As a follow-up to Mister Rogers Remixed: Garden of Your Mind, PBS asked another YouTube mashup artist, MelodySheep to create a mashup/remix of his own.
Love it!
PBS is also allowing others to remix the song via Soundcloud. Find out more in the video notes and then visit Soundcloud to hear the submissions.
It’s been one of those great days with my boys today.
But tonight as I went to check on them before heading to bed I leaned over to kiss IDiddy and he reached up in his sleep and gave me a big hug before rolling over.
My job here is done. We can call it a day.
Tripp Crosby and Tyler Stanton made a video introduction for Jon Acuff’s speech at Catalyst.
words and phrases that Christians love to use instead of the already perfectly adequate words provided by the English language.
How many of these have you heard? Or said?
This week President Obama is using Executive Order to try and stop Patent Trolls.
I don’t know if it will make any true impact at all (the Electronic Frontier Foundation thinks he could have gone further but seem to applaud several of the measures Obama is taking)- but I will say I hope something changes soon. Patent technology cases are out of control.
As mentioned at a session on podcasting I attended at SXSW, one particular patent owner is suing commercial podcasters for illegally using their patent without a license.
This American Life tracked down the company, Personal Audio, in When Patents Attack… Part Two! this past week. The owners of the patent, which was filed in 2009, are claiming they invented podcasting way back in 1995.
The only catch (according to This American Life and others): their company never made a digital podcast or invented a way to download a podcast into a listening device. They simply patented the idea that such a thing can be done. Now they’ve asked podcasters and companies who make mp3 players to pay them licensing fees.
While our podcast doesn’t make any money, I would hate to see us (and others) forced to pay someone licensing fees if we ever decided to make a commercial podcast — especially based on a very broad and general patent.
Listen to the This American Life podcast and then share what you think. Should me and my friends have to pay Personal Audio in order to license their idea?
Finally, if you want to get involved in fighting the podcast patent case, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is helping fight the case. You can get involved by donating, raising awareness or sharing examples of prior art (pre-1996).
With the latest versions of the Google Plus app you can now edit posts AND your comments on the go.
Ahhhh so refreshing.
What do you do to have a big send-off from one HQ to another? Why not get OK Go to take you out in style with a special music video?
Earlier this year, we needed to figure out the best possible way to move my Tiny Desk from NPR’s old headquarters to our new facility just north of the U.S. Capitol. We wanted to go out with a bang and arrive at our new space in style, so our thoughts naturally turned to a catchy pop band we love: OK Go, whose unforgettable videos have been viewed tens of millions of times on YouTube.
Bandleader Damian Kulash used to be an engineer at an NPR member station in Chicago, so we figured he’d be up for helping us execute a simple idea: Have OK Go start performing a Tiny Desk Concert at our old location, continue playing the same song while the furniture and shelving is loaded onto a truck, and finish the performance at our new home.
The video includes cameos by Ari Shapiro, Audie Cornish, David Greene, Guy Raz, Scott Simon, Alix Spiegel, Susan Stamberg and more.
As a really amazing bit of trivia the entire NPR move took roughly a week, starting with NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday as the first to move and be broadcast from the new studios.
On Friday, April 19, while covering the manhunt for Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Morning Edition hosts Steve Inskeep and David Greene finalized the network’s move — while they were on the air. The show started broadcasting that morning in the old studios and continued broadcasting an extended edition surrounding the manhunt. The pair wrapped up the broadcast that day at the new studios.