msb-0194 No More... Please, no more...
Feedback comes first, so...
Okay, no more Scarlatti. (I like it, but I'm bowing to pressure. [I "like" Scarlatti, and Bach, and Vivaldi, and Hindemith, and John Cage, and Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong, and Bix Beiderbecke, and Robert Plante, and Jimmy Hendrix, and, and, and... {I'm freaking hopeless. I am hearing strains of "Mississippi Fred McDowel" and "Beethoven" and there "is" no difference. (Ahh... The stuff I could/would/should fill your ears with, if it wasn't for the freakin' RIAA and their paid pit bull, the damned SoundExchange.))}])
Apart from that:
"Alors les Francophones, vous attendez apres quoi exactement? L'offre est encore bonne. Joignez vous a MSBPodcast.com et creez un podcast en Francais"
"Dann die Deutschen warten Sie, nach denen genau? Das Angebot ist noch gut. Verbinden Sie hat Ihnen MSBPodcast.com und Verursachen Sie ein podcast auf Deutsch."
(Translation courtesy of Babel Fish [ http://world.altavista.com/ ]) speech courtesy of AT&T research [http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php ]
And "Hola" to any Spanish-speaking listeners. (I know I have some.)
---- "Lost Shirt Blues" by: "Davis Coen" http://www.daviscoen.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
---- "Two-Timers Blues" by: "Davis Coen" http://www.daviscoen.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
---- "Freight Train" by: "Davis Coen" http://www.daviscoen.com/
"Thesis:"
The essay form is quite daunting, isn't it? Its forcing me to make some decisions that are frankly disturbing. Well...
I am taking a Hint from Bill Moyers and focusing on the last, but bigger and bigger, railing gasps of the broadcast media.
WQRZ in Louisiana showed the power of low power. (ClearChannel and Infinity Broadcasting are definitely "not" the way to go you want to preserve local culture, or local anything.)
Now, putting my McLuhan hat on, what is going to be the role of the internet in this rapidly changing media landscape?
"It is my belief that, the FCC's actions or inactions not withstanding, the role of internet is to have much broader and deeper influence than that of the broadcast media, but that it will have to do so according to the rules operant on bigger agglomerations than those garnered by nation states."
---- "Lay Me A Pallet On Your Floor" by: "Davis Coen" http://www.daviscoen.com/
"Synthesis:"
Lets examine what has transpired, strictly in the narrow field of MS health care, admittedly its my bailiwick's, and I am not claiming to have any influence or interest other than that.
This podcast has English hearing readers/listeners in over a hundred and fifteen countries, (look at my stats if you don't believe me,) and has thousands of on again/off again listeners (again, my download stats will support this.)
All of this has been done without a real budget, without any real expenditures, and without any real promotion. (Lord only knows what will happen when my ad finally appears in "insideMS" this November!)
Now what are the possible causes of this interest?
Apart from the obvious, people have MS, might I have struck a nerve or two with my rants? Possibly. Time will tell if anything comes of this.
And it has raised the profile of MS in Dutch ("Thanks Herrad") and in Greek ("Thanks Homer".)
I have also garnered some listeners in regions with predominantly different religious beliefs, such as Iran, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Israel, India, Japan, wherever anybody kneels to prostate themselves (or they might be atheists like me and bow down to nothing and to no one). (Again, my stats will bear this out.)
The multi-nationalism, multi-lingualism and multi-culturalism that this podcast has clearly demonstrated places me in the field of the social anthropologist rather that that of the "deep thinker." (And, to be honest, I prefer to stay shallow. [As the "Detoriata" put it, in the National Lampoon all those years ago, "A walk through the ocean of most souls would scarcely get your feet wet". {And who am I to push you into the deep-end of the pool? Right?}])
Now that I've situated MS an an international flail upon the back of the common mortals, regardless of color, race, religious origin, linguistic group or national origin (although there is a bias towards the technologically agile, English, Dutch or Greek speakers of certain economic classes, from any of my listeners/readers,) I think I can draw some generalizations from those facts (my stats bear me out as, opposed to me just pulling numbers out of my ass.)
As small as the problem of MS is, only one in twelve hundred or .0833% of the population contract the disease, it is still a much bigger problem than we think it is world wide, or that we are willing to acknowledge it to be. (So don't give up hope. Together we can yell pretty loudly and get some attention focused on MS.)
Now, given that broadcast media has lavished absolutely no attention on us, except for the very occasional sound bite, where else are we to turn?
Where else can we turn?
To the internet!
The internet is a thorny savior though. (Apologies for the "crown of thorns" imagery that might appear in the minds of my more Catholic listeners/readers.)
National boundaries are still a major pain in the butt. (My experience with Homer is still fresh in my mind. His gummint was trying to levy a duty that was greater than the value of the microphone I was trying to send him. [I mean, 20% even 30% I could pay, but 140% was utterly beyond the limits of graft and greed.] Basically the only good gummint is one that just tries to take care of its citizens and leaves everything else well alone, [and they never do that, do they?])
---- "The Chin" by: "Davis Coen" http://www.daviscoen.com/
"Conclusion:"
Based on the evidence at hand (my stats) and based on my interpretation of that evidence, it is my belief that the internet is to have is much broader influence than that of the broadcast media, but that it will have to do according to rules operant on agglomeration larger that that played by nation states.
---- "How Long Blues w/ Eric Von Schmidt" by: "Davis Coen" http://www.daviscoen.com/
Outro
Oh yeah. I think the new essay format is workin' out just fuckin' fine.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Thursday, August 30, 2007
msb-0193a MDMHvonPA's Rondup 2007/08/29
msb-0193a MDMHvonPA's Rondup 2007/08/29
Yeah... He's back.
Ahhh, yes ... it's been quite some time, no? My tendency to be a slug about these things has left my 'elite wordsmithy' skills a tad rusty. Typically, I would open with some sort of titillating concept and then troll through the cornucopia of MS blogs to find posts that I could tie together with a common theme. In the end, I would prance and pontificate as a closing barrage of what would have seemed like an obvious point by that time. So, now that I've laid out the mysterious workings of my usual approach, I shall diverge from it and do a slap-dash cop-out version where I cherry-pick postings from various locations I have not listed on the Cabal roster (lazy turd, ain't I?) as of yet and a few of my favorite haunts.
First, Joan at ShortInTheCord [ http://shortinthecord.blogspot.com/2007/08/ms-and-blood-donations-good-news-but.html ] notes that when giving blood at the Red Cross, reading the fine print may be something you will have to do yourself. If you have been anywhere that has an Irritated Bovine population, you should not give. Mad Cow has been spread around the world now and honestly, unless you were a test-tube baby and raised in a vacuum, you were probably exposed. Chronic Illness isn't just for MS suffers anymore! Time to throw another steak on the grill. I wonder if those 1 pint blood iv bags have consumer warnings or nutrition content labels. Ewww.
Stephan at Electrical Disturbance [ http://electrical-disturbance.blogspot.com/2007/08/rainy-sunday.html ] has been diagnosed for over a year now and has been blogging about it ever since. Wonder why I did not see him sooner! He has a little one bouncing about so that whole stress and MS thing ... yeah, well ... wish him luck. He's taking a flight to Salt Lake city with a baby in tow. Airports, babies ... all he needs now is a kettle for all that potential stress! Wish him luck.
One of my recent favorites, Liz [ http://liz-and-harvey.blogspot.com/2007/08/hair-of-cat.html ] (yes, I'm fickle, so what!) at 'Finding Life Hard', is in the snake oil business. Cures for whatever ails ye! As a consumer of that vile business, wine, I note that her "prevention is worth a glass of warm Castor oil" quip rarely seems to be adhered to. Ah well, it's not as though she is providing the wine from which the hangovers will sprout forth, eh?
So, 'the aspiring optimist' had a few things that set her off recently. I love her blog named "MsAllInMyHead" and it's corresponding tag line. You'll have to go see what she had to deal with and nod your head in agreement. Things like this [ http://msallinmyhead.blogspot.com/2007/08/things-that-have-annoyed-me-recently.html ] happen all to often. Ever get that urge to just haul off and let someone have a good tongue lashing!? Yeah, it's one of those things, but she seems to handle it with much more finesse and grace than I could muster.
A recent inductee into the Cabal, Sharon, has set up shop at Living Life as a Snowflake. She has a quick post up about being 'sick and tired of being sick and tired'. I believe that I can speak for all of us here and give out a big 'AMEN' to that one. She speaks of the downward spiral of stress and distress causing the MS monster to grip tighter onto our very being ... dragging you further into the muck. In the end, she asks what you do if you did not have MS for a day. Of course, that depends on how bad your MS is doing on the day before ... and if you are on the lamb from the law for stealing hub-caps off cars .... I've said too much.
Yet another one of my daily reads, Merelyme, [ http://mser4.blogspot.com/2007/08/hello-sweeties.html ] is a very prolific scribbler. She hit that point where the denial and anger about having MS is starting to fade, and the painful introspection and exploration of a new world begins. But she is doing it with style and a who lot of fellow travelers. She sure has a lot to say, and her questions beget more of my own. If you want something to think about, make sure to visit her daily ... the comments are good too.
Ok, I've made the final cut for my last featured MS blogger and it will definitely be Anne [ http://disablednotdead-anne.blogspot.com/2007/08/air-conditioning-and-winter.html ]. You see, she is a neighbor of mine (just up the street, more or less). She is going through all the same absurd weather issues. Of late, the heat and humidity around our parts has been nearly unbearable. Even with ac (expensive!!!), it's hard to stay cool. Just try strolling out to the metal hot-box of a car and you start to feel faint opening the door! I usually cajole my Mrs when she complains about how cold it is and I retort that if I cannot feel my feet, she shouldn't either! At that point, she'll put her cold feet on my back. I won't let on that I enjoy that, of course. But back to Anne. She is going though a few issues that complicate her body's cooling capabilities so she is looking forward to winter almost as much as this old Minnesota Boy. Ahhh, give me 3 feet of ice and a fishing rod and I'll be good for a week.
In conclusion, I'll try to spend some of my time updating the blog listings for the MS Cabal, but in the mean time, go over and visit these fine bloggers. They have much to say and we all have so much to learn from each other.
...
So, have you complimented your MS Hero today?
Yeah... He's back.
Ahhh, yes ... it's been quite some time, no? My tendency to be a slug about these things has left my 'elite wordsmithy' skills a tad rusty. Typically, I would open with some sort of titillating concept and then troll through the cornucopia of MS blogs to find posts that I could tie together with a common theme. In the end, I would prance and pontificate as a closing barrage of what would have seemed like an obvious point by that time. So, now that I've laid out the mysterious workings of my usual approach, I shall diverge from it and do a slap-dash cop-out version where I cherry-pick postings from various locations I have not listed on the Cabal roster (lazy turd, ain't I?) as of yet and a few of my favorite haunts.
First, Joan at ShortInTheCord [ http://shortinthecord.blogspot.com/2007/08/ms-and-blood-donations-good-news-but.html ] notes that when giving blood at the Red Cross, reading the fine print may be something you will have to do yourself. If you have been anywhere that has an Irritated Bovine population, you should not give. Mad Cow has been spread around the world now and honestly, unless you were a test-tube baby and raised in a vacuum, you were probably exposed. Chronic Illness isn't just for MS suffers anymore! Time to throw another steak on the grill. I wonder if those 1 pint blood iv bags have consumer warnings or nutrition content labels. Ewww.
