a bull in a china shop, so I declined. After much banging around, Dad came out to the family room with a wide band of flour across the waist of his pants. He asked me what he was supposed to do with the waxed paper.
"The what?"
"The waxed paper. Your mother said something about waxed paper."
Dead silence, then, "I really don't know, Dad."
So off he went into the kitchen again....more banging around...until finally he came back and said, "The biscuits are in the oven, but I couldn't get the waxed paper out of them".
This truly intrigued me so I had to go check them out. Sure enough he had a pan of great looking biscuits baking in the oven with bits and pieces of waxed paper sticking out of them.
My father is of a rational and scientific mind. He is a very logical and linear thinker. My mother and I are both a little bit like that, but with a more creative way of thinking, so when Dad told us that "There has to be an easier way of making biscuits", she and I were truly confused. I mean, really, how difficult is it to make biscuits?
"Dad, where's your recipe?"
"On the fridge."
I take it down and try to read his chicken scratch. I want to go through the steps with him from the very beginning. "Dad, you read to me what you did."
"Well, I got three cups of flour, then I added-"
"Wait. you got a bowl, right? For the flour?"
"Bowl?"
Aha......
"How did you mix everything?"
"I had the waxed paper on the counter, put the flour on it, made a well- what are you laughing
at?"
My mother and I are in hysterics at this point. You should probably know that my mother values easy clean up above almost anything else, so when she's baking or making pies she uses sheets of waxed paper , FLOURED first, to roll the dough. When she's done, the paper is rolled up and tossed. Easy.
My mother and I are both crying from laughing so hard, imagining my father mixing ingredients on a sheet of waxed paper without the benefit of a bowl. A hat tip to Dad for managing this feat, but it also explains that, as the ingredients mixed, the dough stuck to the waxed paper and it started to tear off in little pieces.
We had the biscuits with dinner that night, and while tasty, we did have to take little bits of waxed paper out of them.
"There has to be a better way to make biscuits" has become a catchphrase for our family ever since.
Last week I came across a website called Cooking for Engineers. It has easy to follow recipes with pictures to demonstrate the process. Curious, I looked up biscuits. And sure enough, in their recipe pictures for basic biscuits, a BOWL is front and centre.
S.
---- "Expand a Biscuit" by: "The Dave Morford Hostage Crisis" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=ab15dddd3472871c4177b4580a79bf66
"Conclusion:"
My friend had read the instructions from his mother but she had a shaky hand, what he thought was 4-5 (four to five) minutes was actually forty-five minutes.
Needless to say, diner was served on his best "Chinette" (give the boy a break, at least he'd cleaned the place up, [well, he'd shoveled the debris into the closets, at least, :-]) at his little round kitchen table for two, and it consisted of two perfectly done potatoes, lightly steamed carrots, warm bread, a bottle of wine (okay, it was "Matteus Rosé, but it had "some" alcoholic content) ... and almost raw chicken.
His wife-to-be was incensed, and definitely smart enough to stick the quivering pink thing back in the oven, (the chicken, not the boyfriend.)
I'm hoping to convince my friend the Chef that "Cooking for Nerds" a.k.a. "How to put supper on the table, even if you are a rocket scientist." a.k.a. "Step by step instructions to keep your propeller-headed self alive in a kitchen." is a book that is crying out to be written.
Seriously, unlike this next song...
---- "king biscuit time" by: "Tremolo55" http://www.tremolo55.com/
Outro
Monday, April 21, 2008
msb-0290 A Flurry of Leaves
msb-0290 A Flurry of Leaves
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
The first three songs on this episode are by a band called "Dead Leaf Echo" and the last three are by a band called "Carbon Leaf".
"Dead Leaf Echo" are New York band that I have played before and they are fronted by a likable young man (LG) and a likable young woman (Liza B.)
They show promise. A few more years (it takes 15 years to become an overnight success and they'll get to play on a mixing console that really kicks ass,) and they'll really get somewhere with their music.
I turned them onto the PMN (the Podsafe Music Network) and I hope people get the same vibe from them that I did.
Come to think of it, I have to get back in touch with "The Detonators" (They've got quite a few plays since I turned them onto the PMN.)
"Carbon Leaf" I just like the sound of. I don't know the band beyond that.
----
I heard from Kathryn Martin, who is the Public Affairs/Patient Advocacy Manager at "MediciGlobal".
She has asked me to post the following:
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"
---- "Tears" by: "Dead Leaf Echo" http://www.deadleafechonyc.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"
---- "Cry the Sea" by: "Dead Leaf Echo" http://www.deadleafechonyc.com/
"Thesis:"
Sorry, I'm busy with other things.
If I don't hear back from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society or from the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, we'll just do the wiki without them.
I'm not trying to muscle in on their territory but I'm inviting them to play on mine.
If they don't want to, that's their loss.
I'm trying to build a wiki and a society of MSers.
A place where "we"matter.
---- "Love Loss Hope Repeat" by: "Carbon Leaf" http://www.carbonleaf.com/
"Synthesis:"
Do these people even realize anymore that their function is to raise money, not to spend it on things like the production costs of a magazine.
(I'm self-schooled follower of "Harold Evans" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Evans ] and I have read the "Five-volume Manual of English, Typography and Layout" [ http://www.amazon.com/Editing-design-five-English-typography/dp/043490550X ] more times than I care to admit since I'd first found the books at the late and lamented "Academic Bookshop" in Montreal in 1976. [Don't knock it. I produced an award winning news letter for the Ottawa Chapter of the Ontario MS Society back in 1985 when I was first diagnosed.])
There are actualy "two" editorial budgets involved in producing content for their magazines, "Momentum", ( the old "Inside MS") [ http://www.nationalmssociety.org/multimedia-library/momentum-magazine/index.aspx ] and "The Motivator" [ http://www.msassociation.org/publications/winter08/ ] (which sounds more like something read by "Rotarians" [ http://www.rotary.org/en/Pages/ridefault.aspx ] and "motivational speakers" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_speaker ] ...)
The first is the apportioning of copy to a limited resource, the printable page, versus what it has compete with as far as illustration and ad content, and the second has to do with what is the cost of producing a given piece versus how much revenue it can be expected to produce.
If you use a wiki in your news-gathering operation, your articles are always the freshest that they can be and your print edition merely reflects the state of an article at a given point in time.
A wiki can keep things up to date, can relate a whole web of information, and can roll-things back if new information doesn't pan out.
It can be dynamic and features can adapt to the situation (like Google maps and Calendars and YouTube videos.)
It can also include a whole lot more than can fit onto a printed fly-leaf.
