It was a few years ago that I scored a triple-Garfield.
I was driving on Chicago’s West 55th Street, in a section where it is named Garfield Boulevard. On the NPR radio, I was listening to Bob Garfield. And he was interviewing Jim Davis, creator of Garfield comic strip.
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Looking forward, I am glad to see that prying myself loose from Slate will be possible without losing "Lexicon Valley" plus-style episodes. At the same time, see my previous comment -- Slate Plus did have a workable model for letting paying bonus customers get premium podcast versions without requiring them to listen on a web page. This was the idea of giving them specialized URLs with membership encoding, which could be plugged in to tools, like iTunes "subscribe to podcast by URL".
And it is interesting to see some odd echo of the history of "Lexicon Valley" -- which listeners from the heyday of McWhorter's cheerful deep expertise may not recall was started by Garfield!
Here's hoping you will make the audio podcasts available through usual channels (for me that still means iTunes, yikes, I know!) -- and including the subscriber-only episodes or versions. Slate Plus and to an extent Patreon were able to do that, by issuing custom URLs for the RSS or feed, with subscriber encoding embedded.
It was a few years ago that I scored a triple-Garfield.
I was driving on Chicago’s West 55th Street, in a section where it is named Garfield Boulevard. On the NPR radio, I was listening to Bob Garfield. And he was interviewing Jim Davis, creator of Garfield comic strip.
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Looking forward, I am glad to see that prying myself loose from Slate will be possible without losing "Lexicon Valley" plus-style episodes. At the same time, see my previous comment -- Slate Plus did have a workable model for letting paying bonus customers get premium podcast versions without requiring them to listen on a web page. This was the idea of giving them specialized URLs with membership encoding, which could be plugged in to tools, like iTunes "subscribe to podcast by URL".
And it is interesting to see some odd echo of the history of "Lexicon Valley" -- which listeners from the heyday of McWhorter's cheerful deep expertise may not recall was started by Garfield!
Here's hoping you will make the audio podcasts available through usual channels (for me that still means iTunes, yikes, I know!) -- and including the subscriber-only episodes or versions. Slate Plus and to an extent Patreon were able to do that, by issuing custom URLs for the RSS or feed, with subscriber encoding embedded.
Alright cool!
When will the first podcasts be??