Day 370: Beltane Ramble

Happy May Day! I got a late start for a good reason today.

#tommw 70F light breeze, mostly cloudy


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12 Responses to Day 370: Beltane Ramble

  1. Jennifer Saar says:

    Eep! Congrats on your surprise nomination, and major props to whoever nominated you… This podcast is sublime. ^o^ Btw – I went back to listen to walk 121 and the file isn’t there.

    • Nathan says:

      Odd. I’m seeing it in the Podpress window as being there.

      And it plays when I push the button on a different (not logged in) machine.

      Anybody else have a problem?

      • Anita Lewis says:

        It downloads and plays for me. I didn’t try using the popup.

      • Jennifer Saar says:

        That’s so weird… It just won’t play for me. Normally I just go to the tommw homepage and hit the triangle/play button on the latest entry. The MP3 player appears and your voice pops up. For entry #121, I hit the triangle/play button and the entire MP3 player just turns into a big red X. I just found out that I can listen when I download it, however. Oh well.

  2. Jennifer Saar says:

    Clarification: By file, I mean the MP3 is missing. You hit play, and it’s a big X.

  3. Michael says:

    1. Congratulations Captain! I can’t wait!
    2. Don’t cut the car to the beach part! I loved that bit!

  4. Darren says:

    Congrats on the nomination. If you are looking for snippets of the show to paste together for the 10 minute sample. You may wish to focus on the episodes with most comments on the post. I personal would assume that they were the most provocative ones.

    • Laith says:

      That sounds like a good suggestion for a first pass anyway sometimes we get chatty on stuff not directly related to content creation… which might not be the best example for the category.

    • Tara Li says:

      You know, this really sounds like a good excuse to start a distributed transcription project! Of course, nothing would be posted publicly until Dr. Lowell read over it and redacted anything he didn’t want Google finding… I suspect it’s too noisy and variable for voice-to-text software to work well, but the mark 1 of said software, embedded in our wetware, still does a pretty good job.

      • Laith says:

        Having helped out Mur last year with the distributed transcript cleanup from speach-to-text output I can say they _really_ don’t work well… and that was from nice clean podiobook files.

        And was a lot of time to listen and cleanup… but maybe direct type as you listen transcription would be a bit faster 😉

  5. Paul says:

    I pick up quite a bit of informative insight into publishing, editing, teaching, lecturing, constructive criticism, dead end vs active pedagogy, technology that works in my field and that which may be just plain stupid.

    Yeah, your daily ramble is your outlet but our resource. FREE!! Thanks.

    Oh yeah and hearing a constant “He” said “She” said really sucks, that is not story telling that is just reading aloud.

    • Paul says:

      Sorry, that last comment about “He” said, was for a previous post, but it was still on my mind as I catch up on your talks.

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