I've added the October 2008 General Conference to ScriptureCast.net. Soon, I will start reviewing the talks at a rate just right to finish with the last talk shortly before April 2009 conference.
If I were to start today, I would listen to conference at a rate of 2.2 minutes per day. If every talk were 11 minutes long, I would listen to one talk every 5 days. Of course, shorter talks will be podcasted more frequently.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
Ready for general conference
I forgot to mention here that over at my new blog, Square Galaxy, I've written a post about how I just finished with my custom podcast of last general conference, just in time to start again in a couple of weeks
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
General Conference feeds not validating
I was made aware tonight that some custom feeds of the Spring 2008 General Conference aren't being loaded into iTunes because the feeds aren't validating. I think this is a character encoding problem.
I'll try and fix the problem soon, but until then, you can try creating a feed that doesn't start with Saturday Morning.
I'll try and fix the problem soon, but until then, you can try creating a feed that doesn't start with Saturday Morning.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Number of active feeds
Looking through the database today, I saw that there are about 40-50 feeds which have been accessed within the last week. I consider this number to represent the number of current users. I expect this number to pick up as people create feeds of the latest General Conference.
Spring General Conference 2008 now online!
I've added General Conference, Spring 2008 to the volumes to scriptures available for podcasting. Those who wish to listen to the General Young Woman Conference may start with that if they wish. Those who don't want to listen to the Young Woman Conference may start with the Saturday morning session, or any other session or talk that they wish.
I usually like to listen to the past general conference gradually before the next general conference. I've added a special link to the homepage which will create a feed doing just this: starting now (whenever that may be), it will progress through the General Conference talks to finish October 31, 2008.
I usually like to listen to the past general conference gradually before the next general conference. I've added a special link to the homepage which will create a feed doing just this: starting now (whenever that may be), it will progress through the General Conference talks to finish October 31, 2008.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Find us on Facebook
I've created a Facebook page for ScriptureCast.net, although I haven't done very much with it. The idea is to create a space for more user discussion and reviews (if any), but also to allow people to become a fan of ScriptureCast.net which would help promote the site (and the gospel) to their friends on facebook.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Full chapter text in feeds
I received some feedback requesting that the full chapter text be included as part of the feed. ScriptureCast.net has never been about providing content, instead just linking to content. All the chapters and audio files remain on their original servers at LDS.org. I'm uncomfortable with providing any more than short excerpts as part of the feed.
However, for those who do want more than an excerpt as part of the feed, I have a solution for you. Yahoo! Pipes is a service which allows for manipulations of data sources and feeds. I've created a pipe that will automatically fetch the chapter text from LDS.org and include it along with the feed. Here is how you use it:
I hope this helps. If many people start using it, I might create better pipes that filter out page headers/footers or I might include links to the pipes from ScriptureCast.net .
However, for those who do want more than an excerpt as part of the feed, I have a solution for you. Yahoo! Pipes is a service which allows for manipulations of data sources and feeds. I've created a pipe that will automatically fetch the chapter text from LDS.org and include it along with the feed. Here is how you use it:
- Create your custom feed at www.ScriptureCast.net
- Copy the feed url.
- Go to http://pipes.yahoo.com/jacob/fullpage and paste the ScriptureCast URL in the box that says "Feed URL" and click the "Run Pipe" button
- Subscribe to the output of the feed using on the the methods provided by Yahoo!
I hope this helps. If many people start using it, I might create better pipes that filter out page headers/footers or I might include links to the pipes from ScriptureCast.net .
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
New Years Resolution: Loose Weight!
Happy New Year! To celebrate 2008, we are loosing weight, at least we are loosing the obese URLs from the site. Now all the URLs for feeds and preview pages created by the site are short and simple!
Old URL format:
http://feed.scripturecast.net/r/?start_time=1188579465&ratio=110.5432&volume=1&min_seconds=74715&type=rss2&check=34cd7
New URL format:
http://feed.scripturecast.net/web/1884d4d.html
Hopefully these new URLs will look less scary and be more easily cut and pasted into various pod-catching programs as needed.
The smaller URLs also have allowed us to keep better individual feed statistics. Viewing the "Preview Page" will now also show you which audio files you've already downloaded.
I'm thinking about renaming the "Preview Page" idea to something else like "Web View" (or maybe use both names).
Old URL format:
http://feed.scripturecast.net/r/?start_time=1188579465&ratio=110.5432&volume=1&min_seconds=74715&type=rss2&check=34cd7
New URL format:
http://feed.scripturecast.net/web/1884d4d.html
Hopefully these new URLs will look less scary and be more easily cut and pasted into various pod-catching programs as needed.
The smaller URLs also have allowed us to keep better individual feed statistics. Viewing the "Preview Page" will now also show you which audio files you've already downloaded.
I'm thinking about renaming the "Preview Page" idea to something else like "Web View" (or maybe use both names).
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