Mon, 28 April 2008  msb-0293 PodCamp NYC 2.0intro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... PodCampNYC is over and I have felt the pulse of an industry which is maturing at an extremely rapid pace. But some of the participants are complete and utter, uh, how can I describe the rapid fire patter which assaulted me at the session on LiveStreaming. Some of it is actually an excellent offshoot of traditional media production techniques. It is interesting and has an interesting approach, an interesting point of view. But some of it is complete and utter bull spewed slurred-ly by some people who don't have MS for an excuse for their diction, (they're stewed, pure and simple,) and on whom any of the equipment seems a waste. I could feed an entire third world country for a week on the drek that was wasting bits and the time to flip them. (Sorry but this was porn of the mind and these people didn't have the energy to power a single lackadaisical and peremptory moan.) The presenter was wonderful, energetic, intelligent and really knew her stuff. Unfortunately, the stuff being LiveCast was not as good as she was. ---- Meanwhile, I was supposed to go my friend the chef's place for the next installment in her doctoral thesis. Unfortunately, I've had to beg off. (Luckily, I just had killer ribs at R.U.B on 23rd street in Manhattan.) ---- Unfortunately I'm not feeling 100% at the moment. (More like 60% with chilly flurries. [I don't walk or go out much these days {what with being unemployed and all (and it doesn't look like that's going to be improving soon [but that's a rant I'll save for another day,]} however I think that that aspect of my life will improve as I have finally seen that there's more "out there" than I can find working out of home;] yes, its more risk, but sometimes "you just gotta go fur it, dude, go fur it; hear what I'm sayin'") ---- The source for the music on this episode was suggested by Eli Smith of "Down Home Radio" [ http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/ ]. I love what he's does; going back into the dusty archives of recorded music to dig out the gems from the roots of music. ----- Oh and this just in: According to this [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/media/28hannah.html?ref=business ] article in the New York Times, it looks like "Miley Cyrus", a.k.a. "Hannah Montana" now wants "To Be Taken "Seriously As An Artist" [ http://www.wormquartet.com/ ]. Now art imitates life imitating art imitating life, or something like that. ---- "ECLIPSE OF THE SUN_olb-02" by: "Sidney Maiden" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "BLUES AT SUNDOWN_olb-13" by: "Jimmy Wilson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "SITTING HERE WONDERING_wcb-22" by: "J.W. Walker" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php "Thesis:" What podcasting needs is what broad casting thinks it has: "Metrics!" My presentation was about metrics. Most of the session I attended were about metrics. Most of the people I spoke with were deeply concerned about metrics. Most of the problems people were having had to do with obtaining reliable metrics. It was that kind of week-end. :-) ---- "T-99_wcb-17" by: "Jimmy Nelson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php "Synthesis:" I'm about to say something that will either be considered extremely invasive by podcasters (everybody like to put their circulation stats in the best light,) or will be recognized as an absolute necessity. Podcast metrics, from server IP address to client IP address, is absolutely essential for podcasting to get real measurable metrics. Podcasting essentially deals with market niches. Potentially millions of niches. There are a few problems though. First: Podcasting's "long tail" doesn't fit into the current time line of "campaign" running. What podcasting offers is radically different consumption of CPM ads. Instead of an ad campaign running and being able to close down instantaneously a podcast ad may be offering payback for years, (for as long as the show containing the ad is on a server.) This means that the concept of a cut off and an acceptance of the tail being deliberately cut (for obvious reasons, the song "Three Blind Mice" is running through my head,) and we'll have to accept the inaccuracy as inherent. Next: The concept of delivered ads where the content is an ad, delivered on demand to the end-user, and paying for every single delivery, is entirely new to the ad industry (No one, neither the broadcaster, nor the agencies, nor their traditional clients have "ever" been able to charge for and/or pay for "piece work". Podcasters "can!" We can deliver exactly the content that an advertiser wants (or is legally entitled to say in the ad's content,) to a specific IP address that requests it. The efficiency is complete. ---- I am also going to be less, uh, "risk averse" (which banks loved so I wrote software that banks loved, [until the Smalltalk vendors shot themselves in the foot, {with a Howitzer,}]) and get my butt out there. (What the Hell? Manhattan is only a PATH train ride away.) There's a billion things to do, "out there", and a 6.7 billion people to meet, "out there." Ain't nobody in here but us chickens. (I know I'm going again next year.) ---- "TRAIN, TRAIN BLUES_olb-08" by: "Johnny Fuller" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php "Conclusion:" I see only one possible outcome from this situation. Podcasting "will" develop the same kinds of attitude towards reporting accurate statistics that broadcasting has... Advertisers and advertising agencies will come to love the long tail as being totally efficient. I "will" get my ass out there. ---- "WHY DON'T YOU WRITE TO ME _olb-06" by: "L.C. Robinson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "ECLIPSE OF THE SUN_olb-02" by: "Sidney Maiden" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php album: "none" via: http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/index.htm "BLUES AT SUNDOWN_olb-13" by: "Jimmy Wilson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php album: "none" via: http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/index.htm "SITTING HERE WONDERING_wcb-22" by: "J.W. Walker" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php album: "none" via: http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/index.htm "T-99_wcb-17" by: "Jimmy Nelson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php album: "none" via: http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/index.htm "TRAIN, TRAIN BLUES_olb-08" by: "Johnny Fuller" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php album: "none" via: http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/index.htm "WHY DON'T YOU WRITE TO ME _olb-06" by: "L.C. Robinson" http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenTo1940sBlues.php album: "none" via: http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/index.htm ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 "Shake Down" by "Joel Goldman" ISBN-13: 978-0-7860-1610-5 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Sun, 27 April 2008 msb-fr-0009 Junqueintro Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu! MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical. Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens. Son but est de nous garder divertis, d'expliquer nos symptômes, de remarquer à propos de nos découvertes et d'élever la conscience générale envers notre maladie. Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur. Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances. ---- À Moi oûvre le programme... J'ai été a PodcampNYC 2.0. Meh... ---- "This Is Junk" par: "Brainpool" http://brainpool.nu/ À Vous suit... Ceci est votre segment. Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment. Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger. Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Junk In The Trunk" par: "Synthetic Movements" http://www.soundclick.com/syntheticmovements À L'aide est en troisième... Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen? Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast. Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.) Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement. Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".) Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel. L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle. Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé... Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Junk" par: "Munkey Juice" http://www.munkeyjuice.net/ "Thèse:" Le theme aujourd'hui,. c'est de la "Junk". J'n'ais rien a dire, donc, "En avant la musique". ---- "Psychobabble Junk" par: "sarah dashew" http://www.sarahdashew.com/ "Synthèse:" Je suis en train de récupèré de ma petite sortie hier a PodcampNYC. Dis-on que c'a s'est bien passé, mais c'a a été fatigant pareil. Aujourd'hui je me repose. ---- "Junk" par: "Douglas Fir" http://www.douglasfir.com.au/ "Conclusion:" Ben quoi? Un gars se fatigue a courir a Brooklyn, jacasser pendant une heure et passer le reste de la journée a marcher d'une salle a l'autre pour écouter les autres parler, avant de revenir au Nouveau Jersey pour dormir un peu. Un peu de rock'n roll pour me réamimer. ---- "junkyard girlfriend" par: "ROCKET CITY RIOT" http://www.rocketcityriot.com/ Outro Désolé mais la loi DADVSI (« droit d'auteur et droits voisins dans la société de l'information ») me défend de vous faire parvenir de la musique Francaise. Le situation pourrait changer mais, jusqu'a ce jour, je suis forcé d'utiliser les chansons provenantes du PMN (Podsafe Music Network.) ---- Theme et musique 'incidentelle" provient de: "msb_theme", par: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Liste des chansons: "This Is Junk" par: "Brainpool" http://brainpool.nu/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Junk In The Trunk" par: "Synthetic Movements" http://www.soundclick.com/syntheticmovements album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Junk" par: "Munkey Juice" http://www.munkeyjuice.net/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Psychobabble Junk" par: "sarah dashew" http://www.sarahdashew.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Junk" par: "Douglas Fir" http://www.douglasfir.com.au/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "junkyard girlfriend" par: "ROCKET CITY RIOT" http://www.rocketcityriot.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Crédits Photo: Toutes les images, synchronizées avec les chansons, sont des artistes at proviennes de music.podshow.com excepté quand elle ne le sont pas. :-) ---- Livres: ---- Liens: Guy David - intro & thème http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware alias Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes, lien direct à ce podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ Ce podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ Le Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 Comments[0] |
Thu, 24 April 2008 msb-0292 An Interview With Joel Goldman.intro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... I'll be merciful and shut up because I'm actually at PodCampNYC 2.0. I've got an interview I did on Sunday April 20, 2008 with Joel Goldman and you're getting it too... Musically, I just couldn't make up my mind so this episode is all over the map. But whatever it was, uh, it was golden... Rest assured, I'm only semi-insane, musically. ---- Oh, this must be a book episode. The UPS guy just dropped off a book from Amazon. "Yoga and Multiple Sclerosis: A Journey to Health and Healing" by "Loren M. Fishman & Eric L. Small" ISBN: 978-1-932603-17-0. You'll be hearing about it when I've had a chance to review it. ---- "Golden West" by: "Reginald Clair" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "The Golden Shovel" by: "Frozen Carp" http://www.btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=5046 Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Blue and Gold" by: "Ekayani and the Healing Band" http://www.myspace.com/ekayaniandthehealingband "Thesis:" While I'm wandering around at PodCamp NYC 2.0, you get to hear the interview I recorded with Joel Goldman who wrote "Shake Down". ---- "Lover, Ive Been Dreamin Bout a 100 Bags of Gold" by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team" http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php "Synthesis:" [If you want to hear the interview, you'll have to get the show.] ---- "Goldie Hawn" by: "Butane Variations" http://www.butanevariations.com/ "Conclusion:" I hope you enjoyed the interview. I personally am looking forward to a lot more books about ex-FBI agent "Jack Davis". Meanwhile, I'm wandering around PodCampNY and later Eugene and I are going to go to R.U.B. and chow down on some Righteous Urban Barbequeue. ---- Did anyone catch ABC News Wednesday, the 23rd of April, 2008? Now being at risk of being sick is a fireable offense. (Its got "nothing" to do with whether you can do your job. Its not your boss. Its not HR. Its the HMO that is supposedly working for you that's going to wave you "bye bye".) Owning up to it is (you "know" they'll find an excuse to get rid of you [you were very good at that, weren't you?]) and "not" fessing up can land you in "jail" (and being a felon is usually grounds for dismissal.) Smoke? You may get fired. (You certainly won't get hired, and if you lie on the entrance form, you will certainly get fired.) Eat too much? Same crap? Got in a car crash? Same crap? Got high blood pressure? Diabetes? Arteriosclerosis? At risk for stroke? Maybe your parents came from the wrong friggin' country, like "France!" Hell, you may get fired. And then where will you be? The same place we were in in 1970s before Nixon created this HMO crap, living with the dread certainty that a stray virus could wipe you and your family out of their savings before killing your eventually worthless asses. ---- "Tide Of Gold" by: "Frank Thewes" http://www.music-is.com/ Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Golden West" by: "Reginald Clair" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The Golden Shovel" by: "Frozen Carp" http://www.btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=5046 album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Blue and Gold" by: "Ekayani and the Healing Band" http://www.myspace.com/ekayaniandthehealingband album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Lover, Ive Been Dreamin Bout a 100 Bags of Gold" by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team" http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Goldie Hawn" by: "Butane Variations" http://www.butanevariations.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Tide Of Gold" by: "Frank Thewes" http://www.music-is.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 "Shake Down" by "Joel Goldman" ISBN-13: 978-0-7860-1610-5 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Direct download: msb-0292_An_Interview_With_Joel_Goldman..m4a Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:32 AM Comments[0] |