Stephan at Electrical Disturbance [ http://electrical-disturbance.blogspot.com/2007/08/rainy-sunday.html ] has been diagnosed for over a year now and has been blogging about it ever since. Wonder why I did not see him sooner! He has a little one bouncing about so that whole stress and MS thing ... yeah, well ... wish him luck. He's taking a flight to Salt Lake city with a baby in tow. Airports, babies ... all he needs now is a kettle for all that potential stress! Wish him luck.
One of my recent favorites, Liz [ http://liz-and-harvey.blogspot.com/2007/08/hair-of-cat.html ] (yes, I'm fickle, so what!) at 'Finding Life Hard', is in the snake oil business. Cures for whatever ails ye! As a consumer of that vile business, wine, I note that her "prevention is worth a glass of warm Castor oil" quip rarely seems to be adhered to. Ah well, it's not as though she is providing the wine from which the hangovers will sprout forth, eh?
So, 'the aspiring optimist' had a few things that set her off recently. I love her blog named "MsAllInMyHead" and it's corresponding tag line. You'll have to go see what she had to deal with and nod your head in agreement. Things like this [ http://msallinmyhead.blogspot.com/2007/08/things-that-have-annoyed-me-recently.html ] happen all to often. Ever get that urge to just haul off and let someone have a good tongue lashing!? Yeah, it's one of those things, but she seems to handle it with much more finesse and grace than I could muster.
A recent inductee into the Cabal, Sharon, has set up shop at Living Life as a Snowflake. She has a quick post up about being 'sick and tired of being sick and tired'. I believe that I can speak for all of us here and give out a big 'AMEN' to that one. She speaks of the downward spiral of stress and distress causing the MS monster to grip tighter onto our very being ... dragging you further into the muck. In the end, she asks what you do if you did not have MS for a day. Of course, that depends on how bad your MS is doing on the day before ... and if you are on the lamb from the law for stealing hub-caps off cars .... I've said too much.
Yet another one of my daily reads, Merelyme, [ http://mser4.blogspot.com/2007/08/hello-sweeties.html ] is a very prolific scribbler. She hit that point where the denial and anger about having MS is starting to fade, and the painful introspection and exploration of a new world begins. But she is doing it with style and a who lot of fellow travelers. She sure has a lot to say, and her questions beget more of my own. If you want something to think about, make sure to visit her daily ... the comments are good too.
Ok, I've made the final cut for my last featured MS blogger and it will definitely be Anne [ http://disablednotdead-anne.blogspot.com/2007/08/air-conditioning-and-winter.html ]. You see, she is a neighbor of mine (just up the street, more or less). She is going through all the same absurd weather issues. Of late, the heat and humidity around our parts has been nearly unbearable. Even with ac (expensive!!!), it's hard to stay cool. Just try strolling out to the metal hot-box of a car and you start to feel faint opening the door! I usually cajole my Mrs when she complains about how cold it is and I retort that if I cannot feel my feet, she shouldn't either! At that point, she'll put her cold feet on my back. I won't let on that I enjoy that, of course. But back to Anne. She is going though a few issues that complicate her body's cooling capabilities so she is looking forward to winter almost as much as this old Minnesota Boy. Ahhh, give me 3 feet of ice and a fishing rod and I'll be good for a week.
In conclusion, I'll try to spend some of my time updating the blog listings for the MS Cabal, but in the mean time, go over and visit these fine bloggers. They have much to say and we all have so much to learn from each other.
...
So, have you complimented your MS Hero today?
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
msb-0193 Lung vs. Tripe
msb-0193 Lung vs. Tripe
Feedback comes first, so...
I'm still in a strange musical mood.
You're getting some more MIDI files of Domenico Scarlatti by John Sankey that I found on the internet for free download. (The beauty of MIDI is that I can use any instrument to play the notes. They won't sound like harpsichord. :-)
And no don't worry, I'm not going all pedantic on your butts. My eye is far too roving and my ear is far too sensitive for that kind of crap.
Once a gadfly, always a gadfly.
I just feel like playing Scarlatti.
Apart from that:
"Alors les Francophones, vous attendez apres quoi exactement? L'offre est encore bonne. Joignez vous a MSBPodcast.com et creez un podcast en Francais"
"Dann die Deutschen warten Sie, nach denen genau? Das Angebot ist noch gut. Verbinden Sie hat Ihnen MSBPodcast.com und Verursachen Sie ein podcast auf Deutsch."
(Translation courtesy of Babel Fish [ http://world.altavista.com/ ]) speech courtesy of AT&T research [http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php ]
---- "k017" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
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
---- "k105" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
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
---- "k321" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
"Thesis:"
It is my contention that "NOBODY" likes self-injecting and that pulmonary drug delivery is a reasonable alternative to be explored.
Now, since this my podcast, I don't have to provide any actual proof, just make reasonable and sensible assertions. (And no I'm not going to use the "catch all" pat answer that the priests tried to use on us when we were kids: "Its a mystery". Screw that.)
I want this to be played over and over by people with all kinds of pretensions, including none. (And this tree part invention shit works. Wait till the next section.)
---- "k290" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
"Synthesis:"
Now the objection that "We've always used syringes" is not cutting the mustard here.
We're discussing something new ("Ooo. He said the 'N' word") and original. ("He, he, He said the 'O' word".)
Now I imagine that, since doctors don't want to seem utterly lacking in empathy, and that they're aware of the complications that arise from repeated use of any areas of the integument (that skin for the merest of us mortals,) despite attempts to rotate the injection sites, so they're going to "sit there and listen," for once since they've friggin' graduated, (without being on some expensive junket, courtesy of the drug reps.)
(Hey. Don't give me that crappola. They write the prescriptions; the rest of the medical world doesn't matter worth a damn and that all there is to it.)
Now apart from having a secret sadistic streak and sheer bloody-mindedness, why do they insist on hypodermics, even sub-cutaneous ones?
Well perhaps they don't know about the alternative drug delivery path, the lungs. (I know they know about lungs. [They're doctors for Christ's sake.] But they're used to thinking of lungs as things that get taken out [and very profitably too,], well mostly bits thereof, when the idiot patient used them as an ashtray for 25 or 30 years. )
The lung is a very large permeable membrane. Its description in fractal mathematics yields some very interesting 3+ dimensional insights ("The Fractal Geometry of Nature", by "Benoit Mandlebrot", ISBN: 0-7167-1186-9, pp 157-159)
It should be able to transpire (a fancy word for "pass") most of the drugs we MSers use since it readily passes something as large as the nicotine molecule (as Sir Walter Raleigh discovered and RJ Reynolds [ http://www.rjrt.com/home.asp ] et alia improved upon, [see the reason why doctors don't see lungs as more than a specialized income opportunity]). Prions and DNA fragments should be no problem.
To the objections that you really can't measure things, like drug intake, I would refer them to their colleges in sports medicine and have them explain all the shiny equipment that "Nike" bought them for their labs.
They measure substances in micrograms per centiliter of blood and are quite used to measuring things like lung function, permeability and drug intake, under a wide stretch of circumstances.
---- "k364" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
"Conclusion:"
"NOBODY" likes self-injecting and pulmonary drug delivery is a reasonable alternative which should be explored.
Taking for granted that the medical profession (pathological, un-empathic bastards through hard-earned training,) might see an "ouchless" alternative as useless but a good marketing ploy, lets see if the drug reps might be persuaded. ("Hey, it worked for asthma meds, why not use the old testing equipment that's just lying around not generating any income.")
So now that I have demolished the arguments, both structural and procedural, against using the lungs for what they can do, we should see some changes, right?
Believe it or not, the only thing standing in the way is the complete failure of the imagination by most medical practitioners. (That should ensure that my next checkup is an eventful one [one with lots of "OUCH!"-ing by me. :-])
But human (get over your messianic complexes, "herr doctors") [human] cussedness has perpetrated an incredible amount of agony in the past, and I see no signs that its going to change soon.
Yeah. I think I can work with this essay structure. "Wadda you'ze quys t'ink?"
---- "k441" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
Outro
Yeah. I think the new format is going to work out fuckin' fine.
Feedback comes first, so...
I'm still in a strange musical mood.
You're getting some more MIDI files of Domenico Scarlatti by John Sankey that I found on the internet for free download. (The beauty of MIDI is that I can use any instrument to play the notes. They won't sound like harpsichord. :-)
And no don't worry, I'm not going all pedantic on your butts. My eye is far too roving and my ear is far too sensitive for that kind of crap.
Once a gadfly, always a gadfly.
I just feel like playing Scarlatti.
Apart from that:
"Alors les Francophones, vous attendez apres quoi exactement? L'offre est encore bonne. Joignez vous a MSBPodcast.com et creez un podcast en Francais"
"Dann die Deutschen warten Sie, nach denen genau? Das Angebot ist noch gut. Verbinden Sie hat Ihnen MSBPodcast.com und Verursachen Sie ein podcast auf Deutsch."
(Translation courtesy of Babel Fish [ http://world.altavista.com/ ]) speech courtesy of AT&T research [http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php ]
---- "k017" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
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
---- "k105" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
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
---- "k321" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
"Thesis:"
It is my contention that "NOBODY" likes self-injecting and that pulmonary drug delivery is a reasonable alternative to be explored.
Now, since this my podcast, I don't have to provide any actual proof, just make reasonable and sensible assertions. (And no I'm not going to use the "catch all" pat answer that the priests tried to use on us when we were kids: "Its a mystery". Screw that.)
I want this to be played over and over by people with all kinds of pretensions, including none. (And this tree part invention shit works. Wait till the next section.)
---- "k290" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
"Synthesis:"
Now the objection that "We've always used syringes" is not cutting the mustard here.
We're discussing something new ("Ooo. He said the 'N' word") and original. ("He, he, He said the 'O' word".)
Now I imagine that, since doctors don't want to seem utterly lacking in empathy, and that they're aware of the complications that arise from repeated use of any areas of the integument (that skin for the merest of us mortals,) despite attempts to rotate the injection sites, so they're going to "sit there and listen," for once since they've friggin' graduated, (without being on some expensive junket, courtesy of the drug reps.)
(Hey. Don't give me that crappola. They write the prescriptions; the rest of the medical world doesn't matter worth a damn and that all there is to it.)
Now apart from having a secret sadistic streak and sheer bloody-mindedness, why do they insist on hypodermics, even sub-cutaneous ones?
Well perhaps they don't know about the alternative drug delivery path, the lungs. (I know they know about lungs. [They're doctors for Christ's sake.] But they're used to thinking of lungs as things that get taken out [and very profitably too,], well mostly bits thereof, when the idiot patient used them as an ashtray for 25 or 30 years. )
The lung is a very large permeable membrane. Its description in fractal mathematics yields some very interesting 3+ dimensional insights ("The Fractal Geometry of Nature", by "Benoit Mandlebrot", ISBN: 0-7167-1186-9, pp 157-159)
It should be able to transpire (a fancy word for "pass") most of the drugs we MSers use since it readily passes something as large as the nicotine molecule (as Sir Walter Raleigh discovered and RJ Reynolds [ http://www.rjrt.com/home.asp ] et alia improved upon, [see the reason why doctors don't see lungs as more than a specialized income opportunity]). Prions and DNA fragments should be no problem.
To the objections that you really can't measure things, like drug intake, I would refer them to their colleges in sports medicine and have them explain all the shiny equipment that "Nike" bought them for their labs.
They measure substances in micrograms per centiliter of blood and are quite used to measuring things like lung function, permeability and drug intake, under a wide stretch of circumstances.
---- "k364" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
"Conclusion:"
"NOBODY" likes self-injecting and pulmonary drug delivery is a reasonable alternative which should be explored.
