December 30th, 2008

AAS in Long Beach, CA

The American Astronomical Society is having a meeting in Long Beach, California the first full week in January 2009.

We are presenting a poster on the podcast at that meeting. If you happen to be attending, please stop by!

Wednesday, January 07, 2009
9:20 am – 6:30 pm
Poster Session 465 : International Year of Astronomy 2009
Exhibit Hall A

465.07. The IYA 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast
Michael Koppelman (Slacker Astronomy), P. L. Gay (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville / Astronomy Cast), N. Atkinson (Universe Today), D. Flateau (University of Cincinnati), E. Lakdawalla (The Planetary Society)

There is also a special session on the new media projects of the IYA:

Wednesday, January 07, 2009
2:00 pm – 3:30pm
Special Session 229: International Year of Astronomy 2009 Programs
General Session Hall B

229.01. New Media in IYA2009: Communicating with the world via the web
P. L. Gay (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville / Astronomy Cast), Michael Koppelman (Slacker Astronomy), IYA New Media Task Group

Hope to see you there!

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December 30th, 2008

We are go for launch

In roughly 48 hours the daily podcast will begin! Make sure you have subscribed. Look for the ever-present Subscribe! section to your left. You could also just set this site as your home page and listen on your computer every day. I think you know the drill.

Contributors — thank you for the excellent stuff! We are very pleased with the quality of what is coming in. Please — if you will not be submitting your audio 30 days in advance, we need you to email us or you risk being bumped.

Also, a note in regards to the 10-minute rule. It can be challenging to get an interview or in-depth piece down to 10 minutes. You gotta do it. I’ve edited 2 podcasts myself and in both cases I thought there was no way I could get it down to 10 minutes. In both cases I did and I think the result is quite pleasing. Remember — the listener doesn’t know what they are not hearing. You have to aim for 10 minutes or less. With that said, we will not be rejecting entries which go over by a modest amount. You should mention and we will link to an extended version if one exists.

We still need people to contribute podcasts. As you listen to some of the shows coming up, I really hope you get the urge to join in.

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December 10th, 2008

Facebook

There are two ways to support The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast on Facebook. You can become a fan of the “product” and/or you can become a reader of the “blog“. The latter is really much more useful, so if you are on Facebook, come join us.

Also, just a small update — the audio is starting to flow in. If your podcast is in January please make sure you leave enough time to get us your audio 30 prior to your air date. At the very least, let us know if it will be late.

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December 3rd, 2008

To January…and beyond!

The very cool Emily Lakdawalla recently sent The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast organizing committee (which she is a member of) an update on signups, from which I quote: The good news is THE ENTIRE MONTH OF JANUARY IS NOW FILLED. Everybody drink a celebratory libation of your choice. I didn’t even need to use [...]

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December 1st, 2008

Let There Be Audio

As of this writing it is T-30 days until we start the podcast. That means the people who are doing shows the first week of January should be finishing up their audio and submitting it to us via ShareFile using instructions we are providing via email. We are asking all contributors to get us their audio 30 days in advance so we have time to plug holes if they appear. You’ve been warned!

Many thanks to those who volunteered for January. I’ll report back, but I think we may have filled it up. If not, we only have a day or two unaccounted for. If so, you’ll be hearing about it!

We are doing a special show for the 1st of the year that will include many ideas for those of you sitting on the fence. Go on sign up! You just might learn something.

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