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Sonitotum

This is the podcast companion to my blog Scribtotum -- a semi-regular show with independent music, discussion with independent writers and other creative folks, autobiographical vignettes from me and the listeners, and essays and occasional rants.

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Listener feedback is crucial to me -- I really want to hear from you. Call 1-505-349-0386 and leave a message. Your comment will be played on Sonitotum unless you specifically indicate in your message that you don't want it included in the show. Many thanks!

Podcasters: Play The Promo!

You would make me very happy if you played the Sonitotum Promo in your own podcast. It runs about a minute and a half, and pokes gentle fun at a certain promo for a ground-breaking podcast novelist's first book. If you'd like me to play your show's promo on Sonitoum, contact me!

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If you enjoy Sonitotum, please consider donating whatever you think the show is worth. Your contribution makes you a supporter of DIY, independent creative endeavors. Thanks from the bottom of my heart.

Recommended price: $5.00

Show Notes

Sonitotum Bonus: Veterans of the Yahoo! Podcasting Board

At the 2007 Podcast and New Media Expo in Ontario, California, I was privileged to take part in a panel with fellow veteran podcasters Evo Terra, Ed Vawter, Michael W. Dean and Steve Eley. We’re all members of the Podcasters mailing list at Yahoo! Groups, perhaps the oldest community of podcasters still in existence, and most of us have been there since 2004.

The Podcast Academy website sells recordings of the Podcast and New Media Expo and then releases them as free podcasts after a suitable amount of time has passed. This is why you’re getting a panel discussion that happened fifteen months ago… but here it is!

Enjoy!

 
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Sonitotum Bonus: Interview on Tea and Chat

Tea and Chat is an excellent interview podcast hosted by Stephen Kilbride from out of Ireland. I’ve enjoyed this show for some time — Stephen has a conversational interview style I appreciate — and was pleased and honored to be his guest!

It’s a bit of a long show — over ninety minutes — but worth the listen, given the changes in my life and some of my new offerings since the numerous interviews I did last summer. Check it out!

And while you’re at it, subscribe to the Tea and Chat podcast!

 
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Sonitotum Episode Seventeen — On the Dole

I’ve lost my job, I’m scrambling for work freelance or permanent and even still! Here is a podcast.

Music

Links

Stuff mentioned in this episode:

Feed Back!

In addition to leaving a comment right here in the show notes…

  • Voice Mail for comments and to submit a Five Minute Memoir: 1-505-DIY-0FUN (1-505-349-0386)
  • Send an E-Mail
  • Musicians send CDs, authors send books, filmmakers send DVDs, generous kind-hearted people send gifts and money: MWS Media, PO BOX 402081 Hesperia, CA 92340-2081

Show Your Support

Please consider donating whatever you think this episode was worth, with my heartfelt thanks.

Recommended worth: $5.00

 
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Sonitotum Episode Sixteen — Four Year Anniversary

Another Podcasting Milestone

The 15th of October, which has an hour and twenty minutes to go as I type this, marks the end of my fourth year in podcasting. In that year, I only recorded five episodes of this show, but because of the promotion for my book “Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era” I sure was on a lot of podcasts! I reckon the eight hours I spent streaming live on July 13 — Sovereign Summer Sunday — counts, too..!

Believe me, I would put out more episodes of Sonitotum, but I simply don’t have a lot of time to sit down in my office and put an episode together. It’s not that I don’t like talking to you all… you know that I do. Fact is, there’s only one time I have a long stretch of idle time when I could be recording — during the four hours I spend commuting to and from work five days a week.

Help Me Podcast During My Commute

I’d love to do some car casts, but I don’t have a portable recording device.

Would you like to help with that? I’ve set up a ChipIn fund drive to raise money so I can get a Zoom H4 — a portable digital audio recorder. The fund drive ends on November 13, 2008 at midnight Eastern Time. If you’ve ever thought about donating to support my creative endeavors… this is a great opportunity!.

If we succeed in raising $336.00 before the deadline, I’ll list folks who pledged as special sponsors of Sonitotum on this web site. If you have a web site you want to promote, I’ll link to that with your credit. Folks who pledge more than the $10.00 minimum may also be eligible for other benefits, to be determined.

Update: As of October 23, I’m no longer employed by Mahalo.com, which means I no longer have a horrible commute every day, which means there’s no need to podcast from my car. More information on that situation, and what I’m raising money for instead.

Meanwhile… Episode Sixteen!

This episode is all music and promotional spots for the podcasts of friends and colleagues… there wasn’t time to do much else!

Music

Promos

Feed Back!

In addition to leaving a comment right here in the show notes and participating in the Forums

  • Voice Mail for comments and to submit a Five Minute Memoir: 1-505-DIY-0FUN (1-505-349-0386)
  • Send an E-Mail
  • Musicians send CDs, authors send books, filmmakers send DVDs, generous kind-hearted people send gifts and money: MWS Media, PO BOX 402081 Hesperia, CA 92340-2081
 
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Sonitotum Episode Fifteen — Through From the Other Side

I’m back from the storm of promotion that lead up to the release of my book, “Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era” from Swarm Press on July 13, 2008. The day-long web-a-thon was an unqualified success! I hope everyone enjoyed, or at least tolerated, all the podcast episodes I stuck in the feed that featured interviews with yours truly! If you couldn’t stand that, here at last is a real episode.

In it, I play a couple of songs from Downy Mildew, a great band from the late eighties / early nineties that triggered a big nostalgia jag in me. Also, there’s the return of the Five Minute Memoir, a little feedback, some promos, and a song from the band Choo Choo!

Also — a new voice mail line: 1-505-349-0386! This one won’t go away so long as I have a Skype account. So use it!

Music

Promos

Links

Feed Back!

In addition to leaving a comment right here in the show notes and participating in the Forums

  • Voice Mail for comments and to submit a Five Minute Memoir: 1-505-DIY-0FUN (1-505-349-0386)
  • Send an E-Mail
  • Musicians send CDs, authors send books, filmmakers send DVDs, generous kind-hearted people send gifts and money: MWS Media, PO BOX 402081 Hesperia, CA 92340-2081

Show Your Support

Please consider donating whatever you think this episode was worth, with my heartfelt thanks.

Recommended worth: $5.00

 
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