Saturday, March 28, 2009

Podcast and audio books

I personally did not like the podcast, I prefer to read or watch things, but it may have been the podcast I listened to there were sometimes 2 people talking at once and the other the music was almost as loud as the person talking. I may try listening to pod casing again at a later date but I don’t think that it is something that I would pursue in my free time unless it was the only source for the information. But from my experience at the university as see the way the “kids” can play online games talk on msn do facebook and still understand what is going on in lecture I guess it is a great fit to there learning. As far as this method of providing information better or worse depend on the target group you are after like I have stated the two podcast that I listed were to flashy or muddled with background noise where blogging gets to the point and can easily be scanned for the information I want out of the article not having to listen to get to the fine details of the issue that brought me to the site in the first place. The audio book is something that I am quite aware of my son who has a speech problem uses a tool called alpha smart, it scans his work and reads it back to him if he has spelled something wrong it will not pronounce it right which then makes him know that he has spelled something wrong. This idea of listening to books on line or buying them is simply one of the best ideas for people with visual and speech problems having a audio book will allow people to take them every where they go they can be brought with out having to carry heavy books around even doing this and able to listen to audio books you may not be able to get all the information out of the book due to your surrounding like background noise having to pay attention of where you are traveling ect.

Podcasts

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?i=50488517&id=306102312
the above podcast is from ESPN outdoors Rick Clunn on bass fishing. About how to fish a "classic" by reasarching how the last tournament were won in October

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?i=52128343&id=309168568
This podcast is all about Kyle Bush and his brother at Bristol this podcast is very confusing due to the music and talking .

Vodcasts
The vodcast I think I could get use to as long as I could find it easier data base to watch what I wanted to, although it was my very first attempt at vodcast I found it interesting but still think it has a long way to come to beat blogging or online newspapers, What may make them better is if they came with a tweet so you knew what you were about to watch. I will probably try it again but don’t think it will be something that I will desire to make a main stay of my internet activities I think YouTube has become popular due to the fact that before you watch you can read a little about what you are going to watch, I have found that the more the conversations about the video the more it is watched. Debate always makes something worth watching to see what side of the line you are on. YouTube also makes some TV obsolete such at America’s funniest video or other such programs they are all on the Internet

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?i=50485527&id=288973856

Sofia Is a 747 plane that will fly higher than most 35000 – 45000 it will fly above 99.9 % of all the water in earths atmosphere Sofia when clouds of dust obscure vision this plane uses inferred will soon have a observatory witch unlike Hubble and Chandra this plane will return every day… about 100 trips a year starting in 2010

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?i=51797862&id=288973856
Chandra is a x ray telescope, with 4 pars or mirror flying 200 times higher than Hubble Chandra is looking for dark matter and energy discovers super novas it was launched in 1999