Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for July 24, 2014 – “Broken Windows”

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In this episode, I talk about the upcoming Dog Days of Podcasting; about my manic-depressive cycles of organizing and disorganizing; about tool chains and processing audio and other fun stuff.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 11, 2014 – “The Quiet Moments”

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In this episode, I talk about a grab bag of topics. I discuss the article types I will never read again; my reaction to Colleen Doran doing copious research; I talk about why I don’t like the “follow your passion” career advice.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 23, 2014 – “The Cloud is Raining on Me”

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In this episode I discuss my problems integrating the various cloud services into my life and work and I cast an appeal for help. Dropbox, Box, Google Docs, Evernote – I live in a cloud based tower of babel. What do I do?

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  • EGC Microcast for March 21, 2014

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  • Dog Days of Podcasting
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  • Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 15, 2014 – “Microcast: Tiny Money”

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    In this microcast I talk about Kickstarter, Patreon and Flattr. You can do one of the three for me.

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    Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 22, 2014 – “The ‘I’ in Team is in the A Hole”

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    In this episode, I talk mostly about the new gig; being a good team member vs being a good employee; the horrifying milieu that is Mad Men and other fun topics to begin the new year.

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    Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 18, 2013 – “Next Exit One Mile”

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    I talk in more specifics about my life changes; I discuss being an older parent and the differential of fear; I talk about how I have changed my podcast creation workflow a little more; I discuss how Dropbox has become a de facto internet protocol.

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    Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 13, 2013 – “Changes and Fear”

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    I discuss my life changes; I talk about Android and installing FourSquare and Saga on my phone; I talk about the YouTube comment controversy; I recommend works by Nicola Griffith and Dave Hill and toodle out of the show ungracefully.

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    Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 4, 2013 – “Feeling Superior”

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    I talk about engineering out failure points from life; I bring up an irksome conversational trope; I talk about my new Kindle Paperwhite; and I discuss the unsung nature of podcaster Derek Coward.

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    Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 28, 2013 – “You Know Who We Are”

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    Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 21, 2013 – “The Moral Argument”

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    I talk about losing a weekend to a swingset; I mention how talking to yourself with a cellphone is socially acceptable but a microphone is not; I talk about how it took me two years to read a single novel and discuss a few things I finished; I finish by talking about the moral argument for paper books and why I’d be happy to get rid of 90% of the paper books in my house and my bafflement at “ad hominem defense.”

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    Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 14 2013 – “Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler”

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    In this episode, I talk about a concept I heard on the In Beta podcast about how to approach self-promotion; I talk about “appeal burnout” and being overwhelmed by calls to action; I talk about famous people using crowdfunding, and how the concern is less that they are subtracting money from the system and more that they are subtracting goodwill; I talk about Ben Franklin and his self-improvement regimens and how I might be trying to change too much stuff all at once in my life;

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    Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 7, 2013 – “Use Your Aspirations”

    Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, October 7, 2013. I discuss my interest in cord cutting for TV; I talk about the 7 Minute Workout and trying to keep my weight under control; I talk about my experiments with trading my laptop for a Bluetooth keyboard and using Podcast Addict as my sole podcatcher/listener; I close off talking about aspirations vs reality in marketing and life.

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    Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for September 30, 2013 – “Don’t Give Me A Story When I Want Information”

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    I talk about my podcast listening workflow and my mostly frustrating search for a satisfactory Android equivalent; I continue to talk about the podcast economy and Flattr’s possible role in that; I use the professional poker world as an analogy for how this might work; I talk about how little I care of most issues that inflame the social media lately; I discuss about how I don’t want my information as “stories” despite being told repeatedly that is the way we need everything.

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    Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 22, 2012 – “Groaning Queues of Fun”

    Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 22, 2012. This episode is again one recorded in my car. I talk about how my entertainment life is now completely dominated by queues in every medium I consume and how that eliminates the urgency to see any piece of content; I discuss how Amazon Prime Streaming of video alters my whole approach to TV; I also talk about the working middle-class midlist writers that make up most of the authors I know personally and how I am totally perplexed by their approach to the changes in publishing.

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    Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 6, 2012 – “Write Me, Flattr Me”

    Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, circa February 6, 2012. This episode was recorded standing on a chilly and windy beach. I have two main topics – suggesting that podcasters and specifically podcasters of my circle should bum rush the Flattr system and talking about The Month of Letters Challenge, aka .

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    Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 17, 2012 – “World Records”

    Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, circa January 17, 2012. This episode is one of a new format recorded in my car, but sounds better than I would have expected. I talk about having the longest running podcast (once this gets published); I talk about finishing the first draft of my novel and doing small amounts of work consistently over time; how to try to get more podcasts done and how to get through life. It’s a short one, trying to get in a new groove.

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    Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 20, 2010 – “Six Years and Counting, Monkey Fighters!”

    Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 20, 2010. I play a song from the newly reformed Vaselines; I talk about anti-nostalgia, and harken back to the beginning of this podcast; I play a song by the Gentle Readers; I tell the story of how I come to love the music of the Gentle Readers; I talk about my lack of needing to convince anyone much of anything; I play a song by Camper van Beethoven and we begin the seventh year of this thing.

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    Clambake Episode for June 9, 2005

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    I talk about being low energy; I have a VOIP box in my house, named “the Batphone”; I play a song from Chub Creek about how poor I am at answering email; I talk about passing on the Spoleto festival; I play a clip from Echo Radio; I play an “evil genius” song from Jonathan Coulton; I give Adam from the MacCast static about his trepidation for taking ads; I mention the Rob Glaser streaming deal; and finally I play a hilariously raunchy song by Jonathan Coulton.

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