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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
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 25: GrapeVine Online - The Magazine About Catholic Music and Catholic Performing Artists
Saturday, March 1st, 2008Today I had a lovely chat with Susan Bailey, a Catholic musician and the brains, brawn and beauty behind GrapeVine Online, a podcast, blog and print magazine about Catholic Music and Catholic musicians. She has an interesting perspective on Lent because her husband is a Melkite Catholic and is studying to be a [...]
Day 24: Nick Alexander and Top Catholic Songs
Friday, February 29th, 2008Nick 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 23: People Who Like Popple are the Luckiest People in the World
Thursday, February 28th, 2008On Day 3 of 40 Days of Catholic media, I interviewed Kyle Heimann of Popple about the significance of Lent in a Catholic’s journey. In the intervening 3 weeks Popple have been very busy touring, and recording new music and a new video. First up, is a youtube video of Popple’s Forever Yours produced by [...]
Day 11 of 40 Days of Catholic Media– Join the ipadre in his live recording of his 100th show tomorrow.
Saturday, February 16th, 2008Giggling Nuns, teeny tiny railroads, a geek priest who Ustreams his holy hours: the motto of the Ipadre podcast is All Things Catholic and Then Some, and Father Jay Finelli certainly delivers on that promise. He will be recording his 100th episode live on Ustream tomorrow, Sunday February 17 at 5:00 pm EST. [...]
Day 10 of 40 Days of Catholic Media– Catholic City with Zina
Friday, February 15th, 2008Zina Gomez-Liss has just launched, Catholic City with Zina
a wonderful video podcast which explores the Catholic culture and heritage of her hometown Boston. It is done in a lighthearted humorous fashion with loads of pretty graphics and special effects.
I spoke to Zina for quite a while about her videocast and the spiritual significance of [...]
Day 9: Carnaval is Over But There’s Still a Blog Carnival for Lent
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Although Carnaval ends on shrove Tuesday the Catholic blog Carnival continues during lent. I first discussed blog carnivals in an early post on this blog. A blog carnival is a way for people of similar interests to join in a conversation about a specific theme. As I started this blog to explore the intersection [...]
Day 7 of 40 Days of Catholic Media with Greg Willits of Rosary Army
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Download// Listen to
This weekend, Rosary Army unveiled their 2 years in the making website redesign and it’s a beauty. I spoke briefly with Greg Willits from Rosary Army about the new website and how his Lenten practices enrich his spiritual life.
Day 6 of 40 Days of Catholic Media: Tupelo Catholic Podcast
Monday, February 11th, 2008I called Rob Williams of the Tupelo Catholic Podcast while he was attending Podcamp Nashville. I was hoping for a brief interview about the importance of Lent and a podcamp recap. However cellphone reception was very bad, so I got a 1 min interview. Be sure to check out Rob’s Tupelo Catholic [...]
Day 5 of 40 Days of Catholic Media: Catholic+Linux+Monkey
Sunday, February 10th, 2008About the same time I discovered Catholic Podcasts, I started seeking out Catholic blogs. In 2004 or 2005, while cruising through St. Blog’s Parish blog directory, I encountered Catholic+Linux+Monkey. The name was just too irresistible. As a Catholic who monkeys around with linux, I had to check it out. [...]
Day 4 of 40 Days of Catholic Media: Father Roderick came to Toronto
Saturday, February 9th, 2008Here is a brief interview I did with Father Roderick when he came to Toronto last month.
In August of 2005 I got my first mp3 player and started scouring the Internet for mp3s to put on it. I discovered the early This week in Tech programs, and found 2 neat Catholic podcasts, [...]
Day 3- C’mon Popple, it’s Lent
Friday, February 8th, 2008Last night, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kyle Heimann of Popple for my songwriting podcast, For the Sake of the Song. Popple are getting quite well known around the Catholic podosphere for their quirky, funny nerdy songs about life and faith. Kyle and I also talked about the importance of the season of [...]
40 Days of Reflection and Catholic Media
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Today is Ash Wednesday. We begin our 40 days in the desert leading up to the death and resurrection of our Lord. As part of my Lenten reflections, I’m going to try to prepare 40 short posts or media clips highlighting Catholic media and find some ways to enrich my spiritual life [...]
Report from the Fishbowl
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007I greatly enjoy swimming around in the New Media Fishbowl and have begun to make acquaintance of some wonderful people all over the world who have podcasts of their own. Recently I have been mentioned or been a guest on a slew of Catholic podcasts, so I thought I would share the link love.
A couple [...]
That Catholic Show #8
Monday, September 10th, 2007That Catholic Show #8 is up over at SQPN and I must confess, it’s a doozer. It is a really good introduction and overview of the sacrament of reconciliation. Greg, Jennifer and all of their production team are getting better with each episode. It’s an entertaining and informative way to teach basic [...]
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