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**One of the best ways to ignite your own cozy FIRE is to live life as a lazy digital nomad. And all you need to do is browse the Internet and type things on your keyboard. We're lighting a FIRE the easy way on the ProcrastiN8r Podcast 2 weeks ago (lvl 11. I said 10 but it's 11 and I'm too lazy to re-record the whole thing) we talked about how to FIND your niche. Today we're looking at.... Top 10 Ways on  how to WRITE CONTENT for your niche...with as little effort as possible Without further ado, let's BURN...right into it You can't just blog to everybody! Blogging to everybody is blogging to nobody. Find. Your. Niche. NEWSJACKING (or as I call it “Procrasi-logging) involves finding a relevant trending topic and repurposing it for your own blog 10. Look at Your Competition AppSumo Look up a topic, then see the top articles related to that keyword View social media share stats for Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit as well as Total Engagement. Evergreen score (how long after it's published is it still being shared?) Take a look at magazine websites (headlines, images, language/slang used) Subscribe to top content creators in your niche. To find blogs, get an RSS Reader like Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, or Flipboard Listen to podcasts. Watch YouTube and Twitch. 9. Read the News Search Google News for a topic related to your niche and look at the top articles. Go to a site like AllTop or Reddit to find topic specific news (niche specific) Look at an article, video, or podcasts as if you're in the room talking to them in a conversation. What can you add to the conversation? What insight is missing? Can you add a joke or something funny? 8.See What People Are Talking About and How They Are Engaging RedditList Type keyword related to niche, find relevant subreddits You could look at the official Reddit as well to find But Redditlist includes Subscriber rank (compared to other subreddits) and subscriber growth. Reddit list does NOT include all subreddits. Search relevant hashtags on Twitter, groups or Pages on Facebook, Pins on Pinterest, stories and posts on Instagram. See which posts are getting the most engagement and what type of emotional reaction the commenters are having. Write content that purposely sparks that emotion in your language (anger, sadness, joy, laughter, fear, etc.) Look at the comments of what people are saying on reddit, blog posts, and news sites. Pay attention to what's happening in the conversation. Are there points you agree with and could build upon with your own spin or maybe something you disagree with. 7. Find Out What People Are ASKING About What do people in your niche want to know? What are some common problems or concerns? Attend Livestreams and Webinars. Take notes not only on the content itself but What are people asking? What kind of comments are they saying? Look at FAQs of sites within your niche  and build content answering them in your own words. (eg. There might be “How do I get rid of background noise like fans in my audio?” on a software like Audacity or Adobe Audition or “How do I promote my brand on Facebook” on a site related to online marketing or “How do I receive dividends?” on a stock exchange site/app) 6. Always C&P Participate in forums and Reddit discussions yourself. Comment on FB posts, YouTube videos, Instagram photos. Answer questions on Quora, ehow, or Yahoo Answers. Amazon and other shopping sites are great if your niche is more product focused; you can look at the reviews and asked questions. Copy and Paste your own comments into a note taking app like Evernote, Microsoft OneNote, Dropbox Paper,  or Google Keep. Tag it with relevant tags and give it a title so you'll remember the gist of what you're saying at a glance. Include a link to the comments. Color code it to make it easy to find in the future Remember: it's important to ALWAYS copy & paste your comment BEFORE you even post it, maybe even create a note first and copy it from there. Because if someone deletes your comment or their post  or changes the privacy settings or blocks you (or shuts down the website altogether if it's a forum/blog), it's gone FOREVER. You can't necessarily rely on the Web Archive.org. Keep your own records of the thing you say online related to your niche. You'll thank me later. 5. Save It For Later Take advantage of Pinterest's “secret boards” to collect ideas for blogs or craft projects in the future Similarly, you can save links, images, and videos on FB's Save for Later feature. You can change your privacy settings for a specific post you create so “Only You” can see it then just save it for later. You can Save Reddit posts and comments. Save articles you find on the web & you plan to re-write or read/comment on with the click of a button  using a bookmarking app like Evernote Webclipper, Pocket, Pinboard, or Instapaper. You can also just use the built-in bookmarking feature in your browser, since nowadays you can signin to Chrome or FireFox or Edge or whatever and sync your bookmarks and history across multiple devices. 4. Chat it up! In your daily life, you talk to your friends and family about the things you like. Take note of the points made in the conversation or use the recording app on your phone. The note apps (google Keep, etc) also allows to save voice notes. Or heck, record the conversation (with permission, don't be a creep) on your phone. Start a forum topic and see where the discussion leads. Repurpose it for a blog post. When you reach enough notoriety and level of trust and authority, people will come to you with questions on social media. Actually reach out and talk to people. Hit them up in their DMs. Note the type of questions they're asking you. And if you're not established as a source of authority in your niche yet: Find people that are. Interview guests. Record it then transcribe it, using the autotranscibe tool Scribie. All you do is ask questions and they give answers. You don't even have to know anything. 3. Share It Write a quick blurb about a video or photo or infographic and share it as a post You can even re-word top rated comments already said on other sites. This is one of the laziest ways to create content. Find something already being liked and shared then make a comment similar to one that's also being liked/upvoted/gilded in your blog post. 2. Rinse & Repeat it Find a way to recycle old content, dig it back up and make it look a bit different by re-wording it. This works well if your in a niche that requires advice. You'll find yourself repeating the same advice over and over again. But that's okay, our brains learn from repeated information and stimuli. Use an online thesaurus to get suggestions for alternative words to use in your writing. You can also take a specific quote from an interview and do a deep dive/analysis of it. All that is is rewording what the person said in several different ways. The only thing you are doing is taking previously written or spoken words and rearranging them or replacing them with similar words. You simply express the content using different vocabulary. See what I did there? 1. Go Behind the Scenes Show pictures of your office, recording setup, gear, etc. Show things from your personally life (the game you're playing, the movie you're watching, the pizza you're eating, etc.) You should only do this on occasion. The site is about your niche and not your personal diary. 0. Talk about what you already talked about but do it a bit different Self explanatory. You get the point now. What to Avoid Writing: Verbatim (word for word) Fake News (unless that's your niche) Sounding boring How to Find Your Niche the Easy Way I said this episode was Lvl 10, but it's actually Lvl 11 and I'm too lazy to re-record and fix it. Meh whatever. You'll figure it out. Get Free Images for Your Blog: FreePik NeedPix**

Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Sanjiv Jha of Scribie. Scribie.com is a audio/video transcription service where you can get high quality transcripts of your interviews, meetings, podcasts, videos, webinars, etc.Scribie is an online platform that provides audio and video transcription services. It offers automated transcription using speech recognition software, as well as human-powered transcription for higher accuracy. Users can upload their audio or video files to the platform, and then select the desired transcription service. Scribie has a team of professional transcribers who work to deliver accurate transcriptions within a short turnaround time. The platform offers different pricing plans based on the level of service and turnaround time selected by the user.Learn more about them and visit their website https://scribie.com/-----Do you want to be interviewed for your business?  Schedule time with us, and we'll create a podcast like this for your business:  https://www.WriteForMe.io/-----https://www.facebook.com/writeforme.iohttps://www.instagram.com/writeforme.io/https://twitter.com/writeformeiohttps://www.linkedin.com/company/writeforme/https://www.pinterest.com/andysteuer/Want to be interviewed on our Business Ninjas podcast? Schedule time with us now, and we'll make it happen right away! Check out WriteForMe, more than just a Content Agency! See the Faces Behind The Voices on our YouTube Channel!

I've used Otter for transcriptions and they recently changed their pricing and more importantly reduced the amount of time you can upload files to be transcribed. So I began to search for a replacement. I found Scribie.Scribie is great for audio or video transcriptions.24-hour turnaround time for Human transcription at 80 cents per minuteFree SRT files for subtitling4-step transcription process designed to achieve a 99% accuracyChoose to be a Pay-as-you-go customer or for more discounted rates subscribe to our Pro Plan or a custom planFrom their website:It takes around 8 hours to transcribe a 1-hour file by hand as per industry standards. We plan to cut it down to 10 minutes.We believe that accuracy is the most important requirement of a transcript. A low-accuracy transcript is a waste of human time and effort. We have therefore reimagined transcription for the digital age and built it from the bottom up with the goals of quality, consistency, and repeatability in mind. Our system is an assembly line where the transcript is prepared collectively by our transcribers following a well-defined processMore Information on Their WebsiteThe School of Podcasting now comes with unlimited one-on-one coaching. You can join worry-free with a 30-day money-back- guarantee. The School of Podcasting has step-by-step courses, one-on-one and group coaching, and a fabulous community fille with brilliant podcasting minds. Come join the community to plan, launch, and grow your podcast.Support the showThis episode is brought to you by the School of Podcasting. Join the community and get access to courses, coaching and community and grow your show with helpful feedback, resources, and strategies. Check out all of our resources at podcastingresources.com

Mijon and Jude test out and report on some of the best tools for transcribing podcasts. Rev, Scribie, Sonix, Otter.ai, Descript, and Happyscribe are some of the tools covered. They mostly do exactly what they say!

If you're like Jim Garrity, court reporting and transcript costs have become a major factor in your firm's or organization's operations. Smaller firms are having trouble surviving, because they can't afford to carry tens of thousands of dollars in transcript costs. Larger firms are having to adjust as well. What to do? In this episode, Jim identifies some excellent alternatives to traditional stenographic reporting services. Depending on the size of your practice, these alternatives can save you tens of thousands of dollars in every case. As always, you'll find links in the show notes for anything Jim mentions. Note: The recommendations he makes are his own. No compensation was paid by any company mentioned in this episode. SHOW NOTES: StoryCloud deposition transcription: https://www.Storycloud.co ( https://www.Storycloud.com ) Parrot Transcription: https://www.parrothq.com Rev: https://rev.com Scribie: https://Scribie.com TranscribeMe: https://www.TranscribeMe.com Buy the book on which this podcast is based: 10,000 Depositions Later: The Premier Litigation Guide for Superior Deposition Practice, on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/000-Depositions-Later-Litigation-Deposition-ebook/dp/B07XTDNTNP

