Well, it turns out that I've managed to get podcasting worked into my day job so while not making too many podcasts for Waiheke Radio of late I have been making a few at my new job. Mostly this involves recording lectures by visiting professors and artists and "top and tailing" them, doing a bit of cleanup/compression on the voice recording and then uploading to a website. If you're interested you can see them here:… Continue

The Waiheke Choral Society podcast from May 2nd included a song called "Beautiful Waiheke Island" that the society performed that day. The words and music are by Sam Freedman.



Beautiful Waiheke Island,

My lovely isle of smiles.

Beautiful Waiheke Island,

Where friendly shores beguile.

Where the workaday world seems far away

And each day is a happy holiday.

Beautiful Waiheke… Continue

Here's an initial link for now of a few recordings I did a few months ago on Waiheke:

http://waihekegovernance.wikispaces.com/Story+of+an+Island

On the ferry this morning I was reading an article by Peter Gibbons from the University of Waikato entitled "The Far Side of the Search for Identity: Reconsidering New Zealand History". In it he introduced (to me at least) the idea of "microhistories", which he describes as histories that ...



"usually focus upon relatively obscure or 'ordinary' people and their extraordinary experiences, teasing out from shreds of… Continue

What are you people doing to me??? Can't believe I've loaded a pic of myself onto a website.
Podcasting project great idea.
Shirin Continue