10 days ahead of schedule, we have the basic skeleton of the Supernova Earth Forum up and Running.  Included is the Copy Center, which is perhaps the most important feature of the Forum.  You can go there and put broadcast copy up, and get people you know to record the copy for you, and then send it back to you over the email for you to put post production onto it.  If you have no idea what I am talking, chances are you won’t be using the Copy Center anyway, so don’t worry about it.  But if you do, you are sufficiently deep into the internet broadcasting world to really appreciate something like this, especially if you are doing a show by yourself.

 Also, there are things like Member introductions, music discussion, show comments, etc, which are fully interactable.  I will eventually be developing an Online RPG (!) called "Hitman" which is essentially will be the online version of "Tag" that hopefully will be pretty fun and will involve deal making between teams, or as I’ll call them "families" and coordinated strikes against opponents.

Should be fun  Check out the forum and join up today.

Also we’re looking for moderators there, so if you’re interested, let me know.

Serenely,

Doc 

Ladies and Gentlemen, Fans and Haters alike, 

Supernova #3 is up along with a few commercials.

 This was our best show to date.  We discussed plans to overhaul the way we do things to accommodate for the transition from being a multi-person show to the joys and challenges of being a one person gang.  This of course entails shortening the show, covering fewer topics, but covering the ones we do talk about deeper, with a bit more time on the commentary, which has been lacking in the previous shows.

We followed that up with our new production, and introduced the new element of in-program production which is pretty staple in commercial radio, but was never used in either the Creepy Sleepy Show, the Creepy Sleepy Podcast, or the first two Supernovas.  The utility of this tactic, for all those DIY’ers out there is that in the time it takes to make one piece of production, you can write twenty fake plugs for "local" area "businesses", that aren’t real.  They sound great when you read them "live" at the beginning of your talksets, provide a great transition from your opening of your mic and the actual talkset and eat up about 40-45 seconds of your talkset.  The tactic I will be using in the future is 2 or 3 of these little plugs per "interior" talksets (that is, the talksets that are not coming right off the intro or going right into the Outro…).  I’ll compose a catalog of these and also put the beginnings of the "Copy Center" up on my page for trading these with people who are interested in using this tactic in podcasting.

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Utilizing the Flock Browser…

I just wanted to first of all report how ironic it was that this browser should name itself "Flock".  It seems that web 2.0 gadgets lead people to adopt a flock mentality.  For example, MySpace.  Starts out small, some people tell their friends about it, next thing you know, Dateline is doing an expose on MySpace…

 I admit I am guilty of this as well, but it just seems like I’m going along with the herd.  or the flock…  of sheep…  ripe for the slaughter…  That’s all of us.

Anyway, on a completely unrelated note, I have completed the paper on Hugo Chavez, and am interested in distributing it.  I intend to attempt to publish it in an academic journal, and when I am finished with Grad School, I want to take many of my essays on government and publish them as a monogram.  Included in this book will be the papers I wrote on Cuba, Guatemala, and now Venezuela, as well as the other "professional" paper I produce in my Masters’ programme, detailing a modern history of US troublemaking in Latin America.  But for now, I will email a copy to anyone who is interested in reading it and critiquing it.  If you do not intend to provide me with a critique of the paper, do not bother asking me for it.  You will eventually be able to read it to cure your insomnia on JStor.

 To get a copy of the paper, write me a message in my guest book.  I will not respond to email requests or phone requests.  This is two fold.  First, it fills my guestbook out, which few of you (actually none of you) have bothered to write anything in.  Second, it allows me to keep an easily available record of who has a copy of the paper, in case one of you all want to plagerize me.  I don’t have any problem with you all using the paper as a citation, but I really don’t like the idea of intellectual dishonesty, and at my level this is a more serious problem than it would at the outset appear.  If nothing else, plagerization eliminates any possibility of me getting published in a journal, which pretty much messes up my career choices.

So…  Send me a message in my guestbook if you want to read the Hugo Chavez paper.

Serenely,

W. Doc 

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This is just a test of the Flock Blog tool.  Dan Patterson recommended that I check it out, because apparently this will make blogging so much cooler or something.  Being slightly technophobic like I am, however, this aspect may make me leery of using it all together.  Anyway, I just wanted to see how it looks and whatnot.

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The “Farmer and the Field” is an anology that essentially talks about my conception of the duties of a revolutionary. Obviously it will not be completed in the process of the blog and will need to be fleshed out even more. Read the rest of this entry »

Over the coming months I hope to compose on my blog the skeleton of a book I may end up writing (everything is so non-committal these days, isn’t it) that I want to call “The Farmer and the Field”.  Contrary to its name it is not 1) a children’s book, nor 2) an agricultural manual.  In fact it is a continuation of the commentary I have been making on the Creepy Sleepy BB concerning the development of a new idea about socialism.

The Farmer and the Field is a metaphor which I find incredibly useful.  To my knowledge it has not been used before to describe what must be done, tactically speaking, in a pre-revolutionary society such as ours.  Bascially, it goes like this:  We have a field, a farmer, and some seeds.  It is the beginning of planting season, the field has never been cleared for use before and the ground is still a little frozen from winter.  But it is time to lay in the crop to get it growing.

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I think if there are 15 million blogs in the world (who knows, this number is arbitrary and rhetorical so just go with it…), I must be the 20 millionth blogger to write about this story by now… Call me old fashioned, but I really just do not believe the news until there is so much of it from so many different sources that I can no longer deny it.

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