November 23rd, 2008

January Podcasters Needed!

OK, folks, time to call in some favors. As we mentioned, we have a lot of the year covered in terms of user-submitted podcasts but people have been tending to sign up later in the year. We need people to be brave and help us out on the front end.

The open dates in January are:

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31

So we need eight (8) people to save the day and volunteer to contribute on these days.

Bloggers, send out the word please. If you haven’t signed up yet, please join in now!

Thanks!

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November 19th, 2008

Podcast: Sample Episode: Big Numbers

Michael from Slacker Astronomy gives us one small example of what a podcast for 365 Days of Astronomy might sound like. His topic is big numbers (like a yadabyte or a septillion), scientific notation and logarithms. Do you know how many suns you’d have to line up end to end to go all the way [...]

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November 19th, 2008

What you need to do, summarized

1. You need to subscribe to the podcast and subscribe to the blog.
2. You should really man up and volunteer to record a podcast. We’ll help you.
3. You or your employer may wish to sponsor some podcasts.

You’ve probably noticed that 2009 is getting closer every day!

We’ll have some demo episodes up soon to further inspire you. We are going to be badgering people very soon to help us fill some dates in January. The good news is we have a lot of dates filled throughout the year. The bad news is, we haven’t filled January!

You can achieve #2 indirectly by badgering people you know that might be good candidates to make a podcast. It’s easy and fun and we’ve had a ton of people sign up. If they can do it so can you. Spread the word ’cause the more people that participate the more fun it will be for everyone.

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November 18th, 2008

The main, final, official feeds

Podcast RSS feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/365DaysOfAstronomy

iTunes feed:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=295908830

Blog RSS feed:
http://365daysofastronomy.org/feed/

We’ll be using libsyn to post and host the podcasts, but we thought we would use a feedburner feed in case we ever need to change the feed URL. Note the podcast feed is for the podcasts only, you won’t see any of the blog posts on it. The blog feed will contain blog posts and podcasts. The goal is that a new episode will be posted automatically on each feed every day in 2009.

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November 6th, 2008

Podcast: Hello World!

Hey everyone. We are priming the feed and getting the pipeline ready for the podcast. To that end, and for your listening pleasure, we have the first podcast! Pamela Gay and Michael Koppelman discuss the podcast and encourage you to participate. We also debut our great theme song by George Hrab. We are going to [...]

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