#micropodcast

[kommunic8]

Se fate caso una grandissima quantità di articoli pubblicati su internet ha nel titolo un numero e la promessa di darvi quel numero di cose per aiutarvi a fare qualcosa. TRASCRIZIONE [ENG translation below] Qualche tempo fa qualcuno tra i creativi si era svegliato e si era reso conto che la gente apriva gli articoli pubblicati su internet con molta più facilità se nel titolo c'era un numero e che la cosa era ancora più accattivante e aveva ancora più successo se insieme al numero c'era anche la promessa di riuscire a fare qualcosa, ad esempio 'le 5 cose che non vi dovete perdere se volete' eccetera eccetera oppure 'i 5 modi più...' e dico 5 tanto per dire ma potrebbero essere 10 potrebbero essere 3 potrebbero essere 2. Se fate caso una grandissima quantità di articoli pubblicati su internet ha nel titolo un numero e la promessa di darvi quel numero di cose per aiutarvi a fare qualcosa. La cosa un po' ha degenerato, tanto che ormai è diventato quasi la parodia di se stesso, quello che sembrava un modo per attrarre le persone, lettori e lettrici, è diventato ormai, diciamo, una barzelletta. Non molto tempo fa ho letto un articolo, qualcuno che commentava appunto su questa mania di mettere il numero e di promettere qualcosa col numero nel titolo, dicendo tra un po' l'intelligenza artificiale generativa distruggerà l'umanità e noi staremo qui a pubblicare articoli sui nostri blog, intitolandololi '5 modi con cui la L'intelligenza artificiale generativa riuscirà a distruggere l'umanità'. Sì, perché se non ve ne siete accorti, se non ve ne siete accorte, da diciamo sei mesi, da gennaio e da dicembre dell'anno scorso che non si fa altro che parlare dell'intelligenza artificiale, piano piano la gente ci si sta avvicinando, seguendo un po' quella che è la teoria delle onde, che dice che la novità parte dal centro e poi piano piano si diffonde come una pietra in uno stagno a cerchi concentrici. Quindi diciamo che se a gennaio, febbraio si parlava di intelligenza artificiale generativa solo in circoli ristretti, ora se ne parla anche su Famiglia Cristiana e su Gente, Oggi queste riviste diciamo meno tecniche, sì meno tecnologiche. Si offrono a man bassa corsi per imparare a dire all'intelligenza artificiale generativa come fare questo e come fare quest'altro, si cerca di discutere, decidere se permettere che l'intelligenza artificiale sia o meno dentro le scuole. Io che vi dico? Cinque modi? No vabbè, io ve ne do 3 di motivi, 3 minuti grezzi. TRANSLATION Some time ago someone among the creative people has woken up and realised that people opened articles posted on the Internet much more easily if there was a number in the title and that it was even more appealing and was even more successful if along with the number there was also a promise of being able to do something, for example 'the 5 things you must not miss if you want to' etc. etc. or 'the 5 most ...' and I say 5 just to say but it could be 10 it could be 3 it could be 2. If you notice, a very large amount of articles posted on the Internet have a number in the title and a promise to give you that number of things to help you do something. The thing somewhat degenerated, so much so that it has now become almost a parody of itself, what seemed like a way to attract people, readers, has now become, let's say, a joke. Not too long ago I read an article, someone commenting precisely on this craze of putting the number and promising something with the number in the title, saying in a little while generative artificial intelligence will destroy humanity and we'll be standing here posting articles on our blogs, titling them '5 ways in which Generative Artificial Intelligence will succeed in destroying humanity.' Yes, because if you haven't noticed, for let's say six months now, since January, since December of last year there has been nothing but talk about artificial intelligence, slowly people are getting into it, following a little bit what is the wave theory, which says that the novelty starts from the center and then slowly spreads like a stone in a pond in concentric circles. So let's say that if in January, February they were talking about generative artificial intelligence only in small circles, now they are talking about it also in Famiglia Cristiana and in Gente and in Today, that are magazines let's say less technical, yes less technological. Courses are offered hand over fist to learn how to tell generative artificial intelligence how to do this and how to do that, trying to discuss, to decide whether or not to allow artificial intelligence inside schools. And what do I tell you? Five ways? No, whatever, I give you 3 reasons, 3 raw minutes.

[markrosewater]

Have you ever considered doing a micropodcasts podcast? Where you take a bunch of topics that aren't big enough for a whole episode and do them rapid fire until you run out of time?

I have done one of those, yes.

