Hacks and Bloggers Podcast
In this podcast, we ask whether journalists and bloggers are friends or foes. You can download the audio here.
My thanks to Graham Holliday of Noodlepie.com who came up with the idea for this edition, and who even found his worthy opponent to debate whether journalists should or should not take to blogging. Graham is a journalist based in Vietnam, who also writes an excellent blog about the street food of Saigon - regular readers will know that we are fans. William Knight is a technology journalist who tried blogging in the early days, and decided that it was a big distraction from his real work. William lives in the beautiful town of Dartmouth on the coast of Devon in the South West of England.
We linked up Paddington, Dartmouth and Saigon over Skype for a friendly disagreement. I think that our chat reveals quite a bit about how the media is changing, and where old and new media meet and diverge. I thought it was interesting to hear the hack’s point of view, rather than that of the media owner’s. Although naturally I’m inclined to support the journo-blogger, William sounded some important warnings that I think every blogger should heed.
By way of a show note, there’s a great blog that came up in the conversation - Lives in Focus in which a journalist has put together video, audio and photographs to cover one story in great depth - the effect of India’s new patent laws on HIV sufferers.
Graham is about to use his blog to post all the background material to an article he’s writing. Should newspaper journalists be doing this sort of thing to give greater depth to the stories they cover? Or is it simply not worth the time and effort? And are you prospecting for Fool’s Gold if you think you can make a nice living out of Google Adsense? Let us know what you think.
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The duration of the audio is 22 minutes.
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15. January 2006 at 22:58
Is this a Podcast or an mp3 file?
I can subscribe to podcasts.
I can download mp3 files.
Hard to tell from this page.
16. January 2006 at 00:12
Almost all audio podcasts are Mp3 files. There are various ways to deliver/receive them.
You can download the mp3file directly using the link in the post. Our Podcast feed for subscription is in the sidebar. We have streaming audio on the “Play Podcast” button.
You can also find them in various directories such as iTunes and Odeo.
We try to please everyone.
16. January 2006 at 04:42
Michael makes a good point. For folk not used to reading blogs it is a little difficult to see, or know where to start looking to subscribe to the Blog Relations podcast.
Also, a lot of people might ask ‘What’s a feed?’ That’s the reason why I use the word ‘Subscribe’ on noodlepie, far more universal than feed, which is quite techie and bloggie.
Readers just want to see a button, hit it and forget about it. At least I think they do.
16. January 2006 at 10:43
Thank you Michael and Pieman for your feedback. I’ve put the feeds and a little explanation in the top left. I’m trying to keep the design uncluttered, and fear that too many messages around the place clog it up.
I don’t think there’s any perfect word. Subscribe might imply “pay”, and of course podcasts are free.
Hope this is an improvement.
Hugh
16. January 2006 at 11:26
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