Wednesday, April 29, 2009

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0041

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0041

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0041.m4a

Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 41

I started my internship at WFMU on monday manning the community desk for "The Media Squat" With Douglas Rushkoff.

It was fun but one of the pieces of software is absolutely in major need of some software QA and possibly a UI rewrite.

Darn thing kept losing focus as I was trying to type and throwing all key keystrokes into a bit bucket without giving me any auditory feedback.

And that's my professional opinion as a software developer, team leader, project manager and QA analyst.

----

Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza, serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

I love Squirrel Nut Zippers so we're going to hear something from the album "Hot".

The tune is called "Memphis Exorcism" and I'll be playing it under the great news I want to share with all of you.

"Memphis Exorcism" by "Squirrel Nut Zippers" http://www.snzippers.com/

- -

I even got my own sponsor now (It only took me three years , eh? :-)

Todd Wallbridge of TM Designs has started a website called MSTShirts.com [ http://www.mstshirts.com ] for promoting and selling art by artists who have MS, and T-Shirts of course.

By purchasing a shirt you will help support an MS artist and a donation is made to NMSS to further research into finding a cure.

The shirts are good quality cotton material and the print on them is really durable. Well worth it.

I'll get into more descriptions but they're on the site (just click now if you're listening in m4a format and it will launch your web browser to MSTShirts.com [ which is actually a repeater to http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

On behalf of MSers, I want to tank Todd for his support.


"" by ""

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We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

This is going to be a short show because I got a class right after.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Memphis Exorcism" by "Squirrel Nut Zippers" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Scheherazade, Opus 35 (The Kalender Prince)" by "Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils)" by: "Richard Strauss" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Symfoni nr 6 i h-moll, Pathetique" by: "Peter Tjajkovskij" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Pianosonat i b-moll )" by: "Frédéric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira


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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0010

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0010

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0010.m4a

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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Building To Last Forever" by: "after touch" http://website.lineone.net/~nkay/afttch.html

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

---- We got a sponsor!

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

Intro

I just spent an interesting Saturday at the College attending a leadership seminar.

I sort of came automatically with my new role as marketing something or other for WSPC.

It turned out to be a whole lot more interesting than I'd originally though.

Lets get one thing straight, I've gone to a lot of "team building exercises", "management retreats", colloquia and seminars.

I knew what to expect. Lots of huggy feelly crap, clap-trap, and twaddle.

But surprise surprise; it actually turned out to be better run than some of the ones my previous employers had shelled out the sheckels for.

---- "Building Blocks" by: "Anthony L Smith" http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandid=106300

Thesis:

The only problem with the career building part of the day long sessions was that it was not, I repeat not, disabled friendly in any way, shape of form.

I am, uh, mobility challenged and as such was left literally sitting, wall flower like, along the wall while observing the action occurring at the center of the hall.

Okay, I enjoyed it because I have a perverse and nasty sense of humor which would probably get my face slapped, at the very least,, should my thoughts ever be open for public scrutiny. :-)

---- "Building Around It" by: "Elika" http://www.elikamusic.com/

Synthesis:

Its a sad fact, but I will never fit in.

Now that I've finally got over myself, I still can't fit in...

It took me years to recognize that I really was uh, uniquely qualified and that not everybody could do what I did.

it took me many more years to accept my MS, after it became obvious to everybody else that something was wrong, though schlepping around with a friggin' cane made it kind of plain and simple, even to me.

It is just as plainly obvious to everybody with eyes that I am a lot older than everybody else on campus.

So why am I, make that was I, so pissed off that people were missing the obvious about the fact that all of the team building exercises were designed in such an exclusionary fashion?

---- "Burning Building" by: "Joe Peters" http://cdbaby.com/all/joedaiwarriors

Synthesis continued.

Its all a part of the exclusion principle.

Its in fact the most pernicious part.

Unless somebody is in my shoes, they don't ever think of anybody who might be in my shoes, of anybody who might be in any other shoes but their own.

That is why all of the professions and skilled trades in the world have a bunch of checklists, to make sure that they don't friggin' well forget that there are at least fifteen percent percent of the world who is different from them, no matter how different they think they AREN'T.

That's more that one in eight people who are having to struggle, to strain or to cope with the fact that they're structured differently the system builders from themselves.

---- "Building A Better Boy" by: "Machine Boy" http://www.machineboy.co.uk/

Conclusion:

Yeah, I'm handicapped.

