A voice that you might have heard on televison and film trailers thousands of times is silent today. Don LaFontaine, known for his catch phrase “In a world…,” died Monday. He has been on hundreds of commercials and thousands of movie trailers in his 33 year career of voice over.

LaFontaine died Monday from complications of treatment from ongoing illness, LaFontaine’s agent announced.

Jenthony Media, which owns WRAJ Internet Radio and Vidgle, was arranging to have LaFontaine voice series of promos for its podcast network, which includes Vidgle and the WRAJ Internet Radio podcast which is launching this month, and the new WRAJ Internet Radio website, which is expected to launch a year from now. A replacement has not yet been announced.

LaFontaine is survived by his wife and three daughters.

Image: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file

If you thought the MySpace movie was a huge internet crave, take a look a look of what a writer has in mind for Facebook. Instead of a low budget, short, internet video, the Facebook Movie will be launched into theaters. The movie will tell the story of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, of when he was attending Harvard in 2004 and describing of he used Facebook as a school project. It has not yet been approved by Zuckerberg or Facebook. More about this on Vidgle.

Vidgle’s Otakon Coverage Can Be Found at www.vidgle.com/congoer/otakon.

All I have to say is “wow” about our Otakon coverage two weeks ago. As the leader with four reporters, four photographers, producers, cameramen, and a few contributors; we had a total of over 3,000 photos and eight hours of video coverage! Otakon marks as the largest coverage that we’ve done with our “Con Goer” series; Con Goer is the most viewed series on Vidgle. The photos has been posted, and the video podcast episodes are coming in weekly since Otakon.

I would like to thank Jen, Sarah, I-hsiu, Kim, and especially Jon Ko who have taken pictures of Otakon like mad! Most of the pictures are up, but the ones missing are most of the masquerade photos. Those will be up very soon. You can take a look at our pictures here.

With the video podcast coverage, we are getting many hits with our current two episodes. We are planning to launch the Friday episode in a few days! There will also be a Saturday and Sunday Out and About coverage, and a wrap up report in the upcoming weeks. We will have videos of the Phoenix Wright Trail panel and JamProject’s press conference as well. Again, you can watch the videos here.

We did run into a mic issue when we were interviewing with a  Mr. Game and Watch cosplayer (which will be on the next episode). It turns out that one of our reporter microphones died so we got stuck with one and prayed that the second one won’t die for the entire weekend. We normally bring extra microphones but the connector part from the microphone to the camera broke, so a microphone replacement won’t do and a trip to the Best Buy down the street won’t do either since the part is not found in stores.

We will be publishing a review of my Otakon experience in the upcoming week on the Vidgle blog and everyone else will be a writing a response as well.

Our next con coverage for the Con Goer is New York Anime Festival in September. The final con coverage for this year will be MangaNEXT, which will take place on Halloween weekend. We will then have the “Best of 2008″ in December as the reporters and crew sit down at our studios and discuss their favorite cons of this past year.

The door that everyone has entered into the basement of nerd heaven, which says WRAJ Internet Radio for the past 4 years, is being replaced today. In the WRAJ Internet Radio photo gallery, the image above of the door has been the top 5 most viewed image in the photo gallery.

Because of the longevity of the door for the past 18 years, the door is beginning to rust by the floods we had earlier this decade. We will miss this door, as it was our symbol for WRAJ and the friendship around me and my friends. We will miss it dearly.

When it comes to online media, it seems like large media organizations are buying small online media organizations like crazy. MySpace belongs to News Corp. (the same company that owns Fox Broadcast), Last.FM with CBS, iVillage belongs to NBC, Go.com belongs to Disney/ABC, YouTube belongs to Google. In the past 10 months, WRAJ Internet Radio and Vidgle has been in a middle of offers by 5 major media corporations which the list is being disclosed. The highest offer now is $10 million and was rejected by the company, a decision I have made. Thats right, I, a 20 year old college student, have rejected $10 million offer to buy my website. The earliest offer was $2.5 million back in December 2007 and was rejected.

I would like to say I want to keep the radio website and our new properties in the upcoming years, including Vidgle, owned by my company, not a large corporation. Though we might get a lot of support from the larger corporations and abroad if we do take an offer, I just feel that I should continue of what I’m doing because I am having fun with it, and so is my friends. Because of WRAJ Internet Radio, we were able to form a company out of it, forming Jenthony Enterprises, Inc., to this day, we are the only internet radio station that was able to form a company within the first 3 years of operation.

Now let me get back to work with WRAJ Internet Radio, Vidgle, and our newly to be released NewMusic101.com online radio station (maybe I shouldn’t have said it to early).

Hey everyone who goes to Five Towns (or anywhere else),

Did you ever want to start a podcast on a large scale? Well now here is your chance to begin podcasting on my podcast mediums which has an audience of 1,000 users. As you might already know, we have already launched our video podcast network, Vidgle. Vidgle has already over 1,000 viewers monthly and over 500 podcast subscribers, either through a podcast fetcher software, Google Videos, Miro Guide, and the iTunes store. Our most famous show is “Con Goer,” a show which we report from a sci-fi, comic, and/or anime convention. Such conventions include New York Comic Con, I-CON, and Otakon.

And launching in September is our new podcast medium, an audio podcast which will be run and operated by WRAJ Internet Radio called the WRAJ Internet Radio podcast. Not only your show will be on a podcast feed, but it will be aired Sunday mornings on WRAJ Internet Radio. Shows premiering in September include a tech talk show, “Con Goer,” and a few others.

With your show, you will be able have press access to some events if it covers under your show, including conventions, local events, sports events, concerts, etc.

