msb-0299 On the verge of a deal
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..
I'm trying something to see if embeds from mevio can work with Blogger and LibSyn.
This guy looks like I did (well my hair used to hang down "a lot" further,) but its the same sort of playing I loved to do.
Lots of flash and finger play, but its not really that hard.
My guitar was also a classical, a "Framus" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framus ], but built of white spruce, probably by "Silvio DeLellis" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Lellis ] (whom I had apprenticed for. [I know I'm getting old. He passed away in 1998. And the man was so big, he seemed like a veritable force of nature.])
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I'm still waiting on some people and until that happens, I won't know whether to put whatever I'd say in the "Feedback" or the "Feed Forward" (and in at least one case the "Feed Me" segment of the show. [My fingers "are" crossed.])
My ad ran in the Summer issue of "Momentum." "Sweet!" The results were immediate and I noticed enough more downloads to make me think "we've got something here."
I've bought a "Flip Video camera" [ http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/547310-DEMO/Pure_Digital_F260B_DEMO_Flip_Video_Ultra.html ] (I don't "do" video so, rest assured, there's method to my madness. [I'll reveal more on the Friday episode... :-])
My friend the SysAdmin and I went to see "IronMan" [ http://ironmanmovie.marvel.com/ ].
I'm no "Gene Shalit" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Shalit ] so go or don't go, I don't have any opinion worth sharing on the subject. But it "was" filled with cool CGI.
---- "Detox" by: "Millencolin" http://music.podshow.com/music/artists/photos/00004195/millencoilin.jpg
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"
---- "DeToX" by: "Intrabyte" http://www.myspace.com/intrabyte
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"
---- "Girl From Detox" by: "Chaz Matthews" http://www.fullbreach77.com/kicks/s_chazmatthews.html
"Thesis:"
One of the problems with seeing things before anybody else does is that I have to be patient, very, very, patient.
One of the things about MS is that, amongst the circuits that have been fried in my brain and covered in non-conductive scars, are things called repressor or inhibitory circuits a.k.a. neurological pathways, which means that I really don't have a lot of patience left.
As "Elvis" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley ] sang so ably all those decades ago: "I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree. I'm in love (with an idea). I'm all shook up... Unh, unh uhn ... yea yea..."
---- "Intoxicated" by: "Keith Varon" http://www.keithvaron.com/
"Synthesis:"
We are on the cusp of an evolution in media, in content production and in advertising. We are at an inflection point there.
I like what was inadvertently pointed out in "this" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/business/media/03nocera.html ] article in the New York Times.
Radio is a competition for air time as much as, or perhaps even more than, it is a competition for your audience's attention.
The competitiveness in the television industry is the stuff of "legend". [ http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=network&x=0&y=0 ]
The "dog eat dog" nature of the competition for a scarce resource, in this case its the transmission tower, produces or elicits certain behavior which may not be in the best interest of the competitors.
The interference of the intrusion of ads into the content which is carried over the air waves is also the stuff of "legend" [ http://www.clearchanneloutdoor.com/corporate/history.htm ] and the subject of many rants, both mine and those early ones of "Mark Yashimoto Nemcoff", [ http://www.markyoshimotonemcoff.com/pch/ ] (before he teamed up with somebody else and got all nice on us. :-).
What I saw in a flash as I sat there listening to "Adam Curry's "Daily Source Code" one morning, (or was it in the evening, with podcasting, it no longer matters,) as he was running a promotion for [name deleted by common sense, but it was a car company,] was an extremely efficient means of getting across a short message capable of getting people in the audience who would be interested in getting more information, in any media, of any duration, and that could be charged for.
The justification for my charging for this content would be based on its commercial nature.
Basically I was asking "Qui bono?" And that was who I was going to charge for access. ("Follow the money".)
I am in an extremely limited market of people who don't have any money to waste on any superfluous things, like ad campaigns.
What these people need is an extremely efficient way to get information across if, and only if, and when, but every time, its asked for.
The "podcast ad" model allows the ad to become larger, to answer more questions, to in effect become content and to use the internet to podcast itself anywhere and at anytime. (I agree with "This Week In Media" [ http://www.pixelcorps.tv/this_week_in_media ] about making the ads the content of their own shows.)
The "reminder ad" model, is roughly the same as exists now, except it has to be altered to allow for the long-tail of podcasting. A campaign can be run from a date to a date and its only function is to inform the audience of the "podcast ad".
Its so much more efficient, I just want to strangle people who just don't "get it." ("Doh dee doh... Oh no... We'll just keep on wasting our money trying to hit a bullseye, on a receding target, with a dart, while blindfolded, tied to a spinning office chair, that's rolling down hill, towards the edge of a precipice.")
(I'd get to watch an entire episode of "Numb3rs" without all the damn commercials.)
---- "Toxic To The Good Times" by: "Instar" http://www.instarmusic.com/
"Conclusion:"
So I have to practice patience (and try to let people not see that I'm practically squirming in my seat.)
People will eventually see that what was broken and unsatisfactory about the broadcast model on both sides of the transmitter (the ceaseless cacophony of shouting at those who will not hear because they aren't interested,) is fixed through the use of a ka-jillion podcatches whispering their messages into the ears of the ears of those people who are so interested that they've asked for and downloaded it.
But its taking so "long", that I'm just going to jack up the price to what I feel I "should" have been charging and it'll cost about 10 times more. (Bet we never thought of ourselves as a valuable commodity, but that's exactly what we are, valuable, and if I'm going to be ignored, it might be for some real dough. :-)
Its either that or abandoning the MS market to its own comfortable little oblivion.
---- "Intoxicated" by: "Mission 5" http://www.mission5.net/
Outro
Monday, May 12, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
msb-fr-0011 Jongle
msb-fr-0011 Jongle
intro
Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu!
MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical.
Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens.
----
À Moi oûvre le programme...
Je n'ai rien a dire.
Je suis très occupé par la construction d'un Wiki pour les SPcimens.
---- "Patience" par: "Amy Sawers" http://www.fathippyrecords.co.uk/
À Vous suit...
Ceci est votre segment.
Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment.
Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger.
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Patience" par: "Guitarshop Asshole" http://www.guitarshopasshole.de/
À L'aide est en troisième...
Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen?
Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast.
Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.)
Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement.
Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".)
Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel.
L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle.
Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé...
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Crash Course in Patience" by: "Juan R Leon" http://juanrleon.tripod.com/
"Thèse:"
Des fois, il me semble que je suis un jongleur.
Je tiens les boules d'une vocation, d'un violon d'Ingres et de ma sclerose en plaque, tous en l'air.
J'essaie de combiner le tout en un seul podcast sur la sclerose en plaque et de me faire quelques sous en vous emportant de la musique, un peu de nouvelles et mes opinions, aussi loufoque q'elle soit.
---- "Waiting Patient" par: "Fred" http://www.thebandfred.com/
"Synthèse:"
One des choses que j'assaie do jongler est ce podcast.
J'ai beaucoups de boules en l'air et cette fin de semaine je doit m'en aller voir mes relations.
Donc cette episode apparait quelque jours en avances.
---- "Outpatient" par: "Mister Vague" http://www.myspace.com/mistervague
"Conclusion:"
Donc me voici encore en train de jongler les demandes de tous le monde et de vous faire parvenir un peu de musique en meme temps.
---- "The rush" par: "the windupdeads" http://www.thewindupdeads.com/
Outro
intro
Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu!
MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical.
Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens.
Son but est de nous garder divertis, d'expliquer nos symptômes, de remarquer à propos de nos découvertes et d'élever la conscience générale envers notre maladie.
Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur.
Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances.
Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur.
Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances.
----
À Moi oûvre le programme...
Je n'ai rien a dire.
Je suis très occupé par la construction d'un Wiki pour les SPcimens.
---- "Patience" par: "Amy Sawers" http://www.fathippyrecords.co.uk/
À Vous suit...
Ceci est votre segment.
Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment.
Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger.
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Patience" par: "Guitarshop Asshole" http://www.guitarshopasshole.de/
À L'aide est en troisième...
Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen?
Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast.
Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.)
Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement.
Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".)
Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel.
L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle.
Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé...
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Crash Course in Patience" by: "Juan R Leon" http://juanrleon.tripod.com/
"Thèse:"
Des fois, il me semble que je suis un jongleur.
Je tiens les boules d'une vocation, d'un violon d'Ingres et de ma sclerose en plaque, tous en l'air.
J'essaie de combiner le tout en un seul podcast sur la sclerose en plaque et de me faire quelques sous en vous emportant de la musique, un peu de nouvelles et mes opinions, aussi loufoque q'elle soit.
---- "Waiting Patient" par: "Fred" http://www.thebandfred.com/
"Synthèse:"
One des choses que j'assaie do jongler est ce podcast.
J'ai beaucoups de boules en l'air et cette fin de semaine je doit m'en aller voir mes relations.
Donc cette episode apparait quelque jours en avances.
---- "Outpatient" par: "Mister Vague" http://www.myspace.com/mistervague
"Conclusion:"
Donc me voici encore en train de jongler les demandes de tous le monde et de vous faire parvenir un peu de musique en meme temps.
---- "The rush" par: "the windupdeads" http://www.thewindupdeads.com/
Outro
Friday, May 09, 2008
msb-0298 Not This Again
msb-0298 Not This Again
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
Pity me, I don't have time to really say anything, except that Jeff of the band Sol3 which I featured on Monday's podcast agrees with me on the lamentable state of music videos nowadays.
If only I was busy with something that pays.
---- "Going Down Again" by: "Paul Collins" http://www.myspace.com/paulcollins
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"
Hot of the web (no, I don't know how it got discovered:) "Who should MDs let die in a pandemic? Report offers answers" [ http://www.physorg.com/news129180991.html ]
I agree, the list won't have the names of anybody who's not rich and/or powerful.
MSers are a resource bunch, aren't we. Its either that or we're out of luck in "any" emergency.
---- "Back At It Again" by: "Anthony Stauffer and Holy Smoke" http://www.holysmokeblues.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"
---- "I cleaned up my act but now it's dirty again" by: "Molly and Sonny Boy" http://mollyandsonnyboy.com/
"Thesis:"
I have relapsing/remitting MS.
I live in the strange land where I can hope that how I felt when I got up is actually better than when I went to bed the night before. (Yeah... Sure...)
Of course, I could be worse off too, but that usually takes longer to develop and gives me a period of "noisy skin" (Its the only way I can describe it. I lose definition in my tactile sense.)
---- "alone again version alone" by: "celine mastrorelli" http://www.myspace.com/mastrorelliceline
"Synthesis:"
One of the most commonly reported symptoms is an impaired vestibular sense (screwed up balance,) combined with difficulty accelerating the leg muscles so they respond in time to the demands of walking... (Why do you think MSers have so much trouble getting around? Hey they would sell a lot of canes if only they could a make cool looking canes [mine is painted "traditional Chinese red") and took a look at their hands when holding a cane. (See your fingers, see the cane, bending in an arc in the opposite direction? I use a plastic pommel handle so my hand can grip and rest on the cane properly.)