In a nutshell: Podcast Transcription is essential to good PR. This article covers three means of getting it done. You can do it yourself, with some simple tools. You can hire a freelancer. You can try a service. This article will also discuss the pros and cons, whys and hows, of a few different transcription services. We think of podcasting as a purely aural medium, but we ignore podcast transcription at our peril (not to sound like a character from I, Claudius). In all seriousness, if your podcast doesn't have transcripts, that's an awful lot of audience you're missing.“Wait a minute!” you say. “Transcripts are more time and money. How much do you expect me to invest in this podcasting thing? What's in it for me?”We've already talked about why you should use transcripts. It bears repeating, however: 11 million people in the UK and 10 million people in the US are d/Deaf or hard of hearing Many folks have auditory processing disorders Transcripts of your podcast episodes can boost your search engine optimization Transcripts are another avenue for more people to understand and engage with your content. In this article, we're not going to talk about why you want to invest the additional work or money into podcast transcription. We're going to talk about different methods or companies that you can use to get your podcasts transcribed, and in front of your audience.DIY Methods for Podcast TranscriptionIf your podcast is a scripted audio drama, you can certainly use that script. You can also sit down and type out your podcast's recording, word for word. If you're already a professional stenographer, this won't bother you too much. However, not many people have that skill set or patience.Dictation Software HackAnother option for podcast transcription (recommended in a livestream by our friends at Music Radio Creative) is to use Google Docs voice typing. Here's how it works: Open up Chrome (you have to use Google's Chrome browser, otherwise the tool isn't available) Go to Google Docs and open a fresh document Click on Tools and select Voice Typing from the drop-down menu. A nifty little icon of a microphone will appear. At the top of the microphone, select your language. Open up your DAW and start playing the sound file you want transcribed. Click the little microphone icon. It'll change colors. As the microphone picks up the dialogue, the text will appear on screen. When you try this, make sure that the audio is cued up at the point where you want it transcribed. if you let it run through a minute of intro music or so, the voice typing tool won't recognize the music as anything useful, and will shut itself off.Google's Voice Typing was pretty good at recognizing what I said when I tried it. To test its accuracy, I selected UK English, US English, and Nigerian English, to see if there would be differences in the resulting text. There wasn't.You'll end up with pages and pages of unpunctuated text. It's very stream-of-consciousness. You will have to go through it and format it, put in punctuation and check for errors. However, it saves you a lot of time over typing the audio word for word.There's a quality control issue here, as well. You may notice as you're making this podcast transcript, that you notice the dialogue as an outsider. Transcribing the podcast yourself will help you see the details of what you talk about, and how.Video CaptionsAnother DIY method is to use your audio to make a video, upload it to YouTube, and use its closed captioning to provide a transcript. I can't vouch for the accuracy of YouTube's closed captioning. Joe Rogan uses this exclusively, and it works for him. Your mileage may vary.Headliner is a free app which can be used to make audiograms (and it's fun to use). It's 100% worth your time to try it out, and see how its captioning system fits your podcast.Think about your SEO for a second. Google's Product Manager for Google, Brad Ellis, spoke about automatic captioning and SEO at the Streaming Media Conference in 2016. He said that when a YouTube user uploads their own captions, Google does index them. But, because the automatic transcriptions are error-prone, they are not indexed. Granted, this was four years ago, and the technology may have changed. For now, if your SEO is your most important reason for having transcripts, it's best not to rely on YouTube's automatic captioning only.Many people consume their podcasts via YouTube. It's not a bad idea to make them available there with captions. But it shouldn't be your only way of publishing those transcripts.Outsourcing Podcast TranscriptionIf you don't want to do the transcription yourself, you have a few options. They are: Humans (having someone else do it for you) Artificial Intelligence (a software does it) A combination of both Human TranscriptionThis is the most accurate version of podcast transcription that you can use. Humans can understand context and spoken sound in a way that machines can't. If your podcast uses the sentence, “Let's eat Grandma,” a human would know where to put the comma, while a machine might not. It's also not cheap. Some transcribers charge by how long it takes them to do the work, others by how much audio you supply. In most cases, it's between $1-$2 per minute of transcribed audio. If you look at a site like Upwork or fiverr.com, you can find a fair number of freelance transcribers.GoTranscript offers “100% Human-Generated Transcription Services,” and offer a minimum of 6-hour turnaround time. Their prices vary by how soon you need your podcast transcript finished, and how long your audio files are. Expect to spend around 80 cents to $2 per minute.If you have a loyal fan or close friend who loves your podcast, you may be able to get them to volunteer to transcribe your podcast in a skill swap. Ask them if they would transcribe an episode or two of your podcast in exchange for helping them move house.Artificial IntelligenceIf you've ever asked Siri to send a text message for you, or if you've asked Google to look something up, you've used something like one of these services.Trint offers monthly or annual subscription packages ($60-$85), with a 7-day free trial. They range by the amount of files you can upload per month, and how many users you can have on the account. However, since a file can be any duration, the starter package would fit most indie podcasters, if you organize your audio files well. Trint also has an iPhone app.Temi is very similar, with one price tier: 25 cents a minute. Their free trial provides one transcript, of a 45 minute audio file. Their free demo not only shows you how it transcribes a news piece with multiple speakers and accents, but also will let you practice editing the piece to test the interface. This free demo is 100% worth your time to look at, because it can show you good transcript layout.Descript offers a free trial for the first 3 hours of speech uploaded. After that, the service is $14-18 a month. They say that they can turn around a 60-minute sound file in about three minutes.Sonix is another quick and inexpensive podcast transcription service. The Standard package is $10 per hour of uploaded audio. The Premium tier is $5 per hour and $22 per user, per month. Sonix provides transcription in multiple languages, even at the Standard level. Their free trial includes 30 minutes of transcription service.Artificial and Human IntelligenceThese services use a combination of AI transcription, with a human checking for accuracy and consistency.Scribie offers a pay-as-you-go system, either fully automated for ten cents a minute, or eighty cents a minute for automated transcription with a human editor. They add on an extra fifty cents if your audio is poor, noisy (speaker isn't distinct from the background), or for “accented speakers.” They say that it's fifty cents a minute for American speakers. This makes me want to send them a sound file in an accent so Philly, it sounds like I live underneath the Market Frankford El. An integrated editor lets you make changes if necessary.Rev.com might be the most well-known podcast transcription service; it was included on Forbes' AI 50 list. Its automated transcription costs 25 cents a minute, with a 5 minute turnaround time. Their human transcription service is $1.25 a minute, with a 12-hour turnaround time. They can even create foreign subtitles for video, for $3-$7 per minute. Some podcast hosting services (such as Castos) include transcriptions using Rev.com for an additional fee.Podcast Transcription: SummaryYour podcast transcript can build and sustain your audience. It can bolster your SEO, and make your content more meaningful to others. Remember, audio transcription services in general rely on people who need work-from-home jobs, such as disabled people or caregivers. Not only are they working on your podcast transcription, they can be working on medical lectures, court documents, emergency calls, things that are high-stakes, taxing, boring, or disturbing. The compensation for transcription workers is a controversial topic, one worth discussing on its own. Take this under consideration, when you're weighing price and turnaround time. It's probably the most ethical option to hire an individual freelancer, or barter a skills trade for podcast transcription with a trusted friend. As you choose how to release your content, you may want to consider the relationships you make, and businesses you support, along the way.Need More Help?Good podcast transcripts aren't the only element of podcast promotion. The Podcast Academy has courses and resources to help you with everything from mic technique to unlocking the secrets of DAW. Plus, the weekly Live Q&As provide an opportunity for you to get specific assistance on any aspect of podcast creation. Join us now.

Do you have a podcast? Or make videos? Have you ever thought about having them transcribed? On this episode of the Organizing Your Business podcast, I talk to you about the importance of transcribing as well as my favorite transcribing service. I explain how a transcription of your video or podcast will help with SEO by increasing your word count and keyword count. And I rave about my new favorite transcription service. Episode Highlights: 03:22 - One of the factors for SEO is longer posts, more words in your posts. 04:00 - If you podcast or make videos, you may have highlights or links, but your posts will have very few words. 04:24 - Search engines aren’t able to listen to your podcasts to understand your content. 06:42 - Transcription allows you to have way more words in your posts. 07:38 - Also, words on the page are much easier to skim if someone doesn’t have a lot of time, or the desire or ability to listen. 08:52 - You don’t have to transcribe your own podcasts, there are companies that will do it for you. It’s important to choose a transcription company that will complete quality work and give you the best results. 11:37 - The new transcription service I recommend and why I love them. 15:43 - Where you should put the transcriptions? 16:40 - Your free gift - On-Page SEO checklist linked below. 3 Key Points: Transcribing allows you to have more words in your posts, which helps your SEO. If you aren’t able, there are companies that can transcribe your videos for a fee. I recommend Scribie for video transcriptions. Resources Mentioned: Scribie On-Page SEO Checklist Tia Hain Email Organizing Your Business Podcast ON-PAGE SEO CHECKLIST - https://tiahain.com/onpageseo ORGANIZING YOUR BUSINESS SHOW NOTES AND TRANSCRIPT - https://tiahain.com/60 TIA HAIN LINKEDIN - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiahain/ TIA HAIN INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/tiahain/ TIA HAIN FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/TiaHainPage/ TIA HAIN PINTEREST - https://www.pinterest.com/TiaHainOrganize/

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Repurpose or recycle your content. In this episode 12 of Build Your Army podcast, where we are automatically stacking our income and building an army against all the stuff that we dislike when trying to generate revenue, we are talking about multiple sources of web traffic and we're going to talk about re-purposing the same content. This is how I do it: I create a video that you're watching on YouTube, possibly, or on my website, and then I splice out the audio so that I put it on iTunes or Spotify or Stitcher or Google Play or wherever you listen to your podcast, and then I send the audio to a transcription service called Scribie. The link will be provided if you like to look into it. Pretty cool prices, a very fast service. I get that transcribed for my blog. My podcast episodes have a video component, an audio component, and a text search engine-optimized component to it. But I create the content once, I edit it, then I use that finished video to splice out the audio 'cause then the audio would been automatically edited. Then I take that edited audio, and I send it to the transcription service, to transcribe it into text format, because if I tried to just transcribe a 10-minute podcast or video, it would probably take me hours and I would rather just create the content, hire out, which will lead me to outsourcing in another episode as well, probably episode 13, 'cause I think this is episode 12. [chuckle] I'm horrible at keeping track. Then I have all three forms of media. I can take some of that and summarize it into an Instagram post, I can put some of it into any other format like Twitter, a tweet, I can put that into an email to let people know about the content of the episode and the discovery that I'm providing you when I'm in my content, or whatever the case. And because I'm targeting multiple sources of web traffic at the same time, I get... Basically, I appear everywhere, I try to appear everywhere, so that you find me everywhere so that more eyeballs can see my offer. And that's your goal as well. More eyeballs on your offer, more website visitors. I remember having a web affiliate program where I was selling software, and before Google slapped my website because I had duplicate content on it that I completely forgot about, but before that happened, I was getting 40,000 monthly unique visitors to the website. The site was making $2,400 a month, completely automated. I wasn't speaking to anybody. My activity was sitting at a coffee shop blogging away and generating search engine-optimized traffic. Only had one traffic source, which was Google. And I was ranking number one for a very competitive highly-searched keyword, and that was generating probably 38,000... Or sorry, 35,000 of my unique web visitors. Basically, whatever my unique visitor total was, only like 6000 of it didn't come from the one keyword search. It always freaked me out 'cause I technically had a one-legged table, I only had one source of web traffic. And when Google slapped it for having duplicate content, that business dried up quick. What I should have been doing was generating or creating an email list, because I would have been able to still email those potential customers my continued offer while my website was being built back up in the Google rankings and I was fixing that duplicate content. Which, never do that by the way, never copy and paste content from any other site onto yours, because one day, Google will slap you. [chuckle] And don't rely on one source of traffic, so if you're paying... Doing pay-per-click ads, start some organic component to it or vice versa, and always have multiple sources of traffic going. So, if you have a YouTube channel and for whatever reason, YouTube stops liking you and stops ranking you or shuts you down or something, which happens to certain people, then you have the iTunes as a backup. If it happens with iTunes, you have YouTube as backup. So always repurpose and recycle your content.

