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This is a hilariously good idea.

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Tis Awesome!

Yeah, but it was MY IDEA

Damnit you guys! I've been planning out a podcast for weeks, was just getting ready to try and make it TODAY only to find out y'all had already done it! Damn!

Great job guys. I look forward to the next installment (and would be happy to chat with y'all sometime)!

DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!

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No reason that you can't still make a podcast. Im glad you liked ours though, think of this first episode as a Beta and next week it should be more polished.

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JTony: We knew.

We knew.

I see your mind in my dreams.

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GY0 wields great and terrible powers.

In other news, I saw SF0 Podcast on the new player lists and I was like "Sweet! A podcast!" Glad to see that it wasn't just someone with a crazy user name.

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Oh, also, I apologize for the leveling issue, where I am a gillion times louder than the other two. I will fix this next episode!

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Ooh completely random but I just heard the first use of the word Praxis outside of SF0.

In the film the Ladykillers uttered by Tom Hanks.

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I am so sorry, Ben.
Your dreams must be...

so dull.....

And regarding th levels, does that mean you are turning the others down ALL the way next time?

seriously, nice job guys

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Ben sounds like Nic Harcourt from KCRW.

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Updates, iTunes subscription now works.

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I don't smoke at all which would explain why I don't have the voice you imagine I'd have. But I'm working on fixing your perception issues in another way.

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Remember, eating gravel is not good for your health.

Neither is beard shaving.

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Lank, you think all Britons sound alike ?

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JTony: We are looking for weekly guests, can we put you on our list of people to mail?

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The iTunes link doesn't work for me. It recognizes the podcast but gives me the black exclamation point of being unable to find the podcast.

I like how mean you guys are too each other.

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Yes, Tom. Please put me on your list. It will have to be in a couple of weeks, however, as I need to get my Mac fixed before the power cord will be stable enough for the think to work reliably (half the time I'm typing one handed because I actually have to hold the power cord in a particular position for the machine to get power at all... right now I have it taped in place...).

So sign me up for a couple of weeks, or so.

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Hah, awesome. And I get mentioned twice!

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JJAson: If the iTunes link doesn't work, we'll whip Ben till he fixes it. In the meantime, if you click here, you can subscribe to it via live! bookmarks.

JTony: Will do, I too know the annoyance of having to tape a power cord in place, not good for writing coursework essays on.

Adam's right

so JTony, and GY0 innovators: what about a podcast vs. the podcast? hm? room for others? nothing official? that sort of thing?

don't get me wrong, it's a welcome idea whose time has come - just there's no reason JTony couldn't do his own, right? you're not just going to shut down your own production JT, yeah? Perhaps some kind of collaboration?

if only there was some kind of tool, or a group of tools held together in a sort of web or net-work that promoted international collaboration... oh. wait.

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BU: That's cool. JTony could even push it to higher limits and make a videocast!

JJason: Yes, it now seems to be broken... maybe after one subscription the whole thing just explodes.

Still trying to Make It Work :)

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EDIT: need a tester with iTunes to see if the new link works.

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well right clicking the link to "open with itunes" worked for me in terms of playing it. it didn't subscribe though

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Shhaluhcko pronounced like "caləco"

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Hmm, thanks for the test, BU. Seems that it works on some but not others. Any suggestions on how to make a podcast feed properly are greatly appreciated!

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As are any mails on anything discussed.

More mail = less random banter.

Or it could just mean a longer cast, with improved banter.

Banter for all!

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Sorry Daryl, call quality is a big factor, and when you get past 3 people + guest, it starts to deteriorate.

There was no need to block me on Skype though.

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Upcoming Guests!
Week 2 (1st March 08) - TBA (Awaiting confirmation)
Week 3 (8th March 08) - Burn Unit
Week 4 (15th March 08) - Lincoln
Week 5 (22nd March 08) - TBA (Awaiting confirmation)

Remember to Mail this account if you want to be a guest, or if you have any mail to be read out!

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Upcoming Guests!
Week 2 (1st March 08) - Anna One
Week 3 (8th March 08) - Burn Unit
Week 4 (15th March 08) - Lincoln
Week 5 (22nd March 08) - TBA (Awaiting confirmation)

Remember to Mail this account if you want to be a guest, or if you have any mail to be read out!

Also, Susy Derkins had the great idea that if you record questions we can play them, so recordings are welcome too!

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And also, this task does not speak on behalf of GYØ, as it's just you 3.

If that were the case, then no task would be suited to ANY team, especially GYØ. There has never been a 20-person task for GYØ.

