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Further Adventures in Podcasting

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Last night I took part in Krishna Sadasivam’s podcast, The Sequential Artists’ Pub. Lots of interesting topics were discussed, such as tools and techniques, drawing tablets, site statistics, cartoonist resources, and wearing hats!

(My contribution is a bit limited, due to some connection problems. TalkShoe’s “ShoePhone” didn’t want to let me talk – it’d tell me I was connected, but it’s also tell me I wasn’t on the call. Eventually I wound up installing Gizmo, and finally managed to connect that way – so I don’t say anything until about 40 minutes in, and later on my connection gets garbled. Hopefully I’ll have better luck next time!)

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Welcome New Readers!

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Since there seem to be a lot of people reading at the moment, I thought I’d take the opportunity to welcome any of you who happen to be new readers coming in from StumbleUpon, what appears to be the most successful ad campaign I’ve run on Project Wonderful, and of course anywhere else, too…

Welcome!

Make yourself at home, check out the three spinoffs, tell a friend about Station V3, say hello on the forum, get a copy of the book… Or (most importantly) just enjoy reading!

And for anyone who isn’t a new reader (and has read this blog post this far anyway), thank YOU for reading, too!

In other news, the ‘official’ version of the latest episode of PodWarp 1999 (“Dial F for Frankenstein” – the call-in show episode) is up on the site now. I was using the same headset as on the past few episodes, but on a different computer, and that seems to have worked much better. (So now you get to hear what I actually sound like!)

Finally, in voting bonus news, I finally closed the Rumormonger Idol round 1 poll – the results are up as today’s first bonus, and some parting words from the loser are up as the second one.

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Technical Difficulty Day

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

This morning, there was a power blink at home, and the computer reset itself.

At work, I got a call from a remote site that also had a power blink, and they were having problems with a printer because of it.

Later in the day, due to some server configuration work being done, stationv3.com was unavailable for a little while.

Tonight we had our first PodWarp 1999 call-in show – and Talkshoe froze up on us.

Then after that, a thunderstorm knocked me offline for about half an hour.

The site should update automatically at its usual time (about two hours from now), and you can see tomorrow’s strip then. But if anything goes wrong with that, I think I’m going to have to blame Technical Difficulty Day!

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Glass Prism

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

File this one under “Bands I never thought I’d get to see” – I’ve got my tickets for the Glass Prism concert at the Scranton Cultural Center tomorrow!

(It’s not the first time they’ve played there – they opened for Vanilla Fudge there about 40 years ago!)

They recorded two albums for RCA – Their first album, “Poe through the Glass Prism,” was released in 1969, and featured (as you might expect from the title) the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe set to rock music. “The Raven” was released as a single, and was a big hit locally. They wrote their own lyrics for the second album, “On Joy And Sorrow,” released in 1970, but the sound was still similar – guitar, bass, drums, and organ. From what I’ve read, they’ll be playing a 90-minute set, with songs from both albums, and some new material.

(And hopefully Ebb won’t steal the tickets on me!)

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The other Idol show

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

So, that “Idol” show on TV is winding down for the season… My prediction (really going out on a limb here) is that someone named “David” will win.

But as that one winds down, season 3 of Rumormonger Idol gets round 1 started with the first two contestants, up as today’s new voting bonuses: Contestant 1 and Contestant 2!

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