msb-0313 Oily Hair
Groovy Dancing Girl (Daft Punk - Harder, Better,Faster, Stronger)
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intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
The reality of "Peak Oil" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil ] is almost upon the world. (If it hasn't happened already, but we're still waiting for the news from politicians, [people who have a worse bedside manner than our neurologists.])
Debatably, the "Hubbert Peak Theory" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbert_peak_theory ] elucidated by "M. King Hubbert" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._King_Hubbert ] may have already passed, but lets pretend that its still looming in front of us, like the first hump of a "roller coaster" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_coaster ] at "Magic Mountain" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Flags_Magic_Mountain ] about to send us down a real scary ride... (It has no guard rails, no inspectors, no ride operators to sue when the biomass hits the rotating impeller. Its really not safe and quite a few of us have already died, crushed into paste under its tank treads.)
The world will have to adapt and for once they're going to be looking at "us" the MSers and the rest of the 15% of the world that they have ignored, for clues as to how to proceed.
We have no choice in the matter either. They'll take advantage of us like they always have, without a second thought, and the gloves will come off like a dress at a party help at Hugh Hefner's "Playboy Mansion" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playboy_Mansion ].
Luckily for us, there's enough Internet capacity that we can afford to seem magnanimous.
---- "Snakeoil" by: "Buddhastik" http://myspace.com/buddhastik
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
The wiki is down until further notice
---- "Cod Liver Oil" by: "Great Big Sea" http://greatbigsea.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 us an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Addicted To Oil" by: "Mr. Tunes" http://www.mrtunes.ca/
"Thesis:"
So what do I, an MSer, siting here at my computer unable to give chase to anything faster than a turtle or a sleeping cat, possibly have to contribute to the hale and healthy out there about making our way through the looming and quite inevitable energy deficiency. (I've got some really cool "Mocean Worker" happening on my headphones right now, [Damn! I wish I could share the sounds filling my head as I write this: "Tickle It" off the "Cinco de Mowo!" CD. Damn the RIAA. "Mocean Worker" are seriously "good! {if this podcast was making a cent, I might take up ASCAP/BMI's offer up and pay them if only the RIAA wasn't right behind them with "their" hand out and I still haven't got a note to play.}])
Well, I have become expert at husbanding and conserving energy in my own body...
---- "Blood is thicker than oil" by: "The Undercover Hippy" http://www.undercoverhippy.com/
"Synthesis:"
First remember the cover of "Douglass Adams" "Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" and "Don't Panic!"
I know that this is easier said than done.
What with all of your fine world fading away out of your grasp; you're getting laid off 'cause your employer's going broke almost as fast as you, your car becoming unaffordable, the gas for it becoming as out of reach a movie star's butt, your house, or your rental is going up; but you're going to have an easy move cause everything you financed is getting repoed, none of its your fault but the pricks who care, uh, don't care, they don't want to hear it, they just want to get their money before it devalues; your entire life is being turned upside down, stripped naked, dipped in molasses and staked down facing a hill crawling with fire ants.
Yup. "There a change's a gonna come." An thass no lie.
If feel for ya buddy. I really do, unlike what you did for me. (It a cane, not a hearing aid. I'm not deaf. I heard you honk at me. Impatient weren't you. And just to get here? Ha! It is to laugh!)
Now that you've run out of gas, along with the rest of the world, stop making like a "Window Licker" with one shoe nailed to the floor.
Start with the quick inventory.
Do you have all of your limbs? (My inventory also includes the question: Do they all work right now?)
Think "Maslow's Pyramid" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_Pyramid ]
Now how can you get through the day as energy efficiently as possible?
Give the Gods a laugh, and make a plan.
First where are you? Where do you have to get to?
No don't go there.
Just think, (I know it hurts an' "makes y'all feel like yo head wants to bus' wide open") but do you really have to pick that "schmidgick" up or deliver that "schmegeggy" or would an electronic form sent over the internet be sufficient? Do you really have to see that person or would a conference call or video be enough? (Electrons weigh damn near nothing and their transmission is damn near instantaneous.)
Now for everything else, "line up your ducks".
Between A and B are there steps that you can save, steps that you can combine?
Have you got everything and is it all accessible, in a personal carrier?
There's nothing as wasteful as getting up and making a trip twice because you forgot something.
Next is running the disk of dropping the ball, figuratively or literally.
Be prepared, and be prepared to go slow.
"When the world is running down, you have to make the best of what's still around." -Sting
---- "oilsands" by: "johnjack" http://radio3.cbc.ca/bands/johnjack
"Conclusion:"
We have a lot to contribute to our more fortunate but less clued in brothers and sisters out there.
The trick will be to not seem like insufferable know-it-alls as we teach them the way we "line up our ducks" and avoid wasteful motion in everything.
We know and respect "energy" (the ability to do work,) but we are on intimate terms with "anergy" (the ability "not" to do work.)
Haste makes waste and soon nobody will have the energy to waste being stupid.
---- "Snake Oil" by: "Jenny Dalton" http://www.jennydalton.com/
Outro
Friday, June 13, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
msb-0312 Shauna On Neuroplasticity
msb-0312 Its Shauna On Neuroplasticity
Its rare that I encounter Flash animations this beautiful (Click on it to launch it.):
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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...
First, let me say welcome to the new listeners through iTunes who bumped my stats up by a nice margin.
Sorry you've got MS but there are now disease modifying drugs and treatments so its not the tragedy it once was.
----
I'm reading a great book about what some people consider "The Apocalypse". [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalpse ]
The sh- uh, biomass has been flung and it will impact with, uh, the rotating impeller here on Friday's show.
---
Meanwhile, I'm getting more and more news that shows me that using HMOs to implement health care is for idiots and imbeciles.
The New York Times had "this" [
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/health/01insure.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1212264024-ljbTCSJldAaSHRdgL/0QZg&pagewanted=all ] article that pretty much states that if you're going to carry a uterus in working order but with only an average size cervix, the HMOs don't want anything to do with you because they don't want to pay for Caesarians.
Which kind of says it all.
The reason that so many women need Caesarians is that, consisting as it does of soft tissue, the human brain is evolving and growing at a faster pace than the rest of the skeleton. Heck. The brain case of infants doesn't fuse until months after birth already (it isn't really a skull until after it does so,).
HMOs don't care about human evolution, they care about their profit and your having microcephalic congenital idiots doesn't impact their bottom line, so take your healthy, brainy kid, your too tight birth canal and "gid outta here."
And what are we paying them for what exactly? (I keep hearing a fragment of "Edwin Starr"s [ http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/edwin_starr/war.html ] refrain playing in my head. "What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Listen to me.")
---- "strange attractor" by: "stretch armstrong"http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=3e4a42ad85c642614f91d893a6446abf
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Some Strange Feeling" by: "Davis Coen" http://www.daviscoen.com/
Feed Me comes third, so...
Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?
Consider advertising on this podcast.
Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)
It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.
That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)
But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.
No play, no pay.
Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...
Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Strange Days" by: "Quiet Riot" http://www.myspace.com/quietriotrehab
"Thesis:"
Here's Shauna with her own observations on "Neuroplasticity".
---- "Hey Your So Strange" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveisaction
"Synthesis:"
Several weeks ago I attended a lecture about neuroplasticity. That is a fairly new word and a fairly new area of study. Scientists are discovering that the brain is amazingly plastic; that is, able to adapt to change. We are now discovering that the brain, in certain areas, is able to grow new cells, something once thought impossible. And it makes new connections constantly. There is a whole new industry being promoted around "brain health", making new connections, and regenerating brain cells. Exercise your brain! Do crossword puzzles! Stave off Alzheimer's- do Sudoku! You've seen the headlines and heard about different "programs" that aim to improve your brain fitness.
There's no doubt that some mental exercise can help you relax, learn to concentrate, and perhaps help you become better at certain puzzles. But the best thing you can do for your brain is exercise your body and give your brain an optimal environment.
Exercise improves blood flow to all parts of your body, including your brain, and that improves oxygenation and the circulation of vital nutrients required by your brain for energy and function. Exercising your body involves a complex set of actions in the brain, causing neurons to fire all over the place in response, reorganizing and reinforcing the neural networks you already have and making new connections.
An optimal environment for your brain is one free of physical impediments like alcohol or drugs, polluted air, improper amounts of sleep and stress. That's next to impossible, so reduce the impediments you are able to. You need to feed your brain as well as your body with a low fat, high fibre diet. And for me, the occasional chunk of chocolate (that's good for the mental health).
When I was first diagnosed with MS, I asked the doctors about rehab. Was there anything in particular that I could do to get back the right side of my body? Was there anything I could do to not lose it or anything else? The short answer was "No". MS is a disease of the central nervous system; it affects the communication ability of the nerves to and from the rest of the body. Trying to work limbs that wouldn't cooperate was next to useless. So no amount of rehab would help me get back what I had lost. For people with MS, rehab is used to learn how to do things differently.
As it turned out, the type of MS I have is called relapsing remitting. It went into remission and I eventually regained about 97% of what I had lost. The 3% I didn't get back is unnoticeable except to me and my neurologist. I hardly ever notice a deficit and no one else ever does, so I don't think about it much. But at the back of my mind for the past 10 years has been the idea of rehabilitation. It works for many stroke patients; it's a matter of training your brain to make new and/or different connections, to go around the injured area. Wouldn't this somehow work for people with MS? It was and still is a good quesion.
So what does this have to do with cycling you might ask? Besides being an excellent way to exercise your body, cycling has an added benefit for your brain. The simple act of riding your bike requires paying attention to your surroundings, traffic, pedestrians, rocks and mud holes. This mental stimulation while biking is going to help your brain and probably help generate new connections. I suspect the combination of mental stimulation while exercising is what has attracted me to it in the first place.
Did I know all this two years ago when I began cycling? Nope. I just knew that I had finally found an exercise that I loved. Now I know that not only is it good for my body, it's good for my brain. Whether or not there are new connections being made or new cells being generated, cycling is good for me. Just recently the National MS Society in the U.S. awarded a large grant to the University of Northern Carolina for MS research that includes developing an MS-specific curriculum in physical therapy. I can only hope that their research will involve using the brain's plastic ability to overcome some of the disability MS causes. In the meantime, I will exercise my brain by jumping on the bike.
