Things Gonna Change

Our first 2.0 Ricochet Podcast! This week, 2.0 is here (lots of talk about that), where’s MH370, Fox News’ James Rosen on Ukraine and his impressions of Obama and Hillary, the mysterious power and influence of the Dalai Lama, Rob does his downward dog, and the White House gets its just desserts.

Music from this week’s episode: Chill Out (Things Gonna Change) by John Lee Hooker

The Ricochet Podcast opening theme was composed and produced by James Lileks.

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  1. user_1152 Member
    user_1152
    @DonTillman

    This really is one of the advertisements inserted into my view of  this very Ricochet page:

    newisbetter

    It’s an ad for  Toll Brothers Home Builders.

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  2. thebeekeeperkissedme Inactive
    thebeekeeperkissedme
    @thebeekeeperkissedme

    mp3 direct link?

    • #2
  3. user_477123 Inactive
    user_477123
    @Wolverine

    Are the podcasts going to be available on Stitcher?

    • #3
  4. user_1201 Inactive
    user_1201
    @DavidClark

    After starting the podcast in the player, I was able to right click on the player and save audio as an mp3. Works in Chrome at least.

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  5. user_477123 Inactive
    user_477123
    @Wolverine

    Another thing: whom to we contact with technical problems? There is no contact information that I can see anyhwere

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  6. user_189393 Inactive
    user_189393
    @BarkhaHerman

    Design Choices……

    hmmmmm

    • #6
  7. user_189393 Inactive
    user_189393
    @BarkhaHerman

    https://cdn.ricochet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Ricochet-Podcast-207.mp3

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  8. The King Prawn Inactive
    The King Prawn
    @TheKingPrawn

    Peter Fumo:
    Another thing: whom to we contact with technical problems? There is no contact information that I can see anyhwere

     Support@ricochet.com is the main contact address. 

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  9. user_189393 Inactive
    user_189393
    @BarkhaHerman

    I love the placebo Alert.  A drop down with a link to a page :-D.

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  10. EJHill Podcaster
    EJHill
    @EJHill

    Old habits die hard even for Yeti. The podcast art is going to have to go into the featured image area and the audio player at the bottom of the post, otherwise you get link pathing at the top of the posting. Welcome to Growing Pains, with Yeti as Alan Thicke.
    Podpost

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  11. user_6236 Member
    user_6236
    @JimChase

    FWIW, enclosure not showing here yet:  http://ricochet.com/podcast/allfeeds/ (The URL to subscribe to the super feed).

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  12. Blue Yeti Admin
    Blue Yeti
    @BlueYeti

    This wasn’t posted correctly (my fault). Should be corrected shortly.

    • #12
  13. user_1938 Inactive
    user_1938
    @AaronMiller

    Did I just hear Peter Robinson — the ever meek and circumspect Peter Robinson — call for Democrats to be “punished”?

    I knew the site would be getting an upgrade, but this Peter 2.0 is a nice surprise!

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  14. user_30416 Inactive
    user_30416
    @LeslieWatkins

    I just want to say to Peter and Rob, but especially to Rob who sounds a bit stressed by all of our yammering demands: this, too, will pass. I wish I could buy you a shot of your favorite hard beverage then watch as you toss back your head, swallow the contents, turn and throw the glass into a roaring fireplace.

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  15. thebeekeeperkissedme Inactive
    thebeekeeperkissedme
    @thebeekeeperkissedme

    Barkha Herman: https://cdn.ricochet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Ricochet-Podcast-207.mp3

     Thank you, David, Barkha and Yeti.

    • #15
  16. Blue Yeti Admin
    Blue Yeti
    @BlueYeti

    OK, this should be fixed now. Apologies — it’s a completely different process from publishing on the old site.

    • #16
  17. Whiskey Sam Inactive
    Whiskey Sam
    @WhiskeySam

    It’s not just that people are against something new.  Some of us have been working with 2.0 since November.  It’s that some of us have disagreements with the design choices and aesthetics themselves.  We simply don’t like them.  That isn’t going to change with familiarity especially since we know how flexible this new platform is.  Will they be tolerated?  Probably, although that will depend, person-to-person, on how much a particular feature inhibits their ability to enjoy the site.

