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Archive for April, 2009

TweetDeck, Times, and the new FriendFeed

Yazan: Jason | 30 April 2009 | No Comments
Categories: technology

I did a brief (6 minute) screencast recently about some of my favorite new tech toys: TweetDeck (my favorite way to interface with Twitter on the desktop), the ultra-slick Mac-only RSS reader called Times, and the new FriendFeed interface. Let me know if you are using any of these apps–I love them!

Audio from my appearance at Chicago Music Commission panel

Yazan: Jason | 29 April 2009 | No Comments
Categories: blogging, egomaniacal, podcasting

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The audio track (about 1 1/4 hours) from the Chicago Music Commission‘s Musicians at Work forum in which I recently participated as a panelist was released a couple of weeks ago. Podcasters Jim Goodrich and Fred Wells, along with Gaper’s Block writer Graham Sanford and yours truly all participated an a Q&A about podcasting, blogging, [...]

I’m on faculty… really!

Yazan: Jason | 28 April 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: education, humor

Though it certainly had its drawbacks (did you know that if you Google “disturbing adjunct teaching,” this post of mine comes up? Ha!), I did enjoy having an institutional affiliation for my bass teaching for the five years I taught my university studio double bass. It was nice to be able to say that I [...]

Master class with Rami Solomonow

Yazan: Jason | 28 April 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: education, videos

One of the many hats I wear these days is as podcast coordinator for the wonderful Midwest Young Artists youth music organization here in the north suburbs of Chicago. Their podcast can be found at WMYA.FM. The following episode featuring DePaul University viola professor Rami Solomonow was released in the fall of 2008, and I [...]

Leonard Cohen video interview

Yazan: Jason | 27 April 2009 | No Comments
Categories: videos

As I was taking care of some video upload tasks using blip.tv, the awesome service that I’ve used for the last few years as my one-stop for my online video projects, I stumbled upon this interview with Leonard Cohen, one of my favorite songwriters, done by Q TV from the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (the real [...]