After a long delay, the second episode of the RandomConnections podcast is now online. “The Stone Carvers” is the first episode in a series I’m calling “The Tapho Files.” This episode looks at the artisans that carve headstones.
Category: Podcast
Podcast
A new episode of Carolina Ghost Towns has dropped. This one is about the lost town of Shelton on the banks of the Broad River in Fairfield County, South Carolina.
Podcast
A new podcast episode is out. I’ve embedded it below:
Podcast
Today starts Season 2 of my podcast, Carolina Ghost Towns. I realize I’ve been doing readers here a disservice. I’ve been devoting lots of my efforts into the podcast, but it doesn’t show up here, except on the Podcast page, a link which doesn’t seem to be working on my main page. Therefore, I’ve decided … Read More “Podcast Episode – Cambridge and Ninety Six” »
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” »
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?” »
Geocaching and Maps, Internet, Music, Podcast
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?
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” »