I’ve just finished editing and posting Siobhan Houston’s interview for the Indie Voices Archive. As you can see it is in video – which, as this is the first one, is rather experimental. The picture quality is great, and the sound too – though the two are not entirely in sync (I’ve got a solution for this that I’ll try with the next video interview – which I did not ‘dream up’ until I was half way through editing this one.) but think of her as “our foreign correspondent” on the BBC and you’ll be fine.

+Elaine Bessette’s interview is being edited and should be posted within the next couple of days. And there are a few more interviews to conduct in the next day or so.

This is only phase one of the project – the personal stories of how people join the community. Phase two will involve more focussed discussions on topics of interest; phase three will be round table discussions with three or more people.

As you have no doubt noticed we are complete amateurs here – and that’s part of the fun – in addition to making every reasonable effort to make the archive as representative as possible, and as useful as possible, we are also striving to improve our presentation of each file. Our working philosophy here is “learn by doing”.