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One of the best ways to ignite your own cozy FIRE is to live life as a lazy digital nomad. And all you need to do is browse the Internet and type things on your keyboard. We're lighting a FIRE the easy way on the ProcrastiN8r Podcast 2 weeks ago (lvl 11. I said 10 but it's 11 and I'm too lazy to re-record the whole thing) we talked about how to FIND your niche. Today we're looking at.... Top 10 Ways on how to WRITE CONTENT for your niche...with as little effort as possible Without further ado, let's BURN...right into it You can't just blog to everybody! Blogging to everybody is blogging to nobody. Find. Your. Niche. NEWSJACKING (or as I call it “Procrasi-logging) involves finding a relevant trending topic and repurposing it for your own blog 10. Look at Your Competition AppSumo Look up a topic, then see the top articles related to that keyword View social media share stats for Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit as well as Total Engagement. Evergreen score (how long after it's published is it still being shared?) Take a look at magazine websites (headlines, images, language/slang used) Subscribe to top content creators in your niche. To find blogs, get an RSS Reader like Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, or Flipboard Listen to podcasts. Watch YouTube and Twitch. 9. Read the News Search Google News for a topic related to your niche and look at the top articles. Go to a site like AllTop or Reddit to find topic specific news (niche specific) Look at an article, video, or podcasts as if you're in the room talking to them in a conversation. What can you add to the conversation? What insight is missing? Can you add a joke or something funny? 8.See What People Are Talking About and How They Are Engaging RedditList Type keyword related to niche, find relevant subreddits You could look at the official Reddit as well to find But Redditlist includes Subscriber rank (compared to other subreddits) and subscriber growth. Reddit list does NOT include all subreddits. Search relevant hashtags on Twitter, groups or Pages on Facebook, Pins on Pinterest, stories and posts on Instagram. See which posts are getting the most engagement and what type of emotional reaction the commenters are having. Write content that purposely sparks that emotion in your language (anger, sadness, joy, laughter, fear, etc.) Look at the comments of what people are saying on reddit, blog posts, and news sites. Pay attention to what's happening in the conversation. Are there points you agree with and could build upon with your own spin or maybe something you disagree with. 7. Find Out What People Are ASKING About What do people in your niche want to know? What are some common problems or concerns? Attend Livestreams and Webinars. Take notes not only on the content itself but What are people asking? What kind of comments are they saying? Look at FAQs of sites within your niche and build content answering them in your own words. (eg. There might be “How do I get rid of background noise like fans in my audio?” on a software like Audacity or Adobe Audition or “How do I promote my brand on Facebook” on a site related to online marketing or “How do I receive dividends?” on a stock exchange site/app) 6. Always C&P Participate in forums and Reddit discussions yourself. Comment on FB posts, YouTube videos, Instagram photos. Answer questions on Quora, ehow, or Yahoo Answers. Amazon and other shopping sites are great if your niche is more product focused; you can look at the reviews and asked questions. Copy and Paste your own comments into a note taking app like Evernote, Microsoft OneNote, Dropbox Paper, or Google Keep. Tag it with relevant tags and give it a title so you'll remember the gist of what you're saying at a glance. Include a link to the comments. Color code it to make it easy to find in the future Remember: it's important to ALWAYS copy & paste your comment BEFORE you even post it, maybe even create a note first and copy it from there. Because if someone deletes your comment or their post or changes the privacy settings or blocks you (or shuts down the website altogether if it's a forum/blog), it's gone FOREVER. You can't necessarily rely on the Web Archive.org. Keep your own records of the thing you say online related to your niche. You'll thank me later. 5. Save It For Later Take advantage of Pinterest's “secret boards” to collect ideas for blogs or craft projects in the future Similarly, you can save links, images, and videos on FB's Save for Later feature. You can change your privacy settings for a specific post you create so “Only You” can see it then just save it for later. You can Save Reddit posts and comments. Save articles you find on the web & you plan to re-write or read/comment on with the click of a button using a bookmarking app like Evernote Webclipper, Pocket, Pinboard, or Instapaper. You can also just use the built-in bookmarking feature in your browser, since nowadays you can signin to Chrome or FireFox or Edge or whatever and sync your bookmarks and history across multiple devices. 4. Chat it up! In your daily life, you talk to your friends and family about the things you like. Take note of the points made in the conversation or use the recording app on your phone. The note apps (google Keep, etc) also allows to save voice notes. Or heck, record the conversation (with permission, don't be a creep) on your phone. Start a forum topic and see where the discussion leads. Repurpose it for a blog post. When you reach enough notoriety and level of trust and authority, people will come to you with questions on social media. Actually reach out and talk to people. Hit them up in their DMs. Note the type of questions they're asking you. And if you're not established as a source of authority in your niche yet: Find people that are. Interview guests. Record it then transcribe it, using the autotranscibe tool Scribie. All you do is ask questions and they give answers. You don't even have to know anything. 3. Share It Write a quick blurb about a video or photo or infographic and share it as a post You can even re-word top rated comments already said on other sites. This is one of the laziest ways to create content. Find something already being liked and shared then make a comment similar to one that's also being liked/upvoted/gilded in your blog post. 2. Rinse & Repeat it Find a way to recycle old content, dig it back up and make it look a bit different by re-wording it. This works well if your in a niche that requires advice. You'll find yourself repeating the same advice over and over again. But that's okay, our brains learn from repeated information and stimuli. Use an online thesaurus to get suggestions for alternative words to use in your writing. You can also take a specific quote from an interview and do a deep dive/analysis of it. All that is is rewording what the person said in several different ways. The only thing you are doing is taking previously written or spoken words and rearranging them or replacing them with similar words. You simply express the content using different vocabulary. See what I did there? 1. Go Behind the Scenes Show pictures of your office, recording setup, gear, etc. Show things from your personally life (the game you're playing, the movie you're watching, the pizza you're eating, etc.) You should only do this on occasion. The site is about your niche and not your personal diary. 0. Talk about what you already talked about but do it a bit different Self explanatory. You get the point now. What to Avoid Writing: Verbatim (word for word) Fake News (unless that's your niche) Sounding boring How to Find Your Niche the Easy Way I said this episode was Lvl 10, but it's actually Lvl 11 and I'm too lazy to re-record and fix it. Meh whatever. You'll figure it out. Get Free Images for Your Blog: FreePik NeedPix

Most entrepreneurs know Aisha Sheikh as a Singularity Global Solutions Program Fellow and Ventures Incubator participant, Stanford ChangeLabs Senior Designer and Strategist, and Design Elective Teacher at The Nueva School. However, all of that went out the window, and we just wanted to talk with Aisha, the human. Aisha the Human thinks about things like the unpredictability and constantly evolving identities of humans, how "where they've come from, what they're doing today, it doesn't mean anything about what could happen in the future for them. " Aisha's site: www.aishasheikh.com Podcast site: www.talkhumanto.me Podcast Host site: www.jeffreychadshiau.com Equipment & Software: Yeti Microphone: http://amzn.to/2xPQffU Ice Microphone: http://amzn.to/2x8nveN  Audacity for Mac WD My Passport Ultra 1 TB: http://amzn.to/2fC0wCB Macbook Pro Retina 15inch Late 2013 Transcription by Scribie.com - https://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=GD5m8iq4li4&event=video_description&q=https%3A%2F%2Fscribie.com%2Faccount%2Fsign-up%3Frc%3D4fd1b5cc0858404ab543b84dbe3484a0086961fe&redir_token=lI3DluiKe37cajaAgTYq1MXbZYR8MTUwNzA0MzA5OEAxNTA2OTU2Njk4 * These are affiliate links! This means if you purchase these items through these links, you are supporting me with some income! Thanks in advance. Music: Smile by Daniel Alan Gautreau Tiny Bits by Felipe Adorno Vassao Time and Reflection by Bjorn Lynne Retro Video Game Hotseat by Bjorn Lynne

"You can live a certain way your entire life and charge down a route with a super firm belief. And that can give you strength, it can give you compassion, it can give you the willpower to achieve anything. And then, the minute that faith is broken, hypothetically, you can completely revert 180 degrees in the complete opposite direction. And that possibility of change is just really fascinating to me how one single point in time, one single action can change everything." | Benjamin Wong AKA Von Wong sits down to talk human to me about the unlimited range of flexibility in which people can stretch and change over time. | Talk Human To Me is a podcast for entrepreneurs, that has nothing to do with entrepreneurship. Listen in as doers, makers, & creators remind us about all the other parts that make us complete humans. Benjamin's Website: vonwong.com (http://www.vonwong.com/) Podcast Website:  www.talkhumanto.me (https://www.talkhumanto.me/) Host Website:  www.jeffreychadshiau.com (https://www.jeffreychadshiau.com/) Equipment & Software: Yeti Microphone: http://amzn.to/2xPQffU Ice Microphone: http://amzn.to/2x8nveN by Blue Microphones Audacity for Mac WD My Passport Ultra 1 TB: http://amzn.to/2fC0wCB Macbook Pro Retina 15inch Late 2013 Transcription by Scribie.com - https://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=GD5m8iq4li4&event=video_description&q=https%3A%2F%2Fscribie.com%2Faccount%2Fsign-up%3Frc%3D4fd1b5cc0858404ab543b84dbe3484a0086961fe&redir_token=lI3DluiKe37cajaAgTYq1MXbZYR8MTUwNzA0MzA5OEAxNTA2OTU2Njk4 * These are affiliate links! This means if you purchase these items through these links, you are supporting me with some income! Thanks in advance. Music: Smile by Daniel Alan Gautreau Tiny Bits by Felipe Adorno Vassao Time and Reflection by Bjorn Lynne Retro Video Game Hotseat by Bjorn Lynne

This week, a new family tree of dog breeds, advances in artificial wombs, and an autonomous robot that can print a building with Online News Editor David Grimm.   Viviane Slon joins Sarah Crespi to discuss a new way to seek out ancient humans—without finding fossils or bones—by screening sediments for ancient DNA.   Jen Golbeck interviews Andrew Shtulman, author of Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong for this month's book segment.    Listen to previous podcasts.   See more book segments.     Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: nimis69/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

This week, a new family tree of dog breeds, advances in artificial wombs, and an autonomous robot that can print a building with Online News Editor David Grimm.   Viviane Slon joins Sarah Crespi to discuss a new way to seek out ancient humans—without finding fossils or bones—by screening sediments for ancient DNA.   Jen Golbeck interviews Andrew Shtulman, author of Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong for this month’s book segment.    Listen to previous podcasts.   See more book segments.     Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: nimis69/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]  

This week, meteors' hiss may come from radio waves, pigeons that build on the wings of those that came before, and a potential answer to the century-old mystery of what turned two lions into people eaters with Online News Editor David Grimm. Elise Amel joins Julia Rosen to discuss the role of evolution and psychology in humans' ability to overcome norms and change the world, as part of a special issue on conservation this week in Science. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript  Transcripts courtesy Scribie.com  [Image: bjdlzx/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

This week, meteors’ hiss may come from radio waves, pigeons that build on the wings of those that came before, and a potential answer to the century-old mystery of what turned two lions into people eaters with Online News Editor David Grimm. Elise Amel joins Julia Rosen to discuss the role of evolution and psychology in humans’ ability to overcome norms and change the world, as part of a special issue on conservation this week in Science. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript  Transcripts courtesy Scribie.com  [Image: bjdlzx/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

This week, viruses as remnants of a fourth domain of life, a scan of many Tibetan genomes reveals seven new genes potentially related to high-altitude life, and doubts about dark energy with Online News Editor David Grimm. Danielle Li joins Sarah Crespi to discuss her study quantifying the impact of government funding on innovation by linking patents to U.S. National Institutes of Health grants. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: artubo/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

This week, viruses as remnants of a fourth domain of life, a scan of many Tibetan genomes reveals seven new genes potentially related to high-altitude life, and doubts about dark energy with Online News Editor David Grimm. Danielle Li joins Sarah Crespi to discuss her study quantifying the impact of government funding on innovation by linking patents to U.S. National Institutes of Health grants. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: artubo/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

This week, new estimates for the depths of the world's lakes, a video game that could help kids be safer bike riders, and teaching autonomous cars to read road signs with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Ariana Orvell joins Sarah Crespi to discuss her study of how the word “you” is used when people recount meaningful experiences. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: VisualCommunications/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

This week, new estimates for the depths of the world’s lakes, a video game that could help kids be safer bike riders, and teaching autonomous cars to read road signs with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Ariana Orvell joins Sarah Crespi to discuss her study of how the word “you” is used when people recount meaningful experiences. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: VisualCommunications/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

This week, what bear-mounted cameras can tell us about their caribou-hunting habits, ants that mix up their own medicine, and feeling alienated by emotional robots with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Lizzie Wade joins Sarah Crespi to discuss new thinking on the origins of democracy outside of Europe, based on archeological sites in Mexico. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: rpbirdman/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

This week, what bear-mounted cameras can tell us about their caribou-hunting habits, ants that mix up their own medicine, and feeling alienated by emotional robots with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Lizzie Wade joins Sarah Crespi to discuss new thinking on the origins of democracy outside of Europe, based on archeological sites in Mexico. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: rpbirdman/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

This week, how Flickr photos could help predict floods, why it might be a good idea to ignore some cyberattacks, and new questions about the existence of human pheromones with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Sarah Richardson joins Alexa Billow to discuss a global project to build a set of working yeast chromosomes from the ground up. Read Sarah Richardson's research in Science. Listen to previous podcasts.   Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: Drew Gurian; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

This week, how Flickr photos could help predict floods, why it might be a good idea to ignore some cyberattacks, and new questions about the existence of human pheromones with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Sarah Richardson joins Alexa Billow to discuss a global project to build a set of working yeast chromosomes from the ground up. Read Sarah Richardson’s research in Science. Listen to previous podcasts.   Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: Drew Gurian; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