---- "Strange Thing" by: "Marvel" http://www.myspace.com/thebandmarvel
"Conclusion:"
Like so may things, I'm discovering that "impossible" just means "my doctor is too intellectually crippled to bother finding out."
Luckily for us, there are lots more people out there; so if your doctor is too, uh, "otherwise occupied" by something else, (like getting payment from an HMO who's job, indeed who's justification for existing on this planet, is to "not" give it to 'em,) there are others who might see the connection and help you to make it.
---- "Dont be a stranger" by: "The Whiskey River Band" http://www.thewhiskeyriverband.com/
Outro
Its rare that I encounter Flash animations this beautiful (Click on it to launch it.):
.
.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...
First, let me say welcome to the new listeners through iTunes who bumped my stats up by a nice margin.
Sorry you've got MS but there are now disease modifying drugs and treatments so its not the tragedy it once was.
----
I'm reading a great book about what some people consider "The Apocalypse". [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalpse ]
The sh- uh, biomass has been flung and it will impact with, uh, the rotating impeller here on Friday's show.
---
Meanwhile, I'm getting more and more news that shows me that using HMOs to implement health care is for idiots and imbeciles.
The New York Times had "this" [
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/health/01insure.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1212264024-ljbTCSJldAaSHRdgL/0QZg&pagewanted=all ] article that pretty much states that if you're going to carry a uterus in working order but with only an average size cervix, the HMOs don't want anything to do with you because they don't want to pay for Caesarians.
Which kind of says it all.
The reason that so many women need Caesarians is that, consisting as it does of soft tissue, the human brain is evolving and growing at a faster pace than the rest of the skeleton. Heck. The brain case of infants doesn't fuse until months after birth already (it isn't really a skull until after it does so,).
HMOs don't care about human evolution, they care about their profit and your having microcephalic congenital idiots doesn't impact their bottom line, so take your healthy, brainy kid, your too tight birth canal and "gid outta here."
And what are we paying them for what exactly? (I keep hearing a fragment of "Edwin Starr"s [ http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/edwin_starr/war.html ] refrain playing in my head. "What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Listen to me.")
---- "strange attractor" by: "stretch armstrong"http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=3e4a42ad85c642614f91d893a6446abf
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Some Strange Feeling" by: "Davis Coen" http://www.daviscoen.com/
Feed Me comes third, so...
Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?
Consider advertising on this podcast.
Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)
It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.
That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)
But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.
No play, no pay.
Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...
Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Strange Days" by: "Quiet Riot" http://www.myspace.com/quietriotrehab
"Thesis:"
Here's Shauna with her own observations on "Neuroplasticity".
---- "Hey Your So Strange" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveisaction
"Synthesis:"
Several weeks ago I attended a lecture about neuroplasticity. That is a fairly new word and a fairly new area of study. Scientists are discovering that the brain is amazingly plastic; that is, able to adapt to change. We are now discovering that the brain, in certain areas, is able to grow new cells, something once thought impossible. And it makes new connections constantly. There is a whole new industry being promoted around "brain health", making new connections, and regenerating brain cells. Exercise your brain! Do crossword puzzles! Stave off Alzheimer's- do Sudoku! You've seen the headlines and heard about different "programs" that aim to improve your brain fitness.
There's no doubt that some mental exercise can help you relax, learn to concentrate, and perhaps help you become better at certain puzzles. But the best thing you can do for your brain is exercise your body and give your brain an optimal environment.
Exercise improves blood flow to all parts of your body, including your brain, and that improves oxygenation and the circulation of vital nutrients required by your brain for energy and function. Exercising your body involves a complex set of actions in the brain, causing neurons to fire all over the place in response, reorganizing and reinforcing the neural networks you already have and making new connections.
An optimal environment for your brain is one free of physical impediments like alcohol or drugs, polluted air, improper amounts of sleep and stress. That's next to impossible, so reduce the impediments you are able to. You need to feed your brain as well as your body with a low fat, high fibre diet. And for me, the occasional chunk of chocolate (that's good for the mental health).
When I was first diagnosed with MS, I asked the doctors about rehab. Was there anything in particular that I could do to get back the right side of my body? Was there anything I could do to not lose it or anything else? The short answer was "No". MS is a disease of the central nervous system; it affects the communication ability of the nerves to and from the rest of the body. Trying to work limbs that wouldn't cooperate was next to useless. So no amount of rehab would help me get back what I had lost. For people with MS, rehab is used to learn how to do things differently.
As it turned out, the type of MS I have is called relapsing remitting. It went into remission and I eventually regained about 97% of what I had lost. The 3% I didn't get back is unnoticeable except to me and my neurologist. I hardly ever notice a deficit and no one else ever does, so I don't think about it much. But at the back of my mind for the past 10 years has been the idea of rehabilitation. It works for many stroke patients; it's a matter of training your brain to make new and/or different connections, to go around the injured area. Wouldn't this somehow work for people with MS? It was and still is a good quesion.
So what does this have to do with cycling you might ask? Besides being an excellent way to exercise your body, cycling has an added benefit for your brain. The simple act of riding your bike requires paying attention to your surroundings, traffic, pedestrians, rocks and mud holes. This mental stimulation while biking is going to help your brain and probably help generate new connections. I suspect the combination of mental stimulation while exercising is what has attracted me to it in the first place.
Did I know all this two years ago when I began cycling? Nope. I just knew that I had finally found an exercise that I loved. Now I know that not only is it good for my body, it's good for my brain. Whether or not there are new connections being made or new cells being generated, cycling is good for me. Just recently the National MS Society in the U.S. awarded a large grant to the University of Northern Carolina for MS research that includes developing an MS-specific curriculum in physical therapy. I can only hope that their research will involve using the brain's plastic ability to overcome some of the disability MS causes. In the meantime, I will exercise my brain by jumping on the bike.
---- "Strange Thing" by: "Marvel" http://www.myspace.com/thebandmarvel
"Conclusion:"
Like so may things, I'm discovering that "impossible" just means "my doctor is too intellectually crippled to bother finding out."
Luckily for us, there are lots more people out there; so if your doctor is too, uh, "otherwise occupied" by something else, (like getting payment from an HMO who's job, indeed who's justification for existing on this planet, is to "not" give it to 'em,) there are others who might see the connection and help you to make it.
---- "Dont be a stranger" by: "The Whiskey River Band" http://www.thewhiskeyriverband.com/
Outro
Monday, June 09, 2008
msb-0311 Reflections In A Limpid Cerulean Pool
msb-0311 Reflections In A Limpid Cerulean Pool
"Paper" video by: "The Get Out Clause"
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The band had no money to produce a video.
Manchester is full of closed circuit television cameras (CCTV.)
Since necessity is the mother of invention, the band set up their equipment, drum kit and all, where they knew the cameras would be pointing and used the freedom of information act to retrieve the footage from all kinds of cameras shooting video footage.
Clever use of equipment for the purpose for which they were intended (capturing video of public places,) but not for the purpose for which they were intended (helping the band make a video for nothing.)
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...
Like the title for this episode?
I did.
It doesn't mean a thing but it still a nice turn of phrase; evocative of cool waters under a clear sunny sky at some low-latitude locale.
[beep]
"This is a test of the Emergency Podcast System."
If there had been an actual emergency, a terrorist attack, a fire, a famine, a plague, a tornado, a flood or other example of extreme weather, a tsunami, an earthquake, a declaration of upcoming imminent thermo-nuclear annihilation, or the sun exhausting its fuel and blowing its shell before collapsing and contracting into a cold brown dwarf, leaving the cinder formerly known as earth orbiting in the inky depth of space, you would have had to figure it out for yourself, wouldn't you.
Podcasting, using RSS to distribute "deltas" in a list of files, is "exactly" like using e- or snail-mail.
You wouldn't send a letter to your great aunt Fanny telling her you'd cut yourself and were asking for her advice for stauching the bleeding would you? You be a dessicated husk lying on the kitchen floor if you were that helpless or that, uh, Darwinian-ly disposed.
There are times when you "need" a megaphone and somebody with a really loud mouth.
So don't get too cocky about podcasting taking over everything, Its capable of filling all of the niches, like mortar between the bricks, but we still need broadcasting.
(Otherwise, "Bush"or "Mugabe" or any other tyrannical tin pot dictator omnkey in a three piece or an army suit might declare a war an' nobody'd show up.)
This was a test of the "Emergency Podcast System"... And it failed...
[beep]
---- "No Use Denying" by:"The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Don't Forget Where You Came From" by:"The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/
Feed Me comes third, so...
Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?
Consider advertising on this podcast.
Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)
It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.
That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)
But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.
No play, no pay.
Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...
Send us an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Get On" by:"The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/
"Thesis:"
I keep evaluating text to speech software, preparing for the eventuality of being unable to utter anything intelligible, uh. make that "of insufficient clarity to be decipherable", by anyone else.
So far, bubkiss, nada, nuttin', it ain't happening. Fuggedaboudid.
As it turns out, generating speech is a hard problem, relying as it does on idiosyncrasies of the speaker's pacing, the wider problem of tone and the indescribably variable problem of regionalism.
That we can understand each other at all is already a friggin' miracle.
Trying to do so with any kind of speech impediment, (beyond the wit or witlessness of the stuff I'm spouting,) is extremely difficult.
That's why I admire Shauna so much. She's really got the gift of gab. She speaks clearly and succinctly.
I regret to say that, while I "used" to have the same gift, I am now reduced to barely coherent mumblings and mutterings.
But perhaps I can teach myself to speak again with the help of certain pacing and cadence devices.
---- "Do What You Need" by:"The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/
"Synthesis:"
In order to stave off that day, I am implementing some suggestions by my Friend Eugene, the SysAdmin.
You should have noticed that my delivery has been a lot more, uh, measured the last few shows.
That's because I am using a teleprompter type system which presents the words of the script to me at a slower pace than I would otherwise read them. Its not that I can't speak intelligibly, I can, as evidenced by the present, but its that when I read, I read full-speed and often get to the end of a paragraph before I have even uttered a few words of the first sentence.
Since I wrote the entire thing, I further trip up my tongue by actually remembering the words I wrote and skimming instead of reading and getting even further ahead while my all to fallible tongue stammers, tries to get the rest of my mouth in position and tries to get the words out.
