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Dec 18, 2011
Should You Put Your Content Behind A Registration Wall?
Personally, I am in the David Meerman Scott camp on this, and would prefer that you not put any content behind a registration wall. Studies show that your content will be downloaded 50x more times if you don't require info from the downloader. 50x more downloads equals more thought leadership. The message spreads farther and wider.
In a no-reg-wall scenario, prospective customers will download your content, and "tire kickers" will too. We must answer a few questions:
1. What harm, if any, is there in providing your content to mere tire kickers?
My answers to these questions:
1. I do not believe there is any harm. I believe that having more people consume your content is better than having less people consume it. More consumption leads to enhanced thought leadership.
2. There could be some harm. You need to be as easy as possible to work with in every facet of your business. Genuine prospects arriving at your site might balk at providing you info (even if they really think they want to work with you). Think of it this way. The most highly qualified prospect (the purchasing manager closest to pulling the trigger on working with you) arrives at your website. Perhaps he or she will download and consume your content either way (reg wall or no reg wall). However, there is a chance that they won't download and consume it if you require info from them. In my book, that is a huge problem. Why depress your numbers like that? The only logical answer could be contained in the answer to question #3…….
3. If you take their contact info and do someone with it, then that is a reason for requiring registration. I'm still not nuts about it and would like to find another way to provide your content to everyone while still capturing qualified leads (for example, requiring registration for the second download, or putting the best of the best content behind a wall). But if your salespeople are individually contacting the people registering on your site, that could be an argument for erecting a registration wall. I would still be leery of using this info for "cold call" purposes, and just because someone provided you their email address in exchange for valuable information does not make that sales call any less cold. One of the important reasons you want a blog with great content and a social media strategy is to create a strong inbound marketing program, built around thought leadership and relationships. Help, help, help everyone you can, and then prospects contact you right at the moment of their greatest need. That's the best kind of lead.
4. My opinion is that the mere act of someone giving you their email address (registering) will not make them a more likely buyer. You have captured some info from them in exchange for your valuable content. On your end, what happens next? As discussed in #3, if a salesperson follows up individually with each new registered person/company, then a reg wall could make sense. But to think that free, easily spreadable no-reg-wall content might land in your competitor's hands…. I mean, it will anyway. I've provided a fake email address to a website before just to plow through the reg process. I just wanted to get to the info, and all of the registration stuff only aggravated me. So a registration wall provides you no protection whatsoever.
Restricting access to content behind a reg wall is only a good idea if you have a very successful system in place for doing something with the registration intel you collect from the downloader. And you may have that already. Ultimately, my opinion may not matter. Testing these theories may be your best option. As discussed near the bottom of this article, some companies have split test this and found that better leads were generated on reg wall ("gated") days. For thought leadership purposes, I still prefer no reg wall, but perhaps you should test it.
Of course, I'd like to know what you guys think.
Nov 9, 2010
Rizzo Tees Featured In New David Meerman Scott Book "Real-Time Marketing & PR"
It all started with a HARO request. I'd heard of David Meerman Scott, having read his book The New Rules of Marketing and PR (Amazon affiliate link). So I was quite excited to see him asking for sources on marketing in "real-time." I've been doing my best to do just that since Rizzo Tees went live in October 2008.
I responded to the request, did a phone interview with David, and the rest is history. Rizzo Tees has a page in David's new book Real-Time Marketing and PR! (Amazon affiliate link)
Big thanks to David for including me in his latest masterpiece. Make sure you read this book – you'll take a ton away from it. I sure did.
Nov 1, 2010
Real-Time Marketing & PR – David Meerman Scott – Book Review
A few years ago, I had the good fortune to stumble across David Meerman Scott's book "The New Rules of Marketing & PR." I don't even remember how I first heard of the book. I checked it out from the library and read it on vacation. I took so much from the book that, earlier this year, I ordered the second edition and read it too. I've learned and applied so much from this book, and its lessons are still very valid today.
However, since David first advocated for generating inbound leads by writing a blog, and using press releases to communicate directly with your audience, things have sped up even further. Now, your customers are online, talking to you and about you in real-time. If you're not listening and interacting, the silence is deafening. Do you want consumers to define your product on Twitter, Facebook, and the blogosphere, or do you as a company want to play a role by interacting with them? Further, do you want that engagement to result in more sales?