---- "Life Less Ordinary" by: "Carbon Leaf" http://www.carbonleaf.com/
"Conclusion:"
While I respect the NMSS and MSAA, I don't think they realize that "WE" are the ones with MS.
"WE", the MSers, don't feel like standing around, getting sicker, while the good doctors consult and the pharma co.s try us out as guinea pigs for re-marketing and re-branding their AIDS drugs.
The wiki will be open for general Beta trial next week and I'll be giving out the URL then.
Patience in some areas may be good and wise; but patience in other areas leads to getting notices late and news getting missed altogether.
Screw that...
---- "The Boxer" by: "Carbon Leaf" http://www.carbonleaf.com/
Outro
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
The first three songs on this episode are by a band called "Dead Leaf Echo" and the last three are by a band called "Carbon Leaf".
"Dead Leaf Echo" are New York band that I have played before and they are fronted by a likable young man (LG) and a likable young woman (Liza B.)
They show promise. A few more years (it takes 15 years to become an overnight success and they'll get to play on a mixing console that really kicks ass,) and they'll really get somewhere with their music.
I turned them onto the PMN (the Podsafe Music Network) and I hope people get the same vibe from them that I did.
Come to think of it, I have to get back in touch with "The Detonators" (They've got quite a few plays since I turned them onto the PMN.)
"Carbon Leaf" I just like the sound of. I don't know the band beyond that.
----
I heard from Kathryn Martin, who is the Public Affairs/Patient Advocacy Manager at "MediciGlobal".
She has asked me to post the following:
“Give your opinion on MS materials and designs.---- "Pale Fire" by: "Dead Leaf Echo" http://www.deadleafechonyc.com/
Your opinion counts and this should take no longer than 5 minutes or less!
We’re creating materials about an upcoming multiple sclerosis clinical trial, and we welcome your input.
We’d like to know how you rate the design and look of the materials. We don’t ask for any information about you.
This survey is anonymous. No identifying information is collected.
Please copy and paste the following "link" into your browser and you will be connected to the survey: [ That's only if the link on the word link doesn't work. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=3LSAqzrLwqZnOO0dKSIemg_3d_3d ].
We really appreciate your feedback!”
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"
---- "Tears" by: "Dead Leaf Echo" http://www.deadleafechonyc.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"
---- "Cry the Sea" by: "Dead Leaf Echo" http://www.deadleafechonyc.com/
"Thesis:"
Sorry, I'm busy with other things.
If I don't hear back from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society or from the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, we'll just do the wiki without them.
I'm not trying to muscle in on their territory but I'm inviting them to play on mine.
If they don't want to, that's their loss.
I'm trying to build a wiki and a society of MSers.
A place where "we"matter.
---- "Love Loss Hope Repeat" by: "Carbon Leaf" http://www.carbonleaf.com/
"Synthesis:"
Do these people even realize anymore that their function is to raise money, not to spend it on things like the production costs of a magazine.
(I'm self-schooled follower of "Harold Evans" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Evans ] and I have read the "Five-volume Manual of English, Typography and Layout" [ http://www.amazon.com/Editing-design-five-English-typography/dp/043490550X ] more times than I care to admit since I'd first found the books at the late and lamented "Academic Bookshop" in Montreal in 1976. [Don't knock it. I produced an award winning news letter for the Ottawa Chapter of the Ontario MS Society back in 1985 when I was first diagnosed.])
There are actualy "two" editorial budgets involved in producing content for their magazines, "Momentum", ( the old "Inside MS") [ http://www.nationalmssociety.org/multimedia-library/momentum-magazine/index.aspx ] and "The Motivator" [ http://www.msassociation.org/publications/winter08/ ] (which sounds more like something read by "Rotarians" [ http://www.rotary.org/en/Pages/ridefault.aspx ] and "motivational speakers" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_speaker ] ...)
The first is the apportioning of copy to a limited resource, the printable page, versus what it has compete with as far as illustration and ad content, and the second has to do with what is the cost of producing a given piece versus how much revenue it can be expected to produce.
If you use a wiki in your news-gathering operation, your articles are always the freshest that they can be and your print edition merely reflects the state of an article at a given point in time.
A wiki can keep things up to date, can relate a whole web of information, and can roll-things back if new information doesn't pan out.
It can be dynamic and features can adapt to the situation (like Google maps and Calendars and YouTube videos.)
It can also include a whole lot more than can fit onto a printed fly-leaf.
---- "Life Less Ordinary" by: "Carbon Leaf" http://www.carbonleaf.com/
"Conclusion:"
While I respect the NMSS and MSAA, I don't think they realize that "WE" are the ones with MS.
"WE", the MSers, don't feel like standing around, getting sicker, while the good doctors consult and the pharma co.s try us out as guinea pigs for re-marketing and re-branding their AIDS drugs.
The wiki will be open for general Beta trial next week and I'll be giving out the URL then.
Patience in some areas may be good and wise; but patience in other areas leads to getting notices late and news getting missed altogether.
Screw that...
---- "The Boxer" by: "Carbon Leaf" http://www.carbonleaf.com/
Outro
Sunday, April 20, 2008
msb-fr-0008 Nous Y Voici Encore
msb-fr-0008 Nous Y Voici Encore
intro
Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu!
MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical.
Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens.
----
À Moi oûvre le programme...
Je n'ai pas un seul message des Francophones encore.
Mais je sais que vous venez de la France, du Québec et de l'Afrique (du Maroc, de la Tunesie et du Liban) et même de plus loin encore, (du Vietnam.)
---- "Ghost is Broken" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/
À Vous suit...
Ceci est votre segment.
Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment.
Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger.
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "The Lullaby of Loneliness" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/
À L'aide est en troisième...
Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen?
Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast.
Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.)
Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement.
Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".)
Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel.
L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle.
Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé...
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Very Very Heavy" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/
"Thèse:"
Ça sera une émission spécialle dédié a une femme tres spéciale, Géraldine, qui m'encourage a podcaster en vers une audience plus large.
---- "Thin Ice" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/
"Synthèse:"
Géraldine est l'inspiration de la soirée Francophone oû nous nous somme tous recontrés la semaine dernière.
(Je m'excuse de mon orthographe psychotique, mais ca fait des années que j'ais écrit le Français. :-)
Et a la personnne gui est venue a mon blog oû a mon podcast de "Nanteuil-en-vallée", bienvenue.
Si vous voulez prendre la relève, je me ferais un plaisir do vous faire parvenir un cheque pour que vous puissiez acheter un microphone USB pour connecter a votre ordinateur (j'ai malheureusement l'experience qui me dit dans un certain language qu' envoyer un micro ce n'est pas pratique.)
