Episode 98 — More Conversation with Chris Lehmann
This is sort of a rush job, I’d not planned to be working on a podcast today. I’d planned to be preparing for my work in Colorado Springs on Monday and then the rest of the week at a Distance Learning conference in Vancouver. But I learned, just now, that there was some porn spam linked in with my podcast in iTunes. After digging I found the source, which was some invisible spam that had been slinked in to the Connect Learning blog. I’ve deleted all of that out, from the 84 blog entries that had be inflected, but I suspect that iTunes won’t refresh its info, until I give it a new RSS feed to grab, like a new podcast — i.e. a new podcast.
I figure that this is part and parcel to doing this, and it isn’t the first time I’ve had to deal with spam in my blog or even in my online handouts. You catch it and you fix it.
What was unusual about this one was how I found out. It seems that a blogger and Twitter user in North Illinois, Greg Noack, happened be sifting through my podcast in iTunes, clicking up the info on individual podcast programs, when he found it. Now Greg doesn’t know me, and although I’ve seen his name, I do not know him. So he sends out a twitter message,
“can someone tell @dwarlick that his latest podcast on itunes has a list if porn vocabulary for tags in the info box.”
Well my friend, Joe Brennan, from suburban Chicago, is following Greg on Twitter, and since I’ve worked with Joe, he has my phone number, and he calls. We dig around together, and with his help, I find the source.
It’s simply another example of the bigger mind that I find myself with, where my work is build and support not just by me, sitting here in my tiny office, or on the road, or where ever, but a community of people I’m in conversation with, and whom they’re in conversation with.
I think it’s pretty cool.
And talking about bigger minds, and pretty cool, I’m adding in some more of my interview back in January with Chris Lehmann, the principal of Science Leadership Academy. My last posting from this interview was about EduCon the conference that Chris’ school organized the first of the year. Here is some conversation about his school and their evolution.
Enjoy — and learn.
5 comments April 19th, 2008