Enter David's new book Real-Time Marketing and PR (Amazon affiliate link). In it, he lays out how companies are winning by engaging their customers directly online in real-time. He talks about:
I've been a big fan of David's for years, and I'm proud to say that my little t-shirt company, Rizzo Tees, is actually featured in the book! Flip to page 118 and read about how I like to interact with folks on Twitter, and how I crowdsource some of my t-shirt designs (especially when I'm stumped). Thanks to David for hearing my story and incorporating it into this amazing book.
I highly recommend that companies of all shapes and sizes grab this book and give the principles of real-time online interaction and engagement a chance. Fear not, Corporate America. We consumers have a great deal to offer you besides our money.
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May 19, 2010
Use Video As Part Of Your Communication Plan
Author David Meerman Scott talks (in a video, ironically) about using video to enhance your communication plan. See video below.
The eternal cons to video are "Well, I don't know how to edit video, and I'm not very good looking, and I don't have the right clothes to wear, and I can't afford a camera, and no one will want to hear what I have to say, and who will operate the camera, and….. " Stop it. That is all wrong!
Mar 15, 2010
David Meerman Scott Talks The New Rules of Marketing and PR
Last year I read David Meerman Scott's best-seller "The New Rules of Marketing and PR," and I've recently purchased the second edition and plan on giving the book a second reading in the next few weeks. The reason? As I continue to operate the small business learning laboratory known as Rizzo Tees, I am finding more and more that Scott's advice is dead-on. I'm not even executing on all of this advice yet, so a pox on me.
However, this blog was borne of his advice. In the video below, you'll hear him talk of a dentist that started a blog and wrote an eBook, and she was able to generate a ton of online attention for herself…. and all for free. No Yellow Page Ads anymore – it's you, all you, writing your thoughts, spreading your word for free online, getting others to spread the word for you. It's losing control of your marketing, as Scott calls it. It's bloody brilliant.


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You can't make this stuff up. Someone at the UK Guardian named David Grimes has declared that "economic liberalism," by which he means the ideology of laissez-faire, "clashes" with "scientific evidence." Which scientific evidence, you might ask? Well, the unassailable scientific dogma of global warming is one:
Climate change illustrates this well, because despite overwhelming evidence of anthropogenic influence, there is a tendency for those with pronounced free-market views to reject the reality of global warming. The reason underpinning this is transparent – if one accepts human-mediated climate change, then supporting mitigating action should follow. But the demon of regulation is a bridge too far for many libertarians.
There is no doubt that some people who purport to be advocates for free markets reject arguments of anthropogenic global warming out of hand without even considering the evidence. I'm agnostic on the matter myself, although I certainly reject the ludicrous assertion that there is such a thing as "settled science" and that the matter is not debatable. And unlike many allegedly great men and women of scientific inquiry, I refuse to agree that global warming "deniers" are heretics who should be burned at the stake (or the modern equivalent of having one's career ruined). To anyone capable of logical thought, it should be obvious that one's support for free markets is utterly independent from one's opinions on the matter of global warming. There's no reason at all why someone who accepts the reality of anthropogenic global warming would have to support government regulation of all energy usage. To argue such would be like arguing that one's acceptance of the Bering Strait theory determines one's opinions about the minimum wage. So why would Grimes think this? We can see it in his quotation above where he says:
The reason underpinning this is transparent – if one accepts human-mediated climate change, then supporting mitigating action should follow.
Ah, so there it is. Acceptance of global warming = acceptance of "mitigation" = acceptance of government regulation. Case closed.
Grimes packs many assumptions into just this one statement. Let's look more closely:
If one accepts that global warming is a grave danger, is it nonetheless necessary to support "mitigating action" even if it can't be shown to actually improve anything at all? Even assuming that global warming were proven beyond a reasonable doubt, the burden of proof of success is still on those who want mitigating action. Specifically, they need to be able to prove that such action has a reasonable chance of achieving the desired ends. They most certainly have not done so. Indeed, many scientists say it's already too late to stop it. Many argue that even if major global action were taken right now, the expected result over the next century would be too small to make any difference. In other words, it's futile at this point to enact mitigating actions. (Also here.) Presumably, if it's too late, then there's no reason we should still be debating mitigating action. But of course, having realized that the "it's too late" message is a PR disaster, the message has instead been changed to "it won't be too late if we act right now!"
By their own admission, if global controls on production and energy use are not imposed by 2020, we're all doomed. When 2020, rolls around, however, look for the date to be changed to 2025, and so on. Indeed, the global warming gang is like the Seventh Day Adventists who kept predicting the end of the world in the nineteenth century, and then changing the date when it didn't happen.
