IF Newsletter: April 07

[neoeno]

As an Easter treat, I present to you a fragile egg, composed of Inthecafeteria
and myself. I invite you to crack this egg, and consume the disgusting yet
strangely alluring entrails.

You can find this month's audio newsletter here:
http://www.archive.org/details/Indyfluency_Newsletter_April

And the latest IF2 preview image here:
http://indyfluency.com/preview/preview.gif
(Try not to visit it too many times... or you'll suck all our bandwidth away)

Shortly before the first time I distributed an audio newsletter, I was
contacted by a deaf person. This reminded me that excluding people who are
incapable of hearing is a bad thing. Thus, a summary:

Most of it is composed of myself and inthecafeteria rambling about certain
things. We speak of our own products in the writing arena. Pieces by users
such as scruff, phenylketonurics, and spitey_the_userper are mentioned. We
speak of the forum, and inthecafeteria recites the entirety of
the 'Explicitly on topic one word post thread of orgasmic destiny'.
Inthecafeteria interviews me about things such as IF2, the origins of IF, and
certain future projects including the IF magazine. We discover that IF has
had approx 181,000 hits this month (on track for 362,000 hits by the end of
April). Death threats are given to both themilkman and Myspace's Tom.

Both a British and 'merican voice feature in this newsletter.

Listen... listen!

-neoeno (http://www.indyfluency.com/)

[radtastic]

Dude...that was long.

Haha.

But funny, though.

Oh neo, you're so charmingly British.  Hahahaha.

[Kluny]

The new layout is beautiful, cheers. Neo, I don't know which deaf person it was that contacted you, but since I'm pretty deaf myself, thanks for the summary.

[neoeno]

Ta. I worry about getting out of perspective with my design sometimes. Since I thought this current one was pretty good in the first place, and now I hate it, hah.

I don't think the person who contacted me stuck around long, and it wasn't about the newsletter. I think I mentioned IF in a comment on a blog somewhere, and I have the rule that I don't plug the site unless specifically asked for it (spam is bad, yo'), and she asked. I noticed she was deaf from her blog (which was deafness + technology or something, I don't remember). And I'd just recorded audio newsletter no. 1, and yeah. Enough story.

There should actually be more to summarise next newsletter, since it _should_ have some degree of planning or agenda to it.

[InTheCafeteria]

Yeah, ad-libbing can only be taken so far...

[sold]

News:
1.   a report of a recent event; intelligence; information: His family has had no news of his whereabouts for months.
2.   the presentation of a report on recent or new events in a newspaper or other periodical or on radio or television.
3.   such reports taken collectively; information reported: There's good news tonight.
4.   a person, thing, or event considered as a choice subject for journalistic treatment; newsworthy material. Compare copy (def. 5).
5.   newspaper.
6.   newscast.

Letter:
1.   a written or printed communication addressed to a person or organization and usually transmitted by mail.
2.   a symbol or character that is conventionally used in writing and printing to represent a speech sound and that is part of an alphabet.
3.   a piece of printing type bearing such a symbol or character.
4.   a particular style of type.
5.   such types collectively.
6.   Often, letters. a formal document granting a right or privilege.
7.   actual terms or wording; literal meaning, as distinct from implied meaning or intent (opposed to spirit): the letter of the law.
8.   letters, (used with a singular or plural verb)
a.   literature in general.
b.   the profession of literature.
c.   learning; knowledge, esp. of literature.

Newsletter:
1.   a written report, usually issued periodically, prepared by or for a group or institution, as a business firm, charitable organization, or government agency, to present information to employees, contributors, stockholders, or the like, and often to the press and public.
2.   a written report and analysis of the news, often providing forecasts, typically directed at a special audience, as business people, and mailed to subscribers: a stock-market newsletter.

[radtastic]

sold is master of the dictionary.

[AEtherLightning]

woot... featured in the sample page!

thanks neoeno!

and Ad libbing things is so much fun

-peace out
Æ

[Bowers]

the myspace thing is me
:]

hope you dont mind,

whoot though!
59 hits!

[sold]

Actually, I doubt that you're the only one.

[AEtherLightning]

The myth you are talking about is the myth of Achilles... his mother, Thetis, a sea nymph, dipped him daily into the river Styx, the river of the dead, and therefore made him entirely immortal, except for his heel, where she was holding him...

-The More You Know...
Æ

P.S. - The best part of the whole newsletter was the last 10 seconds... "I've got to make it an hour!" "Goodbuh-" hahaha, ITC got cut off!

[InTheCafeteria]

Actually, that was neo.

You can tell, because his voice was coming through a nicer sounding mic than mine.

[AEtherLightning]

oh well... i couldn't really tell who was talking because, well, they got cut off...

Good work anyway guys...

-peace out
Æ

[InTheCafeteria]

I'm hoping to maybe be in the next one, too, maybe with one or two other people?  Of course, we we get more than three, or MAYBE four people, it's just gonna be too much, and we won't be able to stay on track.  ESPECIALLY if any ad-libbing's involved.

Plus I don't think we'd easily be able to get that many peoples' schedules in line with eachother.

[AEtherLightning]

I think the newsletter should be kept to as few people as possible, merely to avoid confusion, ad-libbing and whatnot... maybe make the newsletter, neoeno + guest...

leave the multitude of people for the other voice chat meetings which i have been trying to schedule for the last two weeks...

i dunno...

-peace out
Æ