Wed, 23 April 2008 msb-0291 There has to be an easier way..... intro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... I actually choked on my cup of coffee when I read Shauna's bit for today. And then I found the YouTube video at the front of this post because it just seemed appropriate, eh? I have a treat coming up on Friday's show. Joel Goldman is a wonderful interviewee. I was late this week-end with the French-language podcast because I was very, very busy. One of the things I was busy with was the aforementioned interview with Mr. Goldman. Another one was going to my friend the chef's apartment with four other people to help her out with her doctoral project. (They give doctorates in cookery. Who knew?! :-) She had cooked three delicious chickens, paired them with three wines and we had to "test". I won't, uh, spoil the results (poor choice of words, I'm sure) except to say that it was absolutely the tastiest meal (well three of them really) that I have eaten. (My wife is a great cook, and I love everything she puts on a plate, but this was "beyond the pale," [which is a strange way of putting it since "beyond the pale" actually refers to the border between England and "Cymru" {"Wales" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales ]}]) ---- "Biscuits n Molasses" by: "Big George Jackson Blues Band" http://www.black-and-tan.com/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "The Biscuit Blues" by: "Derek Sonderfan" http://www.esoderek.com/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Tea & Biscuits -Terrus LP-" by: "Marc Reeves" http://www.myspace.com/mjronline "Thesis:" This episode seems to be all about food. I had a friend in Montréal who once cooked a meal for the woman he was about to make his wife, after consulting on the recipe with his mother of course. He made a very basic error of turning his brain off at the kitchen door and trying to eat the results. He lived and he even got married to his girlfriend at the time ... but it was a near thing. :-) ---- "Randy Newman's Theme from Seabiscuit" by: "Paul and Storm" http://www.paulandstorm.com/ "Synthesis:" There has to be an easier way to make biscuits.... My parents are a source of on air material for me. They are very funny people and some of their experiences are amusing to relate here as well. About 13 or so years ago, my father, an electrical engineer for all his working life, decided he needed to learn how to cook. And bake. And generally be able to look after himself when my mother was away. At the beginning of this new phase in his life he asked my mother to teach him how to make biscuits. He had a pen and paper and wrote down the ingredients as she was making the biscuits. A few weeks later he was ready to try them on his own. Mom was out, so he asked if I wanted to help. Hindsight is 20/20, as they say, and maybe I should have helped, but my father is also like a bull in a china shop, so I declined. After much banging around, Dad came out to the family room with a wide band of flour across the waist of his pants. He asked me what he was supposed to do with the waxed paper. "The what?" "The waxed paper. Your mother said something about waxed paper." Dead silence, then, "I really don't know, Dad." So off he went into the kitchen again....more banging around...until finally he came back and said, "The biscuits are in the oven, but I couldn't get the waxed paper out of them". This truly intrigued me so I had to go check them out. Sure enough he had a pan of great looking biscuits baking in the oven with bits and pieces of waxed paper sticking out of them. My father is of a rational and scientific mind. He is a very logical and linear thinker. My mother and I are both a little bit like that, but with a more creative way of thinking, so when Dad told us that "There has to be an easier way of making biscuits", she and I were truly confused. I mean, really, how difficult is it to make biscuits? "Dad, where's your recipe?" "On the fridge." I take it down and try to read his chicken scratch. I want to go through the steps with him from the very beginning. "Dad, you read to me what you did." "Well, I got three cups of flour, then I added-" "Wait. you got a bowl, right? For the flour?" "Bowl?" Aha...... "How did you mix everything?" "I had the waxed paper on the counter, put the flour on it, made a well- what are you laughing at?" My mother and I are in hysterics at this point. You should probably know that my mother values easy clean up above almost anything else, so when she's baking or making pies she uses sheets of waxed paper , FLOURED first, to roll the dough. When she's done, the paper is rolled up and tossed. Easy. My mother and I are both crying from laughing so hard, imagining my father mixing ingredients on a sheet of waxed paper without the benefit of a bowl. A hat tip to Dad for managing this feat, but it also explains that, as the ingredients mixed, the dough stuck to the waxed paper and it started to tear off in little pieces. We had the biscuits with dinner that night, and while tasty, we did have to take little bits of waxed paper out of them. "There has to be a better way to make biscuits" has become a catchphrase for our family ever since. Last week I came across a website called Cooking for Engineers. It has easy to follow recipes with pictures to demonstrate the process. Curious, I looked up biscuits. And sure enough, in their recipe pictures for basic biscuits, a BOWL is front and centre. S. ---- "Expand a Biscuit" by: "The Dave Morford Hostage Crisis" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=ab15dddd3472871c4177b4580a79bf66 "Conclusion:" My friend had read the instructions from his mother but she had a shaky hand, what he thought was 4-5 (four to five) minutes was actually forty-five minutes. Needless to say, diner was served on his best "Chinette" (give the boy a break, at least he'd cleaned the place up, [well, he'd shoveled the debris into the closets, at least, :-]) at his little round kitchen table for two, and it consisted of perfectly done potatoes, lightly steamed carrots, warm bread, wine (okay, it was "Matteus Rosé, but it had "some" alcoholic content) ... and almost raw chicken. His wife-to-be was incensed, and definitely smart enough to stick the quivering pink thing back in the oven, (the chicken, not the boyfriend.) I'm hoping to convince my friend the Chef that "Cooking for Nerds" a.k.a. "How to put supper on the table, even if you are a rocket scientist." a.k.a. "Step by step instructions to keep your propeller-headed self alive in a kitchen." is a book that is crying out to be written. Seriously, unlike this next song... ---- "king biscuit time" by: "Tremolo55" http://www.tremolo55.com/ Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Biscuits n Molasses" by: "Big George Jackson Blues Band" http://www.black-and-tan.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The Biscuit Blues" by: "Derek Sonderfan" http://www.esoderek.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Tea & Biscuits -Terrus LP-" by: "Marc Reeves" http://www.myspace.com/mjronline album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Randy Newman's Theme from Seabiscuit" by: "Paul and Storm" http://www.paulandstorm.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Expand a Biscuit" by: "The Dave Morford Hostage Crisis" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=ab15dddd3472871c4177b4580a79bf66 album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "king biscuit time" by: "Tremolo55" http://www.tremolo55.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 "Shake Down" by "Joel Goldman" ISBN-13: 978-0-7860-1610-5 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Direct download: msb-0291_There_has_to_be_an_easier_way....m4a Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:10 PM Comments[0] |
Mon, 21 April 2008 msb-0290 A Flurry of Leavesintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... The first three songs on this episode are by a band called "Dead Leaf Echo" and the last three are by a band called "Carbon Leaf". "Dead Leaf Echo" are New York band that I have played before and they are fronted by a likable young man (LG) and a likable young woman (Liza B.) They show promise. A few more years (it takes 15 years to become an overnight success and they'll get to play on a mixing console that really kicks ass,) and they'll really get somewhere with their music. I turned them onto the PMN (the Podsafe Music Network) and I hope people there get the same vibe from them that I did. Come to think of it, I have to get back in touch with "The Detonators" (They've got quite a few plays since I turned them onto the PMN.) "Carbon Leaf" I just like the sound of. I don't know the band beyond that. ---- I heard from Kathryn Martin, who is the Public Affairs/Patient Advocacy Manager at "MediciGlobal". She has asked me to post the following: “Give your opinion on MS materials and designs. Your opinion counts and this should take no longer than 5 minutes or less! We’re creating materials about an upcoming multiple sclerosis clinical trial, and we welcome your input. We’d like to know how you rate the design and look of the materials. We don’t ask for any information about you. This survey is anonymous. No identifying information is collected. Please copy and paste the following "link" into your browser and you will be connected to the survey: [ That's only if the link on the word link doesn't work. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=3LSAqzrLwqZnOO0dKSIemg_3d_3d ]. We really appreciate your feedback!