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Vicious Circle of Belly Fat

Abdominal fat cells produce a hormone that can make you hungrier, leading to more belly fat and so on. Steve Mirsky reports.

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Hey everyone. Just wanted to let you know I finally made it back from Vegas early this morning. The NAB conference was absolutely amazing, and I was fortunate enough to have been working as a room monitor for several different seminars that dealt with a number of topics relevant to the focus of our 5990 course. I attended a few sessions on video podcasting that featured a great number of tips and ideas for producing video geared for the web. I also got to sit in on a few courses on blogging, as well as some director of photography workshops. All in all it was a great trip and I can't wait to fill you in on everything.

For this week's post I figured I would share with you some of the great resources I came across while at the show. Here's a link to a website produced by Rich Harrington, one of speakers at the conference who devoted a number of his sessions to video production for the web. The site, called vidpodcaster.com, features a blog that is updated several times a week, and also provides a link to subscribe to the free podcast "Producing Video Podcasts" (which can also be done through iTunes as well). I have checked out a few episodes so far and, in addition to being fairly well produced, found them to be pretty informative. I also thumbed through the official book (which goes by the same name) at the NAB book store and am considering picking that up as well just to have on-hand for reference. I would definitely recommended looking into it.

I hope the weekend workshop went well for everyone and can't wait to see how everything turned out. Have a great weekend, and I'll see you all in class next Tuesday...

Sermon Podcasts

I’ve been hearing about priests podcasting their sermons and putting them online. I thought it was interesting, and I wanted to see how common it is.

Here is a link to a blog posting discussing the idea. It says that podcasting is all about niche markets, and church teachings are definitely niche markets. I think it is interesting how many aspects of our lives are becoming affected by new media.

"The Church and Sermon Podcast Hosting Niche"

Not to promote any specific churches or denominations, but here are two examples I found. The St. Philip’s one has a pretty impressive web site.

St. Philip's Episcopal Church

Peachtree Presbyterian Church

perverse and often baffling

Yay Friday. Today you will listen to the most recent episode of This American Life for free soon ("Tough Room"), or else soon it will not be free. Or just get the podcast. Beginning part is cool, about how writers at The Onion select their funniest stories. And then seriously you must listen to Act 4 about Malcolm Gladwell's first journalism job at the Washington Post.

After that you will read this post, "How to be Creative," written by this guy who runs a blog of cool doodles he makes on the backs of business cards. This list is helpful not just for elite hip creative types, but also maybe multimedia journalists. examples.
1. Ignore everybody
3. Put the hours in
16. The world is changing
36. Start blogging

BBC

Recently I started reading the BBC more. I've been fed up with CNN because it's constantly political analysis. The BBC has great podcasts. You can subscribe for free and play them on your RSS or ITunes. It's simple and informative. I've been listening to a podcast on global news. Besides the podcasts, they have live radio. While it has some news about England, it is mainly world news. It's a great tool for information.

Grammar Girl Podcast

For those that don't know, Grammar Girl is a podcaster that talks about common grammar mistakes. It's pretty interesting because they are mistakes nearly everyone has slipped up on before, so it's a good listen. Sometimes she'll even talk about the origin of a particular word, and you'll almost always leave learning something new.

Now, I know what you're thinking. "But, Rusty, I freaking HATE grammar." Alright, I understand, but hear me out. In our field, almost all of us have to proofread or copyedit in some form or fashion, whether it's our own stuff or someone else's. In fact, everyone should browse the top 10 podcasts to see if there's anything they're not up to snuff on. Also, if you don't want to listen to her talk, you can simply read that episode's transcript.

What made me think of this today was a horrible ad in The Red & Black. I noticed it yesterday and today, and it may have been in there more days for all I know. Basically it was ad for apartments which read in HUGE print: "Athen's Best Student Living." Coincidentally, the most recent Grammar Girl podcast topic is apostrophe usage.

-Rusty