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More Signal, Less Noise
Originally uploaded by Burnt Pixel.
Every once in while something neat breaks through the corporate creativity firewall.
Washington Post videographer Jenn Crandall's onBeing takes a simple idea and brings it to the people in the Washington, D.C. community. Rob Curley and his posse provide an interface and user experience that is both familiar (can you say iTunes?) and fun!
Web video, done right!
Too Much Technology!
Originally uploaded by Burnt Pixel.
Here is the new unit that will change my staff of photographers into audio-gathering, slideshow fiends!
The mp3 below was recorded with the R-09 and a Sony stereo mic.
Video Podcasts - New York Times
"Only a handful of the more than 2,000 Web sites that offer video by subscription right now are owned by TV stations, and part of the charm of the format in its infancy is that a professional video podcast about elections in Azerbaijan, made by a documentary filmmaker working for washingtonpost.com, can exist side by side in an iTunes playlist with homemade, autobiographical video podcasts that open small windows into more personal current events - like a college kid in Michigan playing drunken miniature golf, women in a Manhattan office bantering about Cheerios, a fan's-eye view of a rock show in Minneapolis or a man stuck in an airplane seat during a long delay trying to make sense of the items for sale in the SkyMall catalog he finds in the seat pocket in front of him." - Robert MaCay, The New York Times
(See also - TV Stardom on $20 a Day.)
IPods Become Music To Teachers' Ears.
Using little more than an iPod and a school computer, Gagliolo and her students have been making podcasts -- online radio shows that can be downloaded to an iPod or other portable MP3 player. Avidly discussing their favorite iPod colors and models while they made recordings of their poems and book reports the other day, the fifth-graders bubbled with ideas for future subjects."We could read parts of books, to show why we like them. We could do interviews. If there's a field trip, we could make a recording of it and post it," said Mohamed El-Sayed, 10. "Kids anywhere will like to hear about us." - Fern Shen, The Washington Post; Photograph by Tracy A. Woodward, The Washington Post
From invention to adoption at light speed. Podcasting in the classroom, the latest example of how the web changes EVERYTHING!
I haven't written much about podcasting here; I'm still trying to figure it out. In general, most podcasts that I've listened to have been 'talk-radio like' - lots of chatter by the casters about this and that with an occasional song thrown in. They are very personal in the same way the blogs can be; but often that means being interesting only to the person talking and their immediate circle of friends.
There is a type of podcast that is getting me excited, however, the soundscape. With these mp3 files, the caster takes us to a place and immerses us in the environment; sometimes with a voice-over narration, sometimes letting us hear their interactions with people they meet, and sometimes just letting the sounds around them tell the story. I find these so much more interesting and perhaps more journalistic - they take me someplace other than where I am and show me something new.
Of the 'talkies', only the ones that offer something other than 'what I had for breakfast' and aren't all me-me-me are worth the time. Good luck sorting them out!
Try these on for size, they have become part of my daily Metro commute - Momus Radio, walking tours created mostly with the audio capture feature of a digital camera; the new podcast site, Herro Flom Japan which has some great soundscapes; or my current favorite, Kobe Beef, from the half-Japanese, half-black, half-American Terrance Young who lives a cross-cultural life in Kobe, Japan.
