In order to make time available for some personal projects, I have decided to put Electric Sky on hiatus. The site (including a recent wave of new shows) and RSS feed will remain online and fully functional.

Stay tuned.  Electric Sky will be back!

You may have already noticed that I haven’t been releasing shows regularly for the last few months. I needed to forgive myself the weekly production schedule during a particularly busy spring. I plan to produce a few shows over the summer on no particular release schedule and will be back into regular production in September.

Have a great summer!

This week’s episode of Electric Sky is heavy on the editing and production side. As a result, I will be publishing this week’s episode in the evening of Monday, March 26.

Thank you for your patience.

A two-week break has turned into a one month break.  Electric Sky will be returning from holidays this weekend.

Thanks for your patience!

I had some pretty severe server problems yesterday - Friday, December 8 - which resulted in all sorts of problems, most of which were resolved around 5amET today. As a result, most of my sites were down, and my feeds went crazy for a while.

My apologies for the inconvenience!

Mark

Thanks to Jill Pyle for alerting me to this…

Canada AM ran a piece this morning about the ‘Red Fridays’ organizers having created some scrapbooks to document rallies they organized and inspired, and media coverage they attracted. The scrapbooks have been sent to Canadian troops in Afganistan.

During the segment, CTV split the screen to show the interview with Red Friday co-organizer Lisa Miller in one window, and pages of the scrapbook in the other. It was hard to miss my yellow jacket when they showed a photograph of me interviewing Lisa and co-organizer Karen Boire for an episode of Portrait.

Best wishes to all of our troops for a safe return, and thank you to all of Canada’s veterans!

Some time ago, I figured out how to use the category-casting feature of the PodPress plugin.  It was the perfect motivator for me to create a second, category-based feed for Electric Sky.  I called that feed ES2 and used it as a way to share outtakes and behind the scenes talk about Electric Sky.  Things worked well for a while.  Then, I upgraded to PodPress v6.7 and met with significant problems in the category-casting feature.  So, I downgraded back to v6.6 and ran into different problems.

After three months, there is no immediate indication that the category casting feature is under repair.  So, I am moving ES2 to www.markblevis.com and making it part of a relaxed and similarly irregular Podcast at that site.

I am gradually rolling out transcripts of all of my Electric Sky Podcasts. I am launching this new feature today with the release of the transcript for my interview with Stewart Copeland.
I will add transcripts to the existing show notes for each episode. Once the transcript is added, you can access the transcripts by clicking on the “Read on…” link in the show notes.

As always, comments are suggestions are welcome.

***update September 20: I have added transcripts for my interviews with Miles Copeland and Lee Edward Fodi.