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March 25, 2006
Audio scanning/skimming
I’ve had an iPod for about a year. At first it was for music, but gradually I’ve been using it more and more for spoken voice. One of the big advantages of (time-shifted) mp3 over radio is that you can scan/skim (which is the right word?) audio, rather as you scan a newspaper, extracting what is value and passing over the rest.
According to someone on the PodTech podcast, there are still only about 100,000 people in the States are listening to podcasts. The number in Britain may be higher (relative to the size of the population) as the BBC has so enthusiastically embraced the medium for recycling radio programmes like the ‘Today Programme’, ‘In Our Time’ etc.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime
Posted by Simon Holledge at March 25, 2006 01:43 PM
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