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Written by Andrew McCaskey
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 13:36 |
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The HP Road Show
It's hard to find a more fun and challenging environment than one day technical events in a venue that no one has seen before.
It's also hard to find a major corporation that is willing to work with New Media and adapt on the fly to our somewhat quirky needs.
We have been exceptionally lucky on both counts. On March 11, 2010, SDRNews mobilized Andy and Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine, with another backpack studio operation to provide basic coverage of an event for Hewlett Packard, through IVY Worldwide.
We has a great location, and, after some DNS server issues, were able to get on an external (outside the HP firewall) LAN connection, without relying upon the EVDO / Cradlepoint combination which as become such an essential part of our field kit in live coverage of events.
What we could not account for was instability at uStream.tv. During the first hours of the morning coverage, our viewer count was moving smoothly from start-up to over 200 viewers. We were confident that we would hit the 600 mark from the HP Tech Forum, and with the good luck to be a featured channel on the uStream.tv iPhone app.
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Written by Andrew McCaskey
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 12:27 |
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New and Improved
Take the Survey Now
Yes it is new and improved: Not one but two ways.
Improvement #1: Now the Logic Works
First, thanks to all of you who responded to the survey on the site and through the Facebook Fan page. It was only late in the week that someone pointed out to me that I had made the last two questions really difficult. It was not intentional, but an error in the data field check made it impossible to enter a name - it kept demanding an email. Some persistent souls figured things out - but a lot of folks might well have walked away scratching their heads.
Improvement #2: All those news rundown stories from last week are so last week. This week - reference to the past rundown of news articles and some field checking that makes sense !
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Written by Andrew McCaskey
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Monday, 15 February 2010 10:43 |
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Here's the survey for Story of
the Week, where I simply go through the rundown of the previous week's
stories and ask listeners to consider news items that they remember,
and say "more like this" or "fewer like this".
Click here to take survey
Here's the background on this survey:
I had a very good email from a listener this past weekend :
he writes..
I've been listening to your podcast for a few years now and in the past couple of months I see stories mainly around Twitter, phones, repeat consumer services and products. I don't mind to hear about it once in a while but every single day is too much.
Would you consider increasing the variety of news items to dilute the consumer products and services news?
I've been reading slashdot for comparison and there is no shortage of interesting items that in my opinion should have made it to the truly interesting. To gage what I find interesting (I'm sure there are others who by hearing Slashdot news don't have phones and services in mind):
Space Shuttle Spy Gets 15 Years (SD, Feb 10)
Signs of Water Found On Saturnian Moon Enceladus (SD, Feb 10)
Re-Engineering the Immune System (SD, Feb 10)
New Material Transforms Car Bodies Into Batteries (SD, Feb 9)
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Thanks for taking the time to read this feedback.
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Written by Andrew McCaskey
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Monday, 25 January 2010 17:32 |
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How to Find TechPodcast Network
On the flatscreen, there is an entirely different experience waiting for you viewing content from the Tech Podcast Network .
It's an exciting and different experience - what is called the "Lean Back " experience with the remote in hand, as opposed to the "Lean Forward" to look at the laptop.
We have talked about the $99 Roku box - where all that is required to find our programming is to use the Channel Menu to find Blip.tv, and then search for "tech"
It's a great little box, and also allows you to pull content from TWIT, Revision3, Pandora, and if you have Netflix - movies as well.
One of the best choices, though to try things out is the free download from Boxee.tv . A little work to configure, but with 15 0channels of internet TV and content to choose from
Downloads are available for XP, Vista, WIndows7, Linux, OSX and AppleTV.
Just a little more required to get you in gear there. First sign up for a free Boxee account, download the app. There are 150 apps in the library - but Blip.tv is not in the default favorites. Have no fear - just search for Blip.tv one time, add to your favorites and you are through step 1. Step 2, since the videos are alphabetical, is to select T for Tech - and there you are.
On the flatscreen or on your computer, the Boxee experience is well worth the trouble.
More TPN content there - Techpodcasts.tv on the way, along with some other content.
Don't forget the SDRNews Special Media feed - about three additional videos per day from CES, as well as some samples of other TPN content as well.
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Written by Andrew McCaskey
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Thursday, 14 January 2010 19:27 |
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More information on Concerning video from CES
A few of you are aware of the SDRNews special Media feed. Let's talk about that and why you might want to learn more.
Since SDRNews has been an audio podcast for five years, there's been little reason to address the idea of monster file sizes.
For a number of years, the podcast was distributed at 128k encoding with file sizes of about 15 MB. That was a function of the encoder quality and software at thattime - the famous LAME encoder.
For about two years, the podcast has generally been produced with PRotools and a license Franhoffer Institute encoder, which provides a little better sound at 64k - longer encoding time but a file size of around 5-6MB.
Now that I am starting to provide some video content, it's a different ballgame. Files that are 50, 75, 150MB in size. A lot of HD product interviews from CES that are 20 or 30 MB in size.
Probably unfair to dump them into your regular feed without warning. That's why I've set up the special event feed.
The Special media feed is designed for video. And over the next few weeks I am beginning to send out each of the interviews, programs, and backchannel segments from CES2010.
With the best of intentions I set it up last year, but with other distractions I have been remiss in filling it with content. That is about to change.
So with that in mind, simple go to sdrnews.com, click on the RSS Feeds tab, and you will find the Special Media Feed.
The benefit is that you can accumulate the content and view at your convenience, without getting surprised - eventually you will be able to browse through and most importantly fast forward through to the good parts..
. And they are available on your mobile device or locally on your itunes for uninterrupted play.
First up, the Daily wrap-up shows, then followed with the NBC-Universal programs that will start to go up over the weekend. There is a lot of content to push through the pipe, so it will be coming fast and furious.
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