� ---- "Pale Fire" by: "Dead Leaf Echo" http://www.deadleafechonyc.com/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Tears" by: "Dead Leaf Echo" http://www.deadleafechonyc.com/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Cry the Sea" by: "Dead Leaf Echo" http://www.deadleafechonyc.com/ "Thesis:" Sorry, I'm busy with other things. If I don't hear back from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society or from the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, we'll just do the wiki without them. I'm not trying to muscle in on their territory but I'm inviting them to play on mine. If they don't want to, that's their loss. I'm trying to build a wiki and a society of MSers. A place where "we"matter. ---- "Love Loss Hope Repeat" by: "Carbon Leaf" http://www.carbonleaf.com/ "Synthesis:" Do these people even realize anymore that their function is to raise money, not to spend it on things like the production costs of a magazine. (I'm self-schooled follower of "Harold Evans" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Evans ] and I have read the "Five-volume Manual of English, Typography and Layout" [ http://www.amazon.com/Editing-design-five-English-typography/dp/043490550X ] more times than I care to admit since I'd first found the books at the late and lamented "Academic Bookshop" in Montreal in 1976. [Don't knock it. I produced an award winning news letter for the Ottawa Chapter of the Ontario MS Society back in 1985 when I was first diagnosed.]) There are actually "two" editorial budgets involved in producing content for their magazines, "Momentum", ( the old "Inside MS") [ http://www.nationalmssociety.org/multimedia-library/momentum-magazine/index.aspx ] and "The Motivator" [ http://www.msassociation.org/publications/winter08/ ] (which sounds more like something read by "Rotarians" [ http://www.rotary.org/en/Pages/ridefault.aspx ] and "motivational speakers" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_speaker ] ...) The first is the apportioning of copy to a limited resource, the printable page, versus what it has compete with as far as illustration and ad content, and the second has to do with what is the cost of producing a given piece versus how much revenue it can be expected to produce. If you use a wiki in your news-gathering operation, your articles are always the freshest that they can be and your print edition merely reflects the state of an article at a given point in time. A wiki can keep things up to date, can relate a whole web of information, and can roll-things back if new information doesn't pan out. It can be dynamic and features can adapt to the situation (like Google maps and Calendars and YouTube videos.) It can also include a whole lot more than can fit onto a printed fly-leaf. ---- "Life Less Ordinary" by: "Carbon Leaf" http://www.carbonleaf.com/ "Conclusion:" While I respect the NMSS and MSAA, I don't think they realize that "WE" are the ones with MS. "WE", the MSers, don't feel like standing around, getting sicker, while the good doctors consult and the pharma co.s try us out as guinea pigs for re-marketing and re-branding their AIDS drugs. The wiki will be open for general Beta trial next week and I'll be giving out the URL then. Patience in some areas may be good and wise; but patience in other areas leads to getting notices late and news getting missed altogether. Screw that... ---- "The Boxer" by: "Carbon Leaf" http://www.carbonleaf.com/ Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Pale Fire" by: "Dead Leaf Echo" http://www.deadleafechonyc.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Tears" by: "Dead Leaf Echo" http://www.deadleafechonyc.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Cry the Sea" by: "Dead Leaf Echo" http://www.deadleafechonyc.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Love Loss Hope Repeat" by: "Carbon Leaf" http://www.carbonleaf.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Life Less Ordinary" by: "Carbon Leaf" http://www.carbonleaf.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The Boxer" by: "Carbon Leaf" http://www.carbonleaf.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 "Shake Down" by "Joel Goldman" ISBN-13: 978-0-7860-1610-5 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Mon, 21 April 2008 msb-fr-0008 Nous Y Voici Encoreintro Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu! MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical. Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens. Son but est de nous garder divertis, d'expliquer nos symptômes, de remarquer à propos de nos découvertes et d'élever la conscience générale envers notre maladie. Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur. Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances. ---- À Moi oûvre le programme... Je n'ai pas un seul message des Francophones encore. Mais je sais que vous venez de la France, du Québec et de l'Afrique (du Maroc, de la Tunesie et du Liban) et même de plus loin encore, (du Vietnam.) ---- "Ghost is Broken" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/ À Vous suit... Ceci est votre segment. Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment. Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger. Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "The Lullaby of Loneliness" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/ À L'aide est en troisième... Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen? Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast. Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.) Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement. Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".) Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel. L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle. Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé... Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Very Very Heavy" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/ "Thèse:" Ça sera une émission spécialle dédié a une femme tres spéciale, Géraldine, qui m'encourage a podcaster en vers une audience plus large. ---- "Thin Ice" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/ "Synthèse:" Géraldine est l'inspiration a la soirée Francophone oû nous nous somme tous recontrés la semaine dernière. (Je m'excuse de mon orthographe psychotique, mais ca fait des années que j'ais écrit le Français. :-) Et a la personnne gui est venue a mon blog oû a mon podcast de "Nanteuil-en-vallée", bienvenue. Si vous voulez prendre la relève, je me ferais un plaisir do vous faire parvenir un cheque pour que vous puissiez acheter un microphone USB pour connecter a votre ordinateur (j'ai malheureusement l'experience qui me dit dans un certain language qu' envoyer un micro ce n'est pas pratique.) Je ferais la selection de la musique puisque la loi en France ne me permet pas d'utilizer des chansons Française (c'est une vrais connerie, mais c'est la loi.) ---- "Me and My Rainshadow" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/ "Conclusion:" Je me sent comme l'allumeur de réverbere du "Petit Prince" [ http://www.amazon.com/Petit-Prince-French-Language/dp/015650300X ] D'"Antoine de Saint Exupery" [ http://www.antoinedesaintexupery.com/ ]. "La consigne c'est la consigne. Bonjour." [ http://www3.sympatico.ca/gaston.ringuelet/lepetitprince/chapitre14.html ] Je ne comprend pas a quoi vous objectez. "C'est la consigne, bonsoir." Je crois qu'on est rendu a ce stage du ridicule. ---- "Animals Like Us" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/ Outro Désolé mais la loi DADVSI (« droit d'auteur et droits voisins dans la société de l'information ») me défend de vous faire parvenir de la musique Francaise. Le situation pourrait changer mais, jusqu'a ce jour, je suis forcé d'utiliser les chansons provenantes du PMN (Podsafe Music Network.) ---- Theme et musique 'incidentelle" provient de: "msb_theme", par: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Liste des chansons: "Ghost is Broken" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The Lullaby of Loneliness" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Very Very Heavy" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Thin Ice" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Me and My Rainshadow" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Animals Like Us" par: "Aaron English" http://www.aaronenglish.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Crédits Photo: Toutes les images, synchronizées avec les chansons, sont des artistes at proviennes de music.podshow.com excepté quand elle ne le sont pas. :-) ---- Livres: ---- Liens: Guy David - intro & thème http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware alias Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes, lien direct à ce podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ Ce podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ Le Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 Comments[0] |
Fri, 18 April 2008 msb-0289 Its getting closer...intro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... Its become an absolute necessity for the "Wild West" of the internet to have some impartial authority that just gathers statistics that both the podcasters and the advertisers can trust and disseminates impartially to anyone and everyone who asks. ---- "Closer" by: "Norman Hedman's Tropique" http://normanhedman.com/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Come Closer" by: "Marcus Williams" http://www.mywpmusic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=15&Itemid=118 Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Closer Still" by: "Robert Gomez" http://www.robertgomezmusic.com/ "Thesis:" Next week at this time, I'll be delivering my little bombshell, (hopefully "not" the same way that "Slim Pickens" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Pickens ] did in "Doctor Stangelove" [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/ ],) that may upend my life as thoroughly as I did when I embraced object-orientation and open-source programming. Believe me, at the time it was all new, untested, and meeting lots of resistance from the "old guard" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_guard ] unstructured programmers. Now object-orientation is "de rigeur" and open-source is seen as the best way to get contributions from the "wisdom of the crowd" to quickly and inexpensively "mash up" [ http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ibmmsk ] software to do whatever you need. (Thankfully I managed to get out of software development with my shirt and a couple of bucks put aside. I can afford to look at new opportunities.) I "know" what podcasting needs, to be taken seriously as a medium the same way that I "knew" about object-orientation and open-source. I "also" know how advertising assets are created, charged and tracked. And if "you" don't, well you're screwed. You have to play the game if you want to get dealt a hand. But there has to be a nice way to get the "Hooper, Crossley, Nielsen, Pulse" and "Schwerin" and other type of people to realize that we don't need them and their statistical manipulations to derive a "touchy-feely" sense of audience share "at all." Download logs are "absolute, verifiable" and a "true" end-to-end metric. ---- "Closer" by: "The Divine Madness" http://myspace.com/thedivinemadness "Synthesis:" What has been missing everywhere is a trusted source for the episode "circulation" numbers. Somewhere where the by-words are: "the bull shit stops here." Somewhere where anyone can go for the final arbiter of who caught what episode. Somewhere where both podcaster and advertiser can absolutely trust the circulation statistic. Lets be honest, nobody who's interested in going to PodCamp NY is also going to be interested in:
It will take
From the hoovering of the logs to the spitting out of the emails, the entire process has to happen with extremely rapid and dependable turn around. ---- "Closer" by: "Diane Jessurun" http://www.dianejessurun.com/ "Conclusion:" Next week-end, my life will probably take a turn for the better (or worse, depending on how you look at the work that I'll have to do.) Luckily, I know people who would be interested in taking on parts of the work (and these all mesh together into a seamless whole,) while I would have to handle the semi-public face of the organization. (Good thing I'm not shy...) (Not to mention negotiate for space, negotiate salaries or hiring contracts, negotiate for new equipment and maintenance contracts.) ---- "Closer to you" by: "Evolver" http://evolver.co.za/ Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Closer" by: "Norman Hedman's Tropique" http://normanhedman.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Come Closer" by: "Marcus Williams" http://www.mywpmusic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=15&Itemid=118 album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Closer Still" by: "Robert Gomez" http://www.robertgomezmusic.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Closer" by: "The Divine Madness" http://myspace.com/thedivinemadness album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Closer" by: "Diane Jessurun" http://www.dianejessurun.