[vicsireland] Re: Infovics comments
- From: "Kealy, Nicky" <Nicky.Kealy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:21:47 -0000
Hi Stuart, I would be of the opinion that it should be only for paid up
members of the VICS societyl. Isn't it what we are partly paying
membership for? Now, going slightly off the point but I have said this
to certain people so I might as well say it publicly. I also think that
all members of VICS be it that they are from Ireland or outside of
Ireland should have to pay. We are always reminded of the need for cash
from the members to help vics do their work and the work of vics is
directly benefiting us people that live here in Ireland and not the
people living outside of the country. Maybe people might disagree with
me but I am throwing it out anyway.
Cheers, Nicky.
-----Original Message-----
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart Lawler
Sent: 27 February 2007 22:05
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.
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