New smartphone and tablet devices are getting churned out at a dizzying pace. Apple and Samsung lead the pack, but the new Nokia/Microsoft merge promises some surprises, while HTC and LG continue to innovate. Because of that, 3rd-party device manufacturers are having a...
Google is re-writing the rules of SEO. As a journalist, I kept hearing that Google "Authorship" was the new thing. Then Steve Cunningham came along at FaffCon6 and blew the doors out. Cunningham is a professor at USC's Thornton School of Music. In his spare time, he's an audio...
Remember when you first read your audition script off the computer monitor, instead of printing it out and reading the words off a piece of paper? The first time I read an audiobook from my iPad instead of fumbling with the noise of turning pages was an epiphany. Why did I wait so long? There's...
Ah...the drudgery! You've just been handed a big long-format narration -- an E-learning module -- and the client specifically asks that each paragraph be its own named sound file. ...and there are 67 paragraphs!!! This will take some serious editing time, no? Hervé Chain developed a wonderful...
What most shapes your life? Luck? Opportunity? People? ...or does your own attitude, drive, and mettle set the tone? In his new autobiography: Living On Air, Joe Cipriano finds the appropriate place for all those factors, but his personal compass always wins the day. You may think Joe has had a...
..I've sponsored Faffcon's Karaoke night, but this is the first one I've witnessed it in person. I won't embarrass anyone with a picture of the hotel lobby where the singing and dancing took place...but I can tell you that my peers have amazing voices. Wow! Instead, here are a couple of pics...
YouTube makes it so easy to share, embed, email, or otherwise post the videos you love to your fave social media sites. In fact, they make it so simple it's scary. But what if you wanted a COPY of that video? Maybe a friend asked you to edit it for them, or you need to move it from one account...
Even now...years later, I'm embarrassed about my misstep. But I'm big enough to admit it. I made a tactical mistake. Maybe you'll learn from it. ...and the whole thing left me with a question I still have not answered today. Below. The Story Begins... Eager to start racking up successes as a...
November 24, 2009 I wrote one of the shortest blogs of my career. BEST MIC FOR AUDIOBOOKS. I must've been really lazy or awfully busy that day. Regardless, THAT blog must've shown up in a search somewhere, 'cause I got the following comment to the blog yesterday: Hello, I’m looking to finally...
This is not just some news-guy-wanna-be-voice-actor rant. This is open-your-eyes-'cause-voice-acting-is-everywhere-in-the-news chant. For instance, didja see E.G. Daily's appearance on The Voice the other night? The voice of Tommy Pickles in RugRats, ButterCup in the PowerPuff Girls, and as...
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