Note, however, that the entire narrative depends on the assumption that all mitigating action must consist of socialist edicts and regulations. Could there be mitigating action that is not based on socialist command and control systems? We all know that any such suggestion would be laughed out of the room by global warming scientists, who in addition to being experts on climate, are also experts on politics, economics, and anything else they decide to be "experts" on. Private solutions aren't even worth discussing in their view, so even if a laissez-faire minded global-warming enthusiast were to suggest something other than government control of the global economy, he would be immediately excluded from the debate. We all know what "mitigating action" really means.
So, there may be any number of mitigating actions supported by global-warming minded free-market people, from better water filtration, to agricultural engineering, to desalinization, to water delivery systems, all which might be done within the context of markets. But no, none of that is acceptable. The only acceptable "mitigating action" for people like Grimes is global governmental control of the entire means of energy usage and production.
Also important to the support of any mitigating action is an analysis of the cost. Knowing that the true cost to people of submitting to a global warming regulatory regime would be very high, it is necessary for the global warming regulators to portray the effects of global warming as being nothing less than a nightmarish post-apocalyptic landscape of Mad Max proportions. This enables them to argue that no cost is too high to adopt their regime.
Back in the real world, however, costs must always be considered.
Most of the "solutions" to global warming offered by the global elites involve the widespread impoverishment of much of the human population by limiting the production of goods, and the use of transportation resources. Such "solutions" would massively undermine advances in the standards of living for billions of ordinary people just as they are finally starting to come out of grinding levels of poverty. In other words, most of the anti-global warming regulators (most of whom are wealthy white people in first-world countries) want to deny the poor of the world their washing machines. For Grimes, a white intellectual in a wealthy country, he won't bear the true brunt of the global warming "solutions." But for many people, the cost of the "solutions" for global warming will be extremely high indeed. So perhaps many people can be forgiven for rejecting the rich-white-man assumption that restrictions on energy usage and production are the bee's knees.
The proponents of global warming regulation completely ignore these costs, and instead insist that desertification will destroy human society, so it's better to just make everyone poor now, rather than later. The argument goes something like this: global warming will make many areas of the earth uninhabitable and people will become starving bands of scavengers as a result. So, the only solution to this is to force people back down to nearly-unbearable subsistence levels now, so that they don't become post-apocalyptic cannibals later. They argue, for example, that much of the American South will become a desert and that many coastal cities will be flooded by rising water levels.
All they're really saying, of course, is that in case of global warming, large numbers of people will have to migrate to other places. When noting that the South will become a desert, they never mention, for example, that Canada, for example will become much more hospitable in climate. Or that the Hudson Nay would become a temperate zone and a natural location for major trade networks and new cities.
So what the global warming crowd has to do is prove that the cost of migration in the future is evidently higher than the cost of destroying the global economy right now. This has most certainly not been proven, and given that huge migratory flows are relatively common in human history, depicting such a situation as akin to the apocalypse is dishonest at best. Moreover, since the sea levels and desertification processes would not occur overnight, we also know that there would be time for persons to migrate, and we also know that many of the places to which they would migrate, are now virtually uninhabited.
Indeed, it would seem that if mass migration is in our future, we would want to do everything we can to encourage economic growth now. To invest in technologies that contribute to making capital more easily transportable (like smaller and lighter computers and vehicles) and encouraging people to save for the future.
The alternative offered by the proponents of global warming regulation -pushing much of the developing world back into abject poverty- would be sure to bring something far worse, such as endless civil wars among populations were had a middle-class lifestyle within sight, but were slapped back down by the global elites in the name of saving the world.
So, if global warming is indeed on our horizon, it would appear that perfecting technologies like water desalinization, aqueducts, improved agricultural practices, and lowering the costs of basic staples such as housing and labor-saving appliances would be essential. Much of the world has aleady been working on these problems, and global warming has had nothing to do with it. The Israelis have been developing better and better water and agriculture systems for decades. Many desert countries (including the western United States) have been working on better water filtration and delivery systems. Many societies, such as The Netherlands and Singapore already deal with various issues related to dense populations.[1]
But can you guess which societies are the best as dealing with these issues? Not surprisingly, the societies that have the wealthiest populations and the most industrialized and capital-intensive economies offer the best solutions for dealing with all the problems that global warming has to offer. In other words, the most free economies offer the best hope for addressing these issues. We don't hear much from Venezuela, for example, about the latest scientific advances in energy production, water cleanliness, and housing.
