Radio Rickshaw Fringe Podcast May 24, 2008
Posted by Ryan in : Podcasts, Orlando, Events, Fringe, Radio, bloggingfringe , 1 comment so far
Greg and John, and someone else… maybe the tech?
Two years ago, John Valines and the Rickshaw Boy crew won the Fringe of the Fringe Award - last year they gave it to Blogging Fringe. Radio Rickshaw is a long-running podcast here in Orlando with a small network of shows, and a barbershop quartet.
Also hosting this episode is Greg Barris from the Heart of Darkness Rock and Roll Circus. I actually don’t know much about Greg, except he used to live in Orlando, and he was involved with SAK Comedy Lab. His show was part monologue and part stand-up comedy, and it was pretty good.
Sometime during the week, I bumped into John and Greg with the Marantz recorder interviewing folks, and they talked to me a bit. I talk about Twitter, USB Humping Dogs and Fringe Shows, and I might be on mushrooms.
Radio Rickshaw Episode 62: Fringe 2008
Listen to the show.
WPRK 91.5FM is not O-ROCK, but it’s a cure for what ails ya January 17, 2008
Posted by Ryan in : Blogging, Orlando, Reviews, Radio, OrlandoScene, Friends , 1 comment so farAlex Rudloff asks, Why Does Orlando Radio Suck?
I guess I just don’t understand the business behind local radio. I’m sure margins are tight and everything is pre-planned and digital now. It just sucks, that’s all.
Thank god for my iPod and my tape deck connector…. New school meets the old.
My response:
There IS an alternative - it’s produced for exactly $0, so it’s not like it promises to blow you away - it’s Rollins’ College Radio Station, 91.5 FM. Some talk, some classical, some of everything else. Every 12:00-1:00PM hour is talk, and there are varying degrees of shows in other parts of the day. It is never the same, unless you listen to too much of it, then a pattern emerges, but it takes a LOOOONG time (months) to get sick of anything on that station (if you didn’t mind it to start). You can also call anytime (just about) 24/7 and have your request played - anything - and they have thousands of titles and genres available. Check them out.
WPRK 91.5 FM
And if you are inside or out of range, try WPRKDJ.org
They also have a cool thing called Audio Postings (open forum) at the top of every hour - supposedly anyone with a non-commercial message can get their audio clips played as a public service to the listeners. Very cool.
New Media ‘Think and Drink’ at Red Light, Red Light Saturday Jan 5th at 5:30pm December 31, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Podcasts, Orlando, Links, Events, Video, Beer, TV, Trends, Radio, floridacreatives, mashups, OrlandoScene, PodCamp, Storytelling , add a commentMore than a year ago, I hatched an idea about uniting the creative communities around Florida under a common banner at a Creative Summit. We are much closer to such an event now, but still so far away. After doing a dance in several directions, we came up with a Think and Drink.
This Saturday at 5:30, local media producers will gather at Red Light Red Light in Winter Park (map) for perhaps the first event of its kind in Central Forida. 2008 will see the coming of age of many types of new media. Blogging will become a pre-teen; podcasting is no longer a toddler; YouTube even turns 3 this year. As we start to see the hardening and refactoring of several popular and useful services and standards, it becomes more important for the enthusiasts and early adopters to come together to get on common footing and think about the future of media.
Orlando’s technology, media and other creative communities have been growing along side each other for the past few years in a collection of several small fast and focused movements. What better way to start a new year than with a gathering with the purpose of setting goals and recording the words of the trend-setters of our community.
We’ve been setting aside January 5th on our calendars for some time now as a day to share our thoughts and experiences with new media. In December, a few of us got together to discuss what we’d like to get out of a PodCamp or a New Media day. Everyone agreed we should plan to have a much larger and more ambitious event later in the year, perhaps this summer, but a small event would help us get a solid idea about what sorts of topics to discuss and how we sell the event to the community.
BarCamp was a great event that really brought a lot of the community out in force, but the focus on programming made the video people, the podcasters, the storytellers and the writers believe that we could have our own Unconference. Enter this PodCamp Party.
