“I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.”
1 Corinthians 3:2 (NIV)
I was listening to a podcast from Wisconsin Public Radio’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge” and kept thinking about what Paul wrote to the the church in Corinth.
You can listen to the pertinent portion here: Segment 1 on June 4, 2006, and read about it here: T.V. OR NOT T.V.
The basic assertion is that television has become more “intelligent” over the years. People have to think, remember, and pay attention to television programming more than they did in the past. Because people have been trained to be more intelligent in their viewing, the popular television programs have been able to take advantage of the heightened sensibilities of the audience.
Continue reading ‘Does TV make you Smarter? How about preaching?’
If you want to know the joke behind the name just Google Serenity Now.
If you want to know what it is about, check out the Security Now page from Steve Gibson’s Gibson Research Corporation site. If you don’t know who Steve Gibson is then you have not been paying detailed attention to computer security for a long time.
Steve is an old school Internet guy who does his programming in Assembly Language and his web design in Plain Old Html (POH). So, while some of what he talks about seems very arcane he knows a lot about the basics of computers and networking.
I have been listening to his podcast for a few weeks now and have listened to just about all of them up to this point (#42 NAT Traversal is on my mp3 player right now). Each podcast episode has a high quality mp3 (12MB – 34MB) for broadband users, low quality mp3 (2MB – 8MB) for slower connection, transcripts (in html, txt, and pdf), and sometimes supplimentary notes).
The episodes on How the Internet Works, How Ethernet Works, WiFi Security, and desktop computer issues are quite an education in themselves.
Your audience may not be able to see your microphone, but they will hear that extra bounce in your voice when you use the Classic Microphone.
It looks great, but I would still rather use a headset so I could move around have my hands free while jumping between computers.
I know, yet another complaint about iTunes by Bob. This is actually a complaint about web site people and iTunes.
If you have a podcast, do not just link to the iTunes listing for your podcast. This is no help except to people who have installed iTunes. This is worse than designing your web site specifically for Internet Explorer. I keep iTunes off of my computer because it is a waste of space and resources, but if I click on your phobos.apple.com link and don’t have iTunes then I am stuck.
Include an iTunes link, include a Yahoo podcasts linke, include any proprietary link you want, but please include a xml link so I canstick your podcast into my reader.
The do have an iTunes link for our church podcast. It took a while since I didn’t want to register for iTunes so I asked another employee at the church who was registered with iTunes to add in the link for us. In addition to this, we have added FeedBurner to make it easier for people to select from the different available services.
Right now I am working on a good descriptor link so newbies better understand how to use the podcast audio.
I track the podcasts I listen to in Bloglines and decided I might as well share my listing: The Podcasts Bob Listens to (aka. The Podcasts to which Bob Listens).
Sure there are a few not listed there that I listen to, but an considering dropping and therefore do not wish to advertise at this time.
I continue to have to add new subscriptions since I listen a lot. I have been listening back through the archives of all those feeds so as I catch up I need new ones to fill in.
NPR truly has the the strongest grasp of Podcasting and has content that I would never be able to listen to otherwise.
I listen to a lot of tech and web stuff (and most TWiT podcasts), I enjoy science, funny shows, informative stuff, and thinking things.
Sorry it took so long for me to post after the skypecast. I work Saturday nights at the church and did not get home until 11pm. THen I had consistent problems with every internet connection I came in contact with.
Anyway, I received a note from John Abela that he recorded much of the May 6 skypecast and I will be posting that once he gets it to me (I just contacted him back a short while ago).
I also started a thread in the OSM forum on scheduling the next Skypecast on May 20, 2006. It will probably be 1 hour in length with the following general schedule:
15 minutes: hors d’oeuvres, small talk and everyone asking if they can be heard.
15 minutes: limited discussion of the primary topic
15 minutes: questions from the peanut gallery
15 minutes: general duscussion
∞: Just hanging around and talking
After ∞ is over I will sing and do a little dance.
I already have an idea for the next discussion (it should be a bit more formal than the previous one) and I am checking in on someone who would be good for the topic.
I registered a Skypecast for 7:30pm EST (GMT -5) on Saturday, May 6.
If you are interested in trying it out, then come join in: Christian Ministry Technology
I have no idea how this all works so this seemed to be the perfect way to try it. Perhaps we could even schedule a regular gathering online.
Just download Skype and register then stop in at the scheduled time to try it out.
I dug out my headphone/microphone set to make it useable and I will have Trillian loaded up with my instant messenger accounts active.
Look for the following
Skype: mrherald
ICQ: 170940108
AIM: bobedbrown
MSN: bobedbrown @ hot mail .com (take out the spaces)
Yahoo: osministry
I’m looking forward to trying this out.
Skype is one of those tools you can’t help but want to see thrive online. I don’t use Skype right now since I don’t really have anyone to call. The only people I ever called long distance now work in the same building I do so it is just an intercom call now.
I do, however, hear a lot of Skype calls when I listen to podcasts. Several podcasters are actually using Skype to allow the participants to talk together cheaply from around the world.
We also support Skype here at the church since several of the ministers use it to talk with missionaries and other churches without the costs that have hindered in the past.
Now Skype has created an option called SkypeCasting. This allows up to one hundred people to participate in the broadcast with a moderator controlling who can speak.
I am going to install the latest version of Skype and see if perhaps we could get a Christian tech Skypecast going.
I am a voracious consumer of podcasting. Thanks to my mp3 player I am no longer a stuck listening to either AM radio talkshows or Public Radio programs I don’t care for. I listened to about 5 hours of Internet audio from people like John Chiardi (who died 20 years ago) and an Australian teaching science with a slightly off-color vocabularly.
At the end of the day I am back in front of my computer wanting to look up something I heard on The Web 2.0 Show. The nice thing is that they include a full outline based synopsis of the show with links so I can quickly find the topic I was looking for (even though they didn’t include a link to that one).
Thanks, Ya’ll!
The funny thing is that as I was reading the outline I was picturing where I was when I heard the particular parts of the show. This reminded me of how when I was studying Hebrew I wrote out my vocabulary flash cards with stinky black markers, and now every time I smell one I get an urge to read from right to left.
I recently wandered onto Godbit.com because they were mentioned on one of the podcasts I am trying out. While checking around I found this post on Podcasting Your Church. There is some useful info in not only the initial post, but the comments as well.
In other news, I have chosen a new background image.