Another common symptom is phantom pain, where the sensation is felt where it isn't (sometimes, there is no sensation, so you end up going nuts trying not only to scratch where you don't itch but you don't even itch anywhere.)
Then there are the loss of the fine motor coordination (that didn't stop me from learning to play the guitar, [and damn well too,] or to type, [but hand me a pencil and I'll give you such a look,]) the increased spasticity (which means that I have learned better than to carry a full anything,) the increased sensitivity to heat, (I don't fog up the bathroom mirror when I take a shower because I take cold or at best lukewarm showers. [That pretty much nixes, uh, conserving water, if you know what I mean. ;-])
Anything else is such a minor annoyance that I don't even notice.
(So what gets under "your" skins?
Drop me an email. "charles at msbpodcast.com".
We can crab, bitch, moan and engage in the ol' "Four Yorkshiremen" [ http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/four_yorkshiremen.htm ] [One of the best "Monty Python" skits ever.])
---- "You Must Be Born Again" by: "Jacques Grant" http://myspace.com/jacquesgrant
"Conclusion:"
Yup, it sure is a strange world, living with this MS.
You're going along fine for months, years or even decades, and all of sudden your world is tipped over like a sleeping cow.
---- "Wrong Again" by: "The Creamsicles" http://www.thecreamsicles.com/
Outro
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
Pity me, I don't have time to really say anything, except that Jeff of the band Sol3 which I featured on Monday's podcast agrees with me on the lamentable state of music videos nowadays.
If only I was busy with something that pays.
---- "Going Down Again" by: "Paul Collins" http://www.myspace.com/paulcollins
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"
Hot of the web (no, I don't know how it got discovered:) "Who should MDs let die in a pandemic? Report offers answers" [ http://www.physorg.com/news129180991.html ]
I agree, the list won't have the names of anybody who's not rich and/or powerful.
MSers are a resource bunch, aren't we. Its either that or we're out of luck in "any" emergency.
---- "Back At It Again" by: "Anthony Stauffer and Holy Smoke" http://www.holysmokeblues.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"
---- "I cleaned up my act but now it's dirty again" by: "Molly and Sonny Boy" http://mollyandsonnyboy.com/
"Thesis:"
I have relapsing/remitting MS.
I live in the strange land where I can hope that how I felt when I got up is actually better than when I went to bed the night before. (Yeah... Sure...)
Of course, I could be worse off too, but that usually takes longer to develop and gives me a period of "noisy skin" (Its the only way I can describe it. I lose definition in my tactile sense.)
---- "alone again version alone" by: "celine mastrorelli" http://www.myspace.com/mastrorelliceline
"Synthesis:"
One of the most commonly reported symptoms is an impaired vestibular sense (screwed up balance,) combined with difficulty accelerating the leg muscles so they respond in time to the demands of walking... (Why do you think MSers have so much trouble getting around? Hey they would sell a lot of canes if only they could a make cool looking canes [mine is painted "traditional Chinese red") and took a look at their hands when holding a cane. (See your fingers, see the cane, bending in an arc in the opposite direction? I use a plastic pommel handle so my hand can grip and rest on the cane properly.)
Another common symptom is phantom pain, where the sensation is felt where it isn't (sometimes, there is no sensation, so you end up going nuts trying not only to scratch where you don't itch but you don't even itch anywhere.)
Then there are the loss of the fine motor coordination (that didn't stop me from learning to play the guitar, [and damn well too,] or to type, [but hand me a pencil and I'll give you such a look,]) the increased spasticity (which means that I have learned better than to carry a full anything,) the increased sensitivity to heat, (I don't fog up the bathroom mirror when I take a shower because I take cold or at best lukewarm showers. [That pretty much nixes, uh, conserving water, if you know what I mean. ;-])
Anything else is such a minor annoyance that I don't even notice.
(So what gets under "your" skins?
Drop me an email. "charles at msbpodcast.com".
We can crab, bitch, moan and engage in the ol' "Four Yorkshiremen" [ http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/four_yorkshiremen.htm ] [One of the best "Monty Python" skits ever.])
---- "You Must Be Born Again" by: "Jacques Grant" http://myspace.com/jacquesgrant
"Conclusion:"
Yup, it sure is a strange world, living with this MS.
You're going along fine for months, years or even decades, and all of sudden your world is tipped over like a sleeping cow.
---- "Wrong Again" by: "The Creamsicles" http://www.thecreamsicles.com/
Outro
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
msb-0297 Salamander's Ash and Embers
msb-0297 Salamander's Ash and Embers
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
Don't have time to say anything...
---- "Logic Kills The Fire" by: "amplifico" http://www.amplifico.net/
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"
---- "Fire Away" by: "Kill The Alarm" http://killthealarm.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"
---- "Fire and Sea" by: "Kalliopi" http://www.kalliopi.eu.com/
"Thesis:"
In modern times, a salamander is a warming or cooking tray on a chef's oven. Properly its called a "salamander broiler" [ http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-salamander-broiler.htm ].
It was also an "Arabic Alchemical symbol". [ http://www.blackdrago.com/alchemy.htm ]
In wiccan beliefs the salamander is a creature representing fire. (I don't have a reference on the web for that. You'll just have to trust my memory of comparative religions.)
But I think Shauna's story dates a lot further back than that.
---- "Fire It Up" by: "The Stone Coyotes" http://www.stonecoyotes.com/
"Synthesis:"
A Salamander's Tale
In Nova Scotia we have an incredible coastline. Each year it gives up more and more information about the geology of the land and what animals lived on it. The fossils people are discovering are fantastic and I've been lucky enough to have come across a few on my own. About 45 minutes from where I live, at low tide, you can walk out on the beach to a set of footprints thought to be 350 millions years old. Way cool! Though some doubt if they're actually footprints or if they're fin marks.
If they are footprints, they were made by a giant salamander like creature. By giant, I mean by today's standard. I was told (by a geologist) that it was about 6 feet long. That'sa one-a big-a newt. No way would I have tried to pick that one up.
Of course I pick up or attempt to pick various and sundry animals I come across, including salamanders. They are amphibians, related to frogs, and have a remarkable ability to regenerate limbs. As a matter of fact, if startled by what they think is a predator, their tail can just "let go" and become disconnected from the rest of the body. The tail wiggles like crazy so the predator goes after that and gives the animal enough of a chance to escape.
A few years ago, a friend and I cultivated a garden in her backyard to grow vegetables. I must say I was really more keen on investigating the creatures that took up residence in the garden. One day, we discovered a group of baby salamanders, maybe 1 and a half to 2 inches long. I reached down to pick one up and the tail just popped right off. I picked up the salamander, apologized for scaring it unintentionally, then picked up the tail. I had it on the palm of my hand and watched it for about 10 minutes as it wiggled and squirmed. It was the most disconcerting thing, like a severed hand in a horror movie crawling along a floor, as it seemed to be powered by...nothing! It was just moving on its own.
From the time I was a kid and had learned about this phenomenon, I was amazed by it. But until I was almost 40 had never actually seen it. I put the tail back on the ground, continued with the weeding and watering of the garden, and after twenty minutes went back to pick it up. As I did so, it started to move again! This thing had been disconnected from its "power" source for half an hour but still had some "juice" left in it. Wow! But again, disconcerting. It's kind of like how you'd feel if you unplugged your TV from the wall, but it suddenly came on again. Spooky.
What is the power source for the tail? It's a combination of chemical and electrical activity. The length of time the "power" stays effective depends on the species of animal and it's size. That got me thinking about a chemical and power source for folks with neuronal damage due to spinal cord injury (SCI) or diseases like MS. I know they're experimenting with electricity to allow people to stand and walk again. I've seen the contraptions patients wear to electrically stimulate the legs to allow them to be mobile. (It's still fairly early in the game to make these things practical and cost effective for the general public, though there are types of TENS contraptions to help those not as severely affected as an SCI person)
Last night I was speaking with a woman from the VON (Victorian Order of Nurses) at a fundraiser I was MCing for them. Mary and I had a wonderful talk last year, (at the same event) and last night we continued our chat of shared interest in science and nature. We talked of frogs and that led to salamanders. She's had some of the same ideas as me and went so far as to send an e-mail to the Christopher Reeve Foundation to inquire if they were investigating salamanders' amazing ability and what the implications were for human rehabilitation. She still hasn't heard back from them.
But I'll bet dollars to donuts, it's going to be something as simple as a salamander's tail that solves the mystery of MS.
---- "Freeze in the Fire - Remastered" by: "Jeremy Row" http://myspace.com/jeremyrowe
"Conclusion:"
Shauna may be right.
By the time we understand, "truly understand" how a salamander's tail regenerates, we may be able to aply the lessons learned to how we can regenerate our fried out nervous system and our trigger happy, though confoozled, immune system.
---- "The Fire's Light" by: "The Bulldogs" http://www.bulldogsinet.com/
Outro
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
Don't have time to say anything...
---- "Logic Kills The Fire" by: "amplifico" http://www.amplifico.net/
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"
---- "Fire Away" by: "Kill The Alarm" http://killthealarm.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"
---- "Fire and Sea" by: "Kalliopi" http://www.kalliopi.eu.com/
"Thesis:"
In modern times, a salamander is a warming or cooking tray on a chef's oven. Properly its called a "salamander broiler" [ http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-salamander-broiler.htm ].
It was also an "Arabic Alchemical symbol". [ http://www.blackdrago.com/alchemy.htm ]
In wiccan beliefs the salamander is a creature representing fire. (I don't have a reference on the web for that. You'll just have to trust my memory of comparative religions.)
But I think Shauna's story dates a lot further back than that.
---- "Fire It Up" by: "The Stone Coyotes" http://www.stonecoyotes.com/
"Synthesis:"
A Salamander's Tale
In Nova Scotia we have an incredible coastline. Each year it gives up more and more information about the geology of the land and what animals lived on it. The fossils people are discovering are fantastic and I've been lucky enough to have come across a few on my own. About 45 minutes from where I live, at low tide, you can walk out on the beach to a set of footprints thought to be 350 millions years old. Way cool! Though some doubt if they're actually footprints or if they're fin marks.
If they are footprints, they were made by a giant salamander like creature. By giant, I mean by today's standard. I was told (by a geologist) that it was about 6 feet long. That'sa one-a big-a newt. No way would I have tried to pick that one up.
Of course I pick up or attempt to pick various and sundry animals I come across, including salamanders. They are amphibians, related to frogs, and have a remarkable ability to regenerate limbs. As a matter of fact, if startled by what they think is a predator, their tail can just "let go" and become disconnected from the rest of the body. The tail wiggles like crazy so the predator goes after that and gives the animal enough of a chance to escape.
A few years ago, a friend and I cultivated a garden in her backyard to grow vegetables. I must say I was really more keen on investigating the creatures that took up residence in the garden. One day, we discovered a group of baby salamanders, maybe 1 and a half to 2 inches long. I reached down to pick one up and the tail just popped right off. I picked up the salamander, apologized for scaring it unintentionally, then picked up the tail. I had it on the palm of my hand and watched it for about 10 minutes as it wiggled and squirmed. It was the most disconcerting thing, like a severed hand in a horror movie crawling along a floor, as it seemed to be powered by...nothing! It was just moving on its own.