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Please don't turn this comment page into an argument.

Take it to the discourse.

RE: iTunes

My iTunes subscription worked just fine.

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Excellent, hopefully it's fixed now.

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Senator Unit: No, I don't think all Britons sound alike, but I think all white people look the same. Can't tell them apart.

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1. Soundbooth wasn't used, it was all Audacity.

2. Tom helped me get it. Just linking me to "thepiratebay.org (no www)" is not what I had in mind.

Sorry chap, no offence intended - we're not leaving you out because we don't like you or anything, it is literally my wee connection cannae take any more, cap'n!

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Upcoming Guests!
Week 2 (1st March 08) - Anna One
Week 3 (8th March 08) - Burn Unit
Week 4 (15th March 08) - Lincoln
Week 5 (22nd March 08) - JTony (If all goes well with his iBook and whatnot)

Remember to Mail this account if you want to be a guest, or if you have any mail to be read out!

Also, Susy Derkins had the great idea that if you record questions we can play them, so recordings are welcome too!

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This weeks question is:

'What do you think about tasks such as First Impressions and Part time waitress?'

Send us your views!

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@ GYØ Adam (inyarmouth) :

dude, karl marx is buried in London. he lived there for years.... i'll bet he was out tasking and praxisizing on those beaches at some point.

actually now that i look back he talks about suffolk in kapital, not sure if he mentions norfolk...

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Thanks for votes and ideas re: another podcast. I agree there can be more than one (This aint Highlander), and encourage anyone to do another SF0 podcast if they like.

I will most likely be doing some sort of podcast, but for another task, and on another subject. A vidcast is appealing, but I sure don't want to add video editing back into my repertoir at this time... too many other things.

My original idea for a podcast was actually going to use SF0's built in phone-in audio feature... and I will still use that for something. Quality pretty much sucks, especially on a cell phone, but the idea of "phoning it in" still really appeals to me. Y'all will see when I've done something (which I have to wait to see how my computer turns out before I can even start, at this point).

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I had no idea Marx lived in the UK. I only know of his works as opposed to his life.

How does he talk about Suffolk?

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hooray!

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well blimey, if it 'adn't'a been fer them wehrkin class cockneys and the, ahem, english blueblood fat cats (those damnable capitalists - don't go taking personal or national offense, now...) there practically wouldn't be a kapital! mr. marx got run out of europe not long after those crazy 1848 revolution times (great gramma of a more recent one) and settled out in soho. that's right, there's even a fancy restaurant there now down below his building. rumour has it his friends and neighbours [sic] paid rentage to a suffolk lord or lady or earl or dame or one of those types... bet they couldn't afford rent there now!

anyway, he did reside in london for quite some time, if i remember correctly it was right up until the paris commune. people take spring break pictures where he wrote the book, can't remember if it's st. paul's or the library, or what. but those types of photos are all over the place, people take 'em when they're students and then frame them for paperweights when they get their professorships in the social sciences. don't forget that he was there right in the damn midst of the best and worst of times... he must have seen it all!

as for suffolk, my googlebooks tells me that he refers to it in a few chapters of V.1 of that tome... most notably when he's going over agricultural production. he does the whole, "shit comes to the city from the countryside then gets eaten up and washed out the thames" shtick for awhile... actually pretty prescient when you look at envi.sci. textbooks, these days they still harp on a lot of the same basic rhetoric. but you haven't read it yet! or have you? i wouldn't recommend it, at least not in large dosages. he gets fairly ridiculous a little too often for my taste, but peppers his work with such strong language it's no wonder people of the western world cower at his name.

but yeah, london. marx is still there.

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Thanks for that. Better than if Id have asked my politics tutor.

I do have the Selected Writings of Marx hanging around somewhere. I must get round to them at some point, I get the gist of his work from studying politics but next year we get to look at it in much greater detail.

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I warn thee guests.

Beware of breakages.

Todays podcast is coming, but we're still going about 3 hours after we started... It's breaking lots.

Hopefully we'll have our technique down by next week.

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Ah, breakage. The bane of all technology...

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Worst. Podcast. Ever.

The guest was perfect.

The technology sucked a great deal of ass.

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A great deal.

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As I said, hopefully next week we'll have recording issues sorted.

We'll probably buy the pro edition of the software we're using, then it might not BREAK SO MUCH!

But yes, it's finished recording. Ben is now editing it all together.

Sorry if everyone sounds slowly more depressed as it goes on.

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Ah well I wasn't involved due to complete technology death.

