Several emails recently have suggested that everyone might benefit from a side-by-side comparison of the three emerging technologies that seem poised to move into the space being slo-o-o-o-owly vacated by ISDN: hi-fidelity remote audio recording. I can think of people like George Whittam who...
Does anyone else notice the pace of things just getting out of hand? I suppose this is the problem with skirting the trending edge of the envelope in the first place. It can leave you either looking like you're the smartest guy since Steve Jobs, or the biggest loser since Bernie Madoff. I like...
My wife is having heart surgery this morning, and there was lots of preparation in advance of the procedure, so this is a short blog today. 'Came across an interesting site called FreeSound. From the website: Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples,...
Sure, everybody loves to bash Microsoft, the most recent owner of Skype...but the truth is, the lion's share of Skype employees live in Luxembourg, and the development team is mostly in Estonia (the birthplace of Skype). That's hardly a typical Redmond-based mishandling of some browser brouhaha. ...
How many times have I said lately, that Google + is the future of Social Media? I might even be right! 🙂 SoundCloud is also a form of social media that is ascending to a safe place as the de facto program for embedding or linking to audio (much as YouTube serves that purpose for video). That's...
Digital tools are so important to voice-actors. You will not win or lose a voiceover audition based on having MS Office on your iPhone or iPad (or not), but as you know, tools can come in mighty handy in your workflow, and in a pinch. The RIGHT tool can be a lifesaver in a panic. I prefer to be...
There's that term again: Keywords. Everybody throws it around like it's OBVIOUS what they are, or should be. Delve into online websites, marketing your VO services, and you'll see that keywords pop up in many of the SEO and SEM strategies that used to be so important. I dunno. Are they...
When FaffCon happened last October, I had already been fooling around with NIMBLE quite a bit. Then I sat in on an hour-long session with Voice Actor Matt Cowlrick. Matt was not just proficient at NIMBLE, he was inspirational! Nimble helps manage your relationships. I know that sounds nebulous,...
We raised a few eyebrows in the VO community when WoVO came out with its Emancipation from ISDN Proclamation, but it's looking more and more like we read the tea leaves right. Plumbing the waters on ANYTHING developing in our business is best done in online community groups and forums. Lately,...
You know me... I live, eat, and breath social media. Believe it or not, though, I'm not the most prolific poster among my peers. I chime in when I see fit, and I'll throw out a blog link or retweet now and then (policy subject to revision at any time). For the most part, though, I'm content...
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