JangroCast #2: Good Cloud Livin’
18 April 2008 – 12:18 pmThank you for those of you who offered the kind words and encouragement on my first podcast. Now you’ve done it. I gone and made a second one.
I bought a new microphone to improve the audio quality, I think it has made an enormous difference.
Actually, now that I listen to the MP3, there’s a tinny artifact that I think was added during the conversion/compression. More to work on. Update: I made a new mp3 with higher quality. Sounds much better.
Here’s the microhphone I bought and used in this podcast: M-Audio Microphone (not an affiliate link).
In this episode I talk about living in the cloud. Here are the sites I talked about:
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That's a handsome mic - I've heard from some "experts" that USB is cleaner, better quality than having the individual headphone and mic jacks.
I might have to get one of those M-Audio mics.
Just curious, though - why not an affiliate link?
Hey Shawn. No reason other than laziness, and since I put it behind a tinyurl, I felt the need to disclose.
When I dig up that bestbuy account, I may switch it out.
As for the microphone quality, the USB may be cleaner, but I think it's more about the microphone itself.
My first podcast was done with a USB headset microphone, also not a cheap one, well not cheap when I got it. It's only $20 at Amazon now. http://tinyurl.com/22duvr
The sound quality doesn't compare.
Thanks for sharing Sandy she looks like a helpful gal.
That she is, Steph. And we'll see how helpful she is on Friday reminding me about someone's birthday. ;)
Great podcast!
I'm more and more tempted by the switch to Gmail but what did you do with your old email archives and do you often need to search through them?
Thanks Fraser!
My old email is sitting still on the backup drive, so it's not terribly accessible to me right now. But that's not because of the switch to gmail. that's just because I haven't moved it over to my new drive.
It's all sitting in my Mail program. There are times I do wish I could search through it, but it's remarkably less than I would have expected. I may just leave it out of reach to force myself away from it.
And as it turns out, I think if I lost all my old email, I would survive!
Yeah I suppose you are right. I think it's one of these things you get a little too attached to and I think I have to file and store every email I have ever received. It might actually be nice to just leave it all behind!