Co-founder of EA Forum podcast here. I wanted to say that I think this is great. As I’ve discussed in conversations with some of the OPs:
I just want there to be good audio content, which is why we started that podcast. I’m super happy that someone else is doing it, with professional skills and tools and that there are dedicated resources devoted to it. And it seems to be going very well!
As for the “EA Forum Podcast”
I’d be happy to merge all of that content with this new initiative, ideally including the embedings (note, we generally put the ‘audio’ tag on posts we narrated)
acknowledging that our audio and narration quality is general a bit lower; but hopefully still useful
- and I sometimes gave comments in my own narrations …
Would be happy to semi-close that podcast and have it point here to avoid clutter and confusion, but Garret may have other ideas
Some suggestions for this podcast … possibly something we could top-up on “EA Forum Podcast”
Comment threads: I’d really like to see at least some of these narrated. Much of the value for many posts is even greater in the threads then in the original post. And of course it’s valuable to hear what people think about a post’s ideas and credibility, and get these other perspectives.
Author narration: I think this is often high value because it gives good insight into the tone and intentions of the writer. Of course this trades off with non-professional narration and not all authors having the audio tools. Still, it seems like something that I’d like to see happen more.
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Congrats on a great launch. Really enjoying it and getting a lot out of it.
I share your enthusiasm for author narration, but I think it only makes sense when:
(a) the author has a strong natural talent and motivation for narrating
(b) the author’s time would not be better spent doing something else
Some people love the idea of narrating their own writing, to the point where I slightly worry that some will fail to realise that (b) is true of them. But this is probably overthinking it.
My general take is: if an author is keen to narrate, we’ll briefly assess (a) and (b), and if there’s not an obvious issue there, we’ll gladly help them make a great narration.
The steps you suggested for the EA Forum Podcast sound good to me. I’ll send you an email later today.
Again—thanks for all the work you’ve put into the “OG” EA Forum Podcast B)
Narrating the top comments for some posts is a good idea. I’ll discuss this with the team.
My quick personal take is that we should start experimenting with this immediately. We should also bear in mind that not all posts will have comments that are above the bar for narration.
I actually suggested we narrate a couple of the replies to the Michael Nielsen post, but I lost track of that thread and I can see that this didn’t happen. I still think we should do this—I’ll discuss with the team.
Co-founder of EA Forum podcast here. I wanted to say that I think this is great. As I’ve discussed in conversations with some of the OPs:
I just want there to be good audio content, which is why we started that podcast. I’m super happy that someone else is doing it, with professional skills and tools and that there are dedicated resources devoted to it. And it seems to be going very well!
As for the “EA Forum Podcast”
I’d be happy to merge all of that content with this new initiative, ideally including the embedings (note, we generally put the ‘audio’ tag on posts we narrated)
acknowledging that our audio and narration quality is general a bit lower; but hopefully still useful - and I sometimes gave comments in my own narrations …
Would be happy to semi-close that podcast and have it point here to avoid clutter and confusion, but Garret may have other ideas
Some suggestions for this podcast … possibly something we could top-up on “EA Forum Podcast”
Comment threads: I’d really like to see at least some of these narrated. Much of the value for many posts is even greater in the threads then in the original post. And of course it’s valuable to hear what people think about a post’s ideas and credibility, and get these other perspectives.
Author narration: I think this is often high value because it gives good insight into the tone and intentions of the writer. Of course this trades off with non-professional narration and not all authors having the audio tools. Still, it seems like something that I’d like to see happen more.
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Congrats on a great launch. Really enjoying it and getting a lot out of it.
Great to hear, thanks David!
I share your enthusiasm for author narration, but I think it only makes sense when:
Some people love the idea of narrating their own writing, to the point where I slightly worry that some will fail to realise that (b) is true of them. But this is probably overthinking it.
My general take is: if an author is keen to narrate, we’ll briefly assess (a) and (b), and if there’s not an obvious issue there, we’ll gladly help them make a great narration.
The steps you suggested for the EA Forum Podcast sound good to me. I’ll send you an email later today.
Again—thanks for all the work you’ve put into the “OG” EA Forum Podcast B)
Narrating the top comments for some posts is a good idea. I’ll discuss this with the team.
My quick personal take is that we should start experimenting with this immediately. We should also bear in mind that not all posts will have comments that are above the bar for narration.
I actually suggested we narrate a couple of the replies to the Michael Nielsen post, but I lost track of that thread and I can see that this didn’t happen. I still think we should do this—I’ll discuss with the team.