Minute Tech podcast

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Minute Tech 024: How is glass made?

Have you had your flu shot for the 2007-08 flu season? Do you have access to flu shots? Are you concerned of the flu shot's impact on your health? Be more concerned of your impact on others if you contract the flu.

We're each carried of the battlefield of life at different times, in different ways. May you, as my father did, have it happen at then end of a fruitful span...and make your span fruitful, no matter it's length

- Happy Birthday, Dad; Flu shots - pass it on;
- How is glass made?
- Charles Dicken's Hard Times.

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..alex.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Minute Tech 023: What is glass and how did it get to this house?

When was the last time Tai Chi, the Second Foundation and CitiGroup were discussed all in the same podcast?

- Chinese lunar orbiter and STS-120 - Discovery;
- what is Glass - how did it get to this house?
- Translation: be careful of the "truth".

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..Alex.

Monday, November 5, 2007

Minute Tech 022: What is glass?

Dale Chihuly's glass sculpture is incredibly beautiful; when juxtaposed with natural plantings, or as natural as you can get in an oversized terrarium, they seek to mimic CBLF's with SiBLF's:

the outline for todays show:
- Space shuttle set for daytime landing; Chinese lunar orbiter;
- What is glass?
- Jeremiah Owyang describes his use of Twitter.

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..Alex.

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Minute Tech 021: How do you distribute your video?

Have you thought about your relatives lately? I don't mean the ones living next door, I mean your furry predecessors. Now if you're of the school of thought that the earth and it's inhabitants were brought into being 6,000 years ago, then this DNA stuff is just of academic interest - the rest of you can listen with a bit more interest.

Now that you've produced video on your PC, be that Windows, Mac or Linux, now you can think of distribution. And finally, emulate your leaders: start something in your community!

- DNA sequencing leads to primate relatives;
- How do you distribute your video?
- Emulate your leaders: Start Something Today!

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..Alex.

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Friday, November 2, 2007

Minute Tech 020: How can I produce this video on my Mac?

The not-so-proverbial war on terrorism may last five more decades...but so will the new-media war of social media networks. Google and Microsoft square off on either end of the Quidditch pitch, pooling their resources and teaming with partners.

Meanwhile, the lubricant for all of this, fossil fuel, continues to make itself heard, while it is pumped from the ground and into the tanks of waiting Humvee's in our suburban driveways.

- Oil may surpass $100 per barrel, but winter may usher in lower prices;
- How can I produce my video on my Mac?
- Social Media wars heat up as Google and Microsoft form sides.

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..Alex.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Am I a "media" company?

Check out Jeremiah Owyang's checklist for corporate media strategy in his So you're a "Media" Company now post. Admittedly, a podcast does not a company make...but at what point does a publishing push like this begin to blur between a personal outlet for ideas and style and a company-like push for attention in the global media industry? At this point I have not desire to make this a "corporate entity", but I'm pursuing many of the things that could:

A regular push of informational content into the world's marketplace;
Pursuing the collection of statistics via Google Analytics;
Developing and pushing the podcast "brand" into many of the social media markets;
- Do you have a strategy? Let’s start with the start. Why create media? What story are you trying to tell? Don’t just do this because it’s hot, understand how it can impact your company.
- What story are you telling? Sometimes, media doesn’t have to be just a product demo, but could ‘go up a level’ and tell a story. Relate to your customers life style, understand and relate to how they work and live, rather than just push features.
- Got legs? Does your player of media (audio/video/webcast/powerpoint/images) have ‘legs’ so it can spread to other websites? Is it embeddable? Do you want it to be?

Where is this all taking me? Initially, I'm seeking personal growth in both the tech of putting a podcast and media presence together, and in the community that this may engender. Eventually, who knows?

..alex.