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This is a few weeks old but it's one of the strangest things i've read in a while.

Go Shaq Diesel! Go!

I haven't heard anything officially about the release date of this album, but I was at Best Buy today and they had it listed as March 6. Anybody else hear anything?

For all the CanRock fans, check out this documentary airing on CBC tomorrow (Monday, January 30) night.

From CBC.ca



"A joyful look at Canadian music from the 60s, that traces the evolution of a young industry with stories from such artists as Buffy Sainte-Marie, Lighthouse, Steppenwolf and The Guess Who, in harmony with a younger generation of stars (including Barenaked Ladies, Blue Rodeo and Sloan) who reveal the impact some of these earlier songs and songwriters had on their music. "

this being one of the most popular internet hangouts for computer and music junkies i was hoping somebody would be able to help me out with .ogg files.

how do you work with them...? burn them...?

thanks.

Cm-Eb-Fsus2-Bb

how do you play these chords? they are in the bridge of poets...

thanks

Former Canadian Prime Ministers in Reality Show
By ETAN VLESSING

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - As Canada's Prime Minister-elect Stephen Harper basks in his election victory, four of his predecessors are set to become judges in a reality TV show called "The Next Great Prime Minister."

Canadian broadcaster CTV on Wednesday unveiled plans for the show, which will premiere Feb. 4. Five young Canadians will endure public speaking and debate challenges to transform themselves into a possible national leader. The prize includes an internship in a Canadian public policy think tank.

TV reality shows have long depended on stage veterans like pop stars, supermodels and actors for celebrity judges. But this format will see former prime ministers Kim Campbell, Joe Clark, Brian Mulroney and John Turner passing judgment.



Courtesy of:
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My picture is not on the 'Online Version', I will post a scan someday.

Quote:Detour

Pod people
Winnipeggers are making their voices heard in the new medium of podcasting

Sat Jan 28 2006

By Gabrielle Giroday



IN a darkened hospital in Inuvik, a night-shift worker is listening to velvet-toned Lance Robinson dedicate his favourite songs to those tuning in.

Meanwhile in Toronto, the designer for renowned Canuck band the Tragically Hip is consulting Robinson on how to plot out the band's new website to showcase the band's sound as well as possible.

Is Robinson some kind of low-lying Winnipeg guru, an underground cult music figure and recording-industry insider?

Well, not quite.

Robinson, a 25-year-old newlywed who broadcasts from his rented apartment on Kenaston, is one of a new breed of vanguard journalists with a global audience: a podcaster.

Podcasters -- the oddly named bunch fast carving out a niche for themselves in pop culture -- record their own audio or video programs so people can download them from the Internet with free subscriptions, and listen to or watch them on MP3 players or computers.

"People like podcasting because you get to listen to what you want to. And there's no advertising on most of them," says Robinson, who produces half-hour weekly shows peppered with his own dialogue and bootleg recordings sent to him by listeners. "It's straight to the consumer. There's no middle man."

With the massive popularity of the iPod -- the ubiquitous gizmo by Apple that allow users to digitally store audio or video recordings and tote them around -- those who want to produce their own programs are increasingly finding a hungry audience.

Audio podcasters, like the mild-mannered Robinson, are popping up in Winnipeg. By day, he works with computers for the federal government, a self-described "techie."

But by night for the last eight months, the spectacled blond takes on a different role entirely: Internet podcaster dedicated to exploring every nuance of the Tragically Hip's music.

With his wife's poodle yipping nearby, Robinson uses a $35 microphone and his desktop computer to channel a less cheesy version of Dick Clark.

"People think podcasters don't know what they're doing, that they're just amateurs," says Robinson. "There are a lot of professionals out there."

The technology enabling audio podcasts, the aural equivalent of blogging, hit in late 2004.
Now it's increasingly mainstream, and instead of spinning recorded discs, Robinson points and clicks his online broadcast.

Over 4,500 members have joined his website, Hipbase.com, since it premiered in 2001. Between 500 and 600 fans of the band download his podcasts.

The popularity of the site and the podcasts has taken off to the point where Robinson sells The Hip Base T-shirts online (his wife squeals when she describes running into a stranger on a Winnipeg street who was wearing one).

Robinson credits part of the success to websites like iTunes, which list thousands of podcasts from around the world so iPod subscribers can search and select their listening preferences.

"Every week there's more and more listeners," says Robinson. "I didn't think it would ever take off like it did."

While podcasters may be able to manufacture programs that sound professional, the content of many programs is so incredibly obscure that it would be difficult to find anywhere on mainstream radio.

Take the British lads who record their commute to work every day, including their own mundane, grunt-laden conversation and the pings and pongs of their metro train.

