An audio-blogged interview with Noah

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Audio interview with me, me, me

Audio interview with me, me, me 04/09/2004 04:11 PM

Some of the topics covered are rather ancient and/or embarrassing but if you're curious to hear what I sound like... http://www.i tconversations.com/shows/detail94.html

Audio interview with moi

Audio interview with moi 12/16/2003 10:01 AM
You can listen to Doug Kaye's interview of me at the ITConversations site, or you can read the transcript here. It's about the Dean campaign and e-democracy....

Audio Interview with Me at Syndicate

Audio Interview with Me at Syndicate 06/05/2005 11:08 PM

Rok Hrastnik has posted h is audio interview with me at Syndicate.

Tip: Drag-and-drop the MP3 link from Rok's post onto FeedStation to download it and copy it to your iPod or WMP-enabled media device.

Better quality audio for Mind Hacks
interview

Better quality audio for Mind Hacks
interview 12/22/2004 01:29 AM
Mark Frauenfelder: Here's a BitTorrent file for a much better-sounding version of my interview with Matt Webb of Mind Hacks. (Here's the original entry). Link (Thanks, Torrentocracy!)

Douglas Adams interview audio from 1988

Douglas Adams interview audio from 1988 07/15/2004 10:02 AM
Alex sez, "An interview with Douglas Adams originally broadcast in 1988 has now been made available online. It was recorded while he was promoting The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul." 24MB MP3 Link (Thanks, Alex!)

Audio Interview with the CEO of the
Democratic National Convention, Rod
O'Connor

Audio Interview with the CEO of the
Democratic National Convention, Rod
O'Connor 07/27/2004 09:30 PM
I interviewed CEO Rod O'Connor about some of the ideas in yesterday's PressThink post. I've been trying to understand the thinking behind the convention-as-television-show. Figured I'd bring the puzzle to Rod, CEO. This is my first try at audio blogging, and so it's rough. His answers I will weave into another post. Listen for yourself as O'Connor defends--and ably explains-- the logic of the made-for-TV convention. And he reveals why the party decided to invite bloggers. They're an "internet property," which, like a broadcast property, is a way Americans "get their information" these days. It's fifteen minutes that will help you understand what you are watching this week.

Interview with Intel's Thomas Loza; High
Definition Audio

Interview with Intel's Thomas Loza; High
Definition Audio 06/08/2004 03:17 PM

Audio Interview -- authors of report
about P2P's effect on CD sales

Audio Interview -- authors of report
about P2P's effect on CD sales 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
Alberto Escarlate of thep2pweblog points us to an audio interview with Koleman Strumpf and Felix Oberholzer -- the two economists who made headlines last week when they published "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis." Here's the interview: Link (in RealAudio only, ugh)

Audio Interview with Greg Hoglund and
Gary McGraw, Authors of "Exploiting
Software: How to Break Code"

Audio Interview with Greg Hoglund and
Gary McGraw, Authors of "Exploiting
Software: How to Break Code" 04/15/2004 10:17 AM

Boing Boing audio interview with Mind
Hacks editor Matt Webb

Boing Boing audio interview with Mind
Hacks editor Matt Webb 12/22/2004 01:30 AM
Mark Frauenfelder: I'm starting to get interested in podcasting, so I interviewed Matt Webb, the co-editor of the new book, Mind Hacks, just published by O'Reilly. It's 25 minutes long, and I even created a cheesy Garageband theme song for what I hope is the first of many interviews.

Note: Matt wrote me with the following info -- "This is the McGu rk video I was talking about. Just proving that I'm nothing without my notes, I incorrectly remembered the McGurk sounds! It's a visual 'ga' and an aural 'ba' that combine to the perception of 'da.' No 'va' at all (that's a variation on the experiment)."

The Mind Hack's weblog is here.

Link to BitTorrent file of my interview with Matt Webb.

Link to BitTorrent stats. (Thanks, Chuck!)

bl0gged

bl0gged 09/22/2004 10:11 AM

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BLOGGED ---at the-protagonist.net. Congrats on taking the SATs. I remember how hard they were!

The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged

The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged 04/27/2004 05:26 PM
"The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged." .. Bengals sweatshirt .. mention .. writes

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"Newsday covers the day CBS got "bl0gged
down.""

"Newsday covers the day CBS got "bl0gged
down."" 09/15/2004 09:32 AM

Why I haven't bl0gged about by trip to
Iceland

Why I haven't bl0gged about by trip to
Iceland 09/10/2004 11:27 AM
Simple. No connection. I tried keeping a paper blog on my trip to Iceland. But it didn't really work out. Frankly, it was mostly crap.

