Hi folks,
Lots of interesting comments on this thread and as the one who put
Infovics
on the Vics website, I feel that there are some really valid points here.
Its certainly something we need to look at and I will bring it to the
committee for further consideration.
How we go about ensuring that Infovics is readily accessible to members,
while at the same time protecting it from non-members is something that
will
need some careful consideration and planning.
Regards,
Stuart.
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From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paula Dorrington
Sent: 28 February 2007 17:51
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Infovics comments
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 <mailto:stuart.lawler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 <mailto:stuart.lawler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.