PodCamp Trek

Well, I know many of you are aching for more podcast episodes… they’re coming. The big news is that I’ll be taking a long weekend and heading up to Toronto (yes, I have a passport) for their second PodCamp. I desperately need a long weekend and this will hopefully provide me with a [...]

Revamping Primary Elections

Ok, what does a queer kid from PA know about the US election system?  The answer: more than you probably do.  It seems to me that all this pandering about the Iowa Caucus “results” is helping to sway voters on their way to legitimate elections, primaries.  In this free democracy of ours, we’ve established that [...]

The New Media

Ya know, people placed into superficial groups such as the GLBT group are just not always to get along.  This week on the gay podcasters email list there was a little spat over asking for votes for some stupid web-created award.  Frankly, most awards are stupid, but that’s for another day (unless I get one).  [...]

Giving First, Then Thanks

We have the words mixed up in this high priced society.  During my Thanksgiving meal, my dipshit step-mother-in-law, during grace, prayed for all of those less fortunate and hope they have hot food to eat.  Blah, blah, blah.  Later in the meal, I mentioned that I actually did something to hopefully help people with that.

I [...]

LinkedIn

People are all hip on putting their contact on sites such as classmates.com and linkedIn, not to mention myspace, etc. I forgot that I had a profile on LinkedIn . I recently updated my contact info there and found my first manager. I absolutely loved working for an ISP in the early [...]

Do Gays and Lesbians Earn More Money?

Well, the short answer: NO. The long answer: maybe. A fellow blogger and podcamp’r sent me this article about such things.

Every year Rivendell Media puts out numbers like this showing the purchasing and advertising power of gays and lesbians. They look nice and pretty and might actually help in helping [...]

Diversity

My talk on diversity in the new media is now online. Check it out!

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-09

Isn’t it interesting that Firefox’s spell checker knows the books of the Bible… MS Word even capitalizes Leviticus. #
@JustinKownacki as i see a lack of understanding of web media with coworkers…. And most laugh at my podcasting passion… Agreed. #
I am powerless…. No, really. Penn Hills is out… Duquesne Light [...]

Presentation Tips

I wrote this for PodCamp, but it applies to any presentation you might give:

Jason’s 8 Tips for a GREAT Session:

Be energetic. Think and KNOW that the new media are the way of the future. Open people’s minds about why they are really here.
Don’t stand in one place. Walk around and LOOK [...]

You do this for free???

Last year before PodCamp, I kept getting the question at work, “What’s a podcast?” That most certainly is not the question on everyone’s mind this year. Now I am getting, “Why in the hell do you do this for free?” While for me and thousands of podcasters and bloggers out there [...]