My colleague Gillian has been restless this afternoon, tossing tennis balls around and tutting or exclaiming over every book she's picked up to catalogue. To put myself out of my misery she has been sharing podcasting with me. From the Web 2.0 course we did late last year, I ran off with blogging and Gillian with podcasting.
As I've blogged before, the British Library have a Henry VIII thing going and I've had the podcasts coming into my RSS feeder for some time but hadn't done anything with them because my little cheapie MP3 player is stuck on scrambling everything and I hadn't the time or the wits to sort it all out. Last night I decided to give the Henry VIII podcasts a go and spent a blissful hour or so listening to (the rather snide at times) David Starkey declaiming Henry's early life - with lots of digressions. It was a bit uncomfortable at first. Our computer box sits on the ground and the cord for the ear plugs Rob had lent me wasn't very long and I quickly got a sore back. Ian came to the rescue, remembering we'd bought a new set of headphones when we bought the new 'puter and I was soon sitting upright and enjoying myself.
However, being a rip-roaring insomniac these days, I thought it'd be nice to be able to plug in the old MP3 and listen to it in the dark as Gillian does without disturbing anyone else. And so I came to put her to work. In the end it took no time at all to sort out my MP3 mixing woes and it's easy as to download files onto the MP3 player.
Gillian put me on to the BBC podcasts site where there are literally hundreds of podcasts to choose from. Look what I found for Dad: Scottish Football podcasts - and you could listen to the
English Football in Mandarin if you wanted to!
As I've blogged before, the British Library have a Henry VIII thing going and I've had the podcasts coming into my RSS feeder for some time but hadn't done anything with them because my little cheapie MP3 player is stuck on scrambling everything and I hadn't the time or the wits to sort it all out. Last night I decided to give the Henry VIII podcasts a go and spent a blissful hour or so listening to (the rather snide at times) David Starkey declaiming Henry's early life - with lots of digressions. It was a bit uncomfortable at first. Our computer box sits on the ground and the cord for the ear plugs Rob had lent me wasn't very long and I quickly got a sore back. Ian came to the rescue, remembering we'd bought a new set of headphones when we bought the new 'puter and I was soon sitting upright and enjoying myself.
However, being a rip-roaring insomniac these days, I thought it'd be nice to be able to plug in the old MP3 and listen to it in the dark as Gillian does without disturbing anyone else. And so I came to put her to work. In the end it took no time at all to sort out my MP3 mixing woes and it's easy as to download files onto the MP3 player.
Gillian put me on to the BBC podcasts site where there are literally hundreds of podcasts to choose from. Look what I found for Dad: Scottish Football podcasts - and you could listen to the
English Football in Mandarin if you wanted to!
1 comment:
David Starkey is well known for his snide remarks against the Scots!
We didn't win the battle of Bannockburn etc.
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