Here’s an interview with Tom Brown from the most recent This Week in the IndieWeb Podcast.
Here’s an interview with Tom Brown from the most recent This Week in the IndieWeb Podcast.
Thanks to our guest Blue for her keen insights in this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast!
Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for August 19th - 25th, 2017.
This week features a brief interview with Tom Brown recorded at IndieWeb Summit 2017.
You can find all of my audio editions here.
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Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 85 - Suit, Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11
Thanks to everyone in the IndieWeb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you’d like to see for this audio edition!
Thanks to Joel Murphy for having me on as a poor substitute for Lars Periwinkle in this week’s HoboRadio!
We get into some stuff. And then we get into some stuff.
http://www.hobotrashcan.com/2017/08/24/hobo-radio-449-gritty-reboot-ft-marty-mcguire/
Baltimore's second August 2017 meetup for Homebrew Website Club met at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center on August 23rd.
Below are notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup.
jonathanprozzi.net (Jonathan) – Had been working on a wedding site with Hugo and making progress. Got really frustrated with adding image galleries, which required a lot of extra tools. Realized that he could accomplish the same thing in WordPress really quickly. So, spent quiet writing hour starting over in WordPress. At this point, just wants to have it done, rather than spending time learning something new along the way.
martymcgui.re (Marty) – Since last time has been thinking a lot more about delivering transcriptions with audio content. Did more experimenting with Audiogram, and found the BBC's fork, which supports subtitles and transcription editing, but also depends on a lot of private BBC infrastructure out of the box. Is now able to get timestamped transcripts by combining an audio file and long-form text transcription using a tool called gentle. Then by feeding that into a hacked-up copy of the BBC's Audiogram can generate video with hardcoded subtitles. Here's an example from the most recent This Week in the IndieWeb. Pretty neat! Also experimenting with providing a text transcript of the audio newsletter along w/ the audio via a simple HTML details/summary elements with an iframe. Example here.
Other things:
We hope that you'll join us for another HWC Baltimore, which will next meet on September 6th and again on September 20th at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center!
Photo for tonight’s HWC Baltimore!
Join us for an evening of quiet writing, IndieWeb demos, and discussions!
Any questions? Join the #indieweb chat!
Optional quiet writing hour starts at 6:30pm. Meetup begins at 7:30pm.
More information: https://indieweb.org/events/2017-08-23-homebrew-website-club
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1450134815046568
Here’s an interview with Jean MacDonald from the most recent This Week in the IndieWeb.
🎧 Full Episode:
Thanks to Jonathan Monroe for braving the traffic to DC and the lines at Otakon for this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast](https://wehavetoask.com/)!
Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for August 12th - 18th, 2017.
This week features a brief interview with Jean MacDonald recorded at IndieWeb Summit 2017.
You can find all of my audio editions here.
You can subscribe with your favorite podcast app on huffduffer.
Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 85 - Suit, Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11
Thanks to everyone in the IndieWeb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you’d like to see for this audio edition!
Thanks to our guest David Lustig for his fresh hot takes in this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast
“We must teach history – and teach with an eye toward de-colonization, anti-racism, and justice. For everyone who expressed shock about Charlottesville and insisted that “this isn’t America,” it’s pretty clear that your history classes failed you. Because this is America. We have to fundamentally alter how we teach history – and that means teaching about hate, not just love. It means teaching about American evils, not just American exceptionalism. It means teaching about resistance too, not just oppression. And it means rethinking all the practices tied up in our educational institutions – systemic and interpersonal practices that perpetuate this weekend’s violence.”
I (finally) watched the video of this session from IndieWeb Summit 2017:
One of the most powerful ideas discussed is the “algorithm that works for you”, to avoid information overwhelm.
Time to nudge the folks that started working on Together after the session!
https://cleverdevil.io/2017/richard-its-early-but-at-last-weekends-indieweb-summit-in
Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for August 5th - 11th, 2017.
This week features a brief interview with Anton Podviaznikov recorded at IndieWeb Summit 2017.
You can find all of my audio editions here.
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Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 85 - Suit, Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11
Thanks to everyone in the IndieWeb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you’d like to see for this audio edition!
I publish a few different podcasts and often find myself advertising new episodes by syndicating new posts to various social media silos.
Sadly, few social media services consider audio to be "a thing", despite often having robust support for video.
