@JohnPhilpin You’ve a wonderful voice! Almost made for podcasting. BTW I had no idea you could embed a voice memo in the M.B. timeline.

@pratik ... ha! thank-you ... i’ll take what I can get 😊 .... the embed of voice in the time line is functionality you get when you extend your (hosted) micro blog to be podcasting - extra $5 per month. Always good to support the team.

@JohnPhilpin Got to agree with @pratik. You are now obliged to publish on a weekly basis and sell some matresses.

@JohnPhilpin Good start! Nice closing music!

Do you know if it’s possible to subscribe to it as a podcast? (The iOS micro.blog app stops playing it when my phone goes to sleep.)

@JohnPhilpin Congratulations! So glad to see this going. And you sound a natural (and oddly enough exactly what I expected you to sound like when you were first talking about it :)). Hope to hear more!

@pratik Hey, yup, any hosted audio actually via the audio HTML tags (don't use MB's podcast hosting).

@Chirag Ah! Knew about audio tags; just hadn't seen them implemented in a micro blogging context.

@JohnPhilpin good voice and a nice accent. 👍 for getting started. I have a yeti that my gf bought me sitting around for about the same amount of time. I keep thinking I won’t have much to say if I did a podcast or it won’t be very interesting.

@uncrtn thankyou ... too kind ... as I said in the 'cast ... i seem to have no hesitation in writing stuff and posting my opinions all over the place - so topics shouldn't be an issue … but the hardest things is to get out what you are saying in a single flow succinctly without hesitation, deviation or repetition - to pick on a phrase from a an old radio show …. when i write - i can edit and read and edit and .... BEFORE pressing that submit button … the equivalent in podcasting is possible - but then will require a lot of pre production time stringing all the files together! No time for that:-)

@Chirag thankyou .... maybe in another couple of years ? ok - sooner!

@the many thanks … I believe that this is the RSS stream that you can add to your podcast app of choice ... in fact confirmed - I just added it to my Castro app.

@simonwoods aah yes mattresses ... forgot about that angle .... what do you think will be 'the mattresses of 2019’?

@the and glad you liked Blur.

@JohnPhilpin from the miriad of podcasts I listen to it seems that most longtime podcasters use an outline. I don’t think it has to be super detailed. Just something that works for you without taking too much time in preproduction. I imagine that practice would help maintain flow. I didn’t hear much hesitation, deviation or repetition but you can always edit it out.

@uncrtn outlines in the longer 'cast world definitely - but my first few are only going to be around 2 to 3 minutes …. its interesting even with this one i did the whole thing in one take first time - and I thought wow - one take - I can improve that, ‘easy' ... and never got there again .... so in the end there were two spoken sections - first part - I just got out oin one take, but the second part must have been 8 or 9 times …. practice and rehearsal - who was it that said ‘practice practice practice - because the more I rehearse - the less rehearsed it sounds … .’

@JohnPhilpin excellent start! I look forward to more podcasts from you!

@JohnPhilpin Great podcast! Your voice is great reminds me of old school BBC. Keep up the good work.

@JohnPhilpin John is there a topic or theme for the podcasts? I want to list it in the directory so I'm casting about for a description.

@AndySylvester THANKYOU Andy

@bradenslen

I would categorize it in the same way manton has set up the default for apple ... it’s a personal cast that can go anywhere. That said ….

People First here will be where it eventually heads - but to begin with - more likely things on my mind .... ideas (ideas now - only ideas) including

why do I hate that word ‘content’?

and how about ‘consumer’?

in a world of ‘free’ how do you make a living anymore?

what is identity and why do we care?

corporates - can’t live with them - cant kill 'em --- or can we?

why do we call it the future of work - - it is happening right now - it is the PRESENT of work

plus interlaced with real stories that I have been publishing for a while now

does that help?

@bradenslen many thanks … I like the idea of 'casting around for a podcast category’ ... just don’t try saying it fast…

@JohnPhilpin Well you're listed in Podcasts. And it's a darn good thing the directory description field is set a 1000 characters. :-) I'll update, or you can update the listing over time. Thanks.

@bradenslen stop making me laugh!

@JohnPhilpin Nice episode 0. It's oddly comforting hearing uncertainty in a familiar voice. Whilst I don't have the accent, it feels good to know my own, similar mindset is at least somewhat classicly English. 😉

@bradenslen just realized that you put everything I wrote in ... I hope that is not a commitment! Thankyou for the entry.

@simonwoods you have your own accent Simon ... as I recall from your Micro Monday appearance .... and a ‘real accent’ ... I think my own evolved into a generic ‘english sans region’ ... I blame the eternal movement of my youth ...

@JohnPhilpin There's definitely something I recognise in there, can't quite put my finger on it. I mean, not that I don't enjoy a typical discussion about accents; second only to the weather as far as I'm concerned.

@simonwoods heh don’t forget traffic and bus routes

@JohnPhilpin It will catch the eye. Also, I have this quirk when listing sites in directories: I try to let site owners try to describe it in their own words, with me just editing for clarity and adding keywords. Plus copy/paste saves a lot of time. :-)

John, I'm noticing a pattern across your blogs: like film director David Lynch, you never explain what the blog or even the post is about, the work itself stands as the explanation. I'm not being critical just whinging like a directory monger who has to try and find a proper category to pigeonhole your websites.

@bradenslen funny ... now I have sounds launched, my next job is to produce a graphic of how the sites connect ... why they are there ... and how my flows work between them.

Maybe that will help?

Then again ... that’s another one that has been on my list for at least 6 months.

@JohnPhilpin Nice to hear you John. A nice, solid start to your podcast.

@derekpeden mahalo

@JohnPhilpin Weird: I get “Page Not Found”!

Also, Blur the band?

@JohnPhilpin Got it (missing “.” in link). Thanks.

@the YES ... Blur the Band

@the good news - thanks for persevering

@JohnPhilpin Thanks. What the song?

@the Off their album 13 ... Tender on YouTube

@JohnPhilpin 👍🏻 Thx

@the

(The iOS micro.blog app stops playing it when my phone goes to sleep.)

For whatever reason, the M.b app Timeline doesn’t seem to have permissions to keep playing, but if you get to the built-in browser view (tap the post itself, then “Share…” and then “Browser”) and play from there, the phone will sleep and audio will play as expected. (Most people don’t have the audio inline because of show notes and whatnot; it took a while to figure out what was going on when I first encountered an in-Timeline audio player.)

@smokey Thanks. (I hope @Manton can simply add the permission to the build, but my experience with the word “simply” has not been good.)

@the @smokey The app needs a better audio player that can detach from the timeline. Or maybe an easy way to send the subscription to Overcast, Castro, etc.

@grayareas thankyou

@pratik Ah gotcha. I believe Manton mentioned that most embed/HTML tags would work - audio, video included :)

@JohnPhilpin Definitely sooner :)

@Chirag @pratik This is the official list of allowed tags and attributes…audio but definitely not video :-)

@smokey Ah, thanks! :) Thought it was video too but I've never had to test it, just the odd youtube video embed but that's an iframe.