Then again, when I read my older entries, 90% of them are crap, too. (Which is normal, according to Sturgeon's Law).

When you write a blog entry, you just write it and fire. You don't go back and re-edit. Once you publish it, there's no taking it back. It's there in the Google cache, and in the Internet Archive forever. And if it was important to someone, it will be dug up. There's surprisingly little entropy in the Internet.

But that's actually cool. You see, this kind of a writing style forces you to write better the next time. You just can't go back and tinker with your text until you're happy with it. You have to learn to let go of your creation, so that you don't just keep doing the same old stuff all over again. So you learn.

The internet allows us to produce more crap than ever before. But at least we'll be better at doing it. :)

Newsday covers the day CBS got "bl0gged
down."

Newsday covers the day CBS got "bl0gged
down." 09/14/2004 06:36 PM
Pinkerton starts out: .. turning point .. Newsday

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Gaming @ Your Library Sessions Blogged!

Gaming @ Your Library Sessions Blogged! 06/05/2005 11:24 PM

Today's Tech Summits on gaming in libraries were fan-tast-ic! I couldn't have asked for better presenters, as expressed by the participants themselves who noted on the evaluations how enthusiastic and knowledgeable Eli and Erin were (are!). Everyone learned a lot, and the actual game play was a BIG hit.

Several people told me that they hadn't expected to enjoy themselves so much, and that you truly don't understand gaming until you experience it yourself. You haven't lived until you've seen a roomful of librarians competing against each other in Mario Kart and DDR! In fact, several people stayed after the second session ended just to keep playing (and I think Dan B. probably stopped to purchase a PlayStation and DDR package on his way home!). We even had a few extra minutes to let some of our staff play, including our executive director, Alice Calabrese!

I've already got two applications for our grant on my desk, and I suspect we'll get more than 16 libraries that want to participate based purely on the level of enthusiasm in each session. Our plan is to draw names out of a hat in order to be fair if that does indeed happen.

I'll post the application to the MLS web site tomorrow for those MLS libraries that weren't able to attend. Eli is going to send me a copy of their presentation, which I'll also post to our site. Oh, and I'll have a copy of AADL's DVD to circulate to those libraries that would like to borrow it.

So without further ado, here are my combined notes from the presentations. Unfortunately, they really don't give you the full flavor of Eli's and Erin's wit and wisdom, but they do illustrate just how great AADL's program is! (If you're reading this in your aggregator, you'll need to click through to the full post - sorry.) Sorry about the length of this post, but MT won't display the extended entry, so I'm forced to put it all in the body in order to get the text to display at all.

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95% of teenage boys play video games (!!!!!!!!!!)

not a big market for book rental; libraries missed the boat on video game rentals, which is why it's such a huge commercial market now

this is what kids today think of first when they think of “content”

current YALSA strategic plan includes language about supporting emerging technologies

Erin: don’t have to be a gamer to facilitate this; can advocate for what teens want and need from us without judgement

Department of Labor study: determined that the average teen spends 7 minutes a day reading content in their hands (3–1/2 hours per month!) or not on the internet

Eli: don’t want them to grow up to be taxpayers based on 7 minutes a day

it's difficult to just circulate titles; teens are trading games with each other, which is competition for you

“The Bun” - our image problem; even the Jedi librarian had a bun!
— just circulating titles or putting up a kiosk of sample games gives you what Toys ‘R Us already does, except they don’t hassle you and limit how long you can play

AADL did tournaments to try and create a community

tournaments give kids something they can’t do at home

first choice you have to make is to pick your game; ideally one that can be used with multiple audiences

their DDR tournaments are 50% girls, but Mario Kart is only about 5%

they did monthly events on Saturdays: single player race, single player battle, co-op team race
— each event has four winners that go to the final championship, where there are 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place winners
— also had a wildcard tournament for eight spots in the championship round
— difficult organization of the tournament, but the kids understand it innately

multiple rounds and events meant a kid wasn’t knocked out for the whole day for one loss

if/when they have to start turning kids away, non-card holders will be first, which will be even more incentive for kids who are residents to get cards

grand prize was an iPod
— jaws dropped when this was announced

arranged tournaments by grade, not age

they broadcast the championship tournament live on cable access
— had 60 kids at the big Sunday tournament; two birthday parties even came
— big niche for younger kids
— AADL was a little unprepared for the chaos with the younger set

gave the kids who were in the DVD a copy

the kids really get into this, so the AXIS blog gives them an outlet for their mania

they suggest using consoles instead of computers because you can spend as much on one computer as on a multiple console setup

the big key to the setup is to have a completed game saved - you'll need to get that from one of the kids; nothing makes you look more rinky-dink than having only the basic cars, paths, etc.