Je ferais la selection de la musique puisque la loi en France ne me permet pas d'utilizer des chansons Française (c'est une vrais connerie, mais c'est la loi.)
---- "Me and My Rainshadow" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/
"Conclusion:"
Je me sent comme l'allumeur de réverbere du "Petit Prince" [ http://www.amazon.com/Petit-Prince-French-Language/dp/015650300X ] D'"Antoine de Saint Exupery" [ http://www.antoinedesaintexupery.com/ ].
"La consigne c'est la consigne. Bonjour." [ http://www3.sympatico.ca/gaston.ringuelet/lepetitprince/chapitre14.html ]
Je ne comprend pas auquel vous objectez.
"C'est la consigne", bonsoir.
Je crois qu'on est rendu a ce stage du ridicule.
---- "Animals Like Us" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/
Outro
intro
Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu!
MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical.
Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens.
Son but est de nous garder divertis, d'expliquer nos symptômes, de remarquer à propos de nos découvertes et d'élever la conscience générale envers notre maladie.
Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur.
Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances.
Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur.
Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances.
----
À Moi oûvre le programme...
Je n'ai pas un seul message des Francophones encore.
Mais je sais que vous venez de la France, du Québec et de l'Afrique (du Maroc, de la Tunesie et du Liban) et même de plus loin encore, (du Vietnam.)
---- "Ghost is Broken" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/
À Vous suit...
Ceci est votre segment.
Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment.
Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger.
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "The Lullaby of Loneliness" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/
À L'aide est en troisième...
Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen?
Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast.
Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.)
Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement.
Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".)
Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel.
L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle.
Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé...
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Very Very Heavy" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/
"Thèse:"
Ça sera une émission spécialle dédié a une femme tres spéciale, Géraldine, qui m'encourage a podcaster en vers une audience plus large.
---- "Thin Ice" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/
"Synthèse:"
Géraldine est l'inspiration de la soirée Francophone oû nous nous somme tous recontrés la semaine dernière.
(Je m'excuse de mon orthographe psychotique, mais ca fait des années que j'ais écrit le Français. :-)
Et a la personnne gui est venue a mon blog oû a mon podcast de "Nanteuil-en-vallée", bienvenue.
Si vous voulez prendre la relève, je me ferais un plaisir do vous faire parvenir un cheque pour que vous puissiez acheter un microphone USB pour connecter a votre ordinateur (j'ai malheureusement l'experience qui me dit dans un certain language qu' envoyer un micro ce n'est pas pratique.)
Je ferais la selection de la musique puisque la loi en France ne me permet pas d'utilizer des chansons Française (c'est une vrais connerie, mais c'est la loi.)
---- "Me and My Rainshadow" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/
"Conclusion:"
Je me sent comme l'allumeur de réverbere du "Petit Prince" [ http://www.amazon.com/Petit-Prince-French-Language/dp/015650300X ] D'"Antoine de Saint Exupery" [ http://www.antoinedesaintexupery.com/ ].
"La consigne c'est la consigne. Bonjour." [ http://www3.sympatico.ca/gaston.ringuelet/lepetitprince/chapitre14.html ]
Je ne comprend pas auquel vous objectez.
"C'est la consigne", bonsoir.
Je crois qu'on est rendu a ce stage du ridicule.
---- "Animals Like Us" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/
Outro
Friday, April 18, 2008
msb-0289 Its getting closer...
msb-0289 Its getting closer...
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
The more I think about this watchdog that I'm proposing (think "MediaGuide" [ http://www.ascap.com/playback/2004/fall/hd-headlines.html ] from ASCAP [American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers] but for adverts,) the more I think its an absolute necessity for the "Wild West" of the internet to have some impartial authority that just gathers statistics that both the podcasters and the advertisers can trust and disseminates impartially to anyone and everyone who asks.
---- "Closer" by: "Norman Hedman's Tropique" http://normanhedman.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"
---- "Come Closer" by: "Marcus Williams" http://www.mywpmusic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=15&Itemid=118
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"
---- "Closer Still" by: "Robert Gomez" http://www.robertgomezmusic.com/
"Thesis:"
Next week at this time, I'll be delivering a bombshell, (hopefully "not"the same way that "Slim Pickens" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Pickens ] did in "Doctor Stangelove" [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/ ],) that may upend my life as thoroughly as I did when I embraced object-orientation and open-source programming.
Believe me, at the time it was all new, untested, and meeting lots of resistance from the "old guard" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_guard ] unstructured programmers.
Now object-orientation is "de rigeur" and open-source is seen as the best way to get contributions from the "wisdom of the crowd" to quickly and inexpensively 'mash up" [ http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ibmmsk ] software to do whatever you need. (Thankfully I managed to get out of software development with my shirt and a couple of bucks put aside. I can afford to look at new opportunities.)
I "know" what podcasting needs to be taken seriously as a medium the same way that I "knew" about object-orientation and open-source.
I "also" know how advertising assets are created, charged and tracked.
And if "you" don't, well you're screwed.
You have to play the game if you want to get dealt a hand.
But there has to be a nice way to get the "Hooper, Crossley, Nielsen, Pulse" and "Schwerin" and other type of people to realize that we don't need them and their statistical manipulations to derive a "touchy-feely" sense of audience share "at all."
Download logs are "absolute, verifiable" and a "true" end-to-end metric.
---- "Closer" by: "The Divine Madness" http://myspace.com/thedivinemadness
"Synthesis:"
What has been missing everywhere is a trusted source for the episode "circulation" numbers.
Somewhere where the by-words are: "the bull shit stops here."
Somewhere where anyone can go for the final arbiter of who caught what episode.
Somewhere where both podcaster and advertiser can absolutely trust the circulation statistic.
Lets be honest, nobody who's interested in going to PodCamp NY is also going to be interested in:
It will take
From the hoovering of the logs to the spitting out of the emails, the entire process has to happen with extremely rapid and dependable turn around.
---- "Closer" by: "Diane Jessurun" http://www.dianejessurun.com/
"Conclusion:"
Next week-end, my life will probably take a turn for the better (or worse, depending on how you look at the work that I'll have to do.)
Luckily, I know people who would be interested in taking on parts of the work (and these all mesh together into a seamless whole,) while I would have to handle the semi-public face of the organization. (Good thing I'm not shy...)
(Not to mention negotiate for space, negotiate salaries or hiring contracts, negotiate for new equipment and maintenance contracts.)
