Mixing and matching the modern internet
by Giles Turnbull
Take the following:
- Her Majesty’s BBC, and all those fine artists and journalists who sail in her;
- the fantastic (in the 9th Doctor sense of the word) Speechification blog, dedicated to unearthing great chunks of BBC radio content and delivering the occasional MP3;
- Yahoo’s Easy Listener Flash tool, into which you can bung a URL and out of which you get a neat playlist of audio tracks hosted thereat;
Mix ‘em all up, give a little shake, and out pops something like this:
Yes, that’s a screenshot because WordPress.com won’t let me embed a Flash widget here. It’s a perfect little Speechification Player for you to use while reading, which saves you all that fiddly messing about with right-clicks or control-clicks and “saving as”. Pah, we say to all that. Helloooo! we smile at the Easy Listener and what it can offer us.
I’ve been going a little crazy with Easy Listener, and have built myself a little personal radio station – behold, my electric organ, combining various music mp3 blogs and now topped off with Speechification’s superb intelligent speech best-of.
If this was 10 years ago and I was still blogging with a mailing list, I’d say this was *gorjuss*.
Oh. My. God. That is quite awesome. Could we embed one of these at speechification.com itself? Would that make sense? Must have a play. Thanks for an interesting post!
Course you could. That’s the point. I’m rather hoping you will ;)
HiYa – followed the crumbs here from Twitter; I’m bentrem.wordpress …
… I’d have “poked” you there but you haven’t reciprocated so *shrug* cannot.
cheers
–bentrem
Roo, one of our number, only went and did it! It’s in the right-hand nav at speechification plus my own blog and, presumably, all over the place soon!
Steve: yes, I saw. Bravo!
Lovely stuff. Thanks for the suggestion. Looks great in the sidebar. I pointed it at the feed, and got even better results than from the URL for the site itself. Cheers.