Ever since I saw his thorough, well constructed, passionate and fast paced rebuttal of Bill O’Reilly’s Malmedy massacre faux pas and subsequent refusal to apologise, I’ve been a bit of a Keith Olbermann fan. His Countdown programme focuses on five American news stories from that day along with the reoccurring Worst Person in The World and other tongue in cheek segments.
Photo is of the RMS Olympic and the RMS Mauretania after their last voyages in 1935, from MaritimeQuest.com.
It’s official folks, after pioneering the concept of a downloadable radio show before the term podcast even existed and producing shows for longer than anybody else I can see, Frank Edward Nora’s The Overnightscape and The Rampler* programmes have been indefinitely suspended.
I want to do a proper tribute show on the Rubenerd Show to Frank and his incredible efforts spanning most of this decade, but I’m still having severe troubles with feedback with my crappy audio setup here since I came back to Adelaide and I want to do it right, so it’ll have to wait.
In the meantime I want to wish Frank all the best in his *new Rampler endeavours at the WFMU radio station and The Overnightscape Underground. Frank is the most engaging and intensely fascinating individual I’ve ever heard speak, and I’m looking forward to hearing him on his new projects.
I’ve figured out why some iTunes users have been reporting problems with subscribing to the Rubenerd Show through the iTunes Store. I deleted my own subscription, searched for "Rubenerd Show" in the iTunes Store and resubscribed to only be given a small circle and an exclamation point.
When I right clicked and chose "Show Description" I was given the above dialog box. No wonder it isn’t working, it’s trying to access new shows from http:///show/feed/ for some reason!
I don’t know how or why this happened. I’ll be contacting Apple about this to see if I can get it pointing back to the proper URI again. I believe my good friend Felix Tanjono submitted my podcast to the iTunes Store back in 2005 back when Australia and Singapore didn’t have access to it.
While I’m sorting this out you can still go to iTunes, choose the Advanced menu and click Subscribe to Podcast, then enter the following address as a stopgap:
http://rubenerd.com/show/feed/
Sorry about this, I don’t know how this could have happened :-(.
If you’re having trouble accessing my podcast at the root domain of this site RubenerdShow.com, you’re not alone, I haven’t been able to access it all afternoon.
As soon as I figure out what the problem is I’ll report it and hopefully fix it. Sorry about this. ;_;
UPDATE: I found the cause of the problem, a poorly formed index.php file. I don’t know for the life of me why the it was modified, I probably did it in a sleep walk or something!
We’re into day two (see day one) of individually uploading each Rubenerd Show audio file, its tags, its description, its licence and its cover art to the Internet Archive in anticipation of moving web servers.
Progress was somewhat slower than yesterday because I realised the images I uploaded for all the episodes yesterday weren’t being referenced properly in their respective blog posts, which entailed a massive reversal and fixing all the work I had already done! To look on the bright side, I was glad I discovered this problem BEFORE I uploaded several hundred shows!
Below are all the shows I uploaded today. This concludes all the shows I recorded since I moved back from Kuala Lumpur in 2007.
I’ve been talking for a long time about moving my site completely over to Segment Publishing and the Rubenerd Show audio files over to the Internet Archives. I’ve been putting the latter off though because I knew I would be manually repeating the following procedure… OVER 260 TIMES.
This weekend I finally slammed my fist down on the table and started taking action! Uploading over 260 episodes of the Rubenerd Show — individually — will take forever and will probably result in me going completely insane, but I’m charging ahead while I have a few spare days.
After doing a couple I realised the amount of work this would entail and I started having doubts, but now I figure I’ve gone this far now so there’s no turning back! The question then becomes… what have I got myself into?!
Below is my progress so far, and I’ve only scratched the surface. Something tells me I won’t be leaving the apartment for a week or so given it’s taken me a day to upload 29 (to be fair I was doing other things too). Actually at that rate I’ll be done in just over a week, exactly 8 days to be precise. Perhaps if I skip eating and taking one shower a day instead of three or four I might be able to reduce that down to 5 or 6 days.
Now if you’d excuse me, I’m off to put a few dozen litres of heavy duty eye drops in!
Am I crazy? Sheesh!
For those of you who subscribe to my blog but not nessisarily my podcast, there’s finally a fresh new Rubenerd Show available for your listening pleasure, Episode 260! You can subscribe to the RSS Feed if you like what you hear.
I gave up waiting for Ourmedia to get back to me after I emailed them 7 times with not even a peep back. We had some good times guys, but if you’re going to repeatedly ignore me I don’t have a choice :-(.
These Ourmedia problems may have been a blessing is disguise though for I rediscovered the joy of dealing with the Internet Archive. Not only can I upload my audio to their servers and add metadata, but they also allow other files to be uploaded into the same media container. What this means is I can upload the cover art graphics I create for each episode and they appear alongside the description, very nice.
