On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
Of course, and I meant Wikimania 2009 not '08.
Can someone tell me who would be a good couple of people from the WP podcasts and front page management to talk to?
You can contact me (User:Fuzheado) or User:Tawker.
I think it's an admirable idea, and suggest you start small and grow bigger. No need for 8 hours off the bat, when there are zero hours now. As the longest running regularly published audio product in the Wikipedia universe, believe me when I say it is quite an undertaking.
Likely the best approach would be to have segments broken down into different chunks, not unlike what US NPR does with its twice daily news update, Morning Edition, Day to Day, etc. Each one can be an independent chunk that can be downloaded via RSS like on iTunes as a podcast. Then you stack all the canned audio segments together and have it available from an Icecast streaming server which can stream Ogg format audio for example.
That way you can make three audiences happy simultaneously: 1. Podcast downloaders 2. Streaming audio fans (like Shoutcast) 3. Web-browser based listeners
I'll comment on Wikinews Water Cooler as well.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)