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Closer to you" by: "Evolver" http://evolver.co.za/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 "Shake Down" by "Joel Goldman" ISBN-13: 978-0-7860-1610-5 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Wed, 16 April 2008 msb-0288 Frustrationintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... This is getting weird, really weird. Where the dickens are people finding some of these episodes? I even took down the post. Talk about some shows being evergreen... I'm "still" getting downloads of episode "msb-0018 The Gift of Giving". I'm at 288. That's 270 episodes ago. That's really hurts. Why don't people move on? Over a dozen downloads this month so far and we're barely halfway through. I can't for the life of me figure out why? (Heck I can't for the life of me figure out "how?") ---- "Frustrated" by: "PPT" http://www.myspace.com/ppt3 Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Frustrated" by: "Blondsai" http://www.myspace.com/blondsai Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Just One Night -Frustration Mix- Feat. Jeremy Carr and JWills" by: "Plurgid" http://andrew.hicox.com/ "Thesis:" Its strange that we equate the ability to perceive information written down and shifted in time and space, in any media or language, or notation or subject, as the mark of intelligence, maturity and culture. Then again, its what prevents all of us from being mere "will-o-the-whisp," to disssipate and fade away after we accomplish anything. What is written remains, sometimes to haunt us... ---- "Release" by: "Aloud" http://www.allthingsaloud.com/ "Synthesis:" Before I started school, I begged my parents to teach me to read. They wouldn't. They taught me all the letters and numbers as required, but they wouldn't teach me to read. I was desperate to learn. The school of thought at that time, was not to teach your kids to read before they went to school as they would end up ahead of their peers and that would lead to grade skipping and that would lead to social problems etc. So I was told, "You'll learn to read when you start school". Of course I was eager to start. My first day of school I was pretty excited. Today was the day I was going to learn to read. I came home after school very upset. I declared that I wasn't going back the next day. My mom asked why. "Because they didn't teach me how to read", was my reply. I was very annoyed. It should not have been a surprise to my parents that I was so angry. After all, when trying to teach me how to tell time (at the age of 3), I could not be convinced that the part of the clock with the numbers on it was called the "face" of the clock. "That's not a face!!" And when they weren't looking, in my frustration, I took the clock apart, took the cardboard face off it, and tore it into little pieces. I can't imagine why my parents didn't have me in therapy fearing their darling little girl (and I was ) wasn't going to be a homicidal maniac. Back to learning how to read. Somehow my mother convinced me to go back to school the next day. Of course I soaked it up like the little sponge I was. Pretty soon I had read all of the books in the class and was going to the school library by myself to get more. One day I found a shelf containing Babar the Elephant books. Wow! I had heard other kids talk about these books and the character so I was pretty excited. I took one off the shelf and opened it up. But I couldn't read it!! It wasn't printed in type like other books. The type was in script. Long hand!! I took the book to the librarian and asked her why the book was like that. She didn't really have an answer for me except to say that those books were for older students. "You mean they can read this?" I asked, incredulous that anyone could make out words in what appeared to be scribbling."What grade do I have to be in to read this?" I asked. "Grade 3 or 4" she told me. I was beyond taking my frustration out on inanimate objects, so instead of tearing the book into little pieces, I carefully put it back where I got it and vowed to myself that even when I did learn how to read cursive writing I would NEVER read a Babar the Elephant book. Ever. How DARE they put a book in the library that I couldn't read. It wasn't that I wasn't allowed. But it had been deliberately set in a type that I wasn't going to be taught until 2 or 3 years later. Why would they want to put that type of a book in the library if half the student population couldn't read it? I didn't understand. It was like putting a bowl of candy in front of a child and saying they could have some in 2 or 3 years, but not before. Fast forward to grade 10. After struggling with absolute idiots for classmates, with a few exceptions, for two years in junior high and daily verbal and mental abuse (and the occasional slap) from bullies at school, I was in high school with a select few classmates in Advanced Math, English, and History. Finally, I could get back to what I enjoyed about school-learning. And with other students who wanted to learn, rather than goof off. But I hit a brick wall in math for the first time in my life. For two months I laboured over that subject, just not getting it. I was frustrated. My parents were frustrated. My teacher, Mr. Lyne, was frustrated (more on him in another post as he was and still is one of the best teachers I ever had). And then one day at school, Mr. Lyne was at the front of the class, explaining something when suddenly the entire room lit up with the light bulb that turned on over my head. He stopped mid sentence when he saw the smoke coming out of my ears and my mouth twitching in anticipation of blurting out the rest of the explanation. I still remember him bending slightly at the waist towards me, encouraging me to speak, and the smile on his face getting wider and wider as I did. When I was done, he and the other students in class cheered. I was thrilled beyond belief. It was like I had just discovered a cure for cancer. I finally got it! I loved that feeling, and it propelled me to learn more to get that feeling over and over again. Last year, the Wookie and I were talking about Quantum Physics. Really. Actually, the Wookie was trying to explain it to me, or at least one aspect of it. I was following pretty closely, I thought, but didn't reach the same conclusion as he did. We checked something out on the net, a demonstration that came out the way he said it would. "But it shouldn't do that!!" I exclaimed in my naive way of believing in the basic laws of physics as I understood them. "But it does", was his reply. "But it shouldn't!!" was my brilliant response. "That's just so wrong!!" I insisted, much like my friend Lana said when we went to see The Ring and the little you-know-who did you-know-what(I don't want to spoil the ending if you haven't seen the movie). There was a shaking of the earth as my understanding of the laws of physics was completely shattered. I am still frustrated with my apparent inability to understand quantum physics and time travel (I insist you can't time travel). Over the years I have continued to read and learn and get frustrated. To this day, I have never read a Babar the Elephant book, even though they are now printed with regular type - I checked. But I have come to accept that there are things I will never come to understand. Like leg warmers as fashion. Like Quantum Physics. Or World Wars and genocides. Or multiple sclerosis. Believe me, for the past ten years I have been reading and studying and asking questions. Yes, "We're working on it" is getting pretty tiresome to hear, and yes, I'm getting really frustrated, like you probably. What do I do? Tear something up? Punch a hole in the wall? Refuse to participate in something? This is one situation over which I have little control. So I give over control to the doctors and scientists who are working on the problem. And I offer my body to be poked and prodded and scanned and my PR skills to raise awareness and money for the cause. Next Monday I will be meeting with my neuro, Dr. Murray, and one of the clinic nurses, Judith, to review my MRIs from the study I've been in for 10 years. One of the questions I will be asking the good doctor is "Are you frustrated, too?" S. ---- "Beautiful Release" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveisaction "Conclusion:" What's written is often very frustrating too. Specially when its written on a prescription pad. But rather that than to let 'em get me down. I'd rather "exunt" dancing (Trippin the light fantastic as I soft shoe around the bomb craters and land mines which life has placed in my path.) ---- "Release Me" by: "Groove Generator" http://www.itsaboutmusic.com/grge.html Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Frustrated" by: "PPT" http://www.myspace.com/ppt3 album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Frustrated" by: "Blondsai" http://www.myspace.com/blondsai album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Just One Night -Frustration Mix- Feat. Jeremy Carr and JWills" by: "Plurgid" http://andrew.hicox.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Release" by: "Aloud" http://www.allthingsaloud.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Beautiful Release" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveisaction album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Release Me" by: "Groove Generator" http://www.itsaboutmusic.com/grge.html album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 "Shake Down" by "Joel Goldman" ISBN-13: 978-0-7860-1610-5 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Mon, 14 April 2008 msb-0287 Shake Downintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... Today, I'm reviewing a book. You'll hear how much I liked it (a lot) why I liked it (a lot) and the kind of questions the book answers as well as leaves up to the imagination. ---- And I'm pleased to report that "Bacon Salt" is still filled with baconey goodness and my blood pressure has actually gone "down". I'm loving it. It only takes a little tiny shake and "everything" tastes great, potatoes, corn on the cob (really!) vegetables, fish (I can report it tastes great on tilapia.) ---- Just torn from the headlines of the "New York Times" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/us/14drug.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin ] was a picture of someone with MS. "Robin Steinwand had been paying $20 a month for her multiple sclerosis drug, which she keeps in the refrigerator. When she went to pick up her prescription in January, it cost $325." Well an MSer made the news all right. Now, I'd like to know "exactly why are people against socializing the administration of the medical system?" What? You think an instant rise of 1,625% is due to an increase of the cost of ingredients or of the processing of these ingredients? Get your heads out of your butts. What you are seeing, in effect, is the denial of medical treatment based purely on greed on the part of somebody who is "not" involved in any part if the treatment process at all. It reflects badly on their bottom line when the insurers, those "HMO"s, have to pay for actually delivering on any "H". Why are we paying the premiums to the HMOs, if it isn't it for some "H" if and when we need it? (That's the whole concept of insurance: "we pay now, so should we need anything...", "not" "we pay now and we get disappointed later, should we need anything.") Unfortunately, the "costs" of "H" have "not" really changed while the "profitability" of HMOs "has", as the growth of the industry saturated the number of employers who can afford to pay, drying up the pool of profits available. The United States of America can't afford the "luxury" of HMOs any more. The problems that Richard Milhous Nixon sort of solved in his day, passing the buck to the employers at the time, passing laws which mandated the creation of HMOs, those problems of people dying in the streets they'd been thrown into after selling everything they could to pay for treatment and of making the 'States look like a third world country, well those problems never really went away. The slowly rising curve of health care prices have finally intersected with the flattening and/or negative curve of new membership in HMOs and the HMOs profitability expectations are being satisfied by slowing down and/or even reversing the delivery of health services to their members. (This was clearly visible years ago by anybody who cared to look. HMOs have run their course and when the lines met is when the overall level of health care in this country started declining.) By the way, if you aren't a member of a HMO, as millions and millions of people aren't, your health care situation is "exactly" the same as it was before the HMOs were created. You're still required to burn through everything you own before throwing yourself on the pyre. The only thing we can afford as a society now is, you guessed it, socialized medicine. The 85% have to take care of the 15%, or trip over the bodies lying naked in the street. ---- "Good Intentions, Bad Reviews" by: "Amazing Death In Audio" http://www.myspace.com/amazingdeathinaudio Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Preview All Tracks" by: "Jerome Epps" http://smoothjazztracks.spaces.live.com/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Salazar Brothers - Full Album Preview" by: "Rising Conviction" http://www.risingconviction.com/ "Thesis:" Here's what I know about writing fiction book reviews, bugger all... But it is not something I want to blow off, nor is the author. (In fact, I'll be interviewing him this Friday evening. One of my shows next week will feature him and nothing but.) Dalhousie University has excellent library services that you can find on the "web" that's just full of great information, like "How to write a book review" [ http://www.library.dal.ca/how/bookrev.htm ] (Isn't the web just great? :-) ---- "blind preview" by: "tonio" http://myspace.com/tonio86 "Synthesis:" I'm reviewing the book "Shake Down" by "Joel Goldman" (ISBN-13: 978-0-7860-1610-5) which was very kindly sent to me by his editor. [His website is Joel Goldman dot com. http://www.joelgoldman.com/content/index.asp] First of all, let me say that I rarely read fiction (except for Terry Prachett, :-) because I usually figure things out before the end of the book. It doesn't usually hold my interest. I sometimes reread Sherlock Holmes but its a very occasional pleasure. (Even at that, with my memory, its more to revisit the associations I have made and to make the time to walk down memory lane.) Technical books are basically read, scanned really, "by exception" for any new idea or concept and those pages