As mentioned in my previous post, it's time to say so long to The Bradcast. No tears please -- I will be podcasting over at currentthinkingradio.com (which actually points to www.ctiweb.net). Current Thinking Radio will be devoted to Business, Technology, Leadership.

So say bye, bye and get ready to say hello to a new feed. I will continue blogging here -- we kick off the new Current Thinking from Brad Gibson with Dreamgirls Week tomorrow. Later in the week it will be wall to wall Northern Voice; I will be in Vancouver to cover and participate in one of the best new media conferences in North America. I hope to see many of you there.

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This is the first in a series of new web radio, netcast, podcasts: Current Thinking Radio, which is sourced at its new home on www.ctiweb.net. I'm retiring the Bradcast in favor of a more direct focus on technology business leadership. Please be patient with this new media "re-branding". I will be unveiling more concepts over the next few weeks. In the meantime you can pick up the podcast feed in the same place. I will make sure there is adequate overlap in transitioning to the new Current Thinking web feeds.
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Michael Sikorsky, CEO of Cambrian House software, may be mistaken as a man of maxims:

"Cambrian House; its like open source but with money."

"If nobody hates it, nobody will love it."

"Act as if Karma exists."

Listening to Michael at a recent DMAA event in Calgary, Alberta , one could tell that there was more than maxims and slogans to his vibe. Cambrian House is a crowdsource software company with some bright ideas in the web & software space. Michael clearly has an plan for the start, middle and end-game of his ventures. He lays out some interesting plans for marketing and product development in this presentation.

Products can fulfill needs -- "vitamins", solve problems -- "pain killers" or create new categories -- "viagra", of which the Blackberry is a classic technology based example. Listen to Michael as he explains tech marketing and company development in a way that you have never heard before. What's Michael's "bias for action"? How mass collaboration can change everything.

Recorded live by Brad Gibson with great thanks to the Board of the DMAA and Michael Sikorsky. This content is evergreen and is suggested for those interested in:

• marketing
• technology management
• new media development
• business development

This web radio podcast originates from the Current Thinking Radio site at www.ctiweb.net and from the Bradcast, podcasting since 2004 at www.bradfordgibson.net .

Victor Cajiao is the host of three great podcasts; Typical Mac User, Typical PC User and Immigration Tales. When I sat down with Victor for a chat at the Podcast & Portable Media Expo, he had just finished a fun and fascinating 40 minute interview with author Tee Morris. We were all inelegantly perched in beanbag

On your latest Bradcast -- a feature interview with Michael Auzenne of the Manager Tools Podcast. Michael, along with podcasting partner and management consultant Mark Horstman, produces one of the most consistently practical, useful and impactful podcasts in the 'sphere today.

Business advice, management consulting and personal coaching topics have been flogged to near extinction in various books, courses and schools. Despite this, Auzenne and Horstman routinely provide fresh conversational insight on these topics. You won't agree with everything these guys say on Manager Tools but more often than not you will find yourself realizing that they have developed a conversational mentoring approach that makes you feel like you're there asking for help at Mark's office door. This is the kind of approach podcasting was built for.

Manager Tools "Time to Party?" episode... Do the right things at this year's office party.

Update: Sorry for the dropped audio file... It has been newly restored and placed back on the server.

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This edition of the Bradcast Extra is ONLY for podcasting geeks. If you are not interested in audio file processing then please do not listen to this podcast. You have been warned.

At the suggestion of Doug Kaye, I took 47 seconds of audio from our interview at the 2006 Podcasting and Portable Media Expo and processed it different ways. In this podcast you will hear the audio raw and unprocessed, processed with the Gigavox Levelator tool and processed by using several effects in Audacity. The Levelator processing took about 20 seconds total, while post-processing in Audacity took about 6-7 minutes. Which one is better?

Something to note about the Levelator is that it can exagerate noise level differences or "pumping" sound levels if the recording was made in a noisy environment with automatic gain control. Avoid automatic gain control when you are making recordings that you intend to post-process with any digital sound effects tool.

Thanks to Doug Kaye and the Gigavox team for the Levelator tool and their time on the floor at P&PME.

