Aldate has been thinking a little more about the podcast thing.
All it takes to get quotes on news stories is a quick phone call, and cutting them into useful chunks doesn't take too long at all. So maybe the Oxide news team should think about a weekly news podcast, speaking to the people involved in the stories that the papers have covered.
Given that the OxStu are in the room next door, getting the contact details needn't be a huge problem either.
A quick response to a comment in the liveblog post:
Having carefully read Aldate's advice, it seems to me that he'd have us scrap Oxide as a live medium
True.
and use it for podcasting only;
Also true.
(although he doesn't think anyone will actually listen to the podcasts
Wrong. Aldate said "not many people would listen to them unless they were rea
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