[Editors] A request to listen to MIT news podcasts

[Lisa Damtoft]

Thanks for everyone's comments -- others are still invited to listen 
and weigh in!

In answer to a couple of things that came up:

- The rationale for doing this is to take advantage of a popular 
technology to reach an audience that prefers to listen (via a 
portable audio player or computer) rather than read. It's for those 
who catch up with the news on the subway, while they're walking, 
working out or doing housework. We also hope the podcasts drive 
people to our site for the full stories.

- The ideas of different voices and a give-and-take format are great 
ones and under discussion as we move forward.  We'd really like to 
enliven these as much as we can.

Other thoughts?

Thanks again,
Lisa
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Lisa Damtoft
Web Editor and Developer
MIT News Office
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>At 01:14 PM 9/21/2006, Roger Donaghy wrote:
>  >Hi Everybody,
>  >
>>I'm distributing this on behalf of my colleagues Roger Donaghy and
>>Lisa Damtoft.
>>
>>Cheers!
>>
>>Elizabeth
>>=================
>>
>>Dear Editors,
>>
>>The News Office has been developing weekly audio podcasts of our top
>>headlines. We hope to offer these soon to a wide audience.
>>
>>We'd like to invite you to have a listen to our most recent attempts.
>>These aren't public yet, and we'd love to hear your feedback before
>>putting them out there. All comments and reactions, positive or
>>negative, would be helpful, including whether you think such a thing
>>would be useful for you or your office.
>>
>>Each one is about 5 minutes long.
>>
>>Here's the RSS feed if you're familiar with subscribing to podcasts 
>>in iTunes.
>>
>>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/special/podcast/podcast.xml
>>
>>Or, you can listen to the separate audio files, which you should be
>>able to listen to directly by using the links below. If they are not
>>clickable, you can paste a URL into your web browser.
>>
>>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/special/podcast/mitno090406.mp3
>>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/special/podcast/mitno091106.mp3
>>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/special/podcast/mitno091806.mp3
>>
>>Please respond to Roger Donaghy if you have any trouble listening to
>>them, and you can respond to him with your comments, too.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Roger Donaghy
>>Lisa Damtoft
>>
>>Roger Donaghy
>>MIT News Office
>>617 253 1683
>>rdonaghy at mit.edu
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