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This morning while catching up on a number of blogs using my RSS reader, FeedDemon, I discovered this absolutely fascinating piece that Jon Udell has created to illustrate how wikis work. Spend the ten minutes it takes to view this illustration and I'm confident you'll be as entertained as I was. It was this post from David Pogue in the New York Times that pointed me to it. By the way, following the link to David Pogue's article requires registration at the New York Times website.

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I fear I've allowed my regular schedule of blogging to suffer as I've been in training for my new job at U. S. Cellular and as I've been toying with MixCast Live. To those of you who check this site regularly, I offer my apologies, however there are only so many hours in the day that aren't occupied either with work or with sleeping. Still I hope that soon I may have a bit more time for my life online than I've had in the past. More about that if and when it happens.

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Today I'm leaving in a few minutes to drive down to Atlanta (actually to Lula which is 50 or 60 miles north of Atlanta) to visit briefly with Jeff and his family. The reason for my trip is to pick up some of my recording equipment that I had loaned him a couple of years ago so that I can use it in producing my podcasts. My experiments up to this point with MixCast Live have shown that the mic I am using for recording has the disadvantage that it introduces a lot of hiss into the mix. Because I already own a Shure 58 microphone, a Yamaha R100 digital effects processor, a Boss 16 channel mixer, and some other associated equipment, I plan to bring all that back here and integrate it into my computer system in the hope that it will improve the quality of the MP3 files I create for my podcast.

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This morning I received an email from Comcast announcing that, without any increase in price, they are increasing the download speed by 33% to 4 MB here in Knoxville. It's Christmas in February, it seems. Whoopee!

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In the Money section of USA Today this morning, Byron Acohido reports on the state of podcasting and at the end of the article describes MixCast Live and quotes its author, James Prudente. For those of you who may be new to podcasting, this article will give you an overview of what it is and how you can find and listen to some of the selections available.

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My 80-year-old friend, Paul Moor, who lives in Berlin, called at his usual time this morning to report that he underwent successful cataract surgery on his right eye today. He had been anticipating the operation with fear and trembling, but he reported that it was over almost before he knew it. He said he recalled that they administered a shot to his hand and the next thing he knew it was over. There was absolutely no pain and though he must now wear a bandage over his eye for a few days, he is eager to get the other eye done now as quickly as possible. In an interesting concession to modern technology, the doctors gave him a video tape of the operation so that he can watch it when he chooses. Now if he can manage to get through the next several days of walking his beloved dog, Maxe, without incident while he has the bandage on his eye, he'll have come through this experience with flying colors.

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James Prudente announced this afternoon that the pre-release version of MixCast Live is now available. See his announcement here.

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If you haven't downloaded Skype, what the hell are you waiting for?

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