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Brain Buster Podcasting

Newspapers Have Less than 5 Years to Live

I had a great listen on the ride to work this morning – Eric Schwartzman of the On The Record Online’s latest interview with Duncan Wardle, Vice President of Walt Disney World and Global PR for Disney Parks.

If you have an iPod you should really go over to my Gigadial channel now and subscribe, that way when I find cool stuff, it gets loaded right to your iPod. How cool is that?

Mr. Wardle had some points that stuck with me:

  • Newspapers will die soon
  • The 6pm News will die before newspapers
  • Within the next 4-5 years any consumer will be able to block your organization if they determine you are not relevant.

So, are you ready to switch gears or are you going to ride the boat to Davey Jones’ Locker?

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Daily Life Gaming

Valentine’s Day Card

A youtube vid… Thanks to Alec for the pointer.

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Podcasting

M Show Thriller

Today the 25th Anniversary edition of Thriller went out, what better way to celebrate than catching the latest edition of The M Show.

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Podcasting

Under Construction

Remember when websites always used those corny “Under Construction” logos?

Anyway, I’m updating the blog to the latest version of WordPress, so who knows what I might break (which is why I backup first).

Until then, feel free to check out the latest Marketing Over Coffee:

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or this Week’s M Show, a better than average one:

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See you on the other side…

UPDATED: That was relatively painless (barring any surprises), aside from the time it took to delete the old install off the server. One other thing, I should have known enough not to delete my plugins, which I then had to upload again (which was very simple grabbing them from my backup). Everything looks ok, please drop a line if you notice anything weird in the neighborhood. Thanks!

More UPDATES: In a bizarre twist www.RoninMarketeer.com is going to www.TheMShow.com (the true domain, Ronin just points to a subdirectory at TheMShow.com), I have no idea how that could happen…

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Podcasting

Thursday Means Coffee Time

This week’s Marketing Over Coffee was a solo show with Mr. Penn out sick, I emptied out the voicemail bin talking about social media (big surprise) and some lessons we can learn from how politicians marketing themselves.


Go to the site!

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Podcasting

Get your coffee here

Some interesting discussion on SEO in this week’s Marketing Over Coffee

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Podcasting

Wizzard Media on iTunes

Wizzard MediaThis is either new or I missed it in my normal stupor… but Wizzard Media, (what old school podcasters call Libsyn) is listed as one of the featured podcast networks on iTunes. There’s a great list of networks up there, it’s good to see Wizzard up there (and some member podcasts like The M Show up there – Marketing Over Coffee is not on the list but is a Wizzard Media hosted podcast).

Nice job!

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Fanboy

Weekend Fun

I hate to say it but it’s nice to have a normal weekend and the holidays over – much more relaxing.

Some random weekend stuff:

Ron tipped me off to this Audio Repair Tool. It lets you visualize the sound and cut out the chunks you don’t want. It also repairs clipping (that sound you get when someone talks way too lound right into the mic and it starts to crackle).

I’ve decided that Podcasting and Audible are matter vs. anti-matter – they can’t take up the same space. In some ways it’s good, it pushes the crappy podcasts off the list.

I was at the mall during lunch yesterday and saw some products that then led me to this:

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It’s addictive and fun for the whole family. Not fanboy enough for you? How about this:

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Enough messing around… back to work…

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Geek Stuff

Awwww Yeah

The good news is that the holiday shopping is done and all the paperwork is signed and sealed for the Mortgage refinance. Gee, and only 10pm at night!

It goes without saying, I’ve got nothing for you but we can thank YouTube for preserving absurd humor…

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Geek Stuff

Some Hardcore Geek Humor

Friday viewing:

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