Be sure and hop on the Facebook Group and to add some of your favorite sites and links to the Ma.gnolia Bookmarks Group. We’ll make it worth writing home about.
P.S. I’m also trying to plan a “Photowalk” at 3PM for all the photographers and people who might like to take a walk around Winter Park and grab some food before the Happy Hour. Reply via Facebook if you’d like to go.
Ryan Price and Julie Norris on Front Porch Radio September 21, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Podcasts, Orlando, Music, Events, Earth, Fringe, Radio, floridacreatives, Likemind.orl , add a comment
Julie hosts new locals only show on WPRK 91.5 | Dandelion Communitea Cafe
Front Porch is a weekly radio show hosted by Julie Norris, Proprietor of Dandelion Communitea Cafe, and focuses on all things local. Each week features a different guest making a difference locally with eclectic blends of local music and various ramblings about what is happening in OurLando.
Tune your dial to WPRK 91.5 or listen online at wprkdj.org every Wednesday at noon.
Front Porch Radio is now a podcast as well.
Orlando Weekly Interview - Thanks Omar May 4, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, News, Site News, Career, Markteting, Blogging, Podcasts, Orlando, Music, Video, TV, Trends, Fringe, Liberatr, Radio, Newspaper, Web Sites, floridacreatives, Entrepreneurship, Likemind.orl, Orlando Weekly , 1 comment so farHere’s the transcript from my interview with Omar de la Rosa for the Orlando Weekly. It went to print this week on page 30 - the cover story is “Spellbound”.
> 1. When did you decide to start this and the other related local-based web
> projects? (like FloridaCreatives)In late 2005 I was listening to lots of podcasts and reading lots of blogs, so I started talking to my friend Emily about doing a talkshow. (pfalliance.blogspot.com) On the show we had two musical guests - marc with a c, whose band I later played in, and Mumpsy. Marc and I experiemented with doing a live music show (live.liberatr.net), and I did some coverage of the Florida Film Festival (short.liberatr.net) and the Orlando Fringe Festival (bloggingfringe.com). I also started a channel to highlight creatives and entrepreneurs, but the concept was never complete in my head (meta.liberatr.net). The film, art::meta and music channels are going to be dissolved soon, but they’re important to the history (if you’re going to mention web addresses in the paper, don’t mention those 3).
I realized I was hitting on some particular themes, but I saw the opportunity to do more than just a podcast, so I scheduled the first Florida Creatives Happy Hour in December. Now I am focusing on Florida Creatives, Blogging Fringe and getting more independent talent involved with Liberatr - bloggers, personalities, and most recently television-style hosts - we’ve produced some pilot episodes for a show called OrlandoScene.TV. The show is comprised of short 1-10 minute videos, each highlighting something in or about Orlando that is less obvious than the theme parks.
Why? I grew up and went to college in Central Florida, and I still didn’t feel like I knew the area as well as I should. I started exploring and discovering things around the same time I got into podcasting, so I decided to share it with others. I’ve also got some friends of mine involved as well - Kyle (thestudentofthegame.com), Marc and Nicole (zanzibar.liberatr.net), Aleshia (bingoinsmoking.com), and Katharine (robotofleisure.livejournal.com).
> 2. I noticed that you’ve done some podcasts for local musicians and
> presented Mumpsy’s performance at the grandma party, are you planning more
> collaborations with local musicians and other artists? What other future
> plans do you have for Liberatr (or even “ryanpricemedia.com”)?See above, but as for Ryan Price Media, that is my personal blog. There I can set up my identity as a web developer and consultant, an individual as opposed to an organization like Liberatr.net - your identity on the internet is becoming very important, and I want people who type “Ryan Price” into Google to see that site.
> 3. How has the internet’s potential for community building changed in the
> recent years? (both online communities and offline, local communities)Internationally, the potential for community is infinite. Podcasts and blogs are bringing together likeminded people from every country speaking every language, a true exercise of the First Amendment. Sites like Meetup.com (Orlando has about 200 meetup groups), Likemind.us, FloridaCreatives.com, even several of the aforementioned blogs and podcasts are leveraging the online community to bring people together physically - here in Orlando, check out BlogOrlando.com, or even the Orlando Fringe Festival’s online efforts this year, who are creating the community online with the sole purpose of attending a convention or festival. I’m hoping these connections I’m making in town will lead to gigs like the one Mark Baratelli has with the Fringe - online community manager. I have one project like this coming up that I’ll talk about in more detail when they’re ready to.
