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Please Don’t Adjust your Sets

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I’m having some trouble with an overzealous indexing bot repeatedly scraping the media files on my site thousands of times.  I’ve temporarily restricted access to all the podcast files of For the Sake of the Songwhile I straighten this out.  I should have things back up tomorrow or Saturday.  Thanks for your patience.
UPDATE: May 2.  [...]

To Join or Not to Join?– Social Media is inspiring people to join old fashioned community groups

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

About 5 months ago Scott Maentz posted, To Join or Not to Join? on his blog about joining the Knights of Columbus.  To paraphrase his article:
One may have many reasons not to join the Knights, but the Knights of Columbus is a fraternal group of men who grow and share in their faith, are deeply [...]

Hiatus is over. It’s time to communitize.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

After posting about 50 daily posts for my 40 Days of Catholic Media project, I thought I would take a couple days off before I got back to posting here.  Well, it’s been 3 weeks and here I am.  I originally started this blog as a way to explore the intersection between social media communities [...]

More Ps– Pictures and a Podcast of Portageurs on Pilgrimage

Saturday, March 29th, 2008
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Yes folks, this is another of my posts riddled with p’s, and I’m not even mentioning Popple this time (oops– too late).
What I do have is pictures and a podcast from Easter Sunday when my daughter and I joined the Portageurs who are making a pilgrimage with the Ark of the New Covenant from [...]

Catholic Carnival #168: An Easter Carnival/ podcast simulcast

Monday, March 24th, 2008
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I started my 40 Days of Catholic Media blog/ podcasting project on Ash Wednesday to explore the intersection between new media and faith communities. I did not make a distinction between blogging, podcasting, or video in this project. I just set out to explore the great variety of Catholic blogs, podcasts, musicians and resources on [...]

Day 37 with guests Mac and Katherine Barron of Catholic in a Small Town

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
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During the weekly chatroom circus that is the live Ustream recording of Catholic in a Small Town, I pestered Mac and Katherine Barron to do an interview with me. As soon as their show recording was done, they called me on skype and we did this interview, live in front of the Ustream irregulars. [...]

Day 34 with guest Joe McClane

Monday, March 10th, 2008
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I had a wonderful conversation with Joe McClane of The Catholic Hack Podcast and Fullness of Truth Ministries. We talked about Lent, his pilgrimage to Rome, The Mission Trail in San Antonio, St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, and Saint Marie Among the Hurons here in Midland. Enjoy.

Day 29 of 40 Days of Catholic Media– Mary Soukup

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
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Mary Soukup is known as bear1 around Rosary Army, facebook, twitter and Ustream. She has a wonderful blog called, The eyes in which Mary sees the world, where she chronicles her struggle to live a normal everyday life despite the challenges and limitations of a physical disability. We talked about Lent, her blog, [...]

Day 28 of 40 Days of Catholic Media– Bryan Murdaugh and Total Strangers

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
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Today Bryan Murdaugh with Total Strangers are officially releasing their new CD, With Everything I Know, It’s a Long Way Home.  I had the chance to interview Bryan about his Lenten Practices and the new album. I also play Rock of Safety from the new CD.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Bryan for Episode 36 [...]

Day 26: I surrender. 40 Days of Catholic Media is a Podcast

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
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I surrender. 40 Days of Catholic Media is a podcast. When I started this project I deliberately didn’t call it a podcast. It was just a post a day that could contain text, pictures, audio or video– in short, a multimedia project. However people keep asking how they can subscribe to [...]

Day 24: Nick Alexander and Top Catholic Songs

Friday, February 29th, 2008
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Nick Alexander is known as the Catholic Weird Al. He writes wonderful, funny and thought provoking Catholic parodies of popular songs. He also writes Praise and Worship music. His new project is Top Catholic Songs, which hosts a site for user generated voting on Top Ten lists of Catholic Music. Check [...]

Day 22– Jeff Cavins and Emily Cavins’ Family Night

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Each week the wonderful Catholic author, speaker and blogger Jeff Cavins posts an outline for Family Night, a series of readings, prayers, games, discussion questions, and even snack recipes written by his wife, Emily Cavins as a way for families to pray and reflect together on the week’s Sunday readings.     Although we have not [...]

Day 21- Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Since she was four, our daughter has attended Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, also known as the Atrium at our home Parish of St. Margaret’s in Midland, Ontario. My daughter has enjoyed the hands-on and self directed approach to learning about our faith, and our entire family’s faith experience has been enriched by [...]

Pray-as-you-go . . . daily prayer for your MP3 player

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Pray-as-you-go is a daily podcast containing scripture readings, guided reflections, and soothing music to aid one in their daily prayers.  It is produced by the Jesuits of Britain and was initially launched as a limited run Lenten series a few years back (sort of like this podcast series).  It has been running daily for several [...]

Day 19 of 40 Days of Catholic Media: St. Michael’s Cathedral

Sunday, February 24th, 2008
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While we were at Podcamp Toronto, my wife and I went to mass at St. Michaels Cathedral
which is the cathedral of our diocese and the home of the world famous St. Michael’s Boy’s Choir School. Of course we went to the one Sunday mass that doesn’t have music. It was a good one [...]

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