You will no longer find links to amazon.com on this site.  I encourage you to make your online purchases from an online retailer of your choice.  For books, I recommend both Powell’s Books and Chapters.

Relevant links:

• The Remembrance Day episode

If you have a particular Electric Sky episode you’d like hear my commentary on (e.g. guest and question selection, recording process, editing decisions, production techniques, etc…), send an email (electricskypodcast@gmail.com) or call the Electric Sky Podcast listener hotline (+1.206.350.6487) and tell me which one you’d like to hear.

Stay tuned.  Electric Sky will be back!

Have a great summer!

Thank you for your patience.

Thanks for your patience!

My apologies for the inconvenience!

Mark

Canada AM ran a piece this morning about the ‘Red Fridays’ organizers having created some scrapbooks to document rallies they organized and inspired, and media coverage they attracted. The scrapbooks have been sent to Canadian troops in Afganistan.

During the segment, CTV split the screen to show the interview with Red Friday co-organizer Lisa Miller in one window, and pages of the scrapbook in the other. It was hard to miss my yellow jacket when they showed a photograph of me interviewing Lisa and co-organizer Karen Boire for an episode of Portrait.

Best wishes to all of our troops for a safe return, and thank you to all of Canada’s veterans!

After three months, there is no immediate indication that the category casting feature is under repair.  So, I am moving ES2 to www.markblevis.com and making it part of a relaxed and similarly irregular Podcast at that site.

As always, comments are suggestions are welcome.

***update September 20: I have added transcripts for my interviews with Miles Copeland and Lee Edward Fodi.

I have begun replacing what was stolen and hope to be back in production in a week or so. I have also started to identify some of the recordings that are now gone forever. This includes some personal data and recordings, and interviews with Stomp (they performed with some Tic Tac containers), Kayaking for Cancer and four episodes of Just One More Book.

I’ll be back, soon.

I am always happy to receive comments and suggestions.  I try to respond to every comment I receive.

If you were subscribed to Electric Sky through iTunes prior to August 6, you will have to unsubscribe then resubscribe in order to have your subscription remain current.

PORTRAIT is a weekly, short format Podcast that offers a narrow field of view about a particular subject, person, event or theme, in 10 minutes or less.  The theme song for Portrait is Big Foot by Robert Farrell.

LANDSCAPE is a 30 minute Podcast in which individual segments contribute to a more broad view of a subject. Each edition is in the form of a magazine, documentary, or investigative radio show.

You can subscribe to Electric Sky’s Portrait and Landscape through iTunes , or by using a standard RSS subscription program.

ES2 is my breakout show; a behind the scenes look at Electric Sky, and more.  It’s my opportunity to share outtakes and insights, and occassionally I’ll ramble on about something completely unrelated.

You can subscribe to ES2 through iTunes , or by using a standard RSS subscription program.

Thanks for your patience!

Can anyone help??!!!

This year, I took some photos. You can see my fireworks pictures in my Flickr account.

Have a happy, healthy and safe holiday weekend!

Long known for it’s award winning radio and television programs, and a recently expanded catalog of 23 Podcast programs, the CBC has launched an official (not officious) blog, www.insidethecbc.com.

This could be a new age of influence for the CBC; a chance to be heard by, and hear (hopefully to listen to), the community at large.  If done right, this blog could change the way decision makers within the CBC and the government look at, and fund, the corporation.

Also, I have posted some photographs of the event on my Flickr page.

Most of the music I listened to while growing up was made accessible by the Copeland Brothers. Thank you, Ian. My music collection exists because of your role in the industry.

See you there!! Accident Hash, AndyCast, Audio Popcorn, Barry from Barrie, Beyond Science Podcast, Bob and AJ Show, Broca’s Area, Canadian Podcast Buffet, Caravan Unlocked, CatFish Show, Check This Out!, Chub Creek, Country Music Cast, Cubicle Divas, Deys Cast, Dicks & Janes, Digital Detroit Radio, Electric Sky, Fortrel, Geek.Farm.Life, Growing Enthusiasm, How to do Stuff, in over your head, Inside PR, LibriVox, mostlytunes, My Marilyn, NACOcast, OCRIRadio.com, Ottawa Local Podcast, PodcastPSA, Quirky Nomads, ROFLcast, Shane and Tom’s Squeezebox, Sonic Society, Spaceship Radio, Swing is in the Air, Tangents, The Comicology Podcast, The Mr. Nice Guy Show, The Oka Zoo, The Public Service, The Sniffer, The Toronto Indie Scene, The Twisted Wrist, The Zedcast, theWatt, Thunderbird Six, Todbits, Toronto Independent Music, Two Boobs and a Baby, Uncle Seth, and Zee and Zed.

