Updated Feed for Catholic New Media Roundup

Like many podcasters I use the popular Podpress plugin to manage my podcast files and create the podcast and Itunes ready RSS feeds for the Catholic new Media Roundup.  However, last summer the Wordpress  2.6 update broke podpress and the maintainer has yet to provide an update.  Like many podcasters, I have been relying on unofficial patches to keep things running.  But today, it broke.  I have switched to another podcasting plugin called the Blubrry Powerpress plugin.  It seems to be working. Unfortunately, it changed the address of my podcast feed that is sent to the Itunes store, so I took advantage of the change to switch my feed in the Itunes store to my feed to my feedburner feed at  http://feeds.feedburner.com/CatholicNewMediaRoundup.  Unfortunately, if you are subscribed through the Itunes store, it may take several days (weeks) for it to update there.  For uninterrupted enjoyment of the Catholic New Media Advent Calendar, check your feedreader or podcatcher and make sure you are subscribed to

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CatholicNewMediaRoundup.

Sorry for the inconvenience.  Now on to more great Advent reflections.

Catholic New Media Advent Calendar December 14

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The Orsborn Family are: Dave, Karol, Katy, Ellie, and Abbie. Together they produce the delightful Celebrating Saints Podcast. I love how the whole Orsborn family shares their love of the saints and shows other families how they can have fun learning about their faith together. Today they share how St. Francis erected the first nativity scene. Today, December 14, is Katie’s birthday. Take some time to send her some birthday wishes at 206-202-3515 or celebratingsaints (at) gmail (dot) com .

Join us tomorrow and every day in December for more reflections produced by great Catholic New Media personalities.

1. Send me your feedback on the blog at http://cc.ductapeguy.net by email at (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.

2. Go to the Catholic New Media Advent Calendar
3. Check out Father Michel Nault’s reflections for the Third Sunday in Advent.

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Happy Birthday Katie 

Catholic New Media Roundup Episode 13

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Today we bring you Catholic Roundup Episode 14, which includes soundseeing from Sainte Marie among the Hurons, a recap of our family’s advent practices, feedback about the Catholic New Media Advent Calendar and the usual promos.

Links

The Catholic Foodie

Feedback from the Santo Del Dia podcast

Blessed Advent! – The Curt Jester An animated advent wreath for your website.

Clayton’s Online Advent Calendar from The Weight of Glory blog.

Grant’s Advent Calendar

Father Michel Nault’s Reflections for the 2nd Week of Advent

CNMR Big Question: How are you and your family observing the season advent during the busy month leading up to Christmas?  Also, send us your favorite advent links.

1. Send me your feedback, podcast, blog and website promos ideas etc… on the blog at http://cc.ductapeguy.net by email at (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.

2. Join the Catholic New Media Roundup Group on Facebook.
3. Let’s not forget about K7 Days. On the 7th, 17th and 27th of the month send some feedback to a blogger or podcaster.
   
4. Theme Song: Lost in Christ (©) Bryan Murdaugh

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Black Robes at St Marie Among the Hurons

Michel Paiement sings the Huron Carol

Chapel at St. Marie Among the Hurons

Catholic New Media Roundup 11

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1. Announcing Catholicroundup.com

2. Rant– on people putting Christmas trees up in early November.  My personal goal to experience Advent before 12 days of Christmas.

Check out adventconspiracy.org

3. Announcing Catholic New Media Advent Calendar

4. Soundseeing from Blessed Kateri Shrine– Fonda NY

5. Brand new Catholic Podcasts:  http://web.me.com/neilcummins/Site/Audio_Podcast/Audio_Podcast.html Irish catholic sermons, talks &music

Bryan Murdaugh’s Modern Psalter Blog and Podcast

The Last episode of the Rosary Army Podcast

Celebrations

On the U is on Episode 99.

200 Episodes for Santo Del Dia podcast  Spanish podcast (Saint of the Day).  Congratulations

200th Blog Carnival:  Join in the Fun

The Carnival will be held back at Just Another Day of Catholic
pondering (http://snoringscholar.blogspot.com). To enter is easy, just
pick a post from your blog and email the information below to
(peerybingle@gmail.com) peerybingle (at) gmail (dot) com by 10:00 PM EST on Monday evening.

