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Panasonic to ZDNet: Your camera failure not our fault. But was it?

If you happened to catch the video rant that I posted yesterday, then you'd know by now that our Panasonic AG-HVX200 Hi-Def video camera -- a camera that I originally heaped praise on and the one I use to produce all of my videos -- died on us for the...

Tags: Video, Podcasting Gear, Personal Technology, Hardware Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2007-07-10

Can iRiver's H320 be used to record podcasts?

This is Part B to a two-part series on how iRiver's H320 can serve as a multi-purpose device for people who need to listen to as well as record digital audio Part A mostly covers the listening side of the equation. Although I'm still testing the device, I was motivated...

Tags: audio, Podcasting Gear, General

Blog posts 2005-04-14

What's a podcaster to do when his iPod breaks?

Dave Winer, the co-inventor of podcasting, is having difficulties with his iPod and is looking for a replacement. According to one of his blogs, the chances that he'll buy a new iPod are slim. Says Winer, "So it's time once again to shop for a new MP3 player, and I'm...

Tags: Winer, Podcasting Gear, General

Blog posts 2005-04-07

Podcast editing dream machine?

If you're producing podcasts at the rate we are at ZDNet, roughly one every two business days, you may have found what I've learned -- that system horsepower equates to time saved. For example, in working with our raw audio using the open source-based Audacity (available for OS X,...

Tags: audio, VoodooPC, Podcasting Gear, General

Blog posts 2005-03-16

For sound input, what's better? USB or FireWire?

One of the issues that budding podcasters may eventually encounter is how best to get sound into their computers. The obvious answer, of course, is through one of the sound inputs that the system already offers. For example, many desktop systems have two sound inputs: a mic-in jack...

Tags: USB, audio, Podcasting Gear, General

Blog posts 2005-03-14

Possible mobile podcasting studio configurations

In my attempt to find out more about Edirol's R1 battery operated digital audio recorder and whether it could be the centerpiece of a good mobile podcasting studio, I was looking for people that might have some experience with the device already. Over in the MP3 forums in CNET's...

Tags: Edirol, Podcasting 101, Podcasting Gear, General

Blog posts 2005-03-11

Additional Resources

I want to buy my kid a laptop...

I want to buy my kid a laptop...nice point ...[b]"OpenOffice is a bargain-hunter's friend and I make sure that teachers can support it if they receive files electronically from students.[/b]This is what 'IT' is about.. ;)MS Office costs vs. OpenOfficeHave you or your school looked at MSDN AA Academic Alliance?...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2007-08-03

Who's got the best seat in the digital living room?

Who's got the best seat in the digital living room?None of them worth the cost or effort.Bottom line, I haven't seen a "system" that is user friendly or does what the consumer really wants.No rush here folks, this turkey is a long ways from being done.The next major battlegroundI like...

Tags: Corporate communications, Network technology, TVs, Sage, TiVo Inc., video, TiVo Series3, BTV Link, S2DT, PC

Discussion threads 2006-10-25

Video podcasting

I spent the day at Podcast Academy. I just flew down to Ontario CA this morning and then back tonight. Nice, easy in and out. Podcasting is new enough that its still changing and the Podcast Academy tends to attract repeat customers, so theres...

Tags: podcast, video

Blog posts 2006-09-28

PodCamp: Revenge of the narrowcasters

This weekend, I had a chance to drop in on PodCamp at Bunker Hill Community College on the edge of Charlestown, MA see my Flickr Set of photos for a few pics I took. I led two discussions, both of which were pretty well attended. One of...

Tags: media company, podcast

Blog posts 2006-09-11

See you at PodCamp tomorrow?

I just got off the phone with Chris Brogan who is busy putting the finishing touches on PodCamp Podcasting Camp which starts tomorrow at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. I signed up to attend a while back but until now, had neglected to volunteer to lead some discussions. So,...

Tags: PodCamp, podcasting

Blog posts 2006-09-08

Google now baby-steps away from eBay-like auction service

I was just reading Steve Bryant's Ten Possible Consequences of Google's GBuy and I couldn't help but wonder about his omission of the possibility that Google will use the core of the auction technology it has already developed to build its own eBay like auction marketplace for goods...

Tags: eBay Inc., Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-06-30

Fitting graffiti outside Harvard's ID Mashup event?

As I carted my technology (computer, podcasting gear, and digital camera) on a wheelie to save my back from the public parking in Cambridge, down Massachusetts Ave. to the Identity Mashup Conference at Harvard's Law School where the content is all about such issues as identity, trust, who are you?...

Tags: identity

Blog posts 2006-06-20

A Cure for the Summertime Blues

First Dave Winer highlights the one sentence in this blog that actually seemed to sound positive. You know, the angry old man, etc. Then a spate of crap from the trolls highlighted by one Paul Montgomery, a Down Under journalist his word who slimes all US journalists on his way...

Tags: Attention, Doc

Blog posts 2006-05-27

GNU/Linux distros get OK to distribute Java

Here in San Francisco, as I returned to my hotel from dinner with Redmonk's James Governor last evening, I bumped into Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phiipps who himself was just fresh off a flight from DebConf 6 Debian Conference in Oaxtepec, Mexico where, because of that event's coincidental...

Tags: Java

Blog posts 2006-05-16

Podcasting Gear: What David Berlind is using now

Podcasting Gear: What David Berlind is using nowNiceThanks David. Perfect timing. Especially the info on InnKeeper. -RSWhat about videoThe signs point to audio only podcasts being short-lived and video podcasts becoming mainstream. What equipment would video podcasting require?Good if you are a professionalThis kind stuff is nice to...

Tags: Podcasts, Fostex, rechargeable battery, podcasting, recorder, mic, podcast, battery, media, David Berlind

Discussion threads 2006-04-26

Getting real-time journalism right

Excerpted Tim Bray regarding my podcast interview of him earlier this week: I got email late yesterday from David Berlind: “Hey, can I call you for a minute?” He wanted commentary on a story he was writing......After a few minutes’ chat, David asked if he...

Tags: journalism

Blog posts 2006-04-26

Podcasting Gear: What David Berlind is using now

As I look to push the envelope on real-time, multimedia (text, audio, images, video) journalism here at ZDNet, I'm also constantly trying to figure out what gear is the best gear to have if you're a journalist that has to do it all: Write stories (obviously, a well...

Tags: Innkeeper, mixer, voice

Blog posts 2006-04-26

Professional audio advice for podcasters (rookies and vets)

Earlier this year, Dan Bricklin called me up to say that he had attended a BoomersTV party in Boston and that he took the opportunity to interview John Osborne, a Boston area-based video and audio production professional who has been doing on-location recording for reality shows and documentaries...

Tags: Dan Bricklin, microphone

Blog posts 2006-04-03

Geeks brave Boston's cold for Cambridge meet-n-greet

I dove down to the CambridgeSide Galleria last night to check out a eat-meet-geek-greet organized by Scripting News' publisher Dave Winer and got a chance to meet some new people like Philip Greenspun (pictured on the right in a discussion with Dave Winer while Dan Bricklin [center] records the discussion...

Tags: Dan Bricklin, Edirol R1, Philip Greenspun

Blog posts 2006-01-06