Wrapping context around blogs with podcasts
November 23rd, 2005 | by dnw |Ground control to Major Tom
Blimey. I’m gonna have to watch what I rant about. Mike’s picked me up on the space telephone talking about my mind bending thoughts on the attention, recognition and context posts on my personal blog.
He’s remixed the rant to make a conversation and the output is over on LearnDog Remixed.
Listening to the way this was remixed reminded me of how I have responded for years on bulletin boards and email. I tend to like to quote blocks of what I’m commenting on and then add my responses or thoughts. This gives other readers a context for responses. Remixing podcasts is the same beast, just in its latest technical incarnation.
But for me personally there is also a practical issue. Due to my typing with a mouthstick I tend to want to make what I type succinct and to the point. Often that means wrapping a lot of thoughts in complexity. That coupled with the fact that my brain often is going faster than my ’stick’ can keep up and it’s not good sometimes. But the point is that this style of quote-response conversation is somewhat of a shorthand for me that I feel still gives good context. For me, podcasts have the potential to offer another kind of context wrapping around blog posts.
The fact these asyncronous conversations, either in text on a blog or words on a podcast, are not a syncronous interaction is a moot point really. Even a voice chat between two people is at its base asyncronous. Try getting a message across while you’re both talking at the same time!
