Podcasting with OS X

http://www.technochild.net/main.php?id=1102400105 - Short article on using GarageBand and iTunes to create an MP3 recording. Good starting point but by no means sufficient.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/podcasting.html - Ignore most of this and skip to the bottom about how to publish to iTunes' podcast directory so that you are available for download. Requires that your podcast is available through RSS and is in either AAC or MP3 format.

http://www.podcast411.com/howto_1.html - How to create an RSS feed on a website using XML. Essentially, this is much like HTML in that pairs of tags are placed in a text document, but saved with an XML extension. Once published, the RSS reader pointed to the file checks it periodically to see if the content has changed since the last update. There is also a short section on using Garageband for recording.

http://theappleblog.com/2005/04/21/usb-microphone-converter/ - A $50(US) game called SingStar features a converter for two audio inputs into a single USB output. It may be possible to isolate the left and right channels of each as separate audio tracks.

http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/imic/ -  Griffin Technologies might also provide something that allows multi-line input.


It is also useful to recall that in the early days of radio, conversations were often recorded using two people on either side of a single omni-directional microphone. Both parts were recorded as a single track.

http://podcasting.about.com/od/mostpopularsoftware/ss/gbandtutorial.htm - Tutorial on using Garageband to perform mixing and editing.

http://websearch.about.com/od/dailywebsearchtips/qt/dnt0822.htm - Contains links to libraries of free sound effects to augment those already available in Garageband.

Assorted interesting stories

Obama wants an America more like Canada - According to this Financial Post article (found on Rick Mercer's Blog), some of the initiatives proposed by Obama would result in an America with much more in common with Canada.  For example, he wants universal health care, equal access to education, and for the U.S. to refocus military objectives on teaming up with other countries to restore peace in troubled nations.

To the moon, Canada! - Also found on Rick Mercer's blog, the Montreal Gazette writes about a study about Canada building a colony on the moon. They contend that Canada can bring extensive mining expertise the to table, positioning them for contracts to mine oxygen, helium, and titanium from the moon's crust. If you feel that you could carry out such a study, you have until March 7th to get your bid in.

US has achieved 7 steps toward a revolution - This article, found on Warren Ellis's Blog (WARNING: occasionally not worksafe) discusses how the United States as achieved, to some extent, each of the seven preconditions for a revolution to occur. Whether or not you agree with it, the article could make good fodder for political discussion.

March of Democracy - Also found on Warren Ellis's blog, this is a 90-second flash animation of how democracy spread throughout the world.

Navy -1, Satellite - 0 - Analysis of the debris from the spy satellite popped by the U.S. navy seems to indicate that the fuel tank that worried them so much has been destroyed. Conveniently, any classified technology on the satellite has mostly likely also been reduced to space dust. I'll put a longer post up on that in a day or two.