Figured I’d make a handy dandy list for all podcast questions that I sometimes get.

Podcast Tools
This page lists just about everything I used to record on a weekly basis.

The Perils of Podcasting on an iPad & Your Face
Mainly about how I first started to podcast using only my iPad and no actual Mac hardware.

How I Podcast Using Tumblr, Dropbox, & Your Face
The title pretty much says it all. At one point, I used Tumblr and Dropbox to hosts my podcasts instead of paying for Libsyn.

Libsyn, Listeners, & Your Face
Mainly about moving off of Tumblr/Dropbox for hosting podcasts, and also about listenership.

Dave “Well-Reasoned” Press is in the market for a tablet, you see.

The main reason I got my first iPad was to read comics. I had not yet started working at comiXology but I had already saluted print books goodbye and was ready to stick with the digital format. The first iPad opened up my eyes to the possibilities. Nobody was same-day digital yet, but I knew this was the way to go.

Now, with the new iPad and HD books, there is legit no going back for me. Double-page spreads are delicious and books look absolutely radiant. Head over to the Apple Store and try out a free HD book on there if you don’t believe me.

My wife has a Kindle Fire and the new Nexus 7 makes it look like absolute dogshit. Screen-wise, the Nexus 7 takes the cake like nobodies business. In terms of reading, the Nexus wins hands down. Though, at that point one has to wonder how invested you are in Amazon’s services or even Google Play for that matter. Neither are really deal breakers since the Kindle, like comiXology, is on just about every platform. Your comics will follow you wherever you go: Nexus or iPad or Fire.

For me it also comes down to reading and consumption. I love Tweetbot for iOS. I don’t think I’d be able to use another Twitter app. Pocket is my go-to reading later app and I love putting some things together in iA Writer. While Pocket is also available on Android, Tweetbot and iA Writer are apps I’d prefer to not have to deal without.

Strictly comic book related, save the money for the new iPad. I’m telling you. Full page HD books look absolutely glorious. Better than print. Stunning in every way.

Will the Comics app for the Nexus support HD books in the future? Outlook hazy. Yes the screen on the Nexus could support such things, but the Android platform can make things a bit fuzzy. Many factors come into play so don’t hold your breath.

Go iPad. The comic fan in your will thank me.

Folks use their iOS devices for email. We know that.

But, they also use the signature portion to let their recipients know what kind of device they are emailing from. Most keep it as is and have it say, “Sent from my iPhone.” Or, “Sent from my iPad.”

I was lucky enough to see that Christa Mrgan used “Sent from my pocket” and quickly usurped that for my iPhone email signature.

However, I can’t think of anything equally as witty for my iPad signature.

“Sent from my lap?” No.

“Sent from my backback?” No.

Pretty much the thing is useless until I can come up with something. Right now I don’t use an email signature on my iPad.

Anyone have any non-terrible ideas?

Paris Lemon

Just testing this out. I’m not MG Siegler, but I have a theory that the #tech editors, upon seeing the name “Paris Lemon”, instantly choose the post for viewing in the #tech tag category. 

Let’s just see what happens. 

Paris Lemon. MG Siegler. Test. 

(republished from Paperkeg)

I like to think of myself as a hip cat. I’m with it. 

I use some pretty cool and nerdy apps. One of which is Instapaper. There are many like it these days, but this was the first I tried. Often, you’ll find yourself coming to an article you’d like to read, but would prefer to read it later, so I’d used Instapaper to save that URL, and I could read it later at my leisure. Not only that, but it would just save the text and get rid of all the crap. It makes it look like I’m reading an eBook, essentially.

I have a point here, don’t worry. 

The developer of this app, Marco Arment, left Tumblr to make Instapaper his full time job. The app was $4, if I recall, so once I paid that, I didn’t really have to give him any more money. However, he created a subscription service. If you signed up, this fee allowed you to remove the ads from Instapaper’s website if you so chose while also giving him about $3 a month. 

More than that, it gave you piece of mind that you were supporting Marco while he continued expanding his fantastic service. At one point, I even stopped using Instapaper as a daily, or even as weekly app, but I felt strongly enough that its development was worth my chipping in a few bucks a month to help out. 

If your favorite comic book creator had a monthly or even tri-monthly subscription/donation system, would you sign up?

Let’s say the boys from Atomic Robo had a button on their sign marked “VIP”. That sets you up to pay them $3/month. You get emailed some cool sketches and maybe even some peeks at new covers. 

Sure, you buy Atomic Robo each month, but feel like you want to do as much as you can so they can keep doing what they’re doing. Is it worth going above and beyond the cost of a monthly comic?

And on the other side, maybe you’re a guy that just pirated Atomic Robo V1-4. Maybe you want to send a little cheddar their way because you have some oddball reason of not wanting to pay full price for a creator-owned book.

This brings up a whole host of questions since comic books are obviously not the same as Instapaper. Mainly, pirates paying the creators straight out kind of skips offer Red 5 along with other junk I don’t really feel like expanding on. 

However, paying for their monthly books and wanting to show direct appreciation with a sort of digital tip jar is kind of new, right? 

I’m a guy that doesn’t often buy shirts, or even sketches at cons, so this kind of lazy digital tip jar appeals to me. Anything where I don’t have to get out of bed to support creators is A-OK in my book. 

See, I told you I had a point. Maybe. 

(This post was inspired in small part by PKW host, @JMStump.)

Honestly?

The site I started with friends over at Paperkeg just crossed 7,000 followers.

Huzzah!

I know that 7,000 followers does not mean that 7,000 people will be willing to interact with you in any fashion. I mean, just look at the top Twitter users. When they post a photo to TwitPic, click on the photo to see how many views it has. Often, it does not correlate at all with how many followers they have. (That visible disconnect is solved now with Twitter using their own photo upload service.)

Even if you throw up some amazing post, it’s very rare that it would be Reblogged and then posted in that dopey Comics tag area and underneath Batman & Robin making out and then becoming popular.

However, you would think that something WOULD get Liked, or even Reblogged by at least a small fraction of that number, right?

We get many new followers a day on that page, and most accounts have some awful hyphenation in their name and just look plain fake.

When we do get reblogged, it’s more often than not a Tumblr page that has Reblogged 50 other posts in about 30 minutes. Is that Spam? Is it a 15 year old girl that we can still consider spam in the grand scheme of things?

I often read posts where Tumblr throws out stats about just how active their users are. Well, who gives a shit how active they are if it’s just one reblog circle-jerk of possible Spam accounts?

Wouldn’t that create the same inflated statistics?

Is YouTube the biggest failure in media delivery history?

How many people use YouTube daily? It’s on iPhones, iPads, Androids, Xboxs, PS3s, Rokus, and whatever the hell else.

Why have they never made a major push for a rental service for movies like Xbox has with the Zune Marketplace or even iTunes? The YouTube app for 360 is better looking the then the damn website. 

Everyone knows and uses YouTube. Why not rent movies from YouTube?

Edit: Yes, I know you can rent movies from YouTube. So, what movies have you rented on your Xbox YouTube app? Did you rent The Dark Knight and watch it on YouTube on your computer? Not happening.