I put together this video showing a quick setup of my Skype recording capability with a Sony IC Recorder (pocket MP3 recorder). 

see original video article – Wiring MP3 Recorder to Capture Skype Interviews

The setup is not intuitive, but it works.  I meant to create a image that identified where the cords were supposed to be plugged in, but somewhere along the line I lost it.  (I think I wrote the article and my machine crashed and I forgot to recover the article and original image).

Someone asked me about it on YouTube today, and reminded me that I couldn’t find the article either.  I know I wrote it, but couldn’t find it. 

So I am publishing this new image of my setup for recording interviews or conversations with skype.

This week has been hands down crazy, and I just wanted to share a little bit of it with you to help explain why that little bit behind writing on this column and posting some new videos and tutorials. 

First, I had to make an unplanned trip to Georgia, after my alarm system for my fire alarm started triggering a false alarm. I had to head to the house where I keep the alarm turned off while I waited for two days for the repair person to show up and replace the sensor. While I was there, I did a great deal of work on my laptop using my air card, while I frequently took breaks to literally clean the cobwebs out of the house which has been shut up for about a year now.

Meanwhile I am trying to repair a trip to Las Vegas for BlogWorldExpo 2008.  This will be my second year attending, and I am working on a promotion whereby I will be running a Dragon NaturallySpeaking demonstration at a booth at the show. I’ll have more details on that soon I hope, because I’m still racking up the fine points of that particular deal.

On top of that, I had to chop down a few trees in the yard, and backup a few last items that were lingering in the house to ship back to North Carolina.

But that was not all that I was doing, I spent a good deal of time catching up with some old friends, neighbors, partners and clients. Plus I was working on the presentation that I will be giving at the Birmingham WordCamp coming up at the end of the month in September, one week after BlogWorld.

Not to mention all the time that I spent driving back and forth from North Carolina to Atlanta this week, and listening to a very long-winded audio book along the way.

On top of all that, I’m still shopping for a good podcasting microphone, a good video smartphone (likely going to be the Nokia N95), which I hope will help me save some money keeping me away from the purchase of a new digital camera.  (I try and save the big digital camera purchases for my wife, a real photographer unlike myself.  She can get a lot more out of a new camera than I can, and I’ve kind of been eyeballing the Nikon D90 for her).

Anyway, I was able to get a chip into Fry’s while I was away, and I’ll submitted by Guitar Center to look at microphones.  I saw the microphone I’m probably going to purchase, but I didn’t pick it up at the time because I thought it a better deal online. I’m looking at the Rode NT1A, a very solid microphone, which will probably be a little bit more than what I need, but I totally don’t want to buy less than what I need and have to repeat purchase for something better later on down the road. This seems like a nice safe choice of metal, even though it’s probably about $50-$60 out of my comfort zone for this particular piece of electronics.

This is a test of my night vision webcam. It is actually a day/night web cam. I’ve plugged it in via a Pinnacle usb video conversion device.

Here’s my original article talking about the setup for this goofy experiment.
http://www.softduit.com/…dockffice/

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That was the first test. Nothing spectacular and the audio could have been better. I have to figure the audio out a bit more as I fine tune my recipes for nocturnal web cam tests.