Douglas Portmore has started a “journals wiki”:http://wikihost.org/wikis/philjinfo/ to keep track of how well different journals respond to submissions, i.e. the turnaround time, the usefulness of the comments etc. I’m a little worried that people will post their war stories, rather than the times they got a quick (or at least not slow) response from journals. I have a pretty good idea of what the median response time is at a few journals, so we’ll see how this data matches up.

Richard Moran told me about a really cool new resource, “LibriVox”:http://librivox.org/. They collect and distribute audio recordings of books and papers that are in the public domain. Here is their “philosophy”:http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php?genre=Philosophy catalog. It includes a few things we’d consider borderline philosophical at best, but it also includes some classics including McTaggert’s “_The Unreality of Time_”:http://librivox.org/unreality_of_time/. It is possible to volunteer to add recordings to the site. They say that _On Denoting_ is in progress. A good version of _Principia Ethica_ would be fun to hear, though the reader would need to get just the _right_ pitch on each of the emphasised words.

On a somewhat lower brow note, two college friends of mine have decided to regenerate their college radio show “Black Forest Radio”:http://www.blackforestradio.com/blog/ as a podcast. It’s not entirely unsafe for work, depending on what kind of workplace you have I guess. (Personally I work in a closed office, so spending the entire day watching cricinfo updates and listening to trashy Australian radio is work-safe. Not that I would ever do that.)

In the meantime, it’s about 60 degrees and sunny here, so I might go for a stroll up Cascadilla Gorge. My desktop has the forecasts for Ithaca and Melbourne, and it says their projected daily maximums are 3 degrees apart. Hopefully Melbourne gets as much rain with these temperatures as Ithaca is getting.