Podcast

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Wow!! you really don't know what a podcast is until you actually make one yourself. Without the free help of Audacity, we would all be lost. The most difficult aspect of the podcast was recording an interview. We chose to interview through Skype, and there was no program that allowed us to record our Skype conversation, and because of that we hit a brick wall. We tried a couple different ideas and then we ultimately decided to have the person we were interviewing download Audacity.

This turned out to be perfect, after we straightened a few kinks we were able to have him send us his recording. What made this work was a synchronized recording (on both ends), that made the questions and answers fall under the same time space. Then, Audacity overlapped the two audio clips perfectly and thereafter we were able to edit particular sound bytes.

Our podcast is interesting in that the person we interviewed was one of the first persons to post a picture (any material) of the AA plane that landed in the Hudson river. He used the social network Twitter to send his breaking news. He was later contacted by major media networks and his story was disseminated on television and not just the Internet.

Show Notes:

00:10 Ben (I) introduce the show, speakers, and special guest, Janis Krums

01:58 Ginny interviews Janis about his experience after posting the famous Twit Pic

5:28 Reanne and Janis discuss social media and citizen journalism

09:15 Austin presents concluding thoughts, outro, and thanks to Janis