Taking for granted that the medical profession (pathological, un-empathic bastards through hard-earned training,) might see an "ouchless" alternative as useless but a good marketing ploy, lets see if the drug reps might be persuaded. ("Hey, it worked for asthma meds, why not use the old testing equipment that's just lying around not generating any income.")
So now that I have demolished the arguments, both structural and procedural, against using the lungs for what they can do, we should see some changes, right?
Believe it or not, the only thing standing in the way is the complete failure of the imagination by most medical practitioners. (That should ensure that my next checkup is an eventful one [one with lots of "OUCH!"-ing by me. :-])
But human (get over your messianic complexes, "herr doctors") [human] cussedness has perpetrated an incredible amount of agony in the past, and I see no signs that its going to change soon.
Yeah. I think I can work with this essay structure. "Wadda you'ze quys t'ink?"
---- "k441" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
Outro
Yeah. I think the new format is going to work out fuckin' fine.
msb-0193a MDMHvonPA's Rondup 2007/08/29
msb-0193a MDMHvonPA's Rondup 2007/08/29
Yeah... He's back.
Ahhh, yes ... it's been quite some time, no? My tendency to be a slug about these things has left my 'elite wordsmithy' skills a tad rusty. Typically, I would open with some sort of titillating concept and then troll through the cornucopia of MS blogs to find posts that I could tie together with a common theme. In the end, I would prance and pontificate as a closing barrage of what would have seemed like an obvious point by that time. So, now that I've laid out the mysterious workings of my usual approach, I shall diverge from it and do a slap-dash cop-out version where I cherry-pick postings from various locations I have not listed on the Cabal roster (lazy turd, ain't I?) as of yet and a few of my favorite haunts.
First, Joan at ShortInTheCord [ http://shortinthecord.blogspot.com/2007/08/ms-and-blood-donations-good-news-but.html ] notes that when giving blood at the Red Cross, reading the fine print may be something you will have to do yourself. If you have been anywhere that has an Irritated Bovine population, you should not give. Mad Cow has been spread around the world now and honestly, unless you were a test-tube baby and raised in a vacuum, you were probably exposed. Chronic Illness isn't just for MS suffers anymore! Time to throw another steak on the grill. I wonder if those 1 pint blood iv bags have consumer warnings or nutrition content labels. Ewww.
Stephan at Electrical Disturbance [ http://electrical-disturbance.blogspot.com/2007/08/rainy-sunday.html ] has been diagnosed for over a year now and has been blogging about it ever since. Wonder why I did not see him sooner! He has a little one bouncing about so that whole stress and MS thing ... yeah, well ... wish him luck. He's taking a flight to Salt Lake city with a baby in tow. Airports, babies ... all he needs now is a kettle for all that potential stress! Wish him luck.
One of my recent favorites, Liz [ http://liz-and-harvey.blogspot.com/2007/08/hair-of-cat.html ] (yes, I'm fickle, so what!) at 'Finding Life Hard', is in the snake oil business. Cures for whatever ails ye! As a consumer of that vile business, wine, I note that her "prevention is worth a glass of warm Castor oil" quip rarely seems to be adhered to. Ah well, it's not as though she is providing the wine from which the hangovers will sprout forth, eh?
So, 'the aspiring optimist' had a few things that set her off recently. I love her blog named "MsAllInMyHead" and it's corresponding tag line. You'll have to go see what she had to deal with and nod your head in agreement. Things like this [ http://msallinmyhead.blogspot.com/2007/08/things-that-have-annoyed-me-recently.html ] happen all to often. Ever get that urge to just haul off and let someone have a good tongue lashing!? Yeah, it's one of those things, but she seems to handle it with much more finesse and grace than I could muster.
A recent inductee into the Cabal, Sharon, has set up shop at Living Life as a Snowflake. She has a quick post up about being 'sick and tired of being sick and tired'. I believe that I can speak for all of us here and give out a big 'AMEN' to that one. She speaks of the downward spiral of stress and distress causing the MS monster to grip tighter onto our very being ... dragging you further into the muck. In the end, she asks what you do if you did not have MS for a day. Of course, that depends on how bad your MS is doing on the day before ... and if you are on the lamb from the law for stealing hub-caps off cars .... I've said too much.
Yet another one of my daily reads, Merelyme, [ http://mser4.blogspot.com/2007/08/hello-sweeties.html ] is a very prolific scribbler. She hit that point where the denial and anger about having MS is starting to fade, and the painful introspection and exploration of a new world begins. But she is doing it with style and a who lot of fellow travelers. She sure has a lot to say, and her questions beget more of my own. If you want something to think about, make sure to visit her daily ... the comments are good too.
Ok, I've made the final cut for my last featured MS blogger and it will definitely be Anne [ http://disablednotdead-anne.blogspot.com/2007/08/air-conditioning-and-winter.html ]. You see, she is a neighbor of mine (just up the street, more or less). She is going through all the same absurd weather issues. Of late, the heat and humidity around our parts has been nearly unbearable. Even with ac (expensive!!!), it's hard to stay cool. Just try strolling out to the metal hot-box of a car and you start to feel faint opening the door! I usually cajole my Mrs when she complains about how cold it is and I retort that if I cannot feel my feet, she shouldn't either! At that point, she'll put her cold feet on my back. I won't let on that I enjoy that, of course. But back to Anne. She is going though a few issues that complicate her body's cooling capabilities so she is looking forward to winter almost as much as this old Minnesota Boy. Ahhh, give me 3 feet of ice and a fishing rod and I'll be good for a week.
In conclusion, I'll try to spend some of my time updating the blog listings for the MS Cabal, but in the mean time, go over and visit these fine bloggers. They have much to say and we all have so much to learn from each other.
...
So, have you complimented your MS Hero today?
Yeah... He's back.
Ahhh, yes ... it's been quite some time, no? My tendency to be a slug about these things has left my 'elite wordsmithy' skills a tad rusty. Typically, I would open with some sort of titillating concept and then troll through the cornucopia of MS blogs to find posts that I could tie together with a common theme. In the end, I would prance and pontificate as a closing barrage of what would have seemed like an obvious point by that time. So, now that I've laid out the mysterious workings of my usual approach, I shall diverge from it and do a slap-dash cop-out version where I cherry-pick postings from various locations I have not listed on the Cabal roster (lazy turd, ain't I?) as of yet and a few of my favorite haunts.
First, Joan at ShortInTheCord [ http://shortinthecord.blogspot.com/2007/08/ms-and-blood-donations-good-news-but.html ] notes that when giving blood at the Red Cross, reading the fine print may be something you will have to do yourself. If you have been anywhere that has an Irritated Bovine population, you should not give. Mad Cow has been spread around the world now and honestly, unless you were a test-tube baby and raised in a vacuum, you were probably exposed. Chronic Illness isn't just for MS suffers anymore! Time to throw another steak on the grill. I wonder if those 1 pint blood iv bags have consumer warnings or nutrition content labels. Ewww.
Stephan at Electrical Disturbance [ http://electrical-disturbance.blogspot.com/2007/08/rainy-sunday.html ] has been diagnosed for over a year now and has been blogging about it ever since. Wonder why I did not see him sooner! He has a little one bouncing about so that whole stress and MS thing ... yeah, well ... wish him luck. He's taking a flight to Salt Lake city with a baby in tow. Airports, babies ... all he needs now is a kettle for all that potential stress! Wish him luck.
One of my recent favorites, Liz [ http://liz-and-harvey.blogspot.com/2007/08/hair-of-cat.html ] (yes, I'm fickle, so what!) at 'Finding Life Hard', is in the snake oil business. Cures for whatever ails ye! As a consumer of that vile business, wine, I note that her "prevention is worth a glass of warm Castor oil" quip rarely seems to be adhered to. Ah well, it's not as though she is providing the wine from which the hangovers will sprout forth, eh?
So, 'the aspiring optimist' had a few things that set her off recently. I love her blog named "MsAllInMyHead" and it's corresponding tag line. You'll have to go see what she had to deal with and nod your head in agreement. Things like this [ http://msallinmyhead.blogspot.com/2007/08/things-that-have-annoyed-me-recently.html ] happen all to often. Ever get that urge to just haul off and let someone have a good tongue lashing!? Yeah, it's one of those things, but she seems to handle it with much more finesse and grace than I could muster.
A recent inductee into the Cabal, Sharon, has set up shop at Living Life as a Snowflake. She has a quick post up about being 'sick and tired of being sick and tired'. I believe that I can speak for all of us here and give out a big 'AMEN' to that one. She speaks of the downward spiral of stress and distress causing the MS monster to grip tighter onto our very being ... dragging you further into the muck. In the end, she asks what you do if you did not have MS for a day. Of course, that depends on how bad your MS is doing on the day before ... and if you are on the lamb from the law for stealing hub-caps off cars .... I've said too much.
Yet another one of my daily reads, Merelyme, [ http://mser4.blogspot.com/2007/08/hello-sweeties.html ] is a very prolific scribbler. She hit that point where the denial and anger about having MS is starting to fade, and the painful introspection and exploration of a new world begins. But she is doing it with style and a who lot of fellow travelers. She sure has a lot to say, and her questions beget more of my own. If you want something to think about, make sure to visit her daily ... the comments are good too.
Ok, I've made the final cut for my last featured MS blogger and it will definitely be Anne [ http://disablednotdead-anne.blogspot.com/2007/08/air-conditioning-and-winter.html ]. You see, she is a neighbor of mine (just up the street, more or less). She is going through all the same absurd weather issues. Of late, the heat and humidity around our parts has been nearly unbearable. Even with ac (expensive!!!), it's hard to stay cool. Just try strolling out to the metal hot-box of a car and you start to feel faint opening the door! I usually cajole my Mrs when she complains about how cold it is and I retort that if I cannot feel my feet, she shouldn't either! At that point, she'll put her cold feet on my back. I won't let on that I enjoy that, of course. But back to Anne. She is going though a few issues that complicate her body's cooling capabilities so she is looking forward to winter almost as much as this old Minnesota Boy. Ahhh, give me 3 feet of ice and a fishing rod and I'll be good for a week.
In conclusion, I'll try to spend some of my time updating the blog listings for the MS Cabal, but in the mean time, go over and visit these fine bloggers. They have much to say and we all have so much to learn from each other.
...
So, have you complimented your MS Hero today?
Monday, August 27, 2007
msb-0192 A Critique and A Response
msb-0192 A Critique and A Response
Feedback comes first, so...
I got mail! I got mail...
From a fellow MSer who lives in Brooklyn New York.
Thank you Brenda.
Your email was just the "pick me up" I needed.
Suffice it to say I'm in a strange musical mood.
You're getting some MIDI files of Domenico Scarlatti by John Sankey that I found on the internet for free download.
---- "k417" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
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
---- "k402" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
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
---- "k030" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
"Thesis:"
I have been critiqued and on reflection, I have found the critique to be a valid one.
The critique concerns my writing style.
Its too akin to some of Bach's two part inventions in structure; very satisfying works but later he supplanted himself with works of better and more expressive scope.
I have been writing the equivalent of two part inventions when, all of the musical styles, and all of the writing styles, that I respect are three part inventions.
So this marks a departure into three part invention.
Its hard to think in three parts; its like "not" having a third hand, trying to venture into a "partita" with such a disadvantage.
Much of the music I wrote were in sonata form even when they relied on "jeux de paume" (finger play) to carry the melodic lines. Indeed most music has been written in three parts.(I'm sure that my old music professor would smiling down on me if I believed in such a place as heaven.)
I am about to adventure into the essay.
