Comedy Podcast - Mister Rons Basement
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"Mister Ron's Basement," a unique and extremely popular podcast, using the newest of modern mediums to re-popularize long-forgotten humorists is just about to send out its one millionth download.
The show, which offers readings of humorous works from the public domain by well-known authors such as Mark Twain and O Henry, and long forgotten writers like Ellis Parker Butler, Stephen Leacock, and Fanny Fern, has been drawing in an average of 7000 to 8000 downloads a day in recent months. There are a few podcasts that feature readings of public domain books and stories, but none are quite like Mister Ron's Basement.
In less than a year, “Mister Ron” Evry's podcast topped 900,000 downloads by the end of January, and is expected to hit the One Million mark sometime in February.
“I am utterly amazed,” said Evry, “that so many people are interested in what I thought was a fringe subject. I suppose that people are simply hungry for humorous stuff to listen to on their commutes, and despite the age of the material, most of the stories I read are still very funny indeed.”
Evry's search for funny material in the public domain (his operation is too small to deal with paying royalties) has been essentially limited to works written before 1923. By digging around in an ever-growing collection of old books, and researching scholarly papers on the internet, he has discovered a wide variety of mostly forgotten literature written to tickle the funnybones of generations long gone
You can get his podcast here
Or go to his website - Mr Ron's Basement
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Richard Bluestein is the voice behind Yeast Radio, one of the most popular podcasts on the web. But for the crowd of thirty-something geeks gathered here last week for a pre-convention bash, the voice was a vision. A 6-foot-tall vision, to be exact, dressed to thrill in makeup, a blond beehive wig and ill-fitting flower-printed muumuu.
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Bluestein, who is openly gay, says he despises appearing in drag. It's a price he pays for his act. Online and on stage, he's Madge Weinstein, a lesbian who dispenses strident left-wing views in vulgarity-laced tirades. The program is so peculiar and yet so popular that podcast evangelist Adam Curry's company hired Bluestein full-time to do nothing but perform the show five days a week.
"I've always been really good at spotting trends," Bluestein, 38, said in an interview. "I could tell this would be really, really huge. I wanted to be a part of it. I started podcasting and I said, 'This is the thing for me.' I'm good at it and people really like it."
If Bluestein knows how to talk the talk, his appearance here at the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference proved he also knows how to walk the walk.
Continue Reading - Richard's Podcast - Richards Blog
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The podshow that dares to cover the real news about the p2p scene. They give us peer 2 peer and tech news, movie reviews and rate the quality of movie releases online. They also dish out the top ten lists of the most files grabbed online, and offer video encoding tips and tricks, and with all that, they manage to always find something to rant about, week after week.
They've just released "episode 9"
"Well, nine is out. Sadly, we had some technical (if you can call it that) difficulties with this ep. Kyp was forced to drop out beacuse of some noise issues where he lives, which was a real bummer, especially since I, and i'm sure all of you, were really looking forward to his input on our weekly AVS lesson. Since he is our resident professional in AVS, i'm afraid I was stuck trying to hold the reins alone on this one..."Catch it at Pod2Peer
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Good tip from the Yahoo Videoblogging group. On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Bill Streeter wrote:
You need to change the server to acknowlege that m4v is a video format. But the easier route might be to simply post ipod compatible .mov or .mp4 files. .M4V is just an extension Apple made up that ussually is just simply an H264 encoded video file in a .mp4 wrapper with a bullshit file extension. You can safely change the file extension to .mp4 and it will work just fine. iPods will play .MP4 and .MOV files just fine as long as they are encoded to ipod compatible specs.
Thanks Bill.
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I had my first encounter today, with the beauty that had me in awe.....
It was just so delightfully unexpected, the way we met...
I was walking nonchalantly when I saw her sitting there, so amazingly attractive, my mind was blown off by the mere sight of her...
I stared at her slim body as I scrutinize her every little detail.... and when I was finally introduced to her, I boldly held her in my hands, feeling her curves.
It felt just so right... the way she responded to my sensual touch and her responses were all I expected them to be.
Right then, I knew I wanted her to be mine. It all seemed too blatant and rushed, but she is the perfect one that I have been waiting for all these time.
All those quiet nights, shall be filled with the music we'll make together...
I've longed for her to appear in my life, and now that I have found her, there are no second thoughts...
There were no reasons to be shy, I pressed her buttons and she made sounds that were angelic to my ears...
She was smooth and sophisticated, her features matches all I've ever wanted in an MP3 player, the iPod Nano.
Congratulations Plasmabstract
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ÂThe idea came in January, when Vogelzang's tech-industry husband, Paul, came home excited about this new thing called podcasting. As he described the concept of Internet radio broadcasts that could be listened to at any time, his wife heard what sounded like a perfect vehicle for moms. With all their kid-related commitments, "moms can't be in a specific place at a specific time," she says. With podcasting, they can download the shows for later". Vogelzang shared the idea with her friend, Heninger, who was equally intrigued. Broadcasting from Vogelzang's Oak Hill home, they did their first show in March -- one week after Heninger gave birth to her fifth child.
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To achieve a sponsorship deal of between $100,000 and $200,000 is good news for podcasters with dreams of monetizing their pods. Read the full article here. and then download and listen.
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She can look a bit serious but if you want to hear her talk naked visit
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a fantastic Podcasting resource.Podshow was created out of total frustration with current audio programming. The same songs, the same messaging, the same programming, everywhere, all the time, with no exceptions… Welcome to PodShow, where you get to choose what you listen to and when and where you listen to it. We have thousands of programs ready to be heard on every topic imaginable, waiting to be downloaded, played, and enjoyed by anyone, anywhere, anytime. It’s your choice 100% of time.
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