Meanwhile, those who support global warming "mitigation" are most interested in crippling the very system that makes it easiest to deal with climate-related issues. By impoverishing the world, the global warming regulators wish to see to it that few could afford the very sorts of technologies that would be most helpful in a warmer world. For David Grimes, "science" apparently tells him that poor population are better at mastering their environment than rich populations. If that's "science" then we can only hope that "anti-science" eventually prevails.
[1] See the Copenhagen Consensus project for more reasonable comments along these lines.
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Internship Inspires 'The Hymn of Acxiom'
Posted 7/15/2013 12:00 am
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We never thought that an artist could take a concept as esoteric as data mining and turn it into something hauntingly beautiful.
But singer Vienna Teng of Ann Arbor, Mich., did just that.
Last week she released the album version of her song "The Hymn of Acxiom," named after the Little Rock data miner.
The song — pure vocals, with Teng's voice overlaid on itself to create a harmonic quality — was inspired by, among other things, an internship she undertook involving making consumer profiles, one of Acxiom's major revenue sources.
She calls the song "sacred music for the age of Big Data."
The hymn's lyrics assure the listener that "somebody hears you," that "you don't have to hide," to "let our formulas find your soul" and "now we possess you," finally asking, "isn't this what you want?"
We recommend you visit Teng's BandCamp website and give it a listen.


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Superintendent Jason Van Fossen says that the comptroller's rating is based off of district finances from previous years and that their 2013-2014 budget will address many of these problems.
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What have you missed the most during your pregnancy? Sleeping on your tummy? An extra cup of coffee? A glass of wine with dinner?
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That's fantastic! I'm glad you are finding the boards to be beneficial and informative. :)
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I'm excited to see how others get though and go through it. Have gotten a bunch of tips already too!!!
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Oh, very exciting! 12 weeks will be here before you know it. It is amazing how quickly it all goes. Sounds like you have a great support system around you! I hope we see you here often during your pregnancy journey. :)
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I'm at 8 weeks now... So counting them down. However for those that do know they are making me pretty excited!!! Can't wait. I'm going to need some serious help don't know much.
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Oh, that can be a bit challenging. I was the first of all my friends and family to have a baby and I remember how it feels. How far along are you now? Hopefully you don't have long to go until you announce at 12 weeks!
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Real Salt Lake will head to Denver this weekend for Saturday's crucial Rocky Mountain Cup Presented by Mark Miller Subaru match at the rival Colorado Rapids.
RSL sits squarely behind the eight-ball in the battle for the 2013 Rocky Mountain Cup, needing a win on Saturday at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in order to keep the RMC for the seventh-straight year.
The last time the Claret-and-Cobalt was this close to losing the Rocky Mountain Cup was in 2010, when the Rapids - needing a win to take the Cup - led the Utah side 2-0 in the dying moments of the regular season finale. The Colorado colors were already attached to the trophy when Real Salt Lake forward Alvaro Saborio brought the Claret-and-Cobalt all the way back, scoring twice in stoppage time to give RSL the draw and the Cup.
Yes, Marcelo, soccer is indeed a cruel game.
Real Salt Lake Captain Kyle Beckerman skipped out on the usual halftime team talk at Wednesday's All-Star Game, ditching ASG Head Coach Peter Vermes' tactics discussion for a Google+ hangout with fans at Sporting Park.
Beckerman - who started and played the entire first half before getting subbed out at halftime - got a couple pretty off-the-wall questions, including one a piece from Sporting KC forwards Soony Saad and Dom Dwyer. Saad tried to get KB5 fired up, but Kyle - ever the savvy vet - didn't take the bait, putting the young striker in his place.
Check out Beckerman's entire Google+ hangout above.
Real Salt Lake has a solid history in the MLS All-Star Game, with Claret-and-Cobalt players seeing the field in five previous iterations of the match, including each of the last four.
That streak will extend to five on Wednesday night, when Kyle Beckerman will start for the MLS All-Stars against AS Roma at 7:00 p.m. MT at Sporting Parkon ESPN2 and UniMas. Fellow RSL All-Stars Tony Beltran and Nick Rimando could also see time in the match, though All-Star Head Coach Peter Vermes has already indicated that Rimando won't be starting.
Here's how RSL's All-Stars have fared on the field in past All-Star Games:
July 19, 2007 - The MLS All-Stars took on Scottish side Celtic FC at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, winning 2-0. Eddie Pope registered Salt Lake's first All-Star minutes when he replaced Michael Parkhurst in the 83rd minute.
