Also, as someone who used to work in radio, please please don’t worry about “ums” and “likes”. They are a natural part of speech. EVERYONE does it, even the President. The only time people don’t do it is after extensive training, or when they are reading a prepared statement. People don’t even notice it half the time, and if you’ll pay attention in radio interviews you’ll hear that producers don’t even bother to edit all of them out.

XO!

Also, Marianne wtih the Botero BUTT on her head
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliastarkey/2504600949/in/photostream/

This is great info – I’m handling the techy recording stuff and this is my first audio production ever, so I’ve obviously got tons to learn.

The good news is we’re releasing these podcasts under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license, so you are encouraged to re-encode and share as much as you’d like and whereever you’d like, so long as you credit us (ideally linking back here) and don’t make money off the endeavor (good luck with that, haha).

Thanks for listening, and thanks for the format education. By calling Vorbis “nerdier” you’ve totally piqued my interest.

MP3 is obviously the gold standard for podcasts, etc. because it’s what everybody’s MP3 player is capable of playing, but many modern software and hardware MP3 players can play back Vorbis as well as MP3 (among other formats), and my MP3 player is one of them, so I made myself a Vorbis version of the podcast just to save a bit of space on my player. My file came out to 23MB (vs. 56MB for the original) and I was considering uploading it somewhere for others who are able to play Vorbis files–and many may not even be aware that they can, see http://www.vorbis.com/software/ for a brief, incomplete list of supported apps; also note that many MP3 players are also capable of playing Vorbis files (they may refer to them as “Ogg”, check your manuals)–but wanted to check with you guys first since it’s your intellectual property, etc. I’ve listened to both MP3 and Vorbis versions side by side and can’t hear any difference through my headphones; high-end setups may expose quality loss but since it’s mostly speech it really shouldn’t matter.