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SLFtalk: Using Posterous for multiuser mobile podcasting
I've had a bit of time to think about David Noble and my experiment at the Scottish Learning festival. I blogged about the preparation and have been thinking about the actual event for a while.
SLFtalk was an experiment for using posterous to aggregate short audio reports from mobile devices at the Scottish Learning festival.
Over the 2 days of the festival and with a couple of late entries we had 29 posts to SLFtalk from a dozen people. There was a wide range of type of poster and content. We had fairly recently qualified classroom teachers and HMI. The content went from recording of segments of seminars through interviews to reflection. Many of the posts have had more than 400 views. Most of the hits came from the time of the festival and just after.
We had offered several routes into audio publishing and most were used:
- 15 boos tagged slftalk using audioboo by 5 people
- 12 files posted directly to posterous by 6 people
- 2 recordings made on the gabcast.com channel by 2 folk
Obviously all of the the audioboos were made using an iPhone, the posts to posterous were made with several different devices; iphones, a HTC Touch Diamond and desktops.
For myself I intended to use the iPhome Voice Memos app, and just email it in. But I ran over the 2 minutes limit for mailing memos so ended up transferring the audio to my macbook, converting to mp3 (cutting down file size) and posting via email. I think I was the only person using a computer rather than a phone.
No one took us up on the offer to borrow mp4 recorders, Joe Dale did use his iRiver to chat to me at the end of the 2 days and later sent me the file to post to the site.
I think it was well worth offering multiple ways of posting, although audioboo was the most popular, if we had just used that several contributors could not join in.
Technically everything seem to work out fine, the main thing I would change is the way the gabcasts and audioboos were posted to the site. basically I just used the posterous API to send the url of the audio to posterous. This meant that the recording were not enclosed in the RSS feed. I have made a few tests and worked out a workaround, if an actual html link in sent to posterous, eg < a href="path_to_audio_file">Listen</a> and we use feedburner to provide the RSS, feedburner will produce an rss feed with all of the enclosures. The file would also play on an iphone.
From a organisational and technical point of view I really enjoyed working with David on this wee project, but the thing I enjoyed most was listening to the audio, given the background noise and less than ideal recording conditions I was surprised at how engaging they were, there is something special about listening to the human voice with all the extra information the signal carries over reading a text.
I think we may have discovered an interesting an powerful addition to our community communication toolkit and hope this concept can be taken forward and more widely used. I would be interested in hearing more from others who used or listen to the podcasts and getting ideas of how to improve the system.
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Audio & images, iPhone to Posterous
I'd love to know if there was an easier way to do this. My ideal posterous app would do this, let you order photos easily and let you set the location for the post.
Sent from my iPhone
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Tweet Posterous Comments
Just noticed this, a very nice feature. Posterous picks up my id and twitter settings when commenting on another posterous blog.
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Safari Selection to Posterous
tell application "Safari"
set theURL to URL of front document
set theTitle to do JavaScript "document.title" in front document
set selecTxt to (do JavaScript "(getSelection())" in document 1)
set selecTxt to "<div style=\"font-size:18px;font-family: Georgia,serif;\"><div style=\"float:left;font-size:64px\">“</div>" & selecTxt & "</div>"
yle="color: #000000;"> set theBody to selecTxt & return & return & "Quoted from:" & return & theURL
end tell
tell application "Mail"
set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:theTitle, content:theBody}
tell newMessage
-- Default is false. Determines whether the compose window will
-- show on the screen or whether it will happen in the background.
--comment next line for real use
set visible to true
set sender to "<Fill_IN_EMAIL>"
make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {name:"posterous", address:"posterous@posterous.com"}
--send --un comment this send to send
end tell
end tell
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Posterous Podcast 2
Posterous2 by John Johnston
This is my second attempt at podcasting with posterous. again mostly talking about posterous I am excited about the new iTunes friendly RSS.
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Podcasting in Posterous
I had thought about podcasting with posterous as soon as I had seen posterous.
The problem was posterous rss was not doing the right thing in iTunes, even if passed through feedburner.
Not any more, the posterous feed now works in iTunes.
I'd guess posterous is not aimed at education, but I can see it as being very useful in the classroom a way round the boring bit of podcasting, i.e.. getting the podcast distributed. This is the bit I've always done for my pupils.: ftp, rss etc.
The only thing about blogging via email is that I want to write cheers at the end of each post
cheers
john
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Testing Posterous to twitter
just popped an image in the mail to see how it is handled. DnD safari to mail is an easy way to add an image
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