Notes:
Length:05:51
Produced: 2006/10/15
Bradcast Extra is copyright 2006 by Brad Gibson and he is solely responsible for its content. The Bradcast is not presented on behalf of any technology group or association. Opinions represented in the podcast are not those of any client, customer or employer organization, past or present.

The second edition in the Bradcast Extra series features Doug Kaye of Gigavox Media. Doug is best known as the IT Conversations guy and is a great friend to internet audio professionals and a patron of podcasting.

Doug speaks about the new Gigavox Levelator -- a drag and drop audio level equalization and normalization tool -- and the podcast production suite known as Gigavox Audio Lite.

The interview portion of this episode was "levelated" so that you could hear what it does. Doug suggested we put the Levelator through its paces so Bradcast Extra 3 will follow-up this episode with a geeky comparison of audio files with and without the Levelator. Regular Bradcast listeners who are not into the behind the curtain thing may want to skip that episode.

Notes:
Length:06:13
Produced: 2006/10/15
Bradcast Extra is copyright 2006 by Brad Gibson and he is solely responsible for its content. The Bradcast is not presented on behalf of any technology group or association. Opinions represented in the podcast are not those of any client, customer or employer organization, past or present.

The Bradcast Extra. A new feature for Bradcast listeners who want to get inside podcasting. This week the first of a series of audio clips from the 2006 Podcast & Portable Media Expo.

Main Line:
0:00 - 2:50 Land at LAX and take the hour long drive to Ontario with me.

2:52 - 5:02 Paul Colligan -- "The Business Podcasting Guy" -- pitches Russell Holliman of Podcast Ready.

5:03 - 6:52 I pitch Leo Cheng of Belkin Corp on my current "thing" for the Belkin TuneTalk

6:53 - 10:09 The elevator pitch on Podtrac from Velvet Beard and Robert Freeland

10:10 - 10:41 A walk by of the Orange County Podcasters, Scott and Cass doing an edition of This Married Life. Look over there! It's Trucker Tom and Tim Bourquin getting interviewed by other people.

10:42 - 13:28 A chat with Tim Harrison of Saynow.com -- podcasting through your phone -- and the extro.

Notes:
Length:00:13:28
Produced: 2006/10/07
Bradcast_20061007 is copyright 2006 by Brad Gibson and he is solely responsible for its content. The Bradcast is not associated with any technology blogging group or association. Opinions represented in the podcast are not those of any client, customer or employer organization, past or present.

Every project starts with a request. (Click here to play now)

Shout Outs:
Not a lot for this week -- just a reminder that I will be at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo with iPod and TuneTalk in hand. If you want to meet or be interviewed for The Bradcast then drop me a note: thebradcast AAATTT gmail.com

Main Line:
Riffing on a topic I broached a few weeks ago, this podcast looks at those ubiquitous PIM and email clients. I focus on Outlook, of course, because that's the one that now dominates.

Our email clients are dumb. They are not able to relate our commitments to our tasks and they have no ability to derive any context from the stuff that gets entered into them. Sure we have "rules" and routing features but we don't have the ability to provide meaning to data on-the-fly as we reply to emails.

One way we can move toward that goal is to open the proprietary nature of the data in the hope that somebody else will build a tool that does something new. As a result I looked at this blog entry on the "Holy Grail" for synchronization, the ScheduleWorld.com site and this tantalizing peak at something called Taskmaster from PARC.

This show was recorded entirely using the on-board microphones of the Belkin TuneTalk Stereo recorder for gen 5 iPods to give you an idea about the sound quality. I did get pretty aggressive with the low-pass filter and the compression. The sound is okay but it's sibilant and is prone to noise from the hard drive on the iPod. Use an external microphone if you don't want hard drive noise spoiling low volume level sounds on your TuneTalk.

Click here to stream the show through your favourite player.

Notes:
Length:00:35:33
Recorded: 2006/09/25
Bradcast_20060925 is copyright 2006 by Brad Gibson and he is solely responsible for its content. The Bradcast is not associated with any technology blogging group or association. Opinions represented in the podcast are not those of any client, customer or employer organization, past or present.