July 29, 2009 – The Rio Tinto Stadium All-Star Game saw three Real Salt Lake players take part in MLS's penalty kick shootout loss, with Kyle Beckerman starting the game and playing the first half, Will Johnson entering for Beckerman and scoring in the shootout and Javier Morales coming on in the 64th minute.
July 28, 2010 - Facing European power Manchester United, Javier Morales and Jamison Olave started and Nick Rimando cleaned up in Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez's Man. United debut, a 5-2 loss for MLS in Houston.
July 27, 2011 - Again playing the Red Devils but this time in New York, Jamison Olave made it a third-straight year with a RSL man in the First XI, famously besting Wayne Rooney in a foot race. Unfortunately, Olave got hurt shortly after chasing down Rooney, spraining his knee and missing five games upon his return to RSL. Kyle Beckerman also played, entering the match in the second half for Shalrie Joseph as the All-Stars fell 4-0.
July 25, 2012 - Squaring off against Chelsea at PPL Park, Kyle Beckerman represented the Claret-and-Cobalt as a sub, notching the game-winning assist on Seattle forward Eddie Johnson's 91st minute goal to give the All-Stars a 3-2 win.
Real Salt Lake forward Alvaro Saborio netted his third career RSL hat trick on Saturday, putting in three in the Claret-and-Cobalt's 4-3 loss at the New York Red Bulls. Saborio's outstanding performance led to the MLS Player of the Week award, a MLS Goal of the Week nomination and a spot on the FIFA Ultimate Team of the Week.
Check out video of all nine goals from Sabo's three RSL hat tricks - last year against Portland, last year at Chivas USA and Saturday at New York - above.
Real Salt Lake has had its fair share of solid moments in the MLS All-Star Game over the years.
Here are a few of the Claret-and-Cobalt's best moments from the ASG ahead of tonight's match between the MLS All-Stars and AS Roma. Enjoy.
July 25, 2012: Kyle Beckerman delivers the game-winning assist to Seattle forward Eddie Johnson in the 91st minute of the All-Stars' 3-2 win over Chelsea FC.
July 27, 2011: The MLS All-Stars lost 4-0 to Manchester United at Red Bull Arena, but RSL defender Jamison Olave had a very memorable moment, showing tremendous speed to catch and then win the ball from Wayne Rooney in the first half of the match. Unfortunately, Olave sprained his knee later in the match, missing five games due to the injury.
July 29, 2009: Rio Tinto Stadium played host to the 2009 MLS All-Star Game with a sold-out crowd of 20,124 packing the RioT to see the MLS All-Stars fall in penalty kicks to English Premier League club Everton FC. Three RSL players saw action in the match, with Kyle Beckerman starting the game and playing the first 45, Will Johnson coming on for Beckerman and nailing a PK in the shootout and Javier Morales subbing on in the 64th minute.
Kyle Beckerman: RSL captain, U.S. international, MLS All-Star and best rapper in the league.
A bit of breaking news ahead of tomorrow's AT&T MLS All-Star Game, courtesy of soccer media maven Grant Wahl:
MLS All-Star coach Peter Vermes on live now on @SiriusXMFC 94. Says he's starting Beckerman, Davis, W. Johnson plus Henry, Zusi, Fernández.
— Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl) July 30, 2013
There you have it: According to what Sporting Kansas City/MLS All-Star Head Coach Peter Vermes told Wahl on Sirius XM radio on Tuesday afternoon, Real Salt Lake Captain Kyle Beckerman will start Wednesday's All-Star Game against Italian side AS Roma.
According to Wahl's tweet, Vermes also said that Dallas goalkeeper Raul Fernandez will start in net for the All-Stars. That means no Nick Rimando in between the pipes for the All-Stars from the outset. Might we see him make a second half cameo?
No word yet as to whether or not RSL right back Tony Beltran is in Vermes's First XI.
The MLS All-Stars will take on Roma at Sporting Park at 7:00 p.m. MT on Wednesday night on ESPN2.
I know, I know, some of you might not like it, but both Kyle Beckerman and Nick Rimando chose Landon Donovan when asked by MLSsoccer.com at Tuesday's All-Star practice which fellow All-Star they'd like to take back to their team.
True to RSL's "Team is the Star" mentality, neither Beckerman nor Rimando opted to kick anyone off of the Claret-and-Cobalt.
