Podcasting and CLE for blogging

October 25, 2004 on 1:33 pm | In Web/Tech |

Denise Howell at Bag and Baggage Blog wrote this week’s IP Memes.  One of her topics was “podcasting” which is essentially (read her post for a full explanation) providing a regularly updated audio file on the Internet for people to download and play on their computer, iPod or other device.  Some of you use an RSS aggregator for pulling in blog feeds…podcasting is a similar concept except you are pulling in audio feeds to play on your computer and/or iPod.  Neat concept.

Then, I read a blog post on MyShingle talking about letting attorneys receive CLE credit for blogging and/or reading blogs.  I have to agree…I’ve learned more in 10 months of blogging about patent law than in years and years of attending CLEs.

What if we married the concepts in the two posts?  Blawgcasting?  The community could start providing blog posts via audio RSS and getting CLE credit for listening/generating them.  Or, maybe we could could take the post feeds of the Blawg Channel, the Induce Act blog, or some other group of blawgers and have the authors dictate them for central distribution.  Or, maybe the a panel in the blawging community could have some way of selecting posts that should be Blawgcasted, and then have the “service” do it (maybe in some sort of a Creative Commons arrangement). 

There would have to be a way to filter which posts to cast…remember the old 80:20 rule and apply it to what percent of any blawger’s posts are really worth reading.  Thus, maybe an editor or have the blawgers select their better, more useful posts…

I could go on and on and on…with crazy ideas. 

What do you think?  The comments are open for some brainstorming…

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3 Comments

  1. Stephen,

    Chris Tilghman is a grad student at Stanford who is working on this very thing as a way to deliver education programs to commuters over the phone (hands free).

    One comment that they recieved several times during their pilot run was that the course work was too dry, and that the students would like more news or current events. . . In come the blogs.

    Comment by Dennis Crouch — October 25, 2004 #

  2. I’d like James Earl Jones to record my Blawgcast thank you very much ….

    Comment by Al Nye — October 25, 2004 #

  3. Shameless plug: I do voiceover work, or least I would when I could get it.

    Maybe recording Podcasts for folks would be a form of internship?

    Comment by FrankHaynes — October 27, 2004 #

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