if you can't afford the larger setup or if you want to test the waters first, you can have kids bring in their own dance pads for DDR
— DDR Max is the favorite among teens; teens won’t see DDR Extreme as being fair because it evens out the competition and lets novices beat experts

ideally you want a ceiling-mounted projector for DDR so that heads don’t chop off the view and you don't have to dance around the projector (literally!)

for the tournaments, they’re not doing pre-registration for now; that will change when they have to start turning people away

AADL will release the new version of their software as open source this summer after they revamp it; a library could use an Excel spreadsheet if they had to

in DDR, participants get two dances; for Mario Kart, they get three or four races
— combine scores to see who moves on

DDR requires you to provide a lot of drinking water!

then come single elimination rounds; head-to-head DDR

need 2 people minimum to run a tournament – an emcee and a scorekeeper

for the focus groups, let the kids bring in their own games and talk about what the second season should be like; AADL let the kids play for two hours, talked to them for a half-hour and got good feedback; 20–22 kids showed up!

flourescent lights say “school” so turn them OFF!

for the next season of DDR, AADL is planning an extra camera with a fish-eye lens to focus on their feet

do a season, not just an event; it becomes more valuable to the kids; not just “an afternoon at the library”

schedule heavily during kids breaks, have lots of open play time; the kids love it and the parents love it even more!

next season, every weekend will be a tournament weekend at AADL, with all three groups each weekend: adults/families on Friday nights, teens on Saturdays, and younger kids on Sundays

really only need two pads for a DDR tournament; you might want to have two separate tournaments with different levels of difficult (beginner and expert) so that novices aren't competing against experts

AADL did a Mario Kart tournament during their staff in-service day that helped get buy-in
— started the tournament by having the director and 3 managers play with the game on the big screen
- this helped the staff understand the program, and they were able to talk to patrons about it when asked

when you promote it, you can’t just use traditional places like newspapers
— AADL uses telephone pole posters, which is a huge communication medium for these kids
— post about it on the game’s fan sites; AADL got 5 or 6 participants just from one posting on a DDR fan site, all of whom had never been in the library before

outcomes:
kids looked at the library differently
the library didn’t have to force their information on them
the kids are using the library more
parents are happy that the kids are not passive in the library anymore

Eli: this isn’t intended to be a loss leader; this is a core service, but it’s also the easiest way to show you have value to an audience that doesn’t feel that way; these are your future taxpayers!

tournaments are to video games what storytimes are to picture books; anyone can check out a picture book, but we still do storytime

it really helps to get your library as a focus in their hearts and minds; shows you “get it”; really gets the boys in the door

Eli: “if you hand them a bibliography, you’re through”; do a commercial instead; hand out flyers instead

only 17% of the games sold are M, 51% were E; realize that only a few bad apples get all the press, but that there really are a lot of great games out there

AADL did an “adult DDR” night for 20–somethings on a Friday night; this is a tough group to market to, so they try position themselves as a “pre-bar” activity

call it a “family” tournament and the teens will stay away in droves, but families will come (that way the teens won't dominate games against younger kids or adults) ;-)

saw a steady 40% growth rate throughout the season, from tournament to tournament; word-of-mouth spread via the kids themselves; some kids even called friends from the tournaments to tell them they *had* to come see what was going on!

kids continually want the stakes raised, so “seasons” are best ("just like on reality TV shows, except AADL didn't do a clip show one week before the final event")

program school breaks intensively; AADL did 4 tournaments in 5 days – 2 open plays, a DDR tourney, and a Mario tourney

during open play, the kids will even organize their own tournaments and will do their own color commentary (the color commentary on the DVD is priceless!)

