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.

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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 

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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

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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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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.

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.

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.

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.