ESL Business News tag:www.eslbusinessnews.com,2008:/weblog/3 2008-03-25T19:25:13Z International business news every week in slow, clear English. Movable Type 3.2 New way of recording tag:www.eslbusinessnews.com,2007:/weblog//3.217 2007-01-08T15:28:26Z 2008-03-25T19:25:13Z We're trying a new way of recording the podcast. We won't go into detail, but please let us know if it sounds better or worse (or the same!).... Bob DuCharme http://www.snee.com/bob We're trying a new way of recording the podcast. We won't go into detail, but please let us know if it sounds better or worse (or the same!).

]]> Where are people using ESL Business News? tag:www.eslbusinessnews.com,2006:/weblog//3.192 2006-10-17T13:28:23Z 2006-12-10T00:51:38Z See where on this map.... Bob DuCharme http://www.snee.com/bob See where on this map.

]]> Much smaller podcast MP3 files tag:www.eslbusinessnews.com,2006:/weblog//3.187 2006-09-26T00:02:04Z 2006-12-10T00:51:56Z From now on, podcast files will be a little more than one-third the size that they used to be. For example, the original file with the news for September 25th, which was available for the last seven hours on eslbusinessnews.com,... Bob DuCharme http://www.snee.com/bob From now on, podcast files will be a little more than one-third the size that they used to be. For example, the original file with the news for September 25th, which was available for the last seven hours on eslbusinessnews.com, was 8.3 megabytes; the new version is 3.4 megs, which will result in much faster downloads. The duration of the podcast is exactly the same, and there should be no noticable different in sound quality unless you're listening to ESL Business News on a really expensive sound system. Future podcasts will be much closer to 3 megs than 8.

]]> bad RSS links fixed tag:www.eslbusinessnews.com,2006:/weblog//3.176 2006-09-05T12:56:18Z 2006-12-10T00:52:09Z When the RSS feed with the September 4th entry went out yesterday, some of the links were bad. These were fixed today. My apologies.... Bob DuCharme http://www.snee.com/bob When the RSS feed with the September 4th entry went out yesterday, some of the links were bad. These were fixed today. My apologies.

]]> Internet Explorer output fixed tag:www.eslbusinessnews.com,2006:/weblog//3.160 2006-07-10T18:49:04Z 2006-09-27T14:33:27Z I noticed that since a change I made a few weeks ago, the main page was not showing up properly in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser. I have fixed this. Firefox is a much better browser than Internet Explorer, anyway,... Bob DuCharme http://www.snee.com/bob I noticed that since a change I made a few weeks ago, the main page was not showing up properly in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser. I have fixed this. Firefox is a much better browser than Internet Explorer, anyway, so I recommend that you try it. It's free!

]]> Now available on iTunes tag:www.eslbusinessnews.com,2006:/weblog//3.148 2006-06-02T14:22:26Z 2006-09-27T14:32:42Z The ESL Business News podcast is now available on iTunes at the URL http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=157733477 .... Bob DuCharme http://www.snee.com/bob The ESL Business News podcast is now available on iTunes at the URL http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=157733477 .

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]]> New entry up, RSS feed fixed tag:www.eslbusinessnews.com,2006:/weblog//3.140 2006-05-08T17:30:07Z 2006-09-27T14:31:56Z With this week's edition of ESL Business News, you'll find that various problems in the RSS feed have been fixed. My thanks to Duncan Baker of the Lydbury English Centre for suggesting that I use feedvalidator.org to identify these problems.... Bob DuCharme http://www.snee.com/bob With this week's edition of ESL Business News, you'll find that various problems in the RSS feed have been fixed. My thanks to Duncan Baker of the Lydbury English Centre for suggesting that I use feedvalidator.org to identify these problems.

]]> Welcome to the ESL Business News Weblog tag:www.eslbusinessnews.com,2006:/weblog//3.139 2006-05-04T23:22:15Z 2007-01-19T14:23:29Z I've been doing ESL Business News podcasts for about a month without telling anyone, and this week I put them up live on a website and sent emails to publicize them. I thought the weblog would be a good way... Bob DuCharme http://www.snee.com/bob I've been doing ESL Business News podcasts for about a month without telling anyone, and this week I put them up live on a website and sent emails to publicize them. I thought the weblog would be a good way to communicate about the site and the podcast. Please forgive my use of the default template for the look of the weblog; it's the default stylesheet for MoveableType, the weblogging software that I use. Eventually I will fix it to look more like the rest of the ESL Business News website.

My first batch of emails have already gotten some good feedback, particularly from Charles Kelly of the The Internet TESL Journal. He has some good advice for anyone creating ESL podcasts at http://www.manythings.org/pod/guidelines.html.

Please consider the comments section of this weblog as a place to add more suggestions for ESL Business News. I'll close comments for individual entries when they get comment spam, but the comments for the most recent entry will always be open.

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