I can't dance.

That doesn't mean I can't think.

---- "Stop That Building" by: "Verticals" http://myspace.com/surftheverticals

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

The music this time was

---- "Building To Last Forever" by: "after touch" http://website.lineone.net/~nkay/afttch.html
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

---- "Building Blocks" by: "Anthony L Smith" http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandid=106300
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

---- "Building Around It" by: "Elika" http://www.elikamusic.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

---- "Burning Building" by: "Joe Peters" http://cdbaby.com/all/joedaiwarriors
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

---- "Building A Better Boy" by: "Machine Boy" http://www.machineboy.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

---- "Stop That Building" by: "Verticals" http://myspace.com/surftheverticals
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

Friday, April 24, 2009

wspc_P34kO1l_xxxx

Sorry but time does not permit.

I'm just going to rerun the series from now until school lets out.

-Charles-A.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0040

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0040

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0040.m4a

Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 40

I got the internship at WFMU so I will be helping Mr. Rushkoff with the community desk of "The Media Squat".

I got a really quick introduction to their production desk last Monday and I really liked the people I'll be working with.

Plus I've got to help them set up a community wiki (PBWiki.com to the rescue) and get it hooked up to their existing web set up, get some content prepared and out it out there for feed back from the community.

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Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza, serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

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I love acappella so we're going to hear something from the album "Brontosaurus" by "Da Vinci's Notebook".

"Enormous Penis" by: "Da Vinci's Notebook" http://www.amazon.com/Brontosaurus-Da-Vincis-Notebook/dp/B00006RZH0

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

This is going to be a short show because I got a class right after.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Enormous Penis" by: "Da Vinci's Notebook" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Symfoni nr 6 i h-moll, Pathetique (tredje satsen)" by: "Peter Tjajkovskij" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Pianosonat i b-moll (tredje satsen, Begravningsmarsch)" by: "Frédéric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Zampa - Ouvertyr" by: "Ferdinand Hérold" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Tannhäuser - Gästernas intåg" by: "Richard Wagner" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Kröningsmarsch" by: "Giacomo Meyerbeer" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"The Washington Post" by: "John Philip Sousa" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Monday, April 20, 2009

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0009

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0009

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0009.m4a

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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Tiny Bubbles" by: "Idle Fingers" http://www.myspace.com/ziggyzu

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

---- We got a sponsor!

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

Intro

I've just spent a sleepless night reading, nay devouring, "The Dead Man" by "Joel Goldman" http://www.joelgoldman.com/content/index.asp

I loved reading the book.

The plot was tightly written, the characters were believable, their motivations were just as believable and the whole thing was masterfully crafted.

So well crafted that it going to take me a few days to try and come up with a review that does the book justice without revealing a thing.

---- "Space Bubbles" by: "Chad Nantai" http://chadnantais.com/

Thesis:

Mr. Goldman is turning into a master writer; one who can be compared with the best mystery writers out there, alive or passed away, and he needs not fear being out-shined by the company.

This book was a delight to read and kept me wondering from beginning to the penultimate chapter.

His description of the motivation was masterful and he didn't stretch my credulity in the least. (Some writers I have been tempted to review I ultimately didn't because they committed the sin of stretching the thin film I call my ability to suspend disbelief until the bubble burst.

---- "Bursting Bubbles" by: "cat malojian" http://www.catmalojian.com/

Synthesis:

Like I said last week, I enjoyed reading abut a hero who's life is as crapped up by disease as mine is (different disease means different crap but the same general reaction to it.)

The manifestations of the disease may be different but the feeling of interruption and my reaction to it are entirely too familiar.

In Mr. Goldman's case, it manifests less intrusively that an MS exacerbation but because it is more violent though of shorter duration doesn't mean that its any less disruptive.

---- "Funk Bubbles" by: "Funk Bubbles" http://taiwanmilk.com/

Synthesis continued.

In effect, I am going to make this show episode about nothing because I am still wondering about how to treat the review in such a way that it tantalizes and teases while revealing nothing (sort of like a stripper doing a fan dance. :-)

Suffice it to say that I do NOT want to reveal the McGuffin of the book, that crucial detail without which the book is entirely puzzling but when revealed explains so much.

The other characters in the book are fleshed out enough to be believable.

