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ms @leahjones and @marusin doing the tech cocktail

Thu, 29 May 2008 20:50:07 -0500

having a gtreat conversation about the newbs and projects they are trying to build.

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I'm On Board, Blog Talk Radio

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:02:05 -0600

For those of you keeping track of me, I've landed at Blog Talk Radio.

I'm excited about the opportunity to work with this talented team as VP of Product Development on some great projects.

My experience building software, media development, UI design and entrepreneurial drive will all be put to use in this role. BlogTalkRadio is a great fit for me.

Thanks to Alan and Bob for having me. And thanks to John Havens for just being John.

Tags: Kris Smith Product Development Blog Talk Radio Cinch

Season 19 Ep 3: Wheel of Fortune, Mailmen, Mrs. Coach

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:56:44 -0600

Croncast - 2008-01-11.mp3
Show: #449
Length: 28:23
Size: 19.5mb
Format: mp3

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After reading the comments I am starting to feel sad
Kris, don't feel sad . . . you'll change your mind
Real reasons
We just do it, it's become part of our day
We've become part of that
It's like a radio station
And they are playing Rod Stewart
What? Kris you have lost your mind
Would you rather I say Nazareth "Hair of the Dog"?
What are you talking about?
You should pre-screen your thoughts
Like a celebrity does
Wive's would love these things
Coming back from the long break
Saying things as opposed to telling stories
It was your birthday it made for a weird show
I have to go to the bank
I noticed you didn't buy your own cake
Yes, I needed to step it up and buy one
The bank was a ruse
Turns out the cake was frozen
Much like you
I couldn't really cut it
I told the kids it was an ice cream cake
I forgot to buy candles
Yeah, you made me blow out a lighter
It wasn't just a Bic
This is why being married to you is difficult
You should just say what I think
Kris starts telling Elliot about the lighter
All I can think is shut up, idiot
He doesn't need to know that stuff
I thought about the house burning down
You gotta pull the thing back and click
Mr B. I am so worried about the Wheel of Fortune audition
What am I going to wear?
What am I going to do with my hair?
I think you are projecting a bit
I am going to start combing my eyebrows over my forehead
I hit 33 and my eyebrows are out of control
Big eyebrows are creepy
I didn't say mono-brow
You think the producers are looking for middle America
A mom with pizzaz
I'm not sure I buy that
Maybe you should watch the show
Men wear suits . . . the same on that they wear to funerals and weddings
All the women wear pins
That reminds me of the coach story when you were helping Andy shop
Leave it up to your mom
She'll just buy it off QVC for you
The UPS man, the mail man and the garbage man all have our numbers
QVC delivered twice a day around here
The mail man knows everything that goes on in your life
She's got QVC on the tv and the laptop
The guy from the Queer Eye show is on, she yells
We wake up every Wednesday morning to breaking glass
The garbage man hates us
The QVC bags all end up scattered around the cul de sac
When I was a kid we got the neighbors mail for a week
I knew that he wasn't paying his bills
Water is a luxury
He spent all of his money on Jaguars and software
Baby, you got unfinished projects everywhere
It's typically the man
Feigning the CWI to watch prison shows
It was a very serious sledding injury
I can wear chest pads
Keeping up with the IRS
Just one of those things
Monday you be blinded by my bespangled sweater and snow man pin
I need to seem charming and wholesome
Don't tell them about the podcast
I already did
Well then you need to be yourself
Jeanie said I won't be funny in a pant suit
I disagree you would look very funny in a pant suit

Tags: Nazareth QVC Rod Stuart Wheel of Fortune Mrs. Coach

Dave Slusher does me wrong - open reply

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:23:29 -0500

The following is a comment that I left for Dave Slusher regarding his podcast from yesterday lambasting me on "podcasting day job" from a presentation that I gave in 2006. It is waiting approval at his site, and in case it doesn't meet the specs I thought I would post it to the public here. To hear what I am writing about you can download it and listen to 20:40 - 24:50.

I usually don't respond to this type of stuff but this deserves another perspective . . . like one from me, the guy in question. Thanks to the friend that pointed this out. He also rips Scoble, so I am in good company.

My comment:

Okay, where do I begin. Dave, you and I are not strangers. We know each other from podcasting and have spoken on more than one occasion. We've both been at this podcast thing for a long time, you since Aug '04 and me since Nov '04, we've both got some perspective.

I respect your thoughts on my presentation, but I don't agree with you.

The presentation in question, "Leveraging your knowledge as a successful podcasting consultant" from PME 2006 was based on sharing my experience working for clients to produce podcasts from my basement. It was to help give a framework to those who wanted to make some extra bucks. Shit, I even give out my own business template for pricing and structure to those who attended and to those still asking for it.

