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Added on August 31, 2006 by
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It turns out that in cases of needing to deliver most physical goods a shipping company like FedEx is the right choice. Try shipping tube socks to Timmy at camp through your hard drive or uploading a lobster to a server for download later. The story that motivated this post came through a DVD email list that I belong to and goes like this:
1) FedEx loses a DVD needed for a presentation in Munich
2) DVD author posts to the list looking for someone in Munich to burn another DVD for him
3) The next morning a nice German citizen on the list downloads stuff to burn to DVD and hand delivers it at a conference FedEx -1, internet +1. Wouldn't it be great though if FedEx offered a service like this? Minus having to send out an email but a socially networked digital delivery company. Maybe the model could allow for members of the network, a niche let's say, to share in the profit of the delivery charges . . . wait this is a bad idea. Kris -1, internet now is +2.
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Added on August 30, 2006 by
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 Croncast - 2006-08-30.mp3
Show: #269
Length: 31:19
Size: 21.5 mb
Format: mp3
Betsy and her husband Kris August 30, 2006
Betsy still working the intro
As parents we got our asses kicked
Not feeling the welcome
Powerpoint needs to die when used by educators
I don't want to look at dancing lunch meat
Granola is off limits with chocolate
There was a weird vibe between Elliot's teacher and Betsy
Elliot is in back of room which looks like front of room
He'll be carving his name in the desk soon
There's nothing you can say but good stuff when 30 parents are all listening
Eye contact has dipped to zero and she sized up Booba
Elliot will suffer know because of it
The tall child in front that everyone listens too
He is struggling in all first grade things
Camp to this has to be a hard transistion for him
Working at home with Elliot is even on routine it fails
Google how to put out the fire
Slowsky didn't get an oil change before our vacation
It stopped leaking oil . . . there was no more to leak
Betsy is back at Goodwill
Betsy is garbage picking from neighbors again
She is assured that the neighbors hate her, more on Friday
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!
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Added on August 29, 2006 by
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Thanks to Bernadette for her review of the show at Podcast Fanatic.If you are looking to find some new podcasts to put into the rotation Bernadette gives her two cents on some others too.
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Added on August 28, 2006 by
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Croncast - 2006-08-28.mp3
Show: #268
Length: 34:22
Size: 23.6 mb
Format: mp3
Betsy and her husband Kris August 28, 2006
Oh there is a new sound in town
Betsy is grumping about having to breath
The light glaring off your head is burning my retinas and making me sleepy
The evolution in razors
You would have been a wooly monster
The terminal point of beard growing
I don't know my terminal length
The fifth blade removes the top layer of skin
The worst mother dig of all time from Betsy
Lips doth did part
Today has been a crazy day
I told the man it was a weird day
Kris missed saving a family of 4 that drove into a lake somehow
It is a fake lake to supply a subdivision waterfall
Kris sort of saw it happen
With CopmUSA closing I was preoccupied
I hear the sounds from the accident and agray flash through the neighbors houses
I was looking the wrong way when we drove by, didn't think of the lake
Well, I didn't hear them screaming . . . they were drowning
As they are gasping their lasts breaths pressed against the window
Betsy says I'm cold
Kris did save the family
When homeless get a Costco card to eat samples to sustain
Betys goes off and buys $30 in steaks
Usually it is mad cow in a tube
So Barb adds the seasoning, turns on grill, to clean it turns it on high and then has a martini
Grill is now set to high
20 minutes goes by and she heads out to put steaks
Opens the door and uses panic voice
"You have to tell Kris to come right away . . . well, theres a fire. Thank you," then closes the door
Betsy rouses me from the basement with the work "Fire"
Stay in the basement because it's safe even though there is a fire
The Goodwill grill is now in full flame burning off all the grease from the trap
The charred chunky collector flaming and the top are ball of flames and black smoke
Kris asks for the baking soda
I asked for fire extinguisher right now . . . Betsy threw it out
Betsy says it didn't look good and didn't match
Any fire extinguisher is better than none
Betsy hands me the Morton Salt instead of the Trader Joe's sea salt grinder
Saved by neighbor Jack and his fire extinguisher
As soon as hose melts to tank I am going to die in an explosion
With 911 on call waiting my mother-in-law clicks over to Vicky
He saved our house . . . he saved Croncast
Betsy finally finds our extinguisher in the garage
Finally doused it in water to cool it down to turn off the gas
The grill cleaned up ok but I don't think we'll ever use it again
Then Kris was swarmed by bees
It will go straight to my brain
Betsy gets in more about her steaks
If I had saved other family I still would be filling out reports and my family would have died
Message to you: Go out and buy some fire extinguishers to keep at home.
