Seeing a lot interest in Duke's podcast symposium, here is a day one overview, and here is day two. A live stream is available and there will be a podcast.
The always enlightening Doug Kaye talked about the "value of free" and how podcasting and blogs work together. Essentially, you can't have a conversation about the podcast if there are no links to it. The thread just stops.
Here's more from Audio Activism:
Why should businesses help citizen journalist create media? To help people reach their passion points. A passion point according to Michael Geoghegan is the place where a person is super happy doing what they love. In his example getting free pre-release movies on DVD. My passion point is seeing people make their own media that creates a loud voice against injustice.
Of intereast is Duke's initiatives, according to the Herald-Sun. They're piloting a podcasting initiative on the campus after it distributed free iPods last year to all incoming freshmen and this year to students whose professors opt to use the digital device in their classes.
Professors are seeing the possibilities. From the Herads-Sun:
Duke professor Daniel Foster told about his theater studies students' MP3ater Project, a conflation of "theater" and the MP3 audio file format. They re-create classic radio dramas, which since July have had 1,500 listeners.
Lynne O'Brien, director of the Center for Instructional Technology at Duke that oversees the new-media campus initiatives, said one professor has students listen to podcast lectures as homework, freeing class time for discussion.
"What we should be doing is using the media they're using: Instant Messaging, cell phones and iPods," said Tim Lenoir, a Duke professor who has used iPods in a class on the influence of new medical technology on the popular imagination.
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