Who sez blogging doesn’t pay? It does and here’s the proof!
SFFaudio’s income for the months of July and August 2012 was $139.90.
We thank you for your support.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Tag: metaSFFaudio
Thank You: AdSense $$ for May and June 2012
For our labours, in the months of May and June of this year, we have received a moderately sized contribution:
$131.95 in Google AdSense revenue.
I’d have you know that hosting for the site is actually pretty cheap. But we have plenty of other minor expenses. Like equipment, I like to buy computers – without them I wouldn’t be able to see the website, or write the posts, or do the podcast.
And of course we need $$ for the peripherals like hard drives and scanners.
But more importantly this money is used to make thank you payments to programmers for software like Levelator, and torrent sites like RadioArchive.cc, and for paying for podcast audiobooks.
If we were a business we’d lose money every month. Thankfully we’re not a business. We’re a website and so breaking even is the whole idea.
Thanks for helping to break us even. And please continue to break us. We’re not broken nearly enough. We’d like to be ten times broker.
Your eyes and mouse clicks and finger taps are all much appreciated.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Printable PDFs Posted
I’ve created a PDF Page, that is a page full of printable PDFs. Most are short stories, most are in the public domain (in most places). There are more than fifty PDFs there. All ready for download and printing.
Now I’m afraid that most have no OCR. But on the other hand the files are unlocked and so you could OCR them yourself should you so desire.
It’s currently filed under out FEATURES page, but HERE‘s the direct link.
Please let me know if any of the files there don’t download.
Authors included:
Charles Beaumont, John Buchan, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Anthony Boucher, Emily Brontë, Lucy Clifford, John Collier, Philip K. Dick, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Laura Lee Hope, Robert E. Howard, W.W. Jacobs, Henry Kuttner, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, C.C MacApp, William Morrison, Fitz-James O’Brien, Edgar Pangborn, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Sheckley, T.S. Stribling, Voltaire, H.G. Wells, and Manly Wade Welman.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Thank You: AdSense $$ for March and April 2012
Good news!
An agent of a Canadian crown corporation came to my door with a official document this morning!
And it was all thanks to you.
As you can see by the evidence…
… all the clicking you did during the months of March and April this year were worth it. And of course the funds will go to a good cause – more SFFaudio.
So thank you very much, and feel free to give yourself a pat on the back for all the patting on the back of us you did.
Posted by Jesse Willis
The Audacity To Podcast: TAP065: Audacity Compressor Showdown
The Audacity To Podcast is a podcast about the freeware program Audacity. We use Audacity to edit The SFFaudio Podcast. It’s wonderful and it’s free. Back in January, in episode TAP065: Audacity Compressor Showdown the host, Daniel J. Lewis took several podcaster’s recordings and ran them through various compression software programs – it’s pretty technical – but the results seem to be pretty conclusive – if you’re not getting paid by the hour to edit audio and you want to make your podcast sound nice and loud Levelator is what you want to use. Here’s the conclusion Lewis makes:
Surprisingly, Levelator did a consistently fantastic job on the audio and handled background noise well. It gives no controls and may add an extra step if you don’t record into WAV or AIFF. But it’s easy (albeit slow) and very effective.
Here’s the |MP3|, and HERE‘s the informative post (with all the samples you can play with).
Podcast feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAudacitytoPodcast
Posted by Jesse Willis
The effect of Levelator on a low volume podcast (SPOILER: it’s striking!)
Here’s a rather striking visualization of the difference the use of Levelator makes. The podcast name has been blurred so as to not prompt any more threats of physical violence (humorously intended or otherwise).
On the left we see an original podcast, with a volume so low that you can’t hear it wearing earbuds (in a noisy environment) on the right is the levelated file, showing the effect that Levelator has.
I’ve just made a donation to Levelator in the amount of $10.00.
Just think about that, if poor poverty stricken Jesse gave Levelator $10.00 from his coffee fund it must be absolutely wonderful!
It is. Get Levelator, it’s free and it makes quiet podcasts loud.
Posted by Jesse Willis