My writing, and therefore the structure of this show will reflect the thesis, synthesis, conclusion of the well reasoned essay, just like a piece of good Baroque music.
---- "k460" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
"Synthesis:"
There many conventions that I must respect.
The shows all need to provide feedback, that is what I start off every show with after all.
The shows all need to provide feed-forward since this is my audience's opportunity to respond of to provide their own inputs into the shows.
The shows all need to provide information of a commercial nature from any advertisers I do get.
That makes up a triumvirate which must be respected, since I respect my audience.
The throws my segments into turmoil though.
When I write, I must have a point to make.
I then have to explain my point.
I then have to reach a conclusion of some form.
---- "k240" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
"Conclusion:"
Hopefully I will henceforth be a better writer through using the essayist's conventions and make my points much more effectively.
I will therefore revisit prior themes and see how much more effectively I make the point.
The first thing to revisit is my contention that "NOBODY" likes self-injecting and that pulmonary drug delivery is a reasonable alternative to be explored.
---- "k093" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
Outro
Feedback comes first, so...
I got mail! I got mail...
From a fellow MSer who lives in Brooklyn New York.
Thank you Brenda.
Your email was just the "pick me up" I needed.
Suffice it to say I'm in a strange musical mood.
You're getting some MIDI files of Domenico Scarlatti by John Sankey that I found on the internet for free download.
---- "k417" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
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
---- "k402" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
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
---- "k030" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
"Thesis:"
I have been critiqued and on reflection, I have found the critique to be a valid one.
The critique concerns my writing style.
Its too akin to some of Bach's two part inventions in structure; very satisfying works but later he supplanted himself with works of better and more expressive scope.
I have been writing the equivalent of two part inventions when, all of the musical styles, and all of the writing styles, that I respect are three part inventions.
So this marks a departure into three part invention.
Its hard to think in three parts; its like "not" having a third hand, trying to venture into a "partita" with such a disadvantage.
Much of the music I wrote were in sonata form even when they relied on "jeux de paume" (finger play) to carry the melodic lines. Indeed most music has been written in three parts.(I'm sure that my old music professor would smiling down on me if I believed in such a place as heaven.)
I am about to adventure into the essay.
My writing, and therefore the structure of this show will reflect the thesis, synthesis, conclusion of the well reasoned essay, just like a piece of good Baroque music.
---- "k460" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
"Synthesis:"
There many conventions that I must respect.
The shows all need to provide feedback, that is what I start off every show with after all.
The shows all need to provide feed-forward since this is my audience's opportunity to respond of to provide their own inputs into the shows.
The shows all need to provide information of a commercial nature from any advertisers I do get.
That makes up a triumvirate which must be respected, since I respect my audience.
The throws my segments into turmoil though.
When I write, I must have a point to make.
I then have to explain my point.
I then have to reach a conclusion of some form.
---- "k240" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
"Conclusion:"
Hopefully I will henceforth be a better writer through using the essayist's conventions and make my points much more effectively.
I will therefore revisit prior themes and see how much more effectively I make the point.
The first thing to revisit is my contention that "NOBODY" likes self-injecting and that pulmonary drug delivery is a reasonable alternative to be explored.
---- "k093" by: "Domenico Scarlatti recoded by John Sankey" http://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm
Outro
Friday, August 24, 2007
msb-0191 You're Being Framed
msb-0191 You're Being Framed
intro
---- "Eye Of The Needle" by: "Jann Klose" http://www.jannklose.com/
Feedback comes first, so...
I'm still kinda busy, and, apart from stuff that doesn't concern you, lets just say there isn't any.
Okay, lets try this again:
"Alors les Francophones, vous attendez apres quoi exactement? L'offre est encore bonne. Joignez vous a MSBPodcast.com et creez un podcast en Francais"
"Dann die Deutschen warten Sie, nach denen genau? Das Angebot ist noch gut. Verbinden Sie hat Ihnen MSBPodcast.com und Verursachen Sie ein podcast auf Deutsch."
(Translation courtesy of Babel Fish [ http://world.altavista.com/ ]) speech courtesy of AT&T research [http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php ]
---- "Needle in the Groove" by: "Nathan Wiley" http://nathanwiley.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
---- "Needless to Say" by: "Smallfish" http://www.smallfishadventures.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
---- "Needless" by: "Stabilizer" http://www.stabilizerband.com/
Main Topic: "You're being Framed"
Yesterday evening, Friday August 17, 2007 as I write this, though you probably will not hear it until the 24th of August 2007, Science And The City [ http://www.nyas.org/podcasts/nyaspodcast.xml ] had a fascinating podcast on how to frame ideas, complicated things, scientific concepts, medical complexities, and other not-readily graspable things quickly, into almost knee-jerk reflexive responses, by using frames.
I've just realized the appeal of "mordant" wit for some techies; what gives them wood is that with a few well chosen words it is possible to express the pith of an idea without the bark and the phloem, cambium, and xylem sapwoods and the heartwood getting in the way.
Frames are a rapid way of going by association from one thing to another.
For example, the stem cell debate can be associated with the positive, like the creation of new drugs and therapies, (shown with pictures of pathetic human beings at their most afflicted, ["Don't you want to help them?"]) or they can be associated with the negative like the potential death of a potential human child (shown with live human children of course. [Nobody can see a child in an undifferentiated cluster of cells]. [And shown with those children being of the same racial group as the audience, {face it, we live in a racist culture and children of another racial group might not elicit the same heart tug, (so, for maximum impact, the same speech will be shown along with healthy smiling faces of children of the audience's racial group.)}])
That's how these things are done for stem cell debates or for much of anything else where the ideas are too complicated for the politicians to get into, (or for them to understand.)
---- "Pins Needles" by: "The Four Bags" http://www.thefourbags.com/
Main Topic, part deux:
Now, how would you like to get the commercial world of drug therapies to get the [expletive deleted] off of using needles on us, the people with chronic diseases. (I "hate" self-injections and I'm relatively sure that most of us do. ["It just ain't natchral, pok'ng holes in yourself like that".])
We have to frame them in the same way that the politicians frame their debates.
Two kinds of pictures, side by side can illustrate the point, along with a very simple message about using the lung's natural permeable membrane for drug delivery.
One is a picture of a child wincing as it getting an injection and then crying, (we've all seen those, they're practically a staple of TV news,) the other picture is of a child under the stress of an asthma attack and smiling as the drugs from his inhaler take effect.
We don't need to know what the drugs are or what they're for. The resistance to one of the two different delivery mechanisms is enough.
We could expand the message with the benefits of direct absorption through the lungs versus the diffuse absorption through the lipid layer of a subcutaneous injection and then through the liver, but the image of the children's reactions would make the argument quite clear.
"Ouch!" versus "Ahhh..." (And the use of colors in my blog page is yet another example of manipulation, uh, sorry, a framing technique, that I'm using to make my point.)
And the reason that drugs aren't tested that way is that they haven't been tested that way.
No real reason. Just plain blindness to the obvious.
After all, it wasn't the original tester's skin that was being pierced and he (it had to have been a he,) wasn't particularly empathic.
("There'll be a little pricking sensation." I call bull-shit on that. Have to repeat the little pricking sensation for the "rest of your life", you bastard, and you'll soon realize that the little pricking bull-shit is coming from a bigger prick.)
His concern over efficiency of the drug delivery mechanism may have been motivated by anything, including benign indifference to the long-term applicability of using a hypodermic needle for the delivery of the therapy in chronic situations (That prompts the use of other more drastic, and just as wrong headed, fixes while the real solution might be to use a different drug delivery path.)
---- "Beggar Mans Blues" by: "The Needles" http://www.theneedlesrock.com/
Outro
intro
---- "Eye Of The Needle" by: "Jann Klose" http://www.jannklose.com/
Feedback comes first, so...
I'm still kinda busy, and, apart from stuff that doesn't concern you, lets just say there isn't any.
Okay, lets try this again:
"Alors les Francophones, vous attendez apres quoi exactement? L'offre est encore bonne. Joignez vous a MSBPodcast.com et creez un podcast en Francais"
"Dann die Deutschen warten Sie, nach denen genau? Das Angebot ist noch gut. Verbinden Sie hat Ihnen MSBPodcast.com und Verursachen Sie ein podcast auf Deutsch."
(Translation courtesy of Babel Fish [ http://world.altavista.com/ ]) speech courtesy of AT&T research [http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php ]
---- "Needle in the Groove" by: "Nathan Wiley" http://nathanwiley.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
---- "Needless to Say" by: "Smallfish" http://www.smallfishadventures.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
---- "Needless" by: "Stabilizer" http://www.stabilizerband.com/
Main Topic: "You're being Framed"
Yesterday evening, Friday August 17, 2007 as I write this, though you probably will not hear it until the 24th of August 2007, Science And The City [ http://www.nyas.org/podcasts/nyaspodcast.xml ] had a fascinating podcast on how to frame ideas, complicated things, scientific concepts, medical complexities, and other not-readily graspable things quickly, into almost knee-jerk reflexive responses, by using frames.
I've just realized the appeal of "mordant" wit for some techies; what gives them wood is that with a few well chosen words it is possible to express the pith of an idea without the bark and the phloem, cambium, and xylem sapwoods and the heartwood getting in the way.
Frames are a rapid way of going by association from one thing to another.
For example, the stem cell debate can be associated with the positive, like the creation of new drugs and therapies, (shown with pictures of pathetic human beings at their most afflicted, ["Don't you want to help them?"]) or they can be associated with the negative like the potential death of a potential human child (shown with live human children of course. [Nobody can see a child in an undifferentiated cluster of cells]. [And shown with those children being of the same racial group as the audience, {face it, we live in a racist culture and children of another racial group might not elicit the same heart tug, (so, for maximum impact, the same speech will be shown along with healthy smiling faces of children of the audience's racial group.)}])
That's how these things are done for stem cell debates or for much of anything else where the ideas are too complicated for the politicians to get into, (or for them to understand.)
---- "Pins Needles" by: "The Four Bags" http://www.thefourbags.com/
Main Topic, part deux:
Now, how would you like to get the commercial world of drug therapies to get the [expletive deleted] off of using needles on us, the people with chronic diseases. (I "hate" self-injections and I'm relatively sure that most of us do. ["It just ain't natchral, pok'ng holes in yourself like that".])
We have to frame them in the same way that the politicians frame their debates.
Two kinds of pictures, side by side can illustrate the point, along with a very simple message about using the lung's natural permeable membrane for drug delivery.
One is a picture of a child wincing as it getting an injection and then crying, (we've all seen those, they're practically a staple of TV news,) the other picture is of a child under the stress of an asthma attack and smiling as the drugs from his inhaler take effect.
We don't need to know what the drugs are or what they're for. The resistance to one of the two different delivery mechanisms is enough.
We could expand the message with the benefits of direct absorption through the lungs versus the diffuse absorption through the lipid layer of a subcutaneous injection and then through the liver, but the image of the children's reactions would make the argument quite clear.
"Ouch!" versus "Ahhh..." (And the use of colors in my blog page is yet another example of manipulation, uh, sorry, a framing technique, that I'm using to make my point.)
And the reason that drugs aren't tested that way is that they haven't been tested that way.
No real reason. Just plain blindness to the obvious.
After all, it wasn't the original tester's skin that was being pierced and he (it had to have been a he,) wasn't particularly empathic.
("There'll be a little pricking sensation." I call bull-shit on that. Have to repeat the little pricking sensation for the "rest of your life", you bastard, and you'll soon realize that the little pricking bull-shit is coming from a bigger prick.)
