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Belkin Podcast Studio: $100

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 8th, 2008

It may not be wireless, but it is pretty slick — and the price is right.
Belkin’s Podcast Studio is a self-contained, iPod-interfacing podcast production device. The unit features dual XLR and 1/4″ inputs and an embedded speaker. You slip your iPod in the top and record directly to the player.

It’s portable and battery powered [...]

Outdoor Blow-up

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 26th, 2007

Jim, did you know that Ethereal has 25% more riboflavin than any other cereal on the market?
Jim: No shit. — Putney Swope

Clear Channel Outdoor and Qwikker, the leading provider of Bluetooth content distribution, today announced an agreement to build a mobile content delivery network using Clear Channel’s outdoor signage.

Clear Channel Outdoor will deploy Qwikker [...]

Princeton Laptop Orchestra

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 8th, 2007

The Princeton Laptop Orchestra is a six-person ensemble that performs music via computers. The performers sit on the floor with computers on their laps, explains NPR, with six-sided speakers next to them. They play original compositions written for the laptop.

Students play their laptops with a new music language — known as ChucK — written by [...]

Solar Man

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 31st, 2007

Make Magazine describes Steve Paine’s solar-powered bike tour, along the Rhein River.
His Solar-UMPC.com blog describes powering Ultra Mobile PCs through solar and natural energy sources. He’s blogging with a Samsung Q1b UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC) and portable solar gear. Here’s his gear and project photos.

The original plan was to cycle during the day with the solar [...]

Webcasting Concerts

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 22nd, 2007

Summer’s here!
So are outdoor music concerts, like my city’s Water Front Blues Festival. It’s the main fund raiser for the Oregon Food Bank.

The 6 day concert, which attracts more than 100,000 people, is held in Portland. Last year, blues fans donated $545,000 and 103,500 pounds of food to fight hunger and its root causes.
But [...]

Crisis at Internet Radio

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 31st, 2007

A battle over increased royalty payments for songs on online radio is moving into high gear, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Online radio companies are appealing a ruling that would double rates payable to record labels in three years. They are filing a motion to stay the ruling on the new rates, which are [...]

Classroom Software Goes Mobile

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 10th, 2007

Fourth-graders, in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, are on a special school project with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; they are observing and recording the behavior of humpback whales from shore, explains C/Net. They record the whales behavior on small, handheld wireless device called an Indigo, made by LearningSoft
For example, one kid would call out whale behavior [...]

EMI Says DRM is Dead

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 2nd, 2007

I guess it’s true.
EMI’s entire digital music catalog will be available DRM-free via iTunes in May, the music label said Monday at a press conference in London. The BBC, C/Net, Reuters, the NY Times and the Washington Post have more

Major music label EMI Group plans to sell a premium level of digital downloads through [...]

How To VideoBlog

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 23rd, 2007

All A Twitter

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 20th, 2007

Roger the Shrubber: Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history.
King Arthur: Did you say shrubberies?
Roger the Shrubber: Yes, [...]