just fly by. But this book had the right hook with the right flawed hero with the right flaws to keep my interest alive throughout. I read every word of every sentence of every paragraph of every page of every chapter of this book. The prime character in this book is a competent senior FBI operative named "Jack Davis". He's a likable enough schmuck, bedeviled by his work and haunted by an incident in his past involving a son who would never grow up; which led to his recent and mutual decision to divorce, that divorce being more or less amicably reached. He is also recently being haunted by a mysterious nervous ailment which causes him to shake and "lock up" at inopportune moments (as if there was ever an opportune moment.) The authors' own personal experience with the legal system has provided his with many persons from which to draw from when it comes to having believable characteristics to draw on. The author's own personal experience with the medical system gives him insight into what its like to struggle with a disabilitating and mysterious disease. It has provided him with intimate knowledge of the disease, the medical system and with the persons involved from with to also draw from when it comes to having believable characteristics. The progression of his characters parallels the progression of the disease and the accommodations which must be made by the charaters when dealing with it. The rest of the characters, the "dramatis personae" tend to be fleshed out in relation to their ability to move the plot along. The "McGuffin" of this piece, as "Alfred Hitchcock" [ http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=Alfred+Hitchcock&x=0&y=0 ] called the one thing which propels the action along, is the relationship between "Jack Davis" and his own untrustworthy body. The major theme of this book is one of struggle and acceptance and the trouble the characters have with dealing with them both in their lives. They are revealed through internal dialogues and through narrator exposition depending on what is appropriate for that particular character. They are also revealed through conversational dribs and drabs in realistic dialogs. The theme is as entertaining as it is enlightening as much for the freshness of its very presence in writing, (something which is regrettably lacking in modern writing, given the revelatory statistics from the World Health Organization, the WHO,) as for its importance to the plot and the "McGuffin". This book made a welcome break from the usual pap with its subtle statements of the treatment that "Jack Davis" gets from the society he helps serve and protect and the organization he does it through. This book is escapist fare, but it is educational as well, without pounding anyone over the head with any didactism. It lets the reader easily transfer the characters from the page to the mind. The plot is ingeniously crafted with characters being called up and disposed of as necessary but not unnecessarily. The focus of suspense shifts from character to character as the action unwinds. You know that a character's introduction must be relevant, but their importance to the "McGuffin" is not immediately apparent. (That's what got me reading and the disposal and disposition of the character and the transfer of the "McGuffin" is what kept me reading. I never quite knew where this book was going and the plot twists are definitely not of the "The Butler Did It!" variety. I read the first half of the book at a single sitting, because I "could not put it down!") From a stylisic point of view, it reminded me of my many, many trips to Kansas City Missouri, with its admixture of stark grittiness and elegance; much like the city itself, the plot and its characters were a part of the city, and fit into it well. I could see and recall in my minds eye the places I was revisiting and I could imagine the parts of the city that I didn't know (I didn't spend any time at the railroad yard, but I could imagine them given the wealth of detail in the book.) The dialog was simple enough but still conveyed the flavors and complexities of the characters. The setting for the book was aided by the presence of Kansas City as I remembered it but I think it could have been written almost anywhere, so long as the geography lent itself to the same kinds of twists and turns. (This book would have been impossible to write in its present form in a location like "Bangladesh", say.) I'll stop here except to say that this was an excellent book. ---- "New Songs Preview" by: "Musuca" http://musuca.webd.pl/ "Conclusion:" I'm recording an interview special show with Joel Goldman. You'll get to listen to the two of us discuss his book and "tics". ---- "Warning Preview" by: "dunney" http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/739/ Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Good Intentions, Bad Reviews" by: "Amazing Death In Audio" http://www.myspace.com/amazingdeathinaudio album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Preview All Tracks" by: "Jerome Epps" http://smoothjazztracks.spaces.live.com album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Salazar Brothers - Full Album Preview" by: "Rising Conviction" http://www.risingconviction.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "blind preview" by: "tonio" http://myspace.com/tonio86 album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "New Songs Preview" by: "Musuca" http://musuca.webd.pl/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Warning Preview" by: "dunney" http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/739/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 "Shake Down" by "Joel Goldman" ISBN-13: 978-0-7860-1610-5 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Sun, 13 April 2008 msb-fr-0007 Les Francophones a New Yorkintro Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu! MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical. Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens. Son but est de nous garder divertis, d'expliquer nos symptômes, de remarquer à propos de nos découvertes et d'élever la conscience générale envers notre maladie. Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur. Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances. ---- À Moi oûvre le programme... J'ai selectionné de la musique d'Allison Crowe cette semaine par ce que je trouve sa voix particulièrement plaisante. ---- "Disease" par: "Allison Crowe" http://www.allisoncrowe.com/ À Vous suit... Ceci est votre segment. Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment. Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger. Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "In the Bleak Midwinter" par: "Allison Crowe" http://www.allisoncrowe.com/ À L'aide est en troisième... Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen? Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast. Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.) Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement. Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".) Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel. L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle. Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé... Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Circular Reasoning" par: "Allison Crowe" http://www.allisoncrowe.com/ "Thèse:" Il y a beaucoup de Francophones a New York and nous avons join, ma femme et moi, un petit groupe de jeunes gars et de jeune filles, (definit dans mon "Petit Simonin" comme "Des gonzes et des gonzesses", :-) et nous nous rencontrons approximativement une fois par mois a un restaurant a Hoboken, de l'autre côté de la rivière Hudson de Manhattan. ---- "Crayon and Ink" par: "Allison Crowe" http://www.allisoncrowe.com/ "Synthèse:" On ne fait pas part à l'Academie Française or autre organisme serieux oû l'on parle lugubrement oû lourdement de chôses importantes. Y a rien de serieux a nos rencontres. C'est juste quelques personnes qui se rencontre pour parler Français et épater, (oû faire peur aux,) Americains qui partagent des regards suspicieux parcequ'ils ne savent pas de quoi on parlent, mais comme ca n' sonne pas l'Espagnol, "we gotta be sumt'in' for'ign". Alors, nous nous rencontrons, vidons quelque bouteilles, trinquons a l'un at à l'autre et jacassons pendent des heures un soir par mois. Je dois rire. Maintenant que ma femme a pris un emploi a appreprendre le Français a des jeune demoiselles Catholiques a un lycée ici au New Jersey, c'est mème deductible d'sur nos impots. ---- "Skeletons and Spirits" par: "Allison Crowe" http://www.allisoncrowe.com/ "Conclusion:" Ètre Francophone a l'étranger, c'est comme ètre nimporte qui, n'importe oû oû se sent débousollé et c'est toujour un petit confort bienvenu que de se retrouver en companie de d'autre personnes qui vous comprennes. On devrais avoir une visite de "Parker et Badger" [ http://www.parkeretbadger.com/usa/ ] pour que les choses soient plus mouvementés. (Oui, j'adore lire la B.D. [et pas just les "comiques" Americains]) ---- "Midnight" par: "Allison Crowe" http://www.allisoncrowe.com/ Outro Désolé mais la loi DADVSI (« droit d'auteur et droits voisins dans la société de l'information ») me défend de vous faire parvenir de la musique Francaise. Le situation pourrait changer mais, jusqu'a ce jour, je suis forcé d'utiliser les chansons provenantes du PMN (Podsafe Music Network.) ---- Theme et musique 'incidentelle" provient de: "msb_theme", par: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Liste des chansons: "Disease" par: "Allison Crowe" http://www.allisoncrowe.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "In the Bleak Midwinter" par: "Allison Crowe" http://www.allisoncrowe.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Circular Reasoning" par: "Allison Crowe" http://www.allisoncrowe.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Crayon and Ink" par: "Allison Crowe" http://www.allisoncrowe.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Skeletons and Spirits" par: "Allison Crowe" http://www.allisoncrowe.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Midnight" par: "Allison Crowe" http://www.allisoncrowe.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Crédits Photo: Toutes les images, synchronizées avec les chansons, sont des artistes at proviennes de music.podshow.com excepté quand elle ne le sont pas. :-) ---- Livres: ---- Liens: Guy David - intro & thème http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware alias Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes, lien direct à ce podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ Ce podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ Le Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 Direct download: msb-fr-0007_Les_Francophones_a_New_York.m4a Category: podcasts -- posted at: 7:04 PM Comments[0] |
Fri, 11 April 2008 msb-0286 Quiet timeintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... I'm busy preparing a speech-slash-presentation for PodCampNY 2.0 so this is going to be a quiet show from me. The systems and servers around the house are now completely recovered from this week-end's, uh, "failure to communicate" [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061512/ ] I am so [expletive deleted] sick of ComCast, my soul weeps in frustration at the way they treat their customers. For a "fur instance", not only are their offices not ADA compliant but they have a set of stairs right at the frickin' front (and only publicly accessible) doors. An elderly gentleman and myself, both of us struggling with canes were cursing under our breath whoever was the dim bulb who thought of this particular building "feature". (Keerist. Some people shouldn't be allowed to design a dog house; never mind a shopping mall or office building. [This imbecile deserved permanent unemployment from any firm doing anything related to architecture or design. {Its like the landscape designer who tried to sell us some sweeping, swerving walkway to a house my first wife and I we were having built. She kept going on about how lovely it would look. I told her that it didn't matter worth a damn if I wasn't going to be able to get around on it in a wheel-chair. If it was going to be curved stairs and curved paths, I wasn't going to pay for the installation or for the removal. I didn't want it at all. (That sort of pissed her off and she got somebody else from the firm to deal with me. I got my walk way done the way it "had" to be done. [I couldn't care less if I hurt her "artistic sensibilities", I was the one who was going to have to live with the mess afterwards. {Sniff hautily, stick your nose up in the air, and walk away, I really don't give a crap.