{"id":432,"date":"2006-12-26T12:03:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T17:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=432"},"modified":"2006-12-26T12:03:57","modified_gmt":"2006-12-26T17:03:57","slug":"the-queens-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/the-queens-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen's Speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"British<\/p>\n

Queen Elizabeth II meets Web 2.0. A nice symmetry, and a great treat for Boxing Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Queen’s 2006 Christmas message is available as a podcast<\/a>. I find this turn of events uncanny. I am also struck (deliberately vague word) by the British Monarchy website<\/a>, which I had not visited before. I’ll be exploring. (Note to other explorers: don’t miss the Royal Diary<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

To get the Royal Podcast, I subscribed via iTunes (one-click simplicity, for which I thank Her Majesty’s Web Chamberlains). Looking in iTunes for the Christmas message, I found that the Chamberlains had thoughtfully provided another podcast: the Queen’s 80th birthday speech.<\/p>\n

Calling it “The Royal Podcast,” as the web site does, brings a smile: the term sounds a little like “The Holy Hand Grenade” (of Antioch, if I recall correctly). But I don’t mean to be churlish. I welcome Her Majesty (a pretty nice girl, though she doesn’t have a lot to say) to my portable media device, and hope she will find herself at home there with IT Conversations, poetry, Phil Keaggy, and the Firesign Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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