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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Show Notes:

• Photoshop CS3 Beta is now public. Go get it!!
• Adobe, Reuters & Canon working on digital breadcrumbs?
• Godspeed Bruce Fraser, the entire Photoshop community mourns a legend
• Pandora adds community tools to an already great service
• The FTC starts taking a hard look at indirect marketing
• Sony's disastrous attempt at viral marketing
• $15,000 for placement on Digg?!!
• Our boy Phillip Kerman is in the house
• A Christmas Story...go visit the actual house in Cleveland!
• Music this week? Tougher Than Leather baby!!

New contest...YouTube us!

Send us your coolest YouTube video for a chance to win a $50 Gift Card to iTunes!

To get you started...here's Phillip Kerman flipping his shoe. (Listen to the interview and it'll make sense...)

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Posted by: Josh Cavalier

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Josh Cavalier
James Williamson

** James will be adding the show notes shortly!

Our New Contest: YouTubeUs!

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Posted by: James Williamson

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Show Notes:

• Brightcove Network is now online!
• Odeo is now owned by Obvious!
• MAX Review:
  
• What's Apollo?
• Fireworks is NOT dead.
  
• Soundbooth...audio editing simplified?
• Flash lite....can you hear me now?!
  
• Adobe Digital Editions is new
• Connect through Acrobat
  
• Check out the cool sneak peeks...
• Music this week by the band Fluid

Flash contest is now closed!!

New contest soon...your chance to win a $50 Gift Card to iTunes!

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Posted by: Josh Cavalier

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital

Guest:
Ben Wilson

The Flash Contest is Closed!

Posted by: Josh Cavalier

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital (Live in the studio!)

James - It's your turn for show notes... ;)

Our New Contest: Awesome Flash Sites! LAST WEEK!!!!

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Posted by: Josh Cavalier

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital (In a bunker...)

Our New Contest: Awesome Flash Sites!

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Welcome to our lean but mean - episode number 17!

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Special Guest: Ben Wilson - www.logware.us

Show Notes:

• James is going to Hilton Head for vacation
• Ripley is Rambolina
• Trivial Pursuit  - still tied (Score- Josh 3, James 3)
• People are still paying for rotary phones
  
• Nintendo Wii
• Adobe releases Premiere Elements and Adobe Elements
• XAML conversion contest is going on now! 
• A song from Very Large Array provided by Magnitune.com

Our New Contest: Awesome Flash Sites!

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Posted by: Josh Cavalier

Welcome to our tribute to world travel - exciting episode number 16!

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Special Guest: Ben Wilson - www.logware.us

Show Notes:

• Ben is going to India
• College football is here
• Will still suck at Trivial Pursuit (Score- Josh 3, James 3)
• Do you steal from the office? 38% of you are lying
• Pluto... planet no more
• Madden went large
• Browzer lets you surf in private
• Windows Expression tools delayed until 2008
• Are you reading Think Vitamin? You should!
• John Alsupp informs us on microformats
• Photoshop World kicks off after Labor  Day
• Defective-by-Design is proclaiming October 3 "Day Againt DRM"
• AOL is official badware - but you knew that
• Dead 2.0 asks the question.. what is RSS?
• Did we cure cancer?
• We want listerner mail!!!

Our New Contest: Awesome Flash Sites!

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Posted by: Josh Cavalier

Welcome to our super-duper episode 15, 24 Hours of Booty

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Special Guest: Ben Wilson - www.logware.us

Show Notes:

• They are coming!
  

Our New Contest: Awesome Flash Sites!

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Posted by: Josh Cavalier

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James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Show Notes:

• Coming Soon!

Our Spam Poetry Contest Winner!

Congratulations to Chris Harker!

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Posted by: Josh Cavalier

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Special Guest:
Art Phillips, Director of Enterprise Training - Lodestone Digital

Show Notes:

• An Event Apart is July 10th in NYC, register now if you haven't already!
• Did you like X-Men III? I didn't, but not for lack of trying... At least Ratner worked in "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch! (NSFW)"
  
• New Trivial Pursuit Score: James 2, Josh 1. (Goooooooaaallllllll!!!!)
  
