From ZED (link found from unmediated

"The indelible William Shatner wants you to remix two of his stellar tracks off his latest album: "Ideal Woman" and "Has Been". Make your mashup so bad it's good because both ZeD and ACIDplanet are offering nerd-chic prizes for the winning remixes. The ZeD prize will be a shiny new Mac Mini (http://www.apple.com/ca/macmini)!"

ZeD - group - Shatner Mashup Challenge

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Some Educational Technology doctoral candidates at Pepperdine interviewed me about podcasting and stuff. It's an hour long, and they ask me some really good questions... personal, biographical, goals, background.

I must admit, there's a lot in here that not many people know. Why do I do what I do; what drives me; what I don't like about myself. Also, plenty of insights on podcasting and videoblogging, ASCAP and other licensing; online identity, e-dentity,

There are some quirky parts of the podcast, since these folks are relatively new to podcasting, so cut 'em some slack.

Podcasts and sites mentioned: ReelReviews, .NET Rocks, RebelDad, I Love Radio.org, Scobelizer.com, Rocketboom, ANT, Bloggercon, PodcastExpo, Coverville.

Much thanks to Julia, Tina, and James for the chance to talk with you.

Last time I talked about this, I was so anxious, yet proud, in getting a 20 minute podcast out the door for the maiden voyage of WeblogsInc's first Autoblog Podcast. Plus, Volvo being a sponsor was exciting.

Now, podcast number two is live, and I'm terribly amused about it being a 40 minute show---but it's worth every minute. I also made one slightly change with compression and it's only 9MB.

David Thomas talks with Eddie Alterman, Editor-in-Chief of MPH Magazine (Which I PROMPTLY sought out at my latest bookstore, to no avail). Also, Dave takes us a soundseeing driving tour in the Scion xA; finally wrapping up the show with an interview with Michael Wiley of GM blogs. Now, am I my ears deceiving me, or did I just hear some cluetrain wisdom out of a corporate mouth? Find out how GM's Fastlane blog came to be, and how the whole thing works.

One final bit of housekeeping: Autoblog has a real RSS feed now (this came late, blame Brian ;-)

So subscribe to http://podcasts.autoblog.com/rss.xml

Autoblog Podcast #2 - MPH Magazine, GM Fastlane, Scion xA

The latest show includes my little tale on getting in and out of Canada without a passport. Also, the winner of the Flickr PRO account, and finally, how to enter to win an Xbox and how other podcasters might win stuff from my show... by doing absolutely nothing.

the Eric Rice Show :: The Passport Story; Flickr PRO winner; the Free Xbox Hunt

Via Moore's Law: The Podcasting Boom (How to Profit from it): Corante > Moore's Lore >

These days, I'm thrilled to see that blogging conferences now include the three de-facto methods of communication: text, audio, and video.

This is where we should be.

As some of you might now, my corporate hat comes out when I leave a conference. I want action items. I insist on making a personal list of deliverables that are directly related to what I learned at a gathering like Northern Voice.

This conference had a good number of people new to everything bloggy. This is refreshing. I'm giving a "What's a Blog" talk in a couple weeks, and I love how it changes ever-so-slightly as blogging history is written.

What I learned most from the conference wasn't about blogging or RSS or audio and video---most likely because I'm a multimedia blogger. What I did learn was about people, culture, and families.

Before this trip to Vancouver, I had never been outside of the U.S. While this might seem a big surprising, I must remind you that I live in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley region. Virtually everything I've ever needed to deal with, happens here (if not in California).

Canada is different. It's another country, complete with all the subtle differences that make it so apparent to me while interacting with some basic level of life. I started thinking about how I write. Obviously, this is the Internet, and we reach the world when we put our words, sights and sounds on the screen. As someone who is a citizen of the U.S. (although I'll tell you I'm Californian above all), I can see how easy it is to forget about the rest of the world.

My personal theory, however, has to do more with keeping up with the European enormity and differences of and in the United States, and less with lack of caring about the rest of the world. As a Californian, I try.

