While I was in Boston at the Future of Science Journalism symposium at MIT, I dropped in to see my friend, Clark Boyd, technology correspondent on The World radio show and did a short video interview with him using an Nokia N95.
That was after he interviewed me for his weekly technology podcast during which we talked about the Internet was changing the media landscape. The interview is available in its entirety on The World’s website or via iTunes. You can even download it as an MP3.
If this had been done for radio, the interview would have been rigourously edited down to three or four minutes. But since it is part of a podcast, Clark decided to let it run in its entirely, including our discussion about waiting for the Thai lunch to arrive.
This illustrates one of the differences between broadcast radio and podcasting – you are not constrained by the limitations of the newshole.
But the tone of our discussion was also very different to a traditional radio interview. It was far more conversational, in same ways it was like audio blogging. So have a listen and see what you make of it.
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