Blog name
Blog URL
Post name
Post URL
Post description

Please forward this to any other Catholic bloggers who might be
interested.

Also consider hosting a Carnival one week – it’s fun and rewarding
without too much work. The Carnival is better when it travels around
from one Catholic blog to another. For more information, just email
at (jay@livingcatholicism.com) jay (at) livingcatholicism (dot) com.

Song by  Bryan Murdaugh :  All in the family.

No promos this week.

CNMR Big Question: How are you and your family observing the season advent during the busy month leading up to Christmas?

1. Send me your feedback, podcast, blog and website promos ideas etc… on the blog at http://cc.ductapeguy.net by email at (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.

2. Join the Catholic New Media Roundup Group on Facebook.
3. Let’s not forget about K7 Days. On the 7th, 17th and 27th of the month send some feedback to a blogger or podcaster.
   
4. Theme Song: Lost in Christ (©) Bryan Murdaugh

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I’m going to be an opening act on ustream on November 19 at 7:30pm EST

For the past several month, Bryan Murdaugh has been presenting a monthly online virtual house concert on Ustream.tv. This month’s concert is Tomorrow, November 19, 2008 at 8pm EST. You can find it at http://www.ustream.tv/murdaugh. I will be doing an opening set for Bryan beginning at a little after 7:35pm EST at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ductapeguy-live.

Edit: You can view the concert here now. I had a couple of technical difficulties with my camera but I enjoyed being in the supporting spot for my friend Bryan, and he truly rawked the ustream

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That was fun but I had quite a fight with my cameras and audio devices to get them working, then my camera crapped out in the middle of the first song. Fortunately, I had another camera ready to roll, so I just switched over, but my backup camera is of considerably lower quality. I’ll definitely keep doing this ustream thing from time to time. I think I’ll be able to work the kinks out.

Announcing Catholicroundup.com

After 8 months and 10 shows (or 44 if you count the 40 days of Catholic Media during lent), my wife and I thought it was time for the Catholic New Media Roundup to have it’s own domain.  We have registered and set up catholicroundup.com to point back to the blog at cc.ductapeguy.net .  If you are already subscribed to the blog and podcast, there will be no immediate change, but you have to admit that catholicroundup.com is a much more memorable domain name.

4 Catholic Podcasts win Podcast Awards

Last Night 4 SQPN Podcasts won  Podcast Awards

Father Roderick won awards for Healthy Catholic [url] [rss] in the Health / Fitness category, and the Daily Breakfast [url] [rss] in the Religion/Inspiration category.

George Leite and Catholic Rockers [url] [rss] won in the Podsafe Music category for the second year in a row.

Father Leo’s Grace before Meals [url] [rss] won in the Food and Drink Category.

Congratulations to all of you.

Catholic Blog picks for Blog Day 2008

Today is the fourth annual Blog Day where we are asked to list 5 blogs which may be of interest to our readers then link back to Blogday.org with your post.

Here from the Home Office in Bolsover, Ontario are five excellent Catholic Blogs in no particular order.

1. What Does The Prayer Really Say? Father Z. Blogs and podcasts about the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) and remaining faithful to the spiritual and liturgical roots of our faith.
2. Catholic Parish Media Liaison Kerry Madden walks a similar beat to myself, showcasing quality Catholic media for her parish of St. James Church and for anyone in the world reading her blog. She is also a regular contributor to Lisa Hendey’s Catholic Moments podcast.
3. Catholic in Film School Rebecca writes about being a young lady of faith, popular culture, and being a film student.
4. Luis’ Illustrated Blog Luis Escobar is an artist with a seriously cool job– a layout artist/storyboard artist on The Simpsons TV show and The Simpsons Movie. He blogs about faith, gaming, and his WAYCOOL job. His entries often include an illustration. His sister is a well known podcaster, Elsie Escobar aka YOGEEK
5. Musings from a Catholic Bookstore This is the official blog of Aquinas and More Catholic Goods, but it’s not your typical marketing blog but a wonderful addition to the conversation of Catholic blogging.
6. Sober Catholic Paulcoholic blogs about how he uses a 12 step recovery program and his Catholic faith to recover from addiction and grow in his faith.