We should see if this metronomic systems of pacing my otherwise racing speech-box helps with my comprehension.
---- "On My Mind" by:"The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/
"Conclusion:"
God helps those who help themselves and in this case the help has come in the form of a metronomic prompter, just like the use in TV studios.
Waddaya t'ink? Any better? :-)
---- "Hell or Highwater" by:"The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/
Outro
"Paper" video by: "The Get Out Clause"
..
The band had no money to produce a video.
Manchester is full of closed circuit television cameras (CCTV.)
Since necessity is the mother of invention, the band set up their equipment, drum kit and all, where they knew the cameras would be pointing and used the freedom of information act to retrieve the footage from all kinds of cameras shooting video footage.
Clever use of equipment for the purpose for which they were intended (capturing video of public places,) but not for the purpose for which they were intended (helping the band make a video for nothing.)
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...
Like the title for this episode?
I did.
It doesn't mean a thing but it still a nice turn of phrase; evocative of cool waters under a clear sunny sky at some low-latitude locale.
[beep]
"This is a test of the Emergency Podcast System."
If there had been an actual emergency, a terrorist attack, a fire, a famine, a plague, a tornado, a flood or other example of extreme weather, a tsunami, an earthquake, a declaration of upcoming imminent thermo-nuclear annihilation, or the sun exhausting its fuel and blowing its shell before collapsing and contracting into a cold brown dwarf, leaving the cinder formerly known as earth orbiting in the inky depth of space, you would have had to figure it out for yourself, wouldn't you.
Podcasting, using RSS to distribute "deltas" in a list of files, is "exactly" like using e- or snail-mail.
You wouldn't send a letter to your great aunt Fanny telling her you'd cut yourself and were asking for her advice for stauching the bleeding would you? You be a dessicated husk lying on the kitchen floor if you were that helpless or that, uh, Darwinian-ly disposed.
There are times when you "need" a megaphone and somebody with a really loud mouth.
So don't get too cocky about podcasting taking over everything, Its capable of filling all of the niches, like mortar between the bricks, but we still need broadcasting.
(Otherwise, "Bush"or "Mugabe" or any other tyrannical tin pot dictator omnkey in a three piece or an army suit might declare a war an' nobody'd show up.)
This was a test of the "Emergency Podcast System"... And it failed...
[beep]
---- "No Use Denying" by:"The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Don't Forget Where You Came From" by:"The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/
Feed Me comes third, so...
Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?
Consider advertising on this podcast.
Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)
It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.
That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)
But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.
No play, no pay.
Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...
Send us an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Get On" by:"The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/
"Thesis:"
I keep evaluating text to speech software, preparing for the eventuality of being unable to utter anything intelligible, uh. make that "of insufficient clarity to be decipherable", by anyone else.
So far, bubkiss, nada, nuttin', it ain't happening. Fuggedaboudid.
As it turns out, generating speech is a hard problem, relying as it does on idiosyncrasies of the speaker's pacing, the wider problem of tone and the indescribably variable problem of regionalism.
That we can understand each other at all is already a friggin' miracle.
Trying to do so with any kind of speech impediment, (beyond the wit or witlessness of the stuff I'm spouting,) is extremely difficult.
That's why I admire Shauna so much. She's really got the gift of gab. She speaks clearly and succinctly.
I regret to say that, while I "used" to have the same gift, I am now reduced to barely coherent mumblings and mutterings.
But perhaps I can teach myself to speak again with the help of certain pacing and cadence devices.
---- "Do What You Need" by:"The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/
"Synthesis:"
In order to stave off that day, I am implementing some suggestions by my Friend Eugene, the SysAdmin.
You should have noticed that my delivery has been a lot more, uh, measured the last few shows.
That's because I am using a teleprompter type system which presents the words of the script to me at a slower pace than I would otherwise read them. Its not that I can't speak intelligibly, I can, as evidenced by the present, but its that when I read, I read full-speed and often get to the end of a paragraph before I have even uttered a few words of the first sentence.
Since I wrote the entire thing, I further trip up my tongue by actually remembering the words I wrote and skimming instead of reading and getting even further ahead while my all to fallible tongue stammers, tries to get the rest of my mouth in position and tries to get the words out.
We should see if this metronomic systems of pacing my otherwise racing speech-box helps with my comprehension.
---- "On My Mind" by:"The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/
"Conclusion:"
God helps those who help themselves and in this case the help has come in the form of a metronomic prompter, just like the use in TV studios.
Waddaya t'ink? Any better? :-)
---- "Hell or Highwater" by:"The Cool Waters Band" http://www.coolwatersband.com/
Outro
Sunday, June 08, 2008
msb-fr-0015 La Véritée
msb-fr-0015 La Véritée
Daft Punk - Robot Rock
..
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 vien d'avoir mes yeux ouvert a une réalitée incontestable.
Il y a une limite a ce qu'on peut accomplir parsequ' il y a une véritée sacrement facheuse, pire encore que la sclérose en plaque.
La quantitée d'huile est limitée.
Une fois qu'on sen sert, elle est disparue de la planète.
---- "1979" par: "37Hz" http://37hz.net/
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"
---- "Badinerie" par: "37Hz" http://37hz.net/
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"
---- "Bunker Buster" par: "37Hz" http://37hz.net/
"Thèse:"
La quantitée d'huile est limitée et on approche le milieux, si on la pas déja dépassé, et ça impose certaine constraintes, certaine réalitées, qui changent tout ce qu'on connais et tout ce qu'on est.
La réalitée est que la capacité de chargement que la planète peut supporter "post petrole" est de deux milliard de personnes, approximativement. Or nous sommes déja a six milliards comme population. (Je détecte un certain débranchent, ou une débâcle inévitable. Et nous y revienderons dans d'autres épisodes a suivre.)
L'agriculture "post petrole", où les terres seront moins fertiles pour manque de nitrate de potassium, parcequ'on n'as pas le pétrole pour en produire, va devenir de toute importance.
---- "Be The Change You Want To See In The World" par: "37Hz" http://37hz.net/
"Synthèse:"
Qu'est ce que ceci a foûtre avec la sclérose en plaques?
Deux chôses:
Premierement, il n'y a plus de pétrole... Le transport va pendre le bord parceque il va devenir de plus en plus cher. (Jusqu'a temps que les transports en communs et le transports de saisie court deviennes entièrement électrifiés.) La disponabilitée d'énergie "en toute ses formes" devient plus coûteuse.
Deuxièmement, il n'y a plus de pétrole... La disponabilitée de produits "en toute leur formes" devient plus coûteux. Inclus dans ça sont toutes les medecines pour nous SPcimens.
Mais l'agriculture est la clé à tout.
Qu'il y aura des morts, c'est inévitable. Des "milliards" de morts. C'est tragique, mais tout le monde meurt.
Deux tiers à trois quarts des gens sur cette planète sont déjà au-delà de la capacité de cette planète.
Cela nécessitera des changements, tant court terme que long terme, dans à peu près tous les aspects de la société.
---- "Dwindle" par: "37Hz" http://37hz.net/
"Conclusion:"
Le milieu de la courbe de la disponibilitée du pétrole est déja ici.
Ça affecte tout, incluant la vie pour les SPcimen.
Mais nous avons un avantage nettement "peu" enviable.
Nous sommes déjà en battaille chaque jour avec les problèmes de contrôle. La maitrise de soi mème fait partie de nos découvèrtes quotidiennes, nos batailles constantes et, des fois, de nos victoires.
---- "1979 part 2" par: "37Hz" http://37hz.net/
Outro
Daft Punk - Robot Rock
..
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 vien d'avoir mes yeux ouvert a une réalitée incontestable.
Il y a une limite a ce qu'on peut accomplir parsequ' il y a une véritée sacrement facheuse, pire encore que la sclérose en plaque.
La quantitée d'huile est limitée.
Une fois qu'on sen sert, elle est disparue de la planète.
---- "1979" par: "37Hz" http://37hz.net/
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"
---- "Badinerie" par: "37Hz" http://37hz.net/
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"
---- "Bunker Buster" par: "37Hz" http://37hz.net/
"Thèse:"
La quantitée d'huile est limitée et on approche le milieux, si on la pas déja dépassé, et ça impose certaine constraintes, certaine réalitées, qui changent tout ce qu'on connais et tout ce qu'on est.
La réalitée est que la capacité de chargement que la planète peut supporter "post petrole" est de deux milliard de personnes, approximativement. Or nous sommes déja a six milliards comme population. (Je détecte un certain débranchent, ou une débâcle inévitable. Et nous y revienderons dans d'autres épisodes a suivre.)
L'agriculture "post petrole", où les terres seront moins fertiles pour manque de nitrate de potassium, parcequ'on n'as pas le pétrole pour en produire, va devenir de toute importance.
---- "Be The Change You Want To See In The World" par: "37Hz" http://37hz.net/
"Synthèse:"
Qu'est ce que ceci a foûtre avec la sclérose en plaques?
Deux chôses:
Premierement, il n'y a plus de pétrole... Le transport va pendre le bord parceque il va devenir de plus en plus cher. (Jusqu'a temps que les transports en communs et le transports de saisie court deviennes entièrement électrifiés.) La disponabilitée d'énergie "en toute ses formes" devient plus coûteuse.
Deuxièmement, il n'y a plus de pétrole... La disponabilitée de produits "en toute leur formes" devient plus coûteux. Inclus dans ça sont toutes les medecines pour nous SPcimens.
Mais l'agriculture est la clé à tout.
Qu'il y aura des morts, c'est inévitable. Des "milliards" de morts. C'est tragique, mais tout le monde meurt.
Deux tiers à trois quarts des gens sur cette planète sont déjà au-delà de la capacité de cette planète.
Cela nécessitera des changements, tant court terme que long terme, dans à peu près tous les aspects de la société.
---- "Dwindle" par: "37Hz" http://37hz.net/
"Conclusion:"
Le milieu de la courbe de la disponibilitée du pétrole est déja ici.
Ça affecte tout, incluant la vie pour les SPcimen.
Mais nous avons un avantage nettement "peu" enviable.
Nous sommes déjà en battaille chaque jour avec les problèmes de contrôle. La maitrise de soi mème fait partie de nos découvèrtes quotidiennes, nos batailles constantes et, des fois, de nos victoires.
