Folks, Nikol Hasler has been educating youth (and making them – and us – laugh) with The Midwest Teen Sex Show since 2007. She’s a pioneering podcaster and a real friend of the new media community. She’s also a crazy-talented author and columnist — in fact, writing is how she... Read more...
Value, Worth, Merit and Intangible Goods
My friend, colleague and former boss Chris Miller wrote a compelling post about the nature and meaning of value when many “valuable” things are made of bits and bytes. You should go read it, then come back here. In his post, Chris asks several questions. My personal rule is if... Read more...
Study On Young People’s Use Of New Media and Social Networking Released
Courtesy of BoingBoing: The Digital Youth Project has just released the results of a three year, interdisciplinary study on how young people use online technology. As someone keenly interested in online technology but many calendar years past being a youth, this is very relevant to me. The entire study will... Read more...
After Four Years As A Podcaster
On Thursday the 15th of October in 2004, I posted the first episode of my first podcast. So I’ve been podcasting for four years. Last year around this time, when I was awash in emotion and drama that was related in part to being a podcaster (no, I’m not going... Read more...
“Nightswimming” by Gabriel D. W. Wollenburg
A year or so ago (probably more), I had it in my head that I would release an anthology called “Wordhouse: Songs and Stories.” The theme would be short stories inspired by, but not literally adapted from, songs that particularly inspired the authors. I overextended myself, like I do now... Read more...
PNME 2007 Thoughts
Whew. I’m back in the coffeehouse where I write in the morning before going to work. It’s in a town right next to Ontario, California, where the Podcast and New Media Expo was held. Ontario might be down the road, but the PNME, the Residence Inn, the Doubletree, the Marriott,... Read more...
Writer Stalking
Recently, unauthorized video footage of MWS Media podcasting personality and author Matthew Wayne Selznick was captured at Balticon 41. This footage has made it onto the Interwebs thanks to the propaganda-spewing opportunists at Lulu.tv. Matthew Wayne Selznick and MWS Media urge you to call attention to these cowardly vlog-paparazzi by... Read more...
Another Example Of Why Podcasting Exists
You must take 46 minutes — time you can dedicate to an immersive, intense audio experience — and listen to Tag In The Seam episode 25, “7 Things I Will Never Tell You.” This is the best single episode of a podcast I have ever heard. Period. It’s like an... Read more...
Straight Talk With A Glint In The Eye
The Midwest Teen Sex Show is exactly what you think it is. And it isn’t. It’s a new video podcast featuring a Midwestern mom dishing the dirt on (so far) female masturbation and abstinence. There’s a lot of irreverence, and hilarious visuals… and there’s also an almost subversive honesty, a... Read more...
Podiobooks.com Receives New York Times Treatment!
Podiobooks.com, the site on which the podcast version of my first book, “Brave Men Run – A Novel of the Sovereign Era” is distributed, has a very nice mention in the March 1st edition of the New York Times (registration may be required to view the link — try it!)... Read more...