His concern over efficiency of the drug delivery mechanism may have been motivated by anything, including benign indifference to the long-term applicability of using a hypodermic needle for the delivery of the therapy in chronic situations (That prompts the use of other more drastic, and just as wrong headed, fixes while the real solution might be to use a different drug delivery path.)
---- "Beggar Mans Blues" by: "The Needles" http://www.theneedlesrock.com/
Outro
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
msb-0190 "Why am I doing this?"
msb-0190 "Why am I doing this?"
intro
---- "une belle chanson" by: "moshe chouraki" http://www.freewebs.com/chourakirecords
Feedback comes first, so...
I'm still kinda busy, and, apart from stuff that doesn't concern you, lets just say there isn't any.
Then again, lets try this again:
"Alors les Francophones, vous attendez apres quoi exactement? L'offre est encore bonne. Joignez vous a MSBPodcast.com et creez un podcast en Francais"
"Dann die Deutschen warten Sie, nach denen genau? Das Angebot ist noch gut. Verbinden Sie hat Ihnen MSBPodcast.com und Verursachen Sie ein podcast auf Deutsch."
(Translation courtesy of Babel Fish [ http://world.altavista.com/ ]) speech courtesy of AT&T research [http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php ]
---- "la balance" by: "moshe chouraki" http://www.freewebs.com/chourakirecords
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
---- "une colombe dans l'azur" by: "moshe chouraki" http://www.freewebs.com/chourakirecords
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
---- "conducteur imprudent" by: "moshe chouraki" http://www.freewebs.com/chourakirecords
Main Topic: "Why am I doing this?"
In order to create a space for us that we can come to for some musical entertainment and some ads about products we can use to help us alleviate us MSers.
Okay, the commercial aspects are still unrealized for now and we're still stuck with scouring the internet, the book racks and the pharmacy shelves for anything that can help us, but Rome wasn't built in a day.
Apart from the therapeutic effects of keeping busy discovering new artists, picking a theme for every show and filling it with my feeble rants about media de-conglomeration, I am quite enjoying the feedback I have gotten since I started, almost 200 shows ago.
I have over a hundred-plus listeners per show in 116 countries, (it only figures that some of which are regulars while most are casual visitors/listeners.)
That's over 23,000 downloads (sorry I don't have the exact figure as I write this while LibSyn is rebuilding its stats,) with the ratio about 30% from iTunes' subscriptions to 70% who just get the show off of the web on their computers.
I have seen other podcasts podfade as their hosts got busy with other things or because there just isn't that much new to get excited about this disease.
---- "frontieres dela liberte" by: "moshe chouraki" http://www.freewebs.com/chourakirecords
Main Topic, part deux:
So I will never have a huge audience. This disease only (ha! "only", it should be "none",) [this disease only] strikes one in twelve hundred or 0.0833% of the population.
That's still about 5 million people world-wide, and the internet, with its global reach, has shown me that I have listeners, English speaking listeners, all over it, in all inhabitable continents. (I got to tell you that its quite humbling, though ego-boosting, to know that that many people have heard my lousy voice or read my rants. [Tough not a word from penguins in Antarctica.])
And I have made some friends and some converts to podcasting.
Herrad and Homer as cases in point.
I have a cluster of Dutch listeners (through Herad) and a cluster of Greek listeners (through Homer.)
This podcast is international, and so is MS.
---- "down the streets" by: "moshe chouraki" http://www.freewebs.com/chourakirecords
Outro
intro
---- "une belle chanson" by: "moshe chouraki" http://www.freewebs.com/chourakirecords
Feedback comes first, so...
I'm still kinda busy, and, apart from stuff that doesn't concern you, lets just say there isn't any.
Then again, lets try this again:
"Alors les Francophones, vous attendez apres quoi exactement? L'offre est encore bonne. Joignez vous a MSBPodcast.com et creez un podcast en Francais"
"Dann die Deutschen warten Sie, nach denen genau? Das Angebot ist noch gut. Verbinden Sie hat Ihnen MSBPodcast.com und Verursachen Sie ein podcast auf Deutsch."
(Translation courtesy of Babel Fish [ http://world.altavista.com/ ]) speech courtesy of AT&T research [http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php ]
---- "la balance" by: "moshe chouraki" http://www.freewebs.com/chourakirecords
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
---- "une colombe dans l'azur" by: "moshe chouraki" http://www.freewebs.com/chourakirecords
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
---- "conducteur imprudent" by: "moshe chouraki" http://www.freewebs.com/chourakirecords
Main Topic: "Why am I doing this?"
In order to create a space for us that we can come to for some musical entertainment and some ads about products we can use to help us alleviate us MSers.
Okay, the commercial aspects are still unrealized for now and we're still stuck with scouring the internet, the book racks and the pharmacy shelves for anything that can help us, but Rome wasn't built in a day.
Apart from the therapeutic effects of keeping busy discovering new artists, picking a theme for every show and filling it with my feeble rants about media de-conglomeration, I am quite enjoying the feedback I have gotten since I started, almost 200 shows ago.
I have over a hundred-plus listeners per show in 116 countries, (it only figures that some of which are regulars while most are casual visitors/listeners.)
That's over 23,000 downloads (sorry I don't have the exact figure as I write this while LibSyn is rebuilding its stats,) with the ratio about 30% from iTunes' subscriptions to 70% who just get the show off of the web on their computers.
I have seen other podcasts podfade as their hosts got busy with other things or because there just isn't that much new to get excited about this disease.
---- "frontieres dela liberte" by: "moshe chouraki" http://www.freewebs.com/chourakirecords
Main Topic, part deux:
So I will never have a huge audience. This disease only (ha! "only", it should be "none",) [this disease only] strikes one in twelve hundred or 0.0833% of the population.
That's still about 5 million people world-wide, and the internet, with its global reach, has shown me that I have listeners, English speaking listeners, all over it, in all inhabitable continents. (I got to tell you that its quite humbling, though ego-boosting, to know that that many people have heard my lousy voice or read my rants. [Tough not a word from penguins in Antarctica.])
And I have made some friends and some converts to podcasting.
Herrad and Homer as cases in point.
I have a cluster of Dutch listeners (through Herad) and a cluster of Greek listeners (through Homer.)
This podcast is international, and so is MS.
---- "down the streets" by: "moshe chouraki" http://www.freewebs.com/chourakirecords
Outro
msb-0189 "What's happened to the news?"
msb-0189 "What's happened to the news?"
intro
---- "The Shiny Nose Song" by: "Chris Ayer" http://www.myspace.com/chrisayer
Feedback comes first, so...
Okay, something so stupid is happening that I just have to comment on it.
The New York Times is reporting [ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/washington/21health.html?hp ] that president Bush is fighting a battle which for something that exists only here in the 'States or in third world countries.
He's locked in a battle to stop states from expanding the popular "Children’s Health Insurance Program" on the basis that you should have to be indigent or damn near it to qualify.
Why should parents be faced with having to deal with a sick child AND be faced with the cost AND be faced with dealing with the insurance companies, who don't freakin' wanna pay. Ever! (The choice is between paying your snotty little kid's medical bills and paying for a new condo for the HMOs owner, your kid's medical bills are going to be refused.)
HMOs were Nixon's idea to change the pathetic landscape of health care in the sixties when "any" illness was catastrophic.
He pushed the medical bills onto the employers.
Guess what, the employers have pushed back.
Why should ANY family be faced with the HMOs automatic refusal to pay ANYTHING when their kids are sick.
Let me frame it in a way he'll understand.
Picture of a happy suburban family in a happy suburban house, (White people too.)
Picture of an ambulance coming to the door because a child got sick.
Picture of same suburban family in the same suburban house, but rapidly getting soiled and dowdy.
Then getting a For Sale sign in front of it.
Just to let him know what the choice is:
Picture of a happy suburban family in a happy suburban house, (White people too.)
Picture of a hearse coming to the door because a child got sick. (Child [a dead ringer for a young Jenna Bush]: "But I'm not dead yet." Dad [a dead ringer for George Bush]:"Yeah, but your mom's still young enough to have another." Yells at the hearse driver: "Don't for get to bring back my shovel. I got hydrangea to plant.")
That's a frame for the choice Bush's offering.
What is his fucking problem? Governments are supposed to take care of their citizens, not treat them like they've got leprosy.
---- "Sunny Shiny Moon" by: "Sigmon" http://matthewsigmon.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
---- "Shiny" by: "The Bang" http://www.myspace.com/bangtheband
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
---- "Give me sunshine on a rainy day" by: "Paul" http://www.myspace.com/paulborth
Main Topic: "What's happened to the news?"
I could have titled this "Another reason why I think mass media is going away."
Ever wonder why there is so little in-depth, well researched, focused, real news? (As opposed to manufactured "photo ops" and PR spin?)
In trying to "Cover the World" like "Sherwin Williams Paints", the coverage is stretched a mickle thin and spotty.
Its thin because its expensive to do it all. It costs a lot to keep all those reporters in the field and readership, and therefore the ad revenue, is shrinking.
Its spotty because in the world of economic scarcity that the monolithic news agencies are still operating in, they have to focus on one thing "or" another. The editorial budget says you can only print so many pages.
It used to be that we just didn't know about what was happening in China, or Darfur, or Timbuktu. (And dictators counted on that.)
Now we are not only being asked to find these places on the map, (cartophobia and cartographic illiteracy are becoming a bigger problem as Google maps are becoming more widespread and people are being shown to be mimetically ignorant,) but we are being asked to give a, uh, fig, yeah, fig'll do, about people we'll quite likely never meet (and being stuck with MS feels like being stuck in sub-Saharan Africa sometimes, for all its remoteness.)
In this internetworked world of plenty, we're drowning in a sea of information.
The problem is one of quality not quantity as you can usually find someone who's temporary obsession or persistent passion will be the subject you're interested in.
However that person may not be skilled in research or in writing about the research conducted.
Its no longer a question of quantity but one of quality.
Regardless of whether your information comes from a globe-spanning news organization or a lone blogger, it also is ultimately a question of trust.
But, sadly, a lot of people put flash before substance and they'd rather just be distracted by something shiny.
The average IQ is only 100. (Then again, it would be 100 in a room full of Stephen Hawkins [and I wouldn't ask Mr. Hawkins for advice about my dancing. {The point being that, as nicely as I try to put it, most people don't want to have to handle anything more than staring at something shiny.}])
---- "SUNSHINE WITH THE SHADE" by: "The Reverse Engineers" http://www.thereverseengineers.com/
Main Topic, part deux:
That leaves "photo ops" and PR spin.
What can I say about all these plastic posers, glad-handing each other, arms caught in mid pump, forced-smiling, or is that grimacing in pain, baring their dull-ivory enamel, looking for all the world like flabby ovines in shabby suits with shiny pants?
The less said about that the better.
The only thing worse, appearance- and apparel-wise not withstanding, than these captains of commerce, forever fighting on film, is the politicos taking the time, between rushing from catastrophe to calamity, to lie to us about something they know very little of, beyond what their handlers have briefed them on.
Listening to their words, or reading them on tomorrows' fish-wrapper, makes me realize that the world leaders often aren't leading anyone, except some poor deluded "schmucks" down a weed-strewn, garden path; tripping over an ankle-twisting cracked flag-stone on their way to the dust-bins of history.
The ads are the only thing you can trust (and, if you're like me, you take them with a healthy dose of skepticism. They "are" trying to get me to part with my cash and keep as much as they can for themselves. Altruism and commerce don't mix. The best you can hope for is an honest deal.)
---- "New Orleans Shine" by: "Greenfoot" http://www.greenfootmusic.com/
Outro
intro
---- "The Shiny Nose Song" by: "Chris Ayer" http://www.myspace.com/chrisayer
Feedback comes first, so...
