Phil-hong

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Phil-hong, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Audio Wikinews

Great work with the Audio Wikinews briefs, I look forward to hearing more :) --Cspurrier 01:38, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Phil, what are your long-term plans with the audio briefs? I'm thinking about re-establishing the podcast, but before doing that want to know if the briefs have a reliable future... Dan100 (Talk) 08:10, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

MrM beat me to it (by about eight months) with the podcast. He's also set up a great system for updating it. I've done todays - do you think you could do the podcast updates in future? Dan100 (Talk) 11:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

BTW I've just listened to your 30 March release. I must say I'm really impressed! The pace and intonation are spot on, and that's not something easy to achieve (listen to some of the old recordings to hear what I mean). Well done, and keep it up!

I've had a fiddle with the Audio pages to make them a bit more user-friendly and also put some RSS links on the Main Page to the podcast stream - let the good times roll! Dan100 (Talk) 12:38, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Great job on your releases. As it is Wikinews' policy to not claim attribution for our articles, we have a similar guideline on our audio releases to not mention our name in the recording. Of course, text attribution is fine. Keep up the great work, I really enjoy your briefs. Thanks! --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 02:51, 9 April 2006 (UTC)