It’s the first night of New York Anime Festival. So far everything seems fine. However, the concern about last year seems to be this year’s as well. The convention ends to early in the evening, 9pm, which is not a late convention compared to other conventions that usually ends at 2 in the morning (such as Otakon and I-CON). Then again, in its New York City, the city that never sleeps!
I did last year recommend Reed Exhibitions, the operator of NYAF and New York Comic Con, to leave the Javits Center and move to another location. The suggestion of location was Time Square, such as the Marriott Marquis. Anime Expo and Big Apple Anime Festival were there and I thought it was at a great location I expressed to them. There are Pros and Cons with the location, such as the Javits is closer to Penn, and Times Square has more hotels and places to eats. I think you would say that to any con, large and small, there is going to be pros and cons.
We were unable to do the first podcast because the Con Goer’s podcast co-host, Fred, was not able to show up Friday. We will be doing a podcast tomorrow right from our hotel room. In February, we are planning to record audio podcasts at the convention floor of New York Comic Con at the Podcast Arena.
Yes it is. After an agreement yesterday,Vidgle is now streaming videos through Veoh’s website. Vidgle is also planning to be added as one of the many channels on its new VeohTV software in the upcoming weeks. Veoh is one of the many sites and softwares you could watch Vidgle on. Vidgle also works with iTunes (with iPods, AppleTV, and iPhone), Miro, Blubrry, and many other sites and software. Vidgle also has a webapp for the iPhone and iPod Touch which can be found when you visit the site when using the device.
Vidgle’s Veoh Page is here, add us as friend if you are already a registered user on the site.
During a news segment on WABC, WNBC, and WCBS, they report of what is Katie Holme’s Broadway debut. But a group was there that might be familiar to our photo gallery users. The newscasts mentioned about the Scientology protests behind police baricades while wearing their “anonymous” masks. Unfortunately, neither station has uploaded the video on their website. This is one of the reasons why I want to get my DVR setup (without Cablevision’s charge).
At WRAJ Internet Radio, ideas are being tossed around all over the place of our new template. The template that I showed you a few months ago, below, is no longer going to be the running candidate of the new design of wrajradio.com. The new template that’s in the works is going to be used for other Jenthony Media websites, such as Vidgle and the new NewMusic101 website that is planning to launch mid-2009.
WRAJ Internet Radio has never had a template change in over four years; however the template coding began nearly six years ago and wasn’t used till late 2003. The first template used on WRAJ Internet Radio, below, was designed for a small internet radio station. But what happened in that year made us realize that we were getting many users onto the site. So in August 2003, we have decided of what will be the current design of wrajradio.com.
And it was that template that was created in fall 2003 that made WRAJ Internet Radio more popular. And that template is the current template we used today. At several radio conferences I’ve attended in the past, I got into disscussions with other internet radio station operators about the website, not the station. Someone even said to me, “if you are in internet radio, you gotta know WRAJ.” The site’s homepage in 2005 is below.
I wouldn’t say WRAJ got popular by the website, but the website is well known in the internet radio community. Some, even listeners, would consider WRAJ to have the best internet radio station website. The website has elements of a traditional broadcast website, with DJ biographies, show pages, and a music guide. Although after hacking attempts in the previous music guide code, a new music guide portal is planning to launch by the end of the year.
WRAJ Internet Radio’s template was displayed on several other internet radio station websites, such as Beatles-A-Rama!!!, below. However, it was not a complete success to those stations to have a modified template.
So the question is what we have in store for the new website. Well, what we will have is a fixed region (meaning the page will not stretch across the entire screen), and a horizontal navigation bar with pull down menus.
We are currently working on a November deadline so that the template will go up in mid-January. It’s amazing that we are working on another template five years after we designed our current template. I guess we are not used of changes around here. I think I should of put the beginning of the yellow rainbow line somewhere it makes sense instead of in the middle of no where.
If you enjoy listening to Shoutcast stations, including WRAJ Internet Radio and WFTU-AM, AOL has released a new look of the Shoutcast website. I have tried the beta copy before being released to the public last week and I thought that its great that AOL is finally taking big jumps for Shoutcast’s directory.
