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  1. gpotter

    #opened11 keynote + keynote after the keynote bonus track

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    Recipe: a bunch of insightful, creative, fun people 1 #ds106radio #vinyl special w/ @GardnerCampbell and @cogdog 1 bottle of High West Double Rye 1 sense of occasion & theatre Although you can find the video of the presentation on Youtube the #ds106radio archive gets a bit more of the human-mic’ers. @jimgroom #opened11 keynote A gem of a ...
  2. gpotter

    #ds106radio @ #opened11

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    @brlamb @mikhailg @jimgroom and I plugged in the mic for an #opened11 presentation entitled Open Web Radio as a Platform for Learning, Experimentation, and Collaboration this week.  Although we had a little wifi trouble during the presentation the abstract and archive are preserved below. Open access web radio can inspire experimentation, establish community, & provide a powerful platform for informal learning ...
  3. gpotter

    #opened11 #ds106radio Science Fair

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    #ds106radio got a full workout this week at OpenEducation 2011 with lots of /LIVE broadcasts from keynotes, presentations, table discussions, and Canyons room radio shows. The #ds106radio Science Fair was the first real applied flex of the PBX with the radio.  Brian and I dialed into the PBX using Linphone on a mobile which started ...
  4. gpotter

    SDsoundcraft

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    Soundcraft bumper by kleidums Back in June Jason Toal and I departed in the #ds106radio ElCamino for the ETUG 2011 Spring Workshop in Nelson. We arrived early to help scope out the setup at Selkirk and take some time to explore the very special town of Nelson. While scoping out potential spaces for a DJ Dr. ...
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    Phraselator

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    I have been out walking in the woods lately – really long walks.  I load up my mobile with some podcasts for my treks and recently had some familiar voices pass through my headphones.  Freelance journalist Philippe Morin in Inuvik, Northwest Territories put together a story for CBC Spark back in March 2011 about the ...
  6. gpotter

    A Freeform Radio PBX

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    An IP PBX or private branch exchange is a system that switches voice calls between VoIP users allowing everyone to share internal communications plus potentially routing calls to external phone lines. With a conventional PBX, separate networks are necessary for voice and data communications. One of the main advantages of an IP PBX is that it converges data and ...
  7. gpotter

    The Immediate Aspect of Radio

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    Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener. That is the immediate aspect of radio. A private experience. The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its ...
  8. gpotter

    A Question of Fuel

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    Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty ...
  9. gpotter

    #ds106radio Saturday Jamcamp

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    Hoping remote listeners may have recorded some things or that there still may be some archived recordings on JamCamp attendee mobiles as the recordings below chime in just about an hour.  Please shoutout if you grabbed some audio - would love to have them for the archives.  I am working on an OpenTape this weekend ...
  10. gpotter

    2011 #edtechbc Conference

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    An incredible weekend in shirtsleeves Vancouver with fantastic friends and colleagues exploring freeform, distributed radio on #ds106radio with marathon broadcasting from the #yvr Soundlab, top volume jams at Sanctuary Studios, a great run on #rsd11 performances and festivities, and talking education during the #edtechbc conference. Managed to broadcast the closing panel /LIVE to #ds106radio - a ...
  11. gpotter

    Not stealing …

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    If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, ...
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    Open For Learning

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    Call for Proposals ETUG Spring 2011 Workshop Selkirk College,  Nelson, BC. June 2 – 3, 2011 (Thurs & Fri, pub night Wed June 1) Deadline: April 8, 2011 ETUG welcomes proposals from faculty, staff and students to present at this year’s Spring Workshop. Open and free tools, resources, and learning opportunities abound, but how are we integrating them into ...
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    Re-Comic

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    Life By the Drop - Stevie Ray Vaughn Process: Grab your favorite Sunday funny Wipe out the speech bubbles with an image editor - I used Acorn for Mac Look for a piece of film dialogue, song, sketch, or create your own Fill in the bubbles
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    @cogdog’s TransCanada #roadtunes Indie MixTape

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    I am absolutely loving the #ds106radio theme days - #songstogrowby, #roadtunes, #coverfriday … a jam packed fun way to connect and relate to all the fantastic folks I interact with online. @cogdog’s late-nite broadcast and @jimgroom’s post this morning lit a fire under me to get my TransCanada #roadtunes Indie MixTape up today. I have assembled the ...
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    Good DX

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    The great weekend of #coverfriday, #ds106 student programs, and Saturday night pass the mic on #ds106radio led me to reflect on the unique sociality of #ds106radio.  Noiseprofessor noted, ds106 radio is like mass communication for the few.  That is, you can find out how many people are listening (+/- 1 or 2 – it’s a ...
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    NINJAM

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    NINJAM is a ‘nearly realtime’ means of jamming online using synchronization based on a metronome or “click-track”.  Jamming requires musicians to remain in tune and sync with each other, but latency of online audio can cause sound delays between online players throwing the mix out of sync for everyone. The NINJAM platform attempts to address latency ...
  17. gpotter

    Gotta Whole Lotta /LIVE

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    Was settled into an evening of grooves from @draggin LIVE on #ds106radio. I started seeing updates regarding an earthquake in Japan and noticed that @scottlo, #ds106radio correspondent in Japan, was RT’ing and updating via Twitter so I put the call out to him to grab the #ds106radio mic and give us an update. He not only gave ...
  18. gpotter

    DS106Radio loves WFMU

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    If you haven’t heard of WFMU, then you really have been missing out on pioneering, gold standard radio.  I started listening to WFMU in 2002 while living in China as it was one of the few webradio stations that would stream reliably for me inside the PRC … that and the programs were exactly my ...
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    Going mobile with #ds106radio

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    Wanna tune in via mobile to #ds106radio? 1. Grab a streaming app for your mobile - here are some free ones that support custom station entries and multitasking ( will background so you can listen while browsing, using other apps, etc ) Apple devices: FStream Radio Lite Android devices: Streamfurious Tunewiki 2. Punch in this address: http://208.82.115.69:8010/stream.m3u Note: This address will always keep you ...
  20. gpotter

    Papaya Broadcaster Settings

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    As D’Arcy Norman noted, mobile broadcasting audio is adding an quality to online social presence that lots of folks are having a blast exploring and experimenting with in #ds106: @noiseprofessor broadcasting live from Deerhoof deerhoof reports from the field from Rowan Peter field laughter and play of children kids … it’s a happening. Lots of interesting things are growing out ...
  21. gpotter

    Taking It To The Streets

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    Tonight’s #ds106 radio broadcast was a breathless romp through brilliant hours of freeform online broadcasting.  Programs are starting to take shape with submissions coming in with sequence and program names within in the file names - ex: kickitin_01_lostinthesupermarket.mp3, kickitin_02_eattherich.mp3 Did you miss a show?  Well, this is no DVR, this is no iPod, you can’t skip ...
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    Distributed, freeform, collective webradio

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    When I saw this last week I immediately thought … now that would be fun. I started stirring around a few ideas and experimenting with a few streaming technologies, mp3 playlist formats, XSPF options, and the like. There were a couple things I was looking for: the ability to automate playback for a volume of ...

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