The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #81: October 31, 2005

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #81: October 31, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion; launch interview with Jen McClure of Society for New Communciations Research; Forbes magazine attacks blogs; minding the conversation gap; Lee Hopkins report.

Show notes for October 31, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an 86-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Concord, California, USA.

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So, until Thursday November 3…

Posted by neville on 10/31 at 10:25 AM

  1. Dear Shel and Neville:

    No, I will not send you an audio comment, even though I downloaded WaxMail yesterday with the intent to do so.

    Why not? Because I can speak easily to a large audience or a single individual, but not to a blank screen. The last time I elected to send an audio comment to FIR (which was also the first time), the first three takes convinced me I needed a script, and I still had to make two goes at that to get something I was willing to have played on the show.

    So I e-mailed it to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)—and it disappeared. When you didn’t play it on your next show, I had to contact Shel to ask whether he’d gotten it, and then re-send it, so it was one show late, though that doesn’t really appear to have done any lasting harm.

    This means about an hour’s commitment of my time for a comment of less than two minutes.

    The problem is not the recording technology—it’s not much trouble for me to record in Audacity, export to MP3, and attach it, though WaxMail would save me a few steps (5 minutes?) there. The problem is speaking without even the immediate echo of an answering machine in my ear with which to converse.

    I enjoy taking part in the conversations of the blogosphere/audiosphere (I disklike the word “podosphere”), but if I’m going to have to write a script anyway, why wouldn’t I just send a written comment? Writing is a far more natural medium for me (never mind the fact that someone suggested I could work in Greek radio reading bedtime stories, back in my former life as an academic).

    On the other hand, yes, I’d enjoy reviewing books (was my hint obvious enough?), if you’re not on too tight a deadline for them, as I already have two weekly columns and a reviewing gig for Kicsktartnews.com, all unpaid, to keep up with. I started writing online reviews back in 1994, when e-journals were published by FTP and Gopher. (Remember those?) If you do a Google search on my name you’ll probably find some of them.

    Enough pedantic ranting. I enjoyed your show, as always, and on some occasion when I am less overcommitted, or if I find an easier way to do it, I’ll be happy to send an audio comment. As it stands, I seem to be one of the few podcast enthusiasts/advisors I know with no aspirations to start podcasting myself.

    Cheers,
    Sallie

    PS Of course we Californians don’t notice a Net slowdown—for us, the Net is always at that speed.

    Posted by Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with "sketch")  on  11/02  at  06:43 AM

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