Those are my picks. Yes, I know there are more than 5. Join the conversation and share some of your favorite Catholic blogs. You can write them on your own blog and tag it BlogDay2008 or send me some feedback on the blog at http://cc.ductapeguy.net by email at (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.

Sirius News

Greg and Jennifer Willits from Rosary Army, SQPN and That Catholic Show are going to have a daily 3 hour show on Sirius Satellite Radio beginning in September. They will be continuing with the Rosary Army Podcast once a week but due to the Sirius deal and Jennifer’s pregnancy, That Catholic Show is on hiatus for now.

Congratulations to a couple of fantastic podcasters done good.

You can hear all the news from Greg and Jennifer themselves on Rosary Army Podcast 238.

Catholic Podcasters, Bloggers, Musicians, Authors, Web Developers– send me your promos.

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Hello I’m Sean McGaughey, host of the Catholic New Media Roundup. Everyday Catholics around the world are embracing new media tools to create fantastic blogs, podcasts, videos, websites, games, books and music to spread the good news and create a Catholic culture of Life and Faith. The Catholic New Media Roundup strives to be a showcase for all kinds of Catholic Media. You can subscribe and listen to the show at cc.ductapeguy.net. If you create Catholic content, send a promo to catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or a voice message at 206-337-0611 so that I can help you spread the Good News.

To get the ball rolling, I have created a promo for the Catholic New Media Roundup, above, which you can listen to, download, or play on your own podcasts.

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Introducing The Catholic New Media Roundup

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Welcome to Episode 1 of the Catholic New Media Roundup. For a while, I have been pondering and planning a podcast which would celebrate the best in Catholic New Media. Catholics all over the world are using computers and the new media tools to create amazing blogs, books, websites, videos, music and most of all community. It is my plan and hope to introduce bloggers, podcasters and others in Catholic new media and provide a place for promotion and celebration in this community.

The show begins with a social media introduction. I “met up” with of the Theotokos Podcast on Catholic social networking site 4marks.com. Within a few minutes we were talking on Skype and he was sitting in as Co-Host of the show.

My other podcasts: For the Sake of the Song: Conversations with Song , A Catholic Canadian My Catholic blog and the home of the Catholic New Media Roundup

Why do a Catholic New Media Roundup?

1. To Celebrate the what’s going on in the world of Catholic Social Media.
2. To Foster Community among creators of Catholic new Media. Blogs, Music, Video, Podcasts, web resources.
3. The Bloggers are unaware of what the podcasters are doing, or the small publishers etc… ie) When I hosted the Catholic Blog Carnival I also podcasted it, and that was seen as novel.
4. To celebrate significant events in the Catholic new media community (ie 100^th show, 1000^th blog post, bloggers recognized in traditional media, etc…)
5. To showcase Catholic Resources on the web, the people who create it and how to find it.
6. To encourage others to join in the new evangelization and produce their own new media.
7. To grow in our own faith by exploring these new media resources ourselves and teaching the lovely Nancy how to use them.
8. To provide a venue for promos and news from around the Catholic interwebs. I invite podcasters and bloggers to send us promos of their sites//ministries, musicians to let us know about their upcoming concerts, CD releases etc…leave feedback on the blog at cc.ductapeguy.net by email at catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.

Musical Break # 1. Karl Kohlhase:The Simple Life k4communications.com

In the news:
1) The controversy over Henry Morgenthaler receiving the Order of Canada.

• Archbishop Collin’s pastoral letter-news release about the Morgenthaler order of Canada. http://www.archtoronto.org/events_news/morentaler.html
  
• So far 5 members of the order of Canada have returned the honor in protest: including Madonna House, Frank Chauvin and several priests.

2) World Youth Day in Australia. Grapevine Online has coverage of WYD provided by WYD performer Noelle Garcia.
Sonitus Sanctus: Free Catholic MP3 Links

Adam the Catholic’s Pick for World Youth Day Coverage:  H2Onews.org

3) Send us news from your parish or diocese that you would like to share.