    It’s also the frustration that these things were brought up in beta and apparently ignored since they are still issues now.  The bugs not related to the transition and the design debates should have been hashed out in beta.  That’s what beta is for.  However, it is what it is.  We will make do with what is decided on, and those who can’t stomach them will leave (although I don’t get the impression more than a handful of people are that upset with things).  

    (cont)

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  18. Whiskey Sam Inactive
    Whiskey Sam
    @WhiskeySam

    I don’t think anyone who has listened to the limitations of the EZPublish platform disagrees with the necessity of switching platforms.  The complaints as I read them, aside from basic complaints about things simply not working (which are being fixed), are over the design choices that were made, how they were made, and how the transition was handled.  

    I don’t know if a post mortem is worthwhile for a one-time change, but it might not be a bad idea to not only gauge how your customers feel about the new product but about how the new product was implemented once all the dust has settled.

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  19. user_6236 Member
    user_6236
    @JimChase

    Cool.  Downloaded and ready for listening on the drive home.  Thanks.

    • #19
  20. Hartmann von Aue Member
    Hartmann von Aue
    @HartmannvonAue

    Wow. It’s stable. And the sound quality is better, too.

    • #20
  21. user_129448 Inactive
    user_129448
    @StephenDawson

    There seems to be a problem with the ‘Subscribe’ link for the Super Member Feed, and the main Ricochet podcast isn’t coming up under ‘The Ricochet Podcast’ as it previously has.

    For a while the Super feed has been dicky on my iTunes so I’ve subscribed to all the individual ones. Since the podcast wasn’t coming down under the separate subscription I figured I’d try again subscribing to the Super Member Feed. I got a bright yellow warning box about the wrong server name, by clicked ‘Proceed Anyway’, figuring it was teething issues.  That brought up page address ‘http://ricochet.com/podcast/allfeeds/’, which has an error message at the top: ‘This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.’, and this is followed by hundreds of lines of coded content.

    Help? Please?

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  22. Albert Arthur Coolidge
    Albert Arthur
    @AlbertArthur

    Haha! I’m in between your two posts. Nyah nyah.

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  23. user_129448 Inactive
    user_129448
    @StephenDawson

    Further to my last note, this is the rather disquieting content of the yellow warning box:

    This is probably not the site you are looking for!
    You attempted to reach ricochet.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as*.wpengine.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version ofricochet.com. You should not proceed, especially if you have never seen this warning before for this site.

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  24. user_129448 Inactive
    user_129448
    @StephenDawson

    Ah, I see that ‘The Ricochet Podcast’ has now downloaded in iTunes, so that immediate problem is solved. Nonetheless, I would like to try to resurrect my subscription to the Super Member Feed if possible, if only to eliminate the 11 individual podcast subscriptions.

    Note: all the individual podcast links seem to work okay except for one. In iTunes ‘International Edition with Levy & Counsell’ is reporting:

    The URL “http://ricochet.com/podcast/levy-and-counsell-podcast” could not be found on the server

    • #24
  25. Nanda Panjandrum Member
    Nanda Panjandrum
    @

    Wonderful, insightful and *funny*…Thanks for inviting Mr. Rosen!  Will Dr. Krauthammer be along soon? <begging> Pretty please!

    • #25
  26. Whiskey Sam Inactive
    Whiskey Sam
    @WhiskeySam

    Interloper!

    • #26
  27. Blue Yeti Admin
    Blue Yeti
    @BlueYeti

    We are having some trouble getting the Super Feed working. It was something of a hack on the old site and has proven tricky to get it parsed over to the new site. We are working on it though. Hope to have it working by the end of the day.

    • #27
  28. Jaclyn Inactive
    Jaclyn
    @Jaclyn

    James mentioned mysteries set in North Korea? Can somebody tell me about that? I heard him say Inspector No – maybe it was a joke I am just too dim after a long day to get, but if not it sounds interesting.

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  29. jameslileks Contributor
    jameslileks
    @jameslileks

    My error: Inspector O. http://www.amazon.com/Corpse-Koryo-Inspector-Novels/dp/0312374313

    It’s an odd book and floats off into an almost surreal mood, but I found it interesting.

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  30. Jaclyn Inactive
    Jaclyn
    @Jaclyn

    Thanks, James ! Glad to know I’m still in think-mode!

    • #30
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