---- "1979 part 2" par: "37Hz" http://37hz.net/
Outro
Friday, June 06, 2008
msb-0310 I Doubt You'll See These On Network TV.
msb-0310 I Doubt You'll See These On Network TV.
Coors Ad#1
..
Coors Ad #2
..
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...
There are two ads for "Coors Light" at the front of this posting, not because I like the beer (I like "Belgian" beers and "Canadian" beers, "Coors", not so much... Light beers? Nahh.) but because it reflects the direction that ads are taking on the internet.
You aren't likely to see the ads on broadcast media either.
They were created for the internet and the production values, and costs by the way, reflect those found in YouTube "viral videos".
They are "not" representative of the glitz, and the cost, of the beer ads on the NASCAR circuit.
They make use of cheap and easy special effects. (You don't think that beer can be poured from any distance, land in a glass and not splash everywhere do you? [If you do, I have got some books on basic high-school physics that explain why life doesn't work that way...])
Life ... doesn't ... work ... that ... way...
---- "THE SPECIALIST: by: "the specialist" http://www.myspace.com/in4rmrecords
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
My friend eugene, the SysAdmin, came by to update my Linux house server. He managed to screw up the wiki database so the wiki's off line until he gets around to fixing it.
---- "Melody Of Life" by: "Fluid Boys" http://www.fluidboys.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 us an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Strange Thing" by: "Marvel" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/thebandmarvel
"Thesis:"
I'm trying to stay relevant to the theme of MS but I keep drifting into media and advertising news. (I can't help it. I'm a media junky. :-)
What the heck? Its my show.. :-)
If it bothers any of you that badly, you can tell me and I'll shut it off.
Like I did country music. (Well, the whiny, "I gots tears in my ears from lyin' on mah back, cryin' my eyes out over yooo..." type of country and western. [I still enjoy the occasional "I broke mah leg, so mah horse shot me!" kind of song, {but I don't subject you to it. :-}])
Then again, I know when I'm listening to complete and utter crap. (And that includes over produced high-gloss crap like I had on a video 'bumper' a while back.)
---- "Walking Down China Town" by: "Keenan" http://www.keenanbaxter.com/
"Synthesis:"
What makes the Coors commercials so distinctive is not that they're there but that they're there for cheap.
Producing these commercials was probably done with for less money the cost of feeding the "Clydesdales" on a shoot. (Wrong beer company I know, but don't you think that any of this is getting lost on "Anheuser Busch" either.)
So what's my point?
My point is that, as the beer companies do, so too does the rest of the clients of the advertising industry.
As a multi-national brand for a consumer product, I welcome what they've finally seen and found a way to use the internet. (But I still drink "Pacifico Clara" beer. [And its not why you think. I like the flavor, not just the fact that they aren't on "big media".])
While the ads might seem as intrusive as ever, they really aren't. You have to actively ask for them to be presented to your browser or other media player.
But remember that its over the internet and that the distribution costs are dirt cheap.
Don't think that that lesson is lost on the beer companies and the others who are lining up behind them.
What they don't have to spend on a scarce resource, a transmitter, they can instead spend on putting together the best ad they can.
Fortunately, the age of YouTube and viral videos has set the bar so low, (let me repeat that, set the bar so low,) that they're having to rediscover how the heck they put ads together before they started having to make sure that not a cent was wasted because it cost a zillion bucks to put it out there.
They can afford to get things wrong too, because, if its a failure, that means that nobody will have seen it, unlike a broadcast ad where failure is a very public and expensive screw up.
We're about to have a whole new generation of material coming direct from the producers (that's them, [whoever "they" happen to be,]) to the customer/viewer/audience (that's you.)
Who needs a network meting out temporary access to a limited resource for lots of "shekels" when you've got an internetwork spreading access to everybody all the time for damn near "free"?
---- "Last Of The Superhereoes..." by: "American Heartbreak" http://www.americanheartbreak.com/
"Conclusion:"
So I'm not bothered by the coming of the beer ads and other multi-national mass market product campaigns because there's plenty of space for me to interject myself as a content aggregator putting together shows featuring tunes for you, my audience, and supported by people who want to reach people like you, my audience.
And though I know the statistics on this disease, I am still saddened by the fact that I am getting more downloads per day, every damn day. [sigh]
---- "Seven Beer Bitch" by: "Adrenaline Factor" http://perrisrecords.com/catalog/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=56957
Outro
Coors Ad#1
..
Coors Ad #2
..
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...
There are two ads for "Coors Light" at the front of this posting, not because I like the beer (I like "Belgian" beers and "Canadian" beers, "Coors", not so much... Light beers? Nahh.) but because it reflects the direction that ads are taking on the internet.
You aren't likely to see the ads on broadcast media either.
They were created for the internet and the production values, and costs by the way, reflect those found in YouTube "viral videos".
They are "not" representative of the glitz, and the cost, of the beer ads on the NASCAR circuit.
They make use of cheap and easy special effects. (You don't think that beer can be poured from any distance, land in a glass and not splash everywhere do you? [If you do, I have got some books on basic high-school physics that explain why life doesn't work that way...])
Life ... doesn't ... work ... that ... way...
---- "THE SPECIALIST: by: "the specialist" http://www.myspace.com/in4rmrecords
Feed Forward comes next, so...
This is "your" segment.
Say "your" piece on this segment.
Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.
Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
My friend eugene, the SysAdmin, came by to update my Linux house server. He managed to screw up the wiki database so the wiki's off line until he gets around to fixing it.
---- "Melody Of Life" by: "Fluid Boys" http://www.fluidboys.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 us an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Strange Thing" by: "Marvel" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/thebandmarvel
"Thesis:"
I'm trying to stay relevant to the theme of MS but I keep drifting into media and advertising news. (I can't help it. I'm a media junky. :-)
What the heck? Its my show.. :-)
If it bothers any of you that badly, you can tell me and I'll shut it off.
Like I did country music. (Well, the whiny, "I gots tears in my ears from lyin' on mah back, cryin' my eyes out over yooo..." type of country and western. [I still enjoy the occasional "I broke mah leg, so mah horse shot me!" kind of song, {but I don't subject you to it. :-}])
Then again, I know when I'm listening to complete and utter crap. (And that includes over produced high-gloss crap like I had on a video 'bumper' a while back.)
---- "Walking Down China Town" by: "Keenan" http://www.keenanbaxter.com/
"Synthesis:"
What makes the Coors commercials so distinctive is not that they're there but that they're there for cheap.
Producing these commercials was probably done with for less money the cost of feeding the "Clydesdales" on a shoot. (Wrong beer company I know, but don't you think that any of this is getting lost on "Anheuser Busch" either.)
So what's my point?
My point is that, as the beer companies do, so too does the rest of the clients of the advertising industry.
As a multi-national brand for a consumer product, I welcome what they've finally seen and found a way to use the internet. (But I still drink "Pacifico Clara" beer. [And its not why you think. I like the flavor, not just the fact that they aren't on "big media".])
While the ads might seem as intrusive as ever, they really aren't. You have to actively ask for them to be presented to your browser or other media player.
But remember that its over the internet and that the distribution costs are dirt cheap.
Don't think that that lesson is lost on the beer companies and the others who are lining up behind them.
What they don't have to spend on a scarce resource, a transmitter, they can instead spend on putting together the best ad they can.
Fortunately, the age of YouTube and viral videos has set the bar so low, (let me repeat that, set the bar so low,) that they're having to rediscover how the heck they put ads together before they started having to make sure that not a cent was wasted because it cost a zillion bucks to put it out there.
They can afford to get things wrong too, because, if its a failure, that means that nobody will have seen it, unlike a broadcast ad where failure is a very public and expensive screw up.
We're about to have a whole new generation of material coming direct from the producers (that's them, [whoever "they" happen to be,]) to the customer/viewer/audience (that's you.)
Who needs a network meting out temporary access to a limited resource for lots of "shekels" when you've got an internetwork spreading access to everybody all the time for damn near "free"?
---- "Last Of The Superhereoes..." by: "American Heartbreak" http://www.americanheartbreak.com/
"Conclusion:"
So I'm not bothered by the coming of the beer ads and other multi-national mass market product campaigns because there's plenty of space for me to interject myself as a content aggregator putting together shows featuring tunes for you, my audience, and supported by people who want to reach people like you, my audience.
And though I know the statistics on this disease, I am still saddened by the fact that I am getting more downloads per day, every damn day. [sigh]
---- "Seven Beer Bitch" by: "Adrenaline Factor" http://perrisrecords.com/catalog/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=56957
Outro
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
msb-0309 Shauna Pedals On.
msb-0309 Shauna Pedals On.
Why do Atheists have better moral than religious persons?
..
Now I know why... :-)
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...
Ooo! Ooo! I know! I know!
If I don't shut up and let Shauna get her show in, I can expect a shortened lifespan.
Uh?!? (Gulp!)
Well, in that case, its a good thing she's here then.
---- "Against the Grain" by: "Aphrodisiacs" http://www.purevolume.com/aphrodisiacsthe
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"
My friend eugene, the SysAdmin, came by to update my Linux house server. He managed to screw up the wiki database so the wiki's off line until he gets around to fixing it.
---- "Against the Grain" by: "Bad Religion" http://www.badreligion.com/home/
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 us an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Against the Grain" by: "Colie Brice" http://coliebrice.com/
"Thesis:"
Here to regale us all is Shauna.
---- "Every Grain of Sand" by: "James Thomas La Brie" http://www.geocities.com/jamesthomaslabrie
"Synthesis:"
As I stated in my last column I was diagnosed with MS in 1998. My right side was affected leaving me unable to hold a pen or brush my teeth effectively or even tie my shoes. I had another attack 18 months later that hit the left side of my face, leaving me with a lopsided smile and a lisp. My third attack was last August and was a recurrence of my initial symptoms but to a much lesser degree. Throughout the past 10 years I have had to deal with extreme fatigue and on occassion some pretty intense pain. I estimate that I have recovered 97% of what I lost with each attack.
My purpose in writing this column is to educate folks about MS, publicize the MS Bike Tour, and solicit funds for this cause. I am not the poster child for MS, though an argument could be made that I should be the poster child for best case scenario for MS.
