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I’m not going to touch the whole Text-to-Speech thing that has come up since the last release for the Amazon Kindle. What I was thinking about is how Amazon can force them selves to push the limits and make the best ebook reader around. Admittedly I don’t know much about the Kindle or any other ebook reader so I’m making some assumptions but the final thoughts can apply to anything. So I think they should open up an easy API for the ebook store so that anyone making a reader can take advantage of the store the same way the Kindle can. Anyone could develop a store on the device or on a desktop that will sync to the device, the possibilities would only endless. Well, except by the stupid DRM on the books of course! The competition, like all competition, makes you innovate and be better.

And I wonder what their real motive is anyways, are they a hardware maker or an ebook retailer?

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Thanks to Krash Coarse of Oka Zoo and Audio Popcorn for turning me on to the artist.

Scott Albert Johnson

Track in order were:

1. Turn Out Fine
2. Hollywood
3. The Best Of Me

Website: http://countrymusiccast.ca
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Just a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous, remember when you got you first computer? You learned a few things, then maybe broke a few things based on that knowledge, maybe you even taught a friend a bit of what you knew and they broke some things too!

You knew enough to brake things, maybe afterwards learned enough to fix them too, but maybe not always. Maybe it got you into some trouble, maybe cost you (or your parents) some money.

Just be careful of what kind of trouble you can get into, and remember that the most tiny bit of extra knowledge that you have over someone else make you an expert in their eyes. Take that responsibility very seriously and treat it with respect

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On the way back from PodCamp Toronto I had a funny thought. You know that old saying about being the big fish in a small pond? I took that a bit farther and figure that most of us swim in different ponds, they all very in size as do we depending on which pond.

In the social media community, partly those at PodCamp Toronto, I’m a pretty small fish, there is a subset of podcasters in that community that I’m perhaps a little but bigger of a fish, and I’m more then happy being there. I’m a substantially larger size fish in a different pond, which luckily happens to be the one where I get my food!, and to my knowledge no one in the social media community is even in that pond.

My point is you have to realize your place in every situation and be OK with it OR you have to swim up stream to change ponds!

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Reading a lot of blogs and listen to a great number of podcasts, specifically in this case the London Free Press Reader Rant Line, I hear a lot of people complaining about how this is crazy and so and so can’t do that. They seam mad at the world for keeping them down.

The first caller in the last Reader Rant Podcast, episode 24, was mad that the Secondary Teachers got a better deal then the Elementary Teachers did. His call I’m guessing was before the union settled the last deal not to long ago, and he seamed almost militant in his attitude to going on strike. I actually called in a response, you’ll probably be able to hear it next week if you listen. My point to him, and I’m going to suggest it to everyone else, is that he’s not going to change the system. What he can change is himself! He can spend a little time to go back and take some classes and upgrade his teachers certificate so that he can teach Secondary School and thus get under the same union contract!

To apply this to you, if you don’t like what you see at work you can change jobs, it may be hard right now but THERE IS ALWAYS JOBS OPEN! You just have to want it more AND make yourself so valuable that anyone would be crazy not to hire you. I’ve always thought that you should NEVER stop learning, and as employers you should never hamper an employees desire to learn. Sure they may become more valuable outside you company and leave, but the gain for the time they are with you and the reputation that you will gain for fostering this activity is well worth it.

There are a lot of things in your life that you can change by changing yourself! Got any examples of something you’ve done? How about a problem we can help you find a change for?

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So I came to the conclusion about how much I like to make the most out of everything I’m involved in. Be it  a trip, a project or a conference. I guess especially in my podcast community I may have a bit of a reputation when it comes to the “night life” as well as it getting me into some trouble at home.

See this came to mind the other day. I’ve been thinking about a weekend vacation to Montreal for a while. The problem is I wanna meet up with friends, some podcast/social media types, as well as have some time with just Michelle and I. I know what reaction I’ll get, likely a roll of the eyes when I mention an evening with the folks I know there. Her idea is that we should be spending the weekend doing cool things just the two of us. I know she probably right, I just have a hard time traveling all that way and not getting a chance to chat with people I know there.

I don’t want you to get the idea that I, or you if you’re the same, should change. This can be a great quality. I just have realize that there is a time and place, and sometimes I have to step back and slow down.

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John Leschinski and the PodCamp London Design work! PodCamp Toronto, my Twitter Free Weekend and The Podcast Penalty Box.

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