We’re starting up the new season of podcasts for Raincoast Books with an amazing new young writer named Nathan Sellyn.

He’s still in his 20′s and creates characters that are gritty, flawed, and ever so real. Nathan’s first book is a collection of stories called Indigenous Beasts.  One of the benefits of doing the podcasts with Raincoast is that I get advance copies of the books, and this one I couldn’t put down.

We’ve got a short preview podcast out now, and a full length interview coming next week.

Subscribe to the podcast at feeds.feedburner.com/raincoast

You can also get it for free at the iTunes store, just search ‘Raincoast’.

The book is also for sale at Chapters.Indigo and Amazon.

What happens when the cat decides to eat the script in the middle of a voice over.

Sequence of events:

- I’m reading an extro
- Ozzie (cat) attacks script
- I attempt to issue command to cat (a mistake)
- I resort to chasing cat (also a mistake)
- I bump mic (another mistake)
- Ozzie complains (who can blame him)
- I show him the door

Listen to the podcast

no cats were harmed in the making of this podcast

We’ve just completed some new podcasts for Leading Edge BC. These feature business and industry leaders who’ve relocated to British Columbia.

Guests include:

Glenn Entis, the Senior Vice President and Chief Visual and Technical officer for Electronic Arts Worldwide.

Dylan Collins, CEO of DemonWare. They’re based in Dublin Ireland and create middleware for networking ingame players on all platforms.  Do check out these pictures of the DemonWare crew on Flikr (Dylan is in the back)

Very interesting stories and sure makes you realize how lucky we are to be in British Columbia. Leading Edge BC does an amazing job making it easier for companies to settle here – not to mention providing tons of resources in person and online.

You can get the podcasts at feeds.feedburner.com/lebc

If you want the cool enhanced version for your iPod, and you’ve got iTunes already installed, follow this link to launch – or do it the old fashioned way and search Leading Edge BC at iTunes.

I finally get to do something with Roland ! Yah!

Roland Tanglao from Bryght and I will be hosting a session on Podcasting for New Media BC.

It’s coming up January 26th, at the Vancouver Film School on Homer.

If you’re wondering what podcasting is all about, how to do it, and what it can do for your company, this will be a great session.

20 $ for NMBC members, 30 $ for non-members. Register at New Media BC

Today I decided to do something productive with all that spam. I’ve got at least 4-thousand emails filtered away, the spoils of the last couple of months of spam.

I’ve opted for a fresh new approach.

It’s a variation on Re-use/ReCycle.

No sense filling the trash bin with all that content, as useless as it may be.

So, I decided to create a new musical genre.

I call it SGC. Spam Generated Content.

Here’s what you do.

Take the subject line, plug it into a text-to-speech synthesizer, then lay down some tracks.

Presto.

I admit, it’s not exactly the wall-O-sound…but I’ve got enough raw material here for years, and there’s more showing up every day.

Here it is, my Christmas present to the Internet. Oh, and if any of you spammers want to share the royalties on this sure winner, just let us know who you are…

The Spam Song – Runs 2.30 (bigsnit – mapl)
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