MS has given me a number of things for which I am grateful. One of those things is discovering cycling. Over the years I have tried different sports and physical activities to keep active but have never really "gotten into" anything. I never experienced a runner's high or felt really great and energized after a workout. I did not like exercise. And exercise seemed to do little for me. As a kid I had a bike and rode it eveywhere. I even rode a little bit in my 20s. But two years ago at the age of 42 I took it up again to encourage my boyfriend's training for the 2006 Rona MS Bike Tour.
In a matter of days I was hooked. Within weeks I was cycling every chance I could, even if I only had time for a 5 k ride, I went out. I wasn't fast, or graceful, and probably looked pretty dorky, but it was soooooooooo much fun. And I was coming home sweaty and muddy (with any luck I'd find a puddle to go through) which was a bonus. It meant that I was getting a good workout (the sweaty part) and enjoying it (the muddy part). I liked exercise for the first time in my life. I was also energized from the activity and not worn out. My weight didn't change as I was building muscle mass and losing fat at the same time, but I looked and felt great.
As an added bonus to the biking I was exploring trails around the HRM. I'm a nature nut, so was able to put together a little kit for collecting specimens of insects I wanted to inspect up close. It all fits into a pack on the pannier. Butterflies, moths, and beetles were within reach. Not to mention the toads and frogs I could catch to take a closer look (then let them go).
I live in Bedford so it's nothing for me to hop on the bike at Hammonds Plains road and cycle to the Superstore, pick up the Bedford Sackville Connector Trail to Sackville and back for a good 14 k ride after work. After travelling this trail for a while I became involved with the Sackville Rivers Association which is another bonus for me. We go out to do repairs on rivers and streams in the watershed and that leads to discovering more trails I can bike. And more creatures for me to investigate.
I had been itching to get on the bike again and so ventured out twice recently. The harsh winds and subsequent snow have driven me inside again but not for much longer. I've got warm bike pants, a fleece band to cover my ears, and goggles and I'm not afraid to use them.
---- "Waves Of Grain" by: "Two Gallants" http://www.twogallants.com/
"Conclusion:"
I stayed out of her way and let her speak her piece.
Let me live... [whimper] :-)
Meanwhile, I have been revising my login/account creation policies and practices on the "MSBWiki" [ http://wage.packet.org/ ] because, like the complete chump I am, I had screwed it up and it made if impossible for anybody to register as a contributor to the friggin' wiki.
"Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa..."
And because I love "Samuel R. Delany" who wrote the book which has the same title "Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand"as the last tune, and I love the tonality of hammered guitar strings, "God rest ye merry Gentlemen" indeed...
---- "Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand" by: "High-C" http://www.rhymetorrents.com/highc
Outro
Why do Atheists have better moral than religious persons?
..
Now I know why... :-)
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...
Ooo! Ooo! I know! I know!
If I don't shut up and let Shauna get her show in, I can expect a shortened lifespan.
Uh?!? (Gulp!)
Well, in that case, its a good thing she's here then.
---- "Against the Grain" by: "Aphrodisiacs" http://www.purevolume.com/aphrodisiacsthe
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"
My friend eugene, the SysAdmin, came by to update my Linux house server. He managed to screw up the wiki database so the wiki's off line until he gets around to fixing it.
---- "Against the Grain" by: "Bad Religion" http://www.badreligion.com/home/
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 us an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Against the Grain" by: "Colie Brice" http://coliebrice.com/
"Thesis:"
Here to regale us all is Shauna.
---- "Every Grain of Sand" by: "James Thomas La Brie" http://www.geocities.com/jamesthomaslabrie
"Synthesis:"
As I stated in my last column I was diagnosed with MS in 1998. My right side was affected leaving me unable to hold a pen or brush my teeth effectively or even tie my shoes. I had another attack 18 months later that hit the left side of my face, leaving me with a lopsided smile and a lisp. My third attack was last August and was a recurrence of my initial symptoms but to a much lesser degree. Throughout the past 10 years I have had to deal with extreme fatigue and on occassion some pretty intense pain. I estimate that I have recovered 97% of what I lost with each attack.
My purpose in writing this column is to educate folks about MS, publicize the MS Bike Tour, and solicit funds for this cause. I am not the poster child for MS, though an argument could be made that I should be the poster child for best case scenario for MS.
MS has given me a number of things for which I am grateful. One of those things is discovering cycling. Over the years I have tried different sports and physical activities to keep active but have never really "gotten into" anything. I never experienced a runner's high or felt really great and energized after a workout. I did not like exercise. And exercise seemed to do little for me. As a kid I had a bike and rode it eveywhere. I even rode a little bit in my 20s. But two years ago at the age of 42 I took it up again to encourage my boyfriend's training for the 2006 Rona MS Bike Tour.
In a matter of days I was hooked. Within weeks I was cycling every chance I could, even if I only had time for a 5 k ride, I went out. I wasn't fast, or graceful, and probably looked pretty dorky, but it was soooooooooo much fun. And I was coming home sweaty and muddy (with any luck I'd find a puddle to go through) which was a bonus. It meant that I was getting a good workout (the sweaty part) and enjoying it (the muddy part). I liked exercise for the first time in my life. I was also energized from the activity and not worn out. My weight didn't change as I was building muscle mass and losing fat at the same time, but I looked and felt great.
As an added bonus to the biking I was exploring trails around the HRM. I'm a nature nut, so was able to put together a little kit for collecting specimens of insects I wanted to inspect up close. It all fits into a pack on the pannier. Butterflies, moths, and beetles were within reach. Not to mention the toads and frogs I could catch to take a closer look (then let them go).
I live in Bedford so it's nothing for me to hop on the bike at Hammonds Plains road and cycle to the Superstore, pick up the Bedford Sackville Connector Trail to Sackville and back for a good 14 k ride after work. After travelling this trail for a while I became involved with the Sackville Rivers Association which is another bonus for me. We go out to do repairs on rivers and streams in the watershed and that leads to discovering more trails I can bike. And more creatures for me to investigate.
I had been itching to get on the bike again and so ventured out twice recently. The harsh winds and subsequent snow have driven me inside again but not for much longer. I've got warm bike pants, a fleece band to cover my ears, and goggles and I'm not afraid to use them.
---- "Waves Of Grain" by: "Two Gallants" http://www.twogallants.com/
"Conclusion:"
I stayed out of her way and let her speak her piece.
Let me live... [whimper] :-)
Meanwhile, I have been revising my login/account creation policies and practices on the "MSBWiki" [ http://wage.packet.org/ ] because, like the complete chump I am, I had screwed it up and it made if impossible for anybody to register as a contributor to the friggin' wiki.
"Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa..."
And because I love "Samuel R. Delany" who wrote the book which has the same title "Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand"as the last tune, and I love the tonality of hammered guitar strings, "God rest ye merry Gentlemen" indeed...
---- "Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand" by: "High-C" http://www.rhymetorrents.com/highc
Outro
Monday, June 02, 2008
msb-0308 The Media? Biased? You're Kidding Right?
msb-0308 The Media? Biased? You're Kidding Right?
The Myth of Free Markets - Corporate Lie Behind It (1/2)
..
The Myth of Free Markets - Corporate Lie Behind It (2/2)
..
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
This week, or this episode at least, the videos at the front on the sites of the blog and of the podcast are concerned free markets and their limitations.
We are all too well aware of what happens when market principles are applied to non-markets, like health care (it quickly becomes health-"don't"-care,) the military (it quickly becomes the murky stuff of "Blackwater",) and other mercenary outfits from the beginning of empires that found themselves stretched too thin to fight and eventually ended up too conquered to bother fighting.
The bloody history of the United States should have served as an object lesson in that. Remember the "Hessians"? [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian_%28soldiers%29 ] Yet here we are again, about to make the same mistake that has unraveled every empire since the Mesopotamians.
---- "Lotus" by: "Mister Ed" http://www.mobilarts.net/index.php?cPath=1_6_45
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"
My friend eugene, the SysAdmin, came by to update my Linux house server. He managed to screw up the wiki database so the wiki's off line until he gets around to fixing it.
---- "Youre here with me" by: "Sacred Desire" http://www.myspace.com/sacreddesireaz
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 us an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Illusions" by: "Tracey Helen" http://cdbaby.com/cd/thg
"Thesis:"
You know, I'm sick of all these liberal left-wing nut cases going on about "the media" being owned by only a very very small plutocracy. (And "No, I'm not talking about Popeye's nemesis".)
In fact the plutocracy is expanding, just nowhere as fast as the general population.
This has for effect shrinking the relative size of the plutocracy.
So the size of the pool of ruthless, thoughtless, rich and powerful is smaller than the population that can be found in many world capitals.
So the size of the great unwashed masses dwarfs them by about six hundred thousand to one. (There's less than one thousand families who really count on this planet. The rest of us are merely cannon fodder and bullet shields.)
The unwashed masses don't matter a whit to the plutocrats as long as they stay quiet and keep on buying and keep on paying for the excesses of the plutocrats and their families.
(Can anyone think of a single use for "Paris Hilton" or any of hordes of her ilk? Not even as an object lesson for the youth of the nation. So why is so much ink devoted to her? As a "distraction". [She's cannon fodder too. {Or she would be if she bulked up and knew dick about handling a weapon. (She's a bullet shield.)}])
Tell me something I don't know...
---- "The Raft Of the Medusa" by: "Dean Madonia" http://www.deanmadonia.com/
"Synthesis:"
Crying that the media are biased is without a doubt the self serving "crie-de-coeur" from anyone who is not currently on the "Rolodex" [ nhttp://www.rolodex.com/ ] of any newspaper editor or station manager, (regardless of the political or sexual predilection of either or both.)
They don't even know what media bias means.
They might think it means the effect of some or other political cabal but its far uglier and more pernicious than that. Literally pernicious, as in "Tending to cause death or serious injury."
Ignorance, of the kind perpetrated every friggin' day by our media, tends to "cause death or serious injury".
But, unlike MS, it is easily curable.
Rather than "take up arms against a sea of troubles," its much wiser to side-step the issue altogether and "jujitsu" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu ] our way to our goal or a cure by using the fringe capabilities for distributing media from source to destination of the internet.