Mr Goldman successfully returns to the theme of familial loss enough to retain the sympathy he had created in the first character that the books ultimate conclusion is fitting (even though the return of his spouse and the departure of his friend with benefits leaves the reader with a sense the tragic.)

---- "Burst The Bubble" by: "Cruiserweigh" http://www.myspace.com/cruiserweight

Conclusion:

The books ends with an entirely optimistic sentence.

There will be an interesting sequel.

---- "Creative Burst" by: "Sean Boyle" http://www.modernbizzle.com/

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

The music this time was

"Tiny Bubbles"
by: "Idle Fingers"
http://thoughtprocess.blogspot.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Space Bubbles"
by: "Chad Nantai"
http://chadnantais.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Bursting Bubbles"
by: "cat malojian"
http://www.catmalojian.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Funk Bubbles"
by: "Milk"
http://taiwanmilk.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Burst The Bubble"
by: "Cruiserweigh"
http://www.myspace.com/cruiserweight
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Creative Burst"
by: "Sean Boyle"
http://www.modernbizzle.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

Friday, April 17, 2009

wspc_P34kO1l_0015

wspc_P34kO1l_0015

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0014.m4a

YouTube ->. .

Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
..

---- "Ain't No Cure For Love" by: "Leonard Cohen" http://www.leonardcohen.com/

Thesis:

I just started reading a new book by someone I reviewed and interviewed about a year ago.

I'm talking about Mr. Joel Goldman. http://www.joelgoldman.com/content/index.asp

He writes really, really well and I find his books to printed on mouse traps, because they are really really hard to let go of once you pick one up.

---- Closing Time" by: "Leonard Cohen" http://www.leonardcohen.com/

Synthesis:

Joel Goldman is a great suspense / mystery writer.

I was introduced to him with his book "Shake Down" which I reviewed and, since I have MS and he has "The shakes" which afflict his character Jack Davis, as a fellow sickie, he was good enough to let me interview him.

I have the latest "Jack Davis" novel and its absolutely a page turner.

I'f I didn't have to do this show and registration for classes and my internship and crap like that, I would be finished this book already because its that good.

I have to tear myself away to take care of mundane details because the consequences are too dire for me to ignore. (Or at least my wife tell me so, and in no uncertain terms.)

---- "Democracy" by: "Leonard Cohen" http://www.leonardcohen.com/

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow2009/02/01

We even managed to get a sponsor.

Sponsor: Prince of Pizza

---- "Suzanne" by: "Peter Gabriel" http://www.amazon.com/Tower-Song-Songs-Leonard-Cohen/dp/B000001EZK

Synthesis Part Deux

I am starting an internship next Monday.

I am lining up the paperwork but its the kind of work I'd do out of love, never mind the marks.

I'm going to do my best to help the station WFMU and WFMU.org.

I have been looking at their website and I'm going to suggest that they should have a page that opens up into a wiki.

I'm also going to suggest that I be allowed take their entire collection and digitize it (And it is one big-ass collection of vinyl and CDs) and put it all on their intranet so that they will never have to worry about their collection getting physically damaged.

It can even be backed up and a copy, or three, of the back up be kept off site for protection.

Instead, their DJs can call up any tune in the entire collection from the library, mix and match their play list and enjoy the music.

---- "First We Take Manhattan by: "Leonard Cohen" http://www.leonardcohen.com/

Conclusion:

Okay, I'm going to finish the book tonight as its a real page turner.

---- "Dance Me To The End Of Love" by: "Leonard Cohen | Madeleine Peyroux" http://www.madeleinepeyroux.com/flash_content/main.html


Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

I've stopped asking for your feedback, because I really don't want it.

Like the show? Listen.

Don't like the show, then what are you wasting your time here for?

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0039

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0039

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0039.m4a

Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 39

I think I've landed an internship at a radio station [ http://wfmu.org ] and I'm not worried about it folding before I get there.

I'm trying to get an internship with Douglas Rushkoff who's doing the show "The Media Squat". [ http://mediasquat.net/ ]

Its an intelligent show with an intelligent host, intelligent guests talking about intelligent things.

Definitely "not" Fox's TMZ (which is one of the most vapid, vacuous and vain shows e-v-e-r-.)


