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My piece on the Brooklyn Cyclones Groundskeepers was picked up by Public Interactive Media and was published today in syndication on the websites of various public radio stations, including WGBH Boston, WNPR Hartford, KTOO Juneau and KERA North Texas and others. Cool. 🙂

This morning I went down to the post office and sent my first bundle of things back to California — a box of books. (I was wondering though, I sent them Media Mail, but do they just take my word for it? What’s to stop people from sending things via Media Mail that don’t fit the criteria?) I may send another box later this week — winter clothes. Six weeks from Friday, I will be on a plane back to…

After a late night last night, I woke up early today to be interviewed for a Richmond radio station about podcasting. Check it out. InterviewWRVA1140AM.2005-04-05.mp3 [1.9 MB (4:03) 64 kbps]

So now the Emiratis are getting into the game: An artist drawing of the Burj Dubai — developers aren’t saying how high the skyscraper will top out, but observers say it will be above 2,300 feet (700 meters). AP, 4/4/05 In case you’d forgotten, our own Freedom Tower was supposed to be the tallest. But it hasn’t been built yet. NEW YORK (CNN) — The Freedom Tower to be built at the site of the devastated World Trade Center in…

I’ll be on Richmond’s Morning News with Jimmy Barrett (1140 AM WRVA Richmond) tomorrow at 7:20 am Eastern talking about podcasting. (Thanks to Daniel Terdiman for suggesting me.) Will post an mp3 tomorrow morning. My first media appearance was on “Bud Hedinger Live” (WFLA 540 AM Orlando) on February 7 2005. You can listen to that clip here.

Is there anything better than sitting at home on a lazy Sunday with Vin Scully’s voice live from Dodger Stadium filling up my empty room? (Ok, it’s an exhibition game, but still.) When I was a kid, it was over a clock radio from my bedroom in Santa Monica. Now, I pay $15 a season and can hear it anywhere I have an Internet connection. Amazing. Will be off watching the Boston Red Sox against the Yanks tonight, for baseball’s…

These could either be great names for coffee, or great band names, I haven’t decided which. From the BBC explainer on oil markets. Saudi Arabia’s Arab Light The United Arab Emirates’s Dubai Nigeria’s Bonny Light Algeria’s Saharan Blend Indonesia’s Minas Venezuela’s Tia Juana Light and Mexico’s Isthmus.

You read these two sentences on Slashdot and laugh out loud: “A study commisioned by Congress in 1998 to report on internet traffic has finally been published — 7 years, two presidents, and one internet boom/bust later. Some of their findings include “DNS is good” and “We should probably have some more TLDs”

Damn. Glad that I got to see him in Berkeley and in Providence. Mitch Hedberg, R.I.P. Comedian Mitch Hedberg dead at 37, The Pioneer Press

My good friend David Boyk has started a new music/MP3 blog : Universal Pop This is a much better version of a column that I used to write on my rarely-read website circa 2000 called “International Musician of the Week.” Rock on, dude.