From the time I was a kid and had learned about this phenomenon, I was amazed by it. But until I was almost 40 had never actually seen it. I put the tail back on the ground, continued with the weeding and watering of the garden, and after twenty minutes went back to pick it up. As I did so, it started to move again! This thing had been disconnected from its "power" source for half an hour but still had some "juice" left in it. Wow! But again, disconcerting. It's kind of like how you'd feel if you unplugged your TV from the wall, but it suddenly came on again. Spooky.
What is the power source for the tail? It's a combination of chemical and electrical activity. The length of time the "power" stays effective depends on the species of animal and it's size. That got me thinking about a chemical and power source for folks with neuronal damage due to spinal cord injury (SCI) or diseases like MS. I know they're experimenting with electricity to allow people to stand and walk again. I've seen the contraptions patients wear to electrically stimulate the legs to allow them to be mobile. (It's still fairly early in the game to make these things practical and cost effective for the general public, though there are types of TENS contraptions to help those not as severely affected as an SCI person)
Last night I was speaking with a woman from the VON (Victorian Order of Nurses) at a fundraiser I was MCing for them. Mary and I had a wonderful talk last year, (at the same event) and last night we continued our chat of shared interest in science and nature. We talked of frogs and that led to salamanders. She's had some of the same ideas as me and went so far as to send an e-mail to the Christopher Reeve Foundation to inquire if they were investigating salamanders' amazing ability and what the implications were for human rehabilitation. She still hasn't heard back from them.
But I'll bet dollars to donuts, it's going to be something as simple as a salamander's tail that solves the mystery of MS.
---- "Freeze in the Fire - Remastered" by: "Jeremy Row" http://myspace.com/jeremyrowe
"Conclusion:"
Shauna may be right.
By the time we understand, "truly understand" how a salamander's tail regenerates, we may be able to aply the lessons learned to how we can regenerate our fried out nervous system and our trigger happy, though confoozled, immune system.
---- "The Fire's Light" by: "The Bulldogs" http://www.bulldogsinet.com/
Outro
Monday, May 05, 2008
msb-0296 I Loathe This Video
msb-0296 I Loathe This Video
..
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I loathe the piece of crap video at the front of this post on my blog and podcast.
Its the sort of over produced, over processed, over made-up over the top kind of video that's made to hypnotize you while shutting you up.
It leaves you wanting for some sustenance after you've watched it.
Its all "glamour" and glitz, in the darkest, cruelest, most debased and demeaning sense of the word "glamour".
"Glamour" as used by those who fancy themselves as fairies and elves, and politicians, to deceive and to lie, to distract while they sharpen their knives.
Painted-on faces atop painted-on bodies wearing painted-on outfits and painted-on expressions, gyrating to some meaningless beat; rhythmically pounding its empty noise, promising its empty pleasure.
It stands for everything I "hate" about the industry. (I can't honestly call it the music industry.)
Its porn for the ears.
Actually, its not even that. If you just listen to it without the video and you suddenly hear a trite, innocuous, bland, very "little" pop tune, without any redeeming value.
----
On a positive "non bitchy" note, I'm finding a lot to like about twitter. (I'd be more reassured if it didn't go down like like a two dollar ... , (uh no, that's not an analogy I'd care to defend. :-)
On a different note, they've been re-paving the road in front of the building.
"Beep! Beep! Beep!" Every freakin' time one of these machines backs up. And they're everywhere. Its a cacophonous mess. How are you supposed to know if something's bearing down on you or it the fries are done?
Recording the shows has been well nigh impossible when the sun's out.
I never had to listen to this crap when I was a kid.
Back then, I watched them build my suburb and the only sound was the thrum of diesel engines.
Okay they were sometimes punctuated by occasional howls of agony and/or an odd note in the grinding noise of the machinery.
But you renamed the street and moved on over the anthropic outline. (On the bigger roads, it was a stretch of highway renamed, say, the "Jimmie Hoffa Memorial Mile," and you got over it. [It saved a bunch on funeral expenses; you bet'cha. :-])
---- "videogamez" by: "deceptakahn" http://deceptakahn.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"
Here you are.
Further proof [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/business/04insure.html ] from the field, as if any was needed, that the health care system is badly broken. (Systemantically, it has reached the point where it begins to oppose its own stated function. [The only thing left to do is to stick a fork in it, 'cause its done.])
---- "Video Virus" by: "Nalts" http://www.willvideoforfood.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"
---- "Videology" by: "The Digital Motion" http://www.download.com/digitalmotion
"Thesis:"
Before I get chastised for seemingly abandoning MS in my quest for world domination or some such grandiose scheme, let me say that while I have MS, I do not let it limit my perceptions (an ironic twist of both fate and words,) nor do I let it limit my ambitions. (Perhaps the triumph of optimism in the face of adversity.)
---- "Videotape" by: "the priddle concern" http://thepriddleconcern.com/
"Synthesis:"
Its indeed unfortunate that I got MS. (Hell I might say its tragic that I have this disease.)
But that's life; which is made up of the crap that splashes onto you while you go from being a cute, lovable infant (okay some have faces that only their mothers can love,) to a wizened old coot.
Its certainly unfortunate that I am unable to pursue the possibilities of podcasting with the bloody mindedness and vigor that I have brought to other things, other pursuits in my life.
I have always been fair, often been wise and never been somebody you'd want to screw with. (Its not that I'm physically imposing, its that I'll drive you to distraction while I drive straight to my goal. [I'm "not" one of those people who believe that "its not enough for me to win, you've got to know you've lost." {Frankly, I don't care if we "both" win, as long as "I get a prize." (Anything else is a waste of my time, [and time is the rarest and most valuable resource there is.])}])
---- "Masks videomix" by: "Adhesion" http://evilresidence.com/adhesion
"Conclusion:"
While I have MS, it doesn't have me.
I am still the driven, some would say megalomaniacal, character that I have always been.
I was, am and will remain true to the "Toto La Terreur" persona I had as a three-year old.
I have "always" been more than a little nuts and I'm not letting MS spoil that for me.
Now enough techno, indie stuff, I wanna kick this up a notch and listen to a Canadian band while I knock off and have a beer.
---- "Beta Video Tape Head" by: "SOL 3" http://www.myspace.com/sol3canada
Outro
..
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I loathe the piece of crap video at the front of this post on my blog and podcast.
Its the sort of over produced, over processed, over made-up over the top kind of video that's made to hypnotize you while shutting you up.
It leaves you wanting for some sustenance after you've watched it.
Its all "glamour" and glitz, in the darkest, cruelest, most debased and demeaning sense of the word "glamour".
"Glamour" as used by those who fancy themselves as fairies and elves, and politicians, to deceive and to lie, to distract while they sharpen their knives.
Painted-on faces atop painted-on bodies wearing painted-on outfits and painted-on expressions, gyrating to some meaningless beat; rhythmically pounding its empty noise, promising its empty pleasure.
It stands for everything I "hate" about the industry. (I can't honestly call it the music industry.)
Its porn for the ears.
Actually, its not even that. If you just listen to it without the video and you suddenly hear a trite, innocuous, bland, very "little" pop tune, without any redeeming value.
----
On a positive "non bitchy" note, I'm finding a lot to like about twitter. (I'd be more reassured if it didn't go down like like a two dollar ... , (uh no, that's not an analogy I'd care to defend. :-)
On a different note, they've been re-paving the road in front of the building.
"Beep! Beep! Beep!" Every freakin' time one of these machines backs up. And they're everywhere. Its a cacophonous mess. How are you supposed to know if something's bearing down on you or it the fries are done?
Recording the shows has been well nigh impossible when the sun's out.
I never had to listen to this crap when I was a kid.
Back then, I watched them build my suburb and the only sound was the thrum of diesel engines.
Okay they were sometimes punctuated by occasional howls of agony and/or an odd note in the grinding noise of the machinery.
But you renamed the street and moved on over the anthropic outline. (On the bigger roads, it was a stretch of highway renamed, say, the "Jimmie Hoffa Memorial Mile," and you got over it. [It saved a bunch on funeral expenses; you bet'cha. :-])
---- "videogamez" by: "deceptakahn" http://deceptakahn.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"
Here you are.
Further proof [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/business/04insure.html ] from the field, as if any was needed, that the health care system is badly broken. (Systemantically, it has reached the point where it begins to oppose its own stated function. [The only thing left to do is to stick a fork in it, 'cause its done.])
---- "Video Virus" by: "Nalts" http://www.willvideoforfood.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"
---- "Videology" by: "The Digital Motion" http://www.download.com/digitalmotion
"Thesis:"
Before I get chastised for seemingly abandoning MS in my quest for world domination or some such grandiose scheme, let me say that while I have MS, I do not let it limit my perceptions (an ironic twist of both fate and words,) nor do I let it limit my ambitions. (Perhaps the triumph of optimism in the face of adversity.)
---- "Videotape" by: "the priddle concern" http://thepriddleconcern.com/
"Synthesis:"
Its indeed unfortunate that I got MS. (Hell I might say its tragic that I have this disease.)
But that's life; which is made up of the crap that splashes onto you while you go from being a cute, lovable infant (okay some have faces that only their mothers can love,) to a wizened old coot.
Its certainly unfortunate that I am unable to pursue the possibilities of podcasting with the bloody mindedness and vigor that I have brought to other things, other pursuits in my life.
I have always been fair, often been wise and never been somebody you'd want to screw with. (Its not that I'm physically imposing, its that I'll drive you to distraction while I drive straight to my goal. [I'm "not" one of those people who believe that "its not enough for me to win, you've got to know you've lost." {Frankly, I don't care if we "both" win, as long as "I get a prize." (Anything else is a waste of my time, [and time is the rarest and most valuable resource there is.])}])
---- "Masks videomix" by: "Adhesion" http://evilresidence.com/adhesion
"Conclusion:"
While I have MS, it doesn't have me.
I am still the driven, some would say megalomaniacal, character that I have always been.
I was, am and will remain true to the "Toto La Terreur" persona I had as a three-year old.
I have "always" been more than a little nuts and I'm not letting MS spoil that for me.
Now enough techno, indie stuff, I wanna kick this up a notch and listen to a Canadian band while I knock off and have a beer.
---- "Beta Video Tape Head" by: "SOL 3" http://www.myspace.com/sol3canada
Outro
Sunday, May 04, 2008
msb-fr-0010 Jungle
msb-fr-0010 Jungle
intro
Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu!
MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical.
Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens.
----
À Moi oûvre le programme...
Je n'ai rien a dire. Chanceux our vous. :-)
---- "Jungle Tip Toe" par: "Larry Seyer" http://www.larryseyer.com/
À Vous suit...
Ceci est votre segment.
Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment.
Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger.
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Jungle Disease" par: "The Joneses" http://www.fullbreach77.com/kicks/s_joneses.html
À L'aide est en troisième...
Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen?
Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast.
Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.)
Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement.
Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".)
Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel.
L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle.
Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé...
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Jungle Juice" par: "All Crazy" http://www.myspace.com/allcrazyphilly
"Thèse:"
La loi de la jungle?
La sclérose en plaque vous met a la merci de beaucoup de personnes et vous met en dettes a beaucoup de personnes.
Des fois les dettes sont celle personelles et des fois elles sont financières.
Ces dernières peuvent vous donnez la sensation d'ètre dans une jungle.
---- "Like a jungle Sometimes" oar: "Maido Project" http://www.myspace.com/maidoproject
"Synthèse:"
Une des choses les plus facheuse a avoir la sclérose en plaque, (apart du fait que notre corp est devenu un traitre et ne fonctionne plus comme il devrais,) c'est que notre capacité de gagner notre pain quotidien (notre circomstance financière,) prend un sacré coup.
Cette maladie n'est pas si grave que ça, surtout quand on prend en consideration les traitement qui se sont dévellopés durant les dix dernières annés.
Oui, je dois admettre que c'est très facheux de se piquer (et avec le temps, on ne s'habitue pas mais on developpe des méthodes de s'anesthiser. (Merci a tous les viniculteurs. Un petit verre de rouge oû de blanc, c'a ne fais pas mal avant and c'a fais moin mal après.)
Apart de ca, les perceptions des gens est a cote la plus a pic a remonter.
La sclérose en plaque n'affecte pas votre sens d'humour (je grogne encore,) ni vos ambitions.
---- "JUNGLE FIRE" par: "girls stuff" http://www.9t9.ch/
"Conclusion:"
Dehors, c'est la jungle.
Mais pour les SPcimens c' n'est pas necessairement plein de bètes féroces.
---- "Wild Pussy In The Jungle O Luv" par: "The Fury...Heat!" http://www.thefuryheat.com/
Outro
intro
Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu!
MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical.
Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens.
Son but est de nous garder divertis, d'expliquer nos symptômes, de remarquer à propos de nos découvertes et d'élever la conscience générale envers notre maladie.
Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur.
Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances.
Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur.
Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances.
----
À Moi oûvre le programme...
Je n'ai rien a dire. Chanceux our vous. :-)
---- "Jungle Tip Toe" par: "Larry Seyer" http://www.larryseyer.com/
À Vous suit...
Ceci est votre segment.
Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment.
Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger.
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Jungle Disease" par: "The Joneses" http://www.fullbreach77.com/kicks/s_joneses.html
À L'aide est en troisième...
Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen?
Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast.
Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.)
Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement.
Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".)
Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel.
L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle.
Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé...
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Jungle Juice" par: "All Crazy" http://www.myspace.com/allcrazyphilly
"Thèse:"
La loi de la jungle?
La sclérose en plaque vous met a la merci de beaucoup de personnes et vous met en dettes a beaucoup de personnes.
Des fois les dettes sont celle personelles et des fois elles sont financières.
Ces dernières peuvent vous donnez la sensation d'ètre dans une jungle.
---- "Like a jungle Sometimes" oar: "Maido Project" http://www.myspace.com/maidoproject
"Synthèse:"
Une des choses les plus facheuse a avoir la sclérose en plaque, (apart du fait que notre corp est devenu un traitre et ne fonctionne plus comme il devrais,) c'est que notre capacité de gagner notre pain quotidien (notre circomstance financière,) prend un sacré coup.
Cette maladie n'est pas si grave que ça, surtout quand on prend en consideration les traitement qui se sont dévellopés durant les dix dernières annés.
Oui, je dois admettre que c'est très facheux de se piquer (et avec le temps, on ne s'habitue pas mais on developpe des méthodes de s'anesthiser. (Merci a tous les viniculteurs. Un petit verre de rouge oû de blanc, c'a ne fais pas mal avant and c'a fais moin mal après.)
Apart de ca, les perceptions des gens est a cote la plus a pic a remonter.
La sclérose en plaque n'affecte pas votre sens d'humour (je grogne encore,) ni vos ambitions.
---- "JUNGLE FIRE" par: "girls stuff" http://www.9t9.ch/
"Conclusion:"
Dehors, c'est la jungle.
Mais pour les SPcimens c' n'est pas necessairement plein de bètes féroces.
---- "Wild Pussy In The Jungle O Luv" par: "The Fury...Heat!" http://www.thefuryheat.com/
Outro
Friday, May 02, 2008
msb-0295 What's happening to your newspaper?
msb-0295 What's happening to your newspaper?
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I'm getting some feedback to my ideas of setting up something for podcast metrics.
I am also getting some more books to review and some music to play. Oh joy...
The selections on this episode come from a delightful young performer I met at PodCampNYC 2.0. Enjoy.
---- "Sweet July" by: "Natalie Gelman" http://NatalieGelman.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"
---- "Rest of the Way" by: "Natalie Gelman" http://NatalieGelman.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"
---- "Half Dead" by: "Natalie Gelman" http://NatalieGelman.com
"Thesis:"
Like film photography before it, printed newspapers are dying. "This" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/media/28link.html?ref=business ] article in the New York Times points out what and why.
But this is not something to lament.
---- "Cross Your Heart" by: "Natalie Gelman" http://NatalieGelman.com
"Synthesis:"
Like everything else, the cost of producing a newspaper is always going up. So they're going online.
The metrics for the entire podcasting industry don't equal that of broadcasting.
They never will.
Let me repeat that: "They Never Will".
But the rise of blogs, Digg and Slashdot style comment boards, participatory journalism, podcasts, videocasts, livecasts, Google, Youtube, and wikis have utterly wrecked the old economic model for the production and consumption of information. (Creation is something else though. Those costs have actually risen but the efficiency available because of digitization and computer mediated work flow make it seem like they've gone down.)
Once the spread of information grew greater than what we could get from any broadcast media, the writing was on the wall.
Once the quality of information was more accurate and had better maintainability than what we could get from any broadcast media, the writing was on the wall.
Once the value added by broadcast media was less than the cost of obtaining it over the internet, the writing was on the wall.
From the point of comparative economics, once it is cheaper to use something other than paper or it is cheaper to use something other than a transmitter, (quite apart from the asynchronous client-server nature of the internet which allows us to time-shift and break the tyranny of the clock,) its just a question of time before broadcast prices itself right out of existence, as surely as near-death of the film camera, as surely as the near-death of of the classified ad, as surely as the near-death of the travel agency, as surely as the near death of the typewriter, white-out, the word-processor, the turntable. (Send me your own examples and we can have some fun with this.)
I am not predicting their death.
These media will "not" die.
But, like the automobile made a rarity of buggy whip makers. in the same ways and for the same reasons, producing physical examples of information is too slow, too expensive (but I'm repeating myself, time "is" money after all,) to survive in anything but a niche. (Think about that.)
The internet will do the same for analog transmission of information and digital broadcasting will suffer a slower but inevitable reduction.
Even if broadcasters don't die, they will be off of the transmitters they are currently using by the end of the decade (a sure bet since they're supposed to go digital by February 2009,) and I expect them to wean them selves off of those and not replace them when they start failing.
The internet however is a vastly different world.
There is no scarce resource to control.
That means its impossible to demand the margins that the broadcasters are used to or even need to stay in business.
----
I'm in a particular niche, one that is utterly unserved.
The amount of broadcasting about MS is just about nil.
Given the statistics kept on disease on this planet, since MS strikes approximately 1 in 1,200, the amount of broadcasting about MS should be about one minute per day.
But its not, is it?
But that's broadcasting for you.
Nobody ever said it was representative.
("The news" is really "the events." There's never any time for exposition of the factors that led up to "the events". Some people make an effort but even the best of them fail at being truly objective. [It doesn't matter what the politics of the thrower are, a projective thrown at a window hard enough will break it. That's an objective fact. You can even describe the throw, the release, the parabolic trajectory, the impact and the break modulus of the window using objective metrics, but the rest is all conjecture.])
Broadcasting is all about pretty, happy people, going about their pretty happy lives.
None is ever sick for longer than an episode of "House M.D."
That's not reality, and not even reality TV wants do have to deal with reality.
The 15% of the world that the W.H.O. ("World Health Organization") estimates is living with some disability right now don't ever figure in the broadcast media.
I don't begrudge them not wanting to deal with it.
Hell, I don't want to have to deal with it but I'm stuck with it.
So the internet gives us all a channel, for want of a better word, where I have put more information about how this one MSer is coping with his MS than had ever existed before in history, and that hundreds of people have downloaded from all over the planet (64,000+ downloads from over 120 countries.)
Because of the long-tail of podcasting these figures are real-time when I recorded this and will have grown by the time you read or hear this.
---- "Leave" by: "Natalie Gelman" http://NatalieGelman.com
"Conclusion:"
The economics of information production in the age of the internet have made obsolete the observation by A. J. Liebling of the New Yorker that "Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one".
Anybody can own one. (I used a "Linotronic" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotronic ] "300" [ http://www.scribd.com/doc/16432/Linotronic-300500-flyer ] imagesetter back in the mid to late 1980s back when I was producing the MS Newstletter for the Ottawa Chapter of the MS Society. [Before commercial typesetting fell to the same comparative cost/price curve.])
But owning one is fundamentally self-defeating. It is too limited in scope and in the reach (both time and space) of the information in can produce.
The internet gives us a means whereby we can engage in "conversations" with each other.
Most of the time, our conversations are not worth the air we breathed to utter them, but they are also at the heart of the very concept of "participatory democracy."
The internet is merely the newest technology through which we are restoring "participatory democracy."
That's good and that's bad, isn't it?
---- "Always Was" by: "Natalie Gelman" http://NatalieGelman.com
Outro
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I'm getting some feedback to my ideas of setting up something for podcast metrics.
I am also getting some more books to review and some music to play. Oh joy...
The selections on this episode come from a delightful young performer I met at PodCampNYC 2.0. Enjoy.
---- "Sweet July" by: "Natalie Gelman" http://NatalieGelman.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"
---- "Rest of the Way" by: "Natalie Gelman" http://NatalieGelman.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"
---- "Half Dead" by: "Natalie Gelman" http://NatalieGelman.com
"Thesis:"
Like film photography before it, printed newspapers are dying. "This" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/media/28link.html?ref=business ] article in the New York Times points out what and why.
But this is not something to lament.
---- "Cross Your Heart" by: "Natalie Gelman" http://NatalieGelman.com
"Synthesis:"
Like everything else, the cost of producing a newspaper is always going up. So they're going online.
The metrics for the entire podcasting industry don't equal that of broadcasting.
They never will.
Let me repeat that: "They Never Will".
But the rise of blogs, Digg and Slashdot style comment boards, participatory journalism, podcasts, videocasts, livecasts, Google, Youtube, and wikis have utterly wrecked the old economic model for the production and consumption of information. (Creation is something else though. Those costs have actually risen but the efficiency available because of digitization and computer mediated work flow make it seem like they've gone down.)
