What is Podcasting?

Here is what I came up for my recent talk on podcasting at DePaul University. Podcasting is a simple concept in some ways, yet I struggle to clearly communicate what it is and how it differs from previous technology. As I did this talk I realized at, while my brain is...

Open Source Music Notation Software Follow-Up

People have been leaving some great leads on open source music notation software. Looking for an open source version of Finale or Sibelius is not as bleak as I thought. I have not had a chance to check out these leads yet, but check out the comments of my recent open...

In Search of Open Source Notation Software

I was recently in a music technology lab at a local university. This lab had fifteen computers with MIDI keyboards and Finale installed. About half of these computers had Sibelius installed as well. At least 75% of these computers were sending back “registration...

New Google Blogger Features

I have a few minutes to myself here in Memphis tonight, and I’d like to describe a couple of cool new features that Blogger has rolled out. As I mentioned earlier today, I have a new URL for this blog (doublebassblog.com). This is the sort of endeavor that...

List of Top 100 Web 2.0 Sites

Here is a great list of the hippest sites on the web today. I use a ton of these web 2.0 services myself. The list is organized by category, so you can check out the most interesting video, blogging, bookmarking, VOIP, games, Wikis, RSS, etc.Here is a sampling of the...