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Audio Player, Video Player, and Bookstore Added |
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 00:00 |
Hello Philosopher Friends,
After years of neglect, I found some time to make some improvements to our Citizen Philosopher website, home of the Thinking Out Loud podcasts. I have added an audio player, so now you can listen to our podcasts at any time without subscribing to the podcast through iTunes or any other podcast service. Just click on the Podcast menu button. There you will find each of our conversations listed with a built-in player. Click the black triangle and listen to the recording on your computer. We had some great discussions.
I have also posted our first three TV shows (click on the Videos button). The videos are more labor intensive to put online and also use more bandwidth, so I can only post three of them at this time. Maybe someday in the future I will be able to post more.
Lastly, check out the Citizen Philosopher Bookstore I added. I am hoping it might add a little revenue stream to help defray the cost of maintaining the website. It is actually just a mini-Amazon store specializing in philosophy books. Amazon does all the billing and shipping and such. All I did was to make some book selections and customize the interface a bit, to fit into the Citizen Philosopher website. In exchange, they kick back a small percentage of all sales that go through this website. So if you have the urge to buy a philosophy book (or any book, actually) please buy it at the Citizen Philosopher Bookstore. You will be supporting the pursuit and dissemination of wisdom.
Speaking of the dissemination of wisdom, here are some statistics on our podcast listenership:
August:
Why Marriage? 3423 hits
Limits to Knowledge: 438 hits
What is Love? 426 hits
July:
Why Marriage? 1943 hits
Is Free Will an Illusion? 584 hits
What is Love? 486 hits
June:
Why Marriage? 1762 hits
Is Free Will an Illusion? 1008 hits
The Nature of Addiction: 654 hits
I just listed the our top three for each month, but I can tell you that all our podcasts are still being listened to each month.
Cheers and deep thoughts be with you,
Your citizen philosopher,
Steve |
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Live Monthly Dialogues Suspended |
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 16:45 |
Hello My Philosopher Friends,
I have good news, bad news, and good news.
First the good news, (well good for me anyway). As some of you know, I have been moonlighting evenings and weekends as a premed science tutor at the University. Well it seems someone must have said something nice about my tutoring because now I literally have every evening and every weekend totally booked for the foreseeable future. I'm not complaining because I need the income. My other business, IQ Imaging, has suffered recently for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the general economic down-turn nationwide.
So the bad news is that I have decided to suspend our Thinking Out Loud meetings until further notice. I have really enjoyed our philosophical conversations and I will miss them. However, when deciding between philosophy and making a living, I must choose the latter. It's not just about the one evening a month of lost revenues but also the hours I would also lose preparing the podcast after our meetings. It would simply cost me too much.
But the other good news is that the Citizen Philosopher web site has a well functioning forum up and running. Steve Stokes and I broke it in with gusto after our last conversation on "being perfect", with a little help from Jerry Huml as well. I encourage all of you to visit the forum and carry on the conversation. You can add your two cents to an existing conversation or start a new one. (Luke emailed me recently and brought up the question of "the extended mind". If anyone wants to discuss "what is the mind and where is it located", the forum would be a good place to do it.) So I hope you take advantage of the web site to stay in touch with each other and to stimulate each other's philosophical musings.
So ciao for now. Hope to see you online and looking forward to our real-time rendezvous next summer.
Cheers,
Steve |
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Podcast Posted - Human Perfection |
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Monday, 08 September 2008 16:22 |
Greetings Citizen Philosophers,
The latest Thinking Out Loud podcast, recorded last Wednesday, Sept 3rd, has been released on iTunes. The topic was:
"What would it mean to be perfect?"
Participating were Deborah Martin, Steven Stokes, and Frank Ebbecke in cyberspace and Carole Abel and myself in the Charlottesville public library space. This represents a new milestone for Thinking Out Loud. We had, for the first time, more cyber guests than local participants. I was especially pleased to see the return of Carole Abel and Frank Ebbecke, both veterans of our original philosophy group which formed many years ago. Frank has since moved to San Antonio, Texas, and Carole moved to the country but still works in Charlottesville. Neither of them had graced us with their insights for quite awhile and I am so please to have them back in the fold. Welcome back, Carole and Frank.
For those of you who couldn't make it to the live discussion, you can read the synopsis and listen to the recording here:
As always, your afterthoughts are most welcome. Please make use of the online forums on this web site.
Finally, mark your calendars. The next Thinking Out Loud will be Wednesday, October 1st, at 7:00 pm. We will select a topic at the beginning of the next session as usual. Hope to see/hear you then, if not sooner.
Cheers,
Steve
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If you have iTunes, you can find us listed in the Apple Music Store directory under Podcasts/Society & Culture/Philosophy, or just do a search in iTunes on Thinking Out Loud People. The direct iTunes link is:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=214321935
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Next Live Dialogue - October 1st, 2008 |
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Saturday, 06 September 2008 12:02 |
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Hello All, We just finished our latest Thinking Out Loud recording last evening, Wednesday, September 3rd. The topic was "What would it be like to be perfect?" I will be preparing the usual synopsis sometime this weekend as I convert the recording into the podcast format. I will post another bulletin at that time with more information on who attended and what we talked about at that time. In the meantime, mark your calendars. Our next live Thinking Out Loud dialogue with take place on October 1st at 7:00 pm ET. See our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) if you would like to participate over the Internet. Cheers, Steve |
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