[soulcruzerone]

Change Magick – Episode 1: An Invitation to Transformation

Change is inevitable. The question is—do you resist it, or do you wield it? Welcome to the first episode of Change Magick, my new micropodcast exploring the art of transformation and personal power. This is not just a podcast—it’s a space for experimentation, a signal for those ready to step beyond old narratives and reclaim their ability to shape reality. In this episode, I introduce the…

[shadowwingtronix]

The State Of Art Soundoff 2023?

BW Media Spotlight brings unhappy tidings to The State Of Art Soundoff 2023?

A few years ago Jerzy Drozd and Rob Stenzinger started the Art Soundoff Challenge. Creators would take maybe 15 minutes to record an audio or video blog, a “micropodcast” I think is the term, and share it with everyone using the #ArtSoundoff hashtag on Twitter. It was a good way to share comic creating perspectives, go over what creators are thinking about, and just interact without actually…

[talenlee]

August 2023 Wrapup

Kinda flew by there, or maybe it’s just that when a semester is firing, then I start breaking my weeks into more and more tightly managed little snippets. I think I’m going to have to change when I have snacks, any way, it’s time to get talking about all the great articles I wrote this week and youuuuu didn’t read yet!

First up, we have a months’ worth of articles talking about everything in the world through the medium of talking about Games:

The Game, my favourite example of games as art and games’ requirement of consent (really)

Hit The Silk, which incentivises you to lie separately instead of making rules about lying together

Dangeresque, The Roomisode Triungulate, which is me and Fox just playing a videogame together and delighting in how it makes our millenial brains go ‘oh hey, the old thing!’

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, where I talk about the way that the parser based text adventure game represents a distinct game form, at least in the hands of a really, really good writer

Then there’s the articles for this month’s Story Pile:

Inside Job, one of my favourite cartoons because one of my OC’s girlfriend is basically in it

Nona the Ninth, as I continue my descent into Being Locked Tomb Trash

Lie To Me, a story based on laundering the opinion of a guy who lies a lot, but you know, maybe that’s the point

My Master Has No Tail, which I love a lot and also is an anime about theatre and queerness and like, I could put it in almost any theme month this year, I swear

I also did Werewolf Week, where I talk about different ways to handle werewolves in 3e D&D, 4e D&D, and how I use them in Cobrin’Seil, my own setting. I also talk about how the Breaking Baddiverse represents a paratextual playground for media commentary. And then, more, I talk about The Locked Tomb and about how it deceives you about what a soul does and doesn’t work.

There’s articles about building gimmicks, which is mostly a compilation of videos from other magicians, and a few audio posts as I experiment with what ten minutes of spoken audio feels like compared to a thousand words of written text. I feel like audio is easier to do but also like I’m kind of short-changing you. The audio between Fox and me about My Master Has No Tail is conversational, that feels okay – but I also feel a little selfconscious about asking you to spend ten minutes listening to a micropodcast about Oppenheimer and The Foxes of Hydesville.

Foxes of Hydesville, by the way? Killer final line.

This month, a month in which I got thinking about deceit and conniving and constructions of attention control, was what got me thinking about a horror movie with one of the most perfect final lines of all time. Yeah, it was just that final line that made me think ‘wait, that’d be great on a shirt,’ and then got me thinking about how I could use that design somehow. Bonus, this design is built on a technique I learned in other designs that won’t show up until later.

You can get this sticker or shirt design here!

It’s a new semester! This year, I’m doing two classes: One on videogame critique, and one on online persona. I know I’ve gotten very twitchy right now about the term ‘content’ because my students are using it to describe literally anything. I mean I feel on one level that’s because ‘content’ to me still feels like a thing that fills a container, and it deliberately fails to appreciate that you’re not the one shaping the container. I guess I dislike it because it speaks of a lack of a point of view. But where was I,

Oh yes! I also it seems had a very creative month in prototyping – there’s more work on Bloodwork, I released a print-and-play game I want to go back and revise to make it more Star-Trekky, and I also belted out engines for a Sonic The Hedgehog fan game, a game about moonshiner werewolves I might be consigning to a superior for use in a generative media project, and I have an engine for a wrestling game. I feel very busy.

What’s more this month has featured daily hours of work on the hardest thing in the world, a literature review. A literature review is how you try and convince an arbitary reader from a distant location that you know what you’re talking about by referring to every idea you’re ever going to use in one giant document and every time I open mine I feel like I should have a little cry. But this month I have been assiduously working on it, every day, to try and put words into it, because that’s the only way it’s going to get big and strong and healthy. But man nothing puts you in your place the same way as looking at a document that’s meant to answer and why should we listen to you and realise that even with all the work on it I’ve done, I still don’t have a good answer. I mean I know what I’m talking about, but how am I going to prove that to people? I still have the lingering memory of talking about when I presented my work product as a teacher asked ‘well, why are all the board game boards square? Is that something?’ because she was trying very hard to contribute in a space where I didn’t realise I was talking to someone who didn’t understand me.

