[vicsireland] Re: Infovics comments
- From: "Paula Dorrington" <pauladorrington@xxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:51:01 -0000
Hi all
Many years ago when the VICS committee first thought of putting the Infovics
magazine on the web site the reason we didn't was we felt that unpaid members
and non members could down load the magazine and though it would be a good idea
not to have this facility so as to give people a reason to keep up their
subscriptions.
May be you could put high lights of the Magazine on the web, but this would be
up to the committee.
I think another reason is I look forward to getting the Infovics CD in the
post, I might be old fashioned but what the hell. Also I have kept a copy of
all the Infovics from the start and would find it hard to remember to down load
it.
Regards
Gus Dorrington
----- Original Message -----
From: Stuart Lawler
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:04 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Infovics comments
Hi Flor, Tony and Kathleen,
Again apologies for my delayed responses on this thread, but I am only now
picking up my two day's worth of Vics emails!
Flor, you are correct, that in the past, Infovics was only available to paid
up members of Vics.
One of the things I wanted to do when I took over as editor, and one that I
felt was something that would benefit the magazine, was to put it on line.
There are two reasons for this.
1. Its a computer and technology related publication and therefore the most
appropriate place for it to have its home would be the internet.
2. It would bring the publication to a much larger audience, already I have
received mails from people outside of Ireland and of Vics, who have just
stumbled across the magazine and the Vics website.
We could of course try password protecting the area of the site that contains
Infovics and issue all members with logins, but I suspect this will create more
headaches and possibly increase frustration amongst some of our listeners and
is really an issue for the committee to look at in the future.
It is also my view, and I know Liam Duke of the Drumcondra Project shares it,
that Infovics should, in the not too distant future, become an on-line
publication only. We're not saying that this might happen immediately, but I
would certainly see it being implemented in a couple of years.
Kathleen, regarding your query, I will make a downloadable link available so
that you can get the Infovics mp3 file without having to subscribe to the
podcast.
Tony, I think that should also help you with your query too.
Regards,
Stuart.
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From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch
Sent: 25 February 2007 22:38
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Infovics comments
Hi Stuart,
Personally, I think I'd prefer the longer issue at less-frequent intervals.
(I.e., quarterly.)
Regarding direct downloading of the magazine and related issues and
questions: At the moment, it seems that anyone can 'subscribe' to the podcast
and not be a member of VICS. Correct? Is that what we want? I thought the 10
euros anual subscription also included the magazine, which was formerly
unavailable to those not in VICS. There were articles from other PC magazines
courtesy of readers for BCAB, in the issue that came out last winter. These
articles would be copyright of the original magazines (such as PC World, etc.)
Need to be careful there? These things may not matter at the moment; but if
Infovics expands, they will. I think it may be possible to download the
magazine directly at the moment, via the Save-Target-As option. Maybe a little
futzing around then to download the magazine rather than just the url to the
stream. .
----- Original Message -----
From: Stuart Lawler
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 9:54 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Infovics comments
Hi Tony,
Apologies but I have had to change the subject line, for some reason the
Ecartis system thinks I am trying to make a subscription change, so here's
hoping this goes through!
Interesting comments there.
Firstly, you can't actually download Infovics, but you can subscribe to the
podcast, which will in turn download the mp3 file to your hard disk.
However, if people would prefer the option to directly download the magazine
I can easily make this change.
In particular though, I'm interested to hear your commenting that you prefer
a shorter Infovics at more regular intervals, to a more lengthy magazine,
say every three months.
>From a production point of view, a shorter magazine is obviously easier to
manage, but of course its only easier because we had very little material to
go onto it.
Could I get other's views on this? Is a shorter and more regular infovics
preferable to a three monthly edition?
Regards,
Stuart.
-----Original Message-----
>From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of tonysweeney
Sent: 24 February 2007 20:48
To: vics
Subject: [vicsireland] Infovvics/CDExX
Hi All,
I have just been listening to Febs Infovics online and although it was
short, what particularly I was impressed with, was Brian Dalton's
mini-tutorial on the ripping programme, CDEX.
I have an iAudio player and had been wondering how I could rip tracks to my
PC as MP3's so I can then if I wish move them to my iAudio.
Anyway, problem solved
thanks to his great effort!
I haven't received the CD version of the magazine, so if you haven't then
just go online and listen!
I was trying for a link on the site to download but I couldn't find one!
Could someone come to the rescue and tell me how?
I can record the item of course but it would be good to be able to download
it!
Keep up the training element of Infovics, it is very good and very necessary
in my opinion.
I liked the link to Nationwatch, because sometimes for example when you go
away on holidays you might not always be told or even discover a great deal
of information about the place you are visiting.
Anyway I would prefer a shortened Infovics more often rather than a long one
every-so-often.
Happy listening.
Tony Sweeney.
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