I did get to watch Harry Hill's TV Burp though

And eat pizza.

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You're there next week ready for Burn Unit.

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Podcast #2 can has release!

This weeks guest is Anna One!

We cover technical difficulties, technical difficulties, technical difficulties and various other things.

We also introduce the new Podtasks feature, which we'd love suggestions for.

Download it here.

Next weeks guest is Burn Unit, send in your questions and suchforth in the usual way, through this account.

The big question we want mail on for next week is "What do your friends think about your tasking?"

Any podtask suggestions are greatly welcomed, as are any recordings for us to slip in there.

Anyway, enjoy the new podcast and the new logo by Anna One!

He hee hee

Thanx for your concern.
I don't have rabies… I am just special… a rocket dog if you will.


Actually I got hit in the head with a stick..

oh noes

Ben is much louder than everyone else.

As is per usual.

Sorry I wasn't there for the recording, I got fed up with tech issues and had some dinner

FYI:

I now have subscription issues:
Feed Address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/sf0podcast
HTTP Error (Code) and Message: (404) Feed not found error: FeedBurner cannot locate this feed URI.

This was so much fun! I have suddenly realized the ability to listen to my own voice without freaking out- which is an extra bonus!

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Ben is much louder than everyone else.

As is per usual.

Yeah, it's because Pamela picks up my voice more as I'm recording. The only way to fix it is by turning me down, and then other people can't hear.

Also, yeah, feed issues here too. I think feedburner doesn't like me.

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iTunes subscription now appears to be working- whatever you did was successful!

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Sure, NOW it works. Now that I've heard it already. Twice.

Nice job guys. Second cast is great! AnnaWon was a perfect guest!

Really nice cameo by Lank... (you know, Lank, if you practiced for about 20 minutes, you could do a Boris Karloff that'd bring him back from the grave... me, I only do a killer Harpo Marx (they shared a birthday.... with me....)).

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Right, so, just to confirm, the REAL address for subscription, and the one which definitely works is:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/sfzeropodcast

So use this! Hurrah.

Now that is Making It Work.

What I did to fix, by the way, was remove all instances of a letter from everywhere.

It was the power of the Ø.

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Hurrah for workability!

Pesky Ø

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We've also managed to sort the sound levels out, up with levels, make them work!

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So there'll be no more of this:

Ben: HELLO AND WELCOME...
Tom: mmmrgmrmmffmrmf.

Unless that's what you want.

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I found that charming.

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Hehe, it annoyed me!

If I listen to it back, it's impossible to get the volume at a nice level for all.


Anyway, anyone got any responses to 'What do your friends think about your tasking?', any Questions for Burn Unit (or us!) or any Podtask suggestions?

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Yay! The new feed works! Good work making it work!

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MORE!!!!!

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Lol, it's quite funny, listening to the podcast on the way home, all I can hear is Ben over the Magdalen Way traffic =P

Umm... my mum and sister think that it's rather weird to walk around with lots of boys high-fiving random people. Some of my friends think it sounds cool, I've tryed to persuade some people (ie. Sam) and have managed on one account (Melissa). To be honest, some of my other friends like the sound of it but I'm reluctant to tell them about it, I don't think they'd take it seriously.

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A most impressive use of technology to aid weaving of the social fabric.

Podcast is coming

Thanks to Burn Unit for putting up with our live testing of technical fixes.

And look forward to a cameo appearance from Eleanor!

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For heaven' sake. I was in Norwich come recording.

I will be there next week.
Promise.

Sorry BU, I really wanted to interview.

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No matter, it's a long one anyway, weighs in at a massive 1:20!

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Surely no-one will listen to 1:20.

Golden rule of podcasting.

"For god's sake keep it below 45 minutes, around the 25/30 minute mark"

Told to me by a friend who hosts a very popular podcast.

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I'd listen to 1:20.

I get annoyed at short podcasts that finish before I get off the bus, then I have to start a new one only to be halfway through it when I get off.

Anyway, It's a pure classy 1:20...

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Adam: If you'd like to spend hours and hours cropping down the 'cast to a listenable length, be my guest. But BU had some really interesting things to say. We won't be going any longer than this next time, this is a maximum... but as I said, Burn Unit can talk loads, and he's really cool.

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Podcast #3 is here!
wow, now it's an official series eh?

Download it here!

Featuring Burn Unit, and a cameo by Eleanor, this week we cover things such as BAGELS, Player arcs, Questosis and what naalbinding actually is.

