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Comment on Step by Step Guide to Creating an Audio Podcast by Sean

Sean — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:13:26 +0000

Tom, I’m not really sure here of the best approach for you, since I’ve never done what you’re trying to do. But my rough guesses are:

1 – You might be able to have everyone use Skype. Should work on all platforms
2 – Microphone isn’t critical–just something that their operating system recognizes. Beyond that, better mic gives you better sound quality. Headset mics are probably the best for what you want to do.
3 – I don’t know how you’d record this, since I’m not familiar with the mac. But I’d guess that you have some mechanism for “recording what I hear”. Either that or a record feature directly in skype.

You might just google or bing something like “record skype conversations mac”.

Sean

Comment on Is it Latin? by Lea

Lea — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:13:51 +0000

that is clever..

Comment on Step by Step Guide to Creating an Audio Podcast by Tom

Tom — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:44:00 +0000

This is a very strange situation i have here and i don’t know if you can help. I want to do a podcast about gaming. The idea is to capture the kinds of conversations that my 3, more or less, friends and i have on xbox live about video games. I saw that you mentioned Skype. I have a mac and my friends have various PC laptops. I figured that it would be easiest on people’s bandwidth if we did a phonecall-esque conversation instead of a video conversation which, with 4 people… Which would eat people’s internet connection. My problem right now is how to record these online phonecalls and what I should tell everyone to use. I know ichat works well for such things but i’m not so sure it would work with other people’s programs..
so 1.) What program should I use/ tell everyone to use for the conversation
2.) What mikes should i tell everyone to get
3.) How would i record this
…..and im planning on using garage band FYI for the cast part of podcast : ) Any help would be great

Comment on Photo – An Old Photo Postcard by evelynyvonnetheriault

evelynyvonnetheriault — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:43:26 +0000

It’s always great when the quality is high enough so that you can do meaningful enlargements.

Comment on A Poem to Commemorate John Sexton’s 60th Birthday by Liz O'Malley

Liz O'Malley — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:03:45 +0000

What a GREAT birthday poem written by his son for a truly wonderful man – my cousin John Peter. Fortunate to have known him and so blessed to be related to him and his sons!

Comment on Step by Step Guide to Creating an Audio Podcast by Liz

Liz — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:48:59 +0000

Thanks Sean, this was well-written and very clear, and didn’t “skip over” seemingly obvious steps — only obvious to those who have done such a thing over and over. I’ve used Audacity to create “read-along” stories for my grandkids, burned to CD, but have yet to try a podcast — now that may change!

Comment on Photo – An Old Photo Postcard by Sean

Sean — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:45:44 +0000

[Comment from Mike H Sexton (my Uncle)]:

Thanks for the wonderful photo. What a find. The boy in the back left must be Baby John Lytle. Melvin Hall would have been only two when photo was taken.
For a time, the Halls lived in the same neighborhood with the Lytles. Bill Hall, Melvin’s brother, told me that John Lytle was always called Baby John, even when he grew up. So, the label “Baby John” fits for him.

Comment on Survey of Family History Sites – Aug, 2008 by Kory

Kory — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:46:12 +0000

Sean,

Thanks for your list. I ran across it while I was preparing our second annual list of 50 Most Popular Genealogy Websites, which you can see at http://www.progenealogists.com/top50genealogy2009.htm

I appreciated your list and find it includes most of the sites we looked at. We actually examined 300+ different sites to make sure we had the most popular, and your list helps to confirm that. We merged their rankings from our different website measuring companies, so the outcome is a bit different, but all quite interesting.

I’ll be going through your overall list to see if we’ve missed any. Keep up the good work!

Comment on Photo – An Old Photo Postcard by Liz O'Malley

Liz O'Malley — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:49:53 +0000

I so like it that Uncle Gerald (Judd) is holding the baby because he loved children and kids loved him! When he visited Grandma & Grandpa in Bemidji he always took one or two neices/nephews with him when he visited neighbors and friends. He had one finger that had been cut off to the first knuckle and he did a trick with it to fool children. He was a joyful guy!

Comment on Great-Grandpa Bill in the Lumber Camp by Photo - An Old Photo Postcard « Sean on Family History

Photo - An Old Photo Postcard « Sean on Family History — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:19:13 +0000

[...] lived in Bemidji, MN, where my great-grandfather worked for the lumber mill. (You can see an earlier photo of great-grandpa bill, from his earlier days working in a lumber camp in the woods). Through old family photos, [...]