Hello… a right old rambling of me trying to get across various things and actually looking back on it not playing you very much music er… anyway…I mostly re-visited Tidal and I absolutely love it now. Swoon sneak peak.. and whizzy BBD thing… I did a lot more than that.. but yeah. Got the beginnings of a new track down. It’s gonna be all a cappella (apart from a few birds and possible fire cracklings). Listen to Mic Check for reference on type of vocal sounds… this is super rough, thrown down in a couple of hours. Read the rest of this entry »

Last few hours in beautiful Maui. I wish I didn’t have to go back. The thought of finishing this album is filling me with dread. I haven’t done what I’d hoped to do while I was here. I do have another 12 hours before my flight though so maybe I still might plus the 20 hour flight back home! Read the rest of this entry »

HTML clipboardThe Nashville Predators are in the playoffs for the 2nd straight season.

It looks like Nashville might be becoming a hockey town eh? We do have a lot of canadians.

I love going to these games. It’s a great sport for a great city. Nashville is becoming.

HTML clipboardIt seems like everyone has already decided that Barry Bonds is guilty of anything that anyone wants to accuse him of. Everywhere I look…Barry…Steroids…Guilty…Perjury…

It is a crappy thing if you ask me. Let the guy play baseball!!!!!!!!! I still LOVE to watch this guy swing the bat. IF he is proven guilty, THEN do and talk…

If you get the chance to watch “Bonds On Bonds” on ESPN Tuesday nights. Pretty cool TV I must say. You get to see a lot more of Barry Bonds than the media would like for you to see.

I guess I am just sick of hearing about how Barry is a sinning scum of a person. But, hey don’t listen to me…I like Pete Rose, Kobe Bryant, and the music of Michael Jackson.

“Humility is a manner, a viewpoint, an all-encompassing thing…Humility is expressed through actions;…it can be demonstrated simply by stopping and listening to someone. It’s essence is putting others ahead of yourself.

…A real test of humility is how you handle criticism. The natural reaction is to throw up an immediate defense, a quick excuse, a spontaneous rebuttal. The humble way to handle criticism is to try to understand the reasons for the criticism, to look for what truth there might be in it.”

We’re incredibly excited to introduce our newest application, iWriter.

iWriter allows teachers and students to create study tools for the iPod in minutes, then share those tools with (other) students, colleagues and friends - instantly. See it in action here. Several of us here at Talking Panda are the offspring of teachers, so we used our built-in focus group to design iWriter very carefully, with the particular needs of educators (and those being educated) in mind: Read the rest of this entry »

If you are a blogger or follow the blogs, then you likely use an RSS reader. (What?! You don’t? Read this article first.) And, if you are one of the millions who uses Microsoft Outlook, you should try Newsgator Inbox.

This tool let’s you manage all of your RSS content within your Microsoft Outlook folders. So, for example, you can forward content from the reader to co-workers, clients, etc.

Technorati has been hard at work cutting deals to bring the blogosphere to the masses. This week was a busy one for them with three separate announcements:

1. Technorati has teamed up with the Associated Press to add blogger commentary to AP newstories.

When readers visit an AP member Web site that uses AP Hosted Custom News, they will see a module featuring the “Top Five Most Blogged About” AP articles right next to the article text, dynamically powered by Technorati. Additionally, when readers click on an AP article, Technorati will deliver “Who’s Blogging About” that article. Read the rest of this entry »

Two recent revelations about the validity of comments being posted on blogs are raising some interesting questions. In one instance, an LA Times columnist was caught in April posting comments to his own blog under a pseudonym. More recently, bloggers have identified an apparent coordinated effort to post opposing views on some pro-Net Neutrality blogs with concerns that the effort is being funded by the opposition. (For more on both, see Mark Glaser’s Media Shift.) Read the rest of this entry »

This new software product from Talking Panda turns an iPod into a study tool. It allows you to mix text and audio files into learning programs (e.g. spelling quizzes, reading lists) and includes eight project templates to help get you started.

The tool can also build Web sites for students without iPods.

CNet, which published Eliot Van Buskirk’s review of our “very good” rockin’ guitar companion for iPod recently. And while iRocker may not be stocked by any of their merchants (at the time of the review, anyhow), it is always “in stock” and ready for download at TalkingPanda.com. iRocker (and all Talking Panda iPod applications) is also available Apple Stores, Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry’s, J&R, Amazon, and so on…