Anyway, that’s just anxiety talking, good thing I’ve got nothing adding pressure to that.

I don’t know why I’ve been so creative this month. I fear it’s part of my brain leaping away at the idea of putting work into a particular space, like I’m somehow trying to grab a bar of soap then chasing it as it squeezes away. Did Moonshiners happen because my brain found it the most convenient way to express that idea at this moment or did it happen because it felt easier to devise a whole new game and currency card game system rather than try to explain what I mean by silo’d out design thinking?

Onward, I can do this, I can do this, I can do this.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

[j-a-nuary]

also bring back audio posts let me do micropodcasts

you know if tumblr really wants to give us something that we would love and enjoy and I would actually consider paying for the no ads thing if I had it it would be voice memos in direct messages.

[romiesays]

Micro-podcasting is Swell

Week one-and-a-bit of the Romiesays micro-podcast includes the following one-to-five-minute episodes:

Closet before lunch - closets as spaces for transformation, with references to lizards and Sailor Moon.

Not my house, not my cat - pet-sitting, homemade pies, and gift economies between friends

Conventioneering: clothing considerations and hotel buffets - figuring out what makes a good outfit for a day where I’m talking on stage about being a filmmaker and talking about being nonbinary, plus tips to make sure you get a piece of the good cake

The Thing about electronic music - the differences in how sci fi and fantasy films use electronic anecdotes with a focus on Ennio Morricone’s score for John Carpenter’s The Thing, plus a part two about how “Tubular Bells” wound up in The Exorcist

Poem: People Yelling In German - a reading of a poem published by the now-defunct magazine Punchnel’s in 2009, about a conversation I overheard while living in a hostel in downtown London

Dreams within objects - embodiments of the past-future, including stovetop espresso, steampunk, theremins, turntabling, and finally discarding an outdated save-the-date magnet

Recipe: Bootlegger Beans - a cheap and easy campfire meal that lets you pretend you’re a rum runner during Prohibition

Machiavelli, wordplay, snow on the ground - why Machiavelli is my dream dinner guest, and whether it is or isn’t better to be feared than loved

If you get proactive and browse the main link to find my conversations with other people, you can also find me discoursing on the similarities between the food cultures of Texas and Louisiana, very early experiences of mid-90s internet chatrooms, and how the Three Musketeers resemble the Golden Girls. I also read an unpublished poem of yearning from a couple decades ago, “Subpoeta.”

[ieindigoeast]

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📌What does よろしく actually mean? | #HelpfulHints Mini Podcast

This #Japanese expression has countless uses & nuances 🇯🇵

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We're here to demystify!

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[smartkarrot]

If we're honest...   Customer success teams aren't lacking data. They typically have an abundance of customer data at their disposal. But they tend to struggle with turning that data into insight and then take action with it at scale.     In our micro podcast, listen in as Prithwi Dasgupta (CEO, SmartKarrot) discusses this topic more with Rick Adams (Business Outcomes & Customer Success Expert, Practical CSM) below.   🎧Micro Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmYzw_aWIOM   Thoughts?

[kommunic8]

