Dusty and I just came back from Vegas after presenting 3 presentations on podcasting and media. For those of you who attended, thank you for all the kind comments. I've also posted our three presentations with links to them here.

After a few days of playing around with Leopard, I feel like this is such a great technical achievement... I just had to write about this OS. Forget about all the nut's 'n' bolts of the OS, it's just a incredible leap into the future. Bravo Apple! Bravo.

This Summer involves travel from NYC to the country. Thus, the need to occupy my ADT is quite important. On the train, the laptop works quiet well for my needs. I can edit Culture Catch programs using FCP. This chews up a 2hr train trip in a split second. The Lirr managers are lossing money everyday they don't offer wifi services. I'd pay 4.99 a trip to have access. It'll happen. I sure it's tied up in a lengthly bid process.

In my area, Cablevision has the monopoly. I signed up for their triple play option plus "boost". This will give me TV, Internet and telephone over their lines to my house. The phone for $15.00 per month is a great deal. Why does the internet cost $30.00 per month? Plus, I'm not sure this "boost", twice the speed of the internet, is really even faster. But I haven't tested it.

So Internet and phone cost me $45.00 per month. OK, not a budget breaker and I'm getting value. Unlimted long distance and 24/7 access the internet at broadband speeds.

About once a month I get excited by a product that will enhance my cultural experience. Griffin Technology is a sponsor of Culture Catch, thus, I've been paying closer attention to their product line. They have lots of great stuff for the iPod, but the new wireless speakers they have coming are really cool. Connect to an iPod base station, the speakers are rechargable, thus don't need to be plugged into the wall. Why is that important? If your outlet isn't grounded properly, powered speakers can get a small buzz.

As I am a follower, Apple does a great job in getting you to believe that you must have their lastest product. Before the iPhone, it was the G5 Intel Quad, the iMac, and of course the iPod. The iPhone is amazing, but it is just a phone. The G5 very fast, but still a computer. The iPod, well, that was as revolutionary as the original iMac in 84.

Scripted User generated content. That's how I describe the new web series I'm launching. For the past six months, I've been working with a group of actors developing a web series based on pop culture in New York City. The development has been an organic experience. Scripts are somewhat grown from ideas that I come up with. Actors then take the ball and run with it. This series are short stories about what artists do for art sake. Mostly humorous, but their is a smart culture aspect that we're trying to achieve.

I've known Imus since the early 70's when he and his family moved down the street from my childhood home. I never met him, but became good friends with his daughter in high school. She's completely opposite from her father's persona on the radio. A real sweat soft spoken girl who'd never be one to ruffle the feathers. I had heard enough stories from her to know that Imus was a bit out there. However, growing up in CT outside NYC, anything was strange if you weren't playing by "rules" set hundreds of years earlier by those who founded the town.

Speaking at NAB this year gave us lots of exposure to many other podcasters. Linking to technorait gives us the opportunity to keep a watch on what people are saying about us in the blog world....

As you know, our content is free. We tastefully integrate our advertisers/sponsors into our podcasts. To better understand your likes/dislikes and thus increase your Culture Catch experience, our ad crew needs some info. This will enable us to add new features -- desktop skins/players, live webcast events, and new original content. So, like a public TV station, we're asking for your help, not a money donation, but a donation of two minutes of your time. It's only 16 multiple-choice questions, please click on the all knowing eye or click this link to the take the survey. Thanks.

There are more mobile phones in India than there are people who are on-line. That is true in the United States as well. This is a global trend, in fact. The interactive world is all in a tizzy right now. G3 phones, those that play video, have gone viral. Numbers will go from 220 million global today to 500 million in five years. Ad expenditures are on an equal pace to increase dramatically before the decade is over.

Why is this so important to the interactive world? Because everyone carries their mobile phone with them at all times. It doesn't matter if your working, working out, having sex or sleeping, ones mobile phone is with in reach of a pocket or night table. What's ridiculous to me are those who are literately connected to their phone at all times. Those blue tooth earphones that stay on the ear at all times. I don't get this. Expecially if your walking into a place of worship.

In the last 20 years, the computer consumer has been faced with a really painful decision - Mac or PC. For me it's always been a Mac, as a film maker, the PC never really entered my mind. If I was a sound editor or into 3D, then I most certainly would have made the switch. There has been that occasion when I wish I had a PC. A computer game only available on a PC or many different types of business software. Even massive, a program I don't need but would love to dream about having it just to play around, only runs on a PC.

All of that changed yesterday when Apple announced their new computers will run Windows XP. In fact, there will be a way to run PC programs in the OSX world. After all OSX runs on Unix which makes all of this possible.