• Google has no plans for a browser...so they say.
  
• Doug Bowman's going to Google!
  
• Accessibility Color Wheel is cool
  
• Browser rendering speed tests
  
• Freehand & GoLive....dead or alive?!
  
• Adobe wants you to know why InDesign is better.
  
• MAX is in Vegas BABY!!
  
• Technorati and the AP get in bed...but who owns the content?
  
• Sharpcast looks promising
  
• Hot damn but that Typetester is usefull!
  
• PC World New Zeland gives us the 25 Worst Tech products of all time...
  
• Looks like Forgent can kiss their JPEG patent goodbye. Thank God...
  
• Apple store NYC loves you...Apple store NYC never wants you to leave....
  
• Canes WIN!! Canes WIN!!!

Our New Contest: Spam Poetry!

Win a $50 Gift Card to iTunes!

The idea behind Spam Poetry is that the random length of words meant to battle past your spam filters can sometimes align themselves into lines approaching literary value (I guess it's not so much the infinite monkeys in a room as it is the infinite number of spam bots...). Scan your Spam, find the most beautiful passage of Spam Gibberish and sent it along. The most artistic, beautiful, whacked-out passage wins a $50 gift card to i-Tunes...now that's beautiful!

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Posted by: James Williamson

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Show Notes:

• Ben Wilson, CEO of Logware in the house!
  
• We all suck at Trival Pursuit this week
• Colt .45 is not an automatic weapon
• InDesign CS3 Preview!
  
• Apple's Final Cut Express HD 3.5
• Mojizu means character fight!
  
• What is the Kiwi Project, and what is Adobe's sinister master plan?!
  
• Remix the Scanner Darkly trailer!
• Quark 7 launches...
  
• Mod your iPod
• I need to learn how to synch my iPod
• Josh talks id3 tags..

Enter our latest contest...Spam Poetry!!

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Posted by: Josh Cavalier

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Show Notes:

• We're live with our Podcasting for Business students
• Josh's eating adventure in Huntsville, AL - check out the Old GreenBrier!
• James vs. Josh in Trivial Pursuit. Round One: James 1 - Josh 0
  
• Taco widgets - Web Translator.
• Dreamweaver 8.02 update is out.
  
• Adobe Apollo announced. Flash and HTML playing together on the desktop.
• Style Flocker for Adobe InDesign
  
• Skype outbound calls are free until the end of the year!
• Yahoo redesign. (You know where the link is...)
• NBC's digital strategy
• Different Strokes - "What are yoyu talkin about Willis?"
  
• Mecanbe.com - get your life together!
• Check out Maritza's web site - www.generationsnaturalbeauty.com
• Music this week by the band Fluid

Our New Contest: Spam Poetry!

Win a $50 Gift Card to iTunes!

The idea behind Spam Poetry is that the random length of words meant to battle past your spam filters can sometimes align themselves into lines approaching literary value (I guess it's not so much the infinite monkeys in a room as it is the infinite number of spam bots...). Scan your Spam, find the most beautiful passage of Spam Gibberish and sent it along. The most artistic, beautiful, whacked-out passage wins a $50 gift card to i-Tunes...now that's beautiful!

Please send comments to:
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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Show Notes:

• Episode 10 y'all!
  
• Brad Sucks is in the house
• Adobe releases Flash 9 player
• CS3 in Spring of 07?
  
• Long live the Canadian Music Creators Coalition!
• Neil Young's ticked-off again
  
• Porn leads the way!
  
• Google pimps Firefox!
• Google goes 3D
• Adobe's Design Center is cool!
• DesignerID is a neat way to meet other designers
• Charlotte's very own building-as-art
• More Hitchiker's Guide stuff this week
  

Brand New Contest...Spam Poetry!!

Win a $50 Gift Card to iTunes!

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Posted by: Josh Cavalier

Welcome to our electric episode 9!

