Paul Jacobson

Mail & Guardian launches weekly podcast

Mike Stopforth mentioned that Mail & Guardian is publishing a weekly podcast through its site. I agree with Mike that this is a sign of things to come here in South Africa. Mainstream media’s adoption of technologies like podcasts will drive further adoption in other sectors in this country. The podcast is titled "Between the Pages":

Well-known South African broadcaster Tony Lankester brings you a weekly Mail & Guardian podcast that focuses on the main news stories of the week as reported in the M&G newspaper and on the M&G Online. The show includes insightful commentary on the news and no-holds-barred interviews with people in the news and M&G journalists.

To listen to the podcast, you can subscribe through iTunes or your preferred podcast subscription software. Alternatively you can download each episode from the site directly. The podcast also has a blog on Blogger (it surprises me that blogs like this are not run on the WordPress platform, rather than Google’s Blogger). The second episode has been uploaded and is available for download. This episode is a particularly interesting one for me because it takes a look at the local music industry’s knowledge (or lack thereof) of media like podcasts.

Jayne had an interesting week dealing with the people at EMI who handle one of the big music libraries around…and discovered that they had no idea what a podcast was, let alone how to go about charging us for using their music. So while they stall and Google their way to Wikipedia to catch up with the rest of the world (if they can find their PCs that is – hint: look under your abacus) we played you what we think is a viable alternative.

Update:
I just listened to the first episode of the podcast and it is pretty good! It is a lot like the Economist’s podcast in that various journalists are brought in to discuss stories they have been investigating. It is well worth downloading and even subscribing to.

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6 responses to “Mail & Guardian launches weekly podcast”

  1. Paul avatar
    Paul

    Hi TonyThanks for your comment. I have to watch myself when I make a comment about a Blogger blog being used for a non-diary blog. Blogger is a tremendously popular option for many South Africans who run blogs. Blogger was actually my first blogging platform before I moved my first blog, Neuvo (now Wired Gecko), to TypePad so if Blogger works for you (referring to bloggers generally) then go with what works.

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    Hi Tony

    Thanks for your comment. I have to watch myself when I make a comment about a Blogger blog being used for a non-diary blog. Blogger is a tremendously popular option for many South Africans who run blogs. Blogger was actually my first blogging platform before I moved my first blog, Neuvo (now Wired Gecko), to TypePad so if Blogger works for you (referring to bloggers generally) then go with what works.

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    Hi Tony

    Thanks for your comment. I have to watch myself when I make a comment about a Blogger blog being used for a non-diary blog. Blogger is a tremendously popular option for many South Africans who run blogs. Blogger was actually my first blogging platform before I moved my first blog, Neuvo (now Wired Gecko), to TypePad so if Blogger works for you (referring to bloggers generally) then go with what works.

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    Hi Tony

    Thanks for your comment. I have to watch myself when I make a comment about a Blogger blog being used for a non-diary blog. Blogger is a tremendously popular option for many South Africans who run blogs. Blogger was actually my first blogging platform before I moved my first blog, Neuvo (now Wired Gecko), to TypePad so if Blogger works for you (referring to bloggers generally) then go with what works.

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    Hi Tony

    Thanks for your comment. I have to watch myself when I make a comment about a Blogger blog being used for a non-diary blog. Blogger is a tremendously popular option for many South Africans who run blogs. Blogger was actually my first blogging platform before I moved my first blog, Neuvo (now Wired Gecko), to TypePad so if Blogger works for you (referring to bloggers generally) then go with what works.

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  6. Revamped Sunday Times website at chilibean

    […] Another criticism I share with Buckland is the absence of feeds on the Sunday Times site. Feeds are essential in a world where there is such a wealth of content and information floating around. I had a conversation with Mike Stopforth a while ago and he mentioned the need for aggregators. Any business that puts content on the Web should have feeds to allow their visitors to subscribe to their content in a way that really fits with the way they prefer to manage their content. Much of this new media evolution is presenting content to users in ways that really suits them. One of the reasons given by the Mail & Guardian for the launch of a podcast that was made in the first episode of the Mail & Guardian’s podcast is the desire to make content available to consumers of that content using a variety of platforms, whether they be paper, the Web or podcasts. It is all about making that content available in different forms and not getting too caught up on precisely how consumers of that content, well, consume it. […]

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