Spreaker Live Show #79 for Sept 7th, 2016Our Topics This Week: - How To Be A Great Podcast Host - The Benefits Of Transcribing Your Podcast Audio- Newly Released IAB Podcast Ad Metric GuidelinesShow Duration: 52 minutesHost: Rob Greenlee, Head of Content, Spreaker @robgreenlee - rob(at)spreaker(dotcom)Co-Host: Alex Exum, Spreaker Host of "The Exum Experience" and the "Spreaker Studio Review" shows at @AlexExumWe had some feedback from SLS75: How to Start Making Money with your Podcast:Gail Nobles I gave the subject of copyrighted music some more thought. It may be good that we don't play copyrighted music because it can give podcasting some space to do something radio is not doing. We don't need everything doing the same thing. At least podcast can recognize some music.Gail NoblesNo copyrighted music huh? Well, if it's never a good idea, radio will have no problems in the future.Spreaker Blog at http://Blog.Spreaker.com – Articles and Spreaker News- I will be at the coming Mid-Atlantic Podcast Conference in Philly - Sept 9-10 - Moderating Hall of Fame Panel and Sponsoring an awards event - Live streaming at the event - http://podcastmidatlantic.comOur Tip of the Week is a Blog Post: The Benefits Of Transcribing Your Podcast AudioWhy should you transcribe your show?1. Reading or. ListeningReading is much faster than listening, and many of your show’s visitors might prefer to quickly scan a transcript of your content before listening to it – including your existing audience. It’s important that your podcast catches your listeners’ attention even before they press play, and giving them an at-a-glance look at what your podcast’s all about could help you gain new listeners and keep your current fans. In short, make sure to add (a part of) your podcast’s transcription to your show notes, and that you’ve used great artwork!2. Social Media SharingIncluding the complete text of your audio on your episode’s page makes it easier for people to share it via Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and the myriad of other social media sites out there. Your listeners can copy and paste quotes or highlight a particular section and share it with their own network in a pinch. Higher sharing rates mean more traffic towards your show. You’ll also be able to write other blog posts using your transcribed content that can be shared later on. “Some of you might podcast for the fun they get out of it, others because they want to share their expertise and yet others because they want to push their business forward. So why not reuse something you already have produced and turn it into something new.” (Podigee.com)3. Indexing & SearchThe biggest advantage to having a transcription is that search engines can easily index your content with the available text. Better indexing will lead to more search traffic and visitors, as well as long tail search traffic (meaning those obscure terms that get your episode page to appear in the search results). Your show could get linked by others, and get a higher page ranking.4. How can I easily transcribe my podcast?Creating a transcript can be tedious work, especially if your episode is particularly long. You can do it on your own, but it’s definitely a mindless task that can take up loads of time. Because of this, outsourcing this work is a good option. For our podcasters, Spreaker has partnered with Scribie to offer them the best transcription service available at unbeatable rates. If you want to know more about it, check out our Store section. https://www.spreaker.com/store/transcriptdo that is to use the right font. Another great tip from Daniel J. Lewis: Serif fonts (with “feet”), like Times New Roman, Garamond, or Bodoni, often have thin lines and small details that get lost or blurred at small sizes. Script fonts can be too ornate to be legible, unless they’re really big (and never put a script font in all-caps!). Sans serif fonts (“without feet”), like Arial, Myriad Pro, or Futura, work really well with thick or uniform-thickness lines, clear characters, and strong contrasts from the background. Let’s Dive into our main topic this week “How to Select a Podcast Name”BIG News: IAB Podcast Ad Metric Guidelines have been releasedExecutive SummaryPodcast audiences represent a growing segment of effective marketable media but inheritchallenges of legacy consumption platforms. This restricts the ability for advertisers to obtain the same data parity found in other digital mediums, limiting participation of some advertisers. This document provides an introduction to tracking Ad delivery in a podcast and attempts to provide clarity in the marketplace by describing common and existing practices. Podcasts are downloaded to a device for later listening or for online listening. In most cases the podcast file and any ads included with it are downloaded to a device that doesn't, or can't, send data about the consumption of the podcast and ads. This lack of data beyond ad delivery limits real-time measurement. In contrast, other media are consumed by reading an article and interacting with a site, playing a game, or streaming a video, all of which can be measured in real time. Even audio stations that offer music or news are streamed and measured in real time in today’s media marketplace.Unlike streaming audio, podcast listeners come from an era where files were downloaded. The medium, the distribution, and the platforms used to collect and listen are built around the habit of downloading the file. Tracking content in this time-shifted medium involves filtering server logs to produce meaningful data for measurement. Since podcast technical teams analyze server logs differently, results vary across the industry.The challenge for podcast producers and distributors is to offer buyers a set of metrics that is consistently defined and measured equally across the podcast medium. While ad measurement will always produce some discrepancy in any medium, the definitions in this document aim to reduce measurement discrepancies. This document is the first attempt to bring IAB members together, describe common practices and provide a common set of metric definitions. With a consistent set of podcast advertising metrics, buyers and sellers can engage in a conversation about campaign strategy with confidence.https://iabtechlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Podcast-Metrics_September_2016.pdfLet’s Dive into our main topic this week “How To Lead and Host a Successful Podcast”- What does it take to be a great podcast host? - Do you know a lot about your topic genre? - Do you know how to use a microphone? - Amazing podcast hosts are funny, engaging, friendly (usually) and informed. This is how you can get people to love you over time. Also value your listeners, interact with them as much as possible.- The art of spoken delivery is something that will take time, practice and passion. I know that this seems as though it is something simple, but being great at something just doesn’t happen overnight. - Smile a lot before you record and it will make a HUGE difference in your Show!!1. PRACTICE YOUR AUDIO DELIVERY2. EDUCATE YOURSELF BY LISTENING TO OTHER AUDIO SHOW HOSTS3. BE YOU AND AUTHENTIC. STAY TRUE TO YOURSELF.Spreaker Links:http://Adore.fmhttp://blog.spreaker.comhttp://SpreakerLiveShow.comhttps://Spreaker.comSend Questions and Comments to:Twitter: http://twitter.com/spreaker using #SpreakerLiveTwitter: http://twitter.com/robgreenleeTwitter: http://twitter.com/alexeum Tech Support: support at spreaker.com

Spreaker Live Show #79 for Sept 7th, 2016Our Topics This Week: - How To Be A Great Podcast Host - The Benefits Of Transcribing Your Podcast Audio- Newly Released IAB Podcast Ad Metric GuidelinesShow Duration: 52 minutesHost: Rob Greenlee, Head of Content, Spreaker @robgreenlee - rob(at)spreaker(dotcom)Co-Host: Alex Exum, Spreaker Host of "The Exum Experience" and the "Spreaker Studio Review" shows at @AlexExumWe had some feedback from SLS75: How to Start Making Money with your Podcast:Gail Nobles I gave the subject of copyrighted music some more thought. It may be good that we don't play copyrighted music because it can give podcasting some space to do something radio is not doing. We don't need everything doing the same thing. At least podcast can recognize some music.Gail NoblesNo copyrighted music huh? Well, if it's never a good idea, radio will have no problems in the future.Spreaker Blog at http://Blog.Spreaker.com – Articles and Spreaker News- I will be at the coming Mid-Atlantic Podcast Conference in Philly - Sept 9-10 - Moderating Hall of Fame Panel and Sponsoring an awards event - Live streaming at the event - http://podcastmidatlantic.comOur Tip of the Week is a Blog Post: The Benefits Of Transcribing Your Podcast AudioWhy should you transcribe your show?1. Reading or. ListeningReading is much faster than listening, and many of your show’s visitors might prefer to quickly scan a transcript of your content before listening to it – including your existing audience. It’s important that your podcast catches your listeners’ attention even before they press play, and giving them an at-a-glance look at what your podcast’s all about could help you gain new listeners and keep your current fans. In short, make sure to add (a part of) your podcast’s transcription to your show notes, and that you’ve used great artwork!2. Social Media SharingIncluding the complete text of your audio on your episode’s page makes it easier for people to share it via Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and the myriad of other social media sites out there. Your listeners can copy and paste quotes or highlight a particular section and share it with their own network in a pinch. Higher sharing rates mean more traffic towards your show. You’ll also be able to write other blog posts using your transcribed content that can be shared later on. “Some of you might podcast for the fun they get out of it, others because they want to share their expertise and yet others because they want to push their business forward. So why not reuse something you already have produced and turn it into something new.” (Podigee.com)3. Indexing & SearchThe biggest advantage to having a transcription is that search engines can easily index your content with the available text. Better indexing will lead to more search traffic and visitors, as well as long tail search traffic (meaning those obscure terms that get your episode page to appear in the search results). Your show could get linked by others, and get a higher page ranking.4. How can I easily transcribe my podcast?Creating a transcript can be tedious work, especially if your episode is particularly long. You can do it on your own, but it’s definitely a mindless task that can take up loads of time. Because of this, outsourcing this work is a good option. For our podcasters, Spreaker has partnered with Scribie to offer them the best transcription service available at unbeatable rates. If you want to know more about it, check out our Store section. https://www.spreaker.com/store/transcriptdo that is to use the right font. Another great tip from Daniel J. Lewis: Serif fonts (with “feet”), like Times New Roman, Garamond, or Bodoni, often have thin lines and small details that get lost or blurred at small sizes. Script fonts can be too ornate to be legible, unless they’re really big (and never put a script font in all-caps!). Sans serif fonts (“without feet”), like Arial, Myriad Pro, or Futura, work really well with thick or uniform-thickness lines, clear characters, and strong contrasts from the background. Let’s Dive into our main topic this week “How to Select a Podcast Name”BIG News: IAB Podcast Ad Metric Guidelines have been releasedExecutive SummaryPodcast audiences represent a growing segment of effective marketable media but inheritchallenges of legacy consumption platforms. This restricts the ability for advertisers to obtain the same data parity found in other digital mediums, limiting participation of some advertisers. This document provides an introduction to tracking Ad delivery in a podcast and attempts to provide clarity in the marketplace by describing common and existing practices. Podcasts are downloaded to a device for later listening or for online listening. In most cases the podcast file and any ads included with it are downloaded to a device that doesn't, or can't, send data about the consumption of the podcast and ads. This lack of data beyond ad delivery limits real-time measurement. In contrast, other media are consumed by reading an article and interacting with a site, playing a game, or streaming a video, all of which can be measured in real time. Even audio stations that offer music or news are streamed and measured in real time in today’s media marketplace.Unlike streaming audio, podcast listeners come from an era where files were downloaded. The medium, the distribution, and the platforms used to collect and listen are built around the habit of downloading the file. Tracking content in this time-shifted medium involves filtering server logs to produce meaningful data for measurement. Since podcast technical teams analyze server logs differently, results vary across the industry.The challenge for podcast producers and distributors is to offer buyers a set of metrics that is consistently defined and measured equally across the podcast medium. While ad measurement will always produce some discrepancy in any medium, the definitions in this document aim to reduce measurement discrepancies. This document is the first attempt to bring IAB members together, describe common practices and provide a common set of metric definitions. With a consistent set of podcast advertising metrics, buyers and sellers can engage in a conversation about campaign strategy with confidence.https://iabtechlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Podcast-Metrics_September_2016.pdfLet’s Dive into our main topic this week “How To Lead and Host a Successful Podcast”- What does it take to be a great podcast host? - Do you know a lot about your topic genre? - Do you know how to use a microphone? - Amazing podcast hosts are funny, engaging, friendly (usually) and informed. This is how you can get people to love you over time. Also value your listeners, interact with them as much as possible.- The art of spoken delivery is something that will take time, practice and passion. I know that this seems as though it is something simple, but being great at something just doesn’t happen overnight. - Smile a lot before you record and it will make a HUGE difference in your Show!!1. PRACTICE YOUR AUDIO DELIVERY2. EDUCATE YOURSELF BY LISTENING TO OTHER AUDIO SHOW HOSTS3. BE YOU AND AUTHENTIC. STAY TRUE TO YOURSELF.Spreaker Links:http://Adore.fmhttp://blog.spreaker.comhttp://SpreakerLiveShow.comhttps://Spreaker.comSend Questions and Comments to:Twitter: http://twitter.com/spreaker using #SpreakerLiveTwitter: http://twitter.com/robgreenleeTwitter: http://twitter.com/alexeum Tech Support: support at spreaker.com

