Ultimate guide for Podcast recording with Skype from the Conversations network

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A few years after the bulk of my posts about recording podcasts with Skype and Audio Hijack Pro I still get follow up questions. It's great that the basic principles still work. Today I got a question on how to record using Audio Hijack Pro so that the "sides" of a Skype call are split in separate tracks.

Rogue Amoeba, the creators of Audio Hijack Pro link to a great tutorial by Doug Kaye and Paul Figgiani from the Conversations network. The "split tracks" question is answered as well as many, many more. This is a "must watch" presentation for anyone recording Skype interviews.

Here it is:
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Zeix user experience

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Today I had a great visit to the office of Zeix in Zurich.

Zeix are very thorough in their approach of user centered design. They are not too academic but prove their solutions with proper user testing. They also seem to work fast and efficiently.

Over lunch I mentioned IDEO who are another great example of a company that gets user centered design. Here are some things that I'd like to share with Jacqueline, Ina and their colleagues:

Paul Bennett: Design is in the details

David Kelley: The future of design is human-centered

Yves Behar: Creating objects that tell stories

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St. Anton am Arlberg in High-Res on Google Maps

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St. Anton am Arlberg in Austria was a big smudge on Google Maps until not too long ago.
Now you can actually see some details, as for example in this video created with Google Earth of me skiing down one of my favorite bits of off-piste.




Interesting is that the pictures were taken in the middle of construction of the new Galzig lift.
Here is the base station under construction:

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And here's the top station:

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Mahalo daily viral videos

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Andrea Rene and Leah's potentially viral videos are done.
Interesting to see what happens if one sets out to intentionally create a viral video.

I didn't get Leah's video at all at first because I hadn't seen Mariah Carey's "Touch my body" video. (I don't have a TV.) Now I have seen it and the original is just as weird!
They both make clever use of keywords that are sure to capture some hits in searches.
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