By using the current producers of products, goods and services, the people who are currently motivated by profit, and providing them with an opportunity to
"Sun Tzu"[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu ] in the "Art of War" [ http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War_%28Sun%29/Full_Text ] lays out all kinds of stratagems for seeing a battle before and planning.
I am especially mindful of the last stanza of "Section III: Attack by Stratagem": "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
Since the enemy, "ignorance", is, by definition, "fundamentally unknowable," I opt for a strategic "retranchement" and for using the tools at hand for my own best advantage.
For that, I am mindful of the last line of the previous stanza: "He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign."
As long as the plutocrats can see that their plans are not being interfered with, my own plans will not be interfered with, because it would result in them making less money, and that would conflict with their own prime directive.
It may seem callous, but its the only safe way to run a planet. ("Well Uh, Duh". I'm finding uses for "Sun Tzu" 's "Art of War" in writing/speaking this blog/podcast. If you'd've told me this when I started this whole mess, I wouldn't've believed you. :-)
---- "Love Story" by: "Guardian Mind Mix" http://www.myspace.com/guardianmindmix
"Conclusion:"
So the general ignorance of us, the 0.0833%, the one in twelve hundred, the MSers who are by some accident of fate condemned to attempt life with this disease, can work "for" us by spurring the evolution of the internet into a thin but sturdy open-weave web of glass fibers encouraging commerce and profit to "our" mutual benefit.
Speaking as one of the many nodes on this web, I am glad that this "will" come to pass.
---- "Meditation" by: "Tracey Helen" http://cdbaby.com/cd/thg
Outro
The Myth of Free Markets - Corporate Lie Behind It (1/2)
..
The Myth of Free Markets - Corporate Lie Behind It (2/2)
..
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
This week, or this episode at least, the videos at the front on the sites of the blog and of the podcast are concerned free markets and their limitations.
We are all too well aware of what happens when market principles are applied to non-markets, like health care (it quickly becomes health-"don't"-care,) the military (it quickly becomes the murky stuff of "Blackwater",) and other mercenary outfits from the beginning of empires that found themselves stretched too thin to fight and eventually ended up too conquered to bother fighting.
The bloody history of the United States should have served as an object lesson in that. Remember the "Hessians"? [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian_%28soldiers%29 ] Yet here we are again, about to make the same mistake that has unraveled every empire since the Mesopotamians.
---- "Lotus" by: "Mister Ed" http://www.mobilarts.net/index.php?cPath=1_6_45
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"
My friend eugene, the SysAdmin, came by to update my Linux house server. He managed to screw up the wiki database so the wiki's off line until he gets around to fixing it.
---- "Youre here with me" by: "Sacred Desire" http://www.myspace.com/sacreddesireaz
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 us an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Illusions" by: "Tracey Helen" http://cdbaby.com/cd/thg
"Thesis:"
You know, I'm sick of all these liberal left-wing nut cases going on about "the media" being owned by only a very very small plutocracy. (And "No, I'm not talking about Popeye's nemesis".)
In fact the plutocracy is expanding, just nowhere as fast as the general population.
This has for effect shrinking the relative size of the plutocracy.
So the size of the pool of ruthless, thoughtless, rich and powerful is smaller than the population that can be found in many world capitals.
So the size of the great unwashed masses dwarfs them by about six hundred thousand to one. (There's less than one thousand families who really count on this planet. The rest of us are merely cannon fodder and bullet shields.)
The unwashed masses don't matter a whit to the plutocrats as long as they stay quiet and keep on buying and keep on paying for the excesses of the plutocrats and their families.
(Can anyone think of a single use for "Paris Hilton" or any of hordes of her ilk? Not even as an object lesson for the youth of the nation. So why is so much ink devoted to her? As a "distraction". [She's cannon fodder too. {Or she would be if she bulked up and knew dick about handling a weapon. (She's a bullet shield.)}])
Tell me something I don't know...
---- "The Raft Of the Medusa" by: "Dean Madonia" http://www.deanmadonia.com/
"Synthesis:"
Crying that the media are biased is without a doubt the self serving "crie-de-coeur" from anyone who is not currently on the "Rolodex" [ nhttp://www.rolodex.com/ ] of any newspaper editor or station manager, (regardless of the political or sexual predilection of either or both.)
They don't even know what media bias means.
They might think it means the effect of some or other political cabal but its far uglier and more pernicious than that. Literally pernicious, as in "Tending to cause death or serious injury."
Ignorance, of the kind perpetrated every friggin' day by our media, tends to "cause death or serious injury".
But, unlike MS, it is easily curable.
Rather than "take up arms against a sea of troubles," its much wiser to side-step the issue altogether and "jujitsu" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu ] our way to our goal or a cure by using the fringe capabilities for distributing media from source to destination of the internet.
By using the current producers of products, goods and services, the people who are currently motivated by profit, and providing them with an opportunity to
"Sun Tzu"[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu ] in the "Art of War" [ http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War_%28Sun%29/Full_Text ] lays out all kinds of stratagems for seeing a battle before and planning.
I am especially mindful of the last stanza of "Section III: Attack by Stratagem": "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
Since the enemy, "ignorance", is, by definition, "fundamentally unknowable," I opt for a strategic "retranchement" and for using the tools at hand for my own best advantage.
For that, I am mindful of the last line of the previous stanza: "He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign."
As long as the plutocrats can see that their plans are not being interfered with, my own plans will not be interfered with, because it would result in them making less money, and that would conflict with their own prime directive.
It may seem callous, but its the only safe way to run a planet. ("Well Uh, Duh". I'm finding uses for "Sun Tzu" 's "Art of War" in writing/speaking this blog/podcast. If you'd've told me this when I started this whole mess, I wouldn't've believed you. :-)
---- "Love Story" by: "Guardian Mind Mix" http://www.myspace.com/guardianmindmix
"Conclusion:"
So the general ignorance of us, the 0.0833%, the one in twelve hundred, the MSers who are by some accident of fate condemned to attempt life with this disease, can work "for" us by spurring the evolution of the internet into a thin but sturdy open-weave web of glass fibers encouraging commerce and profit to "our" mutual benefit.
Speaking as one of the many nodes on this web, I am glad that this "will" come to pass.
---- "Meditation" by: "Tracey Helen" http://cdbaby.com/cd/thg
Outro
Sunday, June 01, 2008
msb-fr-0014 Dans L' Décor, S'tie
msb-fr-0014 Dans L' Décor, S'tie
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...
Quel est et oû est l'décor? Tout sera révelé.
---- "A Dozen Bloody Roses" par: "Dust Rhinos" http://dustrhinos.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"
---- "Mari Mac" par: "Dust Rhinos" http://dustrhinos.com/
À L'aide est en troisième...
Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen?
Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast.
Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.)
Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement.
Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".)
Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel.
L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle.
Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé...
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Wild Mountain Thyme" par: "Dust Rhinos" http://dustrhinos.com/
"Thèse:"
Vous avez peut etre remarque que la musique de cette episode est particulierement, uh, Celtique.
Elle est en fait Canadienne et le groupe "Dust Rhinos" provient de Winipeg.
Je ne sai pas ce qui m'a poursuit a jouer de la musique Celtique, et celle provenant de Winipeg en plus, pour une episode complete, mais je n'ais jamais pretandu etre de sain esprit. :-)
---- "Perfect World" par: "Dust Rhinos" http://dustrhinos.com/
"Synthèse:"
La tradition Celtique et son expression dans l'art et la chanson dans le monde Anglophone date d'avant 1066, et pre-date la langue Anglaise elle meme.
---- "Whiskey in the Jar" par: "Dust Rhinos" http://dustrhinos.com/
"Conclusion:"
J'espere que vous avez apprecie ce petit appercu de la musique Canadienne, et que c'a vous a mis a l'idee de venir voir le Canada et possiblement faire un tour a Winipeg en Alberta
---- "Jedi Drinking Test" par: Dust Rhinos" http://dustrhinos.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...
Quel est et oû est l'décor? Tout sera révelé.
---- "A Dozen Bloody Roses" par: "Dust Rhinos" http://dustrhinos.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"
---- "Mari Mac" par: "Dust Rhinos" http://dustrhinos.com/
À L'aide est en troisième...
Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen?
Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast.
Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.)
Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement.
Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".)
Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel.
L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle.
Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé...
Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"
---- "Wild Mountain Thyme" par: "Dust Rhinos" http://dustrhinos.com/
"Thèse:"
Vous avez peut etre remarque que la musique de cette episode est particulierement, uh, Celtique.
Elle est en fait Canadienne et le groupe "Dust Rhinos" provient de Winipeg.
Je ne sai pas ce qui m'a poursuit a jouer de la musique Celtique, et celle provenant de Winipeg en plus, pour une episode complete, mais je n'ais jamais pretandu etre de sain esprit. :-)
---- "Perfect World" par: "Dust Rhinos" http://dustrhinos.com/
"Synthèse:"
La tradition Celtique et son expression dans l'art et la chanson dans le monde Anglophone date d'avant 1066, et pre-date la langue Anglaise elle meme.
---- "Whiskey in the Jar" par: "Dust Rhinos" http://dustrhinos.com/
"Conclusion:"
J'espere que vous avez apprecie ce petit appercu de la musique Canadienne, et que c'a vous a mis a l'idee de venir voir le Canada et possiblement faire un tour a Winipeg en Alberta
---- "Jedi Drinking Test" par: Dust Rhinos" http://dustrhinos.com/
Outro
Friday, May 30, 2008
msb-0307 The Meaning Of Economics
msb-0307 The Meaning Of Economics
..
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 still thinking of cutting the tail down to the last two or three months.
Unless I hear from you, I will get rid of everything else.
What do you think? Drop me an email Charles at MSBPodcast.com.
And today the music is computer based, in one way or another. I felt "techno". So sue me.
I'm featuring select YouTube videos on the website [ http://www.msbpodcast.com/ ] to send some of you from the iTunes from downloads back to the website. (Okay... about 85% of you are getting them from the web already, but I seem to discover another site where I'm listed every week so I'm wondering where you actually heard about this podcast from.)
---- "Computer Bitch" by: "Blood Bank" http://bloodbank.ideasdigital.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"
I am inviting you to log into the "wiki" [at http://wage.packet.org/ ] and help flesh it out, rather much like I am, and to add things as you discover them.
