A departure now from the podwalking. I will certainly keep them up – perhaps a weekly feature, but this really is my weblog and it should be at least as much about what I’m doing and thinking as about exploring new technologies.
So here are a couple of audioblogs from this week – I’m still walking in the street talking to myself (!) but I’m concentrating more on what I’m thinking than about what I can see and hear.
So here’s something from Monday and Tuesday No photos, but some shownotes of sorts for those who don’t know what I’m talking about when I mention:
David Weinberger and his after dinner speech
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The Dawn and Drew Show (Not Safe for Work or sensitive souls!)
Adam Curry and his Daily Source Code
Madge Weinstein (Definitely not safe for work)
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I think you are right, podcasting can go (and must) beyond just the DSC, Yeast Radios and other Floatsam where it resides at the moment. There is a lot of temendous content out there at the moment, but even now it has begun to devolve into drivel. One ‘cast I heard was terrible–some angst ridden teen moaning on and on aganst a backdrop of Thrash Metal. Other deserve a place in the podosphere like the Daily Download–enjoyable once and a while because of the twisted curiosity of it all. Where this technology can have its benefit is in organisations which must have comunications distributed to many workers. Podcasting through an RSS feed can take the office memo beyond. As a Construction Supervisor in a previous career I was constantly telling the same thing to different people. On the phone to 5 different entities with the same message. That could be consolidated now with a Deus ex Machina Podcast ready for workers at lunch, or before work, etc. The direction this could go corporately is so much more than even the dictiphone based memos and notes of yore. Of course, you have a voice made for podcasting, not everybody does. The ability for anyone, now, to diseminate information through a feed opens things wide up. Rather than a public news conference which is staged and largely unnecessary in many situations, statements could be made along the lines of Rumsfeldian press conferences. The press doesn’t need to be there, he asks and answers all the questions himself. God, imagine if Gordon Ramsey could have his own podcast about cooking. . .No more minute long bleeps. . . passion expressed as passion.
This thing would be cut into a 2 minute thing on any other media, but as my brain is really slow stretching out this to 10 minutes makes me understand you.
Thank You for giving me your thoughts
Ohh and by the way I think you are right, but does that matter really ?
I thoroughly recommend you record in stereo. The sensation of ‘being there’ will be very improved.
Fredrik, I’m glad it touched you and think I’m right, but I don’t think it does really matter – I am doing this as much for myself as I’m doing it for you. I’m also playing with how much preparation I do before I talk – too much and it’s false, too little and I ramble and lose the point, or get it all the wrong way round and get fed up with myself.
Siever/Stiever(?) Thanks – I’m just jumping in with equipment I already had lying around and it all seems a bit hit and miss at the moment. I’m going to do some experiments over the weekend. Thanks for commenting.
Neal, thanks – great ideas. With Gordon Ramsay, the thing is that broadcasters have got the raw material already – just unbleep some segments and push them out in mp3 through the iTunes equivalent for Podcasting that surely is not far away. I don’t know if I’d pay money for the Gordon Ramsay f**kcast but I’m sure plenty out there in the long tail would – 25 years ago, I was happily paying for Derek & Clive!
Really interesting what you say about company communications – it helped me realise that the podcast could be for those of us whose brains ache if we read another memo and for whom video is too distracting! I do think there’s also something about detaching the power to have a say from the power to make decisions – ie giving a voice to anyone in your company who has something to say as well as using it as as another mechanism to pass information along a management line that is increasingly non-linear. However, I’m now becoming a little too intellectually stimulated for a Saturday morning – I need to weed the garden….
Keep listening and keep commenting.