Category: Podcast

Carolina Ghost Towns Subscriptions

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Podcast

Hello readers! If you haven’t followed or subscribed to Carolina Ghost Towns, you would really help me out by doing that. I don’t have ads on my podcast. I don’t do Patreon. In twenty years of running this website I’ve never had ads or requested donations. Everything here has been, and will continue to be … Read More “Carolina Ghost Towns Subscriptions” »

Where Are the Podcasts?

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Miscellaneous, Podcast

You might have noticed. There haven’t been any new podcasts lately. There is an unfortunate reason for that. When my Macbook crashed at the first of the summer I was able to recover just about everything. Just about. The casualty was all of my raw audio files. That includes interviews about historic cemeteries, interviews about … Read More “Where Are the Podcasts?” »

GeoPodcasting Revisited

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Geocaching and Maps, Internet, Music, Podcast

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Back in 2007 I wrote an post entitled “Geopodcasting – Adding Location to Audio.” I had just given a talk at SC EdTech on geotagging, and the post was meant to explore the idea of geotagging audio files.

There have been lots of changes in the seven and a half years since that post came out. I wanted to revisit the subject and see what tools and options are now available for for adding location data to audio.

Back in 2007 photo geotagging was just taking off. It was (and still is, to some extent) a tricky process. Back then smart phones weren’t as prevalent, so not too many people had a hand-held device that could combine GPS, imagery, and audio. Today we have iPhones, Androids, and various tablets that can do all of this. So you would think that the process would be much easier. But is it?

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Podcast Episode 2 – Feedback Wanted

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History and Genealogy, Podcast

taphophile (plural taphophiles) A person who is interested in cemeteries, funerals and gravestones People often wander through old cemeteries, and they do so for different reasons. Some are interested in genealogy and finding ancestors. Some are interested in the history represented by the lives lived within the cemetery. Some like the artwork of the headstones, … Read More “Podcast Episode 2 – Feedback Wanted” »

Days of Future Past

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Entertainment, History and Genealogy, Internet, Podcast

Here it is! Here’s the first episode of the Random Connections podcast! The first episode is based on one of the earliest posts on the blog. I had made a list of science fiction predictions that would have come to pass by 2004 in a post entitled “Yesterday’s Tomorrows.” Ten years later I updated the … Read More “Days of Future Past” »

New Venture – Podcasting!

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Podcast

Yep, you heard that right. I’m about to launch a new podcasting venture here at RandomConnections. I’ve got several episodes in various stages of research and/or production right now. Most of these are episodes are taken from previous posts, or are based on themes from previous posts. Right now I don’t have a timeline for … Read More “New Venture – Podcasting!” »