Remember that what you've written over two weeks, your reader will read in a couple of hours. The material you wrote yesterday followed two weeks of thinking intensely about your topic. You are familiar and maybe getting a little tired of your topic. The reader is still fresh.

Put on a set of headphones and sit down in front of a microphone and your voice changes.  You almost can't help it. One minute you're casually talking to a friend and then you decide it's time to start recording your podcast and you gear up and all of a sudden you aren't so casual any more.

I am often hired to provide my voice for podcast and broadcast programs. I voice the intro for Derrick Story’s Inside Aperture podcast (you can hear a sample in the Joe Schorr program) and the audio and video series of Web 2.0 presentations produced by Good Company Productions (as an example, listen to A Conversation [...]

Conference organizers can extend the reach and impact of their events with audio. I have recently produced audio interviews from Eclipse Con (including conversations with Robert Lefkowitz and an engineer from NASA’s JPL) and the No Fluff Just Stuff tour (including Neal Ford on Domain Specific Languages and Jay Zimmerman on Five Years of No [...]

Photographer James Duncan Davidson and I teamed up to produce a series of nine developer profiles for the Apple Developer Connection. Duncan provided both the pictures and the page design for the ADC Developer Pavilion feature which included interviews with Robin Frost, Eddy Martinez, and Will Thimbleby.

Our weekly podcast Distributing the Future looked at the people and ideas behind emerging technology and how we use it. The theme derived from William Gibson’s quote that “the future is here it just isn’t evenly distributed yet.” The program was produced for a little over a year for O’Reilly Media. Shows include A Brussels [...]