Spreaker Live Show #54 for April 13th, 2016Our Topics This Week: Spreaker Podcaster “Store” Custom Show Apps and Services. We have another new "Spreaker How-To" segment with co-host Alex Exum @AlexExum and he is based in LA and hosts "The Exum Experience" and the "Spreaker Studio Review" show. Show Duration: 43 minutesHost: Rob Greenlee, Head of Content, Spreaker @robgreenlee - rob(at)spreaker(dotcom)Co-Host: Alex Exum, Spreaker Host of "The Exum Experience" and the "Spreaker Studio Review" shows at @AlexExumSpreaker Blog Posts at http://Blog.Spreaker.com:- Is 2016 the year of Podcast Advertising?- Spreaker will be at NAB Show in Las Vegas - April 16-21th at RAIN Summit on the 17th and on three Podcasting Panels T-Shirt Winning Comments from: Loren Weisman host of “Wait What Really Ok” Podcast: We recently discussed music in podcasts: I have uploaded a few things over the past few years, but in the last month, decided to create a Podcast called Wait What Really Ok and the experience has been amazing. The SEO aspects alone have allowed many of my episodes to come up all over the Internet. As example, if you search “how do you add music to your radio show or podcast legally”. - It is the first result with Siri- Comes up on Google, Yahoo and Bing on the top and has been slowly building. He says, I did the show with SSA Music Publishing’s Paula Savastano and I think it could be a solid and short promo piece that could help many podcasters understand not only how to legally use music, but also how to get those musicians paid (it is pennies or actually less on the dollar, but still, it's paying musicians.) Let’s Play a Sample of this Episodehttp://www.spreaker.com/user/lorenweisman/how-do-you-add-music-to-your-radio-showDetailed Show Notes:- Podcaster services, training and custom apps to help you make a successful show - https://Spreaker.com/store- Free & Pro plans - Get extra audio storage, live streaming time and advanced real-time stats - Free Speech - 30m Live, 10 Hr Audio, No custom RSS, Basic stats, Ads - On-Air Talent - 45m Live, 100 Hr Audio, Custom RSS, Basic Stats - $4.99/$39, -$20 - Broadcaster - 3 hr Live, 500 hr Audio, Custom RSS, Auto Insert, Adv. Stats - $19.99/$199, -$40 - Anchorman - 5 hr Live, 1500 hr Audio, Custom RSS, Auto Insert, Full Stats, Show Promotion - $49.99/$499, -$100 - Station - Unlimited Live, Audio Storage, Custom RSS, Auto Insert, Full Stats, Show Promotion - $119.99/$1,199, -$240- 1 hour of 128kbps=60 MB of file size- Build a Mobile App dedicated to your podcast - Create an App Wizard Process- /store/app- $99.00 per iOS/Android app, all included, Customized to your specifications, LIVE or pre-recorded, Interact closely with fans in real-time through the chatbox, Listeners can like your tracks and follow you, You can choose to publish the app under our account or do it yourself and generate revenue from it. * Any app changes that involve a re-submission to the app store will be charged $15.00, per submission.- Ad CampaignsYou create to promote your show, and now Spreaker is giving you the chance to place these ads throughout the platform. Purchase a campaign plan of your choice, starting at $10.00 (impressions cost $2.00 every 1000), upload and edit your ads and info, and submit it to Spreaker. Placed on Spreaker's pages, including users' Newsfeeds and the Explore page. Manage from Settings: tracks budgets, run and pause ads, edit images and info, and more. Ad Dimensions: 300x250, PNG/JPG, 250 KB- Voiceover - /store/voiceover - Music Radio Creative - Play PROMOIntros, outros, transition jingles - those are just some of the ways to make your show stand out from the rest! Custom made jingles allow you to make a great first impression and set a professional tone to your show. Starts at $30 and goes up.- Custom Artwork - 3,000x3000, 1400x1400, 400x400, 982x275 .jpg - /store/artworkMake A Great First Impression - Attract more listeners with professionally made imagesPodcast's artwork is important element to not just your content, but your brand with BOLD Letters, Colorful and Human Photo ideal and makes a first impression on listeners. Readable at 75x75 pixel size. As listeners browse shows on Spreaker, deciding in a matter of seconds what to pass up based solely on who has attractive or unattractive images (or worse, no images at all). Here's where 99designs comes in- TranscriptionReading vs ListeningReading is much faster than listening- Social Media SharingIncluding the complete text of your audio included on your episode's page makes it easier for people to share it via Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and the myriad of other social media sites out there. - Indexing & SearchThe biggest advantage to having a transcription is that search engines can easily index your content with the text available. Better indexing will lead to more search traffic and more visitors. Spreaker has partnered with Scribie to offer you the best transcription service available at unbeatable rates, starting at $0.80 /minute.- WordPress ThemesHave premium WordPress themes created, designed, and developed for your podcast.Appendipity's podcasting themes keep your podcast front and center and help you grow your audience and loyal fans.- Podcast Course, Mentoring, and Production Service by Colin GrayEmpower your podcasting with these professional services from The Podcast Host.- Podcast Liberation: Set Your Podcast Free with this Podcast Course - $148For any aspiring podcaster, the hardest step is the first show. 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Spreaker Live Show #54 for April 13th, 2016Our Topics This Week: Spreaker Podcaster “Store” Custom Show Apps and Services. We have another new "Spreaker How-To" segment with co-host Alex Exum @AlexExum and he is based in LA and hosts "The Exum Experience" and the "Spreaker Studio Review" show. Show Duration: 43 minutesHost: Rob Greenlee, Head of Content, Spreaker @robgreenlee - rob(at)spreaker(dotcom)Co-Host: Alex Exum, Spreaker Host of "The Exum Experience" and the "Spreaker Studio Review" shows at @AlexExumSpreaker Blog Posts at http://Blog.Spreaker.com:- Is 2016 the year of Podcast Advertising?- Spreaker will be at NAB Show in Las Vegas - April 16-21th at RAIN Summit on the 17th and on three Podcasting Panels T-Shirt Winning Comments from: Loren Weisman host of “Wait What Really Ok” Podcast: We recently discussed music in podcasts: I have uploaded a few things over the past few years, but in the last month, decided to create a Podcast called Wait What Really Ok and the experience has been amazing. The SEO aspects alone have allowed many of my episodes to come up all over the Internet. 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We recorded Live From the Formosa Tea House: Episode 3 this afternoon. And because the Formosa Tea House is closed until February 24th, we switched locations and recorded here in the lounge at 84 Fitzroy St. in Charlottetown. This episode features the best audio yet, with three microphones running into a mixing board running into my iBook. We missed the delivery of the iced tea and dumplings, though. In this episode you’ll hear: Talk about travel. My trip to Croatia last fall, Dan’s trip to Peru coming up this spring, and Steven’s trips to San Francisco and upcoming honeymoon trip to Europe. We also talk a lot about travel in general, using the Internet to make reservations, and the differences between being a tourist and being a visitor. News of the new Queen Street Commons project that silverorange and others are working on at 224 Queen St. in Charlottetown. Random musings about the nature of web design work vs. “creating real things.” Special bonus “I always thought I’d be an architect” musings from me. An update on the Firefox web browser from Steven, including his description of the night Firefox 1.0 was released. A Google Alerts success story involving a sunken schooner. The Live From the Formosa Tea House RSS Feed has been updated; it’s got the MP3 of this episode included as an enclosure for all you podcatchers. Traditionalists can still grab the audio from the web like normal. Enjoy. Update: Dan has posted photos of our “recording studio.” Update in March, 2017: thanks to the generosity of Scribie, we now have a complete transcript of this episode of Live from the Formosa Tea House. Transcript 0:00:01 Speaker 1: Today on Live From the Formosa Tea House, talking about travel. 0:00:06 Dan James: The mannerisms and the behaviors of the people down there were just so much more friendly. 0:00:09 S1: The Queens Street Commons. 0:00:10 Steven Garrity: And so what we’ve been trying to do is take some of the money that we’ve been generating with our web development company and turn it into real world things. 0:00:18 S1: How and why we work. 0:00:20 Peter Rukavina: And I realized that deep in my heart of hearts I had always maintained the illusion that I was someday gonna be an architect. 0:00:27 S1: A Firefox update. 0:00:28 DJ: It ended up that it was like 4:00 in the morning for me and I had prepared the changes to the front page of the mozilla.org website. 0:00:36 S1: And a Harold Stephens schooner update. 0:00:38 PR: And it was about Third Sea and Third Sea sinking in the harbor off Olympia, Washington. 0:00:44 S1: From the lounge at 84 Fitzroy Street, here’s Live From the Formosa Tea House for January 31, 2005. 0:00:52 S?: Go. 0:00:54 PR: I’m Peter Rukavina. 0:00:55 DJ: I’m Dan James. 0:00:57 SG: And I’m Steven Garrity. 0:00:57 PR: And we’re here at 84 Fitzroy Street which is our co-corporate home. I am a tenant and they are the lords of the manor [chuckle] and the Formosa Tea House, we should explain, is closed for an entire month which has rocked our world but not prevented us from podcasting. So we’re back after a long absence because they’re closed. 0:01:18 DJ: Are we really podcasting? Steven you’re against the term… 0:01:22 SG: I would like to make a note that I’m humiliated by the term podcasting. It’s just so goofy that I can’t bear to say it with a straight face. 0:01:29 PR: I find no goofiness in it as all. I’m very proud of it. 0:01:31 SG: I always struggle with the word ‘blog’ too. I always try to say weblog when I could, although I kind of gave up because it became… 0:01:38 PR: Of course this is from the guy who has a radio show on the internet. 0:01:41 SG: Yeah. Well I guess there really is no radio involved, is there? 0:01:45 PR: No. 0:01:45 DJ: So tell us about your fans of your radio show. 0:01:48 SG: I don’t think we should get into that. [chuckle] 0:01:50 DJ: Not on our [0:01:50] agenda? 0:01:51 PR: We’re very organized today. Steven has typed up an outline of the show today. 0:01:57 SG: I copied and pasted it. 0:01:58 PR: Yeah, so we’re gonna start talking about travel because one way or another we’ve all been or will be traveling. Where do we wanna start? 0:02:07 SG: Maybe you could start by telling us about your trip to Europe. 0:02:13 PR: Well my father and I went to… In October, went on a sort of father-son bonding pilgrimage trip to Croatia, and he… 0:02:21 DJ: Why Croatia? 0:02:22 PR: Well, that’s where my grandfather’s from, and 30 years before in the early ’70s he had gone with his father so I was going with my father now, so there was sort of some nice symmetry to that. We were looking for our family roots and getting to know one another as adults and it was lots of fun. We flew to London and then we flew easyJet to Ljubljana and we were there for a night and then we were in Croatia for about five days and then took the ferry across the Adriatic to Italy and then flew back on Ryanair from Italy to London. If nothing else we got to know one another a little more and I gained 13 great-aunts and uncles that I never knew I had. 0:03:02 DJ: Wow. How did you go about finding people? 0:03:05 PR: It was weird. It was all improvisational. My father speaks a little Croatian so we could sort of make due that way and we had a little bit to go on. Our only surviving blood relative in Canada, unfortunately, had a stroke, more unfortunately for him, but had a stroke two years ago and can’t speak. So all our ability to find out from him… He would be the guy who had… Most recently there. All our ability to find out from him was lost, so we talked to his ex-wife and she gave us a little bit to go on. But ultimately the most successful part of the trip in terms of finding relatives is we went to the Catholic parish in PerušIć in Croatia and talked to the priest there who pulled out these dusty records and found my grandfather and his father and his brothers and his sisters. And it was all just a series of related happenstance-y events. 0:04:00 DJ: Sounds like a good movie. 0:04:01 PR: Yeah it would be a good movie. 0:04:02 SG: It would be a buddy movie. 0:04:03 PR: Yeah, yeah. Father son genealogical comedy. 0:04:07 SG: With Tom Hanks and Macaulay Culkin. [laughter] 0:04:12 PR: Thank you for comparing me to Macaulay Culkin, or do I get to play Tom Hanks? 0:04:15 SG: No, sorry. [chuckle] 0:04:17 PR: Anyway, the other thing I thought it would be useful to mention here in a webby sort of way is that, we flew from London to Slovenia on easyJet and then we flew back from Italy to London on Ryanair, both of which are the sort of discount carriers. If you’re in the US they’re sort of Southwest-like, if you’re in Canada they’re Jetsgo-like. They really have rocked travel in Europe. It used to be if you were a budget traveller in Europe you would take the train or you would hitch-hike maybe if you were even more a budget traveller and now neither of those make sense. It’s literally more expensive to hitch-hike than it is to fly. 0:04:51 SG: Now, my understanding, just I read a Wired article about Ryanair a while back, was that they’ve managed to circumvent a lot of the costs of the larger airlines by flying to lower traffic airports and cities, is that right? 0:05:05 PR: Yeah, if they were flying to PEI they’d fly to Summerside not Charlottetown. 0:05:08 SG: And avoid the costly Charlottetown airport. 0:05:11 PR: Yeah. 0:05:11 DJ: Busy metropolis. 