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PodcasterCon.org -- The Pork Roll Story Continues

One of the neatest things about podcasting and vblogging is that it brings out the quirkyest of stories -- what in less complicated times would have been folk tales. At PodcasterCon I spotted a bright yellow t-shirt admonishing one and all to "eat more pork roll."  Now, if you are from Jersey or the immediate environs "pork roll" is very special. I'm from the Taylor ham, not pork roll Jerseyans and remember eating it happily as a special breakfast treat during most of my youth.

So, given my personal history with Taylor ham a.k.a. pork roll, I asked the wearer of the shirt about the significance of "eat more pork roll." Well, boy did I learn all about pork roll. The owner of the shirt was Gene Fitzpatrick of Hometown Tales who was at the conference along with Bryan Minogue. They have made one of the funniest, yet so true to Jersey, vblogs about pork roll. It is entitled -- Pork Roll: The Meat That Divides NJ. I very much enjoyed meeting these two guys and seeing all of the video. Gene showed me some of it from his cellphone, just enough like a movie trailer, to get me really interested in seeing the whole thing.

Now, I've been thinking, next time I go to Jersey, I'll have to get myself a Taylor Ham sandwich -- it just isn't pork roll to me.

Hop On It!

Amanda has been swamped with work and sent away by a frog -- told by the frog to go do something besides sit at her computer.

The real question is why is she taking orders from a frog, particuarly this one? Who knows? She'll be back, but it is a bit murky why and where she went.

V'blogging -- Look Out Below

There is a reason Hollywood uses beautiful people for movies -- us ordinary folks just don't cut it in the movies. Maybe we can blame the camera. Take a look at the funky little vblog that I published below. I'm always looking for new ways to use blogging technology, and this is yet another permutation.

It was recorded from the minimal comfort of my home office, sitting in front of my Logitech camera, mounted over my laptop, using the microphone built into my Dell Latitude D500 computer, a.k.a. Alfred. The heavy lifting was done by Audioblog.

This is so easy. We expect to see lots of strange movies coming right from my desktop.

Enough Fun for One Day

Amanda Watlington has had just about enough fun for today. It is Friday the 13th, and I've made my own scary movie, not quite as good as the Hollywood version, but plenty scary. A new monster has been unleashed.