Gardner Writes

Once again, ladies and germs, John Milton’s L’Allegro. I apologize for the duplicate feed. I’m testing the hacks I just applied to my base WP 1.2 installation.

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Here’s my first podcast: a reading of John Milton’s lyric L’Allegro (“the cheerful man”). I knew my first podcast had to be poetry, and I thought it ought to be Milton, and though it’s long (about eight minutes, and 3.7MB) and I’m sure I could do better after another ten takes or so, a pilot is a pilot and it’s time to stop apologizing and get on with it.

I figure my podcasts, like my blogs, will be all over the map. I’m aiming them at the segment of the market that self-identifies as “tolerant.” If Milton ain’t your bag, stay tuned: the next one is likely to be completely different.

Thanks to Rob Wall for checking in with encouragement and a timely WordPress mod in his comment on the preceding blog.

L’Allegro.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (3.6MB)

Word Press 1.2, the blogging script I’m using, doesn’t have direct support for the RSS 2.0 enclosure tag, so I’ve set up an account at Feedburner that promises to support podcasts. You’ll see the new fiery “feed” icon in my meta section, below right. Please use that link for your RSS reader’s subscription to my site, at least until you hear otherwise . I’ll have a link to my first podcast a little later this evening.