Okay, something so stupid is happening that I just have to comment on it.
The New York Times is reporting [ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/washington/21health.html?hp ] that president Bush is fighting a battle which for something that exists only here in the 'States or in third world countries.
He's locked in a battle to stop states from expanding the popular "Children’s Health Insurance Program" on the basis that you should have to be indigent or damn near it to qualify.
Why should parents be faced with having to deal with a sick child AND be faced with the cost AND be faced with dealing with the insurance companies, who don't freakin' wanna pay. Ever! (The choice is between paying your snotty little kid's medical bills and paying for a new condo for the HMOs owner, your kid's medical bills are going to be refused.)
HMOs were Nixon's idea to change the pathetic landscape of health care in the sixties when "any" illness was catastrophic.
He pushed the medical bills onto the employers.
Guess what, the employers have pushed back.
Why should ANY family be faced with the HMOs automatic refusal to pay ANYTHING when their kids are sick.
Let me frame it in a way he'll understand.
Picture of a happy suburban family in a happy suburban house, (White people too.)
Picture of an ambulance coming to the door because a child got sick.
Picture of same suburban family in the same suburban house, but rapidly getting soiled and dowdy.
Then getting a For Sale sign in front of it.
Just to let him know what the choice is:
Picture of a happy suburban family in a happy suburban house, (White people too.)
Picture of a hearse coming to the door because a child got sick. (Child [a dead ringer for a young Jenna Bush]: "But I'm not dead yet." Dad [a dead ringer for George Bush]:"Yeah, but your mom's still young enough to have another." Yells at the hearse driver: "Don't for get to bring back my shovel. I got hydrangea to plant.")
That's a frame for the choice Bush's offering.
What is his fucking problem? Governments are supposed to take care of their citizens, not treat them like they've got leprosy.
---- "Sunny Shiny Moon" by: "Sigmon" http://matthewsigmon.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
---- "Shiny" by: "The Bang" http://www.myspace.com/bangtheband
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
---- "Give me sunshine on a rainy day" by: "Paul" http://www.myspace.com/paulborth
Main Topic: "What's happened to the news?"
I could have titled this "Another reason why I think mass media is going away."
Ever wonder why there is so little in-depth, well researched, focused, real news? (As opposed to manufactured "photo ops" and PR spin?)
In trying to "Cover the World" like "Sherwin Williams Paints", the coverage is stretched a mickle thin and spotty.
Its thin because its expensive to do it all. It costs a lot to keep all those reporters in the field and readership, and therefore the ad revenue, is shrinking.
Its spotty because in the world of economic scarcity that the monolithic news agencies are still operating in, they have to focus on one thing "or" another. The editorial budget says you can only print so many pages.
It used to be that we just didn't know about what was happening in China, or Darfur, or Timbuktu. (And dictators counted on that.)
Now we are not only being asked to find these places on the map, (cartophobia and cartographic illiteracy are becoming a bigger problem as Google maps are becoming more widespread and people are being shown to be mimetically ignorant,) but we are being asked to give a, uh, fig, yeah, fig'll do, about people we'll quite likely never meet (and being stuck with MS feels like being stuck in sub-Saharan Africa sometimes, for all its remoteness.)
In this internetworked world of plenty, we're drowning in a sea of information.
The problem is one of quality not quantity as you can usually find someone who's temporary obsession or persistent passion will be the subject you're interested in.
However that person may not be skilled in research or in writing about the research conducted.
Its no longer a question of quantity but one of quality.
Regardless of whether your information comes from a globe-spanning news organization or a lone blogger, it also is ultimately a question of trust.
But, sadly, a lot of people put flash before substance and they'd rather just be distracted by something shiny.
The average IQ is only 100. (Then again, it would be 100 in a room full of Stephen Hawkins [and I wouldn't ask Mr. Hawkins for advice about my dancing. {The point being that, as nicely as I try to put it, most people don't want to have to handle anything more than staring at something shiny.}])
---- "SUNSHINE WITH THE SHADE" by: "The Reverse Engineers" http://www.thereverseengineers.com/
Main Topic, part deux:
That leaves "photo ops" and PR spin.
What can I say about all these plastic posers, glad-handing each other, arms caught in mid pump, forced-smiling, or is that grimacing in pain, baring their dull-ivory enamel, looking for all the world like flabby ovines in shabby suits with shiny pants?
The less said about that the better.
The only thing worse, appearance- and apparel-wise not withstanding, than these captains of commerce, forever fighting on film, is the politicos taking the time, between rushing from catastrophe to calamity, to lie to us about something they know very little of, beyond what their handlers have briefed them on.
Listening to their words, or reading them on tomorrows' fish-wrapper, makes me realize that the world leaders often aren't leading anyone, except some poor deluded "schmucks" down a weed-strewn, garden path; tripping over an ankle-twisting cracked flag-stone on their way to the dust-bins of history.
The ads are the only thing you can trust (and, if you're like me, you take them with a healthy dose of skepticism. They "are" trying to get me to part with my cash and keep as much as they can for themselves. Altruism and commerce don't mix. The best you can hope for is an honest deal.)
---- "New Orleans Shine" by: "Greenfoot" http://www.greenfootmusic.com/
Outro
Monday, August 20, 2007
msb-0188 The Price and Power of Fragmentation
msb-0188 The Price and Power of Fragmentation
intro
---- "Power Ups!" by: "The Calculus" http://thecalculus.net/
Feedback comes first, so...
There is none, but that's okay 'cuz, I'm kinda busy...
---- "Laylatul Qadr - Night of Power Mix" by: "Kismet" http://www.kismetnasheed.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
---- "Power " by: "Maria Daines" http://www.maria-daines.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
---- "New Power Revolution" by: "Psykosoul" http://www.myspace.com/psykosoulmusic
Main Topic: "The Price and Power of Fragmentation"
I'm reading all this news about people who just don't "get it."
Big media companies like Time Warner and News Corp see stuff happening on the web and they see no new money on their own turf, (make that: they see a dwindling audience [of people who are even poorer today than they were yesterday because they have been through round after round of cost-cutting and out-sourcing and seeing their jobs replaced with McJobs {which the government employment statistics "don't" take into account. (They don't even want to "go there". A job's a job as far as they're concerned. [Never mind that your cushy middle-class job with its cushy middle-class salary has been replaced by one that sees your real income cut to a fraction of what it was.])}])
So the big conglomerate sharks try to acquire the little fish, not realizing that by acquiring them, they are in fact eating the dead and the dying. (When you're no longer agile enough to avoid acquisition, when you have become big enough big enough to become acquirable, you've also become too bloated to continue, you've become too big to be "worth" acquiring.)
This imposes an upper limit on the size of any media outlet, (the world is getting filled with little fish,) and on the cash flow that any single media outlet can generate.
The world will never see another "Time-Warner", another "News Corp". The days of opportunity in the mass appeal to the mass market have come to a close.
The economics of the internet will pretty much dictate the upper limit on the size of any media and on any revenue it can generate. (But then again, do you want to have to pay for that kind of unfocused reach [and we as the consumers of those products "do" pay,] unless you have an unfocused mass-market product that fills an unfocused mass-market need.?)
That's the "price" and the cost of fragmentation.
---- "Power And The Glory" by: "Sweet Crystal" http://www.sweetcrystal.com/
Main Topic, part deux:
Now, what is the "power" of fragmentation?
There is a generation growing up never having known an "Edward R. Murrow", never mind a "William Randolph Hurst". Most of them have never even heard of "Leni Riefenstahl".
Those were the "bad old days" when people could do unimaginably bad things to masses of those they perceived as "the others". (I'm not sad to see them go. [They relied on ignorance and selected memories, selected by the power structures, the unelected elites, to perpetrate and perpetuate themselves.])
Today, our heroes are much smaller in stature, impact and reach. Given the abuses of power in our recent past, that seem to be a "good thing".
Its giving smaller and smaller groups of people the time and the room to live. People who can't ever fit into the few huge bland agglomerations; to be manipulated and lied to for the "greater good", (which usually turns out to be some self-appointed elite's need.)
The face of the post-mass media is perforce one of communication and dialog between individuals.
Instead of a cacophony of babbling punditry, the internet gives us a computer mediated structure to focus in on our needs while freeing us from the economics of scarcity and from the need to deprive anyone else of expressing their own viewpoints.
And that's where this podcast fits in.
---- "Some Horsepower Funk" by: "Jeso" http://www.jeso.nl/
Outro
intro
---- "Power Ups!" by: "The Calculus" http://thecalculus.net/
Feedback comes first, so...
There is none, but that's okay 'cuz, I'm kinda busy...
---- "Laylatul Qadr - Night of Power Mix" by: "Kismet" http://www.kismetnasheed.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
---- "Power " by: "Maria Daines" http://www.maria-daines.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
---- "New Power Revolution" by: "Psykosoul" http://www.myspace.com/psykosoulmusic
Main Topic: "The Price and Power of Fragmentation"
I'm reading all this news about people who just don't "get it."
Big media companies like Time Warner and News Corp see stuff happening on the web and they see no new money on their own turf, (make that: they see a dwindling audience [of people who are even poorer today than they were yesterday because they have been through round after round of cost-cutting and out-sourcing and seeing their jobs replaced with McJobs {which the government employment statistics "don't" take into account. (They don't even want to "go there". A job's a job as far as they're concerned. [Never mind that your cushy middle-class job with its cushy middle-class salary has been replaced by one that sees your real income cut to a fraction of what it was.])}])
So the big conglomerate sharks try to acquire the little fish, not realizing that by acquiring them, they are in fact eating the dead and the dying. (When you're no longer agile enough to avoid acquisition, when you have become big enough big enough to become acquirable, you've also become too bloated to continue, you've become too big to be "worth" acquiring.)
This imposes an upper limit on the size of any media outlet, (the world is getting filled with little fish,) and on the cash flow that any single media outlet can generate.
The world will never see another "Time-Warner", another "News Corp". The days of opportunity in the mass appeal to the mass market have come to a close.
The economics of the internet will pretty much dictate the upper limit on the size of any media and on any revenue it can generate. (But then again, do you want to have to pay for that kind of unfocused reach [and we as the consumers of those products "do" pay,] unless you have an unfocused mass-market product that fills an unfocused mass-market need.?)
That's the "price" and the cost of fragmentation.
---- "Power And The Glory" by: "Sweet Crystal" http://www.sweetcrystal.com/
Main Topic, part deux:
Now, what is the "power" of fragmentation?
There is a generation growing up never having known an "Edward R. Murrow", never mind a "William Randolph Hurst". Most of them have never even heard of "Leni Riefenstahl".
Those were the "bad old days" when people could do unimaginably bad things to masses of those they perceived as "the others". (I'm not sad to see them go. [They relied on ignorance and selected memories, selected by the power structures, the unelected elites, to perpetrate and perpetuate themselves.])
Today, our heroes are much smaller in stature, impact and reach. Given the abuses of power in our recent past, that seem to be a "good thing".
Its giving smaller and smaller groups of people the time and the room to live. People who can't ever fit into the few huge bland agglomerations; to be manipulated and lied to for the "greater good", (which usually turns out to be some self-appointed elite's need.)
The face of the post-mass media is perforce one of communication and dialog between individuals.
Instead of a cacophony of babbling punditry, the internet gives us a computer mediated structure to focus in on our needs while freeing us from the economics of scarcity and from the need to deprive anyone else of expressing their own viewpoints.
And that's where this podcast fits in.