---- "Closer to you" by: "Evolver" http://evolver.co.za/
Outro
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
The more I think about this watchdog that I'm proposing (think "MediaGuide" [ http://www.ascap.com/playback/2004/fall/hd-headlines.html ] from ASCAP [American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers] but for adverts,) the more I think its an absolute necessity for the "Wild West" of the internet to have some impartial authority that just gathers statistics that both the podcasters and the advertisers can trust and disseminates impartially to anyone and everyone who asks.
---- "Closer" by: "Norman Hedman's Tropique" http://normanhedman.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"
---- "Come Closer" by: "Marcus Williams" http://www.mywpmusic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=15&Itemid=118
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"
---- "Closer Still" by: "Robert Gomez" http://www.robertgomezmusic.com/
"Thesis:"
Next week at this time, I'll be delivering a bombshell, (hopefully "not"the same way that "Slim Pickens" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Pickens ] did in "Doctor Stangelove" [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/ ],) that may upend my life as thoroughly as I did when I embraced object-orientation and open-source programming.
Believe me, at the time it was all new, untested, and meeting lots of resistance from the "old guard" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_guard ] unstructured programmers.
Now object-orientation is "de rigeur" and open-source is seen as the best way to get contributions from the "wisdom of the crowd" to quickly and inexpensively 'mash up" [ http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ibmmsk ] software to do whatever you need. (Thankfully I managed to get out of software development with my shirt and a couple of bucks put aside. I can afford to look at new opportunities.)
I "know" what podcasting needs to be taken seriously as a medium the same way that I "knew" about object-orientation and open-source.
I "also" know how advertising assets are created, charged and tracked.
And if "you" don't, well you're screwed.
You have to play the game if you want to get dealt a hand.
But there has to be a nice way to get the "Hooper, Crossley, Nielsen, Pulse" and "Schwerin" and other type of people to realize that we don't need them and their statistical manipulations to derive a "touchy-feely" sense of audience share "at all."
Download logs are "absolute, verifiable" and a "true" end-to-end metric.
---- "Closer" by: "The Divine Madness" http://myspace.com/thedivinemadness
"Synthesis:"
What has been missing everywhere is a trusted source for the episode "circulation" numbers.
Somewhere where the by-words are: "the bull shit stops here."
Somewhere where anyone can go for the final arbiter of who caught what episode.
Somewhere where both podcaster and advertiser can absolutely trust the circulation statistic.
Lets be honest, nobody who's interested in going to PodCamp NY is also going to be interested in:
- the kinds of minutia and accurate record keeping activities which the non profit will require,
- the kinds of equipment that this kind of processing will require,
- the kinds of personel that this kind of equipment will require.
It will take
- enough bandwidth to take all of this stuff in and spit out the emails we're going to generate,
- enough storage to load up a few month's worth of Apache/IIS logs (we're talking a few terabytes hard disk and maybe a terabyte of RAM)
- enough processing power to filter out the stuff we're not tracking from the stuff we are, (that's going to be one massive dictionary)
- enough processing power to sort what's left by podcaster, episode numbers destination IP address, (that's going to be one massive radix table and link-lists)
- enough processing power to also sort by advertiser, podcaster, episode number, destination IP addresses (a more massive radix table and link-list) and
- enough processing power to take the output, format it and send it via e-mail to the podcasters and to the advertiser.
From the hoovering of the logs to the spitting out of the emails, the entire process has to happen with extremely rapid and dependable turn around.
---- "Closer" by: "Diane Jessurun" http://www.dianejessurun.com/
"Conclusion:"
Next week-end, my life will probably take a turn for the better (or worse, depending on how you look at the work that I'll have to do.)
Luckily, I know people who would be interested in taking on parts of the work (and these all mesh together into a seamless whole,) while I would have to handle the semi-public face of the organization. (Good thing I'm not shy...)
(Not to mention negotiate for space, negotiate salaries or hiring contracts, negotiate for new equipment and maintenance contracts.)
---- "Closer to you" by: "Evolver" http://evolver.co.za/
Outro
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
msb-0288 Frustration
msb-0288 Frustration
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
This is getting weird, really weird.
Where the dickens are people finding some of these episodes? I even took down the post.
Talk about some shows being evergreen...
I'm "still" getting downloads of episode "msb-0018 The Gift of Giving".
I'm at 288. That's 270 episodes ago.
That's really hurts. Why don't people move on?
Over a dozen downloads this month so far and we're barely halfway through.
I can't for the life of me figure out why? (Heck I can't for the life of me figure out "how?")
---- "Frustrated" by: "PPT" http://www.myspace.com/ppt3
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"
---- "Frustrated" by: "Blondsai" http://www.myspace.com/blondsai
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"
---- "Just One Night -Frustration Mix- Feat. Jeremy Carr and JWills" by: "Plurgid" http://andrew.hicox.com/
"Thesis:"
Its strange that we equate the ability to perceive information written down and shifted in time and space, in any media or language, or notation or subject, as the mark of intelligence, maturity and culture.
Then again, its what prevents and and all of us from being mere "will-o-the-whisp," to disssipate and fade away after we accomplish anything.
What is written remains, sometimes to haunt us...
---- "Release" by: "Aloud" http://www.allthingsaloud.com/
"Synthesis:"
Cute, isn't he? Lol.....I wish.
Before I started school, I begged my parents to teach me to read. They wouldn't. They taught me all the letters and numbers as required, but they wouldn't teach me to read. I was desperate to learn. The school of thought at that time, was not to teach your kids to read before they went to school as they would end up ahead of their peers and that would lead to grade skipping and that would lead to social problems etc. So I was told, "You'll learn to read when you start school". Of course I was eager to start.
My first day of school I was pretty excited. Today was the day I was going to learn to read. I came home after school very upset. I declared that I wasn't going back the next day. My mom asked why. "Because they didn't teach me how to read", was my reply. I was very annoyed.
It should not have been a surprise to my parents that I was so angry. After all, when trying to teach me how to tell time (at the age of 3), I could not be convinced that the part of the clock with the numbers on it was called the "face" of the clock. "That's not a face!!" And when they weren't looking, in my frustration, I took the clock apart, took the cardboard face off it, and tore it into little pieces. I can't imagine why my parents didn't have me in therapy fearing their darling little girl (and I was ) wasn't going to be a homicidal maniac.
