NECC Podcast Interview

While I was at NECC, Apple had a group there doing podcasts with Apple Distinguished Educators … kinda cool seeing my name in the new podcast directory in iTunes! At any rate, here is the link directly to the entry. It was a lot of fun talking with Barnaby Wasson the other day about all sorts of stuff. We decided not to do our little talk back at the hotel and walked down the street to a little spot to have some lunch and talk. I imagine it was a funny sight to see us sitting in the corner with the audio guys (great guys by the way … Kevin and Ross were tops) hanging boom mics at us … I love the background noises — the coffee grinders, people talking, and the music make it so much more authentic. At any rate, if you’re interested take a listen. The pictures below let you in on a little secret … there was actually a crew there.


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iTunes Fix … Sorta

The other day before I left for NECC, I upgraded my main machine’s iTunes to 4.9 to take advantage of the podcasting features … if you recall, my library got crushed. I got back last night and reimported all my music — minus the playlists, ratings, and play counts. That is a little bothersome, but you do what you do. It is actually giving me a cahnce to sort of “reset” my musical life. I just did my podcast subscriptions and resynced my iPod — yeah that got crushed too. At any rate, other than my little issue, the new iTunes with podcasting is great!