This is an attempt at embedding an audio recording from the native iOS app into my blog. I made this recording on the iOS voice recording app a few months ago and then realized I didn’t know how to share it to a platform online. Couldn’t see a way to share it on Facebook for example.
Since that time, I have gotten into making video messages as a “hack” to be able to share my audio more widely.
For example, if I’m willing to run my video recording function while I say my audio thing, I can send that in a text message to a friend, I can post it on Facebook or TikTok, and so on. The video can be anything, including unrelated scenery, such as my fabulous garage glam apartment. The video can also be just plain darkness. In other words I make it in video mode even though it’s pitch black. why do this though? Why not just make a video of myself talking? For one thing, I find it a bit of a distraction from attempting to produce the best possible audio for you.
Also, I think many of us are missing out on something that used to be a daily thing, listening to just pure audio. Back in the old radio days we did it all the time. We could listen to the radio while we did basic repetitive household tasks. It was kind of a grounding mixture. And allowed us to learn new things, listen to music, etc., while we worked at the steady flow of basic chores, or just sat back in a chair and enjoyed the luxury of just listening without having to take in any other sensory input.
I first started getting this idea when I started to get super stressed out about being on the radio, because being on the radio nowadays always involves having to look presentable on video as well. And again I feel like it detracted from my focus on the mission and message I was trying to communicate. I’ve been very fortunate to be a radio guest innumerable times back before being on the radio involved having to also be on video.
OK, it looks like WordPress has allowed me to upload the audio file. See paragraph below and click, let me know if you are able to listen to my little nano podcast about enshittification and clothespins. BTW the recording length is 1 minute 41 seconds.
As a bonus of this recording from my little screened porch, you can hear summer insects chirping lightly in the background. Very atmospheric!
I visited my blog just now from the outside, was able to click and hear the recording so I hope you can too!
Enshittification: Clothespins et al. (Experiment with uploading audio to blog)
Since it seems to have worked, I’m giving you a bonus! This is another audio recording that I forgot about; made this one this past summer when I was doing shade experiments here at the low-footprint-living laboratory known as Starshine House / Trailhead 501.
Oh, and Whoa! Holy cannoli! I’m shocked at what I just now additionally unearthed from the bottom of my audio recording app archives. This recording, made in April 2025, is a 21-minute 54-second talk which evidently was a rehearsal for the last talk I gave to a UU congregation, before I decided not to give any more live talks for various reasons. (For many reasons, I haven’t done anything live in person for a long time, other than in my own geo-immediate community, so when I say “live” here I mean live by zoom.)
By the way, in my opinion I totally bombed this talk when I actually gave it live by Zoom on the appointed day — it was nowhere near as good as what I did in this rehearsal recording.
This is good stuff; it’s about leverage points what we as everyday people can do to counter ecological devastation or at least put the brakes on it. The target audience for this talk, as for most of my other communications, is relatively well off fellow white Boomers. Not that I don’t communicate widely to many other demographics, but the group I just mentioned is probably the closest thing I have to a demographic “in-group,” therefore the only group I feel it’s “in my lane” to tell what to do.