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Real Salt Lake will travel to Denver this weekend, taking on the Colorado Rapids on Saturday at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in the deciding game of the 2013 Rocky Mountain Cup Presented by Mark Miller Subaru.
The Rapids - who got a little weird ahead of the April 6 match between the sides - started the hype machine for Saturday's match on Monday, calling their fans to "Defend the Fortress" by releasing the above video.
"Defend the Fortress" #Subaru #RockyMtnCup #Rapids vs #RSL ft @ClintIrwin http://t.co/KwcVMdsIOm
— Colorado Rapids (@ColoradoRapids) July 29, 2013
We thought the phrasing was a little bit odd. Guess the Rapids don't know that Rio Tinto Stadium is The Original Fortress.
@FlemingSport @ColoradoRapids @MLS ummm ... Here's to a true "Fortress" since 2008 inception: https://t.co/I6kjEsoxVd #RSL #RioT
— Real Salt Lake (@RealSaltLake) July 29, 2013
Since start of '10, #RSL is 38-9-13 at home in MLS play. Colorado is 28-13-20. The #RioT is the original Fortress.
— Sam Stejskal (@samstejskal) July 29, 2013
Copying #RSL jersey colors = check; "Defend the Fortress" = check; "Colorado for Life" < "Fan4Life"; just don't steal #BELIEVE chant too...
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Welcome to Learning Technology
Recording with GarageBand '08
Getting Started
Click on the GarageBand icon in your Dock. (It can also be found in Macintosh HD/Applications)
You will be prompted to select a new GarageBand Project. Select Create New Podcast Episode.
A Save As dialog will appear. Give your project a title. (e.g. My Great Podcast)
To begin recording, select the appropriate voice track.
When ready, click the Record button to begin.
When finished, press the Play button to stop recording.
GarageBand creates a visualization of the audio, this is called a soundwave. The thin lines represent low sounds, where as the higher peak represent louder audio.
Editing the Podcast
GarageBand's Track Editor offers a precise editing tool to remove unwanted audio.
To remove any unwanted audio, click on beginning of the unwanted audio and drag the mouse to the end of the unwanted audio as if you were selecting text.
The unwanted area is now highlighted, press Delete on your keyboard to remove the audio.
To create Fade Ins and Fade Outs click on the down arrow to reveal the track volume.
In the track volume we see a horizontal line representing the volume of our recording.
Click on the area of the line where you want stop the fade in. A blue marker will appear.
Click on the beginning of the track to create another blue marker. Click and drag the blue marker to create an incline.
The fade in gradually increases the volume.
To create a Fade Out, click on the beginning of the area you want to decrease, a blue marker will appear.
Click on the area you want to end the fade out. A blue marker appears, click and drag the blue marker down to create a decline.
Adding Jingles
Jingles offer an entertaining way to lead into your Podcast. GarageBand comes preloaded with hundreds of jingles, sound effects, and more.
To add a Jingle, Select the Jingles Track.
Next, click on the Loop Browser icon.
In the Jingles section select a loop that you like and drag it to the Jingles Track.
The Loop can be lengthened to fit your audio recording. Do this by hovering your mouse on the right end of the loop. The Mouse will turn into a circular arrow, click on the track and drag to the right to expand.
To add Podcast artwork, click on the Podcast Track.
Select the Track Editor. This gives us an area to drag a photo into the Album Artwork. Album artwork will show up in media players like iTunes.
Find a picture you wish to add and drag it into the Episode Artwork
Once the Podcast is complete you can export it.
In the Menu Bar select Share and choose Export Podcast to Disk.
You will be prompted to choose the appropriate settings for your Podcast.
If you are creating a spoken word podcast choose MP3 (mono/32 bit)
Once selected, you will be prompted for a file name.
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Saving Project
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I have here the unboxing of my GSB Masterwork Full Armor Gundam. This beautiful 1/100 Gundam resin kit was a gift from Omar aka Aor_or_die of Italy, back when he visited us in the Philippines in 2011.
I have a couple of gunpla commission works to do, but I think I need to get the feel of handling my tools again before working on those commishs.
This GSB Masterwork Full Armor Gundam resin kit should practice me on how to file and use my art knife again. I will be cleaning up the pieces today and hope to pin them as well.
So on with my quick unboxing review...
Basically you get a ton of stuffs for such a small box! You get a couple of 3r sized photos of the painted kit, a couple of sheets of instruction manual of sorts, a large sheet of water slide decals, and 6 bags of solid resin pieces.
