Here’s a happy story! A while ago I bitched about how Hypersonic Tales, a new flash fiction zine with audio, wasn’t podcasting its audio. Well now that’s fixed! Editor Pamela Perkins writes in to say:
“OK. We did it.
I told you we already had been trying to figure out how to evolve into actual podcasting. Well, we took your advice and are now using HuffDuffer. My co-producer (the technical end of the biz) was impressed with it. It’s easy to use and it’s a great way to find some pretty cool audio files. But he figures that part of the reason that more people don’t use it is the way it looks, which is kinda bare. And it would be helpful if it tracked how often files are accessed. Otherwise, it’s great for us. It keeps us from having to sit around and update RSS feeds all day and our files are automatically in iTunes. So, I guess you can say, we’ve gone from Commodore VIC-20 to Commodore 64 over the past month.
It’s among several enhancements we’ve implemented in that time: we’ve made our lead page more user-friendly, a new comments box on the monthly issue pages, and other reorganizational things. We also got new audio equipment. And more improvements are coming. Our October next issue will be out by Sunday.
Anyway, thanks for the advice.”
Thank you Pamela! I kind of dig the stripped down simplicity of the HuffDuffer website. It’s not craigslist ugly, but it is just as simple to use and navigate.
So needless to say I’m subscribing to your new HuffDuffer podcast feed and I recommend everyone else give it a shot too. Here it is:
http://huffduffer.com/hypersonictales/rss
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Posted by Jesse Willis
Here’s another LibriVox release that, had I not found something similar recently, I probably normally wouldn’t mention. The reader, Grant Hurlock, uses absolutely no inflection in his narration, so it’s not really a great reading. But, the book’s plot is kinda quirky cool. It’s very much like a 1942 propaganda movie I watched recently, The Invisible Agent; it featured the grandson of Dr. Jack Griffin (the protagonist of H.G. Well’s The Invisble Man), who decides to use his grandfather’s invisibility formula to spy on Nazi Germany. Miss Pim’s Camouflage, the new LibriVox.org audiobook, on the other hand, features a patriotic spinster who wants to do her fair share in fighting The Great War! She comes from a long line of soldiers, but, having been born a woman, she is only able to do her part of the “war work” by gardening in her onion fields. One day, too long in the sun, she finds herself having been turned completely invisible. So now this will be Miss Pim’s chance to win herself a VC by going behind enemy lines and spying on the Germans. Neat huh?
Miss Pim’s Camouflage