25–30% of the kids coming to the tournaments have never been to the library before, even in the AADL community that has a 70% cardholder rate

AADL plans to add enhanced services for cardholders, like letting them track their stats online!

by doing a tourney at “the neutral zone”, an independent teen center outside of the library, they reached a whole new audience, some of whom started coming to the library for the tournaments

the idea of holding “seasons” is not different from what we’re already doing - storytimes already run in 8–week sessions

during school breaks, AADL schedules tournaments during the day, rather than at night

median age of participants is probably 15

they’ll have 20–25 kids pacing outside waiting to get in, trying to bribe them to open the doors early

they're doing a pre-season exhibition tournament before season 2 starts!

every round will be televised live in season 2

they're going to add Super Smash Brothers and Madden 2005 “2–minute drill” events, as well as Monkey Ball and some others

every championship round will be a different, unannounced game, often ones that you can’t fit a whole tournament around

AADL is working on promoting tournaments at pre-shows in movie theaters (that’s where your audience is, and they’re paying more attention to that than to TV ads)

they're also adding “Clans” in season 2 because the kids wanted to do this – letting them form 4–person clans, but when they win an event individually, they also earn points for their clan
— the final tournament will include a round for the 4 best clans to compete for something like 4 iPod Shuffles; kids get to create their own icons, they’ll have clan chat rooms, etc.

tournaments have run about an hour; did 4 1-hour tourneys a day in season 1, will do 5 in season 2

some of the biggest demand now is for adult Mario Kart tournaments, especially for college kids and 30–year olds

at one point, they had a prize for the person that brought the most new people the next day

AADL doesn’t limit gaming on their internet stations at all; lots of kids are playing Runescape

small libraries could each buy two stations and then several libraries could combine their equipment for regional tournaments

Which Amazon products are most bl0gged
today?

Which Amazon products are most bl0gged
today? 02/10/2004 06:36 PM
Dave Sifry has whipped up a Technorati hack that tells you which Amazon products have been blogged most today. Link

A little geek fishes a long way... ::
BLOGGED ---at the-protagonist.net

A little geek fishes a long way... ::
BLOGGED ---at the-protagonist.net 12/07/2002 01:25 AM
A little geek fishes a long way... :: BLOGGED ---at the-protagonist.net. OK I'm going to generate a pingback to my own. It works now between two b2's if I use the tb_id syntax

NOAH Weather

NOAH Weather 11/12/2003 01:15 PM
NOAHweather 0.5.0 released

Noah Wyle to Leave 'ER' at Season's End
(AP)

Noah Wyle to Leave 'ER' at Season's End
(AP) 09/09/2004 10:12 PM
AP - Noah Wyle, the last continuous on-air link to the NBC medical drama "ER's" freshman season in 1994, seems headed for the doctor's retirement home.

Noah Wyle to Leave As 'ER' Regular (AP)

Noah Wyle to Leave As 'ER' Regular (AP) 03/31/2005 07:05 PM
AP - The doctor is out: Noah Wyle is leaving "ER" as a regular cast member at the end of this season, NBC said Thursday.

D. Noah Eckhouse Assumes President
Position At Optram, Incorporated

D. Noah Eckhouse Assumes President
Position At Optram, Incorporated 12/22/2004 01:06 AM
Optram, Incorporated, the leading provider of Maintenance-of-Way Management solutions for the rail industry, announced today the promotion of D. Noah Eckhouse to president and COO of Optram. Eckhouse has also joined the Optram board of directors. This promotion strengthens the management time and prepares the company for the next level of growth. [PRWEB Dec 20, 2004]

Good Mission, Bad Name - Why bring the
movie Red Dawn into it? Timothy Noah

Good Mission, Bad Name - Why bring the
movie Red Dawn into it? Timothy Noah 12/18/2003 04:32 AM
Good Mission, Bad Name; Why bring the movie Red Dawn into it? 12/17 .. latest hard-hitting piece from Tim Noah .. Office for Rhetorical Competence .. Slate basically proves .. Slate�s Timothy Noah

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Dean, Lobotomized - He shouldn't take
that abuse from Diane Sawyer. By Timothy
Noah

Dean, Lobotomized - He shouldn't take
that abuse from Diane Sawyer. By Timothy
Noah 01/24/2004 07:07 AM
Timothy Noah at Slate .. Dean, Lobotomized .. Slate

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Timothy Noah: Why must we pretend the
40th president was alert and engaged?
11/7

Timothy Noah: Why must we pretend the
40th president was alert and engaged?
11/7 11/07/2003 06:33 AM
When did the gipper become St. Ronald? .. goes to the right-wing

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Whopper: Joseph Wilson - Say goodbye to
Plamegate. By Timothy Noah

Whopper: Joseph Wilson - Say goodbye to
Plamegate. By Timothy Noah 12/04/2003 04:45 PM

MIA in the SOU - Bush stops pretending
that he cares about the environment. By
Timothy Noah

MIA in the SOU - Bush stops pretending
that he cares about the environment. By
Timothy Noah 01/22/2004 07:16 AM
Slate: MIA in the SOU - Bush stops pretending that he cares about the environment .. Timothy Noah .. SOURCE .. slate

