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Scoble Audio


Why does is the audio on the Scoble
Show
so bad?



1. The edited audio is not being leveled or normalized. The
intro clips are at a completely different audio level than the interviews. It is brutal
to listen to.



2. Get a couple of cheap wireless microphones for the interview subjects. It
drives me nuts to listen to interviews when the subject has poor audio because Scoble's
team can't take the 60 seconds to properly setup a microphone. It drive me nuts that
audio fades away when ever he pans the camera away from the subject.



Robert, you
have a huge audience and are becoming more of a mainstream source than being an outsider.
You are a content
producer
. Put a little more effort into your content production so that it does
not distract your audience from focusing on your content instead of your
production techniques.



I have stopped listening to a lot of your "clips" because the audio is so poor that
it becomes a distraction. -I hit delete on the clip instead.





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Test from ScribeFire on Ubuntu


Welcome to Ubuntu 6.10,
Edgy Eft!





I am testing this from Firefox on Linux.



-Follow-up:  It looks like it works. The Tool seems upset about something related
to categories. Not a huge deal since I don't use categories.  More testing to
follow when time permits. I also need to see how to turn off the a pesky branding
that it inserts into my posts.



--Follow-up: I think that I found an option to turn off the branding. I also found
some category settings that I am playing with.



---Follow-up: It will not let you change the post title after the fact with DasBlog,
it also failed to delete a previous post even though it said it was a successful. 
It is an ok tool for posting to my blog from my Linux/Ubuntu laptop... but I would
like to find something better yet. (It is a good start.)


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Feeding a photoblog

So far the photoblog has been working ok. Yeah, I need to build a different DasBlog theme that has better archive links... but that will come with time. The first 4 days worth of images was pretty easy. I am trying to use new images that are very recent... typically shot within the last couple of days. That means that I need to come with some new images this weekend to feed the site for next week.



I am going to need to dedicate some thought to this... what is the next set of subjects? 
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DasBlog Issues Continued


I upgrade DasBlog from version 1.6 to 1.9.6264.0 last night. I have three issues that
I am trying to work through:



1. Time Zones - I have setup blog to Hawaiian Standard Time in order to make my blog
show up with proper Central Time. I don't understand why DasBlog is off by 5 hours
for UTC and Central time.



2. DasBlog is caching too much content. Having to touch the web.config remotely to
is poor answer for dealing with this issue.



3. I am still fighting through the themes. I am going to be forced to design a theme.
Argghhhh... I don' t want to be a web designer.



Don't get me wrong I really like DasBlog... but the little things really drive me
nuts. (You could say that I get what I pay for.) It is a great tool but good functionality
(items 1 & 2) is something that I expect regardless of price.