On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 17:40 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> first excuse me if this is the wrong mailing list. If there is > >> fedora-marketing or some similar :) mailing list please point me in > >> the right direction. > > > > There is a fedora-marketing-list indeed. > > > > But to answer your suggestion: I personally don't understand why all the fuss > > about podcasts, IMHO written plaintext is more convenient for things like that > > (easier to skim over, easier to find a section when going back to something you > > already read, easier to search automatically (fulltext search), easier to find > > in a search engine too (fulltext indexing), no need to either put headphones on > > or have everyone around listen to the podcast too whether they want it or not, > > can be consumed on a machine with no sound at all (as in some offices) and of > > course faster to download too). > > One word: commuting. Podcasts do to talk radio (or the internet > equivalent) what tivo does to television. While it is absurd to hope > that an interesting personality will be chatting on a live broadcast and > conclude at precisely the times you are trapped in your car for the > daily commute, it is quite easy to subscribe to a podcast and automate > the transfer of new content to your ipod/player. Then it is a matter of > pushing the button to pause/continue at convenient times. It's also > great if you work out regularly on a treadmill or similar device that > doesn't require your full concentration. Sometimes way a person is > saying comes across differently when you listen to an interview compared > even to reading a transcript of the same thing. I tend to prefer the > ones moderated by someone with actual broadcast experience like Leo > Laporte or fast paced ones like CNET's Buzz Out Load. Podcasts are useless to the deaf and Hard of Hearing. If you want to put a podcast up, fine. if you don't have a transcript of it you're excluding that portion of the population, entirely. There is currently software to read text in a voice for the blind, we have nothing to convert speech to text. that's why we shouldn't do podcasts. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