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Ronald Reagan, Party Animal - The man
who taught Republicans to be
irresponsible. By Timothy Noah

Ronald Reagan, Party Animal - The man
who taught Republicans to be
irresponsible. By Timothy Noah 06/06/2004 06:18 AM
more critical look

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Abu Ghraib Denial, Part 2 - Right-wing
culture warriors are on the case. By
Timothy Noah

Abu Ghraib Denial, Part 2 - Right-wing
culture warriors are on the case. By
Timothy Noah 05/14/2004 06:12 AM
responses from "right-wing cultural warriors" .. Tim Noah's compilation .. fantastic .. to blame .. collects

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Bumper Sticker Insubordination - A Kerry
fan gets fired, and then hired, for her
politics. By Timothy Noah

Bumper Sticker Insubordination - A Kerry
fan gets fired, and then hired, for her
politics. By Timothy Noah 09/16/2004 03:29 PM

Reads, Chortles, & Smirks - Why
nobody's learning anything from Lynne
Truss. By Timothy Noah

Reads, Chortles, & Smirks - Why
nobody's learning anything from Lynne
Truss. By Timothy Noah 06/23/2004 04:28 AM
Reads, Chortles, & Smirks: why nobody's learning anything from Eats, Shoots & Leaves .. more» .. more

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Sound Audio Systems Announces Huge Sale
on Selected Professional Audio Products

Sound Audio Systems Announces Huge Sale
on Selected Professional Audio Products 03/14/2005 05:26 PM
Sound Audio Systems announced today that the company will have a huge sale on selected items. [PRWEB Mar 1, 2005]

Elemental Audio offers Neodynium audio
compressor

Elemental Audio offers Neodynium audio
compressor 09/14/2004 07:23 AM
Elemental Audio Systems on Tuesday introduced Neo dynium, a plug-in for RTAS, Audio Unit and VST-compatible audio software designed for compression and dynamics processing. It uses an "I/O Map" visual interface that helps audio pros optimize and direct their efforts, rather than relying on more common transfer curves and displays. Neodynium costs US$159 (and is available for $139 for a limited time). It works with Digidesign Pro Tools, Emagic Logic and other software. System requirements call for a G3 or faster with Mac OS X v10.2 or newer and a compatible host application.

Selling Sleaze: A User's Guide - Ten
ways to rationalize the publication of
infidelity rumors. By Timothy Noah

Selling Sleaze: A User's Guide - Ten
ways to rationalize the publication of
infidelity rumors. By Timothy Noah 02/13/2004 11:52 AM
Selling Sleaze: A User’s Guide - Ten ways to rationalize the publication of infidelity rumors .. Dez justificativas para publicar os casos de um poltico sem culpa .. Did Kerry have an affair? .. intentionally omit .. Timothy Noah

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Westec InterActive Selects the Voice
Tracker� Array Microphone for Enhanced
Audio in Retail and Restaurant
Audio/Video Surveillance and Operations
Audit

Westec InterActive Selects the Voice
Tracker� Array Microphone for Enhanced
Audio in Retail and Restaurant
Audio/Video Surveillance and Operations
Audit 03/17/2005 03:36 AM
Westec InterActive, the leader in interactive remote security monitoring for convenience store, retail, restaurant and other business applications, selected Acoustic Magic�s Voice Tracker� array microphone to be used for enhanced audio for audio/video monitoring. Enhanced audio is especially important for Operational Audits, enabling clear reception of conversations between employees and customers. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

Audio controller promises next gen audio
systems

Audio controller promises next gen audio
systems 06/25/2004 11:57 AM
The latest version of Oxford Semiconductor's OXFW970 FireWire audio controller IC allows next generation audio systems to be easily added to desktop and notebook systems on the Mac and PC platforms, reports electropages in an article noted at MacSurfer...

Enhancing all audio output via Audio
Hijack

Enhancing all audio output via Audio
Hijack 09/03/2004 08:46 AM
This is kind of a followup to this previous hint regarding an iTunes equalizer setting. Something I do as a matter of course is configure Audio Hijack Pro to enhance the sound that iTunes (and DVD Player, Real Player, you na...

M-Audio introduces Revolution 5.1 audio
card

M-Audio introduces Revolution 5.1 audio
card 08/04/2004 10:03 AM
M-Audio on Wednesday introduced the Revolution 5.1, a surround sound audio card compatible with both Macs and PCs. The PCI card comes bundled with Aspyr Media's Wakeboarding Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray, billed as the first Mac game optimized for surround sound. The Revolution 5.1 is available for US$99.95.
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