Levels are better, connection got better toward the end. Thanks again to BU for putting up with our live testing.

Enjoy!

-SFØ Podcast
sfzeropodcast.blogspot.com

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If the content is good, I'm just fine with a three hour podcast.

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Much less dead space this time, it's all content!

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awesome.
as always.

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I'm downloading now, but I'm also shocked to see this 1:20 business (though my first reaction is along the lines of "hang the rules Mr. Smith I don't care what your friend says, we're playing sf0 not trying to make some kind of commercial radio show" but I agree, I'm shocked comma shocked by the 1:20).

So ... so yeah, if we got to 1:30 we could do two :45s.

Hey, I'd do it again though. Any time, that was fun. Sorry I talk so much; there's probably some cut-able stuff.

Mailbag. Podtask. Etc.

Oh I meant to say, I did like the edit, Ben. Though I might have played it out a little differently (this is not a slight). The clip I sent was too long by half, yes. Though in the build and release, it was set up as a kind of intentional Crystal Method or Josh Wink sort of riff, which you can hear in its entirety here. So to get that I might have just started in the middle and then faded it out a few bars after the "mailbag!"

For the podtask, I get it now why you kept saying none of us did it: static cuts me out when I say "Boston," which was the fifth city I listed my first time thru--and you can hardly understand me saying it when I repeat the list! It's there. Nyah. :-p

I love how I keep trying to pawn Eleanor off with the cartoons. Great parenting, that. Kid can't take a hint though.

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I have yet to listen to it but Im not debating whether BU had alot of interesting stuff to say as I know everyone on this site has interesting stuff to say. Im just saying 1hr20 is alot of my time. I do like the idea of having two 45 minute sections though.

Good idea.

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Not only did was I willing to listen to a 1:20 minute podcast, I listened to it twice. So there you go.

Another excellent podcast. I really liked the outro music - any chance of getting putting that up?

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which outro music? that weird stuff eleanor made? heck yes.

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Ja, that's what I'm talking about.

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Tonight's podcast was amazing. Thanks so much to Lincoln.

Should be up at Ben's discresion.

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Tonights cast also bought up interesting ideas. It will solve connection issues and result in 50% more content!

Adam'll probably announce something later, but to tease you, here's a snippet of Skype.

[20:45:31] Adam Smith says: more the story behind the tasks
[20:45:38] Adam Smith says: than "I heard your mother used to beat you"

re: a 1:20 podcast

I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I don't really have a problem with longer ones. I mean, the assumption is that you have an iPod and can move about, listening as you walk or ride the bus or shop or whatever. You're not tied down. So why be tied down by time?

The main reasons for time constraints on radio and television is that they were live, stationary media and there had to be a way to arrange advertising for optimal audience saturation. You had to physically BE at the radio which pushed out the edia at only a specific time, and if you missed it, you were hosed, it was gone. You had to be able to time the events effectively, so having them on the hour or half hour made sense. Once there, you paid your admission by listening to the ads or sponsorship which happened near those same time markers.

Podcasting is on when you want it, off when you don't, and you can easily pick pu where you left off. Why balk at casts that are more than an hour. Do you really value your bus transit time so much you can't devote it to part of your favorite 2 hour podcast, especially when it contains people you actually know?

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The ideas we've discussed tonight may well serve both groups.

Sorry JTony, you're slightly behind, Adam sent that mail before we thought of something else. I'll message you and tell you what's going on.

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Vote for jingles!

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Fuck's sake.

This audio keeps desynching, it's more noticeable toward the end. Sorry listeners, I seem to interrupt everyone because I talk before them.

*kicks*

It's coming. Next half hour.

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This is far tougher to Make It Work.

Working on it.

...coma

I just woke up out of a minor coma and no podcast? por que? :-)

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No worries, should be up tomorrow, desynching audio.

And we're working on getting even more podcasty goodness direct to the listeners.

How was the coma?

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check the task for the update, the coma was coma-tastic, I am still very tired and that's almost 14 hours

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Just saw it. Crazy faced awesomeness.

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Audio is unfixable.

Sorry! Specifically the podtasks section is screwed up. Poo.

I'm investigating the bugs.

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Sounded fine when we were running it.

Maybe we should find a new programme to use. Skype sucks.

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It's fine for 30 minutes, and then boom, I start interrupting everyone and talking 1.5 seconds before.

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You didn't record everything as separate tracks? What are you using to record the podcast now?

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Podcast #4 is here

Get it here.

Complete with screwed up everything as per the normal!