I'm certainly not the first person to notice this, and the fine folks at WNYC have taken this audio sharing problem head-on.
Enter the Audiogram Generator, an open source project that runs on NodeJS and uses FFMPEG to take samples from your audio files and munge them into short videos for sharing on social networks.
Here's a quick rundown of how I got the Audiogram Generator running on my macOS laptop using Docker.
I use Homebrew, so first I installed docker and docker-machine and created a new default machine:
brew install docker docker-machine docker-machine create -d virtualbox default
Once that finished, I set my environment variables so the docker command line utility can talk to this machine:
eval $(docker-machine env)
Next, it was time to download the source for the audiogram generator from GitHub and build the Docker container for it:
git clone https://github.com/nypublicradio/audiogram.git cd audiogram docker build -t audiogram .
Finally, I could run it:
docker run -p 8888:8888 -t -i audiogram npm start
Once up, I pointed my browser at http://192.168.99.100:8888/ and I saw pretty much the interface that you see in the screenshot above.
The basic usage steps are:
I made a sample post to my own site using a selection of an interview and then syndicated that post by uploading the same video to Twitter, Facebook, and Mastodon.
I don't yet know exactly how I'll choose what portions to share on each silo, what text and links to accompany them to encourage folks to listen to the full episodes, and so on. There are also some quirks to learn. For example, Twitter has a maximum length of 2:20 for videos, and its cropping tool would glitch out and reset to defaults unless I stopped it "near" the end.
Thankfully, there is a very detailed Audiogram Generator usage doc with lots of examples and guidelines for making attention-getting posts.
For the near term I want to play with the tool to see what kinds of results I can make. Long-term I think this would be a really neat addition to my Screech tool, which is designed for posting audio to your own website.
How do you feel about audiograms? I'd love to hear other folks' thoughts!
Baltimore's first August 2017 meetup for Homebrew Website Club met at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center on August 9th.
Below are notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup.
djfalcon23 (Derek) – been on break of web dev to learn Android dev. Set up a schedule to work on his portfolio site on Wednesdays. Has a WIP site up at djfalcon23.github.io with a landing page. Next steps are modals to display the content for the main sections, a carousel for other photos. After that, it's time to make a project page for his LED backpack with brake and turn signals for cyclists.
jonathanprozzi.net (Jonathan) – started a new Hugo project for his wedding which will be his "Hugo project" so he can feel free to move his main site over to WordPress. Bought and set up a new domain and a new Hugo project for that.
polarfire.net (Isaac) – In town visiting Marty. Spent quiet writing hour tracking down the source for his Pelican-based site which was last updated 2014 and getting the dependencies installed. Likes starting side projects, so might port it to Hugo. Many of his projects are related to owning his data on a home server. Next major step there is setting up backups w/ duplicity.
martymcgui.re (Marty) – Did some reading from the folks at @meetgretta (formerly signl.fm) and learned about a tool called Audiogram from WNYC. It generates videos from audio files for sharing on silos that have good video sharing support but not audio, which is most of them. Made an example post with an interview with Ben Werdmüller from the This Week in the IndieWeb Podcast that is syndicated to Twitter, Facebook, and Mastodon.
Other things:
We hope that you'll join us for another HWC Baltimore, which will next meet on August 23rd and again September 6th at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center!
Photo for tonight’s Homebrew Website Club Baltimore
Here’s a short interview I did with Ben Werdmüller at the 2017 IndieWeb Summit.
Look for another short interview each weekend as part of the This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition.
Join us for an evening of quiet writing, wiki editing, IndieWeb demos and discussions!
Any questions? Join the #indieweb chat!
Optional quiet writing hour starts at 6:30pm. Meetup begins at 7:30pm.
More information: https://indieweb.org/events/2017-08-09-homebrew-website-club
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/280327909114061/
Thanks to our cavalcade of guests, including Kim Le and Andy McIntyre for hottin’ things up at Artscape with us in the latest We Have to Ask Podcast!
Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for July 29th - August 4th, 2017.
This week features a brief interview with Ben Werdmüller recorded at IndieWeb Summit 2017.
You can find all of my audio editions here.
You can subscribe with your favorite podcast app on huffduffer.
Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 85 - Suit, Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11
Thanks to everyone in the IndieWeb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you’d like to see for this audio edition!
Thanks to guest Harold Young for kicking things up a notch on this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast!
