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DeysCast Jan 30 2009



CastRoller Launch! Voices.com sponsorship of PodCamp London and I’m REALLY looking forward to PodCamp Toronto!

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View CommentsBy Bill on January 30, 2009 - Filed under: DeysCast

CastRoller Launched!

CastRoller Home PageA good friend of mine, Will Spaetzel just launched his new website, CastRoller.com. CastRoller is an online podcast management tool that has a lot of cool features that makes listening to to podcasts a lot more social. On CastRoller, you can see what your friends are listening to using your “homepage” a lot the same way the Facebook News Feed works. You can also share podcast episodes with your friends by clicking on one “Share” button. And all of your contacts will receive the episode in their CastRoller inbox. Plus, if they’ve added the RSS feed for the inbox to iTunes, they’ll automatically have the episode downloaded right to their iPod.

I’ve spend a lot of time helping Will out with the site, and am very excited about this launch. I hope that lots of people start using the site so that we can start to really take advantage of the social aspects of the site.

You can view my profile, and add me as a contact, on CastRoller at http://castroller.com/billdeys. And you can also watch the help videos I recorded for CastRoller here: http://castroller.com/help/gettingstarted

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View CommentsBy Bill on January 27, 2009 - Filed under: Other

Make Money Two Ways

Listening to the new podcast Media Hacks, as their calling it, temporarily over on the Six Pixels of Sepetarion Podcast feed for now and I’ve had a thoughts (isn’t that usually the way I come up with things).

They talk about people getting paid for writing a blog post on some subject. If that’s your bag, cool for you, I likely won’t be reading. That is one way, as I see that almost the same as writing a blog and selling ads on the page, to make money from blogging. The other way, the way Mitch does it, is because people want to use his company to help them after reading what he shares on his blog. Sure they could implement the tips themselves, but every company is different and they are hiring him, or his firm rather, to get their knowledge customized to fit that specific need.

Now the point that they never brought up is that Mitch can’t sell a post or ads on his site. Under that method of “monetization,” using the blog to make money else where, you loose credibility by selling a blog post.

Go check out this episode and watch for the announcement of it’s own site/feed and I highly recommend subscribing to that. Chris, Julien and Mitch kill in this episode and they are planning on having CC, Hugh, and Mr. Penn or in the future.

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View CommentsBy Bill on January 20, 2009 - Filed under: Other

“Survivorman” Les Stroud at CES

Interesting to hear his opinion about cameras but I LOVE the last two questions!

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View CommentsBy Bill on January 10, 2009 - Filed under: DeysCast

Jon Gomm

So I was talking music with a guy I’ve been playing on the Country Music Cast a bit, Andy “Bleeding Hands” Hughes and one of the acts he turned me on to is Jon Gomm. I’ve spent a lot of time watching video on YouTube now and I can’t wait until I get the CD in the mail! I’m totally going to see if I can’t get to play some stuff for the CMC! In the meantime watch these videos, and check out more on YouTube!

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View CommentsBy Bill on January 9, 2009 - Filed under: DeysCast

New Hydrogen Production Method Means Bye-Bye Oil?

I LOVE this, I’d totally spend a pile of money (note: I don’t really have a pile!) on a new Hydrogen car (truck). I’ve long thought Hydrogen should be the next auto fuel. I’ll be watching for new a hydrogen powered cars in the future, Oh HEY GM why don’t you call these guys? Maybe it’ll, or they’ll, help save you!
clipped from www.fastcompany.com

Hydrogen’s promise as an incredibly useful fuel has long been known. It’s light, clean, non-polluting, and not overly difficult to produce. But researchers have recently cracked a new more effective method for producing the gas that’s likely to unlock its potential completely.

As part of an international collaboration, scientists in the University of Aberdeen have worked out a method for completely converting ethanol into hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Ethanol iself is produced by fermenting crops, and is thus carbon neutral–any carbon biproducts from using it are simply part of the normal environmental carbon cycle, unlike the greenhouse-gas effect of using fossil fuels.

But an electricity-generating proton-exchange membrane fuel cell, powered by hydrogen and oxygen gas, has one of the simplest, safest waste product you can imagine: water. And that’s a powerful argument for using such techology to power our vehicles and even gadgets and homes in the future.

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View CommentsBy Bill on January 7, 2009 - Filed under: DeysCast

Country Music Cast 59

 
icon for podpress  CMC59 [14:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Big Mac DonaldBradley West

Rebel KindKelly Brock

Don’t Listen – Ken Johnson (writtern by David Kraut)

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View CommentsBy Bill on January 6, 2009 - Filed under: Country Music Cast