aov on the radio

by Steven Garrity

Apparently Acts of Volition was discussed along with Reinvented.net on this afternoon’s edition of Mainstreet on CBC Radio.

Unfortunately, some kind of Olympic conspiracy seems to be preventing RealAudio archiving of CBC radio content, so we can’t link to it (you can always amuse yourself listening to the last time Acts of Volition was on the CBC).

If any of you heard the piece, let us know about it.

 

36 thoughts on “aov on the radio”

  3. Hi guys. The piece wasn’t a repeat, though it did cover similar territory as the Island Morning story. Mitch Cormier and I had a quick chat on the show about some of the local web sites we enjoy visiting. We mentioned this one, along with Reinvented, Catherine Hennessey’s, Kevin’s and I mentioned Mitch’s site as well (www.mitchcormier.ca – catch his travels in B.C.) It’s part of a series in which Mitch comes on the show each week with a couple of interesting web links.

  5. Steve: a metaphysical question – is AOV a PEI site? Are not two of three geniuses now or soon in the R.o.C. or as a friend’s uncle once perceptively described both Greece and Pictou – “on the other side”?

  6. Matt: thanks for the update.

    I ask what was said about us on the radio and the radio host himself responds. How cool is that. For those interested, here are the links to the other sites Matt and Mitch mentioned:

    • Reinvented.net (currently documenting a trip through Thailand)
    • CatherineHennessey.com (I ran into her at my parents Christmas party and she remembered the barn my family tore down 30 years ago to get our living room ceiling beams – impressive)
    • KevinjObrien.com (warning: the subtitle, ‘like a freight train for your mind’, is not sarcastic – currently documenting fight for IP numbers with Aliant)
    • MitchCourmier.ca (this man made me sound smart on the radio, or so I thought, which is no simple feat)

    Ye.: Yes, you’re right I am a big A-list hotshot. But, I’m no Kent Bruynell who got big props from Zeldman yesterday. Congrats to Forget on a year of independent publishing.

    Perhaps motivated by the slanderous use of the term A-list, notice that kottke has renamed his links section (formerly, A-list, B-list, C-list – there is no room for sarcasm, is there).

    Alan: re: Is AOV a PEI site? – On the advice of my council, I respectfully decline to answer the question based on the protection afforded to me under the consitution.

    Meaning, there is no answer to that. I live on PEI, Rob lives in that bizzaro-no-mans-land between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and Matt lives on PEI but moving to B.C. in a couple of months.

    This question reminds me of the ultimate lame rock group interview question: How would you classify your music?

    Note to journalists: don’t ask this question – you will always get a stutterning non-response. “Er, it’s hard to classify, it’s like, uh, lots of genres, but, uh…”

  7. The real aspect of the question is “where is AOV” as opposed to each of you. If I can chat with a Belgian about an Irsih accordianist and a night in a tavern in Poland, where is that chat happening?

    It really isn’t abut PEI-sih-ness, or even the more questionable Island-ness. I disagree with the genre analogy as that would require a relaible separate set of general characteristics that could be applied to the specific category of bloggery. Reminds me of the assertion of the adjective “christian” in front of bookstore – I want to ask for papal encyclicals whenever I see that.

  10. It came to me in the middle of the biathalon coverage – AOV is everywhere. So you just need to snazzy up the name to get all world-classy: AOV Global Media! Use AOV GLOM for short. [I should be a branding consultant.]

  12. I have been tangentially but still disturbingly subject to their ways myself…HENCE…my brilliant repackaging of AOV GLOM.

    Maybe it would be better as AOV GLO-M!

    What is HTML for double swoop?

  13. Alan, you’ll find your double swooshes at eNormicom (highlights include: swoosh logos galore, the ultimate double swoosh logo, and my favourite, focus group feedback).

    You mentioned the biathalon. This is a sport that always seemed silly to me (shooting and skiing seem to have about as much in common as bowling and high jumping – and don’t explain it to me – I don’t even care). However, I watched the mens biathalon the other day and was impressed. Maybe it was because I only caught the last 10 minutes of an hour long race, but it was exciting. Watching the commentators try to talk through 13 shooters at once with a tiny chart on the screen for each shooter was hilarious (the commentators themselves were even laughing at themselves at one point).

