October 28th, 2008

The “rules”

Just wanted to let you know that we added a rule to our list of rules on the Join In page. These rules are meant to help — please email us if you find something unreasonable. We think it’s all pretty reasonable. The recently added rule is:

All podcasts should be premiering at least some content. We don’t want to solely re-broadcast previously published material. It is OK if you include excerpts of your previously published material in your podcast and we encourage you to direct people to more information.

I may have misled some people in a comment to a previous post. You can use previously published material in your podcast, but we are asking people to produce a podcast specifically for 365 Days of Astronomy.

Hope that makes sense. Please act now if you want to contribute a podcast or two! If you can’t think of a topic, email us, tell us a little about yourself and we’ll help you think of ideas or put you in touch with other complimentary people.

Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock…

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October 22nd, 2008

Sponsor a day for $25

Producing 365 podcasts isn’t free. Through a variety of sponsorships we hope to raise enough money to pay students to do the post-production work on the podcast. 100% of the money we collect goes to the production of the podcast and associated materials.

To that end we are offering sponsorships for $25 per day. Like the podcasts, you can suggest a specific date or dates for your sponsorship and we’ll dole them out on a first-come first-serve basis. Sponsors will be mentioned “NPR style” on the podcasts they sponsor. All donations are tax-deductible where allowed by law.

So…you or your organization could sponsor 1 podcast per week, every podcast for a given week, 1 per month — you decide. You’re doing a good thing and your sponsorship will literally make the podcast possible.

To donate via PayPal, click on the Donate button on the left and tell us your date requests, if any, in the Add special instructions to the seller box at PayPal*. You can also email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org to arrange other payment methods.

We are also looking for major corporate sponsors to help us with production expenses, equipment, travel and printing of CD, DVD and written materials.

Thank you in advance!

* At PayPal you’ll be donating to the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Foundation for the International Year of Astronomy Media Task Group & Websites Fund.

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October 14th, 2008

Sign-up updates

We’ve been sorting through the emails and are very encouraged with what we are seeing. If everyone gets the number of shows they signed up for, we have 40% of the 365 days covered already! We hope this motivates you to sign up! But don’t worry, there will be plenty of days for everyone. More [...]

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October 10th, 2008

All a-Twitter?

Then follow us on Twitter!

http://twitter.com/365DaysOfAstro

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October 9th, 2008

Get set…

We’ve gotten a great response in our first few days. Please keep it up! What we want to happen is exactly what is happening — we are getting interest from first timers and experienced podcasters and from students, amateurs, grad students and professionals. A podcast per day is pretty ambitious. We can’t do this alone. [...]

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October 7th, 2008

How To Podcast

Good timing! instructables has a step-by-step process for making a podcast. You can use this as a starting point if you are getting into podcasting for the first time to contribute to The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast. There are also many other podcasting guides on the ‘net.

So fire up GarageBand or Audacity and start playing around!

Fame and fortune await.

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October 7th, 2008

On your marks…

As of this writing we are 85 days from our first official 2009 podcast. We will be doing some introductory podcasts to get the feed online and talk about the submission process and such. So look for our official podcast feed soon.

In the meantime please join in!

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