---- "Some Horsepower Funk" by: "Jeso" http://www.jeso.nl/
Outro
Friday, August 17, 2007
msb-0187 So what?
msb-0187 So what?
intro
---- "History" by: "The Ellison Bier Band" http://www.ellisonbierband.com/
Feedback comes first, so...
Herrad posted her latest podcast: "msb-du-0007-Van PGB tot borrel met de buren."
It took a little while to get it right but its up there.
---- "History " by: "Sunburn In Cyprus" http://www.sunburnincyprus.de/
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
---- "Ancient History" by: "Shari" http://www.myspace.com/serockpop
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
---- "Hope In My History " by: "Friction Bailey" http://www.myspace.com/frictionbailey
Main Topic: "So what?"
In keeping with my openness about what I'm trying to accomplish with this podcast, let me tell you that I only have 100 readers/listeners (which keep dropping in and out) out of which I can count on about 30 or so as regular listeners. (And no, I don't know who you are, otherwise I'd reach out with personal messages for all of you to make you feel, uh, special.)
That sounds bad until you realize that I only have 30 or so regular listeners. That means that the other 70 or so are people with an interest in MS (like maybe they've got MS or they know somebody with MS,) but who don't/won't/can't connect all the time.
Given the persistence of the show and the ads, this is actually "good" for advertisers and for me.
iTunes lists the last 50 episodes.That means that the last 50 episode's worth of content (and ads,) are available for dowload.
If you subscribe directly to get all the RSS (I'm not seriously saying that you would/could/should/ get all the episodes just if you did) you would see that it been a theme present since the beginning (and much beyond.)
---- "Daughters of History" by: "Morning Spy" http://www.morningspy.com/
Main Topic, part deux:
This is a link to something produced by the CBC about "Le Refus Global" [ http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-68-109/arts_entertainment/refus_global/ ] which is French for the total denial of everything that the Catholic Church had done in Quebec since the French had lost to the English on the "Plaines D'Abraham" in in 1759 (the USofA is a "Johnny Come Lately"when it comes to history. We were fighting with Washington when he was still on the side of the British.)
I'm not going to do more than link to the site because the audio clips are worth listening to on their own and it will inform you of how the "state of siege" mentality finally yielded in 1960 to a global denunciation of how we Québecois had been manipulated for longer than two hundred years and we'd had finally had enough.
The Catholic Church might have been the savior of the French culture in North America through the instrument of "La Guere Des Berceaux", the "War of the Cradle", (the ultimate victory of demographics over demagogery,) but it was beginning to stifle us and prove counter-productive.
This is very relevant to me because my own mother, being an artist in her own right, was friends with many of the artists who participated in "Le Refus Global".
As a child I grew up knowing, or at least knowing of, many of these people.
The Catholic Church that remains in Québec is only a pale shadow of its former pre-"Refus Global" days.
There are many lessons which can be learned about fighting a war without firing a shot from a study of the "Guerre des Berceaux" and even more about how it all peacefully unravels again without firing a shot.
The future is in the power of your loins.
Speaking as a non-combatant, and quite glad for it given my health condition, I still find much to be learned (even as tragic as it might seem on first glance,) from the study of demographics.
Its just that such a study must be understood in terms of the world "after" the coming of the internet.
In media history, the sixteenth to the nineteenth century belonged to the "Encyclopedists" where the word was spread amongst a literate elite; the twentieth century was the age of Riefenstahl and MacLuhan, where the concept of mass culture was created and proselytization was, uh, proselytized; but the twenty first century breaks the mold of the mass and returns cultural power back to people, who, while not an elite, are gathered around a common cause and a common need.
That me and thee. That's us folks, the MSers, participating in this podcast, me by speaking and playing tunes and you by listening in and joining in if and when you want to.
---- "History Never Repeats" by: "Rubber Clown Car" http://rubberclowncar.com/
Outro
intro
---- "History" by: "The Ellison Bier Band" http://www.ellisonbierband.com/
Feedback comes first, so...
Herrad posted her latest podcast: "msb-du-0007-Van PGB tot borrel met de buren."
It took a little while to get it right but its up there.
---- "History " by: "Sunburn In Cyprus" http://www.sunburnincyprus.de/
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
---- "Ancient History" by: "Shari" http://www.myspace.com/serockpop
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
---- "Hope In My History " by: "Friction Bailey" http://www.myspace.com/frictionbailey
Main Topic: "So what?"
In keeping with my openness about what I'm trying to accomplish with this podcast, let me tell you that I only have 100 readers/listeners (which keep dropping in and out) out of which I can count on about 30 or so as regular listeners. (And no, I don't know who you are, otherwise I'd reach out with personal messages for all of you to make you feel, uh, special.)
That sounds bad until you realize that I only have 30 or so regular listeners. That means that the other 70 or so are people with an interest in MS (like maybe they've got MS or they know somebody with MS,) but who don't/won't/can't connect all the time.
Given the persistence of the show and the ads, this is actually "good" for advertisers and for me.
iTunes lists the last 50 episodes.That means that the last 50 episode's worth of content (and ads,) are available for dowload.
If you subscribe directly to get all the RSS (I'm not seriously saying that you would/could/should/ get all the episodes just if you did) you would see that it been a theme present since the beginning (and much beyond.)
---- "Daughters of History" by: "Morning Spy" http://www.morningspy.com/
Main Topic, part deux:
This is a link to something produced by the CBC about "Le Refus Global" [ http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-68-109/arts_entertainment/refus_global/ ] which is French for the total denial of everything that the Catholic Church had done in Quebec since the French had lost to the English on the "Plaines D'Abraham" in in 1759 (the USofA is a "Johnny Come Lately"when it comes to history. We were fighting with Washington when he was still on the side of the British.)
I'm not going to do more than link to the site because the audio clips are worth listening to on their own and it will inform you of how the "state of siege" mentality finally yielded in 1960 to a global denunciation of how we Québecois had been manipulated for longer than two hundred years and we'd had finally had enough.
The Catholic Church might have been the savior of the French culture in North America through the instrument of "La Guere Des Berceaux", the "War of the Cradle", (the ultimate victory of demographics over demagogery,) but it was beginning to stifle us and prove counter-productive.
This is very relevant to me because my own mother, being an artist in her own right, was friends with many of the artists who participated in "Le Refus Global".
As a child I grew up knowing, or at least knowing of, many of these people.
The Catholic Church that remains in Québec is only a pale shadow of its former pre-"Refus Global" days.
There are many lessons which can be learned about fighting a war without firing a shot from a study of the "Guerre des Berceaux" and even more about how it all peacefully unravels again without firing a shot.
The future is in the power of your loins.
Speaking as a non-combatant, and quite glad for it given my health condition, I still find much to be learned (even as tragic as it might seem on first glance,) from the study of demographics.
Its just that such a study must be understood in terms of the world "after" the coming of the internet.
In media history, the sixteenth to the nineteenth century belonged to the "Encyclopedists" where the word was spread amongst a literate elite; the twentieth century was the age of Riefenstahl and MacLuhan, where the concept of mass culture was created and proselytization was, uh, proselytized; but the twenty first century breaks the mold of the mass and returns cultural power back to people, who, while not an elite, are gathered around a common cause and a common need.
That me and thee. That's us folks, the MSers, participating in this podcast, me by speaking and playing tunes and you by listening in and joining in if and when you want to.
---- "History Never Repeats" by: "Rubber Clown Car" http://rubberclowncar.com/
Outro
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
msb-0186 Time and again
msb-0186 Time and again
intro
---- "Deeper" by: "Keith Varon" http://www.keithvaron.com/
Feedback comes first, so...
I got some from Christy Fath, Advertising Sales Director of "Inside MS". my expensive little ad will be appearing in the November issue of the magazine.
That's when they are beginning a new layout for the magazine...
Who knows, they may want to expand their presence into the new media of podcasting?
I am certainly willing to help.
---- "Honestly" by: "Keith Varon" http://www.keithvaron.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
---- "Cant Breathe" by: "Keith Varon" http://www.keithvaron.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
---- "Safe Escape" by: "Keith Varon" http://www.keithvaron.com/
Main Topic: "Time and again"
I keep making the same mistake.
I go around on the PMN (the Podsafe Music Network) looking for some tunes for a theme I'd picked around something I wanted to bitch about.
Next thing I know, I'm falling about all over the place (I know, with MS, what did I expect?) trying to find out all I can about an artist and buying all of his CDs on iTunes and my entire theme has gone the way of all flesh.
Its happened again. I stumbled upon a tune by Keith Varon [ http://www.keithvaron.com/ ] and ... there goes the plan.
If you go to his web page, please excuse the fact that the page says its an "Untitled Document" and please forgive me for being such a QA obsessed [expletive deleted.]
---- "After All" by: "Keith Varon" http://www.keithvaron.com/
Main Topic, part deux:
But sometimes, its good that plans don't survive contact with reality.
Podshow says, and it easy for me to quote them:
Gee. I wonder what's next for this great young artist?
Finding his fifteen minutes of fame on the PMN?
Nah.
Its more like his talent will shine on persistently. (The PMN has got some legs. And it knows how to use 'em [Apologies to Billy F Gibbons and ZZ Top, { http://www.zztop.com/index.php } but mostly to their A&R man, for making a cultural reference that they can only seethe at. {Then again, ZZ's cool! They wouldn't care.}])
---- "Intoxicated" by: "Keith Varon" http://www.keithvaron.com/
Outro
Here's something that Adam Curry wised me to:
---- "Maybe Im Amazed AUTHORIZED COVER " "Blake Morgan" http://www.blakemorgan.com/
Does this have it, or what?
intro
---- "Deeper" by: "Keith Varon" http://www.keithvaron.com/
Feedback comes first, so...
I got some from Christy Fath, Advertising Sales Director of "Inside MS". my expensive little ad will be appearing in the November issue of the magazine.
That's when they are beginning a new layout for the magazine...
Who knows, they may want to expand their presence into the new media of podcasting?
I am certainly willing to help.
---- "Honestly" by: "Keith Varon" http://www.keithvaron.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
---- "Cant Breathe" by: "Keith Varon" http://www.keithvaron.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
---- "Safe Escape" by: "Keith Varon" http://www.keithvaron.com/
Main Topic: "Time and again"
I keep making the same mistake.
I go around on the PMN (the Podsafe Music Network) looking for some tunes for a theme I'd picked around something I wanted to bitch about.
Next thing I know, I'm falling about all over the place (I know, with MS, what did I expect?) trying to find out all I can about an artist and buying all of his CDs on iTunes and my entire theme has gone the way of all flesh.
Its happened again. I stumbled upon a tune by Keith Varon [ http://www.keithvaron.com/ ] and ... there goes the plan.
If you go to his web page, please excuse the fact that the page says its an "Untitled Document" and please forgive me for being such a QA obsessed [expletive deleted.]
---- "After All" by: "Keith Varon" http://www.keithvaron.com/
Main Topic, part deux:
But sometimes, its good that plans don't survive contact with reality.
Podshow says, and it easy for me to quote them:
"Keith Varon is the voice of a new generation. From the moment you hear his beautifully crafted songwriting and smoky intimate voice it’s no wonder he had two songs on MTV’s Laguna Beach. His song “Can’t Breathe” had a full 2 minutes of TV glory, making a huge wave amongst the Internet community."Wow! I didn't know MTV still had mu...u...usic. (Its mostly beach frat house parties and other lowest cost, lowest production value schlock [Like old, old "Ozzie Osborne" and reality shows for nineteen year-olds. Puh-lease...])
Gee. I wonder what's next for this great young artist?
