MORE THAN 10 YEARS after I shared my first MP3 clip to readers, I've started culling gigabytes of spoken content into places where the major listening networks can find the audio clips and share them. I'm now experimenting with pulling some of my most recent content from my station on Anchor.fm into a easy to remember subscription called Bernie on Anchor.
Continue reading "Adding Numbers of Subscribers to Media Pitches" »
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EVERY TWO WEEKS, I cobble together a five minute clip comprised of 15-20 voices using the Anchor.fm ecosystem. This week, I decided to give top mention to a question arising in my mind: Do we hear a person's color (or creed or sociodemographic background) when we hear their voice? It's part of a clip hashtagged #voicesofanchor below and in a YouTube playlist.
Continue reading "Listening to the colour in the voices of Anchor" »
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AFTER MORE THAN a year and a half listening and talking on Anchor.fm, I can most assuredly say I've encountered dozens of very contented people using Anchor radio. It's a small community (probably no more than 550 active members) but there's enough diversity to make my Anchor experience the equivalent of a multicultural audio scrapbook.
Every fortnight, I try to cobble together "voices of anchor" by scraping 15-25 different snippets into one five minute collection like the one I'm sharing below.
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I SPEND PART of many weekends rewinding social audio conversations and today I've made 20 "shout-outs" to regulars who stop by my watering hole at Anchor.fm/topgold (Click for RSS feed). I've also mentioned a dozen people who didn't get a shout-out but who are part of my online audio conversations.
Listen to "20 Voices on Anchor.fm" on Spreaker.
I've made a list of the people below the break.
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BIG PROPS TO the lads from Munster Rugby for letting our Youth Media Team learn about the influence of primary school teachers on athletes who want to play at the highest level.
James Harte, Peter O'Mahony, and Billy Holland stopped for a five minute chat with the teens in YMT.fm media crew. The eight YMT team members are in Dublin this weekend to cover the annual Teachers' Council Conference. Munster Rugby is in Dublin for the annual derby when they will crush Leinster in the Aviva Stadium.
Listen to "YMT Crew Interviews Munster Rugby" on Spreaker.
[Follow interviews with Ireland's Youth Media Team on Spreaker.]
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I'M TAKING BABY STEPS into Spreaker, a podcasting platform I've watched evolve during the past three years. I like what I see of Spreaker's content management system and I'm going to challenge the Spreaker system this weekend with a series of audio interviews conducted by members of the Youth Media Team as they cover the annual teachers conference in Dublin.
[Bernie Goldbach is moving six years of content from Audioboo to Spreaker during the next week.]
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NOTHING HAPPENS in the real world without a viable back channel and one of the most robust back channels I have is powered by Google Hangouts. Last night, I attended and recorded an hour-long Google Hangout with several other podcasters who use Anchor. [1]
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EVERY WEEKEND, I create a short audio clip concerning something about the four goldfish that we have in our home. The recording is part of an eclectic mix of voices online at Wave Radio and I've put details about the show below the break in this blog post.
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I'M SPENDING MORE TIME creating audio content while listening to friends on Wave Radio. I've done a few segments on our family fish and on the preparation of immersive educational content. You can subscribe to Wave Radio http://waverad.io/rss with your favourite podcatcher.
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I NEVER THOUGHT I would see both the rise of populism and the dismissal of expertise enshrined in the White House. But that has happened and I think it's important for all free-thinking people to step up their game by diving deep into high quality programmes like the BBC Radio 4 series The Life Scientist.
The show is largely the work of broadcaster, author and physicist Jameel Sadik Al-Khalili (in the photo from 1001 inventions), a British citizen whose passport has the imprint "Born in Baghdad" on it. Similar passport holders have endured the humiliation of hours of interrogation in American immigration cubicles.
I graduated from an American high school where several of my classmates have helped propel the rise of right-wing populism. Some of that populism has normalized nasty attitudes and it has scorned reasoned discourse about climate change, religious faiths and immigration policy. I am appalled by the sludge of dubious opinions being passed off as facts. I'm troubled by the phenomenon of science denial because that sort of behaviour leads to the eroding of important international treaties when political appointees revert to their gut feelings about ways things should be done.
Facts are worth fighting for. So I've put The Life Scientist at the top of my podcast player and I plan to share snippets of what I learn with our two children who need to learn the scientific method.
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