Back to learning how to read. Somehow my mother convinced me to go back to school the next day. Of course I soaked it up like the little sponge I was. Pretty soon I had read all of the books in the class and was going to the school library by myself to get more. One day I found a shelf containing Babar the Elephant books. Wow! I had heard other kids talk about these books and the character so I was pretty excited. I took one off the shelf and opened it up. But I couldn't read it!! It wasn't printed in type like other books. The type was in script. Long hand!! I took the book to the librarian and asked her why the book was like that. She didn't really have an answer for me except to say that those books were for older students. "You mean they can read this?" I asked, incredulous that anyone could make out words in what appeared to be scribbling." What grade do I have to be in to read this?" I asked. "Grade 3 or 4"' she told me. I was beyond taking my frustration out on inanimate objects, so instead of tearing the book into little pieces, I carefully put it back where I got it and vowed to myself that even when I did learn how to read cursive writing I would NEVER read a Babar the Elephant book. Ever. How DARE they put a book in the library that I couldn't read. It wasn't that I wasn't allowed. But it had been deliberately set in a type that I wasn't going to be taught until 2 or 3 years later. Why would they want to put that type of a book in the library if half the student population couldn't read it? I didn't understand. It was like putting a bowl of candy in front of a child and saying they could have some in 2 or 3 years, but not before.
Fast forward to grade 10. After struggling with absolute idiots for classmates, with a few exceptions, for two years in junior high and daily verbal and mental abuse (and the occasional slap) from bullies at school, I was in high school with a select few classmates in Advanced Math, English, and History. Finally, I could get back to what I enjoyed about school-learning. And with other students who wanted to learn, rather than goof off. But I hit a brick wall in math for the first time in my life. For two months I laboured over that subject, just not getting it. I was frustrated. My parents were frustrated. My teacher, Mr. Lyne, was frustrated (more on him in another post as he was and still is one of the best teachers I ever had). And then one day at school, Mr. Lyne was at the front of the class, explaining something when suddenly the entire room lit up with the light bulb that turned on over my head. He stopped mid sentence when he saw the smoke coming out of my ears and my mouth twitching in anticipation of blurting out the rest of the explanation. I still remember him bending slightly at the waist towards me, encouraging me to speak, and the smile on his face getting wider and wider as I did. When I was done, he and the other students in class cheered. I was thrilled beyond belief. It was like I had just discovered a cure for cancer. I finally got it! I loved that feeling, and it propelled me to learn more to get that feeling over and over again.
Last year, the Wookie and I were talking about Quantum Physics. Really. Actually, the Wookie was trying to explain it to me, or at least one aspect of it. I was following pretty closely, I thought, but didn't reach the same conclusion as he did. We checked something out on the net, a demonstration that came out the way he said it would. "But it shouldn't do that!!" I exclaimed in my naive way of believing in the basic laws of physics as I understood them. "But it does", was his reply. "But it shouldn't!!" was my brilliant response. "That's just so wrong!!" I insisted, much like my friend Lana said when we went to see The Ring and the little you-know-who did you-know-what(I don't want to spoil the ending if you haven't seen the movie). There was a shaking of the earth as my understanding of the laws of physics was completely shattered. I am still frustrated with my apparent inability to understand quantum physics and time travel (I insist you can't time travel).
Over the years I have continued to read and learn and get frustrated. To this day, I have never read a Babar the Elephant book, even though they are now printed with regular type - I checked. But I have come to accept that there are things I will never come to understand. Like leg warmers as fashion. Like Quantum Physics. Or World Wars and genocides. Or multiple sclerosis. Believe me, for the past ten years I have been reading and studying and asking questions. Yes, "We're working on it" is getting pretty tiresome to hear, and yes, I'm getting really frustrated, like you probably. What do I do? Tear something up? Punch a hole in the wall? Refuse to participate in something? This is one situation over which I have little control. So I give over control to the doctors and scientists who are working on the problem. And I offer my body to be poked and prodded and scanned and my PR skills to raise awareness and money for the cause.
Next Monday I will be meeting with my neuro, Dr. Murray, and one of the clinic nurses, Judith, to review my MRIs from the study I've been in for 10 years. One of the questions I will be asking the good doctor is "Are you frustrated, too?"
S.
---- "Beautiful Release" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveisaction
"Conclusion:"
What's written is often very frustrating too.
Specially when its written on a prescription pad.
But rather that than to let 'em get me down.
I'd rather "exunt" dancing (Trippin the light fantastic as I soft shoe around the bomb craters and land mines which life has placed in my path.)
---- "Release Me" by: "Groove Generator" http://www.itsaboutmusic.com/grge.html
Outro
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
This is getting weird, really weird.
Where the dickens are people finding some of these episodes? I even took down the post.
Talk about some shows being evergreen...
I'm "still" getting downloads of episode "msb-0018 The Gift of Giving".
I'm at 288. That's 270 episodes ago.
That's really hurts. Why don't people move on?
Over a dozen downloads this month so far and we're barely halfway through.
I can't for the life of me figure out why? (Heck I can't for the life of me figure out "how?")
---- "Frustrated" by: "PPT" http://www.myspace.com/ppt3
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"
---- "Frustrated" by: "Blondsai" http://www.myspace.com/blondsai
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"
---- "Just One Night -Frustration Mix- Feat. Jeremy Carr and JWills" by: "Plurgid" http://andrew.hicox.com/
"Thesis:"
Its strange that we equate the ability to perceive information written down and shifted in time and space, in any media or language, or notation or subject, as the mark of intelligence, maturity and culture.
Then again, its what prevents and and all of us from being mere "will-o-the-whisp," to disssipate and fade away after we accomplish anything.
What is written remains, sometimes to haunt us...
---- "Release" by: "Aloud" http://www.allthingsaloud.com/
"Synthesis:"
Cute, isn't he? Lol.....I wish.
Before I started school, I begged my parents to teach me to read. They wouldn't. They taught me all the letters and numbers as required, but they wouldn't teach me to read. I was desperate to learn. The school of thought at that time, was not to teach your kids to read before they went to school as they would end up ahead of their peers and that would lead to grade skipping and that would lead to social problems etc. So I was told, "You'll learn to read when you start school". Of course I was eager to start.
My first day of school I was pretty excited. Today was the day I was going to learn to read. I came home after school very upset. I declared that I wasn't going back the next day. My mom asked why. "Because they didn't teach me how to read", was my reply. I was very annoyed.
It should not have been a surprise to my parents that I was so angry. After all, when trying to teach me how to tell time (at the age of 3), I could not be convinced that the part of the clock with the numbers on it was called the "face" of the clock. "That's not a face!!" And when they weren't looking, in my frustration, I took the clock apart, took the cardboard face off it, and tore it into little pieces. I can't imagine why my parents didn't have me in therapy fearing their darling little girl (and I was ) wasn't going to be a homicidal maniac.