Action item #1: Pay more attention to how my words translate to other languages, and be clear when referring to things I might take for granted. Not everyone knows what a Guitar Center is, for example.

The next notable items comes from the amount of families I met. One of the best experts on this is Julie Leung, who had her clan in tow. She has since posted her observations on children at the conference, as well as her general thoughts about going to Vancouver.

Beyond all the great conversations about blogging, podcasting, videoblogging and such, I had the best time while sitting on the floor of a dim sum restaurant stamping hearts, ladybugs, and happy faces on the hands of the various offspring of Marc and Lisa and Ted and Julie.

It was at that very brunch at Victoria's restaurant, where the idea for engaging kids with videoblogs came from. It's happening now and took little effort---but lots of inspiration.

So that's what I got out of Northern Voice. Not only did I get to visit a fantastic city; not only did I get to meet people I'v never met face-to-face (like Suw, Boris, Mack, Jeremy, Tod and many others), but I got to learn much more about a wacky and delightful harmony between blogging and people than I ever had before.

Oh yeah, and I get to teach Phil Wolff how to videoblog. :-)

My trip to Vancouver for Northern Voice included a pre-conference tour of the CBC facility, as conducted by Tod Maffin. Joining me on the tour were Darren Barefoot and Jeremy C. Wright.

The video is about 10 minutes long. (My compression settings are hosed, so the video might take a few to download over broadband. It's a must-watch for anyone who is a film, radio or television nerd. Lots of shiny buttons and high tech rooms, brought to you in my typical neurotic videoblogging style.

Watch the Video and comment at ericrice.com.


Videoblog RSS feed (enclosures)

Okay, so it was an airbrush tattoo. But guys, seriously, do we care? differently-abled-ness: Tats for Tech

P.S. Welcome to blogging, dude.

Clear Channel Communications Inc. and Howard Stern have agreed to withdraw lawsuits against each other stemming from the company's decision to dump the radio shock jock's show last year.

Via BizJournals.com

DRAMA. There's a big conversation about Podrazor.com over on the podcasters yahoo group. Podrazor has raised the hackles of people who object to the signs of advertising around their audio content (Pull up a stream, and there's a Amazon link). The second bone of contention is the fact that there are all these direct links to shows. People feel a bit slapped in the face.

We haven't been down THIS road before, right? (sarcasm!)

If you come out with a model for a product or service that starts raising the ire of a few influential types and others in a any given community, you might very well feel the pinch. People are sensitive about how you touch their content. People are sensitive if you hint at making money off of it. People are sensitive to how people are treated.

When you're an asshole about it, people will give a collective fuck you.

That's a conversation. Bottom line is a) listen to people and their conversations, and b) don't be an asshole. Above all, is c) Use your head.

This podcast we interviewed James O’Reilly, publisher of the Travelers’ Tales series of books

Gadling Podcast: Intv. James O'Reilly

From TED: Talk with Dick C. Co-Founder Feedburner, via Ryanne's Video Blog

Some videoblog love from the NY Times. I'm glad they acknowledge the diversity of video like its text counterpart, mentioning the artsy-style to the journalistic style. One such journalistic style is Steve Garfield's:

Some vloggers are further blurring the lines between journalism and blogging by producing news reports of local interest. Steve Garfield of Boston, a self-described citizen reporter, took a video camera to investigate, among other things, whether election campaign workers were following the law by staying 150 feet from polling stations. He posted his report at http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2004/09/150_feet.html

Reg Req'd (bugmenot.com) Bloggers Add Moving Images to Their Musings

Some backstage fun with videoblogging from plastictrees.net: A Call for Help Blog

The people on the set are Leo Laporte, Amber Mac, and Andy Walker.

Can someone PLEASE help me get rid of these things? OY. I have a billion. (Okay, 50). This is getting ridiculous. Google. Open it up already. It's not cool or leet anymore.

One of my favorite, favorite, favorite shows EV-ahh is out on DVD today. Season 3. After the money train.