Success, for me has been doing what I love, audio production, writing code and using my creativity in projects that pay me. Would you have me buy the argument that only "real" creativity comes from the absence of greenbacks?

In February of 2005 I opened my consulting company and two weeks later I had MTV as a client. Was it also bad that in my presentation I shared how I lost them as a client? Maybe the fact that I recommend to podcasters that they should talk to a business attorney and an IP attorney so that they can avoid pitfalls like libel or onerous contracts?

In my life, I too am trying to save for retirement, college for the kids and a safety net. If I can make a buck podcasting for other people . . . big or small to put toward them by making podcasting my day job it doesn't feel like I am punching the clock. It might mean that I am working "just another shit job" in my basement. However, it doesn't feel like a shit job. It feels like I am doing something that I love. That should account for something in the personal satisfaction category, I rank this job a 1.

You and I simply differ on how to make money podcasting. You like the advertising/sponsorship model and I prefer to both produce my own personal podcast and use my skills to make works for other people. My personal podcast has been delivered 3 times a week for 2 1/2 years with my wife every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Want to question my passion for podcasting?

On this, I'm not asking to debate this topic but simply recommending that if anyone is interested to hear the presentation in question head over to http://pa.gigavox.com/ and look for big goatee and bald head for the right session.

The bottom line for me is this is what someone who enjoyed both of our sessions had to say about them:

"Dave Slusher from Evil Genius Chronicles. When he speaks, I'm there."

"Kris with Palegroove Studios gave the most honest, non sales pitch presentation on podcast consulting. He shared real world numbers, which is rare in this day and age."

Given our interactions in the past a comment about me like this shouldn't surprise me but as one podcaster to another, I'm sorry that you need to . . . wait, someone is asking for another mocha something, biab.

Back, I'll let the public decide if I am an evil prick trying to destroy "podcasting" by taking corporate money to work a shitty day job doing what I love from the comfort of my own home or if I got lucky and found a way for myself to make a living for family and our futures doing what I love from the comfort of my home . . . at my day job.

Tags: Dave Slusher Evil Genius Chronicles podcasting history ID3 Podcast Magazine day job

Betsy and her husband Kris Sep 25, 2006

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:07:31 -0500

Croncast - 2006-09-25.mp3

Show: #278
Length: 21:58
Size: 21.9 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris September 25, 2006

Have you ever let someone keep using a word that you know is being applied improperly or even made up for some inner passive satisfaction? I usually don't and will try to sneak in the proper verb or noun when appropriate. On this show I let Betsy roll.

Betsy is doing it up today again with her one stem glasses
And she's on the wine tip, not whine
Table spoon in her sauce . . . it is a tumbler
We read two emails from listeners that sum up our last week
Betsy reading while sauced . . . priceless
I'm an "ok guy" and Betsy is "witty"
Sharing intense stories
Thanks for sending these in guys :)
I'm not drunk Kris
Folicular Agitation - red head
Second email gets read
Wisdom came flowing in today
The laid back people rose up
"Take it in stride you can't please everyone."
"I balance out all you crazy mother fuckers."
I cut the cake that is not hosting
Massive projects
Because of Kris, Betsy was late to garage sales
Betsy tells me I'm tacky
Family and friends are telling Kris to spend his money wisely
It is getting under his skin
Betsy's apprentice . . . her sister sells her DPV for $420
Betsy not paying her eBay fees again and again and again
Evidently the iMac can't handle a kick from a 6 year old
Stroller model years
Resale Queen.com
300 by 300th

1) Fill out the appropriate form for you - *New* Listener or Get a Handle (current listener)
2) Verify your email address (Activates and qualifies those with a "Handle")
3) *New* listeners get activated and qualified by using their special RSS feed
4) 300th new listener and the person whose Handle they use win iPods AND
5) A drawing for 2 more iPods from everyone who entered!

