Google.

As a point of record, I simply must archive link this.

Google at the SEC

“Afterhell: Dark Descent”

Here’s the radio show I did several months back, finally available for purchase right on CafePress.com, the coolest DIY merchandising shop on the web. Buy it now for only $16 and hear yours truly get stabbed in the leg and groan all the way to the hospital as the world gets ripped to all hell. Literally!

Mark Walsh on C-SPAN2

Unrelated points from a pannel discussion today broadcast on CSPAN-2 on “Diversity in Talk Radio.”Mark Walsh (CEO of Air America Radio) and Tom Athans (Democracy Radio Executive Producer). Walsh said in distinct counterpoint that Howard Stern brings politics to public debate, bloggers are crazy, and then proceeded to say that Rush Limbaugh insults his audience.

Besides having a demonstrated grasp on public political broadcasting, he seems to have a great design on Air America, driving to take it the direction of NPR with their distributor relationships (through their affiliates) with Audible.com.

Al [Franken] is on from one to three — who’s to say that you shouldn’t be able to take that show, put it on your iPod and listen to it on your way home from work. That’s the kind of radio business we’re going to be in.

Nice to see a guy with an eye for evolution of the business model. That he’s had some trouble with a few key affiliates is duly noted; the voices they’ve put on the air are funny and irreverent and they fill a niche that the left has had trouble reaching: the left that loves the radio and loud voices, but need someone they agree to yell along to once in a while.

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In The Buff: “Disturbing the Quiet Enjoyment of the Home”

This is the latest album but the group I helped found in college. They’ve done a great job on it, and they’ve done me the great honor of including an old bit of comedy I used to do on the “circuit” way-back-when. If you’re really into it, if you get bitten, just drop me a line and I can send you the bootleg of me proposing to a cute coed and passing out on a stranger’s balcony. Seriously, if you buy one or five from them, the proceeds go straight into recording more tunes for more CDs, thus perpetuating the endless cycle of a cappella addiction from which we all suffer wonderfully. Help an a cappella singer today. Buy this album. Please.

More Blog-Ranting

Since I’m on the subject, even the Christian Science Monitor is getting in on the blogwagon:

Do You Blog?
Blogs: Here to stay - with changes

My favorite quote from the former, lending such credibility to blogging as a web-publishing tool:

“My blog is freedom,” Natalia says. “It’s an outlet for ideas and thoughts that don’t have another place to go. If I feel like going on about an actor I think is cute, or music I like, or typing out my Spanish oral [exam] in order to memorize it, I can do that.”

See, I love that Natalia has the freedom to type out her Spanish oral. But why does teen-blogging have to be a focus of every single article I read on this stuff right now?

Too Much Bitching about Blogging

My dad just started a blog. OK, I started the blog for him as a birthday present, and he’s on the verge of really taking to it. The idea behind it was to get him up to speed on the future of digital journalism publica, so he feels more prepared when he hits his masters program in International Journalism in the fall at Cardiff University in Wales.

It feels like I’ve been talking more and more about blogs and blogging of late, amplified in no small part by my first experience actually teaching public relations at the University (more on that whole experience later). What I’ve taken from all this discussion is that, primarily, people are taking to this stuff. They’re reading them. They’re writing them. They’re appreciating them. They’re learning about their friends and family, and the love being in on the scoop when part of there circle has something profound to say about the world.

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