Note: This episode is a repeat, and features stories from the September 19 and November 28, 2007 episodes.
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On this episode of Spark:
- Spark listeners are geeks. Well, some of them anyway.
- Craig Desson joins the Dork Army, a group of Canadian professional video gamers
- Celeste McWhorter defines gamedar
- André Meadows is a self-professed “proud certified black nerd”
- Raafi Rivero on the rise of the black nerd
- Ivan Bowman uses a robot to telecommute from Halifax to Waterloo
This episode features Creative Commons music and sound effects:
- “Oslodum 2004” by DJ Dolores
- “airtone/ephem/”>ephemeralspaces” and “airtone/onojo/”>onojo” by airtone
- “erh strings n bells.wav” by ERH
- “Mario Theme” by firecoolster
- “Weird Techno” by Bunny13
- “Mario Sounds” by pilaman
- “Silk Instrumental” by Phillykid
- “airtone/at707-luna-muerta/”>at707 | luna muerta” by airtone
- “love odyssey” by arslkhan
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seriously. If the episode is a repeat, we don’t need a new podcast post for it – we can just look in the archives if we want to listen to old content. Repeats make zero sense in the podcast medium. You guys really should stop doing this, especially with the frequency of recycled content on spark
It just ends up being annoying, wasting bandwidth and electricity (ecologically unsound) and also teases your listeners with the hope of new content.
It strikes me that the stories are so interesting, they’re worthy of an occasional repeat!
Echoing Rajio’s comment. If you do a repeat on the radio, that’s one thing. You have to fill the time. However, in podcast form, repeats make no sense at all. Please only send a new episode down the pipe when it’s a new episode.
@Rajio and @James – good points.
We know that our podcast audience continues to grow, and that not everyone has been listening since Spark started in September.
We hope that newer subscribers who haven’t delved into the Sparkives will find something valuable in these repeat podcasts.
Rajio and James,
Thank you so much for your comments. They will actually be very helpful for us in our considerdations about what to do this summer with many of our regularly-podcasted programs going into repeats.
As Dan mentioned, the content can be useful for new subscribers. With other shows, running repeat podcast edisodes makes a bit more sense, given that we don’t give most programs the archive that Spark enjoys; however, in Spark’s case, our problem is that we need to put some sort of content out there in order to keep our feed current. Otherwise, it might just look like we forgot to post a podcast altogether!
Perhaps a brief “see you next week, thanks for listening” message would be satisfactory?
Your comments and suggestions are more than welcome!