Off-Topic – Shouldn’t Podcasts Also Offer Transcripts?
Am I the last man on Earth who would rather read a blog entry than listen to a podcast? My suggestion to a podcast publisher to also publish transcripts of their podcasts received in response a set of instructions on how to listen to a podcast without an iPod. Which totally missed my point (I have been listening to mp3 files long before there were iPods, and I do have an iPod today).
It is probably true that nowadays many more people would prefer to listen to a book on tape than read the book (or better yet, wait for the movie to come out). But the written word isn’t dead just yet, methinks. It appears to me that in today’s rush to “multimedia” publishing some perspective has been lost. Or the publishers’ focus groups were not very carefully chosen.
Posted by Atanas Entchev at 8/11/2009 11:18 AM 
Categories: blog, Opinion, iPod, GIS, podcast, Web 2.0
Tags: blog Web 2.0 iPod GIS podcast Opinion
Categories: blog, Opinion, iPod, GIS, podcast, Web 2.0
Tags: blog Web 2.0 iPod GIS podcast Opinion
I hear you loud and clear. Also Google hasn't figured out (yet) how to search for words in MP3 files.
Yep, another reason to transcribe.
I could not agree more. My work environment does not lend itself well to listening to podcasts, yet I often find that some tidbit of information that I need is buried within one. And I can more easily skim through a written post for the content instead of skipping around through an audio file. I tend to feel the same about video clips as well.
So true. I have been tempted, at times, to transcribe excerpts of podcasts for my own future reference. I felt like a human modem (the podcaster being another human modem on the other side of the transmission).