Il mio sentimento di sardità varia nel tempo e dipende dalle latitudini. In questo momento mi sento molto sarda e molto contraria al colonialismo continentale. TRASCRIZIONE [ENG translation below] Cosa significa per me essere sarda e considerarmi italiana? Bella parola. È una cosa difficile da descrivere perché è una cosa che cambia dipendentemente da dove mi trovo a vivere. Quando stavo all'estero mi sentivo molto sarda e rivendicava la mia provenienza dall'isola della Sardegna. Quando ero molto giovane e stavo in Sardegna, prima delle mie tante migrazioni, l'identità sarda mi stava molto stretta perché era aggrovigliata con tutto quello che mi impediva di vivere la vita che avrei voluto vivere, parliamo degli anni '80 e essere una ragazzina con idee strane per la testa negli anni '80 a Cagliari non era semplicissimo, tant'è che per me fu più facile lasciare l'Italia che lasciare la Sardegna. Sì, è una cosa strana quella dell'identità, perché ad esempio, quando stavo all'estero e vedevo un cognome sardo, non potevo fare a meno di... mi si sollevavano le antenne, ero per lo meno curiosa, o per lo meno mi veniva il pensiero, questa è una persona sarda. Non lo so se la stessa cosa accada con le persone che provengono dalle altre regioni italiane. Non lo so, quando un napoletano vede un cognome tipicamente napoletano, ma se poi esiste una cosa del genere, perché la nostra insularità ci ha anche portato a mantenere i nostri cognomi tra di noi? Perché sto facendo questo discorso? Non lo so, perché in questi giorni si parla molto di identità, perché in questi giorni la Sardegna si prepara alle elezioni regionali che poi dovranno decidere il nostro destino per i prossimi quattro anni, anche per chi non si interessa di politica, se tu non ti interessi di politica la politica si interessa di te perché è la politica che poi fa funzionare, o fa non funzionare, tutti i servizi che noi usiamo. L'essere abitanti di quest'isola meravigliosa, i fenicotteri, il mare, la spiaggia, il sole, tutto quello che vuoi, però poi ci troviamo tagliati fuori da un sacco di altri circuiti e purtroppo anche se tu vai al Museo Archeologico di Cagliari, che è molto completo a tutta la storia della Sardegna, però la Sardegna viene sempre presentata come quella che è stata occupata, non c'è una vera e propria storia della Sardegna dove noi siamo protagonisti perché noi protagonisti lo siamo stati, dico noi anche se io non c'ero, c'è anche quest'altra cosa qua, non è che perché in Sardegna ci sono stati i nuraghi che io sia particolarmente boh, non lo so una guerriera o che ne so. No però parlare del passato è importante per capire certi meccanismi e infatti c'è un sacco di gente che parla di Sardegna che però non ha studiato la storia e ne parla sempre in termini di colonia. Ecco, la Sardegna non facciamola più stare, essere una colonia, autodeterminarci, no? TRANSLATION What does it mean for me to be Sardinian and to consider myself Italian? Good question. It is a difficult thing to describe because it is something that changes depending on where I am living. When I was abroad I felt very Sardinian and claimed my origin from the island of Sardinia. When I was very young and living in Sardinia, before my many migrations, the Sardinian identity was very tight for me because it was entangled with everything that prevented me from living the life I wanted to live, we are talking about the 1980s, and being a young girl with strange ideas in her head in the 1980s in Cagliari was not very easy, so much so that it was easier for me to leave Italy than to leave Sardinia. Yes, it is a strange thing that of identity, because for example, when I was abroad and saw a Sardinian surname , I couldn't help but ... my antennae would be raised, I was at least curious, or at least the thought would come to me , this is a Sardinian person. I don't know if the same thing happens with people from other Italian regions. I don't know, when a Neapolitan sees a typical Neapolitan surname, but then if there is such a thing, why has our insularity also led us to keep our surnames among ourselves? Why am I giving this speech? I don't know, because these days there is a lot of talk about identity, because these days Sardinia is preparing for the regional elections that then will have to decide our fate for the next four years, even for those who don't care about politics, if you don't care about politics politics politics cares about you because it is politics that then makes all the services that we use work , or doesn't work. The being inhabitants of this wonderful island, the flamingos, the sea, the beach, the sun, everything you want, but then we find ourselves cut off from a lot of other circuits and unfortunately even if you go to the Archaeological Museum in Cagliari , which is very comprehensive to the whole history of Sardinia, however Sardinia is always presented as the one that was occupied, there is no real history of Sardinia where we are protagonists because we protagonists were , I say we even if I was not there, there is also this other thing here , it is not that because in Sardinia there were nuraghi that I am particularly boh , I don't know a warrior or what do I know . No however talking about the past is important to understand certain mechanisms and in fact there are a lot of people who talk about Sardinia who however have not studied history and always talk about it in terms of a colony. Here, let's not let Sardinia stay anymore, be a colony, self-determine, right?

[hfeed]

Morning Humor: Breakfast

[soulcruzerone]

a micropodcast on personal power and transformation

Change Magick Change is inevitable. The question is—do you resist it, or do you wield it? At the tail end of last year, I started working on a framework for personal power and transformation, which I called Change Magick. It fuses Chaos Magick, Jungian psychology, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and postmodern philosophy. It’s an evolving system, a way of engaging with reality that allows you to…

[talenlee]

Rewriting In Your Voice

Rewriting In Your Voice

Writing is a challenge. It takes a blank page and then it involves scrawling onto it whatever words you want to put there. It’s been addressed in a lot of different ways. One of my favourite ways to describe it is that the act of writing is a violent one; where violence is the curtailing of options through force, a writer takes a blank page of infinite possibility and reduces it down to just one. Another way to see writing described is as a form of agony; one merely stares at a blank page until your forehead starts bleeding, the line goes. I don’t think these descriptions are necessarily trying to describe a particular kind of pain, but it’s a sentiment that I think is easy to reflect. Fanfiction tumblr, I’ve seen in particular, is filled with people who wish to murmur of the dreadful agonies that come from a want to write and a lack of ability, time, focus, concentration or will to do so.

