Audio Archives Are BACK
The audio archives were taken offline recently for maintenance but I’m happy to report that they are back and ready for your listening pleasure! If you haven’t had a chance to listen to some of my radio clips, head on over to the Audio portion of the site by clicking on the Audio button at the top. Once there you can select from various categories. I suggest you start your journey with the Montages category, particularly my 2005 Montage. That clip features the best of my 5 year career in broadcasting and was the last thing that I ever played over the airwaves. The Interviews category is a good one to check out as well. This is where I talk to bands like Nickelback and Alien Ant Farm as well as other celebrities. Airchecks is another fun category where you will hear me take command of a 100,000 watt FM radio station and a 50,000 watt talk radio station. I hope that you enjoy the audio at least half as much as I enjoyed creating it!
Continuing The Conversation
As you may have noticed, I took a little break from blogging. I’d like to think of it as two years of writers block. It wasn’t that I didn’t have anything to say, it was more like I did not have time to say it. This can be partially blamed on the Twitter phenominom that began around the same time that my blogging ended. My thoughts and expressions became limited to 140 character tweets of which I did a really good job of squeezing in every available character. My tweets consisted of things that I had either brought up or overheard in conversations with my friends, family and peers.
Something you may not have noticed is that my online presence hit a major milestone last March when my namesake domain turned 10 years old. I started blogging back in Y2K because at the time there was no other way to get your point across to all of your friends all at once. Sure there were websites like Livejournal and Xanga but they all required your friends to have an account in order to join in the conversation. Having watched The Social Network last night I can see that what I was trying to do at the time was very similar to what Zuckerberg was doing with Facebook only on a smaller and more personal scale. I wanted my friends and family, all of whom were scattered across the globe, to have one-click access to everything that I felt like sharing with the world.
So here we are, almost 11 years later. Everyone on the planet can create their own web presence using only an email address and a password. I questioned whether or not to keep this portal going or to migrate everything to the social network. What I have decided to do is to harness the power of both the social network and the web portal. Social networks are great for in-the moment conversation but do little for archiving and in-depth discussion. You may see a tweet or status update from me but that will only be the start of the conversation. If the 140 teaser grabs you, I invite all of my friends, family, and peers to visit BrendanOnline and continue the conversation.
Clark Howard Update
Well I learned a little bit about how Clark Howard does his radio show. It turns out he tapes portions of the show well in advance and uses them later. For instance, I recorded with him yesterday and it will air in the the last segment of the one of the hours on Friday. Today I recorded a follow-up with him and it will air in the 2nd segment, around 15 after one of the hours. It’s pretty good and really shows how evil FYE are. I’ll be posting the audio to Digg and YouTube once I get it.
I’m going to be on Clark Howard tomorrow
I taped a segment with Consumer Activist Clark Howard today about the FYE bait-and-switch scheme. It should air tomorrow at the tail end of one of the hours (listen about 10 minutes before the top of each hour 1-4pm ET). I’ll try to post the audio when it airs. In short, he’s going to bust them.
Click here to listen to Clark Howard on the web Click 1-4PM ET and the player will pop-up.
Whoopie for Version Three!
Welcome to BrendanOnline version 3 dot 0. This incarnation of BrendanOnline I’m dubbing “The Same But Different Edition.” While I’ve kept the same color scheme and flash header, everything else is completely different. Take a look around. I’m sure you’ll find the site a lot easier to navigate and the layout a lot cleaner. Now that I’ve finally implemented the 3.0 milestone, I’ll be posting a lot more on the site. Look for “the best of the internet according to Brendan” on this site. Whatever I find while surfing the net along with submissions from my friends are all fair game. Anyone who’s tired of being the last to know about cool gadgets or cool and funny websites/videos should visit this site daily. Oh and there may be a thing or two that broke in the process of designing the new site. If you find something that doesn’t look quite right, send me an email and let me know about it. Thanks and enjoy the site!