Or a Vancouver-based woman who is diarizing her ongoing struggle with multiple sclerosis. There's even a California couple who record themselves making dinner every evening, over the din of background music and clanging utensils.

"Most podcasts have some kind of audience. The more specialized your podcast, the less people you'll have listening," says Dwight Wallbridge, who nicknames himself The Canadian Geek and makes a program called, fittingly, The Canadian Geek Podcast (<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.geekblog.net/geekcast/">www.geekblog.net/geekcast/</a><!-- w -->).
"If you have a podcast on the didgeridoo, you might only have 100 people in the entire world who'll listen."

To appeal to the high-end market, luxury car makers like Lexus have released podcasts.

Soundbite-laden speeches from politicians including Jack Layton and Stephen Harper were podcasted, targeting elusive youth voters in the recent election.

Even George W. Bush is jumping on the trend -- well, at least his two terriers, Barney and Miss Beazley, have their own podcast.

For 28-year-old Wallbridge, who podcasts from the apartment he shares with his parents in South St. Vital, podcasting is part of an ongoing shift of power between technology makers and technology users.

Podcasters, he says, are changing the way technology works by allowing people to produce their own content.

He's also a vociferous advocate for consumers' right to use the technological gadgets they purchase as they wish, so he stringently disagrees with large companies that try to control technology.

For instance, Wallbridge slams SonyBMG's November 2005 decision (later reversed) to install potentially harmful software on its CDs to prevent users from copying music. He says companies should trust buyers to use their gadgets in the way they choose.

"If informing people and trying to get changes made makes me activist, then I'm an activist," he said. "But do I see myself as an activist? No, I see myself as somebody who just talks about technology."
There's also the lighter side of being a podcaster, and the smooth-voiced tech junkie admits to a little practise in the strangest of places.

If you see a retail clerk at Home Depot moving his lips while neatening up a parking lot, well, it just might be Wallbridge practising one of his podcasts.

"Sometimes I will go in my head and try and figure out how I want to put something," he said.

"I've gotten a few people at work to listen to my podcast and other people's as well. It's about letting them know something different is out there."

But even with the increasing tech-savviness of the general population, podcasters don't expect a bonanza of cash or fame from their hobby anytime soon. Robinson says he's not planning on quitting his day job, ever.

"I don't know how you'd make money from podcasting, and it's not something I'd like to do as a career," he says.

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What is podcasting?

A video or audio feed people can subscribe to using an MP3 player

or personal computer. The term was coined from the Apple iPod (the world's most popular portable listening device) and "broadcasting." Podcasters, like bloggers, are often ordinary people who want to spread their opinions or special interests to the world. They make programs on a wide variety of subjects for their listeners or

viewers to download, and experience at the time of their choice.

How much does it cost?

According to local electronics retailers, you need some of the following gear to listen to or create your own podcasts. Here's what it will set you back, approximately:
* iPod nano, approximately $249 and up, iPod video $379 and up,

or other MP3 players, $50 and up

* Headsets, $39 and up

* A desktop computer with the right software, upwards of $1,200

By the numbers:

* 100,000,000 plus: Number of Google hits to date for the term "podcast"

July 2005: Kick-off month of the People's Choice Podcast Awards
* 200: Number of downloads per week of sermons (nicknamed "godcasting" by

pundits) from the Christ Chapel in Macon, Ga.

* 14 million: Reputed number of iPods sold by Apple in the 2005 holiday season

* 1: Number of times the term "podcasting" has won word of the year from New Oxford American Dictionary, in 2005

Websites to check out:

For a quirky range of podcasts, with categories ranging from Finnish Culture to Crooklyn Dub:

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For podcasts with a Canadian focus:

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And to meet up with other local podcasters, try the province's newly hatched online meet-up spot:

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Any insight as to why these European shows are on sale already without being officially announced? Especially almost 6 months in advance.A little heads up from the bands web site would be nice.
Todd

it finally starts up on monday, and sadly i have interest in it more than some.. my cousins dna was found on the pig farm, and i hope this bastard rots in hell..i've heard a lot of jokes though, and a lot of disrespect about all the victims just being "whores and drug addicts"..well..these women were family...they were daughters..mothers..sisters..and well.cousins...heather was a great person before she fell in with the wrong crowd..i hadn't spoken to her in a couple of years, but the love i felt for her had never gone away...i have a picture of the 2 of us from my 4th birthday party of the 2 of us hugging..she was one year older than me....i'm not sure what the purpose of this post is..except to say if you've ever thought that those women were lesser people, i hope you change your mind...nobody wants to end up down there...here's hoping that justice is done, although nothing will bring back my favorite cousin..

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TTH will be remember Buffalo SAt. June 17th, Let the whoo-hoo-ing begin ! Mark