I am slowly falling back into my nocturnal sleeping habits. I tend to, around 8pm, get down to some editing of audio. I realized that many people wouldn't necessarily read my book The Screwtape Emails: Lessons in Ecclesiastical Mincing, but might listen to me read it. Also, with how complex some of the sentence structure is, I think it helps to have me read it with my voice underlining what exactly I meant, so to speak. Now I'm up to "email 16."
I read the whole thing into my computer, and edited about half of the "emails" into a listenable mp3 form to download from my site, then found I'd been reading them too quickly and I knew I could do better, so I re-read the book in more somber, well-paced tones. Now I just have to go through, edit out mistakes and things, and slap in the eerie music I made to play under my voice.
Really enjoyed the new Harry Potter movie. Devoured the new Jim Butcher book Turn Coat, got a bit tired of the Charlaine Harris "Sookie Stackhouse" books I bought, though I'm very into the True Blood HBO show based on it (girlporn is as foreign and ungratifying to most guys as guyporn is to most girls), started re-reading the last Harry Potter book, because the movie made me want to remember what happened after it, tried to get into Mad Men with indifferent success, watched episodes of Dr. Katz and The Ben Stiller Show, and plan to pick up Watchmen on DVD soon. Watched Avatar: The Last Airbender with my niece, who seemed to find it riveting. Have been doing a slow but systematic cleanup/cleanout of my apartment, which is going slowly but unprecedentedly well. Need to buy food.
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Hey Mike,
Have you ever looked into 'podcasting'?
It's a fun and exciting phenomenon on the interwebs that could conceivably get your stuff out to a wider audience (if you so desire), and make it even more convenient for your fans to listen to your latest works using their rss reader software / aggregator of choice (for example, 'subscribing' to your audio files in itunes, which will automatically show all of song / sketch / whatever you have put up, right there in their itunes software).
Don't know if this is interesting to you or not, but these are the kinds of things I think of after going to school for a year to become even more of an internet nerd than I already was (a website design / programming course, if you don't recall).
Hey Mike,
Have you ever looked into 'podcasting'?
It's a fun and exciting phenomenon on the interwebs that could conceivably get your stuff out to a wider audience (if you so desire), and make it even more convenient for your fans to listen to your latest works using their rss reader software / aggregator of choice (for example, 'subscribing' to your audio files in itunes, which will automatically show all of song / sketch / whatever you have put up, right there in their itunes software).
Don't know if this is interesting to you or not, but these are the kinds of things I think of after going to school for a year to become even more of an internet nerd than I already was (a website design / programming course, if you don't recall).
Oddly, I haven't. I don't know why (or how). How does it work (from this end, not from the end of the people who want to download stuff?)
Hey Mike,
I've intended to get back to you about this for quite a while. One of the downfalls of being a chronic procrastinator is that if you don't set a deadline to do something by, it never gets done. Therefore I've set a deadline for myself to at least write something to you about podcasting today.
A podcast consists of two elements: mp3 files and an RSS document. The mp3 files are the 'episodes' of your podcast, be they 3-minute songs, 30-minute rambling soliloquies, or any other audio content. The RSS file contains information on the podcast itself and information about each episode in the podcast, which will be read by whatever program you use to subscribe to the podcast, and allow users to read about/dowload/listen to the podcast. The information includes the title and description of the 'show,' URL to your blog, your email address (if you choose to give it), and a title, link (where you have uploaded the mp3 file to), and description for each mp3 'episode.'
You can upload the mp3 files to your server and create the RSS file manually (rss files are xml files, and the process of adding new episodes to the rss file should be obvious for anyone with basic knowlege of html [which is also a form of xml]), or there are web applications available which can ease the process by generating the rss file for you. You can create a podcast feed using blog software such as the Blogger, which you're already using here (I found a tutorial on how to do that here: http://google.about.com/od/googleblogging/ss/podblogger.htm), Wordpress, and others. http://www.podomatic.com/ is a site devoted solely to hosting podcasts.
If you'd like to create a sample rss file to see what it looks like, you can create one using a handy form here: http://www.tdscripts.com/webmaster_utilities/podcast-generator.php ('enclosure' is the file you want to link to).
If you want to keep your site nice and tidy without redirecting people to a thousand different places, I'd suggest using Blogger or just putting a link to a manually-created rss file on your home page. The people who want to subscribe to you would then copy and paste the link to the rss into their 'podcatcher' software.
If you'd like me to clarify anything, please let me know.
I also have some notions of consolidating your wikkidwebsite, blog, and theoretical podcast(s) (...you already have the content, just not the rss) in one fun and easy, Wordpress(a content management system)-powered, web standards friendly website. Please feel free to ignore or ask about these thoughts as you desire.
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