Once the spread of information grew greater than what we could get from any broadcast media, the writing was on the wall.
Once the quality of information was more accurate and had better maintainability than what we could get from any broadcast media, the writing was on the wall.
Once the value added by broadcast media was less than the cost of obtaining it over the internet, the writing was on the wall.
From the point of comparative economics, once it is cheaper to use something other than paper or it is cheaper to use something other than a transmitter, (quite apart from the asynchronous client-server nature of the internet which allows us to time-shift and break the tyranny of the clock,) its just a question of time before broadcast prices itself right out of existence, as surely as near-death of the film camera, as surely as the near-death of of the classified ad, as surely as the near-death of the travel agency, as surely as the near death of the typewriter, white-out, the word-processor, the turntable. (Send me your own examples and we can have some fun with this.)
I am not predicting their death.
These media will "not" die.
But, like the automobile made a rarity of buggy whip makers. in the same ways and for the same reasons, producing physical examples of information is too slow, too expensive (but I'm repeating myself, time "is" money after all,) to survive in anything but a niche. (Think about that.)
The internet will do the same for analog transmission of information and digital broadcasting will suffer a slower but inevitable reduction.
Even if broadcasters don't die, they will be off of the transmitters they are currently using by the end of the decade (a sure bet since they're supposed to go digital by February 2009,) and I expect them to wean them selves off of those and not replace them when they start failing.
The internet however is a vastly different world.
There is no scarce resource to control.
That means its impossible to demand the margins that the broadcasters are used to or even need to stay in business.
----
I'm in a particular niche, one that is utterly unserved.
The amount of broadcasting about MS is just about nil.
Given the statistics kept on disease on this planet, since MS strikes approximately 1 in 1,200, the amount of broadcasting about MS should be about one minute per day.
But its not, is it?
But that's broadcasting for you.
Nobody ever said it was representative.
("The news" is really "the events." There's never any time for exposition of the factors that led up to "the events". Some people make an effort but even the best of them fail at being truly objective. [It doesn't matter what the politics of the thrower are, a projective thrown at a window hard enough will break it. That's an objective fact. You can even describe the throw, the release, the parabolic trajectory, the impact and the break modulus of the window using objective metrics, but the rest is all conjecture.])
Broadcasting is all about pretty, happy people, going about their pretty happy lives.
None is ever sick for longer than an episode of "House M.D."
That's not reality, and not even reality TV wants do have to deal with reality.
The 15% of the world that the W.H.O. ("World Health Organization") estimates is living with some disability right now don't ever figure in the broadcast media.
I don't begrudge them not wanting to deal with it.
Hell, I don't want to have to deal with it but I'm stuck with it.
So the internet gives us all a channel, for want of a better word, where I have put more information about how this one MSer is coping with his MS than had ever existed before in history, and that hundreds of people have downloaded from all over the planet (64,000+ downloads from over 120 countries.)
Because of the long-tail of podcasting these figures are real-time when I recorded this and will have grown by the time you read or hear this.
---- "Leave" by: "Natalie Gelman" http://NatalieGelman.com
"Conclusion:"
The economics of information production in the age of the internet have made obsolete the observation by A. J. Liebling of the New Yorker that "Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one".
Anybody can own one. (I used a "Linotronic" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotronic ] "300" [ http://www.scribd.com/doc/16432/Linotronic-300500-flyer ] imagesetter back in the mid to late 1980s back when I was producing the MS Newstletter for the Ottawa Chapter of the MS Society. [Before commercial typesetting fell to the same comparative cost/price curve.])
But owning one is fundamentally self-defeating. It is too limited in scope and in the reach (both time and space) of the information in can produce.
The internet gives us a means whereby we can engage in "conversations" with each other.
Most of the time, our conversations are not worth the air we breathed to utter them, but they are also at the heart of the very concept of "participatory democracy."
The internet is merely the newest technology through which we are restoring "participatory democracy."
That's good and that's bad, isn't it?
---- "Always Was" by: "Natalie Gelman" http://NatalieGelman.com
Outro
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
msb-0294 Smoke gets in your eves.
msb-0294 Smoke gets in your eyes.
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I just got "Twitter". [ http://twitter.com/msbpodcast ]
Check out the side bars on my "blog" [ http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ ] and my "podcast" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ]
Like photography before it, newspapers are dying. "This" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/media/28link.html?ref=business ] article points to what and why.
But its not a sad and dreadful message. We'll get back into why on the next post/episode.
---- "Smoke and Mirrors" by: "The Receiving End Of Sirens" http://www.merchdirect.net/TripleCrownRecords/CDs/The_Receiving_End_Of_Sirens_The_Earth_Sings_Mi_Fa_Mi_CD?productid=8273
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Mary Jane Ive Smoked My Last One" by: "The Den Collective" http://www.purevolume.com/thedencollective
Feed Me comes third, so...
Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?
Consider advertising on this podcast.
Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)
It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.
That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)
But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.
No play, no pay.
Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...
Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Smoke & Mirrors" by: "Anthony Rankin" http://www.anthonyrankin.com/
"Thesis:"
Here are some people taking my advice about inhalation, (using a large permeable membrane designed to let materials pass through in one direction; [like a diode in electronics.])
---- "Clouds or Smoke?" by: "Derek K. Miller" http://podcast.penmachine.com/
"Synthesis:"
Up in Smoke
A report [ http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/080213/marijuana-use-among-ms-patients-raises-risk-for-cognitive-mood-problems.htm ] came out today that said that MSers who use pot to ease symptoms have a slowing down in their ability to process and remember information and a rise in mood disorders like anxiety and depression.
Not really a big surprise. Our cognitive skills diminish as we ingest a mind altering drug. The study only involved 10 patients so it's not really big enough to make sweeping conclusions about the use of pot. The folks who used pot were using illegally obtained pot, so there's no verifying what else, if anything, was in those funny little cigarettes that may or may not have contributed to the findings. And the folks who used pot were not evaluated before they started using the drug so who's to say they hadn't already had diminished skills and revved up anxiety to begin with.
But let's think about the uses of pot for MSers.
To ease neuropathic pain. Pain is such a subjective thing; it's difficult to quantify how much is acceptable to any individual. But if it's keeping you awake at night or keeping you from leading a relatively normal life (with its usual aches and pains) then it's unacceptable.
To ease muscle spasms. Spasms can be painful. They, too, can keep you awake at night and prevent you from leading a relatively normal life. (And speaking from experience, they can cause you to hit the wrong button on the computer at work.)
To ease anxiety. Let's face it, life can make us anxious. We all have different coping mechanisms for anxiety. Some of us kick the dog, some of us drink to excess, some of us wash our hands 1000 times a day. Not great coping mechanisms. Now add a degenerative disease to the mix of life's usual anxieties. Would a joint once a week, say on a Friday night at home, be an any worse method of coping? Personally, I think not. Do I do it? Nope, but I have a healthy fear of a criminal record and luckily I haven't had pain or spasms bad enough to make me seek it out (almost, but not quite).
So we have a population of people with pain, spasms, and anxiety, and a disease that is destroying their brain, seeking out relief. All these stressors contribute to diminished cognitive skills and reduced mental health. The bigger issue I think is, Is the use of pot by MSers detrimental to their life.
Before we determine that pot is bad for MSers, remember that MS is bad for MSers.
---- "Smoke filling in car" by: "Momo-J" http://www.fareastpeach.com/
"Conclusion:"
While I never picked up the habit, there is a lot to be said for, uh, inhalation therapies. (Some of it might even sound coherent! :-)
Its not a moral judgement on my part. My clients used to be banks and other major financial institutions, so I never indulged. (I was "straight and sober" while the people handling mortage-backed securities must have been smokin' "something" [ http://hightimes.com/ ] clearly mind altering to have got us all in the sub-prime mess, [just a clearly, it was "not" reality altering. {"Bye Bye Bear Sterns...". Meanwhile, for the IT staff, its "either urine or you're out".}])
As for my younger days... I played Classical Guitar. That didn't do much for my "stoner status". Come to think of it, I enjoyed myself a whole lot more.
Sex, and drugs and rock-n-roll. Well, uh, "one" out of three wasn't bad at all. :-)
---- "Smoked" by: "Briareus" http://www.myspace.com/briareusmusic
Outro
And here's a song that belongs to the sound track o' my wacky life
---- "Your Red Scarf Matches your Eyes" by "Guy Marks" http://www.imeem.com/databit/music/zHWzcHM5/guy_marks_your_red_scarf_matches_your_eyes/
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I just got "Twitter". [ http://twitter.com/msbpodcast ]
Check out the side bars on my "blog" [ http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ ] and my "podcast" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ]
Like photography before it, newspapers are dying. "This" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/media/28link.html?ref=business ] article points to what and why.
But its not a sad and dreadful message. We'll get back into why on the next post/episode.
---- "Smoke and Mirrors" by: "The Receiving End Of Sirens" http://www.merchdirect.net/TripleCrownRecords/CDs/The_Receiving_End_Of_Sirens_The_Earth_Sings_Mi_Fa_Mi_CD?productid=8273
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Mary Jane Ive Smoked My Last One" by: "The Den Collective" http://www.purevolume.com/thedencollective
Feed Me comes third, so...
Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?
Consider advertising on this podcast.
Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)
It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.
That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)
But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.
No play, no pay.
Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...
Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Smoke & Mirrors" by: "Anthony Rankin" http://www.anthonyrankin.com/
"Thesis:"
Here are some people taking my advice about inhalation, (using a large permeable membrane designed to let materials pass through in one direction; [like a diode in electronics.])
---- "Clouds or Smoke?" by: "Derek K. Miller" http://podcast.penmachine.com/
"Synthesis:"
Up in Smoke
A report [ http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/080213/marijuana-use-among-ms-patients-raises-risk-for-cognitive-mood-problems.htm ] came out today that said that MSers who use pot to ease symptoms have a slowing down in their ability to process and remember information and a rise in mood disorders like anxiety and depression.
Not really a big surprise. Our cognitive skills diminish as we ingest a mind altering drug. The study only involved 10 patients so it's not really big enough to make sweeping conclusions about the use of pot. The folks who used pot were using illegally obtained pot, so there's no verifying what else, if anything, was in those funny little cigarettes that may or may not have contributed to the findings. And the folks who used pot were not evaluated before they started using the drug so who's to say they hadn't already had diminished skills and revved up anxiety to begin with.
But let's think about the uses of pot for MSers.
To ease neuropathic pain. Pain is such a subjective thing; it's difficult to quantify how much is acceptable to any individual. But if it's keeping you awake at night or keeping you from leading a relatively normal life (with its usual aches and pains) then it's unacceptable.
To ease muscle spasms. Spasms can be painful. They, too, can keep you awake at night and prevent you from leading a relatively normal life. (And speaking from experience, they can cause you to hit the wrong button on the computer at work.)