This week:
# Lincoln guest hosts
# The desynching issues get worse
# Tom gets dropped mid-cast
# Apathy

Tune in next week for some cunning ideas that should improve quality.

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To fill you all in, as of next week things should get better.

Main cast: Saturday release, Ben+Tom+Guest. Same as has been, but better quality.

PodLite: Wednesday release, Adam+Previous Guest (I believe Anna One is first, then if possible we'll go through previous guests to keep 2 guests behind the main one) This'll be short, and will be focused a lot on the interview.

Daryl will hopefully be recording something for one of them, undecided yet.

Yes, less connections = better quality = more win.
Plus more content for you!

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I keep breaking up all the time. Damned connection/Skype.

It sounds like Im interrupting but I couldn't hear what people were saying. Sorry Lincoln.

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Woah huge quality increase with just 3 people! Cor blimey.

You can now see why we need to re-organise the podcasting.

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That's the basis of the PodLite. Should be better quality all round.

Also: I just heard the pretired song for the first time, and I call on all players to write more songs about sf0!

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Excuse me whilst I noob up this conversation...

Every week, you go through new tasks, retired tasks, and pre-tired tasks...

How do you get to this pre-tired list? It seems to be not anywhere...

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who said anything about pretired tasks? who told you to ask that question?
the old skool way is to use the taskDetail url, going to a task by number. The taskDetail url string is sf0.org/taskDetail/?id= . Thus: http://sf0.org/taskDetail/?id=1284 . Change that 4 digit number and you find pretired tasks. we're up over 3000 now. There's another way, to be revealed to you In Time, but "Should I divulge any of what I have seen - whether intentionally or unintentionally, directly or through oblique stratagem - my punishment will be swift in coming and indolent in its completion. I shall not suffer alone." This text will expire.
Who do you work for? who do you work for?!

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We don't know nothin'

shifty eyes...

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Today's podcast will be out tomorrow, due to relationships and technical difficulties.

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Hmm. Bugs still remain.

When this task is linked to from

sf0.org/dragonscales/Make-It-Work - the first two links are fine.

But when linked from sf0.org/inYarmouth or sf0.org/frozenhaddock - they change to those usernames.

How odd.

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Hmmm, so it isn't just me screwing up the task!

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Haha, so when people come onto this page through my account they are directed to my Campaign.

That is a shame

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SHIT! I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT. AND IT'S LINKED FROM YOU ON THE NEW DISPATCH!

DAMMIT!

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Doesn't it change to the person who's viewing it?

I see my username in the links even though I clicked through on the dispatch.

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Okay, it appears to be changing. It now says it's me... but who knows!?

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Dudes, it's because your link is just to "../Campaign-Trail/". If it was to "http://sf0.org/dragonscales/Campaign-Trail/" this problem would disappear!

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i forgot

i never even voted for this.

wow.

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I guess Ben fixed it then, as I can't see this problem (and never noticed it before anyway)

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Podcast #5 is here (finally)

Get it here.

This week:
# JTony Guest hosts
# JTony drops from call multiple times
# Ben had to miss it (disorganisation runs amok)
# Discussion of the SFØ audio proof line

Next weeks guest should be lowteck, however we can't guarantee it.

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It's funny, but I debate internally if all the "shit we lost the connection again" should be used as evidence that you're not making it work and therefore I (who have already voted) must flag; or--and I tend to lean in the direction of this--if, by putting this out every week in spite of the disconnects, you're doing the very essence of making it work.

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I debate internally if that is funny or not.

Surely Making It Work is finding the connection after losing it.

Making It Work is being able to conduct a podcast without my help (regardless of whether I edited it together or not).

Making It Work is being able to hold an idea with very little source material for longer than two weeks.

But truly and honestly, the listeners are the ones that truly Make It Work.

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I think that those are the breakages, and we get round them to make it work. If something isn't broken, it can't be fixed, right?

And if I reference Ben's original reason behind this being a Make it Work completion, we, GYØ, it, are working.

We made work for ourselves, therefore making ourselves work.

If we go ahead with an idea we had (not sure if it was in the final edit) you'll be hearing all the screw ups in the next podcast...

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BU If it was easy, the task would be called "Making it Easy." It is not easy, but continually requires "Work"... hence, "Making it Work".

You're confusing two totally different tasks.

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Awesome logo, dad.

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i will be there for the next podcast. unless i responded too late.

ask questions or i might not have much to say.

where's this podcast light i keep hearing about? i can't wait!!

oh shut up you guys I was shining you on

Now let's ask Lowteck some questions! What's the din