terrible twos

Posted by on Jul 25, 2011 in blog, ccHost, projects, site administration, site design, site history, wikiGong, wikiGong sounds | 2 Comments

…in which we contemplate our second birthday. The wikiGong website will be two years old tomorrow, July 26, 2011. You can read about the trepidation leading up to the launch on our first blog entry—wikiGong countdown—or by following the countdown tag. The site is eight months younger than the domain name registration, but it’s the […]

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confessions of a project junkie

Posted by on May 30, 2011 in audio, blog, ccHost, Golden Gate Bridge, MediaWiki, projects, site design, wikiGong, wikiGong sounds, wikiGong wiki, WordPress | No Comments

…in which I admit to beating around the bush. To the end, I will insist all this hemming and hawing may lead to meaningful accomplishment. Over the course of two weekends, I’ve managed to hammer the wikiGong site into a slightly more approachable—or at least more familiar?—form. A few things are starting to work as […]

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another audio experiment

Posted by on May 29, 2011 in audio, site design, tools, wikiGong sounds, WordPress | One Comment

…in which we attempt to use the “Degradable HTML5 audio and video” plug-in from Pavel Soukenik. This should be really simple, if we can provide a valid reference. Let’s see: Brooklyn Bridge handrail Golden Gate Bridge handrail Pretty clean and very quick. Links are directly to the downloadable mp3 files in our Sounds. It worries […]

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playback time?

Posted by on Mar 24, 2011 in audio, site design, wikiGong sounds, WordPress | No Comments

…in which we attempt to wed ccHost audio to a blog entry. Continuing our tour of the WordPress empire, it’s time to see how the sonic dimension might be handled.  This post is an excuse to exercise the Audiobar plug-in and others. For example, can we add an audio link to wikiGong Sounds material: Take me […]

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