Completely ad-hoc and unscripted, OSnews editors Thom Holwerda and Kroc Camen discuss gripes, pet hates and what's currently on the home page. This is the first time we've ever spoken to one another! "Read more" for the link to the .mp3 file, and notes.
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Member since:2005-07-06
I guess it depends on what you see the purpose of a podcast to be. Podcasts or radio will never be as good as text for quick condensed delivery of important information and I don't think they should even try.
I quite like longer rambling podcasts that meander around several related topics. I often use them as background noise when working, in the way that many people like to have the radio on the background.
Member since:2005-11-10
That’s like saying that a newspaper has too much text and you want just the headlines. The point is the content, wordy or not, because it’s original content.
In 10 minutes all we could achieve is to read exactly what’s written on OSnews and that’s it. That’s terribly boring and doesn’t give you anything that isn’t possible with plain text. The point of the podcast is that you are hearing a conversation as well as very fresh personal opinion, rather than formal news-speak.
I think Thom will agree that if you’re not interested in listening to the whole thing, then it’s not a podcast you want anyway.
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2007-03-04
The problem with lenghy podcasts is that, for most of them, basically, they could be summed up using 1/10 of the time it took, because the journalist is wordy, talks about not-so-useful stuff, and places a piece of interesting information here and there to keep the audience's attention. This is what happens on the radio for instance in talk shows. Personally, I prefer reading the summary on the web after the talk. It takes less than a minute and I get only the good stuff (I even skim the summary sometimes
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