http://www.insectapodcast.com/blog Sciential communication, digital entomology Thu, 08 May 2008 14:21:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This blog isn't super buggy, but its accompanying podcast sure is. As a result I'm always interested in finding other people who are discussing entomology online, especially through blogs. I'be been reading Bug Girl's blog regularly for over a year now, and I was disappointed yesterday when she posted that ... http://www.insectapodcast.com/blog/?p=56 We've been thinking a lot lately about ways to measure site usage. Last month we wrote an article about InsectaPod Cast for an entomology publication and found ourselves wanting to make very specific claims about who has been listening to the podcast. this same info will be valuable as we ... http://www.insectapodcast.com/blog/?p=55 A few weeks ago I was talking with a few friends and subject of You Tube video came up, along with the fact that I watch a LOT of them. In this discussion I referenced specifically that a thirty minute documentary of the Stanford Prison experiment, conducted and filmed in ... http://www.insectapodcast.com/blog/?p=54 In preparation for a paper I'm thinking about writing I've been reading lately about media use and preferences among farmers and agricultural extension educators. The impetus for the paper was a recent survey of Michigan farmers my office administered and the widely accepted belief among many of the extension educators ... http://www.insectapodcast.com/blog/?p=53 As a general rule I try to keep this page focused on the process of making the insect cast, although, truth be told, my interests aren't as strongly embraced by entomology as Anna's. But today, based on the fact that I committed to being a more frequent blogger and just ... http://www.insectapodcast.com/blog/?p=52 We ran into some trouble recording episode 7 and had to re-record Anna's narration. The problem stemmed from my attempts to even out the sound levels by using compression. Uneven sound levels is a pretty big concern with this podcast because an audio track can't be any louder than it's ... http://www.insectapodcast.com/blog/?p=51 When I was young, snow days were terribly exciting. Now that I work,  they're pretty much non-existent, but today the five inches or so that we've gotten today have caused some disappointment. An upcoming episode of InsectaPod Cast will focus on invasive species. We interviewed MSU prof. Anthony Cognato a few ... http://www.insectapodcast.com/blog/?p=50 I'm currently taking a publications management course and yesterday, instead of a lecture, the class of 12 met with a campus sustainability proponent about creating a document to get people thinking about sustainability (the document remains unspecified at this point, figuring out the particulars appears to be a part of ... http://www.insectapodcast.com/blog/?p=49 Anna and I got word recently that our proposal to present InsectaPod Cast at the National Extension Technology Conference. NETC will be held April 27-May in Raleigh North Carolina. This is a pretty big deal for insectapod cast and we are very excited about the opportunity to share our podcast with ... http://www.insectapodcast.com/blog/?p=48