}])}]) ---- "Temporary Life - Ordinary Girl" by: "CARLY PATTERSON" http://www.carlypattersonmusic.com/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "SPQR" by: "HAL FLAVIN" http://www.lili-is-pi.com/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Sometimes Life Starts To Fall Into Place" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk "Thesis:" The presentation is shaping up nicely. Lots of meat on them bones... ---- "Finish What We Started" by: "Headway" http://myspace.com/headwayband "Synthesis:" Basically, I'm telling people * some depressing things (reality about scale and the fact that podcasting is about "never" achieving such scale where big media would be interested in you, [even when you can actualy get that big an audience, {over time,}]) and * some hopeful things (a possible way it can be make to work and how to achieve it.) Its all about using the internet for what its actually good for, but first we have to, uh, kick some butt and break a few kneecaps to get taken seriously. (No, seriously, we're going to have to form a non-profit and, among its duties, its purpose is going to be to buy an ad in the New York Times selling the world on podcasting [just like "Mozilla" did for the "Firefox" browser.]) ---- "Atlantis" by: "Telling On Trixie" http://www.tellingontrixie.com/ "Conclusion:" I think this is going to be fun. I'll be podcasting my presentation like I did last year. And today, (well evening as I type this,) you heard what I heard, for roughly half an hour, as I worked on the text. (Isn't the Podsafe Music Network [the PMN] a good source for music, or what?) ---- "Caligula" by: "Keenan" http://www.keenanbaxter.com/ Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Temporary Life - Ordinary Girl" by: "CARLY PATTERSON" http://www.carlypattersonmusic.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "SPQR" by: "HAL FLAVIN" http://www.lili-is-pi.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Sometimes Life Starts To Fall Into Place" by: "Munk" http://www.myspace.com/munk album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Finish What We Started" by: "Headway" http://myspace.com/headwayband album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Atlantis" by: "Telling On Trixie" http://www.tellingontrixie.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Caligula" by: "Keenan" http://www.keenanbaxter.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Wed, 9 April 2008 msb-0285 Fortune Favors the Braveintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... Somebody called me a "Rich Bashing Communist Ass-hole" with all my talk of socializing medicine. Then he waved his cigar at me and called me a hypocrite. (Never get under the skin of an insurance company CFO because you'll get ash scattered all over the place.) In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. I love the rich and wish we could spread the wealth and make everyone rich. Compared to 50 to 70% of the world, as far as the people in that 50 to 70% goes, I "am" rich. I'm living in the 'States. (Never mind that only 2% of the citizens of the United States are truly rich while the rest of us have to work for a living, [when we can!]) There was no way I was going to win an argument using statistics with the guy so I merely said that under the Canadian system, my father had lived another twenty productive years despite having "polycystic kidneys disease" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycystic_kidney_disease ] when he would have been dead in a few weeks, after first having to burn through all the family savings to pay for "dialysis" treatments. Instead, Canada got socialized medecine the month before he was forced to, in effect, commit real suicide from foregoing treatment, after first committing fiscal suicide to pay for whatever treatments he could get. Socialized medicine had saved my father's life and enabled society to reap the benefits of his work for another twenty tax-paying years and of the experience he'd already gotten. And if he didn't like it, then let him go quail hunting with "Dick Cheney". [ http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/12/cheney/ ] ---- "Scotland The Brave" by: "Caledonix" http://www.caledonix.de/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Brave Soldier" by: "Brendon Neill" http://brendon-neill.ukbands.net/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Bravely" by: "Mieka Pauley" http://www.mieka.com/ "Thesis:" "Fortune Favours the Brave" sounds like a tiresome warriors creed from Rome, Sparta or some or other ancient and long dead barbaric land; a thing whispered into a regal ear by some minion trying to ingratiate himself (or an arms merchant trying to make a sale on "this" side of a conflict he's creating.) Personally, I live by another aphorism, one attributed to "Louis Pasteur" "Chance Favors the Prepared Mind." Its good for gamblers, wits, wags, famous physicians ... and "boy scouts" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden_Powell ] ---- "fortune favours only the brave" by: "peter, bjorn and john" http://www.wichita-recordings.com/ "Synthesis:" Fortune Favours the Brave In his intro to my submission for "Grand Rounds" [ http://other-things-amanzi.blogspot.com/2008/01/grand-rounds.html ], "Bongi" [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918640034313468627 ] says of bugs, bikes, and brains, "That this is a very brave blog". What wonderful words to read! I don't consider myself brave, but it is another one of those coincidences my life seems to be full of. The motto of Clan MacKinnon is "fortune favours the brave". From Wikipedia: Fortune favours the bold, Fortune favours the brave, Fortune helps the brave , and Fortune favours the strong are common translations of the famous and often-quoted ancient Latin proverb "Fortis fortuna adiuvat". The phrase means that Fortuna, the Goddess of luck, is more likely to help those that take risks, take action, and develop their skills proactively. Wow. Almost in the same breath as being told I had MS, I was asked to be part of a drug study to which I consented. Even though my folks and other family members were against it, I was going to do it. I took the risk of placebo versus the drug. As soon as I was able to, I began to research this disease and affiliate myself with the MS Society to see what I could do to help myself and others. I took action. I use my PR skills to educate the public about MS and to encourage other MSers that life is not over with a diagnosis. OK. It's a brave blog, by definition. I suspect I come by a "brave" attribute quite honestly. My parents, grandparents, and other family members have displayed their "bravery" over the years in different ways. My paternal grandfather, Frank, left school before completing grade 9 in order to go to Boston for work. When he returned to Nova Scotia he married and started a family and worked hard to support them, including sending to university, those who were so inclined (including my father). My grandfather was well read and very well spoken for someone with so little formal education. His perseverance to educate his children, and himself, was brave. My maternal grandfather, Archie, also a MacKinnon, was a well known rum runner in his day, though the law caught up with him eventually. Never convicted of any crimes, he was financially ruined just the same. He started over and still managed to support his family and others in the community. Starting over was brave. Archie's and his wife's housekeeper was a woman named Nellie. Two years after Archie's wife died, Archie married Nellie (the woman I considered my grandmother). I once asked her about her marriage and why she did it. "The children needed a mother!" she exclaimed, like I was an idiot. That was brave (not the exclamation, but marrying Archie). Just a few days ago, my aunt Florence, a nun, recreational skater (on racers no less) and retired math teacher, passed away after having lived with Parkinson's for the past decade. She was 85. She only gave up skating upon her diagnosis. Apparently, years ago, she let it be known she wanted to be cremated on her death. A few months ago, she revealed she had changed her mind and has donated her body to the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation instead. Way to go Aunt Florence! Now that's brave. If you have MS, the bravest thing you can do is face it. You don't have to confront it or beat it. You don't have to speak in public about it or start a blog (though that's fun). Whatever you believe, be it god or evolution, you have been given a gift. You may not have wanted it, like that ugly vase some great aunt gave you, but you have it. When that great aunt comes to visit, you put that vase on the coffee table. Consider your MS that vase. Sometimes it has to go on display and be faced. S. ---- "I Was Brave Today" by: "My Device" http://my-device.co.uk/ "Conclusion:" Facing things requires a strange mix of courage and cowardice but most of all it takes a realistic attitude. Yup, I've got MS. Now what? I love the quote from "Without Feathers" by "Allen Stewart Königsberg," a.k.a. "Woody Allen" [ http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Woody_Allen ] "It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." That pretty well sums it up. ---- "Braveheart - Came Ye Oer Frae France" by: "Caledonix" http://www.caledonix.de/ Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Scotland The Brave" by: "Caledonix" http://www.caledonix.de/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Brave Soldier" by: "Brendon Neill" http://brendon-neill.ukbands.net/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Bravely" by: "Mieka Pauley" http://www.mieka.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "fortune favours only the brave" by: "peter, bjorn and john" http://www.wichita-recordings.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "I Was Brave Today" by: "My Device" http://my-device.co.uk/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Braveheart - Came Ye Oer Frae France" by: "Caledonix" http://www.caledonix.de/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Wed, 9 April 2008 msb-fr-0006 Je Ne Suit Pas Dingueintro Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu! MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical. Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens. Son but est de nous garder divertis, d'expliquer nos symptômes, de remarquer à propos de nos découvertes et d'élever la conscience générale envers notre maladie. Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur. Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances. ---- À Moi oûvre le programme... Désolé mais ComCast a ruiné mon week-end, et donc vous n'avez pas eu votre podcast j'usqu'a maintenant. Il n'y a rien d'autre a dire... ---- "Pray" par: "ANEMO" http://www.anemo.co.uk/ À Vous suit... Ceci est votre segment. Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment. Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger. Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "PRAY FOR THE CHILDREN " par: "Brother Terry" http://www.unknownsouldier.com/ À L'aide est en troisième... Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen? Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast. Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.) Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement. Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".) Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel. L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle. Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé... Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "SprayPaint Situtations" par: "Swill Merchants" http://www.myspace.com/swillmerchants "Thèse:" Cette semaine j'ai appris qu'on fait des recherches sur les thérapie d'inhalation pour la sclérose en plaque. C'est us sujet que je tiens très à coeur. (J'hais me piquer.) ---- "Demon In Disguise - Live" par: "Mike Ratza" http://www.mikeratza.com/ "Synthèse:" Ca reste a suivre... ---- "Pandemonium - Acoustic Version" par: "Ocean Street" http://www.oceanstreetmusic.com/ "Conclusion:" J'ai passé un très bonne semaine et j'ai decouvert que je ne suit pas dingue. Les poumons sont de merveillleux organes pour accepter et delivrer les drogues contre la SP. ---- "Turning My Demons A Loose" par: "Beau Hall" http://www.beaurocks.com/ Outro Désolé mais la loi DADVSI (« droit d'auteur et droits voisins dans la société de l'information ») me défend de vous faire parvenir de la musique Francaise. Le situation pourrait changer mais, jusqu'a ce jour, je suis forcé d'utiliser les chansons provenantes du PMN (Podsafe Music Network.) ---- Theme et musique 'incidentelle" provient de: "msb_theme", par: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Liste des chansons: "Pray" par: "ANEMO" http://www.anemo.co.uk/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "PRAY FOR THE CHILDREN" par: "Brother Terry" http://www.unknownsouldier.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "SprayPaint Situtations" par: "Swill Merchants" http://www.myspace.com/swillmerchants album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Demon In Disguise - Live" par: "Mike Ratza" http://www.mikeratza.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Pandemonium - Acoustic Version" par: "Ocean Street" http://www.oceanstreetmusic.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Turning My Demons A Loose" par: "Beau Hall" http://www.beaurocks.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Crédits Photo: Toutes les images, synchronizées avec les chansons, sont des artistes at proviennes de music.podshow.com excepté quand elle ne le sont pas. :-) ---- Livres: ---- Liens: Guy David - intro & thème http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware alias Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes, lien direct à ce podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ Ce podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ Le Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 Comments[0] |
