The Puerto Rico Connection Podcast Episodes 1–4

Antonio and I have intended to do a podcast series for a long time; it was only a big wind named Maria that put a kink in the plans.

The logo you see is a mashup of the flag of Puerto Rico with the main building of the Universidad Sagrado del Corazón inside an outline of the Puerto Rico Map, all with French Connection style typography.

In deciding where to publish podcasts once gets mired in platform and technical details. Antonio and I decided instead to free form it and move across a few platforms.

This is emergent, after all.

We published the first four episodes on TapeWrite an interesting platform that provides a mean to attach media / content “cards” on an audio timeline, in a way a form of annotation. Because we are looking at moving now to another place, I suggested we start writing our notes up here in Medium (we had been writing up the episodes in our own blogs).

A downside we found, was that because we are friends, we like to talk a lot… like over an hour. That ends up being a lot of content to annotate, so by Episode 4 we came up with the infamous Twenty Minute limit.

Emergent.

Below are links and summaries for the PR Connection show so far.

Episode 1: Hola Antonio, Hola Alan

Without reliable enough connection to connect directly, Antonio and Alan introduce this show by uploading segments back and forth via Google Drive. We lay the ground (we hope) for the goals of this show.

Show notes: http://cogdogblog.com/2017/11/puerto-rico-connection/

Episode 2: Connecting between Puerto Rico, Australia, and Japan

There was enough electricity in San Juan for Antonio to join a Skype call while Alan was in Wollongong Australia at the home of Kate Bowles AND Parisa Mehran joined in too from Osaka, Japan.

Show Notes: http://cogdogblog.com/2017/12/4-people/

Episode 3: Raiders of the Lost Tape

In good spirit for this third episode, Alan & Antonio woke up early on New Year’s Day and spent a good hour recording it. They had fun. Then forgot about it.

Episode 4: Twenty Minutes From Stardom

Will our heroes resist the temptation and stay strictly under twenty minutes? Check for yourself this fourth episode of The Puerto Rico Connection!

Show Notes: http://blogs.netedu.info/2018/03/09/pr-connection-podcast-episode-four/

What’s Next?

There is a recording in the vaults when Alan visited Jim Groom and colleagues at the Reclaim Hosting workshop in March. Somebody should get on the editing. Where the audio will live remains to be seen… er heard.