The Manifest

Posted: October 16, 2005 around 6:00 pm | Annotation

The Premise: I have accrued literally years worth of audio from various sources, on various media, and I am doing nothing with it. My trusted bionic microphones have recorded a veritable canon — a canon which includes friends sitting around and talking, walking around and people-watching with said friends, friends partying together, etc. I used to do this all the time. On occasion my microphones might record rain or other natural phenoms too; this can be nice, but not half as novel. Some of my hoardings are quite interesting and very worthy of publication.

The Irony: this sort of thing is now de rigeur. It’s called podcasting, and everyone who ever hankered for their own radio show has one. 20,000 of them in some directories. Unfortunately for me I was about two years ahead of the curve. My dreams of internet radio particapa-dom died as soon as I realized I was too cheap to buy my own website. Life’s funny that way. Now I have the place — but I need the time.

The Theory on How This Will Work: every week I unload a batch or so of recordings from ancient times. They’ll reside on my computer since I have only a gigabyte to work with server-side, and let me tell you there’s way more than a gig. BlogTorrent makes them available for download as either .torrent files or easy little executables. You download them. I’ll do my best to describe events I’ve mostly forgotten, and I ask you to fill me in whenever you can.

The Test: here goes something…