----

Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza, serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

"Bees and Flowers-Joe Smallwood's Reel" by: "Duane Andrews" http://www.duaneandrews.ca/

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

This is going to be a short show because I've got a class right after.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Bees and Flowers-Joe Smallwood's Reel" by: "Duane Andrews" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Rhapsody in Blue" by: "George Gershwin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Symphony #9 In E Minor, Op. 95, B 178, "From The New World" - 1. Adagio, Allegro Molto" by: "Antonin Dvorák" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Union - Paraphrase de concert" by: "Louis Moreau Gottschalk" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Grand Canyon Suite, Third Movement: On the Trail" by: "Ferde Grofé" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Monday, April 13, 2009

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0008

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0008

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0008.m4a

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Golden West" by: "Reginald Clair" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

---- We got a sponsor!

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

Intro

Things are hotting up 'round the ol' homestead.

I've sent messages to Sir Harold Evans of publishing fame and to the US Postmaster General Mr. John Potter about my ideas to increase revenues for the post office, create a subscription or paid article retrieval for the press and, uh, save democracy for those who can afford it (or they can go the the public library and get the news there.)

I've also just discovered radio station WFMU 91.1 in Jersey City. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFMU ].

I have also been catching up on their podcasts and I absolutely LOVE what I hear.

One show in particular has caught my ear: WFMU's The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff [ http://www.mediasquat.net/ ]

Smart host. Smart topics. Smartly done. Its a great show.

So great that I'm going to try to volunteer and do an internship there.

---- "The Golden Shovel" by: "Frozen Carp" http://www.btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=5046

Thesis:

Ooo boy.

I just waiting for the mail to come.

I'm about to get to review another book by Joel Goldman.

I'm going to interview Mr. Goldman again.

I originally did the last interview with Mr. Goldman almost a year ago back in show msb-0292.

---- "Blue and Gold" by: "Ekayani and the Healing Band" http://www.myspace.com/ekayaniandthehealingband

Synthesis:

I really enjoyed reading his first book.

I enjoyed talking with him about the book and the main hero / protagonist, a man who was flawed and sick with a neurological condition, just as I was, am and will be until I kick the frackin' bucket.

---- "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 continued.

I am waiting on tender hooks for deliveries, emails and dispatches from near and far.

---- "Goldie Hawn" by: "Butane Variations" http://www.butanevariations.com/

Conclusion:

I'm having way too much fun with this sh, uh, stuff. Yeah, stuff will do.

---- "Tide Of Gold" by: "Frank Thewes" http://www.music-is.com/

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

The music this time was

"Golden West"
by: "Reginald Clair"
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"The Golden Shovel"
by: "Frozen Carp"
http://www.btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=5046
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Blue and Gold"
by: "Ekayani and the Healing Band"
http://www.myspace.com/ekayaniandthehealingband
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Lover, Ive Been Dreamin Bout a 100 Bags of Gold"
by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team"
http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Goldie Hawn"
by: "Butane Variations"
http://www.butanevariations.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Tide Of Gold"
by: "Frank Thewes"
http://www.music-is.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

Sunday, April 12, 2009

I got tired of waiting and sent my suggestions off.

The worse part of waiting for somebody else to see something is that they might not see what's right in front of their eyes.

Nor do they get the hint, no matter how broadly it given.

So I decided to stop namby-pandy-ing about, making suggestions about fixing the medium of what will soon no longer be called the press.

I wrote to the most eminent editor, writer, newsman, that I could think of, Sir Harold Evans.

Then I wrote to Mr. John E. Potter, the US Postmaster General.

I wrote them both about my idea of what a collaboration between the post office and the publishers could accomplish.

If I get a reply, it will be a miracle, but you never know.

Basically, I wrote to Sir Evans was:

Separating “News” from “papers” is the first half of the problem..

That would cut the costs of reporting “news” to the barest minumum.

Google indexing of news is a non-issue. It can definitely be handled without a problem by co-opting them while hanging onto the “news” and letting go of the information when its the “olds”.

RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feeds can let people know that there is some new information file somewhere while keeping that file hidden from Google. The generation of the RSS feed can be automatic and consist of an alphabetical list of the words of interest in the information and a snippet of the content after which a person can decide whether it is of interest or not. The information file itself is instantly accessible, but on a subscription or a one-time-charge basis.

The other half of the problem is finding a partner to handle the money aspect.

Someone who:
• nobody expects to work for free,
• is quite used to small sums,
• can act as a non-lending bank,
• can issue small denomination pieces,
• has the required international agreements,
• has the necessary IT infrastructure to handle RSS requests,
• is already in the business of information distribution for “franking” or FOR MONEY.

