How does podcasting fit into the oral history picture?
So far all the examples mentioned were before the time podcasts became popular. Perhaps now is a good time for bloggers to engage in recording the oral history of people around them and putting them up as podcasts on their blogs. Our current technology can certainly fill this need. How can we start? Academic oral history projects can be quite elaborate, with lots of planning and budgeting involved. For our own oral history podcasts, we can forego some of the complexities so that we can just do it and have fun at the same time. With that, here my quick start guide for starting your own oral history for podcasting (References StoryCorp and the DoHistory.org at Harvard university): What you need: • Figure out who you’d like to interview (e.g. family, friends, pets) • Pick an event to talk about (e.g. 1970s, Tea-time dances in the hey days, 9/11, etc) • Figure out a rough set of questions to ask (try this if you need ideas) • Choose your Recording device (best if on iPod’s iTalk or equival