To those people, I will suggest that you can also, if you want, not write.

I mean it’s okay.

Hell, have you considered a micropodcast? Grab a microphone and just tell a recording ‘I want to tell a story that’s about this and this and this,’ and just see where that process takes you. Be okay with making a little, or only concepting a little. The making is the fun part, you’re not getting graded on your fanfiction here.

Nonetheless, much writing is made about writing and I think that’s good. Turns out that writers, in general, are always looking for things to write about, and writing about writing can often come easily. It’s also a chance to show off how the thing we choose to do is actually quite hard and I didn’t spend an hour today fine tuning a tree farm in Minecraft, I was actually letting the ideas and words turn in my head while I tried not to cry.

I try to avoid writing about writing unless I’m going to give some clear and concrete advice. In this case, it is the way that I would like to offer advice that was first, terribly, presented to me as write drunk, edit sober.

I don’t drink so that’s meaningless, of course. I don’t do anything drunk, and I imagine if I tried to write drunk it would look very bad considering that my primary way to write is based around fine motor control I’ve spent oh god so long refining. The idea, however, seems to be built around the notion that one should have one mindset for the creation of writing, and then another mindset for improving and refining that thing. It’s a vision of a very real experience I have, where the creation of a thing can be rough and unreliable and loose in words and meaning because I’m trying to get the core things out and in the right space. Editing, going back over what I wrote and checking if things should be another way or if they should be in a different order, that should be done with some time and distance from the original writing.

Particularly awkward is when you write a sentence, then come back to it a few days later, and read it aloud, and realise you have no idea where in the sentence there’s meant to be an emphasis. There’s this idea of garden path sentences where a phrase may be structured in a way that fools you into momentarily thinking the sentence is spoken one way instead of another. You might also see them called crash blossoms.

This is something that stands out to me in this blog because I write in a style that I think of as oratory. I know that when I read some phrases aloud, that there is an escalation, a dudgeon that I bring to bear in the way I write. It’s why, I think, I am comfortable with the writing of Tycho from Penny Arcade in a way that my peers often aren’t. There is a cadence, a musicality to the way he writes, that begs to be spoken aloud.

Therefore, my first piece of advice, for when you return to your work, is to read it aloud.

I will now give those of you who write porny gay fanfiction an opportunity to uncringe.

It’s true though! What you are writing is trying to be encoded in the mind of another. Reading it aloud will show you when your own writing trips you up, when your writing slows down, when you have the ability to convey dialogue in pauses rather than in statements, and if you necessarily are setting the right tone with the description of that text.

Dialogue in fanfiction is amazing because, chances are, you like the characters because of dialogue. Dialogue is how characters express a lot of who they are, in how much of it there is and how little of it there is. It is spoken aloud, in many cases, by actors, and read into audiobooks. There is nothing weird or wrong about speaking the voices of those characters aloud and seeing how their words settle in your brain afterwards.

It is embarrassing, not gunna tell you otherwise. Waiting until your roommates are out of the room so you can read back and forth to yourself about the way two Gundam Kissboys engage with one another and see if it ‘feels right’ in your head? That’s pretty challenging. It can make the writing even more private, because now you need a way to see if the characters that resonate in you resonate with the world outside your head, and also you need to do it in the garage so nobody hears you describing how they fuck.

But also, doing so can highlight things to you. It can bring to your attention mistakes. You might notice that when you read it aloud, you don’t need to include three statements about a person putting their hand on a table, because it’s on the table, and the dialogue itself bridges to the next piece of dialogue. You can find your own foibles and you can make them better. And also, you can use that voice to just map out scenes vaguely, and see how they feel.

I am lucky in that I have an audience that wants to hear me read my articles aloud, and that can help me catch mistakes or realise when I have a problem in the text. If you can find people on a discord call or in a friend group who want to do this for you, or are willing to do it for you, and yes I know you may be talking about gay sex fanfiction here but the point stands, then you should thank them and trust them and see what it can do to help improve the way you write.

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[workfromhom]

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