ASIDE: Conveniently because Ourmedia used the Internet Archive as a backend for their file storage, if you do a search for Ruben Schade you can see all my Ourmedia material anyway!
One thing I need to learn how to do though is figure out if it’s possible to have my material listed in the Audio Podcasts collection instead of Open Source Audio. It’s not that I don’t like being listed in Open Source Audio, far from it: in fact I love having my material being described as such. I think Audio Podcast is more appropriate though and might get me slightly better exposure.
A tribute to IntoYourHead episode 113, one of the greatest New Time Radio podcast audio magazine interent radio shows I’ve ever heard.
When I wake up in the morning… love
and the sun light hurts my eyesAnd something without warning… love
bears heavy on my mind.
Then I look at you
and the world’s alright with meJust one look at you and I know it’s gonna be…
A lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
A lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayWhen the day that lies ahead of me,
seems impossible to face
And someone else instead of me,
always seems to know the way
Then I look at you,
and the world’s alright with meJust one look at you and I know it’s gonna be…
A lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
A lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayWhen the day that lies ahead of me,
seems impossible to faceA lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
A lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
And people say I’m weird. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.
The Andy Kaufman, the self professed living comedian who supposedly faked his death sometime between 1912 and 2041 has a series of questions on his website, surprisingly titled AndyKaufmanLives.com.
It took me less than 5 minutes to finish it with what I 110% guarantee are all the SUPERIOR as well as CORRECT answers that were all figured out after months of laborious research. Now it’s just a matter of claiming my prize. Prize is spelt with a "z" right? To help me explain the salience in my answers (salience?), I’m going to employ some folks from Code Geass. The people from Clannad were getting fed up with my ramblings.
ASIDE:I believe it’s related to Santa Clause, Christ and grilled cheese sandwiches as part of a mission to expose covered briefcases that walk away from 70s era bubble walls. Slovakia is on the damned moon people, wake up from your coffee and smell the astroturf! It’s not hard to glance, pretend, expose or sauté mushrooms, all you need is a beginning, a middle and an end-faced bromide concentrate that doesn’t exist, but wishes it did. Damn it wishes it did. Like Baked Alberta. Wait, that was the wrong state.
I could be wrong though, I mean, there’s a first time for everything right?
Thank you everyone. Questions, comments and suggestions are welcome and will be answered in the reverse order received, so make sure you collate your questions, comments and suggestions in advance so you all know who should post in what order.
Yesterday during one of my much enjoyed and looked forward to weekend coffee breaks with my MacBook Pro at the Boatdeck Cafe in Mawson Lakes, I posted a verbose, long winded, fun and largely ridiculous post discussing ways in which bloggers can help to maintain a regular post schedule.
ASIDE: I’m still holding out that if I mention the name of their establishment in almost every post I make, they’ll eventually start sponsoring this blog and my podcast. Flawless logic right? If they can’t afford to pay me, I’d just as happily accept a few free cups a day. Whatya say guys?
What I wasn’t expecting was a comment from none other than Mike Rundle not of our beloved Rundle Mall I discussed a few weeks ago, but of the selective 9rules blog community in the States. Who would have thunk it?
As it turns out, he was responding to an off the cuff remark I made under the "Caching Solution" heading:
To appear as though you’re more reliable to website alliances like 9rules that value regularity over quality, people write several posts a day, but release them over a period of days.
Mike was quick to correct my misapprehension:
At 9rules we value over quality over quantity any day of the week, and especially when we’re looking at blogs that want to join. If somebody split entries up over a few days just to look like they’re posting more frequently then we’d see right through that.
We’d much rather see a 9r member post great articles once a week or so then lesser quality articles every few days.
As someone who:
… I would certainly never quality for 9rules or any other such site. It doesn’t bother me though because I’m clearly not what they’re looking for. Besides, it works both ways: I’m certainly not changing what I like to do to conform to another system!
I did appreciate Mike’s comment though and replied with a comment that looks quite like this one. Word for word almost, it’s uncanny.
Thanks for your comment Mike.
Rest assured I was mentioning your site very much tongue in cheek! That said, lets just say I know that on the basis of regularity (to say nothing of quality, and only talking about specific subjects) I certainly wouldn’t qualify, and I was making light of it.
I guess being a member of the "Ruben Schade" blogging network is enough work as is, right? :-)
You can find 9rules (surprising thought it may seem) at http://9rules.com/. For what it’s worth, I did manage to find Dan Lockton’s fascinating sustainable architecture website through them, even if he’s no longer a member.
My very sophisticated blogging system! Photo from my Flickr account
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