In the midst of an unbridled enthusiasm for ipDtL... one of the first providers of non-ISDN remote, high-quality recording -- Source Elements -- is out with a compelling competing product. Even as World-Voices Organization calls for an industry-wide end to ISDN, pretenders to the throne are...
Some voice talents ask for signed written contracts, and/or require payment up front before they start on a project with a new client. I can certainly see the wisdom of that, especially if you've been burned on a job along the line somewhere. Their argument is that most reputable business people...
Remember that conditional phrase Pres. Reagan uttered when negotiating nuclear firepower with Russia's Gorbachev?... or am I totally dating myself as a geeky news-guy? There's a reason I bring it up. I know all of a sudden the voice-over world has fallen head-over-heels for IpDtl. No question,...
Here's a website you should just link to, or stick in your RSS feed, or subscribe to, or bookmark, or whatever it is you do to visit worthwhile sites now 'n' then. RecordingReview.com is actually the brainchild and blog of Brandon Drury, who hails from my wife's neck of the woods: The Bootheel of...
. . . . More than once, I've run across the attitude in our business that we "have enough". Enough VO forums Enough VO FaceBook Groups Enough VO webinars Enough VO conferences ....there's just "enough"... and adding another _________, will overload the marketplace, and make it unprofitable or...
Monopolies are not good. That's why the round-house competition between Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, Lenovo, and others keeps everyone in check. Google is so darned innovative lately, though, that it scares me. I want to use all its mighty and mostly free online suite of rich...
Buried Treasure. There's buried treasure in the current info of MixOnline. Ever heard of it? I'm never sure when I write about sites like this whether it's old hat or not, but this one is new to me. Like Electronic Musician and a host of other online publishers, most of these mags appeal to a...
Once a month, I meet online with 9 other voice-actors. They're awesome. I'm just pedaling fast to keep up. We are the "board of directors" for each other's voice-acting business (roughly). We call it our "MasterMind" group. MasterMind is a fairly common concept for meet-ups. It's an idea that...
The bad guys must be having an impact on web services everywhere. We hear about it, and we see the phishing scams show up in our email, but is internet security really that big of a deal? YES! (and heck yes!) The reason I say the bad guys must be having an impact is that in the last few days,...
See? This is the problem with modern journalism. It has no defenses. It's under attack from the NSA, the White House, Bloggers, its own excesses, and PR machines. There never was, and probably never will be a certification for journalism. We're all so much better than nurses, teachers,...
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