Comments on: Registering Interest http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/registering-interest.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:53:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/registering-interest.html/comment-page-1#comment-128681 David Bradley Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:31:50 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/registering-interest.html#comment-128681 It's interesting that you should ask about the Sciencebase podcast now given that I've just relaunched it and each post now has a "listen now" button right below the title ;-) I've also added a link to the podcast in the left-hand menu, just above the big orange RSS button. Originally, I did a six episode podcast towards the end of 2006, for which I recorded a jingle on guitar, a voiceover (done by my wife), and my own voice, reading the news. It went under the name of the <a href="http://www.sciencebase.com/geordie-boffin-podcast.html" rel="nofollow">Geordie Boffin Podcast</a>. However, each episode received only about 200 listeners, so I kind of assumed it wasn't something most Sciencebase readers wanted. Just last week I implemented the Odiogo plugin for our CMS, which "reads" each post and renders it as a downloadable and streamable mp3 file. The <a href="http://podcasts.odiogo.com/sciencebase-science-blog/podcasts-xml.php" rel="nofollow">Sciencebase podcast RSS feed</a> can be picked up by iTunes. Just for simplicity the RSS feed for the podcast is not fulltext, it provides just the intros and then a "Click here to play" link. The plugin does a fantastic job of rendering post using a voice synthesiser, which does now mean you can listen to Sciencebase on the go without my having to endure my dulcet tones. So, check it out, or rather, listen up! db It’s interesting that you should ask about the Sciencebase podcast now given that I’ve just relaunched it and each post now has a “listen now” button right below the title ;-) I’ve also added a link to the podcast in the left-hand menu, just above the big orange RSS button.

Originally, I did a six episode podcast towards the end of 2006, for which I recorded a jingle on guitar, a voiceover (done by my wife), and my own voice, reading the news. It went under the name of the Geordie Boffin Podcast. However, each episode received only about 200 listeners, so I kind of assumed it wasn’t something most Sciencebase readers wanted. Just last week I implemented the Odiogo plugin for our CMS, which “reads” each post and renders it as a downloadable and streamable mp3 file. The Sciencebase podcast RSS feed can be picked up by iTunes. Just for simplicity the RSS feed for the podcast is not fulltext, it provides just the intros and then a “Click here to play” link. The plugin does a fantastic job of rendering post using a voice synthesiser, which does now mean you can listen to Sciencebase on the go without my having to endure my dulcet tones.

So, check it out, or rather, listen up!

db

]]> By: John http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/registering-interest.html/comment-page-1#comment-128507 John Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:20:45 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/registering-interest.html#comment-128507 You used to have an interesting news / interviews podcast, but now things have changed around and I can't find..that's a shame. Can we have a link for it somewhere prominent? Great site, incidentally. You used to have an interesting news / interviews podcast, but now things have changed around and I can’t find..that’s a shame. Can we have a link for it somewhere prominent?

Great site, incidentally.

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