To answer Andy Timity’s question about podcasting:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “Podcasting” is a portmanteau of the words iPod and broadcasting. A podcast is like an audio magazine subscription: a subscriber receives regular audio programs delivered via the internet, and she or he can listen to them at her or his leisure.

Podcasts differ from traditional internet audio in two important ways. In the past, listeners have had to either tune in to web radio on a schedule, or they have had to search for and download individual files from webpages. Podcasts are much easier to get. They can be listened to at any time because a copy is on the listener’s computer or portable music player (hence the “pod” in “podcasting”), and they are automatically delivered to subscribers, so no active downloading is required.

Podcasting is functionally similar to the use of timeshift-capable digital video recorders (DVRs), such as TiVo, which let users record and store television programs for later viewing.

Frank Mills and I are trying to figure out when we can get together for coffee. Part of one of his emails contained this gem:

I am excited about the buzz Vision Downtown is creating. Hopefully this will spread to the other neighborhoods too. I have spent the last few days in our most depressed neighborhoods. I am saddened to see how many residents of these neighborhoods have simply given up. As one person said, “We are the poorest neighborhood in the poorest city in America, and we’re just going to get poorer.” Their faith in the ability of political system to solve neighborhood problems is nil. Worse yet, there is the growing belief that Cleveland’s and Ohio’s politicians and big business don’t care about the plight of neighborhoods and the residents.

I’m chatting with BFD reader Mary Beth Goodman on Skype. She’s posted pictures of her visit to The Gates yesterday. She comments, “As events went I think it’s best described as a real ‘happening’ — so many people there just to see what it was, take photos, look at other people looking at it and taking pictures and wondering what it was all about.”

It’s amazing how many bloggers captured the experience and shared it with the rest of us…

Check out this BFD podcast that was made by Tim recording a three way call with Only One. Jack, Tim, and I banter about the last election, platform envy, podcasting, and community building. What else do guys talk about over drinks on a Saturday night?

By the way, Tim’s posted a related comment over at GeekZen.com

Glenn Fleishman notes that Hugo Gernsback is the father of amateur radio and draws a parallel between then and now with community WiFi groups.

That would make Gernsback the father of podcasting as well.

My first exposure to the name Hugo Gernsback was when I read William Gibson’s The Gernsback Continuum.

I’ve been seeing a lot of emails from PayPal. Make sure you check their page on protecting yourself from phishing. Bottom line for me, don’t click links an email from a website that has information in it you want to protect. Open a browser, type the url in yourself, and login there.

Comments?

Ok. I know very little about modern dance. I know a more about minimalistic composers and strange directors, so when I talk about DanceCleveland’s presentation of Les Ballets Jazz De Montreal I’ll say that the dancers were phenomenal, the original music was a excellent blend of Aphex Twin and Harold Budd with a dash of Shirley Bassey and some industrial beats thrown in for good measure. Short Works: 23 felt like a Jim Jarmusch film, while The Stolen Show evoked David Lynch for me.

While MoMix might have been cool, in my opinion, [bjm_danse] was probably cooler. Even the way it’s - what would you call that, textulated (like pixaleted)? - is cooler then intercaps.

So much for my career doing modern dance reviews…

Dan Wismar writes he’s joined Matt Naugle of The Open End to do the Ohio for Blackwell Blog.

I’ve got all the relevant sites and feeds in the NeoBlog and NeoFeeds sections of BFD. Please excercise your social responsibility as a blogger and welcome them to the blogsphere.