SF Chronicle starts podcasting reader phone feedback
Steve Safran January 29th, 2007
Give ‘em this - it’s novel. The San Francisco Chronicle has started a podcast of reader feedback phonecalls. The ones from the tinfoil hat crowd are a little too easy, but the one that addresses a question of grammar is more interesting. (Is “pilotless drone” redundant?) The page posts a listener’s call, another listener’s response and, more fun, a music mashup of the discussion.
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1. Chip Mahaney | January 29th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
This is brilliant!
Podcasts are still a challenge for me, as both a consumer and a producer. Even as simple as iTunes makes it to manage and sync podcasts on my iPod, it’s still takes time. Often, I find the podcasts I’m listening to aren’t worth the time it takes to seek/find/sync them. The quality’s inconsistent, or perhaps my interests change too much from week to week.
Something like this, though, might have staying power. It’s raw, unfiltered, unique, unpredictable.
2. tish grier | January 30th, 2007 at 4:42 am
to me, this seems more like a form of cheap entertainment than it is the paper actually listening to the feedback they *might* be getting. It also relates to newspapers publishing ad hominem trollspeak as “reader comments” (hmm…is “ad hominem trollspeak” redundant?) Feels more like a hollow gesture toward “interactivity” than any real, sincere effort.
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