Queen Elizabeth II meets Web 2.0. A nice symmetry, and a great treat for Boxing Day.
The Queen’s 2006 Christmas message is available as a podcast. I find this turn of events uncanny. I am also struck (deliberately vague word) by the British Monarchy website, which I had not visited before. I’ll be exploring. (Note to other explorers: don’t miss the Royal Diary.)
To get the Royal Podcast, I subscribed via iTunes (one-click simplicity, for which I thank Her Majesty’s Web Chamberlains). Looking in iTunes for the Christmas message, I found that the Chamberlains had thoughtfully provided another podcast: the Queen’s 80th birthday speech.
Calling it “The Royal Podcast,” as the web site does, brings a smile: the term sounds a little like “The Holy Hand Grenade” (of Antioch, if I recall correctly). But I don’t mean to be churlish. I welcome Her Majesty (a pretty nice girl, though she doesn’t have a lot to say) to my portable media device, and hope she will find herself at home there with IT Conversations, poetry, Phil Keaggy, and the Firesign Theatre.
Gardner,
This is great, though I couldn’t help hearing Angus Hudson saying, “I have never approved of the Hanoverian Succession.”
As they say in the biz, LOL.
Also, though it sounds odd to say it, I found I was moved when I listened to the podcast. Anglophilia run amok? I don’t know. But moving it was.