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Show Notes:

• We're back - again!
• Ham is the Easter meat.
• We use BlogFusion
• Podcast shows need to be consistent!
• The Powersquid
• Advertisers to spend 750 million on podcasts by 2010!
• McNews
• Look out traditional media.
• Oberman's ratings
• Jacob Neilson Alert Box article - Do you read web pages in an "F" pattern?
• Monome LED keyboard
• sifry.com alert - state of ther blogisphere
• Parimel Deshpande interview
• Song this week by Very Large Array
• Podcast free music at Magnatune.com
  

Our New Contest: Patently Obvious!

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Welcome to our information packed episode 8!
Check out our new look...

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Show Notes:

• We're back!
• When you use Adobe Audition you need a large temp file.
• Apple announces Bootcamp beta
• Pandora meets Squeezebox
• Adobe and Verizon = Flash on cell phones!
• Art students - please learn how to draw... with a pencil!
• David Carson rocks!
• Career Builder April Fool's list
• Parimal Deshpande interview
• The band Fluid rocks out this week
• Podcast free music at Magnatune.com
  

Our New Contest: Patently Obvious!

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Posted by: Josh Cavalier

Welcome to our information packed episode 7!

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Show Notes:

• Everybody is at SXSW except us. Boo-hoo!
  
• What's up with Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer?
• James is going to MIX06 next week - the Microsoft lovefest
  
• 30Boxes - online calendar - check it out
• Knight Ridder purchased by McClatchy
• Alexaholic - get drunk with web traffic data
• FanIQ.com - The SETI of gambling
• Kelly Goto interview - check out Gotomobile
  
• Music From MRDC - Move!
• Podcast free music at Magnatune.com
  

Our New Contest: Patently Obvious!

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Posted by: Josh Cavalier

Welcome to our libel-free episode 6, Patent Pending!

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Show Notes:

• The Ricky Gervais Show is now pay to play!
  
• The (not so) Big Apple announcement
• Chappell's Block Party!
• We now know how much the Sony Reader will cost!
  
• Adobe announces Photoshop Elements 4.0 for the Mac
• Apple buys a huge data warehouse in New Jersey...
• LazyMask.com outsources making clipping masks...
• Will we ever have cable a la carte?
  
• NetDiver's best of 2005!
• Encyclopodia gives you Wiki for your iPod!
• Shockabsorber.com let's you preview your sports bra in action...and then some (NSFW!!)
• Cocomment.com let's you track your blog comments.
• Visitorville.com lets you turn your web traffic stats into a Sims type environment.
• Laser-tatooed koi. Hot damn!
• Neil Balthaser get's lucky

Our New Contest: Patently Obvious!

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Posted by: Josh Cavalier

An interview with Stephanie Sullivan, CEO of W3Conversions and VioletSky, on accessible websites and the Macromedia/Adobe Merger. Our Google Haiku winner is announced, and we learn that James is a big INXS fan. News, Tip of the Week - Captivate and a song from Magnatune.com are all included!

The Google Haiku readings are a must listen!

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Show Notes:

• Cleveland Rocks!
  
• Visit Asheville, North Carolina
• Will Rockstar have Van Halen next year?
  
• Mashup Conference
• Apple will release some "Fun, New products"
  
• Cannon EOS 30D
• Microsoft is killing FrontPage!!!
• Auto Taco Bell - kiosk food fun!
• Stephanie Sullivan in the house
• Check out Stephanie at SXSW
• Song of the week: Several Mistakes in a Row by Arthur Yoria
• James loves INXS
• Visit Magnatune.com

The Lodebearing Haiku Contest Winner - Daniel Buchoff from New Jersey, USA

Winning Entry:

Google got screwed by
the Great Firewall of China
That sucks big *censored*

Thanks Dan! Your $50 gift certificate to iTunes is on the way!

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We discuss buzz marketing in our Interview with Ron McDaniel, CEO of Buzzoodle. We chat about Valentine's Day, Yahoo's Ajax design library, NoodleBoard, 3 Bubbles blog chat widget, Adobe Lightroom, and NYU's Multi-Touch Interaction Research and how it might be linked to Apple...

