Audioblogging, Radio Show or Media Management
Marc's Voice -> Audioblogging, Radio Show or Media Management?.
 Charles Nesson, a professor at Berkman, has been doing audioblogs. [Scripting News]
So what's the difference between a Radio Show (which Dave always really wanted to do with his tools), audioblogging and where we should be with media management?
BTW Some of you may not know that Radio Userland actually started as a tool for MP3 playlists - which Dave imagined could evolve into some sort of Radio Show product. He saw Shoutcast and other streaming, P2P products and decided "hell, let's make blogging easier" and so Radio - though it's called Radio, does not do Radio Shows.
Doc knows what Radio shows are all about - it's about someone sitting there talking on top or along with the music. It's about having this incredible library of music at your fingertips, so that while one song is playing, you can go and get another one - that fast. Ken Nordine also knows what Radio Shows are all about.
Then there's audioblogging, which is cool and which the Charles Nesson stuff 'kind of is'. The essence of audioblogging is that you use audio to change, communicate or in some way enhance the blogging experience. But it never really is integrated into the blog data structure, blog tool or archival notion of blogging. There needs to be 'media objects' in blogging.
So then us idealists say "all of this needs media management!" If you take a look at Professor Nesson's page - you'll know what I mean. Compare - a page of MP3 files, with pretty icons, versus a music jukebox/library program like WinAmp. OR think about voice-to-text transcriptions and what you could do with a search engine and audio.
But until we have something working - I'm just gonna shut up. Needless to say whatever we do - we'll give away to the wind. [Marc's Voice]
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