0:05:13 PR: Well what they do is they convince… They’d go to Summerside and they say, “Do you want us to fly tourists into Summerside? Okay, then we’ll pay no taxes,” and they basically strike deals with smaller towns who want to drive tourists there. It works, we flew from Ancona, Italy which I think it cost us $60 each or something to go to London which was like a good hour and a half or two flight. 0:05:35 SG: Now, I was discussing this with our friend Nick, who’s living in Paris right now and he gave me a bit of a heads up that you have to watch out that though the flights can be cheap, getting to and from the airports without transportation can be a little bit difficult, whereas the train usually goes straight into the center of the city. But you didn’t really run into that, you said? 0:05:54 PR: Well the thing is where you run into that, is in London because you traditionally if you’re flying on Air Canada, from Canada you land at Heathrow and the budget airlines go from Gatwick or Stansted, which are two airports located, it’s basically on the other sides of London, so you have to get there somehow, which either means taking a bus which takes an hour and a half to Stansted or you have to go into London or out of London on rail. So you probably spend, because you have to convert from pounds and everything you might spend $50 or $60 getting around London. But in Italy, it cost us $1.35 to get to the airport on the airport bus. 0:06:26 SG: So it really just depends on the city. 0:06:28 PR: Yeah. Yeah. And you’re gonna face that with airlines. So if you’re comparing airlines to airlines it’s certainly cheaper. And what you get on both easyJet and Ryanair is basically no service. No service for free I should say, because you can actually buy a better selection of snacks arguably than you can on Air Canada. And they really do, especially on Ryanair there was a whole big shopping… You could buy watches and remote control cars. 0:06:55 SG: Does anybody do that? Those are weird. 0:06:57 PR: Well, I think they were looking for change and stuff, so I’m sure there’s a big market in the guilty parents or grandparents going on a vacation. 0:07:06 SG: That’s what it is. 0:07:07 DJ: I forgot to buy my significant other… 0:07:09 SG: I was away on my anniversary so… 0:07:11 PR: But I’ve read articles to suggest that on Ryanair especially… And Ryanair often will fly you for a pound, plus the airport taxes. And they do that because they make it all up on the residuals. They sell you snacks bars, and coffee and they’re gonna start selling you presumably movies, and voice over IP calls, or Wi-Fi, or whatever in the future. But it really does mean you can… Like we’re thinking of going to Europe in the spring and all we’re gonna do is get to London in advance, and then we’ll just decide which countries we want to after that and we’ll just go… 0:07:44 SG: And getting to London isn’t that difficult anymore either. 0:07:46 PR: No. No. There’s a couple airlines that do that there too. 0:07:50 DJ: Do we wanna move on to your next topic about Europe or do we… 0:07:54 PR: Well, I guess that part of it and we can segue from that and talk about your travels too. Because I think the thing about Europe in my life, and you can tell me whether this is true for you, but I can remember one or two times in my life where I received as a kid, a long-distance call, or my parents received a long-distance call from Europe. And it was like the biggest thing that would happen that year. And you would have to talk really fast, ‘cause you were probably paying like $8 a minute or something. And I think that, plus the fact that it took so long to mail to Europe, plus the fact that nobody ever went to Europe in the middle class really, it just meant that it was so far away that you would never go there. And now, especially when you live in, PEI you’re basically you’re closer to Europe than you are to Vancouver and Winnipeg and all those sorts of places. 0:08:42 SG: Both in terms of time and in cost of travel. 0:08:43 PR: Yeah, yeah. We could get in a car right now, fly to Halifax, get on an airplane tonight that leaves at 9:00 and we would be in London tomorrow morning. And that would basically be at 3 o’clock our time. People will go to Halifax for the weekend, for sometimes $300 or $400 more per person they could go to London for a week. It’s not something you would do every week, but it really does put European travel for me in a category which is less of a once-in-a-lifetime type experience and into something that you might do every year if you [0:09:16] . 0:09:16 DJ: Yeah. So instead of going and backpacking around Europe for two months you’d go for a week to one country, come back the next year, another country. 0:09:24 PR: Yeah. 0:09:25 SG: That’s something we’ve talked about before. I think people… It’s kind of a Canadian thing to go backpacking in Europe, or maybe it’s a North American thing. 0:09:34 DJ: With your Tim Hortons mug. 0:09:35 SG: Yeah. [chuckle] But that takes a significant amount of time to dedicate, and for me I’ve always pushed off going to Europe because I wasn’t ready to spend three months hiking around, but now that it’s so inexpensive it does make sense to just go for a week. 0:09:54 PR: Well it means you can go to Europe and not have to have a good time because you can go back. [chuckle] But it’s not your one time in your life that you’re gonna go there. 0:10:01 SG: That’s a good way to put it actually, yeah. 0:10:02 PR: Okay well, talk about where you’re travelling. 0:10:08 DJ: Last year on my honeymoon, my wife Becky and I went to Costa Rica and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We found that the mannerisms and the behaviors of people down there were just so much more friendly and outgoing than they are here. We just loved the area. So this year we decided we’re gonna go down to Peru for two weeks and we’re gonna cover a lot of the country, mainly the middle of the country and the southern half of the country and just really go and do the tourist thing. But doing the tourist thing in Peru is a lot different than doing the tourist thing in Washington, DC or London or something like that. So there’s two of us going and four friends are going as well, and we’re going to Colca Canyon which is the second deepest canyon in the world, it’s twice as deep as the Grand Canyon. 0:10:57 PR: Wow. Are you gonna be in it? 0:11:01 DJ: No. Well, I think actually we do stay in the valley of the canyon one night, and there’s hot springs and things like that, and then the second day of the tour of that area, it’s called, ‘Cruz del Condor’, pardon my horrible Spanish. And you go up to the top of the canyon, I think it’s 15,000 feet you’re at, and you watch Condors circle up from the valley floor and there’s apparently 60, 70 Condors at a time going up so it’s pretty cool. 0:11:29 SG: Condors are big birds? 0:11:30 DJ: They’re the largest birds in the world actually up to 11-foot wing spans I think. 0:11:34 SG: Holy crap! 0:11:35 DJ: They’re massive ugly vultures. 0:11:37 PR: You’re making all the arrangements for this trip online? 0:11:40 DJ: Yeah. We haven’t talked to a human being at all. 0:11:44 PR: Is there a language problem there, in a… 0:11:48 DJ: There is poor broken English on a lot of the sites. Peru is, unlike Costa Rica or the Central American Spanish countries there’s no English in Peru or very little English in Peru. Most things are Spanish only. The airline in Peru does have an English version of its website, and a lot of the tourist destinations do have broken English versions of their website. But it’s gonna be pretty much Spanish. So there will definitely be a language barrier. For booking online, we’ve used travel guides like Lonely Planet, Frommer’s, and all of those things, so we’ve been able to identify places that we can communicate with via e-mail… 0:12:24 PR: So just as an example, like Thursday night when you’re gonna be there, have you booked a place to stay? 0:12:30 DJ: We’ve booked all of our accommodations. 0:12:33 PR: And traditionally, do you go and fill out a form or do you send them e-mail, or how does that work? 0:12:39 DJ: It depends on the hotel. There’s one hotel, it’s actually more of a hostel/hotel, in there they don’t really have a lot of, in our price range, a lot of hotels going, like a Holiday Inn. It’s mainly run by small families. Some of them have forms but I think they’re just e-mail forms. 0:12:56 PR: I’m just trying to think of what a small family is. [chuckle] 0:13:00 DJ: Sorry, yeah, whatever. You fill out a form, but I’m pretty sure that form just e-mails them anyway, because you usually get an e-mail back. 0:13:05 PR: So you do have some communication with them? 0:13:07 DJ: Some communication, yeah. 0:13:08 PR: Oh, that’s great. 0:13:09 DJ: And then, of course booking flights and things, that’s always done through websites. 0:13:13 PR: Yeah. So why Peru? 0:13:18 DJ: We wanted to go to a country in South America, and there was a really good deal at a bookstore we were at with the Frommer’s to Peru. [chuckle] And so, it was the first one we picked up, and we kinda liked it. I like mountains, most people know that, and the Andes are in Peru, which is fantastic. We’re going to Machu Picchu, which is kind of a hill… 0:13:39 PR: So, you’re like a mountain groupie. 0:13:41 DJ: Yeah, I’m like a mountain groupie. This year at the Andes, next year the Himalayas… 0:13:45 PR: Well, that’s an interesting question because if you are a relatively, in the world context, wealthy North American and can afford to basically go anywhere now in the world, which is not true, certainly of my parent’s generation, both economically and logistically, it means that you can go anywhere so you can get sort of paralysed by that. Like how do you choose, ‘cause you’re not gonna be able to fill the… 0:14:09 DJ: Overrun by choice too. 0:14:11 PR: Yeah. And we went to Czechoslovakia in 1998 because I liked a building in Prague. [chuckle] 0:14:18 PR: But it was just… You had to pick somehow. 0:14:20 DJ: Yeah. And again, the low cost of travel, we used Flyer Points to book our tickets down, but some of the people we’re going with just bought tickets. And they were $798 return from Charlottetown. 0:14:32 PR: To Peru? 0:14:33 DJ: To Lima, Peru. 0:14:33 PR: Wow! 0:14:33 SG: That’s incredible. 0:14:35 DJ: Yeah. And that’s like Air Canada straight. Charlottetown Toronto, direct Toronto, Peru direct. 0:14:42 PR: It’s interesting, I did a e-mail interview which I haven’t published yet with George Stewart, a local travel agent, and one of the questions I asked him, I sort of assumed that in his case, he’d be booking a lot of trips to Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, and maybe some trips to Europe. 0:14:56 DJ: All inclusive resort stuff. 0:14:57 PR: Yeah. But that Islanders wouldn’t be really adventurous travellers, but he said that’s… You couldn’t believe… That’s the furthest from the truth, like islanders go everywhere. He books trips to Africa, and all sorts of places. And maybe it’s just Islanders don’t talk about travelling very much but he said he would see the same profile here as you would anywhere, at a big city travel agency. 0:15:18 DJ: One of the things about Peru that appeals to us is just it’s not Europe, in that it’s a lot cheaper to, once you get there, you can really do quite well on $25, $30 a day, whereas… And that’s staying in single rooms with private bathrooms, and breakfast included in the morning, things like that. So if you go to Europe, I find that you can stay in a hostel for quite a bit cheaper but you’re level of service, I guess kinda declines from there. 0:15:47 PR: Well, that’s like by going to Peru with a $700 return ticket, you’re basically doing a similar… It’s like if you went to Southeast Asia, except to go to Southeast Asia, you’d pay $2000 for tickets. 0:15:57 DJ: Right, right. 0:15:58 PR: That’s interesting. 0:16:00 DJ: Yeah. And I’m just looking at our agenda and the next agenda item is the one country a year plan, and this is something that Becky and I decided on our honeymoon that we’d love to do would be every year go to a new country. This year is Peru. And I think because it’s so cheap, why not? Instead of going to Telefax for a weekend or driving to Montreal for a weekend, why not get on a plane and go to… 0:16:24 PR: Andorra. 0:16:25 DJ: Argentina, Chile, or anywhere for a week or two, and just have fun, it’s just at that price range now where it’s actually possible. 0:16:33 PR: Well, and the other thing I think maybe we take for granted, is the fact [A] that because of the industry we’re in, in that we’re basically self-employed, we can do that. If you’re a teacher, you can’t leave in the middle of January for three weeks or at least as easily. And also that we can work from anywhere, if we wanna do it for longer. And that’s, it’s hard to take your work with you in many professions. 0:16:56 DJ: Yeah. One thing I’ve found is that, there are Internet cafes everywhere. When we were in Costa Rica, we were sitting in a jungle town in a rain forest. And literally the town would be no more than 150, 200 people, and there were two Internet cafes. And for 25 cents, you could use the Internet for three hours. 0:17:16 PR: I found the same thing in Thailand, I found the same thing in Spain, I found the same thing in… I mean I found the same thing in Czechoslovakia in 1998. And you’re right, it’s almost, the further you are from the center of things, the more valuable and prevalent Internet cafes are because they’re so much more useful and integral. 0:17:33 SG: It’s interesting that when hearing you guys talk about this. Now both of you would be more interested in travel almost as a hobby than I would be. 0:17:40 PR: Well, worldly you might wanna say. 0:17:42 DJ: Hey, he is going to London and Paris. 