Join us, won't you, for our Valentine's Day Show of Love!!

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Show Notes:

• It's Valentine's Day!
• A List Apart both loves and hates the web
• Yahoo's new interface library
• NoodleBoard is cool
• 3 Bubbles.com has a neat blog-chat widget
• Adobe release the Mac Beta of Lightroom
• Touch Me! NYU's doing some cool touch-screen stuff.
• Check out the video demo of the Multi-Touch Interaction Research...you'll wet yourself...
• Cult of Mac thinks there may be a link to Apple's interest in touch screens...
• Buzzoodle helps companies create buzz!
• Down goes Google!

The Lodebearing Haiku Contest - Win a $50 Gift Card to iTunes

This is the last week to enter, get those entries in!!!

 - Google's decision to censor search results in China

Rules:

1. Must be a well formed Haiku;
2. Use of three lines written in 5-7-5 syllables;
3. Use of three (or fewer) lines of no more than 17 syllables in total;
4. Contest ends on February 16, 2006

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Posted by: Josh Cavalier

Banter on the Superbowl Ads, Adobe and Quark in the news. Enter our Google Haiku Contest! The winning entry gets a $50 iTunes gift card. Josh and James have a conversation of GUI's for the web, and technologies that drive that content including AJAX, Flash and Flex!

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Show Notes:

• Lodebearing's morning edition - The Morning Zoo!
  
• Opera 9 Technology Preview 2 released
• Adobe Flex 2.0 Beta has been released
  
• The Eclipse IDE will be used for Flex 2.0
  
• Quark 7 beta - many new features to check out
  
• Check out the review of Quark 7 at CreativePro.com
  
• Adobe security patch for CS2 - get it now!
  
• Web 2.0, Media 2.0 - why must we label everything?
  
• Flickr rocks...
  
• 37 Signals rocks...
  
• Loanback - IOU's online!
• Verizon's FIOS fiber service
• Mappr

The Lodebearing Haiku Contest - Win a $50 Gift Card to iTunes

For the next week we will be collecting Haikus on the following topic:

 - Google's decision to censor search results in China

Rules:

1. Must be a well formed Haiku;
2. Use of three lines written in 5-7-5 syllables;
3. Use of three (or fewer) lines of no more than 17 syllables in total;
4. Contest ends on February 16, 2006

Please send comments to:
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Posted by: Josh Cavalier

Beastie Boys, booth babes (again), Adobe and Google in the news. Check out our new contest - with a chance to win an iTunes gift card. James continues his series on the PodcasterCon 2006 conference with some fantastic reporting. More great music from Magnatune.

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Show hosts:
Josh Cavalier, President - Lodestone Digital
James Williamson, Director of Training – Lodestone Digital

Show Notes:

• We speak the truth just like Oprah
• We have a contest (Details below!)
• Blackberry  - RIM saga continues
• Cingular patents the emoticon
• Patent reform is needed
• No booth babes at the E3 conference
• The Beastie Boys new movie
• Markzware Q2ID 1.4 release
• Adobe Acrobat 3D
• Is Google Evil? We explore the Google/China issue
• Positive to negative... what?
• Enter our Haiku Contest (See below!)

The Lodebearing Haiku Contest - Win a $50 Gift Card to iTunes

For the next two weeks we will be collecting Haikus on the following topic:

 - Google's decision to censor search results in China

Rules:

1. Must be a well formed Haiku;
2. Use of three lines written in 5-7-5 syllables;
3. Use of three (or fewer) lines of no more than 17 syllables in total;
4. Contest ends on February 16, 2006

Please send comments to:
podcast@lodebearing.com

Voice-mail via SKYPE is coming!

Posted by: Josh Cavalier

James and I just knocked out our first podcast last night. We are trying to tidy up the loose ends and post it up by Monday. I think we are going to shoot for doing two a month, but if things continue to go as well as they did last night - expect a higher frequency.

Stay tuned!