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  "title": "Stop.  Quickie time.",
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  "html": "<ul>\n<li>I've got <a href=\"sdf\">\"Cover Me\" from Bruce Springsteen</a> stuck in my head--thanks <a href=\"sdf\">Coverville</a>.</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Okay, so let me get <a href=\"http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/39910\">this</a> straight: The fact that Canada exercised it's sovereignty in <a href=\"http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/02/24/missile-canada050224.html\">refusing to join up with us</a> on the brain-dead missile defence plan means that it's <a href=\"http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/news/shownews.jsp?content=n022421A\">reliquished its sovereignty</a>.  Double-speak and bullies, hooray!  Somehow, I think this sort of thing makes us the target of more missiles than Canada--and keeping US military assets out of your country seems like a better missile defense to me.</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><p>Just heard an <em>awesome</em> mashup on Adam Curry's <a href=\"http://www.dailysourcecode.com/\">Daily Source Code</a> podcast, <a href=\"http://gyllerfelt.se/mashed/\">Seether by Veruca Salt VS. Don't Go by Yazoo</a>.</p>\n</li>\n<li><p>Oh, and speaking of podcasts.  My pet peeve:</p>\n<p><font size=\"+8\">For</font> <font size=\"-2\"> the</font> <font size=\"+1\">love</font> <font size=\"+8\">of</font><font size=\"-3\"> Bob</font> <font size=\"+2\">please</font> <font size=\"-1\">watch your</font> <font size=\"+5\">audio</font> <font size=\"-2\">levels</font><font size=\"1\">!</font><font size=\"+5\">!</font><font size=\"0\">!</font></p>\n<p>Is there anyway everyone could take some cues from radio and maybe try to agree on a decibel level common between podcasts?  And maybe even within the same podcast?  I mean, maybe this is where the thousands of dollars of equipment in a studio comes in handy, with compressors and such, but there's gotta be something to be done.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221089203\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.kryogenix.org/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=cbde212986000125ff4322c25c1e50ce&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.kryogenix.org/\">Stuart Langridge</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221089203\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-02-26T22:43:48\">2005-02-26T22:43:48</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">Audio levels are hard. On LugRadio (www.lugradio.org) we used to have all sorts of issues with the sound balancing. The reason it's now fixed is that we use the not-very-cheap Cubase SX for mixing. While I take your point entirely, saying \"you've gotta pony up a lot of money for decent mixing software\" raises the bar to podcasting enormously. It's be like only allowing weblogging with a paid-for TypePad subscription.\nI wish there was Free software to do this, but there isn't, really; I mean, we're a Linux radio show and we're not doing it...</div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221089204\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=1ea5ff5011b97bde940f38b83cbac74e&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\">fluffy</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221089204\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-02-27T12:42:16\">2005-02-27T12:42:16</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">Many free/cheap recording packages these days come with software compressors.  It's just a matter of educating people on how to use them.</div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221089206\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://advogato.org/person/mbrubeck/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=85232f8499fd6ee91623408fc23835d1&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://advogato.org/person/mbrubeck/\">Matt Brubeck</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221089206\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-02-27T23:31:28\">2005-02-27T23:31:28</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">For normalizing sound levels between podcasts, ReplayGain (e.g. mp3gain, vorbisgain) would be a useful standard.  I've been meaning to add that to Audacity someday.</div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": "* I've got [\"Cover Me\" from Bruce Springsteen][cb] stuck in my head--thanks [Coverville][cv].\r\n\r\n[cb]:sdf\r\n[cv]:sdf\r\n\r\n* Okay, so let me get [this][misme] straight: The fact that Canada exercised it's sovereignty in [refusing to join up with us][ref] on the brain-dead missile defence plan means that it's [reliquished its sovereignty][noref].  Double-speak and bullies, hooray!  Somehow, I think this sort of thing makes us the target of more missiles than Canada--and keeping US military assets out of your country seems like a better missile defense to me.\r\n\r\n[misme]:http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/39910\r\n[ref]:http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/02/24/missile-canada050224.html\r\n[noref]:http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/news/shownews.jsp?content=n022421A\r\n\r\n* Just heard an *awesome* mashup on Adam Curry's [Daily Source Code][dsc] podcast, [Seether by Veruca Salt VS. Don't Go by Yazoo][mash].\r\n\r\n* Oh, and speaking of podcasts.  My pet peeve:\r\n\r\n  <font size=\"+8\">For</font> <font size=\"-2\"> the</font> <font size=\"+1\">love</font> <font size=\"+8\">of</font><font size=\"-3\"> Bob</font> <font size=\"+2\">please</font> <font size=\"-1\">watch your</font> <font size=\"+5\">audio</font> <font size=\"-2\">levels</font><font size=\"1\">!</font><font size=\"+5\">!</font><font size=\"0\">!</font>\r\n  \r\n  Is there anyway everyone could take some cues from radio and maybe try to agree on a decibel level common between podcasts?  And maybe even within the same podcast?  I mean, maybe this is where the thousands of dollars of equipment in a studio comes in handy, with compressors and such, but there's gotta be something to be done.\r\n\r\n[dsc]:http://www.dailysourcecode.com/\r\n[mash]:http://gyllerfelt.se/mashed/\r\n\r\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\r\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\r\n            \r\n        <ul class=\"comments\">\r\n            \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221089203\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.kryogenix.org/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=cbde212986000125ff4322c25c1e50ce&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.kryogenix.org/\">Stuart Langridge</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221089203\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-02-26T22:43:48\">2005-02-26T22:43:48</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">Audio levels are hard. On LugRadio (www.lugradio.org) we used to have all sorts of issues with the sound balancing. The reason it's now fixed is that we use the not-very-cheap Cubase SX for mixing. While I take your point entirely, saying \"you've gotta pony up a lot of money for decent mixing software\" raises the bar to podcasting enormously. It's be like only allowing weblogging with a paid-for TypePad subscription.\r\nI wish there was Free software to do this, but there isn't, really; I mean, we're a Linux radio show and we're not doing it...</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221089204\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=1ea5ff5011b97bde940f38b83cbac74e&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"\">fluffy</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221089204\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-02-27T12:42:16\">2005-02-27T12:42:16</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">Many free/cheap recording packages these days come with software compressors.  It's just a matter of educating people on how to use them.</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221089206\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://advogato.org/person/mbrubeck/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=85232f8499fd6ee91623408fc23835d1&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://advogato.org/person/mbrubeck/\">Matt Brubeck</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221089206\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-02-27T23:31:28\">2005-02-27T23:31:28</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">For normalizing sound levels between podcasts, ReplayGain (e.g. mp3gain, vorbisgain) would be a useful standard.  I've been meaning to add that to Audacity someday.</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        </ul>\r\n    \r\n        </div>\r\n    ",
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