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poledo said:
It's a marvelous little concept. Before my last computer crash a couple of years ago, I had maybe two dozen Podcasts and other programming bits coming into my computver via RSS. But about that time my scheduled changed and I wasn't walking with an mp3 player attached like an IV bag at the hospital any more, so I haven't gotten around to installing what I need on my end to get them going again.
That is part of what tends to be missing from all these food-fight threads about the future of on-the-air radio and on-the-Internet "radio". For young geeks with modest social lives, constantly weeding the computer-garden is fine. For some of us, there are not enough hours in the day to look after iTunes and RSS and downloads and cleaning out files. Turn the radio on. Turn the radio off. Works for me.
1. Dumping TAL, easily the most popular public radio program outside of daily NPR shows, is beyond moronic
2. Pretty darn confident that Mario500 is paid by the word for these articles
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^British Broadcasting Corporation.
You're slipping, Mario. Really should have spelled that out more clearly to prevent any confusion on the part of any future historians decades from now who might have access to Radio-Discussions archives but not Google or Wikipedia. I'm a little disappointed in you...
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Scott Fybush said:
I sense you were mocking me that time just because of my past posts asking for clarification about certain messages posted around here and my expressing concern about future Internet researchers. I also sense your post asking about the abbreviation "BBC" was a trap to mock me. If so, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Even though your request for clarification was done with malice, I would not mind clarifying messages for folks requesting clarification without malice.
Oh, Mario...I didn't ask with any malice at all, and I've never made any post here with the intent of mocking anyone.
But as an editor, I'm very big on consistency, especially in an outlet with the exceedingly high standards of Examiner.com. If it's going to be spelled out as "National Broadcasting Company" in one article, surely it should be spelled out as "British Broadcasting Corporation" in another...right?
But as an editor, I'm very big on consistency, especially in an outlet with the exceedingly high standards of Examiner.com. If it's going to be spelled out as "National Broadcasting Company" in one article, surely it should be spelled out as "British Broadcasting Corporation" in another...right?
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poledo said:
I'm fine.
Scott Fybush said:
I did my very best to be consistent; I just could not think of an appropriate way of placing the full name of the corporation into the article earlier since other parts of the article needed my attention over the course of several hours (I finally thought of a way of incorporating the full name minutes ago before amending the article).
Mario500 said:
Mario, I haven't been following your posts as closely as I do some others, because I see your "byline" on topics and markets that are not at the center of my own radar. But this little dust-up caught my attention because of some other participants who ARE on my own radar.
Learn what you can from this confrontation. Move forward by producing future posts that "do not wake sleeping bears" now that you have some indications of what can disturb a bear.
It appears that you live in an area that is uniquely different in some ways from other parts of the country. When writing, give some thought to how people who live "in a different universe" will digest what you have written. I look upon participation in on-line forums as a "continuing education" event... both for me, and the people I bump into during the process.
Be a little selfish: YOU deserve to gain something, learn something from the time you spend here. Be a whole lot generous: WE deserve to gain something, learn something from the time we invest in reading what you compose.
WRITE ON!
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I never intended to be rude, whitfm.
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Mario,
I enjoy your articles. It is not the same boring rehashed stories about the two big radio groups. Write on.
and the TV articles too.
I enjoy your articles. It is not the same boring rehashed stories about the two big radio groups. Write on.
and the TV articles too.
Me too. You have a knack for getting a lot more accurate and timely information than I do.
Your writing style is totally opposite of my informal style, but if that's what the Examiner wants, so be it.
And I even manage to learn something new. Like, I've been using RSS for over a decade now and always thought it stood for "Really Simply Syndication", but that's just a backronym. It really is "Rich Site Summary".
How about that? Isn't that something!
As for This American Life, I'm honestly shocked they'd replace it (and to a lesser extent, The World) since they're both so popular. Looking at the network as a whole, both shows could only be heard on APR in select parts of the state where other pubcasters don't reach. I guess they determined those areas to be small enough to merit the savings by dropping the shows. But then they still have other overlapping shows depending on what part of the state one's in, like Marketplace airing within 30 minutes of itself on WUWF and All Things Considered also being on WBHM in Birmingham the same time it's on WUAL. Strange.
Your writing style is totally opposite of my informal style, but if that's what the Examiner wants, so be it.
And I even manage to learn something new. Like, I've been using RSS for over a decade now and always thought it stood for "Really Simply Syndication", but that's just a backronym. It really is "Rich Site Summary".
How about that? Isn't that something!
As for This American Life, I'm honestly shocked they'd replace it (and to a lesser extent, The World) since they're both so popular. Looking at the network as a whole, both shows could only be heard on APR in select parts of the state where other pubcasters don't reach. I guess they determined those areas to be small enough to merit the savings by dropping the shows. But then they still have other overlapping shows depending on what part of the state one's in, like Marketplace airing within 30 minutes of itself on WUWF and All Things Considered also being on WBHM in Birmingham the same time it's on WUAL. Strange.
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