0:17:43 SG: Well, that’s what I was gonna talk about, that the places, that… I’m more of reluctant traveller, but the places I’ve been to and I’m planning to go in the next year are more on the typical travel plan. I’ve been to the West Coast, I’ve been to California twice in 2004 and I’m going to London and Paris in 2005. It’s interesting that it seems that you guys are not very interested in going to the places that are typical travel locations. And it’s more like you’re intentionally seeking places that are off the beaten path. 0:18:16 PR: Yeah. The other thing I have found generally when travelling is that, even if you are going to France or Spain or some of a commonly traveled to country from North America, I often find it… When you’re reading The Lonely Plant book, the way that they rate the importance of things, is relative to the world of travel. So we’ll say such and such a town in Italy is like a barren, industrial town not worthy of a tourist visit but they mean that compared to the Vatican, not compared to Montague. So if you go there, it’s way better than Montague. [chuckle] 0:18:53 PR: So we were in this town, that my father and I, were in Anchota, Italy. It’s on the far eastern coast of Italy and it was described as this mundane town that you would use it as a utility town. But we spent a good… We were there for 48 hours and there was museums and shops and Italians there. [chuckle] And it was all the Italy we needed. And I got a sense that we probably got more out of it because we weren’t rushing around like to see the Colosseum and the Vatican and all these… There was nothing to “see” so you got to see a lot more of what there is to see. 0:19:27 DJ: I think I do look for things off the beaten path. And part of that’s cost. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to do that, but I think a lot of it’s like, the Indie Rock Pete of travel where you wanna go somewhere… 0:19:41 SG: Go somewhere cool where no one’s been? 0:19:43 DJ: Yeah, exactly. Somewhere cool where not a lot of people go that have really interesting things. Peru has some of the cradles of civilization in it, like the Inca empire. And I think that’s just a lot more interesting for me to see than the Eiffel Tower. 0:19:57 SG: Or the Mona Lisa. 0:19:58 DJ: Or the Mona Lisa, yeah. 0:20:00 PR: Well, I think too. Above and beyond, the self indulgence of travel, there is a responsibility to your home community to bring back stories and… 0:20:10 DJ: Knick-knacks? 0:20:11 PR: Well, no. You go to… 0:20:13 SG: Hotel soaps? 0:20:13 DJ: Yeah. 0:20:14 PR: You go somewhere else, you see that something’s done differently, you come back and that enriches, in theory, your own life but also if you talk about it and share it and say other people should go there. That’s how we learn about the rest of the world, I guess. If everyone just went to London and Paris all the time [chuckle] where would we be? 0:20:32 SG: Man, my trip sucks. 0:20:34 PR: Well, I mean the irony for me is that… 0:20:35 DJ: But it is your honeymoon so it’s not really gonna suck… 0:20:37 PR: Yeah. But the irony for me is that we’re sort of casting going to London and Paris like it’s an everyday thing to do. And I think for most people, it would be like the most dramatic thing you would do in your years. 0:20:46 SG: Yeah, and I actually am planning to have sort of the typical… When we go to Paris, we’re gonna… 0:20:51 DJ: Have a camera around your neck on a lanyard… 0:20:54 SG: Yep, we’re gonna be tourists and we’re gonna do touristy things. 0:20:57 PR: Well, that’s… When we travel, we do the same thing. 0:21:00 SG: It’s like going to Disney World. 0:21:01 PR: Yeah. Yeah. [chuckle] 0:21:02 SG: Now, you have a… One of your goals is to hit a new country every year. I have a new travel goal myself. Never in my entire life do I ever want to be in Los Angeles. I’ve avoided it so far and I think that’s something I could avoid through the rest of my life. 0:21:18 PR: I’ve been in San Francisco and San Diego and I’ve taken the bus by Los Angeles with my father. 0:21:23 SG: But you didn’t go in? 0:21:24 PR: Didn’t go in, no. 0:21:25 DJ: I’ve been in Los Angeles when I was a very young child. I went to Disneyland. 0:21:30 PR: But the thing is, you know what’s gonna happen? There’s gonna be Firefox, the reality TV series next year and you’re gonna have to go down to LA and you’ll do it willingly and that will be that. 0:21:39 SG: No. 0:21:40 DJ: Yeah. 0:21:40 SG: We should probably move on with our agenda if we’re going to have the longest most boring radio show in the world. 0:21:43 PR: Hey, here’s some opportunity for interactive viewer feedback. Or now, what do you call them? Listener feedback. Podcastees? What do you call the… What you would call in the TV world a shot-list. What do you call it on the radio? 0:21:57 SG: Oh yeah. 0:21:57 PR: Prompt-list? 0:21:57 SG: Well, we’ve been calling it our agenda which is pretty lame. 0:22:00 PR: Yeah, it sounds pompous, so I’m not gonna call it a agenda. 0:22:03 DJ: I have an agenda. [chuckle] Steve, you were gonna talk about… You kinda briefly mentioned that you’ve been to the west coast twice this year? 0:22:12 SG: Yes. Both trips were related to the Mozilla Firefox work we’ve done and… 0:22:18 DJ: Which is a reoccurring theme on our radio show. 0:22:21 SG: Yeah. Yeah. It was interesting ‘cause I hadn’t been to the west coast. I had only been to Vancouver but never to California until last year. And we went twice and a couple of the other guys from… Still here at Silver Orange came. Jan was with me on the first show. Actually, both you guys were there on the first show. 0:22:41 DJ: That was the spontaneous trip to California we arranged in three to four days. 0:22:42 SG: Yeah. Very bizarre being in Silicon Valley. I was in Mountain View, and Palo Alto, and San Jose and we stayed at the… [chuckle] So, you can get travel advice. You wanna avoid the travel lodge in San Jose by the arena where the sliding bathroom door had a hole kicked in it. We had to deal with the attendant through a bullet proof glass. [chuckle] And I think I paid twice because I paid online and they didn’t believe me and I paid again. Weird being in Silicon Valley where it’s like the dot com bubble never burst because whoever’s there, are the people who have survived, and I find there’s a whole feeling in San Francisco and in all of Silicon Valley of… Maybe that you would get when you’re in Washington, DC from a government perspective that it’s in a bubble and it’s… There’s a dis… 0:23:42 DJ: It’s like 20 square miles surrounded by reality. 0:23:44 SG: Yes. It’s a disconnect from the rest of the world and people seem to be able to suspend their understanding of normal human beings’ lives when they’re there. So neat place to visit, don’t wanna live there. 0:23:56 DJ: Well it’s a very contrasted place from Prince Edward Island, Canada. I don’t think you could go in North America to any more of a difference spot culturally. 0:24:06 PR: I was in Cupertino once in 1994 and I was at a hotel, and I had to go to Apple. And I asked at the desk, how long will it take me to get to Apple. 0:24:16 SG: You had to go to Apple? 0:24:17 PR: Well, I was going to a conference at Apple. 0:24:18 SG: Okay. 0:24:19 PR: And they said, “Oh, it’s just five, 10 minutes.” And I assumed that they were talking about walking, ‘cause I thought, “Well, I’ll just walk down to Apple.” 0:24:27 SG: But it was actually on the freeway 100 miles an hour. 0:24:28 PR: Well, yeah. It was like, I could actually walk there. But it took me like an hour and a half to walk there because they’d just never heard of anyone walking. And there weren’t sidewalks and it just wasn’t set up that way. I thought that Charlottetown was a car culture, but we don’t have anything on them. 0:24:42 SG: Oh, it’s unbelievable where… And there’s very good public transit around San Francisco, but it was like, we’d go out for lunch and you’d be on a freeway for two minutes to get there, which just means you’re actually travelling quite a distance. 0:24:55 PR: I wonder if it’s actually pleasant to live there in any way. 0:25:01 SG: Well, I certainly didn’t like a lot of aspects of it. But they have a couple of things definitely going for them. The city itself is quite beautiful. 0:25:07 DJ: San Francisco. 0:25:07 SG: San Francisco and most of Silicon Valley is with… I don’t know what actually encompasses Silicon Valley, but the places that I was in, Mountain View and stuff, were all an hour from the city. The weather is beautiful, it’s nice but it’s not particularly hot. And you’re within an hour’s drive of a lot of really beautiful scenery. 0:25:28 PR: Well you see, this is the debate that I go through. I grew up just sort of in the triangle between Kitchener, Guelph and Toronto, within an hour’s drive of Niagara Falls and Toronto, Buffalo and all these places where I could have gone, and we never… Relatively speaking, we didn’t avail ourselves of those. 0:25:46 SG: Buffalo? [chuckle] 0:25:47 PR: Well. Okay. [chuckle] I exaggerate slightly. 0:25:50 DJ: Well, we just alienated all of our listeners from Buffalo. [chuckle] 0:25:54 SG: Very John. 0:25:56 PR: I was about to make a football allusion, but I couldn’t remember the name of the team in Buffalo. 0:26:00 SG: The Bills. 0:26:00 PR: The Bills, yeah, go Bills! [chuckle] 0:26:02 SG: Was that your football allusion? 0:26:04 PR: Yeah. [chuckle] that’s as good as I can get. But I just wonder whether people who… And I try asking, this is one thing I’ve found is people who I know who are expatriates in a foreign country, you try and get them to characterize their expatriate experience, and for some reason they can’t. It’s like, they can’t contrast it to their old life. And I don’t know whether they’re unable to do so, or it’s just what it is. So it’s hard to get people to say, like if you’re in Paris, I was talking to Nick, who’s living in Paris now about this. And I couldn’t get a sense of, “Do you wake up on Tuesday morning and you don’t have very much work to do? So I’ll just go down to the Louvre for a while and look at the Mona Lisa.” 0:26:39 SG: I’ve been in pretty close contact with Nick, just through work. He posts photos and stuff. And I do get a sense from him of his life in Paris. I mean, he doesn’t go to the Louvre but he goes to… 0:26:53 DJ: Bakeries every morning. 0:26:54 SG: He goes to the bakery around the corner and he… I get the impression that he’s living the artist-in-Paris lifestyle. 0:27:00 PR: See, Catherine and I are talking about going with Oliver to some European country, maybe Slovenia, for a longer period, and renting an apartment for a month, and being sort of hybrid tourists, not really residents, but more than just dropping in for three days. And I think our great fear on some level unstated, is that we might go there and really like the sort of day-to-day, just the sort of the insignificant things that loom greater in their… Like, having a fresh vegetable market available to you… 0:27:33 SG: Access to quality cheeses. 0:27:34 PR: Yeah, yeah. Exactly. And that we might then come back here and just… 0:27:38 SG: There is the Gouda Cheese Lady. [chuckle] 0:27:40 PR: But that involves driving in a car and only eating Gouda. There’s the ‘grass is always greener on the other side of the fence’ argument. But then, there’s the whole, “What if we came back here and life was a living hell?” 0:27:52 SG: But couldn’t you just stay a few… Don’t you have the freedom that if you really did like it somewhere, you could probably permanently relocate? 0:28:00 DJ: I think we have like a two or three year rent agreement with them. [chuckle] 0:28:03 PR: Well you know… But the other thing is that, what I have come to not underestimate to the degree to maybe which I once did, is having been here for 12 years, you just know a lot of people a little, and you sort of know where all the streets are, and you know who’s related to who, and that degree of comfort in a place is not to be trifled with. 0:28:22 DJ: Yeah, yeah. And it is a good place to be stationed. Becky and I look at Prince Edward Island, I don’t think we’ll ever intentionally move somewhere else for a long period of time, because all of our family is here. 0:28:35 PR: So if you were kidnapped, you might relocate. 0:28:37 DJ: If we were kidnapped, we may end up living somewhere else. [chuckle] 0:28:40 DJ: If you can call that living. But we kinda see Prince Edward Island as an ideal place to be stationed out of, and regularly travel, and regularly do things other than Prince Edward Island activities, and go maybe live somewhere for two months. And I think it’s just kinda that place in North America where the cost of living low enough to call home and say “hi” to your families and go to the beach and do all those things. 0:29:01 S?: Yeah. 0:29:02 SG: I think you can say that about most locations, like a lot of locations. 0:29:05 DJ: Except for Palo Alto. 0:29:05 SG: What’s significant for me here is that, this is where I grew up, and this is where my family is, and that’s what makes it the place where I choose to live. I mean, there are aspects of it that are nice and beautiful that I like, but there are… 0:29:20 DJ: Does anyone grow up in Palo Alto? [chuckle] 0:29:23 PR: There must be. The Silicon people must have children. 0:29:26 DJ: Yes. They have Autism. [chuckle] 0:29:31 PR: Moving on [chuckle] From trifling mentions of serious mental health issues, [chuckle] Dan, let’s talk real things. 0:29:42 DJ: Yeah. Oh, we’re skipping to that already. 0:29:43 SG: Dan is taking a picture of us with his camera, but… 0:29:45 DJ: Well that was supposed to be a joke on the agenda. 0:29:48 SG: Well, you better make the joke then and then we can move on. 0:29:51 DJ: I don’t even know how to bring this up. 0:29:54 PR: Well, let’s talk about the 84 Fitzroy Street, Queen Street Commons and that will segue us into that. 0:30:00 DJ: For those of you who read my blog, ceoblues.com. You’ll see that we’ve… Silverorange has purchased a building that’s actually just kinda… I don’t know if it’s kitty-corner or what do you call when a… 0:30:13 SG: I’d rather you not use the term kitty-corner ever again. 0:30:16 DJ: Anyway, it’s just around the corner from us, and we actually share backyards with the building. And one of the things that’s gonna happen in this building, we’re not buying it for silverorange’s purposes. We’re not gonna move in and have offices in there. But we’ve kinda seen actually things like this, the radio show, we have a lot of people coming and going in our building, 84 Fitzroy. We’ve had meetings where the room we’re actually recording in right now has been full of city staff members and councillors, and… 0:30:46 SG: Aspiring members of parliament. 