  14. Biathalon is for all your winter hunting pleasure… The dual, ski-jumping/cross-country skiing event is the one that is truly confusing. And don’t even get me started about two-man luge.

  15. Please don’t read this in the anally-retentive way that correcting spelling always comes across, but…
    it’s ‘biathlon’, not ‘biathalon’

  18. Even though I hate rigourous attention to spelling as bloggery is conversational and in any event spelling disagreements usually boil down to a US/UK disagreement or a N.Am/Commonwealth one, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary (1998)spells “biathlon” in that way and “encyclical” in that way. Explain yourselves, spelling correctors.

  19. There are more Islanders taking part in this discussion than you can shake a stick at… I think that makes it a PEI site…

  20. It could also be considered an “Island website” because the saying “more than you can shake a stick at” was used, unless that is a Canadian saying? It may be, because I believe I once heard it used on Hockey Night in Canada, which, as we all know, is the authoritative source on both Canadian Culture and Language.

    Better Hockey than the NRA Weekly, but I can’t say I enjoy Coke trying to play the Canadian Beer company (who own our identity, and that’s o.k.) with the “If we time it right…” commercial.

    That said, AOV is not a PEI Website. That’s like calling Horton’s Choice a Christian band.. LOL!

  21. Classsic Islander moment: “I heard the phrase therefore it is an Island phrase.” Check the PEI dictionary – the only interesting Island phase not used elsewhere in the Maritimes (as in the region of which PEI is a part) is “fart sack” for bed.

  22. I lie like a dog – there are lots of good phrases in the PEI Dictionary but no one I know uses them much, including AOV.

    If AOV wants to be quite the PEI site, the geniuses need to rightify a few things, for fair. Don’t take the buck! I’m no skithry thra or scra. A spleet-new trappy PEI-English translator would be handy, if you government men could get the mailbox money to do the trick, if you could quit your foostering.

  23. I only have one Islandism left… the word “slippy”… I can’t let it go. As for “spleet-new”, I don’t even recall Anne of Freaking Green Gables ever saying that…

  24. Prepare yourself for the Ultimate Taunt about the Island:

    Anne of Green Gables was not an Islander – she is an orphan from around Lunenburg County, N.S., hence her brassy, outgoing and confrontational manner. The entire series is about the beating down of a bluenoser kid into a rural PEI repressed school marm. Reminds me of 1960’s Maoist cultural revolution re-education camp text books.

    Kristoff: imagine a kids book about making a Waloon a perfect Flem or a Flem kid a perfect Waloon – would that just be weird?

    P.S.: “slippy” is a dandy word. First time I heard it I was passing a postman on Lower Water Street about this time of year. I say “some slippery” to which he replied “not so much slippy as sloppy”.

  28. Hey, how could you do that, Jevon? Are you an AOV preferred member or something with special editing powers? Maybe that’s what we need here at AOV – a rewards program! Maybe for every post you get a point which can be cashed in for great AOV prizes!

  29. Alan, jevon doesn’t have magical powers – well, at least he wasn’t using magical powers in this case. He simply closed a tag that you had left open.

    By the way al, while I’m very impressed with your new-found HTML formatting capabilities, I would suggest steering clear of the underline tag (<U>) as the underline usually indicates a link on the web. Better to used italics.

  32. What steve is saying, Alan, is that <U /> is the Devil. Really,. I tried to click on what you had underlined, Hoping for some witty linkage.

    ColdFusion used to just close EVERY text tag known to HTML before displaying debugging data… So there was not Font tag with the color set to white left open.

  33. I just had a telephone call with Steve where the delphic mysteries of HTML and AOV were imparted to a tiny degree. I was not aware that the postings are one document so that one tag opened in my post can be closed in the following post by you. Hence what you did looked like magic to me in my state of unknowing.

    [I don’t want all this HTML elementary school education I am getting on-line here to depart from the fact that an AOV reward program is a damn fine idea.]

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