Thanks to everyone at the 7th Annual Techno Swap Fest who bought the junk treasures that we have acquired. Here’s to another season of bargain-hunting!

https://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2017-03-07/

Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for February 25th - March 3rd, 2017.

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Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: 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 Abbey Burger Bistro for sheltering us in this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast.

https://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2017-02-28/

We've been filling up SD cards with episodes of the We Have to Ask Podcast, so I thought it was time to get a little more organized.

To that end, I printed this nice and simple SD card holder by mandy2tom:

Printed on a Flashforge Finder.

Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for February 18th - 24th, 2017.

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Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 48 - Glitch, Day 9, 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!

Jeremy raises some great points here that mirror some of my own worries about trying to summarize the discussions happening on the IndieWeb wiki and the many #indieweb chat channels.

When I had the initial idea to do an “audio edition” of This Week in the IndieWeb, the question of “who is the audience” seemed to have an obvious answer: folks who would read the newsletter but preferred an audio edition.

However, it quickly became clear that doing a “direct read” of the newsletter — where much of the content is names and links to changes on wiki pages — wouldn’t make a lot of sense when spoken aloud. So, my first crack at the format evolved into answering a slightly broader question: “how can I explain these updates to someone who might not already be familiar with the wiki?”

My short (and unhelpful) answer is: this is hard. The discussions on the wiki tend to be very technical, jargon-heavy, and touch on an extremely wide set of topics. In the first episode, I attempted to give some structure with groupings like “IndieWeb Events”, “Software and Services”, “Silo Updates”, “Silo Issues”, etc., but I agree with Jeremy that it is still very fast and dense. While I want to keep the podcast short (less than 10 minutes), I think a next positive step would be to give topics more time to breathe with some explanatory commas that give context.

It is my hope that projects like this podcast will help find new ways to phrase and frame the things that the IndieWeb community are doing and talking about, helping to reach new folks. I have a feeling it is going to be a lot of work. :}

Thanks to our special guest, you, for picking up the phone now and buying the products in this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast!

https://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2017-02-21/

Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for February 10th - 17th, 2017

Thinking about doing this as a regular thing, if I can get the production time down. Feedback welcome!

Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project:

• Day 48 - Glitch
• Day 49 - Floating
• Day 9
• Day 11

Thanks to our guest Andy McIntyre for taking us above and/or beyond in this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast!

https://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2017-02-14/

Thanks to our guest Hallie Herz for keeping things natural on this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast

https://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2017-02-08/