I made up the little present above for those contributing covercasts to my iPod, which you can see above, because they deserve something just for them in exchange for wading into my brain for a spell and the time they lost rubbing their skin raw in the shower afterwards.
Unfortunately, by whipping it up I'd introduced a small rounding error into the weirdness quotient of the last post, and figured I'd clean up the equation by leaving the regular readers something to nibble on too:
I'm pretty sure the weirdness quotient is summing up correctly now, and both full and widescreen versions are included:
posted on July 11, 2005 at 11:55 PM
And now for something completely different. Over time, I've gotten a trickle of mail asking me to do a podcast. Since Apple went big pimping on it, the frequency has picked up a little.
While I don't have anything against podcasts, I'm just not interested right now. However, I've been really interested in how the messenger affects the message, how what we bring to the table affects what we take in, and even how the medium affects the message.
So, instead of me reading my entries, what if a whole bunch of readers read one entry? Yes, the same entry. Yes, over and over, hence the dubbing of 'covercast'.
Besides being completely absurd, we might be able to learn something too. To that end, a whole slew of readers volunteered their microphones to the experiment, and we've ended up with All Apologies, which you can download below.
These are from readers from all over the world, spanning the USA to Britain to Germany to New Zealand to South Africa to Holland. One of the performers is even from Uruguay, and each time I build up another ten covercasts, I'll add another volume.
Each disc includes the audio tracks (Encoded as .m4a files), as well as cover art (Yes, cover art) and quick instructions on making and sending in your own for more discs.
