It is true, I got a shout out in Visual Lounge’s blog post yesterday (by Betsy Weber).

Very cool.  Betsy shared one of the tips I mentioned when I spoke about podcasting at DemoCamp Lansing. In this case, it was the using dog training clicker to mark mistakes in your audio track.

I use this when recording episodes for the Magic of Eyri Podcast and it is super helpful.  The click creates a pair of spikes in the audio’s track, making the mistakes easy to spot.

I can’t take credit for coming up with this idea however, it was shared with me by the fellows at EscapePod while talking shop at last year’s Penguicon.  I’m happy to of had the chance to pass this tip on to others though.

If you are a podcaster (or do anything with sound recording), I can’t recommend this tip enough: it’ll be the best $3 you’ll ever spend (you can also tap the microphone or snap your fingers, but the advantage of the clicker is that the spike will always look the same).

Some big news this week:

Tomorrow night (12.15.09) I will be presenting at DemoCamp Lansing in Harper’s Brew Pub in East Lansing.  I’ll be talking about podcasting. I have five minutes to rap about podcasting to a room full of (mostly) strangers. It should be interesting, as I have yet to really work out my battle plan.

Speaking of making it up as I go, I found out today that I made it to the Sweet Sixteen of PowerPoint Karaoke 2009, which really surprised me (thanks to everyone who voted for me, you are all awesome).

The idea of PowerPoint Karaoke (aka BattleDecks) is that you give a presentation–but you don’t know what your PowerPoint slides are going to be about.  In our case, we knew our topic (mine was the economy).

Watch the video below (or watch it on the YouTube).

If you like what you see, please vote for me. If I make it to the next round (the Elite Eight) I get a prize of some kind. Awesome.