Mi Yodeya Launch Party!

Question

Welcome to the Mi Yodeya Launch Party!

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When

If you're looking for the Mi Yodeya Launch Party, you've come to the right place. However, the party has concluded — it ran for an hour on June 3, '12. See below for show notes, including archived audio and chatroom transcript.

Where

The party is simultaneously in two places:

• An online radio show that you'll be able to listen to here and call into at +1-347-633-9520. You can also listen by calling in. If you want us to bring you onto the show, press 1 when you call in; if you just want to listen, don't.

  

• Mi Yodeya's text-based chat room, V'dibarta Bam. Anyone can "listen in" there, and anyone with an account here and just 20 reputation points can join in.

  

What

The party features:

• A conversation with Rabbi Gil Student, Founder and Author of the Hirhurim - TorahMusings.com blog on

  Learning with the Crowd: Judaism on the Internet

• Your calls

• Games

• Words of Torah from Mi Yodeya community members

• Globe-spanning Lechaims (So please have your favorite beverage ready!)

We look forward to partying with you!

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Show Notes

• About 40 people listened live, and a growing number have listened to the audio after the fact.

• Archived Audio (Note: When we did the party live, we ran out of time before completing the credits. The archived version has full credits edited in at the end.)

• Chatroom transcript (extends past the hour covered by the audio)

Useful links and information mentioned in the show:

• Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood created a model for Q&A "communities... on everything from martial arts to mathematics".
• Alex talked about Numbers 10:35-36, "two verses that are marked off", discussed in the K'li Yakar.
• Rabbi Gil Student runs the Hirhurim blog AKA torahmusings.com.
• Rabbi Student mentioned early Judaism activity on the Internet on email lists like Mail-Jewish, Avodah, Areivim, and AishDas
• Isaac mentioned the "Why is it necessary to ask a Rabbi?" question on Mi Yodeya.
• Isaac listed some of Mi Yodeya's most-used, non-generic tags: tefilla, shabbat, parshanut-torah-comment, blessing, food, kashrut-kosher
• Isaac mentioned two examples of Mi Yodeya questions about new technology and Halacha: "Is using a Kindle on Shabbat permitted?" and "Is it permissible to erase the name of G-d from an E-reader?"
• msh210 (reading for Dave) quoted "a verse in Mal'achi" - 3:16.
• Rabbi Student talked about his TorahMusings post "The Social Media Challenge: How to use social media to build rather than destroy".
• One of Isaac's favorite Mi Yodeya questions is "Height of a mezuzah and children".

Credits:

You heard the voices of the following Mi Yodeya community members. Thanks very much to our callers!

• ArghMo, Caller "Rebecca"
• Alex, with words of Torah
• HodofHod, proposing a Lechaim
• Isaac Moses, Host
• jake, Caller
• msh210, Reading Dave's words of Torah
• Seth J, Caller
• WAF, Producer, and running Alex's game

We were honored and edified by the participation of:

• Rabbi Gil Student, Special Guest

Many thanks for our awesome theme music to New-York-based producer, vibraphonist, and pianist Ben Portner. You can find him online at http://benportnermusic.com/ or email him at portb648 (a) newschool (․) edu.

We used the following sounds from Freesound.org:

• Approx 800 Cheer and Clapping 2.wav by lonemonk
• shaken.not.stirred.wav by dobroide
• tapping a glass 06.wav by klankbeeld

Online call-in show apparatus provided by BlogTalkRadio.