Mon, 7 April 2008 msb-0284 Me Too, Me Too ... Not!intro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... I am struck by the spirit of imitation that pervades this planet and why people tend to the herd mentality. (Its not good or bad, it just "is".) So, by dint of my character (whether its a flaw [it often feels that way to me,] or just a rarity, I am not going to get into at this stage, but) I am a "constant tinkerer". ---- I have just read "something" (March, 26, 2008) [ http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/03/does-the-human.html#more ] which made me think some more about neuroplasticity. Strange to think that what was an unknown to me a few months ago is popping up everywhere. ---- The wiki is up and running and capable of showing text, images, Google maps, Amazon Ads, YouTube videos and Calendars. Now I'm trying to run my chapter's newsletter and calendar of events to show how its done, but I have to get permission first. (You and I both know its easier to get forgiveness than to get permission, but it is also easier to get your fingers walked on by some law firm and you and your site sued into oblivion than it is to get forgiveness, so I'm taking the long way around and getting the permission and cooperation of the societies and chapters.) ---- "Wait Too Long" by: "(De La Vega) Ivy League" http://www.myspace.com/IvyLeagueRock Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Lifes Too Short" by: "Ross Nicoll and The Mannequins" http://www.rossnicoll.co.uk/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "I Feel It Too" by: "theHipnotics" http://thehipnotics.net/ "Thesis:" With MS, I was definitely born "under a bad sign" (I have pictures and everything, [MRIs with great strips of white sclera hiding in my skull,]) while everything that some other people touch "turns to gold." I wish I could run into one of these so blessed, (not turn into one, just run into one,) and let them use their contacts and their skills at manipulation to make this podcast into a growing concern that could take care of my wife and I, and spread out to encompass all of the other MSers. As my friend Eugene pointed out to me last night (as I write this, which was actually Saturday, the 22nd of March, 2008,) I need to meet a recently laid off ad person; somebody with the right contacts who's actually looking for an opportunity. This is going to be very unhealthy because I'm about to plunge back into the cigar bar downtown, (and I 'know" I'm going to end up having one or three. :-) to find out who they might know and seek them out. Then I'll have to get my butt over to a cigar bar on Madison Avenue and pick up the thread there looking for some know person who'd be in the, uh, right frame of mind. ---- "taken too far" by: "The Trouble with Me" http://www.myspace.com/thetroublewithmeuk "Synthesis:" Its not easy being struck by a vision like "Paul of Tarsus" because its actually blinding me to as much as it is showing me. (And I am constantly mindful that I might be deceived and currently following a will-o-the-wisp. [That nagging spirit of self-doubt is what keeps me diversifying my portfolio and trying to keep options open.]) I started this podcast for one thing, trying to wake people up in my old profession, and then abandoned it when I understood what an end-run around the limitations of media could be made with podcasting. Its not a question of how can I "catch this train" as it pulls out of the station, but one of "how can I add value" and earn a living bringing that value to us MSers. One thing that is slowly becoming clear (to me at least, [I have no feedback from you on whether I am "slow on the uptake" or whether I am of full of crap,]) and that is that I am trying to unite MSers and make a kind of "nexus", (as opposed to an "information silo", [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_silo ]) where MSers, researchers into MS and makers of products for MS, (uh, make that products "against" MS) and products for coping with MS, from anywhere and everywhere can "come on down" to the nexus and discuss, share, buy and sell and get themselves and their ideas known. ---- "Too Late" by: "Maria Daine" http://www.maria-daines.com/ "Conclusion:" I am pursuing this concept of MSBPodcast and MSBWiki to combat the all too pervasive problem of "we just didn't know" and there was no way for you to find out. Part of the problem is in the title of this episode. Too many people are content (or are limited to) just following: "Me too, Me Too..." Its neither good nor bad, it just "is". (I've come to accept that some things just are, like this disease.) Not everyone is leading which is a good thing because that would just be chaos. But right now "no one" is following because "they just don't know" and my job is becoming one of telling them. Speak softly and carry a world-reaching megaphone as your stick. A man I've actually met and still* greatly admire, "Alan Kay" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay and http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTML and http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html ] once said "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." [ http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1423.html ] Well, I'm inventing it. (What a hero to have and what an act to follow.) Now I just hope I can make a living off of the concept before my money runs out. * That actually says more about my choice of heroes than it does about the clay footed people whom I elevated into heroes. ---- "Too True Mama" by: "Mark LaForme" http://marklaforme.com/ Outro Actually, I'm not too proud to beg. Could any of you be motivated to click on the "PayPal Donate" button? ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Wait Too Long" by: "(De La Vega) Ivy League" http://www.myspace.com/IvyLeagueRock album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Lifes Too Short" by: "Ross Nicoll and The Mannequins" http://www.rossnicoll.co.uk/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "I Feel It Too" by: "theHipnotics" http://thehipnotics.net/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "taken too far" by: "The Trouble with Me" http://www.myspace.com/thetroublewithmeuk album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Too Late" by: "Maria Daine" http://www.maria-daines.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Too True Mama" by: "Mark LaForme" http://marklaforme.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Fri, 4 April 2008 msb-0283 Win, Lose Or Draw Blood.. intro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... I'm in contact with David of "PatientsLikeMe" [ http://www.patientslikeme.com/ ] concerning their drive to communicate with more MSers and my drive for more MSers. Our aims are different, mine being stated as: "We are a small minority, one in 1,200 of the general populace, but we are TOTALLY ignored by the various media. We go from 1 in 1,200 to ZERO, to complete non-existence in the wider world represented by the media. (We should get at least one minute per day, one lousy minute, but that will never happen.) The mission of MSBPodcast.com is to use the internet to reestablish our presence as 1 in 1,200, to bring us music and talk from MSers to MSers. I play music, some from MSers, and I have had interviews and collaborations with an international and multi-lingual bunch of the nicest MSers you would ever want to meet." I hope you will go to "PatientsLikeMe" [ http://www.patientslikeme.com/ ] and check our what their goals are. (Hint: They're a lot more medically oriented than I am.) ---- At the front of the blog entries, I included a new video "Pray" by the band "Anemo" [ http://anemo.podshow.com/ ] from PodShow.com because the video looked interesting and the band sounded good. And listen to the lyrics. Just pay attention to the words. Close your eyes if you have to, but listen to the words. ---- "New Dawn" by: "Revelations of the Hopeless" http://www.myspace.com/revohope Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" This evening (April 2nd, 2008,) was the North Jersey Chapter's MS Support Group's meeting and we had a presentation that was not the usual fare (this has is good points, its very informative, for the right audience, and its bad points, that audience was not us, or at least not us in the time available and the space we were in.) It was the kind of multi-media program that would be devoured by neurology interns, but it was sutable for much smaller doses for consumption by us, the MSers who were the object of the scrutiny. But the evening was not a total waste; I discovered that my crusade for inhalable therapies is not the rantings of a demented dwarf ex-frog (namely "moi",) but also the object of "study" [ http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/413726 ]. I'm on the phone with Biogen to follow up on this. ---- "Science" by: "Stalling Dawn" http://www.myspace.com/stallingdawn Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "People" by: "Natives of the new Dawn" http://www.myspace.com/nativesofthenewdawn "Thesis:" "Oregon" has been making quite a "splash" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/us/13bend.html ] with their "health care lottery." The opinions from around the world are pretty much in agreement that its a revolting shame for the United States that we've now so screwed with paying for health care that its actually come to a game of chance as to whether or not some people who are working poor get dragged down to poverty by health care bills before getting dropped by their employers, for non performance of their duties, and being left for dead, along with their immediate families. ---- "Indifference is the Opposite" by: "Stalling Dawn" http://www.myspace.com/stallingdawn "Synthesis:" I am quite frankly astonished by Oregonians having enough balls to put the problem of 15% of the world being too disabled at any one time to contribute right up front and in everybody's face. (That's the percentage of the population the WHO [the World Health Organization] estimates is disabled to some degree or other. A small percentage of the individuals may drift in and out, but the 15% is pretty fixed.) Its like a super lotto ticket that you are stuck buying every week and that you hope you never need (because if you do, you'll be broken as the result of some accident or illness.) The current systems of payment for health care are very, very badly broken and everybody knows it and admits to it, except the greedy healthy (who make up 85% of the population.) The reason that they feel justified in their greed is that "they aren't sick, so why should they pay?" Since the teaching of civics doesn't seem to have been part of any curriculum since world war two, (not that they were teaching it before, [what with the "Horatio Alger" { http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Alger,_Jr. } "rags to riches" dime novel mentality that the average semi-literate immigrants to these teeming shores seems to have been dragging around along with a mostly white shirt in their cardboard suitcases,]) its no wonder that personal charity is regarded as a great American virtue, as it exists in an attempt to counter-balance the incredibly short-sighted opportunistic greed and auto-mendacity. There is no one as self-righteous as one aggrieved by the act of being caught in a lie, and the state of health care in the 'States is as big a lie as anything out there. "We've got the best health care system in the world" doesn't mean squat it you're one of the "millions" of working poor in this country who needs it and can't afford it. "We've got the best health care system in the world" doesn't mean squat it you're one of the "millions" of previously healthy but under-insured people who sees their entire life, assets and cash flow, being poured one at a time into a devouring maw. "We've got the best health care system in the world" doesn't mean squat it you're one of the "millions" of people of people lucky enough to make it through some accident or illness only to end up working to repay people for the treatment. "We've got the best health care system in the world" doesn't mean squat it you're one of the "millions" of people who are unfortunate enough to not be "young, healthy and rich". That's all three, "young, healthy and rich." Having only two out of three will insure that, even if you didn't start off that way, you end up "not rich", and that's a capital crime in this friggin' country. Time takes care of the first two anyway. "Every" body ages, wears down and/or out and dies. Only the young, the stupid or the gullible fail to realize