A Stack of Logs, August 2011
Once in a while, I’m using radio – mostly shortwave radio – as a source or as an appetizer for thought when writing a post. Sometimes, there is a post about shortwave radio itself – when it comes to Deutsche Welle (Voice of Germany), the Voice of America‘s (VoA) Mandarin service, China Radio International (CRI, foreign radio) or China National Radio (CNR, domestic radio) for example. It could be nice to post short recorded clips in addition to what I write. The most obvious way would be YouTube. I do have a cheap digital camera, so making badly-arranged videos would be feasible, even if the picture doesn’t matter at all, as the message is on the soundtrack. However, being the ecologically-aware blogger I am, I’m not so fond about the useless data flow and corresponding carbon dioxide emissions such videos would generate.
Audio podcasts could provide the answer. However, WordPress would require an upgrade before I could post podcasts, either video or audio files, and while I’m aware of YouTube as a free video platform, I don’t know a free platform for publishing audio files.
Then why wouldn’t I start a domain of my own, and rent some server space from somewhere else?
WordPress is very convenient in that they allow me to blog anonymously. That’s one of several reasons why I like WordPress, and why I avoid platforms like Facebook. After all, Germany is by no means as free an environment for bloggers as is America, for example. Legal harassment is always a possibility in my country. By paying for an upgrade, my anonymity would be less perfect than now.
In short: I’d like to keep things as they are, plus posting some audio files. If you can tell me a platform where I can post audio files for free, just as I could post videos for free on YouTube, let me know.
Don’t ask what JR can do for you – ask what you can do for JR.