That someone sounds an awful lot like “The Post Office,” doesn’t it?

If you want the “news”, you pay for it, from your “news” provider, paid for through the Postal Service.

If you just want the “olds” you can use Google to search for it.

What I wrote to Mr Potter is more complicated, more detailed and covers the expenditure requirements and the income opportunities of such a joint venture.

Sadly, I didn't get to gather together all of the information I'd put out there before sending it off, so regretfully I don't have it here for you to read.

But you can rest assured I was on my best business behavior.

No more pussyfooting around.

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

NewsPAPERS are dying, NOT news.

This is a repost of something on:

  • The Newspaper Death Watch [ http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/pruitt-to-naa-game-is-on-the-line.html#comment-4305 ] and
  • Revenue 2.0 [ http://revenuetwopointzero.com/solutions/classified-solutions/classified-solutions/#comment-302 ]

The paper part of the newspaper is dead … Get over it.

The only thing that will remain is going to be vanity presses like HP is proposing with their printing service [ http://magcloud.com/ ]

We didn’t fight for the rights of the buggy whip makers either … Suck it up.

Journalism however is definitely NOT DEAD.

It has been democratized, popularized, localized, opened up, opened on and opened for a new business model.

If you worked as an editor or for an editor, you are going to find that the average person hasn’t suddenly improved in spelling or grammar, logic or comprehension, ability to communicate or in layout skills.

We just have to find you a new way to get news that you write out there; .PDF files on your servers being distributed via RSS files that the Post Office has on their server and that gives access to the latest content for $ would go a long way towards granting you a new lease on life.

The RSS file can even contain the highlights and a little bit of text from the articles which are still on your servers.

Actually, you can extract the words from your articles, remove duplicates, sort them, and let Google be able to include or eliminate an article from a search, present the little highlight snatch of text to let potential readers determine if they are interested and then the post office can: 1) let subscribers access the article OR 2) charge for access to the article.

This last part, subscription fulfillment or piece-meal charging, would be done by the post office. Nobody has ever had a problem paying for a stamp or expected a letter to be delivered without a stamp.

Once the “news” becomes the “olds”, say after a week for most articles, let Gooogle have at the original that you can store in a separate server.

a) The transmission of the articles is almost free.

b) The distribution of the articles is almost free.

c) The access is cheap but NOT free and the post office sees to that and that helps them with with their business model.

d) The post office send you a share of the money collected (and YOU KNOW HOW OFTEN AN ARTICLE IS FETCHED OFF OF YOUR SERVERS FROM A PARTICULAR IP ADDRESS.)

There is a business model that would work, it would
1) let new gathering organizations gather news,
2) let readers read,
3) let the post office disseminate and collect payments and disburse funds

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Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0038.m4a

Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 38

Well, we're coming onto Easter Break.

Is it routine if its always broken up with holidays?

And we've got a real sponsor this time"

----

Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza, serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

"Swing Low" by: "Bill Furner" http://www.macjams.com/artist/thetiler

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

This is going to be a short show because I've got a class right after.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Swing Low" by: "Bill Furner" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Agnus Dei" by: "Samuel Barber" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Cavalleria rusticana" by: "Pietro Mascagni" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Fidedio" by: "Ludwig van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Tannhauser" by: "Richard Wagner" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Psalm 39" by: "Maurice Greene" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"La Traviata" by: "Giuseppe Verdi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Monday, April 06, 2009

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media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0007.m4a

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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- ""

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

----

Intro

Failure to plan on someone else's part constituted an emergency on my part. Grrrrr....

I'm going to replay the last episode with Hillary Rubin

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msb-0353 An Interview with Hillary Rubin

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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

This week we're, ah who'm I kiddin', "I" 'm featuring an interview with Hillary Ruben.

I met her through some fed back via Twitter from YoGeek who used to work for LibSyn, the people who host and track the audio portion of this show.

---- "Citizens of the World Edit" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "After" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

Feed Me comes third, so...

I am taking a new tack so you may yet hear from a sponsor.

But for now, enjoy my demented rantings.

---- "Home" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

"Thesis:"

As I said in the feedback segment, I was introduced to Ms. Rubin in a rather circuitous route.