Your podcast must be “clean” and family friendly. And if you want to have a audio podcast, you can simply produce the show with any program you wish to do and finalize it as an MP3 file. And if you are willing to do a video podcast, you must use a video camera, not a webcam. You can use any video editing program you want and must be in 854×468 in widescreen or 640×468 letterbox in allowed formats (m4v, dv, mp4, mpg) when sending it to us for approval per episode. If you have any questions about formatting your show, feel free to ask.

If you are interested to begin podcasting with us in the fall, feel free to contact via email or Facebook.

Here is a rough schedule that I might have in the fall for my senior year at Five Towns College (wow, I never it thought I would ever say that). Since I am not taking internships because “I already have relations in the industry and part of it,” of what my adviser told me, I will be taking 2 level 3/400 classes to make up my internship credits and a required class for the spring and then I am done with school (I’m ahead because I went to summer school in case you were wondering). Below is my schedule, for the fall:

Monday, Wednesday, Friday:

• 10:00AM - 10:50AM: BUS111A Business Organization and Mangament with Alvarez (35)
• 11:00AM - 11:50AM: MAC301 New and Emerging Media with Prusslin (14)

Tuesday Thursday:

• 12:00PM - 1:15PM: ENG203 Journalism with Wax (20)
• 1:30PM - 2:45PM: MAC401 Public Opinion with Mr. To Be Arranged (20)
• 3:00PM - 4:15PM: VID131A Television Workshop with Mr. To Be Arranged (28)

Wow, I get Mr. To Be Arranged twice in a row! I must be special!

Numbers next to the class is how many students there are as of July 23, not including myself on BUS111A.

If you have a iPhone or an iPod Touch, I have some great news for you. On Wednesday, we launched our first web app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that works with Vidgle’s video database. Though there is no name for it, we simply call it “Vidgle on iPhone” as the code name. We only support and tested the new web app on the newest software version of iPod Touch and iPhone. Since we support multiple video formats for each video since our launch, we were able to create this web app in just 5 hours of coding. Now you don’t need a computer to watch Vidgle or sync to our podcast feed when you’re on the go.

This comes as we prepare to make new shows and bring in new episodes in the fall. 

We tried to get this to work with Blackberrys, but they don’t support the H.264 encoding that we use when we finalize our videos in 3GP. Until then we won’t support videos for Blackberry.

“The internet is going mobile and portable very fast,” I always say, which is why we are beginning to launch many mobile sites like this in the upcoming year. Since WRAJ Internet Radio has joined the Nokia radio directory so users can listen to the station on their Nokia phone, we’ve had over 500 tune-ins directly from the directory since we joined publicly in January.

So if you want to try Vidgle out on your iPhone or iPod Touch, launch up Safari, and head over to vidgle.com. Then you will notice a message on the top of the page saying and telling you to “Touch here to use Vidgle on iPhone” (that means to touch that message). Now you are on the iPhone version of Vidgle’s video directory. If you want to bookmark it or add it to your home screen, do so at this time. If not, browse around a video just like you would do on the site, once when you run into a video, simply tap on the watch button and enjoy.

And if you don’t have an iPhone or iPod Touch and you would like to try it out, why not go to your nearest Apple store! 

Last summer was the worst, but this summer it was about the same. However, nothing can’t beat last summer as the worst summer I can ever have. In summer 2007, I worked nonstop and I wasn’t able to hangout with friends.

This summer though is different from last summer. Though I have had less work due to the crashing economy, I was able to have more time to hangout with friends. However, this entire summer, something on my mind kept bothering me to be with friends.

One was a question, “what am I going to do in a year from now?” Asked by many college students like myself, I don’t know exactly what I’ll be doing a year from now. There are many opportunities I can take but I just don’t know which one to pick.

Another question I ask myself, “do I really have time to relax in fall?” If you are unaware, I will need to take an internship for college, which honestly I won’t have time for. During the upcoming school year, not only I will be doing work for school, but also run a company which is expanding. A new division is formed for t-shirts called Save Point Designs. Currently, I have decided to find a way to be excused from the internship program and replace it with another class.

Lastly, what some of you may find funny, is dating. Did you know that in the last 4 years, I asked out over 20 girls on a date and they turned me down. Its kinda embarrassing for me, but yet I know some of you may find it funny. It upsets me now as I look back. Some of the girls who I ask out still talks to me, but most of them stopped talking to me while I try to talk to them back. I just don’t randomly ask a girl out, I let them get to know me and I want to get to know them; it seems like it doesn’t work that way in the real world. Of course the top 2 excuses that are mostly used are either “I know alot and I don’t want to hurt our relationship” and “i don’t feel like dating now” (which of course they go out on a date within the next week after they say that to me). For some reason, most of the time I don’t believe of what they say. Feeling rejected is hard, but 20 times is a big, huge “OUCH!” “I don’t get why you are rejected so many times,” a good friend of mine said to me. “You are an interesting guy with so much personality, experience, talent, and knowledgeable.” The question will always be unsolved for me and I’ll never find a “true” answer.

This has what has been bothering me lately since no one wants to talk to me in person or even on the phone about how I’ve been feeling lately. I would appreciate a friend to talk to me one-on-one with this, since I can’t seem to catch you.

Yes, I don’t want to have another birthday party again in November, although it is my 21st birthday. My birthday is on November 11.

And just like last year, I announced around this time to remind my friends and family that I don’t want to do anything for my birthday. This year I will be doing it again, although it is early so I’ll be reminding everyone later on.

“I just want to have my birthday as a typical Sunday, the day when my birthday falls on of course. If you want to have a (surprise) birthday party for me that is not on my birthday, feel free to plan one. I just want my birthday to be what I promised myself last year.”

A quote in a post last year describing of what I wanted for my birthday last year, this year, I will be saying it again in the fall. But addition, please don’t plan any parties for me including surprise parties, I just hate it when I have all of the attention.