this. ---- "Dance Of Electricity (Slow Dawn Mix)" by: "Guy David" http://www.guydavid.com/ "Conclusion:" Health [don't] care in this country is abysmal and will remain that way as long as we keep shoving the less fortunate 15% of its citizens out of the way. (Guess what? I may not be very visible but I'm not out of ear-shot.) Once we can all actually "see" the 15% (never mind the 0.0833% that we MSers make up,) we stand a chance at addressing the problems we all face and redressing the shameful health-care system of this country by setting up a single payer system. A single payer system will insure that none of the multiple price lists shenanigans can survive. (That is one move which will be welcomed with open arms by the hospitals and other organizations who are currently at the mercy of their suppliers, [very few of which are particularly merciful.]) A single payer system will insure that none of the currently uninsured are kicked to the curb and left to die. ---- "A Few Years Short of Forgiveness" by: "Stalling Dawn" http://www.myspace.com/stallingdawn Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "New Dawn" by: "Revelations of the Hopeless" http://www.myspace.com/revohope album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Science" by: "Stalling Dawn" http://www.myspace.com/stallingdawn album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "People" by: "Natives of the new Dawn" http://www.myspace.com/nativesofthenewdawn album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Indifference is the Opposite" by: "Stalling Dawn" http://www.myspace.com/stallingdawn album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Dance Of Electricity (Slow Dawn Mix)" by: "Guy David" http://www.guydavid.com/ album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "A Few Years Short of Forgiveness" by: "Stalling Dawn" http://www.myspace.com/stallingdawn album: "none" via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Wed, 2 April 2008 msb-0282 Over To You Shauna ...intro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... Oh, by the way, I'm over 60,000 downloads. :-) ---- I am on the verge of releasing the "MSBWiki". Its quite a concept.; opening a space with the same look-and-feel, and as much potential, as "Wikipedia", but just for MSers. And, like this friggin' disease doesn't care about national, religious, racial, ethnic or linguistic barriers, the"MSBWiki" can be multi-lingual as it needs to be. (Language is the "only" barrier that really divides people. [If "you" make a noise that "I" can make sense of, then "we" can "communicate" {... You dig?}]) I'm about to incorporate all of the MSBPodcast episodes, news from any of the MS organizations and their chapters who want to participate and who knows, maybe I'll even be able to convince some serious people to "cite" their peer-reviewed articles on this site. And finally, I hope to convince to put their ads here all of the the makers of products, therapies, goods and services for MSers (that means makers of anything and everything from "Abacavir" [from GlaxoSmithKline] to Merck's treatments for "Zygomycosis" [Hey, just cause you've got MS doesn't grant you immunity from anything else, specially with the immuno-suppression treatments we're currently trying to live with, {instead of actually curing the damn thing.}]) In an ideal world, self-diagnosis still requires two things: * The ability to read the opaque symptom descriptions and relate them to your own symptoms, (Good luck! I'm no dummy and I can't do it! [It doesn't help that MS symptoms are only tangentially related to the actual disease.]) * That somebody has already accurately described your disease and come up with a treatment. Its not an ideal world, is it? Then you've got to find a "cure" for whatever disease, which means that somebody else has already some ideas about it. (Lorenzo's oils are few and far between [The worst part is that the demyelinating disease which struck Lorenzo might provide some insights into multiple sclerosis and remyelination. {see "The Myelin Project" ( http://www.myelin.org/ ) for details}]) ---- "Uluru" by: "Dave Ransom" http://www.daveransom.com/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Ode" by: "Dave Ransom" http://www.daveransom.com/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "The Open Road" by: "Dave Ransom" http://www.daveransom.com/ "Thesis:" You know, I am ever so pleased to have Shauna MacKinnon here helping me out on Wednesday's. It frees me up to pursue other opportunities, including following up on some leads trying to get to some advertisers. They should be starting to be hungry "now" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/business/media/31paper.html?ref=media ] that newspapers are starting to get scarce. So lets see if we can interest them interested in a podcast... Ah, here comes Shauna now... ---- "Close Your Eyes" by: "Dave Ransom" http://www.daveransom.com/ "Synthesis:" Strength I had come across a line that rang true with me and saved for when I began my blog. Then I went looking for the source of it. It came from this lady's blog: http://www.tmjfriends.com/articles/after-the-cure/ Stacy was kind enough to let me quote her. The line that so resonated with me? Anyone who has ever gone through a serious illness has probably been told that they are “so strong,� when in fact, that strength has been mistaken for a patient’s need to not inflict any more emotional pain on those surrounding them. Is my use of humor simply an attempt to make other people feel better? Or do I really just have an excellent sense of irony? I can also be quite sarcastic. Is that another defense mechanism? Or do I really just have an excellent sense of humor? Are my coping mechanisms deemed strength by other people? I certainly hope so. Otherwise they'd be shocked to know how frightened I am sometimes. That would be a weakness. And most of us don't like others knowing our soft spots. The cat's out of the bag now though, isn't it? S. ---- "Change of Plans" by: "Dave Ransom" http://www.daveransom.com/ "Conclusion:" Meow meow... Yes illness of often perceived as weakness because the end result is often the same: a disability. But as someone who once recovered from a hospital bed where I'd been laid low by an attack, I can tell you that you shouldn't take advantage of people in a vulnerable state because they sometimes get better or get brothers to lay your ass into the grass. The 'States may be the ultimate refuge of the individualistic principle; but in unity there "is" all the strength we need. ---- "Fire" by: "Dave Ransom" http://www.daveransom.com/ This episode figured all music by "Dave Ransom," because something about it reminds me of "Bert Jantz"; the casual virtuosity of real talent echoes from the latter to the former. Once again, I was transported on wings of memory to a quiet, still place in my soul where I was once again hunched over my guitar, fingers of my left hand flying over the fretboard, lightly alighting over the strings while the fingers of my right hand were plucking melodies out of the wooden miracle box at my chest. I'm looking at my guitar case in the corner of my office. I can't play anymore and that's the cruelest cut of all. Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Uluru" by: "Dave Ransom" http://www.daveransom.com/ album: "Safe From the Day" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Ode" by: "Dave Ransom" http://www.daveransom.com/ album: "Safe From the Day" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The Open Road" by: "Dave Ransom" http://www.daveransom.com/ album: "Safe From the Day" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Close Your Eyes" by: "Dave Ransom" http://www.daveransom.com/ album: "Safe From the Day" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Change of Plans" by: "Dave Ransom" http://www.daveransom.com/ album: "Safe From the Day" via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Fire" by: "Dave Ransom" http://www.daveransom.com/ album: "Safe From the Day" via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Mon, 31 March 2008 msb-0281 Andrea und Galileointro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... I'm not feeling particularly tall, but, to paraphrase "Newton", [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton ] "I see far because I stand on ye shoulders of giants." My butt may be stuck firmly to a chair, but I am standing in excellent company. (People who honor me by their very presence in my life.) ---- "Unsung Heroes" by: "A Sunken Ship Irony" http://www.spotlessrecords.com/asunkenshipirony Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "The Last of The Superheros ( of the 1970s)" by: "American Heartbreak" http://www.americanheartbreak.com/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Accidental Hero" by: "strootker" http://www.btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=7121 "Thesis:" Ask any hero, from "Jim Thorpe" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe ] to "Sgt. York", [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt_York ] if they asked for the plaudits heaped on them after they did whatever they did, and the answer is always "No, I just did what did." So if ever I get a swelled head from doing this, remind me that I said that. A wiki, a podcast, a blog, collaborative media and all the rest are things I bring to this table because I am fortunate enough to. ---- "Heroes" by: "Jack in the Pulpit" http://www.jackinthepulpit.com/ "Synthesis:" This synthesis opens on a quote from "The Life Of Galileo" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Galileo ] by "Bertolt Brecht" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brecht ]: "ANDREA: Unhappy the land that has no heroes! GALILEO: No, unhappy the land that needs heroes." We MSers are unfortunate enough, by virtue of having MS, to need several kinds of heroes: * the medical researchers, * the physicians, the neurologists and the doctors who focus on the immune systems, * the nurses and other health care workers, * the rehabilitation specialists, * the folks who agitate and organize for us, * the makers of pharmaceutical products, special cooling vests, special shoes for "drop foot", special chairs, lifts, van modification, uh, stuff, canes, walkers, bus services, hair products(?) who knows, what else, * the people who love us when we don't feel lovable in the least. All of them are heroes in their own ways; bringing us what we need to lead fuller lives. Now we have a great deal to do to get the word out (["sigh"] that's my job I guess,) and to create an environment where these heroes, who never think of themselves as heroes, can come and meet us face to face ... and failing that, mind to mind. The wiki is a happening thing. I've started to put together references to all the pages of MS information that I can find on the web. Not the actual content but references to them. This way I don't claim to own the information and the person who does own the information can do whatever he wants or needs to do with it. I'm going to create pages for every organization, every chapter of every organization, put in the events in the calendar for the North Jersey Chapter of the MS Society, and then email & snail mail every organization and every chapter of every organization to tell them that they too can put in their events. I'm going to also create pages for some people that are related to the geography of this disease. Its demographic data painted with a very broad brush. ---- "Ordinary Heroes" by: "Cats or Cars" http://www.renboy.com/catsorcars "Conclusion:" The wiki and this podcast are services that I am bringing to all of the organizations, chapters and people all over the planet who have or are caring for (or about) people with MS. And after me, someone else will be able to run it too. It will end when it will end, hopefully when this disease is finally conquered and not a day before. (And damn the RIAA and allthe lawyers for preventing me from playing any "Kurt Weill" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Weill ] for you. I even have a recording of "Brecht" singing "Mac The Knife" [auf Deutsch natürlich. ;-]) ---- "Heros Journey" by: "Artist X" http://www.myspace.com/artistxsongs Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Unsung Heroes" by: "A Sunken Ship Irony" http://www.spotlessrecords.com/asunkenshipirony album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The Last of The Superheros ( of the 1970s)" by: "American Heartbreak" http://www.americanheartbreak.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Accidental Hero" by: "strootker" http://www.btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=7121 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Heroes" by: "Jack in the Pulpit" http://www.jackinthepulpit.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Ordinary Heroes" by: "Cats or Cars" http://www.renboy.com/catsorcars album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Heros Journey" by: "Artist X" http://www.myspace.com/artistxsongs album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
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