The parts does not have bubbles and has very fine details. The large chunks are so fun to hold as they are pretty heavy and the small parts feels so sturdy and solid as well. You need a bit of clean up with the resin sprues and a bit of filing along the contact areas, but overall this is a very fine 1/100 Gundam resin kit!
Stay tuned guys! Thanks to Omar for this superb kit! Til' my next post guys! Just enjoy the hobby. :)
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Sunday, March 17, 2013
GSB Masterwork Full Armor Gundam review
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Thanks Teddymon! :)
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good to see you building again Dc! we have missed your creativity! hope life is good my friend!
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- Release Date 11/15/2005
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- Platform GBA
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- Number of Players 1
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Penny Proud wants to make her parents proud with an anniversary gift they'll never forget. Problem is, she's a little short on cash. With just six days left before the big day, she'll need lots of hard work and a little luck to get the money together in time! Play as Penny Proud from Disney's Proud Family animated series. Interact with Penny's friends and neighbors in six environments. Complete side missions and unlock mini-games to create more earning opportunities. Pick up extra cash by spinning tunes as a crowd-rockin' DJ, busting some moves at the Hip Hop Dance contest, helping Suga Mama practice for a wrestling tournament, and more.
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I have to say this game was fun, but it was also very easy. The storyline is not to great, the sound is okay, it just was not challenging at all. I say at least try the game, so RENT IT.more
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Full 1080p high bitrate GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition footage now available for download
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Posted 19 October 2012 - 01:32 PM
How much of an effect does the lack of image stabilization have on this camera? The Sony Action Cam includes it, so I'm wondering why GoPro chose not to.
Huge difference. Just check out every Sony vs Gopro on youtube. Image stabilization is the start point. These cameras are made with extreme sports in mind, not for filming our cat eating. And gopro, once again, failed at delivering a real difference, when it had the chance to do so. I can't buy the sony cause of their shitty waterproof-fogging-case and lack of mounts...and neither the GH3. I already filmed a lot with a hero2 without stabilization (helmet motorcycle) and speeding up the video things get really, really, really shitty. Good job gopro.....
Posted 19 October 2012 - 02:50 PM
I would like the Gopro people to make a special "spycam", with better sensitivity for low light, low noise, and night vision, that can be controlled from anywhere in the world via your phone, tablet or computer. A black and white mode with lower resolutions for time-laps would be a welcome addition for surveillance operations (sd cards fill up fast at 5mp).
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Posted 21 October 2012 - 02:41 AM
And they also promised to upgrade the codec on the hero 2 and we've not heard didley about that yet .
Didn't it come out last week? In fact, I think it's the same free upgrade they now have for the GoPro3.
Posted 22 October 2012 - 10:54 PM
Posted 22 October 2012 - 10:57 PM
Posted 23 October 2012 - 01:54 AM
Cineform-Protune + GoPro Hero3 & Post
By Mike Seymour - Posted on Oct 18, 2012
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This week the GoPro Hero3 was launched. This new camera is really amazing, for its price, its performance, its resolution and its incredible ability to allow camera to go literally anywhere.
But the mid-week launch did somewhat overshadow the amazing advances from the week before that the CineForm division of GoPro announced, namely log output, with 24P at much higher bit rates. (Not to mention remote control from your iPad!). And now with the Hero3 these specifications have jumped again. While much of the popular press may focus on the jump to 4K, we wanted to flag the incredible shift from being a 'straight to YouTube' camera to a camera that now also offers a very real alternative for those wanting to intercut GoPro footage – a pipeline that assumes there will be grading, that there will be post, and outputs from the camera in a format that lets you maximize both.
Below is a summary of the key points – for more watch this week's fxphd BKD class 02- which shows GoPro Hero3 clips and grading – thanks to our good friend Director, Stu Maschwitz, who filmed with the Hero3 the morning after the launch on San Francisco Bay. ( Stu will no doubt be separately discussing the grading of GoPro 3 footage at www.prolost.com). Thanks also to GoPro's Senior Director of Software Engineering (p.k.a. CineForm CTO.) David Newman. David is an expert in video compression, image processing and a self professed "3D/stereoscopic/multi-cam geek".
Now we should start by saying that those who love shooting and immediately posting, this workflow is an alternative, nothing has been lost. But for those of you who have even had to match together a bunch of cameras from a bunch of different colorspaces and gammas – that included GoPro – the world just shifted in a very pleasant and unexpected way.