I never expected it would lead to meeting a fascinating woman and another MSer who, while not in denial, is calling herself someone who has been diagnosed with MS but who doesn't have MS.

Or, more to the point, MS certainly doesn't have her.

Ms Rubin is a Yoga instructor, a teacher, a "transformational health expert"... well Ms Rubin is ms Rubin, a unique creature of rare spiritual and physical strength and wisdom.

You'll get to meet her after this next song.

---- "Watching You Dance" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

"Synthesis:"

Give me a break folks.

You really should download the podcast if you want to hear Ms. Rubin. Its well worth it.

Just click on the following link and subscribe:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

I don't want to type that much and, apart from telling you to goto http://www.iamnotamess.com and http://www.askhillary.com , I'd rather you heard it from her own lips.

---- "Angel Now" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/

"Conclusion:"

So there you have Hillary Rubin's take on MS and MSers.

(And for those of you who feel cheated by this transcript and its brevity, drop me a line and I'll try to get ,

I quite like her refreshing approach towards and disability, the focus being on the ability and less on the "dis".

And listen for further episodes of this podcast because I'm going to be interviewing someone from Teva Pharmaceutical [ http://www.tevausa.com/ ] about their "Bravo" trial of an oral MS medicine.

Okay, its not available through an inhaler yet (but I "will" make sure to tell him about my own lay-person's thoughts on using the largest permeable membrane in the human body, the lungs, like the tobacco and marijuana cigarette manufacturers did centuries ago to make lots and lots of money.)

But at least its something better than jabbing myself with needles, which leads to all kinds of injection site complication, like cysts, opportunistic infections, swelling, rosacea among others, and meets with all kinds of patient resistance and abandonment of the therapy.

---- "Hope remains" by: "Sonic Mystery" http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"Citizens of the World Edit"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"After"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Home"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Watching You Dance"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Angel Now"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Hope remains"
by: "Sonic Mystery"
http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com



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Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

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Books:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


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Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

----

You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

----

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Friday, April 03, 2009

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media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0014.m4a

YouTube ->. .

Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
..

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

Thesis:

some days I just got the blues.

This is one of them gray, dirty ol' days.

I'm tired, dirty, I feel soiled, not just dirty but like dirt.

The rain is not washing my sins away. Its just leaving me a stinkin' pile of slimy slag.

---- "Bluez Comes Callin" by: "Billy Jones" http://www.billy-jones.com/

Synthesis:

If you are playing this on an .m4a player, you're getting all the band pics and web sites, if you ain't I'm going to read them all at the end'

---- "Devil by my side" by: "DemianBand" http://www.demianband.net/

---- "Lake of fire" by: "Jerry Forney" http://www.jerryforney.com/

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow2009/02/01

---- "Sparrow in the rain" by: "Jerry Forney" http://www.jerryforney.com/

---- "Howling At The Moon" by: "Kenny Neal" http://alligatorrecords.com/index.cfm?section=artists&artistID=18

Synthesis Part Deux

Then again, I'm feeling down and l-a-z-y.

Sometimes I feel like I'm just here wankin' off.

---- "Hummin Blues" by: "Harrison Kennedy" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

---- "Same Damn Time" by: "Mike Andersen Band" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

Conclusion:

I'm tired. Things are not going so great and I'm feeling hard done by. Screw the world.

---- "Heard The Angels Sing" by: "Ramon Goose" http://www.ramongoose.com/

Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

I've stopped asking for your feedback, because I really don't want it.

Like the show? Listen.

Don't like the show, then what are you wasting your time here for?

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

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Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0037.m4a

Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 37

Man, I'm so frigin' worn out today...

My wife had a paper due today so she was up really friggin' early to work on it...

Man I did not get a good night's sleep...

"I'm tired" by: "Erik Kjelland" http://www.myspace.com/erikkjelland

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

Good thing that this show is so engrained into my routine that I think I could do it in my sleep.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"I'm tired" by: "Erik Kjelland" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet" by: "Maurice Ravel" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Orpheus in the Underworld: Overture" by: "Jacques Offenbach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Nocturnes: Nuages" by: "Claude Debussy" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"L'Arlésienne Suite #1 - Prelude" by: "Georges Bizet" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Symphony No. 3 in C minor, "Organ Symphony": First Movement" by: "Camille Saint-Saëns" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Premier livre de pièces, No. 15: Le Coucou" by: "Louis-Claude Daquin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.