@matigo I suspect it is a byproduct of people not knowing how to host for themselves. So they hand the whole thing over and pay money for a glitzy player that depends on JS and that gives them no control.
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@matigo For what it may be worth, I did a very interesting MOOC on public health and nutrition from Johns Hopkins a few years ago. Great entry to the subject.
@matigo The number of sites that utterly obfuscate the audio file amazes me. Makes it so hard to share.
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@matigo That’s very clever. And the player still links to the original audio, so I get the hit. Neat.
@matigo I currently do that on my iMac. Truly, unless I want to start being my own server to the outside world, I can’t think of a use for it. If I had physical space I would consider a dedicated audio studio, but I don’t.
@matigo At least a decade. Now I need to think of a good use for the Mini I gave her a while ago. It can no longer be upgraded but it must be good for something.
@matigo Ah. I will need to see how that maps onto the microformats of ‘p-summary’ and maybe ‘e-content’. I don’t usually bother, to be honest, but I will look into it.
@matigo Oh, and she went for pretty much a base model; not interested in super power or anything like that.
@matigo I was doing a bit of self-deprecation; seems to be the norm around here.
Thanks for the heads up; these modular templates can be pesky. I'll track that one down tomorrow morning. Is description required? What does it describe, the site as a whole or the individual post?