---- "Computer Nation" by: "Voide" http://www.voide.net/
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"
---- "Computer Blues" by: "Ken Tucker and James Swafford" http://www.myspace.com/jamesswafford
"Thesis:"
I'm still reading the book about producing video podcasts. (Its called "Producing Video Podcasts: A Guide for Media Professionals" by "Richard Harrington and Mark Weiser" ISBN: 978-0-240-81029-4.)
Producing video is extremely expensive, labor intensive and, to be honest, it wouldn't bring me a thing more.
Now, for the advertisers, they'll probably want to take advantage of video to demonstrate their products. On this podast, they "can".
Podcasting is the only game in town for which they can get a seat at the table. (Someday, I promise. Its bound to happen. Podcasting is just severely unknown right now and my "No Play, No Pay" ad delivery model is "orders of magnitude cheaper" than the current broadcast "Scatter-shot"model. I fact its so much cheaper that I believe it may suffer from a credibility gap. But its the same gap they crossed when going to "Google AdSense" and Google is now rolling in cash. [Even if it is only in US Dollars. :-])
---- "Duet for Computer and Human" by: "Superboom" http://www.renboy.com/superboom
"Synthesis:"
I must sound like a strange duck, quacking on about the need for socialized medicine on some posts while, uh, parroting, my faith in the capitalist system and in competition in some others.
The two views are "not" incompatible.
"Comparative Advantage" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage ] and "Social Responsibility" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_responsibility ] are "not" mutually exclusive goals.
This time, I'd like to focus on comparative advantage.
If you compare traditional broadcast advertising, or even that which is available on cable stations or networks, podcasts are so much more focused that they almost totally avoid the "tyranny of the masses".
That focus is a feature they share with traditional print media, but with none of the disadvantages of having to produce a dead tree issue, ship it to the subscriber or to retail outlets, deal with returns and so on...
Not to mention that a great many specialized journals eschew, or are precluded by clauses in their charters or because or tax advantages from, accepting commercial advertising.
And more power to them.
I would be be a little leery of research published in a "for profit" journal which solicits ads. (Its a systemantic truism that the very function of keeping a journal alive with advertising interferes with its function as a journal.)
But that still leaves two needs unfilled:
Furthermore, Google is not going to further define the need by possibly devoting some time and episodes to it and handling feedback from an audience.
I this respect, podcasting is superior at filling its niche.
---- "Computer Chips" by: "aegis" http://www.virb.com/aegis
"Conclusion:"
For makers of products, goods and services that "don't" have the benefit of a large market, which means anybody who's not a well established maker of something with broad appeal, podcasting is really the smartest play.
Unlike Google Ad Sense which can direct ads for competing good and services, podcast ads can inform and suggest goods and services for something that is "not" being searched for but may be needed in the marketplace.
If you play your cards right, like with my "No Play, No Pay" content distribution model, it can also be the right size for whatever market size you're in.
Now for one last piece of techno music...
---- "Dreamcomputer" by: "Ibrahim Reevy" http://music.download.com/ibrahimreevy/3600-8261_32-100598738.html
Outro
..
intro
Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.
It is by and for MSers.
Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.
The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.
The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.
----
Feedback comes first, so...
I'm still thinking of cutting the tail down to the last two or three months.
Unless I hear from you, I will get rid of everything else.
What do you think? Drop me an email Charles at MSBPodcast.com.
And today the music is computer based, in one way or another. I felt "techno". So sue me.
I'm featuring select YouTube videos on the website [ http://www.msbpodcast.com/ ] to send some of you from the iTunes from downloads back to the website. (Okay... about 85% of you are getting them from the web already, but I seem to discover another site where I'm listed every week so I'm wondering where you actually heard about this podcast from.)
---- "Computer Bitch" by: "Blood Bank" http://bloodbank.ideasdigital.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"
I am inviting you to log into the "wiki" [at http://wage.packet.org/ ] and help flesh it out, rather much like I am, and to add things as you discover them.
---- "Computer Nation" by: "Voide" http://www.voide.net/
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"
---- "Computer Blues" by: "Ken Tucker and James Swafford" http://www.myspace.com/jamesswafford
"Thesis:"
I'm still reading the book about producing video podcasts. (Its called "Producing Video Podcasts: A Guide for Media Professionals" by "Richard Harrington and Mark Weiser" ISBN: 978-0-240-81029-4.)
Producing video is extremely expensive, labor intensive and, to be honest, it wouldn't bring me a thing more.
Now, for the advertisers, they'll probably want to take advantage of video to demonstrate their products. On this podast, they "can".
Podcasting is the only game in town for which they can get a seat at the table. (Someday, I promise. Its bound to happen. Podcasting is just severely unknown right now and my "No Play, No Pay" ad delivery model is "orders of magnitude cheaper" than the current broadcast "Scatter-shot"model. I fact its so much cheaper that I believe it may suffer from a credibility gap. But its the same gap they crossed when going to "Google AdSense" and Google is now rolling in cash. [Even if it is only in US Dollars. :-])
---- "Duet for Computer and Human" by: "Superboom" http://www.renboy.com/superboom
"Synthesis:"
I must sound like a strange duck, quacking on about the need for socialized medicine on some posts while, uh, parroting, my faith in the capitalist system and in competition in some others.
The two views are "not" incompatible.
"Comparative Advantage" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage ] and "Social Responsibility" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_responsibility ] are "not" mutually exclusive goals.
This time, I'd like to focus on comparative advantage.
If you compare traditional broadcast advertising, or even that which is available on cable stations or networks, podcasts are so much more focused that they almost totally avoid the "tyranny of the masses".
That focus is a feature they share with traditional print media, but with none of the disadvantages of having to produce a dead tree issue, ship it to the subscriber or to retail outlets, deal with returns and so on...
Not to mention that a great many specialized journals eschew, or are precluded by clauses in their charters or because or tax advantages from, accepting commercial advertising.
And more power to them.
I would be be a little leery of research published in a "for profit" journal which solicits ads. (Its a systemantic truism that the very function of keeping a journal alive with advertising interferes with its function as a journal.)
But that still leaves two needs unfilled:
- the needs of the advertiser to get the word out about his product, good or service,
- the needs of the consumer to hear about the existence of a product which can fill a need which has remained unfilled and possibly unarticulated.
Furthermore, Google is not going to further define the need by possibly devoting some time and episodes to it and handling feedback from an audience.
I this respect, podcasting is superior at filling its niche.
---- "Computer Chips" by: "aegis" http://www.virb.com/aegis
"Conclusion:"
For makers of products, goods and services that "don't" have the benefit of a large market, which means anybody who's not a well established maker of something with broad appeal, podcasting is really the smartest play.
Unlike Google Ad Sense which can direct ads for competing good and services, podcast ads can inform and suggest goods and services for something that is "not" being searched for but may be needed in the marketplace.
If you play your cards right, like with my "No Play, No Pay" content distribution model, it can also be the right size for whatever market size you're in.
Now for one last piece of techno music...
---- "Dreamcomputer" by: "Ibrahim Reevy" http://music.download.com/ibrahimreevy/3600-8261_32-100598738.html
Outro
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
msb-0306 The Atlantic Pedaler
msb-0306 The Atlantic Pedaler
..
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...
Same pile, different day.
That how is goes some weeks.
The YouTube video at the front of this episode, is fun.nee. (The sort of shit I uses to love to do)
Today, I feel "Ska" mon. [ http://www.ddg.com/LIS/InfoDesignF97/malyce/music.htm ]
---- "Fan of the Bean" by: "The Clintons" http://www.clintonsband.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"
I am inviting you to log into the "wiki" [at http://wage.packet.org/ ] and help flesh it out, rather much like I am, and to add things as you discover them.
---- "Storytellers" by: "Minus Vince" http://www.minusvince.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"
---- "Tokyo" by: "Unsteady" http://www.asianmanrecords.com/bands/uns.html
"Thesis:"
Hmm.
The magazine is called "The Alantic Pedaler".
The Atlantic is the name of an ocean.
So shouldn't it be called "The Atlantic Paddler"? :-)
---- "Wailing Paddle" by: "The Rudiments" http://www.asianmanrecords.com/bands/rud.html
"Synthesis:"
Today, "The Atlantic Pedaler" [ http://www.atlanticpedaler.com/ ] published the first of my columns on biking with MS. The series is a look at how I came to be physically active and my involvement with cycling as recreation as well as exercise. Ken is the publisher of this e-zine and if you are interested in cycling in Atlantic Canada it's free to register. It also has cycling stories from other parts of the world.
Here's my first column.
If it weren't for having MS, I wouldn't be a cyclist. Ken kindly asked me to write about my experiences with cycling and having MS, so until the bike tour I'll be writing a regular column about this illness, my journeys with my bikes, and how I've become a recreational biker.
In January 1998 I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. For the past 10 years I have been extremely lucky to have had little effect from this disease and hopefully it will continue to just remain fairly benign.
Since my diagnosis I have been a volunteer with the MS Society Atlantic Division in many capacities, mostly as a speaker or MC at events like the Super Cities Walk. Last year, though, I participated in the Rona MS Bike Tour, biking 100 k over two days. Considering that I had been a couch potato until the year before that, it was a great accomplishment. I also managed to raise over $15,000 for the MS Society in the process.
My quest to ride began when my boyfriend, John, decided to ride in the 2006 bike tour. I said I would train with him so I hit the gym for two months before even getting on a bicycle. I have never been exercise-friendly; even going for a walk was difficult as I would easily be distracted by bugs, rocks, plants, and anything of that sort, stopping to inspect anything of interest to my nature-loving mind.
Two months at the gym and it was time to get a bike. A Canadian Tire Supercycle seemed like a good place to start (after all, I had those as a kid) so I got one - a mountain bike. I soon discovered that biking was my sport. We hit the trails around HRM (Halifax Regional Municipality)and pretty soon it was nothing for me to do 20k rides. And I was beginning to think that a 100 k ride for me was feasible.
John did the bike tour in 2006 and I signed up to do the one in 2007. We biked after the tour including a trek to Jack's Lake in Bedford where I had my first fall off the bike. I was so proud of my "battle scars" that I got more a couple of days later doing the Whopper Dropper in Bayer's Lake.