Not only there is a new website, but there also tons of new features; including a new toolbar to listen to Shoutcast stations, a Facebook application, embeddable widgetsand, and support for devices. Shoutcast already supports on iTunes, Windows Media Player, Real Player, various set-top boxes such as cable and internet, and the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) and Sony Mylo.
The search is expanded as well on the website which allows users to search stations that played artists they search. For example, if we search John Mayer, it will list stations that recently just played or is playing that artist.
WRAJ Internet Radio and WFTU-AM does have a Windows Media stream but unfortuanetly Microsoft does not maintain a directory such as this for their streaming software like Shoutcast.
Don’t call me foolish, but when it comes to batteries forget about. I can complain for hours about how batteries are so untrustworthy. My 3 year old PowerBook G4 12″ laptop battery is having a charge issue, its a long story of what’s going on but I have a sense of what’s wrong. The old battery that I had up till 2006, which was recalled, was good, it sometimes lasted a good five hours if I had the backlight low and nothing else on (including wireless, Bluetooth, Audio, CD/DVD, etc.). And now, the battery that I had for two years has been acting funny now for the past few months. And as you see on top, thats right, a ten hour charge, but its not actually true. The battery doesn’t want to charge when in use, including sleep mode, which results the kernal reports to the OS that it would take 10 hours (in Mac OS, the charge time length variable can’t be any higher than 10 hours). Then out of no where, the battery thinks its fully charged, and when you use 16% of power from the battery, it will lose its charge. From my knowledge, it seems to be a dead cell. At this rate, I think I’m going to need to order a new battery. Also something that I ran into last night, it seems like I can’t burn CDs with this issue. I’m getting an error that I have never ran into before, which says that there is not enough power to power the laser to write onto the CD.
May be this is a sign for a new laptop?
I am waiting for the next operating system to come next year, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, until I get a new laptop. My current laptop will become a Final Cut Pro and audio production laptop so that podcast episodes on WRAJ and Vidgle can be produced on the field, which will mostly be used for the Con Goer. I was quite surprised of how many audio and video podcasts were using my laptop model to produce the shows. However, most of the podcasts have upgraded this year to a newer Mac laptop model.
I have caught, yet interesting, WBAB using a graphic image that was used on air and online of a graphic from WNBC. Obvisiouly it was made for WNBC as it had animation effects on WNBC’s newscast and was used as a lower third for their 9/11 coverage for 2008. That graphic is an image that says “9/11 Remembered.”
Here is what was displayed on WNBC’s website:
Here is how WBAB layed it out:
Well obvisouly WBAB needs to hire a graphic artist for their website or stack up on stock photos and graphics. My site has tons and tons of stock graphics and images, we don’t even need to Google our graphics, or even take graphics from local TV stations; and we even have a few graphic designers.
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.
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.
Not only there is a new website, but there also tons of new features; including a new toolbar to listen to Shoutcast stations, 
Don’t call me foolish, but when it comes to batteries forget about. I can complain for hours about how batteries are so untrustworthy. My 3 year old PowerBook G4 12″ laptop battery is having a charge issue, its a long story of what’s going on but I have a sense of what’s wrong. The old battery that I had up till 2006, which was recalled, was good, it sometimes lasted a good five hours if I had the backlight low and nothing else on (including wireless, Bluetooth, Audio, CD/DVD, etc.). And now, the battery that I had for two years has been acting funny now for the past few months. And as you see on top, thats right, a ten hour charge, but its not actually true. The battery doesn’t want to charge when in use, including sleep mode, which results the kernal reports to the OS that it would take 10 hours (in Mac OS, the charge time length variable can’t be any higher than 10 hours). Then out of no where, the battery thinks its fully charged, and when you use 16% of power from the battery, it will lose its charge. From my knowledge, it seems to be a dead cell. At this rate, I think I’m going to need to order a new battery. Also something that I ran into last night, it seems like I can’t burn CDs with this issue. I’m getting an error that I have never ran into before, which says that there is not enough power to power the laser to write onto the CD.
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…,” 