To many, Podcasting is a disruptive media that threatens terrestrial radio; others suggest it’s radio’s welcome neighbour. I will be joining Mark Ramsey, Founder and President of Mercury Radio Research, and David Ives, Chief Executive of TVEyes | Podscope, to discuss the facts.

The Corporate Podcasting Summit is an in-depth, two-day event taking place June 20-21, 2006 in San Francisco. The conference will present Podcasting basics to companies that are considering launching their own Podcasts, and has invited speakers with experience and expertise to deliver the best content. Speakers include Michael W. Geoghegan, host of the official Disneyland Resort Podcasts; PodCast411 host, Rob Walch; Whirlpool’s Audrey Reed-Granger; John Furrier of PodTech.net; Forrester Research’s Charlene Li; speakers from Keane, BEA Systems, Feedburner and more.

As a listener of Electric Sky, you can attend the conference at the special SUPER EARLY BIRD rate, available until May 24th. To register, call Anita Yaa Agyeman toll free from the USA (800-814-3459 x318) or email anita@firstconf.com quoting Blevis to qualify for the special rates starting at US$595 for Start Ups and Podcasters, capped at US$795 for a 2 day Gold pass. You can also register online at http://www.podcast-summit.com/register.shtml (quoting BLEVIS in the Discount/Promotional box to qualify for your discount).

The summit agenda is available at http://www.podcast-summit.com/agenda.shtml

Enter the CBC, the only radio station in Canada worth listening to. Earlier today, it launched a suite of Podcasts that cover a full range of its most popular and influential Radio One programs, regional programming that so many are dependent on, and some programs that are only available as Podcasts.

Congratulations to the CBC for reinventing itself!!! Now, if only they would open up their archives for Podcasts.

To mark this milestone, I have relaunched my website with a new look and a revamped logo. Thanks to Nico for all of his hard work!

There’s talk of a meetup in Montreal in late March and a large gathering in Kingston, ON in June.

Click here to view photos of this meetup.

Please take a moment to register to attend so that we know how many people we are expecting.

“A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.

“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, dishonesty, false pride, superiority self-doubt and ego. The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you; and inside every other person, too.”

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked , “Which wolf will win?”

The old chief simply replied, “The one you feed.”

Congratulations, Bruce!

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*** UPDATE 051225: The survey has been completed and the link is no longer valid.

Our first show was published on December 1 and featured news of Tod Maffin’s cross Canada podcast tour, promos and profiles of the Podictionary and Decoder Ring Theatre podcasts, and a podsafe song by Christa Couture.

I would appreciate it if you could tag my Frappr Map with your name, location and even a picture.

And… no… I wouldn’t jump off a building if everyone else did.

The performance to a packed house (on a Sunday???) consisted exclusively of covers and was incredibly energetic. Original songs by the band can be found on its CD, Sepia Tones.

Signal Hill is in Ottawa from November 17-19 at Grace O’Malley’s (East).

For locations and dates, check out Tod’s post, Announcing… The Canadian Podcasting Tour!. You must RSVP if you wish to attend.

PLEASE RSVP by November 10th. If I receive no acceptances by then, I will post a cancellation notice.

UPDATE 051110: Halifax meetup cancelled

I used to listen to his radio programs on CHEZ 106 when I was growing up – shows including the infamous “The Source”. I never did accept the corporate reasons for his release from CHEZ.

When I was 16, I mowed his lawn. It would take me about half an hour to get the job done, and another hour or more to lead the conversation to a close. He offered me the choice of money or tapes as compensation. I wisely chose tapes – and I still have them. He made the most incredible mix tapes, introducing me to music and artists I had never heard. He also fed my love of live recordings of The Police.

I last saw Brian a year ago at a celebration of Le Hibou at Irene’s Pub. I was proud that he remembered me. We talked about The Beatles and Little Feat before he was called to the stage to introduce the performers.

Be well, Brian, and have fun with the music legends who you spoke of so well.