We talk about the end of our week last . . . podcasting production
The stress level has gone way down thanks to Palegroove the cause of the stress
Wanting podcast contracts to happen
It is a really big project that will be a ton of fun
Writing down your goals can make a huge difference in your life
Many people think podcasts cost $100 to produce . . . not even close with your own equipment
Kris is speaking at the Portable Media Expo and then I'll fill in the podcasting bits
3 Croncast T's are on the table for production
PhilipZ is holding it down with Handle Moxie
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!
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Added on August 27, 2006 by
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Jumping in with both feet isn't usually my MO when it comes to third-party software integration into my one of my babies. But today I took a leap and added coComment. I have heard so much about it over the last two weeks that I thought it was time to go and take a look. The concept is brilliant. coComment allows a registered user to track a "conversation" that they are having online through comments on a blog. So if you are a frequent commenter and want to collect your varied opinions in one place it seems like a great solution. I'm still not sure if I have it working properly. During all of my tests I was only able to see my comments and not the ones that came later in the thread, which would be a requirement for a conversation. The forums and support seem a bit sketchy and don't really offer many better answers than "make sure you integrate it into your blogging platform".
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Added on August 25, 2006 by
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Croncast - 2006-08-25.mp3
Show: #267
Length: 31:28
Size: 21.6 mb
Format: mp3
Betsy and her husband Kris August 25, 2006
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!
Who's that voice?
Running out of breath
Get some exercise Mr. B
Betsy is getting into this exercise bit
Like most of America I am motivated by reality television
Maybe I shoould get off the couch
"Workout" the show
Cobwebs on the mic
The only celebrity is Jodi Watley
Billy Ocean tomorrow
Breast reduction surgery no needed
What man stands behind that surgery
Two bar stools on wheels to push them around
Two great acres for one great house
Kris's stress level is through the roof and it makes him smell
What happens when you make more money podcasting than your day job?
If we close the big deal I will talk all about it
Please no Booba
Kris smells like bad bad bad
Deodorant is your friend
"Kris . . . you want a candy bar don't you!"
Fuck you and your candy bar
The old waitress and punishment
Betsy's evil horrible sound that will stay with me when I am rotting in the earth
Garage sale Betsy just can't stay away
Paying the lawn mowing boys
Greatest garage sale ever
The big toys are back . . .
300 by 300th update
PhilipZ is holding it down with Handle Moxie
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Added on August 24, 2006 by
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From the tally on the homepage you can see that things are going pretty well for the 300 by 300th listener drive and contest. We're at day 10 with 40 new listeners signed up and using their RSS feeds to download shows. I need to put the finishing touches on the "Handle Moxie" page and should have that done in the next few days. The "Moxie" page will list those with Handles and the amount of entries they have collected by having new listeners enter it when they register. All right then, the good stuff. Thanks to everyone who has signed up as a new listener or registered for a Handle! So what can I say about this so far? The emails and posts to sites and blogs describing the show have been really great. The most flattering part by far is that they were even written in the first place and second is that they spell my name right, with a "k". What else is cool? Significant others who listen getting a Handle and then having their companion sign up as a new listener. That is cool Sharing with those closest to you and getting another entry is a good thing. I am sure some more interesting trends will show up but for now that is all that I have noticed. How do you enter? Well . . .
1) Fill out the right 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!
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Added on August 23, 2006 by
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I shared this today with a friend and thought that I might as well post it here. It is a link to the comments that people have left at Podcast Alley. It is an interesting read as it sort of chronicles listenership and those who have been with us for a long time. Captivating and funny
Imagine a podcast where some guy and his wife are talking in a basement recording studio. That's podcasting. Now, imagine they're funny, and imagine the studio actually works. That's this podcast.
Submitted By: nobody.really@... (on 4-2005)
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