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January 10, 2006
Doug Kaye, founder of IT Conversations, has launched his new project, The Conversations Network, "a non-profit online publisher of recordings of spoken-word events." IT Conversations is now officially one "channel" of The Conversations Network, which is transparent to users, so don't worry. Doug will add more channels, and encourages people to submit high-quality recordings of spoken-word events. I'm on its board of directors, so I'm totally not unbiased, but I'm on the board because I've been excited about this idea since Doug first broached it. [Tags: itconversations podcast dougKaye conversationnetwork media] Posted
by D. Weinberger at January 10, 2006 04:49 PM
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Could you define "spoken word event" for me? I keep asking for these definitions lately.
Posted by: Tripp (in need of a copy editor) | January 11, 2006 09:15 AM
Tripp, I believe the phrase is meant to exclude concerts. The focus is on lectures, public meetings, etc.
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January 11, 2006 09:38 AM
Sorry, I was being my usual vague self. I really like the idea. And thinking of it in terms of public radio makes perfect sense. What I am wondering is how one would could do the same with sermons. I am not suggesting an internet congregation as much as I am thinking of a teaching tool.
Imagine the Book of Daniel posted online with hyperlinks embedded on text that people have used as preaching texts. You click on "lion" and a list of podcasts come up. You can pick denomination or style or any other way we could think of cataloguing it. Hmmm...
Interesting idea.
Posted by: Tripp (in need of a copy editor) | January 11, 2006 05:13 PM
Tripp, In addition to selecting all the points *from* which to hyperlink, the hard work is finding the target podcasts. One way that's getting better all the time is to use audio search. For example, here's a URL that finds occurrences of the spoken-word "China" in a variety of podcasts:
http://podscope.com/search.php?s=d&q=china&sourceID=0 The technology has a ways to go, but it's a fascinating option for the future.
Posted by: Doug Kaye | January 12, 2006 01:42 AM