Here are the key highlights of the Protune format and CineForm in general:
- The Protune is still H264, 8 bit but now allows 24P (23.98) recording
- The Protune encodes around 35MBps on the Hero2 and a whopping 45+Mbps on the Hero3
- The colorspace is NOT locked in – with CamRAW mode – in post the native colorspace starts with a wider gamut than either AdobeRGB or sRGB – why do I care? – better grading.
- The Protune is a log file – with automatic lookup LUTs – why do I care? – better grading.
- The file does not spend valuable bits trying to make the highlights roll off – as this can now be done in post as you grade and convert from Log. Why do I care? It ekes out the most detail in the highlights
- The blacks are not crushed
- There is significantly less sharpening applied
- There is less noise reduction applied
- It uses the full YUV 0-255 code range to push as much to post as it can
- It has automatic and now manual white balance – so you can for the first time lock in a white point in camera, but then vary it in post
- Due to the maximum encoding nature of Protune – the WiFi is turned to black during record time – since it can not make a Protune file AND a low res WiFi feed to your iPhone and iPad simultaneously
- In Protune, you can record two hours on one 32GB SD card.
The cdb or color database allows you to immediately adjust a huge range of grading parameters in a processed CineForm codec clip and immediately, without further rendering or even linking, play the quicktime – in realtime – with the changes. This happens in the CineForm decoder in your laptop or desktop – so it is up stream of say FCPX. A change to the look file or cdb will immediately take effect, but the file is NOT tagged as having been modified – so FCPX and other apps require no relinking. The system is fast, powerful and frankly damn impressive. The range of adjustments is vastly more than a CDL but the concept is similar.
GoPro bought CineForm and for a while this was only visible to users as a way to help GoPro solve stereo. While CineForm maintains a mandate to work with as many cameras as possible (most recently this meant offering workflows for the new Black Magic Camera), the GoPro Hero3 camera is the first time we have seen the CineForm group influence the actual GoPro camera internally. In other words, it has taken until now to see the influence of visionaries like David Newman and the team on the GoPro camera itself – after seeing the workflow of around the Hero2 and now Hero3 – we can only hope for more in the future.
Posted 09 November 2012 - 02:52 AM
What the 2.7k 30fps mode would look like, i wonder
Posted 11 November 2012 - 05:05 PM
Cinematic and GoPro shouldn't really be used in the same sentence... It's great for what it does, but 4k is very relative in this case, and when people talk about better highlight rolloff, I seriously don't know what they're on about!
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Rated PG-13 for violence, bloody images, sexual content and language
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Rated: R for some language
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Performance next door at the State Theatre in Zumbrota (map)
Appearing onstage with his band the Long Beds, Michael Perry will weave stories and humor (including material from The Clodhopper Monologues) throughout a lively concert of original songs, including those on his albums and a couple of tunes fresh out of the pen. Crossings is bringing Perry and the Long Beds to Zumbrota's State Theatre on Fri., April 12, at 7:30 p.m.
The music of the Long Beds has been called everything from country folk to roughneck folk and folk-twang to good old Americana. The band prefers the description given by an audience member after a benefit concert in Perry's old high school gym: "You sound just like Gordon Lightfoot… only zippier!"
Perry's songs are a direct reflection of his life growing up in smalltown Wisconsin. Ranging from straight-up twang to churchly harmonies and populated by characters drawn straight from rural and small-town America, they launch from places like the overpass outside Perry's beloved hometown of New Auburn, Wisconsin (population currently 562), a gospel service in a granary, and the kitchen floor of a woman about to drop a world of hurt on her drunken husband. "I was raised by farmers and preachers and tough country women, and I suppose my songs reflect that," says Perry. "Then again, certain wisdoms are available only from whistlers, frauds, and sinners, so I try to slide them a line or two as well."
Band members include backup vocalists and musicians Billy Krause on guitar and banjo, Chuck Roll on bass guitar, and autoharp, and Christopher Ramey on guitar and keyboard, and special guests.
Perry is the author of bestselling memoirs "Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time," "Truck: A Love Story," "Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting," and "Visiting Tom: A Man, A Highway, and the Road To Roughneck Grace," as well as the essay collection "Off Main Street." He will give a lecture the day after the concert, "Writing from the Middle of Nowhere."
Perry will discuss his book and magazine writing techniques, how to survive the freelance life and the publishing world, and most importantly, how "the middle of nowhere" can be the most powerful writing element of all. The lecture is $35 and takes place Sat., April 13, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Read more about it here!
Michael Perry and the Long Beds


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