To ease anxiety. Let's face it, life can make us anxious. We all have different coping mechanisms for anxiety. Some of us kick the dog, some of us drink to excess, some of us wash our hands 1000 times a day. Not great coping mechanisms. Now add a degenerative disease to the mix of life's usual anxieties. Would a joint once a week, say on a Friday night at home, be an any worse method of coping? Personally, I think not. Do I do it? Nope, but I have a healthy fear of a criminal record and luckily I haven't had pain or spasms bad enough to make me seek it out (almost, but not quite).
So we have a population of people with pain, spasms, and anxiety, and a disease that is destroying their brain, seeking out relief. All these stressors contribute to diminished cognitive skills and reduced mental health. The bigger issue I think is, Is the use of pot by MSers detrimental to their life.
Before we determine that pot is bad for MSers, remember that MS is bad for MSers.
---- "Smoke filling in car" by: "Momo-J" http://www.fareastpeach.com/
"Conclusion:"
While I never picked up the habit, there is a lot to be said for, uh, inhalation therapies. (Some of it might even sound coherent! :-)
Its not a moral judgement on my part. My clients used to be banks and other major financial institutions, so I never indulged. (I was "straight and sober" while the people handling mortage-backed securities must have been smokin' "something" [ http://hightimes.com/ ] clearly mind altering to have got us all in the sub-prime mess, [just a clearly, it was "not" reality altering. {"Bye Bye Bear Sterns...". Meanwhile, for the IT staff, its "either urine or you're out".}])
As for my younger days... I played Classical Guitar. That didn't do much for my "stoner status". Come to think of it, I enjoyed myself a whole lot more.
Sex, and drugs and rock-n-roll. Well, uh, "one" out of three wasn't bad at all. :-)
---- "Smoked" by: "Briareus" http://www.myspace.com/briareusmusic
Outro
And here's a song that belongs to the sound track o' my wacky life
---- "Your Red Scarf Matches your Eyes" by "Guy Marks" http://www.imeem.com/databit/music/zHWzcHM5/guy_marks_your_red_scarf_matches_your_eyes/
Monday, April 28, 2008
msb-0293 PodCamp NY 2.0
msb-0293 PodCamp NY 2.0
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
PodCampNYC is over and I have felt the pulse of an industry which is maturing at an extremely rapid pace.
But some of the participants are complete and utter, uh, how can I describe the rapid fire patter which assaulted me at the session on LiveStreaming.
Some of it is actually an excellent offshoot of traditional media production techniques. It is interesting and has an interesting approach, an interesting point of view.
But some of it is complete and utter bull spewed slurred-ly by some people who don't have MS for an excuse for their diction, (they're stewed, pure and simple,) and on whom any of the equipment seems a waste.
I could feed an entire third world country for a week on the drek that was wasting bits and the time to flip them. (Sorry but this was porn of the mind and these people didn't have the energy to power a single lackadaisical and peremptory moan.)
The presenter was wonderful, energetic, intelligent and really knew her stuff. Unfortunately, the stuff being LiveCast was not as good as she was.
----
Meanwhile, I was supposed to go my friend the chef's place for the next installment in her doctoral thesis. Unfortunately, I've had to beg off.
(Luckily, I just had killer ribs at R.U.B on 23rd street in Manhattan.)
----
Unfortunately I'm not feeling 100% at the moment. (More like 60% with chilly flurries. [I don't walk or go out much these days {what with being unemployed and all (and it doesn't look like that's going to be improving soon [but that's a rant I'll save for another day,]} however I think that that aspect of my life will improve as I have finally seen that there's more "out there" than I can find working out of home;] yes, its more risk, but sometimes "you just gotta go fur it, dude, go fur it; hear what I'm sayin'")
----
The source for the music on this episode was suggested by Eli Smith of "Down Home Radio" [ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/ ].
I love what he's does; going back into the dusty archives of recorded music to dig out the gems from the roots of music.
-----
Oh and this just in: According to "this" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/media/28hannah.html?ref=business ] article in the New York Times, it looks like "Miley Cyrus", a.k.a. "Hannah Montana" now wants "To Be Taken Seriously As An Artist" [ http://www.wormquartet.com/ ].
Now art imitates life imitating art imitating life, or something like that.
---- "ECLIPSE OF THE SUN_olb-02" by: "Sidney Maiden" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "BLUES AT SUNDOWN_olb-13" by: "Jimmy Wilson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
Feed Me comes third, so...
Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?
Consider advertising on this podcast.
Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)
It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.
That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)
But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.
No play, no pay.
Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...
Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "SITTING HERE WONDERING_wcb-22" by: "J.W. Walker" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
"Thesis:"
What podcasting needs is what broad casting thinks it has: "Metrics!"
My presentation was about metrics.
Most of the session I attended were about metrics.
Most of the people I spoke with were deeply concerned about metrics.
Most of the problems people were having had to do with obtaining reliable metrics.
It was that kind of week-end. :-)
---- "T-99_wcb-17" by: "Jimmy Nelson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
"Synthesis:"
I'm about to say something that will either be considered extremely invasive by podcasters (everybody like to put their circulation stats in the best light,) or will be recognized as an absolute necessity.
Podcast metrics, from server IP address to client IP address, is absolutely essential for podcasting to get real measurable metrics.
Podcasting essentially deals with market niches. Potentially millions of niches.
There are a few problems though.
First: Podcasting's "long tail" doesn't fit into the current time line of "campaign" running. What podcasting offers is radically different consumption of CPM ads.
Instead of an ad campaign running and being able to close down instantaneously a podcast ad may be offering payback for years, (for as long as the show containing the ad is on a server.)
This means that the concept of a cut off and an acceptance of the tail being deliberately cut (for obvious reasons, the song "Three Blind Mice" is running through my head,) and we'll have to accept the inaccuracy as inherent.
Next: The concept of delivered ads where the content is an ad, delivered on demand to the end-user, and paying for every single delivery, is entirely new to the ad industry (No one, neither the broadcaster, nor the agencies, nor their traditional clients have "ever" been able to charge for and/or pay for "piece work".
Podcasters "can!"
We can deliver exactly wpthe content that an advertiser wants (or is legally entitled to say in the ad's content,) to a specific IP address that requests it.
The efficiency is complete.
----
I am also going to be less, uh, "risk averse" (which banks loved so I wrote software that banks loved, [until the Smalltalk vendoes shot themselves in the foot, {with a Howitzer,}]) and get my butt out there. (What the Hell? Manhattan is only a PATH train ride away.)
There's a billion things to do, "out there", and a 6.7 billion people to meet, "out there." Ain't nobody in here but us chickens. (I know I'm going again next year.)
---- "TRAIN, TRAIN BLUES_olb-08" by: "Johnny Fuller" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
"Conclusion:"
I see only one possible outcome from this situation.
Podcasting "will" develop the same kinds of attitude towards reporting accurate statistics that broadcasting has...
Advertisers and advertising agencies will come to love the long tail as being totally efficient.
I "will" get my ass out there.
---- "WHY DON'T YOU WRITE TO ME _olb-06" by: "L.C. Robinson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
Outro
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
PodCampNYC is over and I have felt the pulse of an industry which is maturing at an extremely rapid pace.
But some of the participants are complete and utter, uh, how can I describe the rapid fire patter which assaulted me at the session on LiveStreaming.
Some of it is actually an excellent offshoot of traditional media production techniques. It is interesting and has an interesting approach, an interesting point of view.
But some of it is complete and utter bull spewed slurred-ly by some people who don't have MS for an excuse for their diction, (they're stewed, pure and simple,) and on whom any of the equipment seems a waste.
I could feed an entire third world country for a week on the drek that was wasting bits and the time to flip them. (Sorry but this was porn of the mind and these people didn't have the energy to power a single lackadaisical and peremptory moan.)
The presenter was wonderful, energetic, intelligent and really knew her stuff. Unfortunately, the stuff being LiveCast was not as good as she was.
----
Meanwhile, I was supposed to go my friend the chef's place for the next installment in her doctoral thesis. Unfortunately, I've had to beg off.
(Luckily, I just had killer ribs at R.U.B on 23rd street in Manhattan.)
----
Unfortunately I'm not feeling 100% at the moment. (More like 60% with chilly flurries. [I don't walk or go out much these days {what with being unemployed and all (and it doesn't look like that's going to be improving soon [but that's a rant I'll save for another day,]} however I think that that aspect of my life will improve as I have finally seen that there's more "out there" than I can find working out of home;] yes, its more risk, but sometimes "you just gotta go fur it, dude, go fur it; hear what I'm sayin'")
----
The source for the music on this episode was suggested by Eli Smith of "Down Home Radio" [ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/ ].
I love what he's does; going back into the dusty archives of recorded music to dig out the gems from the roots of music.
-----
Oh and this just in: According to "this" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/media/28hannah.html?ref=business ] article in the New York Times, it looks like "Miley Cyrus", a.k.a. "Hannah Montana" now wants "To Be Taken Seriously As An Artist" [ http://www.wormquartet.com/ ].
Now art imitates life imitating art imitating life, or something like that.
---- "ECLIPSE OF THE SUN_olb-02" by: "Sidney Maiden" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "BLUES AT SUNDOWN_olb-13" by: "Jimmy Wilson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
Feed Me comes third, so...
Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?
Consider advertising on this podcast.
Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)
It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.
That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)
But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.
No play, no pay.
Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...
Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "SITTING HERE WONDERING_wcb-22" by: "J.W. Walker" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
"Thesis:"
What podcasting needs is what broad casting thinks it has: "Metrics!"
My presentation was about metrics.
Most of the session I attended were about metrics.
Most of the people I spoke with were deeply concerned about metrics.
Most of the problems people were having had to do with obtaining reliable metrics.
It was that kind of week-end. :-)
---- "T-99_wcb-17" by: "Jimmy Nelson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
"Synthesis:"
I'm about to say something that will either be considered extremely invasive by podcasters (everybody like to put their circulation stats in the best light,) or will be recognized as an absolute necessity.
Podcast metrics, from server IP address to client IP address, is absolutely essential for podcasting to get real measurable metrics.
Podcasting essentially deals with market niches. Potentially millions of niches.
There are a few problems though.
First: Podcasting's "long tail" doesn't fit into the current time line of "campaign" running. What podcasting offers is radically different consumption of CPM ads.
Instead of an ad campaign running and being able to close down instantaneously a podcast ad may be offering payback for years, (for as long as the show containing the ad is on a server.)
This means that the concept of a cut off and an acceptance of the tail being deliberately cut (for obvious reasons, the song "Three Blind Mice" is running through my head,) and we'll have to accept the inaccuracy as inherent.
Next: The concept of delivered ads where the content is an ad, delivered on demand to the end-user, and paying for every single delivery, is entirely new to the ad industry (No one, neither the broadcaster, nor the agencies, nor their traditional clients have "ever" been able to charge for and/or pay for "piece work".
Podcasters "can!"
We can deliver exactly wpthe content that an advertiser wants (or is legally entitled to say in the ad's content,) to a specific IP address that requests it.
The efficiency is complete.
----
I am also going to be less, uh, "risk averse" (which banks loved so I wrote software that banks loved, [until the Smalltalk vendoes shot themselves in the foot, {with a Howitzer,}]) and get my butt out there. (What the Hell? Manhattan is only a PATH train ride away.)