Back to learning how to read. Somehow my mother convinced me to go back to school the next day. Of course I soaked it up like the little sponge I was. Pretty soon I had read all of the books in the class and was going to the school library by myself to get more. One day I found a shelf containing Babar the Elephant books. Wow! I had heard other kids talk about these books and the character so I was pretty excited. I took one off the shelf and opened it up. But I couldn't read it!! It wasn't printed in type like other books. The type was in script. Long hand!! I took the book to the librarian and asked her why the book was like that. She didn't really have an answer for me except to say that those books were for older students. "You mean they can read this?" I asked, incredulous that anyone could make out words in what appeared to be scribbling." What grade do I have to be in to read this?" I asked. "Grade 3 or 4"' she told me. I was beyond taking my frustration out on inanimate objects, so instead of tearing the book into little pieces, I carefully put it back where I got it and vowed to myself that even when I did learn how to read cursive writing I would NEVER read a Babar the Elephant book. Ever. How DARE they put a book in the library that I couldn't read. It wasn't that I wasn't allowed. But it had been deliberately set in a type that I wasn't going to be taught until 2 or 3 years later. Why would they want to put that type of a book in the library if half the student population couldn't read it? I didn't understand. It was like putting a bowl of candy in front of a child and saying they could have some in 2 or 3 years, but not before.
Fast forward to grade 10. After struggling with absolute idiots for classmates, with a few exceptions, for two years in junior high and daily verbal and mental abuse (and the occasional slap) from bullies at school, I was in high school with a select few classmates in Advanced Math, English, and History. Finally, I could get back to what I enjoyed about school-learning. And with other students who wanted to learn, rather than goof off. But I hit a brick wall in math for the first time in my life. For two months I laboured over that subject, just not getting it. I was frustrated. My parents were frustrated. My teacher, Mr. Lyne, was frustrated (more on him in another post as he was and still is one of the best teachers I ever had). And then one day at school, Mr. Lyne was at the front of the class, explaining something when suddenly the entire room lit up with the light bulb that turned on over my head. He stopped mid sentence when he saw the smoke coming out of my ears and my mouth twitching in anticipation of blurting out the rest of the explanation. I still remember him bending slightly at the waist towards me, encouraging me to speak, and the smile on his face getting wider and wider as I did. When I was done, he and the other students in class cheered. I was thrilled beyond belief. It was like I had just discovered a cure for cancer. I finally got it! I loved that feeling, and it propelled me to learn more to get that feeling over and over again.
Last year, the Wookie and I were talking about Quantum Physics. Really. Actually, the Wookie was trying to explain it to me, or at least one aspect of it. I was following pretty closely, I thought, but didn't reach the same conclusion as he did. We checked something out on the net, a demonstration that came out the way he said it would. "But it shouldn't do that!!" I exclaimed in my naive way of believing in the basic laws of physics as I understood them. "But it does", was his reply. "But it shouldn't!!" was my brilliant response. "That's just so wrong!!" I insisted, much like my friend Lana said when we went to see The Ring and the little you-know-who did you-know-what(I don't want to spoil the ending if you haven't seen the movie). There was a shaking of the earth as my understanding of the laws of physics was completely shattered. I am still frustrated with my apparent inability to understand quantum physics and time travel (I insist you can't time travel).
Over the years I have continued to read and learn and get frustrated. To this day, I have never read a Babar the Elephant book, even though they are now printed with regular type - I checked. But I have come to accept that there are things I will never come to understand. Like leg warmers as fashion. Like Quantum Physics. Or World Wars and genocides. Or multiple sclerosis. Believe me, for the past ten years I have been reading and studying and asking questions. Yes, "We're working on it" is getting pretty tiresome to hear, and yes, I'm getting really frustrated, like you probably. What do I do? Tear something up? Punch a hole in the wall? Refuse to participate in something? This is one situation over which I have little control. So I give over control to the doctors and scientists who are working on the problem. And I offer my body to be poked and prodded and scanned and my PR skills to raise awareness and money for the cause.
Next Monday I will be meeting with my neuro, Dr. Murray, and one of the clinic nurses, Judith, to review my MRIs from the study I've been in for 10 years. One of the questions I will be asking the good doctor is "Are you frustrated, too?"
S.
---- "Beautiful Release" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveisaction
"Conclusion:"
What's written is often very frustrating too.
Specially when its written on a prescription pad.
But rather that than to let 'em get me down.
I'd rather "exunt" dancing (Trippin the light fantastic as I soft shoe around the bomb craters and land mines which life has placed in my path.)
---- "Release Me" by: "Groove Generator" http://www.itsaboutmusic.com/grge.html
Outro
Monday, April 14, 2008
msb-0287 Shake Down
msb-0287 Shake Down
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
Today, I'm reviewing a book.
You'll hear how much I liked it (a lot) why I liked it (a lot) and the kind of questions the book answers as well as leaves up to the imagination.
----
And I'm pleased to report that "Bacon Salt" is still filled with baconey goodness and my blood pressure has actually gone "down".
I'm loving it.
It only takes a little tiny shake and "everything" tastes great, potatoes, corn on the cob (really!) vegetables, fish (I can report it tastes great on tilapia.)
----
Just torn from the headlines of the "New York Times" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/us/14drug.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin ] was a picture of someone with MS.
Now, I'd like to know "exactly why are people against socializing the administration of the medical system?"
What? You think an instant rise of 1,625% is due to an increase of the cost of ingredients or of the processing of these ingredients?
Get your heads out of your butts.
What you are seeing, in effect, is the denial of medical treatment based purely on greed on the part of somebody who is "not" involved in any part if the treatment process at all.
It reflects badly on their bottom line when the insurers, those "HMO"s, have to pay for actually delivering on any "H".
Why are we paying the premiums to the HMOs, if it isn't it for some "H" if and when we need it? (That's the whole concept of insurance: "we pay now, so should we need anything...", "not" "we pay now and we get disappointed later, should we need anything.")
Unfortunately, the "costs" of "H" have "not" really changed while the "profitability" of HMOs "has", as the growth of the industry saturated the number of employers who can afford to pay, drying up the pool of profits available.
The United States of America can't afford the "luxury" of HMOs any more.
The problems that Richard Milhous Nixon sort of solved in his day, passing the buck to the employers at the time, passing laws which mandated the creation of HMOs, those problems of people dying in the streets they'd been thrown into after selling everything they could to pay for treatment and of making the 'States look like a third world country, well those problems never really went away.
The slowly rising curve of health care prices have finally intersected with the flattening and/or negative curve of new membership in HMOs and the HMOs profitability expectations are being satisfied by slowing down and/or even reversing the delivery of health services to their members. (This was clearly visible years ago by anybody who cared to look. HMOs have run their course and when the lines met is when the overall level of health care in this country started declining.)