0:30:47 DJ: Aspiring members of parliament. And we’ve kind of become this hub of activity in our city for a certain group of people. And as that group of people gets more and more active, I think it’s kind of something that we’d like not to have in our basement or our main floor every day. So, we’re kind of seeing this new place as an avenue and a venue for that to happen where we can be involved with it but at a arm’s length for it too. So, if we’re really busy with the project, we can still work and we don’t have to worry about hosting people, and things like that. And allowing other people to do this because we’re not the only organizers in the city about events like this. So, we’re kinda just creating an open… We’re calling it, and this is gonna be the first time it’s been publicly released, the ‘Queen Street Commons’, and it’s kinda occupy an entire floor of this new building. And it’s basically, going to be an open office concept. Not the open software product called ‘OpenOffice’ but basically, people can for a small price per month, be a part of this commons, and have desk space, lounge space, board room space… 0:31:57 SG: Some telecommunications infrastructure. 0:32:00 DJ: Yeah. Telephony infrastructure, internet, printers, things like that. We’re really hoping to get those people who are consultants that work at home to come in and kind of be part of a community. And then, we’re just laying the foundation for it. We’re not sure what’s gonna happen on top of that but we do expect things like the things we’ve been doing here over the past year, a year and a half to happen, whether bringing in people for debates or sessions, or their members of parliament to grill them on the next issue, or something like that. 0:32:26 PR: This could get some synergy going. 0:32:28 DJ: We’ll get some synergistic airflow. 0:32:28 SG: It’s gonna be synergistic. Part of the, what originally got us driving to look to purchase another building is that, and we’ve talked… This is talking about real things. As a web development company, we sometimes lament that, though we enjoy very much our work and take a lot of pride in it, we don’t produce anything physical or tangible, and that I think can sometimes be difficult that you can take a lot of pride in building a piece of software but you can’t hold it in your hand. And so, what we’ve been trying to do is take some of the money that we’ve been generating with our web development company and turn it into real world things that we can put to use like the building we’re sitting in now. And now, the building next door too. 0:33:15 DJ: Yeah, there’s a real fondness for real estate within a few of the members of silverorange. And real estate, in terms of acquiring and negotiating real estate, as well as fixing it up and keeping good care of buildings, and renovations and things like that. I don’t know if that… 0:33:31 SG: Those are our real estate plans. 0:33:32 DJ: Makes it sound extremely boring. 0:33:35 PR: No. [chuckle] I am one who sits on the fence about this sort of thing. Having sort of been on the periphery, the far outmost Neptune-ic periphery in the arts community, I’ve sort of watched with interest the whole Arts Guild thing. Because I think you could probably take what you’ve just said and put it in the mouth of the Arts Guild people. And it would probably reflect a lot about why the Arts Guild was needed. The Arts Guild for out-of-town listeners is that the old rural bank building in Charlottetown that was taking over by the arts community as sort of space for art to happen. And there’s print makers, and there’s a performance space, and various other things. And I’ve seen this happen in other cities, and the problem that often has run into with these things is that, then the building becomes… You wanted to do all this neat stuff but then the building itself, and the upkeep of the building, and the paying the mortgage of the building… ” And this is, I think probably truer of the arts community than it is with you guys because you have some way of sustaining this, but it sort of becomes the thing that you’re doing. The building becomes your project. 0:34:34 DJ: The building’s the answer in itself. Yeah. 0:34:36 PR: And so, you have fundraisers so that you can pay for the building, so that you can have fundraisers in the building to pay for the building. 0:34:41 DJ: Yeah. That’s kind of, we’re trying to take care of that. This is not the only thing happening in this building. 0:34:47 SG: It’s actually, we’re almost coming at it from the different angle where there was a nice building, that was near our current building. We wanted to invest some money in real estate. And it’s almost for us, the building is the original attraction and this is something that we can do with it. So hopefully, that’ll avoid that pitfall. 0:35:04 PR: Yeah. It’s just interesting sometimes to see that people have an idea about something and they think, “Well, only if we have the space to do this in” and they sort of stop there. And I don’t think the lack of… There’s always space in one way or another. 0:35:18 DJ: Coffee shops and… 0:35:19 PR: Well, yeah. Or you can do something in the middle of a street. Or, like the Confed Centre did, is they rented the old Vogue Optical space to put an artist in residence there. 0:35:27 SG: Yeah. We, Dan and I ran into something, I think that’s somewhat analogous to that where we’re aspiring amateur musicians and we aspire to be amateurs, I guess. And we’ve always thought, if we had some good recording equipment or access to a studio, we could make some really great music. And now, that we’ve got most of the equipment that we’ve always wanted, we actually found ourselves on the weekend sitting around and looking at these great microphones, mixer, computer, and everything. And it was weird, now, our lack of talent is now the biggest barrier, so yeah. People often, you can often hold off on things because there’s something you really need that you think you need but if you we’re really gonna do it you could just get it done anyhow. 0:36:10 PR: Well, I’ve ran into a very similar thing. I was watching Charlie Rose last week and Philip Johnson, the architect had died, and they were talking a lot, they interviewed Frank Gary and they talked about Philip Johnson and I realized that deep in my heart of hearts I had always maintained the illusion that I will someday gonna be an architect. Because I had sort of toyed with the idea of coming out of high school… 0:36:29 DJ: Just like George from Seinfeld. 0:36:32 PR: I had toyed with the idea coming out of high school maybe I would go to architecture school but I didn’t, I went into a general arts program. But I’d always sort of thought deep in my mind that eventually I’d be done with this computer stuff and I’d go on to do the real thing and it would be architecture. And then just listening to Frank Gary talk and Philip Johnson talk and thinking about architecture and why I hadn’t done it yet, I realized that first of all I have none of the basic skills required to be an architect. Like I can’t think in three dimensions. I’m not particularly… I like buildings and I appreciate a good space but I have no idea how you would go about creating that. [chuckle] And I can’t deconstruct it and I’m interested in buildings but I’m not passionate about them. And then I realized with the few exceptions I don’t really like architects as people. 0:37:15 SG: You’re the worst architect ever. [chuckle] 0:37:17 PR: So I decided that maybe I should let that dream go now. 0:37:20 SG: Well, I’m a designer and I don’t like designers by rule of thumb. 0:37:25 PR: Well, there you go. But you’re good at it. 0:37:27 SG: At not liking them? [laughter] 0:37:28 PR: No, no. You’re good at being an… You’re good at not liking them. 0:37:31 SG: Well, thank you. 0:37:31 PR: You’re also good at being a designer which it was even deeper with me, because I realized I didn’t… Like if you said here, “Draw a picture of a cube.” I could literally not draw a picture of a cube I cannot think in three dimensions. 0:37:43 SG: I think you’ve chosen the right career path. 0:37:45 PR: Well yes, but, not to be too real or anything but, [chuckle] it did strike me. 0:37:53 DJ: I was gonna make that comment that while we’re really getting into this next subject… 0:37:55 PR: Just jumping off on your comment about not creating anything tangible. I realized the other danger that you run into doing the kind of work that we do, and I think this is true of all three of us is that we’re not really doing… We are not our own client. 0:38:07 DJ: Anything that matters? 0:38:09 PR: Well no, I think things matter but we’re doing it for other people, for other people’s ends. And part of that is we’re making other people wealthy and we’re skimming something off. But there’s something more to it than that which, we’re sort of dealing with, we are not artists we are craftspeople. 0:38:26 SG: We’re mercenaries. 0:38:27 PR: We’re mercenaries, yes. And I’ve sort of come to terms with that on… I’m not complaining about it, it’s a good living and I enjoy the work but at the same time sometimes I sort of thirst for something which is my own thing. And maybe that’s what my web blog is on some level too. 0:38:43 DJ: And your radio show and… 0:38:44 SG: Yeah that’s what those things are for me. My own web blog, the recording radio stuff, music. 0:38:50 DJ: The lame recording we’re doing. 0:38:51 SG: Yeah. That’s my… 0:38:53 DJ: Musical recording. This recording we’re doing right now is awesome. [chuckle] 0:38:57 SG: Yeah. Shall we move on? 0:39:00 PR: Okay. 0:39:00 DJ: Sure. 0:39:00 PR: I guess we have to talk about Johnny and his bad smelling lamp now. [chuckle] 0:39:04 DJ: Again a joke item on the agenda. 0:39:05 PR: Well, I will use this joke item and morph it into a real thing that has practical relevance for the program and community. 0:39:11 SG: Wow. 0:39:12 DJ: Don’t put a 150 watt light bulb in a desk lamp? 0:39:15 PR: Well, it’s been interesting for me over the past couple of years as Johnny who is the other half of Reinvented has become a computer programmer to watch, to see computer programming through his eyes. Because for me I’ve been doing it now for 25 years and so it’s sort of I can’t think about it because I can’t see myself doing it. And one of the things I realized is that when you’re programming it’s really a process in large part of solving problems because you would think that in an ideal world you just sit down and write a program, but of course it never works that way. It breaks down and it’s like a battle against bugs. And often bugs are, you see things happen and you think, “Well, there’s the cause and this is the effect.” But the cause and effect can sometimes be illusory and the cause is sometimes something completely different so maybe you get error reports about this thing and you think, “Well because this thing is happening these other things must be caused by that.” But it’s not the case. And so the reason that I bring this up at this point is that Johnny has the office beside me had this really weird smell in his office. [laughter] 0:40:20 PR: Which seems like an insult but it’s not. Stay through to the end of the story. And it was coincident with him going down to our client Yankee for a week. So Johnny left, I was here alone. I moved the fridge, our little bar fridge, into his office and when he came back there was a smell in his office. So logically you would think that there was something in the fridge. So we ended up throwing away a lot of the stuff in the fridge, like we threw away some honey ‘cause it was sort of a honey-like smell and we finally ended up moving the fridge out of his office and we smelled the carpets and we just couldn’t figure out what… 0:40:51 SG: We called in extra guests sniffers. 0:40:53 PR: Yeah and finally I guess, was it you or your father or? 0:40:56 SG: It was my father and I in a combined effort. 0:40:58 PR: We brought in a special hazardous materials team and you found out that… 0:41:02 SG: That there was a… Johnny’s wife had gotten him a lamp at a used store here in Charlottetown, just little desk lamp and they had put a 150 watt light bulb in this little desk lamp and it was literally slowly burning the lamp shade on it. And that’s what we discovered. 0:41:22 PR: And it smelled sort of like rancid burning honey. 0:41:24 SG: We thought for a while that there could have been some kind of dead rodent in a wall. 0:41:28 PR: Yeah, yeah. 0:41:29 SG: And we weren’t really sure how to deal with that [0:41:30] . 0:41:31 PR: So the moral of the story is that the obvious problem is not necessarily the one that is the problem you should be looking at. 0:41:37 SG: Wow. 0:41:38 PR: I think that’s the moral of the story anyway. 0:41:40 SG: I don’t think we ever had morals before. 0:41:42 PR: So Firefox update. 0:41:45 SG: Yeah, I’ll give a little bit of Firefox update. It’s been quite a while since we talked about it last. 0:41:49 PR: I think we were… The last time we recorded it was on the cusp of the Firefox 1.0. 0:41:54 SG: Well 1.0 is here. Whoo! [laughter] 0:42:00 PR: I hear the passion in your, “Whoo!” 0:42:00 DJ: Lamest radio cheer ever. 0:42:01 SG: There was a lot of fan fair. Actually it was quite a big deal. It was quite a big press event and Firefox has gotten I think even more attention than people who were enthusiastic about it expected. And the number of downloads has been enormous. I don’t know what to make of numbers in terms of downloads but there have been 20 million downloads since it was officially released in, was it early December, I think. And in terms of the actual launch, I wrote a bit about this in my weblog but it was… Talk about lame fanfare. The launch itself, because of the time zone difference between California and here in the East Coast, it ended up that it was like 4:00 in the morning for me and I had prepared the changes to the front page of the mozilla.org website. And so I had set a