Sunday, July 1, 2007

Aggregating NPR's On The Media Not the usual "radio hits" I've been a regular listener to On The Media over WUOT in Knoxille and subscribed to its podcast from WNYC for a while... but I just noticed that its website also offers the HTML code to publish my own audio player for any program episode I like... Unlike the original podcast of the full program, these audio clips are individual stories -- better for listening in class or when you're in a hurry. I'm going to start my own favorites list in the off-the-calendar "stories" section of this site, dig back into the archives and add to it as the new school year approaches. The onthemedia.org home page has other virtues: You can play stories, discuss them in a bloglike comments area, tag them as del.icio.us bookmarks, download MP3s, copy a link code to your own pages, or browse by date or by topics. The topic list include s classroom-useful ones like Media History, The Internet, Newspapers and Elections. Here's what the player looks like. Tip: If you "allow pop-up windows" for this page in your browser, clicking on the "More" in the corner of the player will take you to the full NPR page for the item. One thing I'll add to my list page is a summary for each program, to supplement the possibly cryptic titles embedded in the players. For instance, my first one is this weekend's 25th anniversary discussion of Blade Runner. The second is from the April archives, about the belated publication of Mark Twain's defense of obscenity charges against Walt Whitman. 1:13:13 PM    comment []

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