I can’t believe this is episode 50, and also technically my one year anniversary since I skipped two episodes due to voice problems. Since it is such a special occasion I decided to bring in… you guessed it… M. The ever mysterious female known simply as M to my readers and listeners is back for her third episode of Scattercast. So not only do you get a longer than usual episode… and not only do you get M… but you also get the introduction of my new theme song! I actually bought the rights to use this music, so… you’re stuck with it!
- Michael Jackson died… and the media will NOT let us forget it.
- It just wouldn’t be an episode of CobWEBs if we didn’t discuss Twitter, and this week it was all about how the popular site was all over the Iran election.
- Mark named the second Dickwad of the Week.
- Is New Media finally replacing Heritage Media? Not all of the Cynical Bastards agreed on this subject!
- Opera Unite is freakin’ stupid… this we could all agree on.
Scattercast is 48… and it seems I messed up last week!
As I was prepping this episode I discovered I messed up the filed last week. You may want to go and give Scattercast episode 47 another listen to hear the correct file this time.
- Talkshoe sucks… you’ll hear why.
- I may change the day I record these episodes, but it shouldn’t effect when you hear them.
- Can we just stop caring about Jon & Kate Gosselin already? Yes, it looks like they may be getting divorced, but will someone please think about what their eight kids will face in the future from this whole thing being documented?
- It looks like all systems are go for me taking my first vacation in 13 years this coming August… but I’m not giving a lot of details for fear of jinxing myself.
I’ve been promising for some time that I would launch a video counterpart to my audio podcast, Scattercast. Well, after many so-so test results with webcams, I decided to just chuck that whole angle and I bought an actual digital video camera as an early birthday present to myself. I got a Sanyo VPC-FH1 HD, and, as the name implies, it does indeed shoot in high definiton. It actually goes all the way up to 1080p, so the video quality is insanely clear.
It’s been a long time since I played around with a video camera, and I have to say I am blown away with what all this thing can do. The fact I can stitch together multiple clips inside the camera itself just blows me away. You can also edit out frames, color correct, rotate, just all sorts of things that impress the heck out of me for a device this small. I mean, honestly, I can almost completely conceal this camera with my hand. True, I have huge hands seeing as I’m 6′4″, but that is still a seriously small video camera!
So the show should be coming soonish, but there are three things left to do before I start shooting the show:
I’m waiting on my Gorillapod SLR tripod to arrive (pictured to the right). This will allow me to set up the camera pretty much anywhere I want as the legs are bendable.
Need to set up a space in which to record.
Need to set up proper lighting so I don’t have so many shadows aross my face.
As for what exactly the video show is going to be about… who knows. This is part of the reason I am just continuing the name “Scattercast” from the audio show because I am sure the video will be just as random. The most exciting things will probably be you can SEE me drink coffee as opposed to me randomly saying “Coffee sip…” during the audio show. You’ll also get to see just how much I use my hands while I talk. That should be… fun.
All in all I’m excited to get this up and running, and, hey, it isn’t like I had 500 other projects to keep me going at all times, so why shouldn’t I add yet another?
Keep an eye on the site for when I finally launch the show in the coming weeks.
Scattercast is 46… and it misses “the good old days”.
- There are a lot of really painful movie ideas coming down the road at us. Whatever happened to a movie being made just for the sake of a movie, and not the potential for sequels?
- Why I think of podcasting like everyone having a license to be their own radio DJ in some really odd way.
Not a ton of subjects this week, but I still get past the 1/2 hour mark with this episode. Hope you all have a good week… hoping to announce some stuff in the next week or two!
This week Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself took on, as usual, a lot of subjects. I return to my opinionated self this week as I’m not dealing with tornadoes or computers.
- Should Valleywag take up vetting political appointments?
- The FTC wants to make life for bloggers a LOT tougher and more annoying. We, of course, don’t agree.
- Hulu will finally be shown in a country outside of the USA… but it’s only England so far.
- We lost an advertiser this week when they learned of our network name. We made them “umcomfortable”. Grow a pair.
- Twitter has a business model!… maybe… sorta… kinda… huh?
As always, I make a joke about Canada. Thank goodness Steven has a sense of humor.