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March 28, 2005

Podcasting: What Makes For A Good Law Podcast?

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Posted by Marty Schwimmer

I've begun listening to podcasts and even participated in one.

The good news is that there's a technology that will automatically filter out all the umms and uhhs and coughing and sniffing and slurping noises from your podcast. It's called writing. [rimshot]

But seriously, what makes for a good podcast for lawyers? My initial personal reaction:

Two things to avoid are:

(1) horrible production values. As the CEO of ODEO pointed out, we're trained to write, not to record audio. Amateur production values can have home-made charm, but thoroughly unprofessional production values are unlistenable.

(2) inappropriate content, by which I do not mean some of Ernie's jokes, but information that is not readily comprehensible in the spoken format. A law review article that's hard to assimilate as it is, is not made easier to understand by being read aloud to you by a lawyer.

Things seem to work so far include: the give and take of interviews and panel discussions (as long as they don't devolve into Crossfire-like shouting matches).

Things we should lobby for: appellate oral argument. (here's a good example from IPTA BLog on Grokster).

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1. Ernie on March 22, 2005 3:20 PM writes...

Marty, please don't insert your own rimshots. We've got a Union contract to honor. If you want sound effects fill out the proper requisition forms and have Central handle the request. There are a lot of out-of-work musicians, er, drummers who'd appreciate the chance for some sporadic gigs.

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