The physical activity was proving to be a good thing for me and my MS. I was getting in shape. Riding in the woods or on trails was a mind clearing activity. And I was addicted to riding. Going down rock strewn hills at top speed was a little disconcerting to the boyfriend, mind you. He had visions of having to explain to my parents why I was in hospital with broken bones.
MS can play havoc with your internal temperature gauge. I would over heat quite easily and that would zonk me out too fast so I began searching for something to help keep me cool (besides the tons of water I was drinking). I had a neck bandana that I put in cold water before a ride. The gel beads in the bandana would swell and retain the water, so that helped. But there was nothing out there I could put in my helmet to keep my head cool. If my head is cool, the rest of my body follows that lead. Then I discovered the inserts road crews wear under their helmets. One of those would work! I found a company that sold them, but only in cases of 12. A great guy (Stan) at K and D Pratt managed to get me a sample from the company that makes them. What a great invention!
As you all know, riding a mountain bike on pavement is tough going. So I decided to continue to train with it but was going to get myself a touring bike, too, for the actual Bike Tour. Christmas came and I got myself a Specialized touring bike from Cyclesmith. I also got a trainer so I could keep cycling until the weather cleared a little bit.
I also had to undertake fundraising. A friend I ran into one day donated $5,000! He had been looking for something for a tax break and my timing was impeccable. I harrassed my friends, neighbours and co-workers for another 5 grand.
The weather improved and pretty soon I was taking the bike out after work and on the weekends John and I would do 20-30 k rides on the trails. And we would bike with teammates from our team, the Cycledelics.
A few days before the tour, my generous friend called me to ask if I wanted another $5,000. Of course! Suddenly I had $15,000 for the Bike Tour. I was walking on air, my excitement level was almost unbearable. I was going to do this. I was going to bike 100k!
Two nights before the tour I had an "almost" panic attack. What if the heat got to me? What if I couldn't bike those hills? What if, what if, what if....I think the adrenaline rush I had experienced for an extended period of time just overwhelmed me. I calmed myself down by saying, "I'm just going for another bike ride" and pretty soon it was the morning of July 28th. I had decided to head out right away on the route as it was going to be very hot and I wanted to take advantage of the early morning coolness. Good thing, too, as the temps were at 30 by 11 in the morning.
I left Windsor at 8:10 after registration and arrived at Acadia at 12:15. I had been worried about Mount Denson, but that wasn't a tough hill. It was the last hill from the Gaspereau to the top of Ridge Road that almost did me in. I ended up walking the last 100 metres to the top and cruised down the last little bit into Acadia. I did it! It took me 4 hours and more than 3 litres of water but I did it. The next morning I would do it in reverse. In the pouring rain. Glorious, cool, wet rain that soaked me completely and kept my body at a very comfortable temperature. I had a tire flatten as I was pulling into the rest stop in Hantsport, but after it was fixed, I set out again. The return was a little slower for me and some of my teammates caught up with me, so a bunch of us were able to cross the finish line together. I did it! Former couch potato and person with MS. An athlete!
I am signed up again for this year's tour so I'm on a quest to fundraise. If you'd like to contribute to my quest, click on the link for fundraising. If you'd like to join my bike tour visit "msofs.mssociety.ca/" [ https://msofs.mssociety.ca/2008bike/sponsor.aspx?l=2&pid=980453 ]
---- "Terrifying Lee" by: "Dan Elson" http://www.myspace.com/danelsonmusic
"Conclusion:"
I sit corrected.
Shauna can be the MSers on wheels.
And if I ever make a dime doing these podcasts, I'll do the tithe thing and contribute.
---- "Losing My Edge" by: "TVs Kyle" http://tvskyle.web.aplus.net/
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...
Same pile, different day.
That how is goes some weeks.
The YouTube video at the front of this episode, is fun.nee. (The sort of shit I uses to love to do)
Today, I feel "Ska" mon. [ http://www.ddg.com/LIS/InfoDesignF97/malyce/music.htm ]
---- "Fan of the Bean" by: "The Clintons" http://www.clintonsband.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"
I am inviting you to log into the "wiki" [at http://wage.packet.org/ ] and help flesh it out, rather much like I am, and to add things as you discover them.
---- "Storytellers" by: "Minus Vince" http://www.minusvince.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"
---- "Tokyo" by: "Unsteady" http://www.asianmanrecords.com/bands/uns.html
"Thesis:"
Hmm.
The magazine is called "The Alantic Pedaler".
The Atlantic is the name of an ocean.
So shouldn't it be called "The Atlantic Paddler"? :-)
---- "Wailing Paddle" by: "The Rudiments" http://www.asianmanrecords.com/bands/rud.html
"Synthesis:"
Today, "The Atlantic Pedaler" [ http://www.atlanticpedaler.com/ ] published the first of my columns on biking with MS. The series is a look at how I came to be physically active and my involvement with cycling as recreation as well as exercise. Ken is the publisher of this e-zine and if you are interested in cycling in Atlantic Canada it's free to register. It also has cycling stories from other parts of the world.
Here's my first column.
If it weren't for having MS, I wouldn't be a cyclist. Ken kindly asked me to write about my experiences with cycling and having MS, so until the bike tour I'll be writing a regular column about this illness, my journeys with my bikes, and how I've become a recreational biker.
In January 1998 I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. For the past 10 years I have been extremely lucky to have had little effect from this disease and hopefully it will continue to just remain fairly benign.
Since my diagnosis I have been a volunteer with the MS Society Atlantic Division in many capacities, mostly as a speaker or MC at events like the Super Cities Walk. Last year, though, I participated in the Rona MS Bike Tour, biking 100 k over two days. Considering that I had been a couch potato until the year before that, it was a great accomplishment. I also managed to raise over $15,000 for the MS Society in the process.
My quest to ride began when my boyfriend, John, decided to ride in the 2006 bike tour. I said I would train with him so I hit the gym for two months before even getting on a bicycle. I have never been exercise-friendly; even going for a walk was difficult as I would easily be distracted by bugs, rocks, plants, and anything of that sort, stopping to inspect anything of interest to my nature-loving mind.
Two months at the gym and it was time to get a bike. A Canadian Tire Supercycle seemed like a good place to start (after all, I had those as a kid) so I got one - a mountain bike. I soon discovered that biking was my sport. We hit the trails around HRM (Halifax Regional Municipality)and pretty soon it was nothing for me to do 20k rides. And I was beginning to think that a 100 k ride for me was feasible.
John did the bike tour in 2006 and I signed up to do the one in 2007. We biked after the tour including a trek to Jack's Lake in Bedford where I had my first fall off the bike. I was so proud of my "battle scars" that I got more a couple of days later doing the Whopper Dropper in Bayer's Lake.
The physical activity was proving to be a good thing for me and my MS. I was getting in shape. Riding in the woods or on trails was a mind clearing activity. And I was addicted to riding. Going down rock strewn hills at top speed was a little disconcerting to the boyfriend, mind you. He had visions of having to explain to my parents why I was in hospital with broken bones.
MS can play havoc with your internal temperature gauge. I would over heat quite easily and that would zonk me out too fast so I began searching for something to help keep me cool (besides the tons of water I was drinking). I had a neck bandana that I put in cold water before a ride. The gel beads in the bandana would swell and retain the water, so that helped. But there was nothing out there I could put in my helmet to keep my head cool. If my head is cool, the rest of my body follows that lead. Then I discovered the inserts road crews wear under their helmets. One of those would work! I found a company that sold them, but only in cases of 12. A great guy (Stan) at K and D Pratt managed to get me a sample from the company that makes them. What a great invention!
As you all know, riding a mountain bike on pavement is tough going. So I decided to continue to train with it but was going to get myself a touring bike, too, for the actual Bike Tour. Christmas came and I got myself a Specialized touring bike from Cyclesmith. I also got a trainer so I could keep cycling until the weather cleared a little bit.
I also had to undertake fundraising. A friend I ran into one day donated $5,000! He had been looking for something for a tax break and my timing was impeccable. I harrassed my friends, neighbours and co-workers for another 5 grand.
The weather improved and pretty soon I was taking the bike out after work and on the weekends John and I would do 20-30 k rides on the trails. And we would bike with teammates from our team, the Cycledelics.
A few days before the tour, my generous friend called me to ask if I wanted another $5,000. Of course! Suddenly I had $15,000 for the Bike Tour. I was walking on air, my excitement level was almost unbearable. I was going to do this. I was going to bike 100k!
Two nights before the tour I had an "almost" panic attack. What if the heat got to me? What if I couldn't bike those hills? What if, what if, what if....I think the adrenaline rush I had experienced for an extended period of time just overwhelmed me. I calmed myself down by saying, "I'm just going for another bike ride" and pretty soon it was the morning of July 28th. I had decided to head out right away on the route as it was going to be very hot and I wanted to take advantage of the early morning coolness. Good thing, too, as the temps were at 30 by 11 in the morning.
I left Windsor at 8:10 after registration and arrived at Acadia at 12:15. I had been worried about Mount Denson, but that wasn't a tough hill. It was the last hill from the Gaspereau to the top of Ridge Road that almost did me in. I ended up walking the last 100 metres to the top and cruised down the last little bit into Acadia. I did it! It took me 4 hours and more than 3 litres of water but I did it. The next morning I would do it in reverse. In the pouring rain. Glorious, cool, wet rain that soaked me completely and kept my body at a very comfortable temperature. I had a tire flatten as I was pulling into the rest stop in Hantsport, but after it was fixed, I set out again. The return was a little slower for me and some of my teammates caught up with me, so a bunch of us were able to cross the finish line together. I did it! Former couch potato and person with MS. An athlete!
I am signed up again for this year's tour so I'm on a quest to fundraise. If you'd like to contribute to my quest, click on the link for fundraising. If you'd like to join my bike tour visit "msofs.mssociety.ca/" [ https://msofs.mssociety.ca/2008bike/sponsor.aspx?l=2&pid=980453 ]
---- "Terrifying Lee" by: "Dan Elson" http://www.myspace.com/danelsonmusic
"Conclusion:"
I sit corrected.
Shauna can be the MSers on wheels.
And if I ever make a dime doing these podcasts, I'll do the tithe thing and contribute.
---- "Losing My Edge" by: "TVs Kyle" http://tvskyle.web.aplus.net/
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