There's a billion things to do, "out there", and a 6.7 billion people to meet, "out there." Ain't nobody in here but us chickens. (I know I'm going again next year.)
---- "TRAIN, TRAIN BLUES_olb-08" by: "Johnny Fuller" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
"Conclusion:"
I see only one possible outcome from this situation.
Podcasting "will" develop the same kinds of attitude towards reporting accurate statistics that broadcasting has...
Advertisers and advertising agencies will come to love the long tail as being totally efficient.
I "will" get my ass out there.
---- "WHY DON'T YOU WRITE TO ME _olb-06" by: "L.C. Robinson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php
Outro
Sunday, April 27, 2008
msb-fr-0009 Junque
msb-fr-0009 Junque
intro
Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu!
MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical.
Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens.
----
À Moi oûvre le programme...
J'ai ete a PodcampNYC 2.0.
Meh...
---- "This Is Junk" par: "Brainpool" http://brainpool.nu/
À Vous suit...
Ceci est votre segment.
Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment.
Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger.
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Junk In The Trunk" par: "Synthetic Movements" http://www.soundclick.com/syntheticmovements
À L'aide est en troisième...
Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen?
Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast.
Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.)
Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement.
Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".)
Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel.
L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle.
Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé...
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Junk" par: "Munkey Juice" http://www.munkeyjuice.net/
"Thèse:"
Le theme aujourd'hui,. c'est de la "Junk".
J'n'ais rien a dire, donc, "En avant la musique".
---- "Psychobabble Junk" par: "sarah dashew" http://www.sarahdashew.com/
"Synthèse:"
Je suis en train de recupere de ma petite sortie hier a PodcampNYC.
Dis-on que c'a s'est bien passé, mais c'a a été fatigant pareil.
Aujourd'hui je me repose.
---- "Junk" par: "Douglas Fir" http://www.douglasfir.com.au/
"Conclusion:"
Ben quoi? Un gars se fatigue a courir a Brooklyn, jacasser pendant une heure et passer le reste de la journée a marcher d'une salle a l'autre pour écouter les autres parler, avant de revenir au Nouveau Jersey pour dormir un peu.
Un peu de rock'n roll pour me réamimer.
---- "junkyard girlfriend" par: "ROCKET CITY RIOT" http://www.rocketcityriot.com/
Outro
intro
Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu!
MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical.
Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens.
Son but est de nous garder divertis, d'expliquer nos symptômes, de remarquer à propos de nos découvertes et d'élever la conscience générale envers notre maladie.
Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur.
Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances.
Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur.
Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances.
----
À Moi oûvre le programme...
J'ai ete a PodcampNYC 2.0.
Meh...
---- "This Is Junk" par: "Brainpool" http://brainpool.nu/
À Vous suit...
Ceci est votre segment.
Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment.
Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger.
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Junk In The Trunk" par: "Synthetic Movements" http://www.soundclick.com/syntheticmovements
À L'aide est en troisième...
Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen?
Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast.
Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.)
Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement.
Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".)
Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel.
L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle.
Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé...
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Junk" par: "Munkey Juice" http://www.munkeyjuice.net/
"Thèse:"
Le theme aujourd'hui,. c'est de la "Junk".
J'n'ais rien a dire, donc, "En avant la musique".
---- "Psychobabble Junk" par: "sarah dashew" http://www.sarahdashew.com/
"Synthèse:"
Je suis en train de recupere de ma petite sortie hier a PodcampNYC.
Dis-on que c'a s'est bien passé, mais c'a a été fatigant pareil.
Aujourd'hui je me repose.
---- "Junk" par: "Douglas Fir" http://www.douglasfir.com.au/
"Conclusion:"
Ben quoi? Un gars se fatigue a courir a Brooklyn, jacasser pendant une heure et passer le reste de la journée a marcher d'une salle a l'autre pour écouter les autres parler, avant de revenir au Nouveau Jersey pour dormir un peu.
Un peu de rock'n roll pour me réamimer.
---- "junkyard girlfriend" par: "ROCKET CITY RIOT" http://www.rocketcityriot.com/
Outro
Friday, April 25, 2008
msb-0292 An Interview With Joel Goldman,
msb-0292 An Interview With Joel Goldman.
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I'll be merciful and shut up because I'm actually at PodCampNYC 2.0.
I've got an interview I did on Sunday April 20, 2008 with Joel Goldman and you're getting it too...
Musically, I just couldn't make up my mind so this episode is all over the map. But whatever it was, uh, it was golden...
Rest assured, I'm only semi-insane, musically.
----
Oh, this must be a book episode.
The UPS guy just dropped off a book from Amazon. "Yoga and Multiple Sclerosis: A Journey to Health and Healing" by "Loren M. Fishman & Eric L. Small" ISBN: 978-1-932603-17-0.
You'll be hearing about it when I've had a chance to review it.
---- "Golden West" by: "Reginald Clair" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "The Golden Shovel" by: "Frozen Carp" http://www.btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=5046
Feed Me comes third, so...
Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?
Consider advertising on this podcast.
Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)
It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.
That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)
But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.
No play, no pay.
Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...
Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Blue and Gold" by: "Ekayani and the Healing Band" http://www.myspace.com/ekayaniandthehealingband
"Thesis:"
While I'm wandering around at PodCamp NYC 2.0, you get to hear the interview I recorded with Joel Goldman who wrote "Shake Down".
---- "Lover, Ive Been Dreamin Bout a 100 Bags of Gold" by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team" http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php
"Synthesis:"
[If you want to hear the interview, you'll have to get the show.]
---- "Goldie Hawn" by: "Butane Variations" http://www.butanevariations.com/
"Conclusion:"
I hope you enjoyed the interview.
I personally am looking forward to a lot more books about ex-FBI agent "Jack Davis".
Meanwhile, I'm wandering around PodCampNY and later eugene are going to go to R.U.B. and chow down on some Righteous Urban Barbequeue.
----
Did anyone catch ABC News Wednesday, the 23rd of April, 2008?
Now being at risk of being sick is a fireable offense. (Its got "nothing" to do with whether you can do your job. Its not your boss. Its not HR. Its the HMO that is supposedly working for you that's going to wave you "bye bye".)
Owning up to it is (you "know" they'll find an excuse to get rid of you [you were very good at that, weren't you?]) and "not" fessing up can land you in "jail" (and being a felon is usually grounds for dismissal.)
Smoke? You may get fired. (You certainly won't get hired, and if you lie on the entrance form, you will certainly get fired.)
Eat too much? Same crap?
Got in a car crash? Same crap?
Got high blood pressure? Diabetes? Arteriosclerosis? At risk for stroke? Maybe your parents came from the wrong friggin' country, like "France!"
Hell, you may get fired.
And then where will you be?
The same place we were in in 1970s before Nixon created this HMO crap, living with the dread certainty that a stray virus could wipe you and your family out of their savings before killing your eventually worthless asses.
---- "Tide Of Gold" by: "Frank Thewes" http://www.music-is.com/
Outro
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I'll be merciful and shut up because I'm actually at PodCampNYC 2.0.
I've got an interview I did on Sunday April 20, 2008 with Joel Goldman and you're getting it too...
Musically, I just couldn't make up my mind so this episode is all over the map. But whatever it was, uh, it was golden...
Rest assured, I'm only semi-insane, musically.
----
Oh, this must be a book episode.
The UPS guy just dropped off a book from Amazon. "Yoga and Multiple Sclerosis: A Journey to Health and Healing" by "Loren M. Fishman & Eric L. Small" ISBN: 978-1-932603-17-0.
You'll be hearing about it when I've had a chance to review it.
---- "Golden West" by: "Reginald Clair" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "The Golden Shovel" by: "Frozen Carp" http://www.btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=5046
Feed Me comes third, so...
Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?
Consider advertising on this podcast.
Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)
It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.
That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)
But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.
No play, no pay.
Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...
Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Blue and Gold" by: "Ekayani and the Healing Band" http://www.myspace.com/ekayaniandthehealingband
"Thesis:"
While I'm wandering around at PodCamp NYC 2.0, you get to hear the interview I recorded with Joel Goldman who wrote "Shake Down".
---- "Lover, Ive Been Dreamin Bout a 100 Bags of Gold" by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team" http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php
"Synthesis:"
[If you want to hear the interview, you'll have to get the show.]
---- "Goldie Hawn" by: "Butane Variations" http://www.butanevariations.com/
"Conclusion:"
I hope you enjoyed the interview.
I personally am looking forward to a lot more books about ex-FBI agent "Jack Davis".
Meanwhile, I'm wandering around PodCampNY and later eugene are going to go to R.U.B. and chow down on some Righteous Urban Barbequeue.
----
Did anyone catch ABC News Wednesday, the 23rd of April, 2008?
Now being at risk of being sick is a fireable offense. (Its got "nothing" to do with whether you can do your job. Its not your boss. Its not HR. Its the HMO that is supposedly working for you that's going to wave you "bye bye".)
Owning up to it is (you "know" they'll find an excuse to get rid of you [you were very good at that, weren't you?]) and "not" fessing up can land you in "jail" (and being a felon is usually grounds for dismissal.)
Smoke? You may get fired. (You certainly won't get hired, and if you lie on the entrance form, you will certainly get fired.)
Eat too much? Same crap?
Got in a car crash? Same crap?
Got high blood pressure? Diabetes? Arteriosclerosis? At risk for stroke? Maybe your parents came from the wrong friggin' country, like "France!"
Hell, you may get fired.
And then where will you be?
The same place we were in in 1970s before Nixon created this HMO crap, living with the dread certainty that a stray virus could wipe you and your family out of their savings before killing your eventually worthless asses.
---- "Tide Of Gold" by: "Frank Thewes" http://www.music-is.com/
Outro
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
msb-0291 There has to be an easier way...
msb-0291 There has to be an easier way...
..
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I actually choked on my cup of coffee when I read Shauna's bit for today.
And then I found the YouTube video at the front of this post because it just seemed appropriate, eh?
I have a treat coming up on Friday's show. Joel Goldman is a wonderful interviewee. Me ... I suck. I turned into a babbling, bumbling fan boy.
I'm trying something new to generate a transcript of the conversation. If it doesn't work, the interview will be audio only so if you want to hear him, you'll need working ears (sorry to my hearing challenged audience) and you'll need to pick up the audio at "MSBPodcast.com" [ http://www.MSBPodcast.com ].
I was late this week-end with the French-language podcast because I was very, very busy.
One of the things I was busy with was the aforementioned interview with Mr. Goldman.
Another one was going to my friend the chef's apartment with four other people to help her out with her doctoral project. (They give doctorates in cookery. Who knew?! :-)
She had cooked three delicious chickens, paired them with three wines and we had to "test".
I won't, uh, spoil the results (poor choice of words, I'm sure) except to say that it was absolutely the tastiest meal (well three of them really) that I have eaten. (My wife is a great cook, and I love everything she puts on a plate, but this was "beyond the pale," [which is a strange way of putting it since "beyond the pale" actually refers to the border between England and "Cymru" {"Wales" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales ]}])
---- "Biscuits n Molasses" by: "Big George Jackson Blues Band" http://www.black-and-tan.com/
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "The Biscuit Blues" by: "Derek Sonderfan" http://www.esoderek.com/
Feed Me comes third, so...
Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?
Consider advertising on this podcast.
Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)
It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.
That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)
But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.
No play, no pay.
Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...
Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Tea & Biscuits -Terrus LP-" by: "Marc Reeves" http://www.myspace.com/mjronline
"Thesis:"
This episode seems to be all about food.
I had a friend in Montréal who once cooked a meal for the woman he was about to make his wife, after consulting on the recipe with his mother of course.
He made a very basic error of turning his brain off at the kitchen door and trying to eat the results.
He lived and he even got married to his girlfriend at the time ... but it was a near thing. :-)
---- "Randy Newman's Theme from Seabiscuit" by: "Paul and Storm" http://www.paulandstorm.com/
"Synthesis:"
There has to be an easier way to make biscuits....
My parents are a source of on air material for me. They are very funny people and some of their experiences are amusing to relate here as well.
About 13 or so years ago, my father, an electrical engineer for all his working life, decided he needed to learn how to cook. And bake. And generally be able to look after himself when my mother was away. At the beginning of this new phase in his life he asked my mother to teach him how to make biscuits.
He had a pen and paper and wrote down the ingredients as she was making the biscuits.
A few weeks later he was ready to try them on his own. Mom was out, so he asked if I wanted to help. Hindsight is 20/20, as they say, and maybe I should have helped, but my father is also like a bull in a china shop, so I declined. After much banging around, Dad came out to the family room with a wide band of flour across the waist of his pants. He asked me what he was supposed to do with the waxed paper.
"The what?"
"The waxed paper. Your mother said something about waxed paper."
Dead silence, then, "I really don't know, Dad."
So off he went into the kitchen again....more banging around...until finally he came back and said, "The biscuits are in the oven, but I couldn't get the waxed paper out of them".
This truly intrigued me so I had to go check them out. Sure enough he had a pan of great looking biscuits baking in the oven with bits and pieces of waxed paper sticking out of them.
My father is of a rational and scientific mind. He is a very logical and linear thinker. My mother and I are both a little bit like that, but with a more creative way of thinking, so when Dad told us that "There has to be an easier way of making biscuits", she and I were truly confused. I mean, really, how difficult is it to make biscuits?
"Dad, where's your recipe?"
"On the fridge."
I take it down and try to read his chicken scratch. I want to go through the steps with him from the very beginning. "Dad, you read to me what you did."
"Well, I got three cups of flour, then I added-"
"Wait. you got a bowl, right? For the flour?"
"Bowl?"
Aha......
"How did you mix everything?"
"I had the waxed paper on the counter, put the flour on it, made a well- what are you laughing
at?"
My mother and I are in hysterics at this point. You should probably know that my mother values easy clean up above almost anything else, so when she's baking or making pies she uses sheets of waxed paper , FLOURED first, to roll the dough. When she's done, the paper is rolled up and tossed. Easy.
My mother and I are both crying from laughing so hard, imagining my father mixing ingredients on a sheet of waxed paper without the benefit of a bowl. A hat tip to Dad for managing this feat, but it also explains that, as the ingredients mixed, the dough stuck to the waxed paper and it started to tear off in little pieces.
We had the biscuits with dinner that night, and while tasty, we did have to take little bits of waxed paper out of them.
"There has to be a better way to make biscuits" has become a catchphrase for our family ever since.
Last week I came across a website called Cooking for Engineers. It has easy to follow recipes with pictures to demonstrate the process. Curious, I looked up biscuits. And sure enough, in their recipe pictures for basic biscuits, a BOWL is front and centre.
S.
---- "Expand a Biscuit" by: "The Dave Morford Hostage Crisis" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=ab15dddd3472871c4177b4580a79bf66
"Conclusion:"
My friend had read the instructions from his mother but she had a shaky hand, what he thought was 4-5 (four to five) minutes was actually forty-five minutes.
Needless to say, diner was served on his best "Chinette" (give the boy a break, at least he'd cleaned the place up, [well, he'd shoveled the debris into the closets, at least, :-]) at his little round kitchen table for two, and it consisted of two perfectly done potatoes, lightly steamed carrots, warm bread, a bottle of wine (okay, it was "Matteus Rosé, but it had "some" alcoholic content) ... and almost raw chicken.
His wife-to-be was incensed, and definitely smart enough to stick the quivering pink thing back in the oven, (the chicken, not the boyfriend.)
I'm hoping to convince my friend the Chef that "Cooking for Nerds" a.k.a. "How to put supper on the table, even if you are a rocket scientist." a.k.a. "Step by step instructions to keep your propeller-headed self alive in a kitchen." is a book that is crying out to be written.
Seriously, unlike this next song...
---- "king biscuit time" by: "Tremolo55" http://www.tremolo55.com/
Outro
..
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I actually choked on my cup of coffee when I read Shauna's bit for today.
And then I found the YouTube video at the front of this post because it just seemed appropriate, eh?
I have a treat coming up on Friday's show. Joel Goldman is a wonderful interviewee. Me ... I suck. I turned into a babbling, bumbling fan boy.
I'm trying something new to generate a transcript of the conversation. If it doesn't work, the interview will be audio only so if you want to hear him, you'll need working ears (sorry to my hearing challenged audience) and you'll need to pick up the audio at "MSBPodcast.com" [ http://www.MSBPodcast.com ].
I was late this week-end with the French-language podcast because I was very, very busy.
One of the things I was busy with was the aforementioned interview with Mr. Goldman.
Another one was going to my friend the chef's apartment with four other people to help her out with her doctoral project. (They give doctorates in cookery. Who knew?! :-)
She had cooked three delicious chickens, paired them with three wines and we had to "test".
I won't, uh, spoil the results (poor choice of words, I'm sure) except to say that it was absolutely the tastiest meal (well three of them really) that I have eaten. (My wife is a great cook, and I love everything she puts on a plate, but this was "beyond the pale," [which is a strange way of putting it since "beyond the pale" actually refers to the border between England and "Cymru" {"Wales" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales ]}])
---- "Biscuits n Molasses" by: "Big George Jackson Blues Band" http://www.black-and-tan.com/
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "The Biscuit Blues" by: "Derek Sonderfan" http://www.esoderek.com/
Feed Me comes third, so...
Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?
Consider advertising on this podcast.
Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)
It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.
That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)
But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.
No play, no pay.
Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...
Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Tea & Biscuits -Terrus LP-" by: "Marc Reeves" http://www.myspace.com/mjronline
"Thesis:"
This episode seems to be all about food.
I had a friend in Montréal who once cooked a meal for the woman he was about to make his wife, after consulting on the recipe with his mother of course.
He made a very basic error of turning his brain off at the kitchen door and trying to eat the results.
He lived and he even got married to his girlfriend at the time ... but it was a near thing. :-)
---- "Randy Newman's Theme from Seabiscuit" by: "Paul and Storm" http://www.paulandstorm.com/
"Synthesis:"
There has to be an easier way to make biscuits....
My parents are a source of on air material for me. They are very funny people and some of their experiences are amusing to relate here as well.
About 13 or so years ago, my father, an electrical engineer for all his working life, decided he needed to learn how to cook. And bake. And generally be able to look after himself when my mother was away. At the beginning of this new phase in his life he asked my mother to teach him how to make biscuits.
He had a pen and paper and wrote down the ingredients as she was making the biscuits.
A few weeks later he was ready to try them on his own. Mom was out, so he asked if I wanted to help. Hindsight is 20/20, as they say, and maybe I should have helped, but my father is also like a bull in a china shop, so I declined. After much banging around, Dad came out to the family room with a wide band of flour across the waist of his pants. He asked me what he was supposed to do with the waxed paper.
"The what?"
"The waxed paper. Your mother said something about waxed paper."
Dead silence, then, "I really don't know, Dad."
So off he went into the kitchen again....more banging around...until finally he came back and said, "The biscuits are in the oven, but I couldn't get the waxed paper out of them".
This truly intrigued me so I had to go check them out. Sure enough he had a pan of great looking biscuits baking in the oven with bits and pieces of waxed paper sticking out of them.
My father is of a rational and scientific mind. He is a very logical and linear thinker. My mother and I are both a little bit like that, but with a more creative way of thinking, so when Dad told us that "There has to be an easier way of making biscuits", she and I were truly confused. I mean, really, how difficult is it to make biscuits?
"Dad, where's your recipe?"
"On the fridge."
I take it down and try to read his chicken scratch. I want to go through the steps with him from the very beginning. "Dad, you read to me what you did."
"Well, I got three cups of flour, then I added-"
"Wait. you got a bowl, right? For the flour?"
"Bowl?"
Aha......
"How did you mix everything?"
"I had the waxed paper on the counter, put the flour on it, made a well- what are you laughing
at?"
My mother and I are in hysterics at this point. You should probably know that my mother values easy clean up above almost anything else, so when she's baking or making pies she uses sheets of waxed paper , FLOURED first, to roll the dough. When she's done, the paper is rolled up and tossed. Easy.
My mother and I are both crying from laughing so hard, imagining my father mixing ingredients on a sheet of waxed paper without the benefit of a bowl. A hat tip to Dad for managing this feat, but it also explains that, as the ingredients mixed, the dough stuck to the waxed paper and it started to tear off in little pieces.
We had the biscuits with dinner that night, and while tasty, we did have to take little bits of waxed paper out of them.
"There has to be a better way to make biscuits" has become a catchphrase for our family ever since.
Last week I came across a website called Cooking for Engineers. It has easy to follow recipes with pictures to demonstrate the process. Curious, I looked up biscuits. And sure enough, in their recipe pictures for basic biscuits, a BOWL is front and centre.
S.
---- "Expand a Biscuit" by: "The Dave Morford Hostage Crisis" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=ab15dddd3472871c4177b4580a79bf66
"Conclusion:"
My friend had read the instructions from his mother but she had a shaky hand, what he thought was 4-5 (four to five) minutes was actually forty-five minutes.
Needless to say, diner was served on his best "Chinette" (give the boy a break, at least he'd cleaned the place up, [well, he'd shoveled the debris into the closets, at least, :-]) at his little round kitchen table for two, and it consisted of two perfectly done potatoes, lightly steamed carrots, warm bread, a bottle of wine (okay, it was "Matteus Rosé, but it had "some" alcoholic content) ... and almost raw chicken.
His wife-to-be was incensed, and definitely smart enough to stick the quivering pink thing back in the oven, (the chicken, not the boyfriend.)
I'm hoping to convince my friend the Chef that "Cooking for Nerds" a.k.a. "How to put supper on the table, even if you are a rocket scientist." a.k.a. "Step by step instructions to keep your propeller-headed self alive in a kitchen." is a book that is crying out to be written.
Seriously, unlike this next song...
---- "king biscuit time" by: "Tremolo55" http://www.tremolo55.com/
Outro
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