Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Interview with Jennifer Hillman-Helgren, Ph.D., on Her Decent Dissertation Today's Podcast is an interview with my friend, Jennifer Hillman-Helgren, Ph.D. We discussed her recent dissertation and opinions involving same. Below is her Abstract of Dissertation: Inventing American Girlhood: Gender and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Camp Fire Girls by Jennifer Hillman Helgren Claremont Graduate University: 2005 In 1910, a group of progressive reformers began to plan and create a national organization for adolescent girls. The Camp Fire Girls, the most popular girls' organization in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s, provided a unique, feminine corollary to the recently formed Boy Scouts. This dissertation has a two-fold purpose. First, it examines, through Camp Fire publications such as handbooks and magazines, the models of girlhood and womanhood Camp Fire promoted. Secondly, it analyzes girls' scrapbooks, diaries, and other personal reminiscences to better understand the formation of girls' cultures in response to the Camp Fire program. In their vision of girl citizenship, early twentieth-century Camp Fire officials struggled to uphold the nineteenth-century concept of a female sphere of nurture, domesticity, and service to family while they expanded opportunities for girls in education, careers, outdoor activities, and civic reform. Camp Fire taught girls through a maternalist philosophy that regarded traditional feminine characteristics as inherent and the basis for female contributions to family, community, and nation. I contend that Camp Fire's leadership found in maternalism an adaptable model of girl citizenship that could be applied to changing American social and political concerns through the mid-twentieth century. Thematic chapters examine Camp Fire's founding philosophy, its early efforts to grapple with modernity through the use of Indian imagery, its claims to serve all girls through an inclusive organization, its militarization of American girlhood through war work during World War I and II, and its sponsorship of homemaking as the basis for global citizenship in the conservative post-World War II era. The study ends with Camp Fire's decision to become co-educational in the early 1970s. For their part, many girls adopted the Camp Fire language and activities. Others created their own, often ambivalent, meaning and identity through the mixture of traditional and forward-looking roles Camp Fire offered. Importantly, Camp Fire provided a space for the formation of girl friendships, activities, and shared values on both local and national levels. Duration of this PodCast is 36 minutes and 33 seconds with a size of 8.36 MB. 7:55:05 PM

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Discussion and Example of Apple's Quartz Composer Application Today's PodCast is my commentary about Apple's new Tiger OS HOT application, Quartz Composer. I used Quartz Composer to create a file, Time Out Of Mind Particles that can be used as a ScreenSaver under Tiger. The snapshot below is a video capture of it running as a ScreenSaver. Duration of this PodCast is 7 minutes and 47 seconds with a size of 1.78 MB. 12:57:34 PM

Monday, June 20, 2005

My 25 Years of Computing Today's PodCast covers two topics: My, One-Quarter Century Of Computing comments Commentary on the TV Mini Series, Into The West and my own views of the interaction between the Native Americans and Settlers in the 1800's across the Great Plains Duration of this PodCast is 10 minutes and 9 seconds with a size of 2.32MB. 12:56:51 PM

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Introduction to December 6, 2001 Radio Talk Show Today's PodCast is very short. It introduces a radio show I was part of and originally broadcast by WBCB 1490 AM, Bucks County, PA on December 6, 2001. Ronnie Allen was the announcer/interviewer for Janie Grant and Gerry Granahan who were his guests that evening. Below are the segments of that radio show in mp3 format. I have written permission from the radio station and the three people mentioned above to reproduce that show here for my readers. Intro To Janie Grant Segment 8 Minutes 43 seconds at 10 MB Gerry Granahan Calls Segment 5 Minutes 23 seconds at 6.1 MB Romeo Segment 3 Minutes 28 seconds at 3.9 MB Roller Coaster Segment 3 Minutes 33 seconds at 4.7 MB Oh, Johnny Segment 6 Minutes 20 seconds at 7.3 MB Don Larson Calls In Segment 2 Minutes 52 seconds at 3.3 MB Greasy Kid Stuff Segment 5 Minutes 38 seconds at 6.5 MB Tell Me Mama Segment 6 Minutes 41 seconds at 7.6 MB Closing Remarks Segment 4 Minutes 48 seconds at 5.5 MB Duration of this PodCast is 2 minutes and 18 seconds with a size of 541 KB. 7:56:35 PM

Monday, June 13, 2005

A Story About, Today's PodCast is a short story from my life. It's entitled, "A 1987 Chat with Apple Fellow, Bill Atkinson". Bill Atkinson is an Apple Fellow, the creator of "QuickDraw" and HyperCard among other things. I met and spoke with him in October 1987 in Chicago, Illinois. This is that story. Duration of this PodCast is 5 minutes and 34 seconds with a size of 1.27 MB. 1:20:30 PM

Friday, June 10, 2005

A Story Today's PodCast is the first in a series of stories to appear here over time. It's entitled, "When Failure Was An Option". I included a modified version of, "Realm Of The Angels" as the background music during the story. That music can be purchased on my, Spirit Of The Pathfinder music CD. Duration of this PodCast is 10 minutes and 6 seconds with a size of 2.3 MB. 3:08:10 PM

Tuesday, June 7, 2005

Apple's Transition to Intel Today's PodCast covers three topics: Thoughts about Apple's Transition to Intel Interview schedule update for this month My newest Desktop Background, Twin Flames and the explanation for it Duration of this PodCast is 13 minutes and 47 seconds with a size of 1.58 MB. 1:26:22 PM

Thursday, June 2, 2005

Discussion about the Volunteer Video for City of Carlsbad, California Today's PodCast covers five topics: Discussion about the Volunteer Video for City of Carlsbad, California I recently completed The new Digital Passages Art Poster for sale My new Feeling In The Moonlight music video using a tune from my forthcoming music CD, "One Love At A Time" and some 2003 4th of July fireworks pictures. The passing of my friend, Marney Ireys last night Information on June Interviews for this podcast site Duration of this PodCast is 11 minutes and 04 seconds with a size of 1.3 MB. 11:18:09 AM