Tags: email folicular agitation apprentice iMac Resale Queen

Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris 150

Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:17:15 -0600

Croncast - 2005-12-09.mp3

Show: #192
Length: 36:53
Size: 25.3 mb
Format: mp3

Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris 150

Show Notes

I wanna do it again and again and again and it ain't sex
This is so funny
This will humiliate you (Kris)
Save your picture
The file it opens is the "Todo" file
Is that the "ToDo Yourself later" file
I dont' want to know that you love monkey porn
Stumbling upon your husbands porn
I know you were just in that window
Store them in projects or trash
Checking properties
I did reverse DNS Betsy do you know where those people are
Oh yeah
Betsy is going to change our lives . . . she registered at Wheel of Fortune to be a contestant
Matching his and her watch set
All for sale on eBay eventually
Betsy has always wanted to go on "the Wheel"
Extension of her addictions
Don't even try
1 million per year apply and only a few can be so proud
If Kris were on the Chicago Bulls
The NBA, WNBA, NASCAR, Country Music and Yahtzee
Chain smoking anorexic chick who does the casting for Wheel of Fortune
What went down
Another woman preying on women party
Discovery Toys
Realtor Incentives
The ladies invited a daddy and he didn't know the fix was in
Oh no, you're not . . . we gotta wait for Andre
1977 Malibu with golf glove leather seats
Running for Attorney General with flyers of yourself in bondage
Betsy is the leak, the Karl Rove of our organization
Curves should hire hot men
Elliot dashing off into the snow in an attempt to run away
Funeral protesting

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Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris 141

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:54:51 -0500

Croncast - 2005-10-28.mp3

Show: #182
Length: 39:56
Size: 27.4 mb
Format: mp3

Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris 141

Show Notes

The mime
Calling each other 47 times a day
Kris' birthday party events balloon volleyball and jello through a straw races
The Geriatric games
More chest hair than head hair
The digital camera fiasco
Telling a nerd they did good could be the most dangerous thing a person can do
We're not buying today
Prints only from the camera store
He's making prints from a Nikon D50 8 mpx
Kris' rats nest hair
Why didn't somone tell me I need to brush my hair
My hair looks like a pelt
I can't do the bald guy with a goatee anymore
Detriment in Chicago during winter
Balding over-weight men with goatess are the dominant species in this planet
Kris' goatee is like a shrub hiding a rotting porch
There is a podcast voice
Betsy is going to put her dipthong to work at the telephone porn line
Well, okay der bear
It is pledge and donation time again
Cyclical with NPR
Server money is needed
Betsy says $4 per month doesn't make sense, $5 a month or $9.95 is better
The kids aren't yours
The one year anniversary of Croncast is coming
Doing the show 3 times a week is difficult
Kris has other projects to work on podcasting and not
Croncast will be moving to one day a week starting November 14
Send your audio or email of your Croncast memories
Harriet Mier, "liberals will rue the day that she didn't get the job"
New segment, "Goodwill Tonight" Betsy does sound effects
Visual a steam sterilizer and a triple stroller
I'm taking it to Goodwill to teach you a lesson
Screaming serpent roller coaster and rippin rocket
Betsy takes on an 11 year old girl at Goodwill
Someone took her on, she was the home team
First born kids are sibling slappers
Kris apologizes to his brother who is ripped
The hariest, largest woman in Goodwill
Time to scurry away with the baby
Dart them and take their stuff?
Betsy decides to stalk the family
Applies social work principles to get what she wants
Situation assessment for procurement
Lowlights of the old days
Why people don't want to remember the worst times
People work through it and move on and react out of fear
If you look behind you feel like it can happen again
A lack of empathy
Falling back on family if it is an option
Social service programs
How did Betsy make this political
A bit too harsh

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Croncast - Dan and his friend Kris Ep. 1

Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:52:40 -0600

Croncast - 2004-12-28.mp3

Length: 50:29
Format: mp3
Bit rate: 64k
Size: 23.1 mb

Croncast - Dan and his friend Kris Ep. 1

Today's show is with my good friend Dan Balzer, an instructional designer. Dan and I have worked on many projects together and usually seem to learn atleast one valuable lesson per project.

The show today focuses on the role of podcasting in society, in technology and as a cultural phenomenon.

Today's Show

Notes will be up later today . . . for now I must clean the garage.

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Croncast - John and his friend Kris - Ep. 2

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:40:41 -0600

Croncast-2004-11-30.mp3

Back with John Wohlers for day two and a bit about his home automation fetish.

Length: 36:27
Format: mp3
Bit rate: 64k
Size: 16.7 mb

Today's Show

Intro
John returns
Renn faire affair wrap up
Talking 10,000 ren faire photos
Automate that house X10 passion
The Pronto 500 Remote from Philips
Programming a Pronto - device breakdown
Powerline carriers
John's house controlled via web
Laziness is the mother of invention
Edison and recording
Pre-popup
Kris uses word lexicon
Odyssey - Gretchen Helfrich WBEZ Chicago
The Odyssey secret to production
RPR - Red Neck Public Radio
How long is too long
$$$ for home automation
Mr. House
Robo Sapien
Betsy will buy it for a $.25 and sell it to you for $300
Kris thanks John
John says he likes show
Dave and the HeathKit Robot
LOGO
The commands
Where did it begin for John
Punch card playtime
Kris thanks John for PHP/MySQL help
Kris got some ideas, scheme maybe
Come back tomorrow John
More life box

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