By the way, if you aren't a member of a HMO, as millions and millions of people aren't, your health care situation is "exactly" the same as it was before the HMOs were created.
You're still required to burn through everything you own before throwing yourself on the pyre.
The only thing we can afford as a society now is, you guessed it, socialized medicine.
The 85% have to take care of the 15%, or trip over the bodies lying naked in the street.
---- "Good Intenions, Bad Reviews" by: "Amazing Death In Audio" http://www.myspace.com/amazingdeathinaudio
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"
---- "Preview All Tracks" by: "Jerome Epps" http://smoothjazztracks.spaces.live.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"
---- "Salazar Brothers - Full Album Preview" by: "Rising Conviction" http://www.risingconviction.com/
"Thesis:"
Here's what I know about writing fiction book reviews, bugger all...
But it is not something I want to blow off, nor is the author. (In fact, I'll be interviewing him this Friday evening. One of my shows next week will feature him and nothing but.)
Dalhousie University has excellent library services that you can find on the "web" that's just full of great information, like "How to write a book review" [ http://www.library.dal.ca/how/bookrev.htm ] (Isn't the web just great? :-)
---- "blind preview" by: "tonio" http://myspace.com/tonio86
"Synthesis:"
I'm reviewing the book "Shake Down" by "Joel Goldman" (ISBN-13: 978-0-7860-1610-5) which was very kindly sent to me by his editor. [His website is Joel Goldman dot com. http://www.joelgoldman.com/content/index.asp]
First of all, let me say that I rarely read fiction (except for Terry Prachett, :-) because I usually figure things out before the end of the book. It doesn't usually hold my interest. I sometimes reread Sherlock Holmes but its a very occasional pleasure. (Even at that, with my memory, its more to revisit the associations I have made and to make the time to walk down memory lane.)
Technical books are basically read, scanned really, "by exception" for any new idea or concept and those pages just fly by.
But this book had the right hook with the right flawed hero with the right flaws to keep my interest alive throughout. I read every word of every sentence of every paragraph of every page of every chapter of this book.
The prime character in this book is a competent senior FBI operative named "Jack Davis".
He's a likable enough schmuck, bedeviled by his work and haunted by an incident in his past involving a son who would never grow up; which led to his recent and mutual decision to divorce, that divorce being more or less amicably reached.
He is also recently being haunted by a mysterious nervous ailment which causes him to shake and "lock up" at inopportune moments (as if there was ever an opportune moment.)
His own personal experience with the legal system has provided his with many persons from which to draw from when it comes to having believable characteristics to draw on.
His own personal experience with the medical system gives him insight into what its like to struggle with a disabilitating and mysterious disease. It has provided him with intimate knowledge of the disease, the medical system and with the persons involved from with to also draw from when it comes to having believable characteristics to draw on.
The progression of his characters parallels the progression of the disease and the accommodations which must be made by the charaters when dealing with it.
The rest of the characters, the "dramatis personae" tend to be fleshed out in relation to their ability to move the plot along.
The "McGuffin" of this piece, as "Alfred Hitchcock" [ http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=Alfred+Hitchcock&x=0&y=0 ] called the one thing which propels the action along, is the relationship between "Jack Davis" and his own untrustworthy body.
The major theme of this book is one of struggle and acceptance and the trouble the characters have with dealing with them both in their lives.
They are revealed through internal dialogues and through narrator exposition depending on what is appropriate for that particular character. They are also revealed through conversational drib and drabs in realistic dialogs.
The theme is as entertaining as it is enlightening as much for the freshness of its very presence in writing, (something which is regrettably lacking in modern writing, given the revelatory statistics from the World Health Organization, the WHO,) as for its importance to the plot and the "McGuffin".
This book made a welcome break from the usual pap with its subtle statements of the treatment that "Jack Davis" gets from the society he helps serve and protect and the organization he does it through.
This book is escapist fare, but it is educational as well, without pounding anyone over the head with any didactism. It lets the reader easily transfer the characters from the page to the mind.
The plot is ingeniously crafted with characters being called up and disposed of as necessary but not unnecessarily. The focus of suspense shifts from character to character as the action unwinds.
You know that a character's introduction must be relevant, but their importance to the "McGuffin" is not immediately apparent. (That's what got me reading and the disposal and disposition of the character and the transfer of the "McGuffin" is what kept me reading. I never quite knew where this book was going and the plot twists are definitely not of the "The Butler Did It!" variety. I read the first half of the book at a single sitting, because I "could not put it down!")
From a stylisic point of view, it reminded me of my many, many trips to Kansas City Missouri, with its admixture of stark grittiness and elegance; much like the city itself, the plot and its characters were a part of the city, and fit into it well.
I could see and recall in my minds eye the places I was revisiting and I could imagine the parts of the city that I didn't know (I didn't spend any time at the railroad yard, but I could imagine them given the wealth of detail in the book.)
The dialog was simple enough but still conveyed the flavors and complexities of the characters.
The setting for the book was aided by the presence of Kansas City as I remembered it but I think it could have been written almost anywhere, so long as the geography lent itself to the same kinds of twists and turns. (This book would have been impossible to write in its present form in a location like "Bangladesh", say.)
I'll stop here except to say that this was an excellent book.
---- "New Songs Preview" by: "Musuca" http://musuca.webd.pl/
"Conclusion:"
I'm recording an interview special show with Joel Goldman.
You'll get to listen to the two of us discuss his book and "tics".
---- "Warning Preview" by: "dunney" http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/739/
Outro
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
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Feedback comes first, so...
Today, I'm reviewing a book.
You'll hear how much I liked it (a lot) why I liked it (a lot) and the kind of questions the book answers as well as leaves up to the imagination.
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And I'm pleased to report that "Bacon Salt" is still filled with baconey goodness and my blood pressure has actually gone "down".
I'm loving it.
It only takes a little tiny shake and "everything" tastes great, potatoes, corn on the cob (really!) vegetables, fish (I can report it tastes great on tilapia.)
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Just torn from the headlines of the "New York Times" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/us/14drug.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin ] was a picture of someone with MS.
"Robin Steinwand had been paying $20 a month for her multiple sclerosis drug, which she keeps in the refrigerator. When she went to pick up her prescription in January, it cost $325."Well an MSer made the news all right.
Now, I'd like to know "exactly why are people against socializing the administration of the medical system?"
What? You think an instant rise of 1,625% is due to an increase of the cost of ingredients or of the processing of these ingredients?
Get your heads out of your butts.
What you are seeing, in effect, is the denial of medical treatment based purely on greed on the part of somebody who is "not" involved in any part if the treatment process at all.
