Thursday, February 10, 2005
I tell journalism students that there's no "one right way" to tell a
story, and I've just seen two very different, but excellent,
introductions to podcasting, the audio weblog format.
Contrasting these two storytelling approaches might make for an interesting discussion in a "new media" or journalism class.
Multimedia weblog
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Contrasting these two storytelling approaches might make for an interesting discussion in a "new media" or journalism class.
- One is a professional newspaper package -- two stories, photo and sidebars, plus online-edition Web links.
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The other is a four-minute amateur video with narration, slides and
screen-capture illustration, distributed as part of a weblog.
Doing it the old-fashioned newspaper way, USA Today
sent a reporter and photographer off to the wilds of Wisconsin to
capture an image of Dawn Miceli, with headphones, magenta hair, iBook
and husband, Drew Domkus, producing their Dawn & Drew Show, a daily half hour characterized as "married-couple banter."
The Lifestyle section piece uses the evening with Dawn and Drew as bookends around a clear intro to the downloadable audio program phenomenon, including an interview with pioneer podcaster Adam Curry, and more.
Another USA Today reporter, writing from Seattle, told the Money section story, including a technical how-to sidebar, examples from local rock bands to NPR talk to musings of "an angry drag queen," and comments on Apple's apparent lack of interest in podcasting, despite the role of its iPod MP3 player in inspiring the form. Additional business-oriented comments come from Microsoft, Curry, blog-savvy PR guy Steve Rubel and others.
The two stories are headlined Podcasting: It's all over the dial (by Marco R. della Cava) and Radio to the MP3 degree: Podcasting (by Byron Acohido).
The Lifestyle section piece uses the evening with Dawn and Drew as bookends around a clear intro to the downloadable audio program phenomenon, including an interview with pioneer podcaster Adam Curry, and more.
Another USA Today reporter, writing from Seattle, told the Money section story, including a technical how-to sidebar, examples from local rock bands to NPR talk to musings of "an angry drag queen," and comments on Apple's apparent lack of interest in podcasting, despite the role of its iPod MP3 player in inspiring the form. Additional business-oriented comments come from Microsoft, Curry, blog-savvy PR guy Steve Rubel and others.
The two stories are headlined Podcasting: It's all over the dial (by Marco R. della Cava) and Radio to the MP3 degree: Podcasting (by Byron Acohido).
Multimedia weblog
Weblogger Lisa Williams added podcasting to her meticulous topic headings some time ago, but (judging from the comments) has a hit on
her hands with her four minute video about podcasting. Since telling
the story in sound and pictures is the point for discussion, I won't
summarize the package here. Go watch! (The original version requires Real Media
Player, but there was some talk about converting it to other formats. See her weblog for more info.)
Footnote: For more podcasting history and links, see the items I've posted about it here; you might call this a non-linear, episodic approach
to telling the same story. Testing my own software setup, today's
RSS feed of this page has a Quicktime attachment -- an old unmusical webcam and hair-flipping test
that I thought had been deleted from its server long ago. Some other
day I'll try to play Arkasas Traveler and read the news at the
same time. Or something. 9:12:21 AM #
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