SQPN.COM The home of many Catholic Podcasts:The Daily Breakfast, The Rosary Army, The Catholic Hack, Catholic in A Small Town, The Saintcast

Musical Break #2: Something by Bryan Murdaugh We Need The Cross from the CD: With Everything I Know, It’s A Long Way Home.

Spotlight on

Blog: Stuff Catholics Like

Directories: SQPN.com

On the Blog Carnival this week:

• What is the blog carnival, St. Blogs parish

• This weeks Carnival is hosted by Frank, in a Sense & Mirth (frankinasenseandmirth.blogspot.com/).

Podcast Promo: The Catholic Hack
Podcast Tip: Naming Podcast files
Podcast Promo: The ManlyCatholic Podcast
20 questions with Zina Gomez Liss from Catholic City with Zina and Secrets of Battlestar Galactica.
Zina’s Favorite Catholic Website: Catholicmom.com
Zina’s Favorite Catholic Blog: The Curt Jester
Zina’s Favorite Catholic Podcast: Catholic in A Small Town
Things to Celebrate:

1. Catholic New Media Celebration: We loved watching Catholic New Media Celebration – Fr. Leo Patalinghug Keynote on Vimeo. It was funny, dynamic, and inspiring.

2. Father Roderick’s 500^th Daily Breakfast.

3. Monster Cookies celebrates the arrival of their new daughter, Claire and one year of podcasting.

4. We are going to Podcamp Boston and to meet several people we’ve become acquainted with over the net.
   

Send your feedback, podcast, blog and website promos ideas etc… on the blog at http://cc.ductapeguy.net by email at catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.
I’m going to tag links on the show on delicious.com using the tag catholicroundup and the date of the show ie) July15 so people can find the links we mention.
Thanks for listening to the Catholic New Media Roundup.
Theme Song: Lost in Christ (c) Bryan Murdaugh

Please Don’t Adjust your Sets

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.  It turns out it was an overzealous indexing bot but there was no significant impact to the site.  I’ve turned all the podcast episodes back on and everything should be working properly.  Sorry for the one day break in the availability of my podcasts.

Hiatus is over. It’s time to communitize.

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 and faith communities.  I am still very interested in questions of how one grows within a community and helps a community to grow.

A few weeks ago I drove down to a podcaster meetup in Toronto.  During one of the lively discussions someone remarked that it was quite refreshing to be at a podcaster gathering now that most of the get rich quick, “How do I monetize podcasting?” crowd has drifted away.  Katherine Matthews of the Purl Diving podcast commented that we should not be concerned with how we monetize our podcasts but how we communitize them.   As an independent, DIY kind of guy and a proud hobbyist, this rang true for me.

As a participant in the Catholic blogging and podcasting communities I feel that we are in the early days of a new way to share and grow faith communities using modern social media tools.  Over the next while on this blog I’m going to continue to link to wonderful Catholic media and explore other ways to communitize what we are doing here.

You can hear some of the discussion from the Toronto Podcaster meetup  on the   Canadian Podcast Buffet Episode 99 and on Hot Fossils and Rebel Matters 137.

More Ps– Pictures and a Podcast of Portageurs on Pilgrimage

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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 Midland to Quebec City for the International Eucharistic Congress in June.

The music throughout the podcast is the Theme Song of the International Eucharistic Congress, God’s Gift.

You can follow the progress of the portageurs on their blog.

You can see media coverage of the pilgrimage in midland from AChannel Barrie, and on Salt and Light TV.

My daughter and I took lots of pictures. Here is an overview of the afternoon.

I was on TV (for 5 seconds)

I have always been reticent about making a public witness to my faith, preferring to let my actions and my character be a witness to my faith. (I still think this is the best witness).

Over the past couple years, by participating in the online community around Rosary Army and Catholic podcasting, and with this blog and podcast, I’m becoming more comfortable sharing my faith in public.

Yesterday, we had 2 bishops preside over Easter Mass at our parish as part of the opening ceremonies for the pilgrimage of the Ark of the New covenant (see yesterday’s post for more information on that). A reporter from AChannel, the local TV station out of Barrie was there to report on the service and the pilgrimage.  After mass, she asked me to explain the significance of Easter. I gave it my best shot. You can see the video on the AChannel site.