"The road to justice is twisted"

What if the Blogger-Blogosphere was the Farmington District and a few of us played the parts of the Strike Team? Hmm, that could be fun.

"The Shield" (2002)

Here's an interesting concept. Over at Autoblog.com, is an ad for Suzuki at the top of the page. Below the ad is something we're all familiar with: Comments! You can comment on Suzuki, the advertiser.

Now that's different.

This whole process has made me feel like I'm building some kind of PBS Kids. I'm not however, I'm just trying to putting a ball in motion.

Here's the short version: I saw lots of videoblogs showing up in my video aggregator that contained content that my kids liked--other kids, people playing instruments, animals, cityscapes. Since I want to involve my four-year old in the videoblog-making process, I realized that I'd be putting out similar content.

I installed ANT on my kids' iMac and realized that I didn't have a kid-friendly feed to put there! My own RSS feed for video might be fine for you and me, however I wouldn't my kids to subscribe.

So, I created a brand new RSS feed (feeds.feedburner.com/kidvlogs), and re-posted some of the videos from others my kids liked.

The human-readable URL for this 'kid content' is kids.everydayfilms.com. I invite anyone with kids who want to subscribe to kid-friendly content to do so, and more importantly, I encourage anyone to MAKE content either of or for kids.

Drop me a note [you know the email] or comment below if you have your own URL of this nature, or want to talk more about contributing, storing files, and all that logistical videoblogger stuff.

Now, this bit o' news is spiffy.

"On the Media says its podcast audience now rivals the number of individuals that listen to the program in a mid-sized media market like St. Louis or Kansas City"

Via:Tod Maffin's I Love Radio .org: Podcast doubles (!) NPR show listenership

Some might remember that I chose to go quite ballistic over David Scott Lewis' post, Video blogs and Podcasts, over at AlwaysOn. I said my piece a few times, brough the conversation here to my blog and let it be.

The conversation migrated (sans me, intentionally) to the videoblogging group and later, the podcasting group over on Yahoo, where David generally didn't get the reception or support I believe he thought he anticipated.

While I was in Vancouver for Northern Voice, David sent me a courteous and brief message, hoping to move ahead. I replied with the following insights and advice:

I can be a little harsh at times, think of me as one of the Marc Canters or Jason Calacanis-es of the world.

What I have found intriguing in this process, and part of the wonderment of the transparency and fact-checking and whatnot of the blogging ecosystem, is how much information that can be gained. Look at the workflow. a) you write a post, b) someone influential pitches a fit/picks a fight c) community responds

Ironically, right after you posted that, some videoblog posts from within WGBH in Boston and a scoop on Nightline made it to the 'vlogosphere'... Timing!

As a paid podcaster, I have absolute access to any business model I want to throw at vlogging. It's not ready for that, yet. There are too many genres within the medium, from family experiences, artsy fartsy stuff, citizen journalism to illustrate what IS a videoblog. However, as with anything *blog, it's all about a singular voice and accessibility.

I've done the Fortune 500 thing and I know [how] vlogging [could potentially] be put in to place, and also as part of collaborative workflow. You yourself are a million miles away in China. I'm in Silicon Valley. And that leaves the internet, which, like our good pal Tony's product is named, is AlwaysOn.

I know, you're probably wishing I posted like this in the beginning, however conversation has a certain power to it. I'm sitting in an airport waiting to fly back to the U.S. and customs sort of wore me out. :-)

It's all good. I would like to some rhetorical questions of you:

What if you were to re-write the article based on allll this feedback and conversation you received from podcasters, audiobloggers, videobloggers, AND your own new discoveries and statements? What would change? What would be more clear? What might be different?

David replied in kind, and we'll most likely have lunch this summer. See, I can be nice!

I feel this was a great example for all of us to see the power of conversation, and perhaps the value of engaging the community for participatory knowledge. Perhaps I jumped the gun a bit, which is fully in my right, but I'm grateful we have the ability to live and learn out here in public.

Builds character.