Posts tagged “CBC”
Of the web
The other day, my Dad suggested that I might like the Stack Overflow podcast, so I subscribed. At around 46 minutes into episode 79, Joel Spolsky mentions brochureware-style web design: You know the kind of site I’m talking about? It’s just like you can imagine it printed on glossy paper and being given to you [...]
Me and Sook-Yin Lee, animated
A few weeks ago, I spent some time in Winnipeg with team DNTO. While I was there, we watched the world premiere of three short animations based on some of Sook-Yin Lee’s stories. This one, directed by Jim Goodall, is my favourite of the three, and I’m not just saying that because they used my [...]
Why your radio show should put transcripts online
Bruce Melzer on why NPR.org makes transcripts of its radio stories free online: There are solid business reasons for making transcripts free. Sales have been dropping over the years. As people search for, discover and share content, offering free transcripts will boost the traffic to NPR.org, traffic that can be monetized with sponsorship. Finally, search [...]
Short Ukulele story on Big City, Small World
This past weekend Big City, Small World aired a short radio piece I produced about the Corktown Ukulele Jam: MP3 download
Three easy ways CBC Radio can start making some money online, right now
Over at Now Daily, Susan G. Cole outlines Six steps to save the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She concludes by asking “Any other ideas?” I have a couple, specifically geared towards making money for CBC Radio, which faces a planned cut of $14.4-million from its budget, as part of a plan to make up a $171-million [...]
Accessing CBC’s pension website with Firefox
It’s RRSP time, and the CBC’s craptastic Pension Administration Centre website claims to require Windows and IE. Try to log in using Safari or Firefox, and you get this: The CBC Pension Administration Centre site will not work with your current browser. To continue, you need to download Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack [...]
When local public radio fails
Peter Rukavina writes about CBC Radio’s poor local coverage of the blizzard that hit PEI (and much of Atlantic Canada) on New Year’s Day: There was a scatterling of local-like news from Halifax on the hours, but otherwise CBC Radio choose to go national for the day, leaving the private radio stations with the job [...]
Back on Go tomorrow
I’ll be on Go for the first time this season tomorrow morning, Saturday, November 15, 2008. I’ll abandon all my previous personas (Dieting Dan, Discount Dan, Dan the Love Man, etc.) in favour of a new one: Dan the Man Man. Dan the Man Man will be a bad advice column for men. Update: Whole [...]
Where to download The Nerve and Age of Persuasion
Shhhh… cbcpodcasts.wordpress.com says it’s “for the CBC shows that fall through the podcast cracks.” It liberates Jowi Taylor’s excellent series The Nerve from Windows Media hell. It lets you easily download Terry O’Reilly’s fantastic Age of Persuasion (which is not impossible via cbc.ca if you know how to click “View Source,” but it’s needlessly difficult). [...]