What You DoThe podcast What You Do is a series of brief interviews with academics, students, dog walkers, mail carriers, gravediggers and other ne'er-do-wells on why they chose to do what they do. podcast url: http://feeds.feedburner.com/whatyoudonoreply@blogger.com (John Fink)Tue, 20 Feb 2024 05:12:45 -0800Blogger http://www.blogger.com6125http://whatyoudocast.blogspot.com/en-usnoCopyright 2006 John FinkinterviewsWhat You Do is a series of interviews with academics, students, garbage collectors, mail delivery agents, gravediggers, and assorted ne'er-do-wells.What You Do is a series of interviews with academics, students, garbage collectors, mail delivery agents, gravediggers, and assorted ne'er-do-wells.John Finkjohn.fink@gmail.comJohn Fink<link>http://whatyoudocast.blogspot.com/2006/09/no-i-havent-forgotten-about-good-ol.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:33:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25059049.post-115902207068012540</guid><description>No, I haven't forgotten about good ol' WYD. I'm in the process -- as we speak, I swear it -- of cajoling up new interviews. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, who knows, I've decided to take a Markedly Different Tack and solicit interviews from people with radically different sensibilities of my own. We'll see how that goes.<br /><br />Shine on, people.</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>john.fink@gmail.com (John Fink)</author></item><item><title/><link>http://whatyoudocast.blogspot.com/2006/04/awright-another-episode-up.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:35:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25059049.post-114598683812880945</guid><description>Awright, another <a href="http://primate.net.nyud.net:8080/%7Ejbfink/whatyoudo/whatyoudocast-ep02.mp3">episode</a> up. This time I do a brief interview with Brendin King, who is music director at Miami University's <a href="http://www.redhawkradio.com">WMSR</a> student radio station about how he got into student radio, where WMSR is at now, and where it's going.</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>john.fink@gmail.com (John Fink)</author></item><item><title/><link>http://whatyoudocast.blogspot.com/2006/04/post-mortem-on-episode-1.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:28:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25059049.post-114494607482461412</guid><description>Post mortem on Episode 1.<br /><br />Okay, I knocked this together in maybe an hour all total. So there was very little editing done on the interview track, and some pretty crappy mixing done on intro music, intro track, and outro. Some problems I had with episode 1 could be fixed by spending more time at Audacity, but there are some stylistic/aesthetic issues which Audacity can't really fix:<br /><br />* Me. Interview style, pace, etc. I didn't have any questions prepared, which you can see about halfway through when there's one point where I just go 'durr' and then think of something to say. Should have cut that out, natch. Plus I engaged in something pretty typical for me when I'm talking normally -- speed mumbling. It's like regular mumbling, only five times as irritating. Plus we spent an inordinate amount of time talking about the paper process -- which really is interesting, don't get me wrong -- and not enough about how he got where he got. Also, at a half-hour, the show is pretty meaty -- especially if you're not thrilled with paper science to begin with. This could be fixed with judicious editing.<br /><br />*The location. This was one of the group study rooms at the library -- this is why you have the weird crappy echo-y kind of thing happening. No insulation or anything means sounds go bouncy-bouncy. Supposedly next year we'll have a somewhat proper sound room -- in the meantime, maybe I can find a space that isn't so bad.</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>john.fink@gmail.com (John Fink)</author></item><item><title/><link>http://whatyoudocast.blogspot.com/2006/04/okay-episode-1-is-up.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:18:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25059049.post-114478323365223198</guid><description>Okay! Episode 1 is up. In this episode, I interview Aaron Yonka, a paper science safety engineer at a paper mill in Florida. We talk about how he stumbled into paper science, and how trees turn into toilet paper... er, bathroom tissue.<br /><br />Direct link is <a href="http://primate.net.nyud.net:8080/%7Ejbfink/whatyoudo/whatyoudocast-ep01.mp3">here</a>. As always, the podcast subscription link is http://feeds.feedburner.com/whatyoudo .<br /><br />Comments? Bad things, good things? Please let me know.</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>john.fink@gmail.com (John Fink)</author></item><item><title/><link>http://whatyoudocast.blogspot.com/2006/04/blugh.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:55:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25059049.post-114469535383642130</guid><description>Blugh. Make that "in the next couple of weeks", maybe -- one of the people I wanted to buttonhole for an interview has gone missing. Well, gone hard-to-reach, anyway.</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>john.fink@gmail.com (John Fink)</author></item><item><title/><link>http://whatyoudocast.blogspot.com/2006/03/welcome-to-what-you-do-podcast.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:36:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25059049.post-114374748223719509</guid><description>Welcome to the What You Do podcast.<br /><br />What You Do is a podcast that aims to interview people from various walks of life. Nothing fancy, no celebrities or other well-knowns -- just average people and how exactly they go to do what they're doing today.<br /><br />Stay tuned. I ought to have the first one up within a week.</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>john.fink@gmail.com (John Fink)</author></item></channel></rss>