Spoken Words

Spoken Words
"Bu the 1950s, the conventions of radio plays had ossified too much even for old-time radio audiences. Who best to call to tear up the form and start it over again? Why, Samuel Beckett, of course."

Think of radio plays, and you most likely think (or I most likely think) of the form’s American ‘golden age’ in the first half of the 20th century.

Followers of a God of Love Strike Again

Followers of a God of Love Strike Again



Ananta Bijoy Das wrote for a website once moderated by another writer, killed in a similar way. To learn more, Steve Inskeep talks to Syed Zain Al-Mahmood of The Wall Street Journal in Dhaka.

OBS For Linux

OBS For Linux

I missed the release of this but dang this is great news. OBS on linux means more streaming how I like it.  I just ran a quick live streaming test to youtube…yep..fast to setup and easy to run. 

Open Broadcaster Software is free and open source software for recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.

Its The Jackie Gleason Show..with…

Its The Jackie Gleason Show..with…

So we decided to live stream every day…some amount of time… and see where that goes. Down the ego drain, as a way to focus the myriad of project , just as a journal…who knows.

http://younow.com/tomwsmf

You now You then You

You now You then You

In the stream today I was told of a new live broadcast service/app called YouNow. Looking in on it showed it was yet another instant mememe video look at me service that blended in some of the monetization features talked about in a recent +Planet Money​ The geezer in me said Feh but then a little spark of the "gee whiz new things on the intertubes" me went up. Why no geezers on these streams? Where are the dadifestos? Where Is The Crime. Srsly folks, shit needs stirring.
And so…stay tuned.