> 4. How do you think podcasts differ from radio? How do you think blogging
> differs from … whatever came before… newspapers?If you look at the birth of the printing press or the radio, you’ll notice an explosion of creativity, self-publishing and community building. The difference was that printing presses and radio towers had a rather large cost associated with them - the internet has thousands of free options available to bloggers, podcasters, video producers, community-builders, anyone looking to broadcast a message. The internet model of pull (subscribe) as opposed to push (tune in) is what maintains the choice.
> 5. Who are your heroes? (Feel free to include fictional ones)
My ultimate role model is Jim Henson - he took nothing, added a TV camera, a little fabric and tons of love, honesty and a message, and by doing so he created an empire. More recently, it’s been those people who have laid the groundwork for something similar with podcasting or internet media - Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, Jason Calacanis, Evan Williams. These are all people who have had their 15 minutes of fame and said to themselves “what’s next?”, could have easily taken their winnings and left the poker table, but decided to play another hand - or several.
Pluggd Search is Interesting January 7, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Podcasts, Orlando, Links, Video, Reviews, Netvibes, Trends, Liberatr, Radio, Web Sites , 1 comment so farI must start this post by giving a plug to Netvibes, my favorite personal homepage. One of the features of Netvibes allows one to add a widget to a page that searches multiple podcast directories at once - ODEO, iTunes, Podemus (a French directory) and Pluggd.
I noticed Pluggd right away because of one simple fact: when I searched for Orlando, I actually got relevant results. iTunes did a decent job, and ODEO was so-so, but Pluggd showed me lots of things I hand’t heard of, but would like to listen to. In addition to searching individual shows, you can also search Channels, which is the word I like to use when talking about podcasts.
Here is where it gets cool (and disappointing): apparently Pluggd has a service called HearHere, which lets you interactively search inside a show for a keyword, and they even use semantic matching to try and determine relevance. If you watch the video by PodTech.net, you’ll see what I mean.
Here’s the disappointing thing: it looks like you can only do this on the ESPN show. The pop-up player for all of the other shows doesn’t have the extra tabbies to let you search inside the show… sigh. Guess I’ll stick with Podzinger for now.
Something to eMail Mom About December 29, 2006
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Career, Markteting, Blogging, Orlando, Cervo, Links, Video, Reviews, Trends, Liberatr, Radio , 1 comment so farI’m sorry, but I really enjoy finding a web page I make on the first page of Google. Search for stardust videos and the 10th result as of now links to OrlandoVideo! The search for orlando video also puts us 4th right now.
I was on this particular search string because I am helping out the world by contributing to WiFinder.com, which is a modest site with modest Google Ads to support it that I saw on MyBlogLog (which I signed up for today).
Speaking of Ads, I tried to sign up Liberatr for Text Link Ads, but apparently I don’t have enough “juice” or “thrust” or whatever euphemism for power they employ at their site. I do like the free tool that lets you compare your site to another across a number of different categories, but I was disappointed about the denial by their algorithm for the ability to sell good ads on my site (for now).
In other software/blogging/web related news, Charles and I were testing out WordPress MU this week and we were disappointed by the not-as-easy-to-use-as-WordPress-ness of the thing. I guess when you are trying to run multiple blogs off a single install base you can expect some complexities, but I am still waiting for someone to collaborate with on writing a tool to run a podcast network or for the price of Blogsmith to come to a reasonable level.
I am excited about trying out my own videoblog as a way to get across some more complex thoughts through this site, and to add to the idea that this is now “Ryan Price vs. the Media”, or whatever I am calling the blog nowadays. Still, I applied to have a show on WPRK 91.5FM the other day and Charles is inquiring about writing a tech column for The Orlando Weekly. If anyone can help us get in front of some good eyeballs for that, leave a comment or use the email contact form at the top of the page (which is new in about the last 2 weeks or so).
