Open access theology
Well, Simon’s and my attempt at open-access theology did its first outing last night at Bar III (the old Mauritania at the bottom of Park Street. The venue was good, with about 25 people attending. This was my first attempt at podcasting, and we need a good, replicable system, which Simon (a self-confessed non-techy) can run for sessions when I’m away.
I think we took a while getting into the right pace and the right level of humour and seriousness, but listening back to the MP3 this morning is sounds a lot better than I felt it might. Given we did just over an hour’s material, it covers a lot of ground which can be very difficult to gain a clear hold on. We began the session with a minute’s silence in the light of the attacks on London during the morning.
Using audacity is a breeze, and it converts to MP3 nicely, although I had to remember to reset the MP3 bitrate to keep the file size down. Even then, it’s still 35MB, so isn’t for the non-broadbanded.
I’m off to the General Synod this morning, but I’m hoping that I can get web access easily on the York campus, in which case I will work on getting the RSS feed set up for automated podcasting. In the meantime, more details are on virtualtheology.net, and you can download the MP3 there.
Posted on Friday, 8 July 2005 by Paul | Posted in theology | 1 comment