Finding his fifteen minutes of fame on the PMN?
Nah.
Its more like his talent will shine on persistently. (The PMN has got some legs. And it knows how to use 'em [Apologies to Billy F Gibbons and ZZ Top, { http://www.zztop.com/index.php } but mostly to their A&R man, for making a cultural reference that they can only seethe at. {Then again, ZZ's cool! They wouldn't care.}])
---- "Intoxicated" by: "Keith Varon" http://www.keithvaron.com/
Outro
Here's something that Adam Curry wised me to:
---- "Maybe Im Amazed AUTHORIZED COVER " "Blake Morgan" http://www.blakemorgan.com/
Does this have it, or what?
Monday, August 13, 2007
msb-0185 Doh. A senior moment...
msb-0185 Doh. A senior moment...
intro
I apologize for last weeks' Friday update. I was late because of problems between ComCast (who were blameless [yea, ... who'd a think it,]) my machines (Macs don't get any of the viral nasties waiting for every defenseless PC out there,) or LibSyn (who are a wonderful service, well they're having a litle problem with their stats but it'll get fixed,) instead, the blame lay in my own LinkSys router (what a piece of friggin' "crap". That's the next thing to go into the trash.)
---- "Trailer Park" by: "Man Bites God" http://www.manbitesgod.com/
Feedback comes first, so...
There is none, but that's okay 'cuz, I'm kinda busy...
---- "The Nucleus I like best" by: "Science Groove" http://www.science-groove.org/
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
---- "Hooray for NMR spectroscopy!" by: "Science Groove" http://www.science-groove.org/
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
---- "Band Aid For A Bullet Wound" by: "Scenic Attraction" http://www.myspace.com/scenicattraction
Main Topic: "Doh. A senior moment..."
I hate it when reality so rudely intrudes.
I know I had a theme all picked out for this show and I had selected the music and everything and now, its all vanished in the minutia that has become the core of my life.
I'm trying not to let myself get lost in thoughts, although its often back there that I find myself, plumbing the, uh, stuff, (yeah that sound pretty good,) the stuff I accomplished in my younger days to solve somebody's problem in these my elder years.
I had done something while employed for a hospital's MIS department (it wasn't called IT yet, shortly thereafter, they tried calling the entire profession "informatics", but that was too snooty and chi-chi to ever take. :-)
Basically, I was given a system to document and not knowing whether I was looking at a silk purse or a sow's ear, I had to create a language to try to come to grips with the thing. (It was, in fact, a silk purse "and" a dog's breakfast. [Creating languages was what I "did!" Everything needs a concise language to express its "crenaux" {the nearest English approximation I can come up with is its "slot", sorry,} in and with.])
I was pretty proud of what I'd come up with, so a few years later, I gussied it up and wrote about it.
Years later, I discovered that the technique had even been used in exactly the way it was intended for exactly the purpose it was intended. (Man I was "happy" about that...)
Now, over two decades after I wrote the original article, over fifteen years since I wrote the gussied up version, over a decade since it got written about, I am finding that the people whom I work for right now have some need for exactly what I wrote the original article for. (How freakin' weird is that?)
---- "Seance" by: "Stavia" http://www.stavia.co.uk/
Main Topic, part deux:
So that's what I was doing, reviewing old notes and reprints, when I should have been writing down some notes for the show.
I know I picked these songs for a reason, (apart from the obvious, that I liked them,) and I had placed them in the order that I wanted them, and there had been some idea germinating in my little head at the time, but I'll be [expletive deleted] if I can remember what it was.
Its taking longer and longer to reach the conclusion that I should take more copious notes.
Oh well.
---- "Free Ride In A Cop Car" by: "The Clintons" http://www.clintonsband.com/
Outro
intro
I apologize for last weeks' Friday update. I was late because of problems between ComCast (who were blameless [yea, ... who'd a think it,]) my machines (Macs don't get any of the viral nasties waiting for every defenseless PC out there,) or LibSyn (who are a wonderful service, well they're having a litle problem with their stats but it'll get fixed,) instead, the blame lay in my own LinkSys router (what a piece of friggin' "crap". That's the next thing to go into the trash.)
---- "Trailer Park" by: "Man Bites God" http://www.manbitesgod.com/
Feedback comes first, so...
There is none, but that's okay 'cuz, I'm kinda busy...
---- "The Nucleus I like best" by: "Science Groove" http://www.science-groove.org/
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
---- "Hooray for NMR spectroscopy!" by: "Science Groove" http://www.science-groove.org/
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
---- "Band Aid For A Bullet Wound" by: "Scenic Attraction" http://www.myspace.com/scenicattraction
Main Topic: "Doh. A senior moment..."
I hate it when reality so rudely intrudes.
I know I had a theme all picked out for this show and I had selected the music and everything and now, its all vanished in the minutia that has become the core of my life.
I'm trying not to let myself get lost in thoughts, although its often back there that I find myself, plumbing the, uh, stuff, (yeah that sound pretty good,) the stuff I accomplished in my younger days to solve somebody's problem in these my elder years.
I had done something while employed for a hospital's MIS department (it wasn't called IT yet, shortly thereafter, they tried calling the entire profession "informatics", but that was too snooty and chi-chi to ever take. :-)
Basically, I was given a system to document and not knowing whether I was looking at a silk purse or a sow's ear, I had to create a language to try to come to grips with the thing. (It was, in fact, a silk purse "and" a dog's breakfast. [Creating languages was what I "did!" Everything needs a concise language to express its "crenaux" {the nearest English approximation I can come up with is its "slot", sorry,} in and with.])
I was pretty proud of what I'd come up with, so a few years later, I gussied it up and wrote about it.
Years later, I discovered that the technique had even been used in exactly the way it was intended for exactly the purpose it was intended. (Man I was "happy" about that...)
Now, over two decades after I wrote the original article, over fifteen years since I wrote the gussied up version, over a decade since it got written about, I am finding that the people whom I work for right now have some need for exactly what I wrote the original article for. (How freakin' weird is that?)
---- "Seance" by: "Stavia" http://www.stavia.co.uk/
Main Topic, part deux:
So that's what I was doing, reviewing old notes and reprints, when I should have been writing down some notes for the show.
I know I picked these songs for a reason, (apart from the obvious, that I liked them,) and I had placed them in the order that I wanted them, and there had been some idea germinating in my little head at the time, but I'll be [expletive deleted] if I can remember what it was.
Its taking longer and longer to reach the conclusion that I should take more copious notes.
Oh well.
---- "Free Ride In A Cop Car" by: "The Clintons" http://www.clintonsband.com/
Outro
Friday, August 10, 2007
msb-0184 Okay, I'm waiting...
msb-0184 Okay, I'm waiting...
intro
---- "Bottom Of The World" by: "Tom Waits" http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/186/
Feedback comes first, so...
There is, none except for Miss Chris and I trading words on my blog, but that's okay... I'm kinda busy...
Dang. Another show that didn't turn out like I thought it would.
I mean I was all ready to play you some rockin' heavy tunes by "Toxic Virgin" [ http://www.toxicvirgin.de/ ] and some other kick-ass bands and next thing I know, I'm waylaid and set adrift on some nostalgic, mournful tunes by "Tom Waits" [ http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/186/ ]
---- "You Can Never Hold Back Spring" by: "Tom Waits" http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/186/
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
---- "Hold On" by: "Tom Waits" http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/186/
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
---- "Alice" by: "Tom Waits" http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/186/
Main Topic: "Okay, I'm waiting..."
And while I'm waiting, I'm listening to the history of "STAX" records on PBS. (Yeah ... I'm writing this in short snatches of time over a span of several days and nights. Temporal continuity is a luxury none of us can afford anymore in this "always on," 24/7/52 world.)
Holy sit and God damn!
Thank god and the little fishes for PBS.
And fuck the RIAA that I can't play any of it for you.
These guys were great.
Oh god da-m-n.
I "loved" Otis Redding.
Isaac Hayes had talent.
Kee-rist. The incredible talent of those days.
In the mean while, I'm currently waiting on lots of things to happen and patience has never been my long suit.
---- "Another Man's Vine" by: "Tom Waits" http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/186/
Main Topic, part deux:
Okay, I'm currently having my days filled up with conference calls and carefully crafting emails which express what the company needs and what the company is able to do for the client without over promising anything and using "proper English" (an all too rare skill these days on "both" sides of the phone line.)
Thank whatever kritterz you go for that I'm able to listen to music while I wait (and "mute" is never farther away than the space bar :-)
There is an overwheming amount of mediocrity around these days.
I just spent almost an hour listening to a discussion that would have been eliminated with a simple off-handed reference to variable scoping.
But its not for me to tell people that the solution is right in front of their noses, well not without collecting a big fat fee.
I shudder to think about how I'd explain a A.I. "white-board" memory system with a partially persistent implementation to these people. (That depends on how much is required of the system from a point of view of recovery. As far as I'm concerned a user should be able to undo and/or redo everything since the last committed run-unit-of-work.)
I'm boring you. (Hell I'm boring myself!)
I promise to try and avoid shop talk from now on.
---- "How's It Gonna End" by: "Tom Waits" http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/186/
Outro
intro
---- "Bottom Of The World" by: "Tom Waits" http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/186/
Feedback comes first, so...
There is, none except for Miss Chris and I trading words on my blog, but that's okay... I'm kinda busy...
Dang. Another show that didn't turn out like I thought it would.
I mean I was all ready to play you some rockin' heavy tunes by "Toxic Virgin" [ http://www.toxicvirgin.de/ ] and some other kick-ass bands and next thing I know, I'm waylaid and set adrift on some nostalgic, mournful tunes by "Tom Waits" [ http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/186/ ]
---- "You Can Never Hold Back Spring" by: "Tom Waits" http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/186/
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
---- "Hold On" by: "Tom Waits" http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/186/
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
---- "Alice" by: "Tom Waits" http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/186/
Main Topic: "Okay, I'm waiting..."
And while I'm waiting, I'm listening to the history of "STAX" records on PBS. (Yeah ... I'm writing this in short snatches of time over a span of several days and nights. Temporal continuity is a luxury none of us can afford anymore in this "always on," 24/7/52 world.)
Holy sit and God damn!
Thank god and the little fishes for PBS.
And fuck the RIAA that I can't play any of it for you.
These guys were great.
Oh god da-m-n.
I "loved" Otis Redding.
Isaac Hayes had talent.
Kee-rist. The incredible talent of those days.
In the mean while, I'm currently waiting on lots of things to happen and patience has never been my long suit.
---- "Another Man's Vine" by: "Tom Waits" http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/186/
Main Topic, part deux:
Okay, I'm currently having my days filled up with conference calls and carefully crafting emails which express what the company needs and what the company is able to do for the client without over promising anything and using "proper English" (an all too rare skill these days on "both" sides of the phone line.)
Thank whatever kritterz you go for that I'm able to listen to music while I wait (and "mute" is never farther away than the space bar :-)
There is an overwheming amount of mediocrity around these days.
I just spent almost an hour listening to a discussion that would have been eliminated with a simple off-handed reference to variable scoping.
But its not for me to tell people that the solution is right in front of their noses, well not without collecting a big fat fee.
I shudder to think about how I'd explain a A.I. "white-board" memory system with a partially persistent implementation to these people. (That depends on how much is required of the system from a point of view of recovery. As far as I'm concerned a user should be able to undo and/or redo everything since the last committed run-unit-of-work.)
I'm boring you. (Hell I'm boring myself!)
I promise to try and avoid shop talk from now on.
---- "How's It Gonna End" by: "Tom Waits" http://www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/186/
Outro
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