It reflects badly on their bottom line when the insurers, those "HMO"s, have to pay for actually delivering on any "H".
Why are we paying the premiums to the HMOs, if it isn't it for some "H" if and when we need it? (That's the whole concept of insurance: "we pay now, so should we need anything...", "not" "we pay now and we get disappointed later, should we need anything.")
Unfortunately, the "costs" of "H" have "not" really changed while the "profitability" of HMOs "has", as the growth of the industry saturated the number of employers who can afford to pay, drying up the pool of profits available.
The United States of America can't afford the "luxury" of HMOs any more.
The problems that Richard Milhous Nixon sort of solved in his day, passing the buck to the employers at the time, passing laws which mandated the creation of HMOs, those problems of people dying in the streets they'd been thrown into after selling everything they could to pay for treatment and of making the 'States look like a third world country, well those problems never really went away.
The slowly rising curve of health care prices have finally intersected with the flattening and/or negative curve of new membership in HMOs and the HMOs profitability expectations are being satisfied by slowing down and/or even reversing the delivery of health services to their members. (This was clearly visible years ago by anybody who cared to look. HMOs have run their course and when the lines met is when the overall level of health care in this country started declining.)
By the way, if you aren't a member of a HMO, as millions and millions of people aren't, your health care situation is "exactly" the same as it was before the HMOs were created.
You're still required to burn through everything you own before throwing yourself on the pyre.
The only thing we can afford as a society now is, you guessed it, socialized medicine.
The 85% have to take care of the 15%, or trip over the bodies lying naked in the street.
---- "Good Intenions, Bad Reviews" by: "Amazing Death In Audio" http://www.myspace.com/amazingdeathinaudio
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Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Preview All Tracks" by: "Jerome Epps" http://smoothjazztracks.spaces.live.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"
---- "Salazar Brothers - Full Album Preview" by: "Rising Conviction" http://www.risingconviction.com/
"Thesis:"
Here's what I know about writing fiction book reviews, bugger all...
But it is not something I want to blow off, nor is the author. (In fact, I'll be interviewing him this Friday evening. One of my shows next week will feature him and nothing but.)
Dalhousie University has excellent library services that you can find on the "web" that's just full of great information, like "How to write a book review" [ http://www.library.dal.ca/how/bookrev.htm ] (Isn't the web just great? :-)
---- "blind preview" by: "tonio" http://myspace.com/tonio86
"Synthesis:"
I'm reviewing the book "Shake Down" by "Joel Goldman" (ISBN-13: 978-0-7860-1610-5) which was very kindly sent to me by his editor. [His website is Joel Goldman dot com. http://www.joelgoldman.com/content/index.asp]
First of all, let me say that I rarely read fiction (except for Terry Prachett, :-) because I usually figure things out before the end of the book. It doesn't usually hold my interest. I sometimes reread Sherlock Holmes but its a very occasional pleasure. (Even at that, with my memory, its more to revisit the associations I have made and to make the time to walk down memory lane.)
Technical books are basically read, scanned really, "by exception" for any new idea or concept and those pages just fly by.
But this book had the right hook with the right flawed hero with the right flaws to keep my interest alive throughout. I read every word of every sentence of every paragraph of every page of every chapter of this book.
The prime character in this book is a competent senior FBI operative named "Jack Davis".
He's a likable enough schmuck, bedeviled by his work and haunted by an incident in his past involving a son who would never grow up; which led to his recent and mutual decision to divorce, that divorce being more or less amicably reached.
He is also recently being haunted by a mysterious nervous ailment which causes him to shake and "lock up" at inopportune moments (as if there was ever an opportune moment.)
His own personal experience with the legal system has provided his with many persons from which to draw from when it comes to having believable characteristics to draw on.
His own personal experience with the medical system gives him insight into what its like to struggle with a disabilitating and mysterious disease. It has provided him with intimate knowledge of the disease, the medical system and with the persons involved from with to also draw from when it comes to having believable characteristics to draw on.
The progression of his characters parallels the progression of the disease and the accommodations which must be made by the charaters when dealing with it.
The rest of the characters, the "dramatis personae" tend to be fleshed out in relation to their ability to move the plot along.
The "McGuffin" of this piece, as "Alfred Hitchcock" [ http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=Alfred+Hitchcock&x=0&y=0 ] called the one thing which propels the action along, is the relationship between "Jack Davis" and his own untrustworthy body.
The major theme of this book is one of struggle and acceptance and the trouble the characters have with dealing with them both in their lives.
They are revealed through internal dialogues and through narrator exposition depending on what is appropriate for that particular character. They are also revealed through conversational drib and drabs in realistic dialogs.
The theme is as entertaining as it is enlightening as much for the freshness of its very presence in writing, (something which is regrettably lacking in modern writing, given the revelatory statistics from the World Health Organization, the WHO,) as for its importance to the plot and the "McGuffin".
This book made a welcome break from the usual pap with its subtle statements of the treatment that "Jack Davis" gets from the society he helps serve and protect and the organization he does it through.
This book is escapist fare, but it is educational as well, without pounding anyone over the head with any didactism. It lets the reader easily transfer the characters from the page to the mind.
The plot is ingeniously crafted with characters being called up and disposed of as necessary but not unnecessarily. The focus of suspense shifts from character to character as the action unwinds.
You know that a character's introduction must be relevant, but their importance to the "McGuffin" is not immediately apparent. (That's what got me reading and the disposal and disposition of the character and the transfer of the "McGuffin" is what kept me reading. I never quite knew where this book was going and the plot twists are definitely not of the "The Butler Did It!" variety. I read the first half of the book at a single sitting, because I "could not put it down!")
From a stylisic point of view, it reminded me of my many, many trips to Kansas City Missouri, with its admixture of stark grittiness and elegance; much like the city itself, the plot and its characters were a part of the city, and fit into it well.
I could see and recall in my minds eye the places I was revisiting and I could imagine the parts of the city that I didn't know (I didn't spend any time at the railroad yard, but I could imagine them given the wealth of detail in the book.)
The dialog was simple enough but still conveyed the flavors and complexities of the characters.
The setting for the book was aided by the presence of Kansas City as I remembered it but I think it could have been written almost anywhere, so long as the geography lent itself to the same kinds of twists and turns. (This book would have been impossible to write in its present form in a location like "Bangladesh", say.)
I'll stop here except to say that this was an excellent book.
---- "New Songs Preview" by: "Musuca" http://musuca.webd.pl/
"Conclusion:"
I'm recording an interview special show with Joel Goldman.
You'll get to listen to the two of us discuss his book and "tics".
---- "Warning Preview" by: "dunney" http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/739/
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