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 Saturday, April 30, 2005
Found this article in the St. Petersburg Times Business section yesterday about podcasting in the Tampa Bay Area...


Podcasting: The radio-free radio experience

Abstract (Document Summary)

[Walter Anaruk] and [Mark Cuebas] have day jobs and don't really approach it as a professional enterprise; they use $8 microphones. Anaruk doesn't even own an iPod. [Michael Oster], a professional sound engineer, makes a little money through the sale of Internet advertising; he updates his podcasts regularly so fans will keep coming back and his hit count will increase. And everyone who visits his Web site is a potential client.

CRUSHING GRAPE (www.crushinggrape.com): A wine podcast produced from the garage of Walter Anaruk of Palm Harbor and his brother-in- law Mark Cuebas of Clearwater.

Walter Anaruk, 30, of Palm Harbor and Mark Cuebas, 29, of Clearwater talk football in Anaruk's garage, their audience a laptop and $8 microphones. Later, they'll edit and podcast the discussion

SOME TAMPA BAY PODCASTS

AREA 51 (www.area51show.com): This irreverent comedy show, produced by a group of radio professionals and friends in St. Petersburg, ranks among the top 10 comedy podcasts and top 40 overall at Podcast Alley (www.podcastalley.com).

EXDRUNKALOG (www.calebism.com/wordpress): Artist Caleb Fiske, who goes by the handle Caleb de Floriduh and contributes to Area 51, also produces this podcast centered around his recovery from alcoholism.

CRUSHING GRAPE (www.crushinggrape.com): A wine podcast produced from the garage of Walter Anaruk of Palm Harbor and his brother-in- law Mark Cuebas of Clearwater.

THE DIFFICULT LISTENING CHANNEL (www.michaeloster.com): Michael Oster, a New Tampa sound engineer, posts field recordings and his own daily musings.

FREE TALK LIVE (www.freetalklive.com): A Sarasota Libertarian talk show that ranks among Podcast Alley's top 20 shows.

OFFRAMP (www.offrampaudio. blogspot.com): A comedy podcast from WMNF's improv voice-acting troupe, which produces the Sixty Second Radio Hour (www.sixtysecondradiohour.com).

FIELD POSITION (www.fieldposition.com): Another Anaruk-Cuebas podcast; this one deals with football.

RELIGIOUS PODCASTS: Bell Shoals Church of Christ (www.bellshoalscoc.org) in Brandon and Seminole Presbyterian Church (www.seminolepca.org) in Tampa offer downloads of their sermons.

DIGITAL FLOTSAM (www.digitalflotsam.org): P.W. Fenton of New Port Richey caught the attention of "podfather" Adam Curry himself with this well-produced podcast, an eclectic mix of stories, music and interviews.

LIVE FROM THE HOUSE (www.houseofgigs.net): After three years streaming Web casts from their Web site, House of Gigs, Jon Boutelle, Duncan Taitt and Jerry Nolan created this podcast devoted to local and independent music from around the country. They're working on adding three more podcasts, including one on the Tampa Bay music scene.



Full Article can be found here!


I tend to not blog on the weekends too often, because viewership is a bit low...but I will post a short link back to the stories I post today because some of them are simply amazing. Starting with Automater for OS X Tiger...here are some awesome workflows people have posted:

This first one is PERFECT for podcasting the text off of a site to an audio file:



Workflows-Music

Feed to Audio iPod

April 30th, 2005 | Posted in Workflows-Music, Workflows |

Function: Reads text from a web page, converts to audio, imports into iTunes and updates to iPod (if present).
Author: Justin Commu

Notes: This nifty workflow is essentially a personal Podcaster. The version here connects to this Wired news page and converts it to audio using the “Fred” voice (personally I would have used a female one ;) ). Modify it for the webpage and voice of your choice (tip: set it to the current webpage for maximum flexibility).

Download "Feed to Audio iPod"


Workflows-Music

Backup iTunes Music Store Tracks

April 28th, 2005 | Posted in Workflows-Music, Workflows |

Function: Copies all purchased iTunes Music Store songs (.m4p files) to the user-selected destination folder.
Author: Automator World (from the original Workflow by Ozguru)

Notes: This workflow is saved as an Application, as it requires no file input to operate (only the selection of the destination folder is required). It can be easily modified to copy any other song type in iTunes.

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Workflows-Finder

Batch Rename

April 28th, 2005 | Posted in Workflows, Workflows-Finder |

Function: Renames the selected files (or files in the selected folders) based on the user-set preferences.
Author: Automator World
Notes: This Workflow is great when you want to quickly email the selected items as a single archive file. It works best as a Contextual Menu Plug-in; copy into ~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder/. It also works well as an Application for drag-and-drop use.


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