{"id":1052,"date":"2012-10-21T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2012-10-21T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:45:29","slug":"podthoughts-blank-on-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"Podthoughts: Blank on Blank"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/production.mediajoint.prx.org\/public\/series_images\/7644\/BlankonBlank_avatar_600x600_medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vital stats:<\/strong><br \/>\nFormat: the bits of interviews you weren\u2019t meant to hear<br \/>\nEpisode duration: 5m-11m<br \/>\nFrequency: weekly<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor journalists of all stripes, we are helping them realize the untapped potential of their work as dynamic, fresh content in a new, rapidly changing multimedia world.\u201d You\u2019ll easily find this lightly tortured phrase on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blankonblank.org\/backstory\/\">about page<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/blankonblank.org\/backstory\/\"><em>Blank on Blank<\/em><\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/blankonblank.org\/feed\/interviews\/\">RSS<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/blank-on-blank\/id525734867\">iTunes<\/a>], though you may struggle to draw meaning from it. The verbiage farther down inspires little more confidence, describing the show\u2019s goal of \u201ccreating a sustainable nonprofit media model through a combination of corporate sponsors, underwriters, grants, foundation support, private donations, licensing agreements, production fees, and media partnerships.\u201d On the surface, this seems appealing enough; inside my head, I at best hear the garbled, mystifying drone of Charlie Brown\u2019s teacher, and at worst view the howling abyss into which anyone\u2019s knowledge about the future and even nature of media and journalism have fallen.<\/p>\n<p>Put straight, <em>Blank on Blank<\/em> podcasts bits and pieces of interviews that didn\u2019t make it into their intended contexts. It offers snippets of previously conducted conversations (sometimes long previously conducted ones) with well-known figures, selected to showcase particularly unguarded or simply unusual moments. If any intersection of subject and topic could sell me on this format, Andre Agassi discussing the mullet of his heyday [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/media.blubrry.com\/blankonblank\/cdn.blankonblank.org\/wp-content\/audio\/BlankOnBlank_Andre_Agassi.mp3\">MP3<\/a>] can. Catch up on the show\u2019s archives, and you\u2019ll also hear Martin Scorsese on his jones for driving with the stereo on [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/media.blubrry.com\/blankonblank\/cdn.blankonblank.org\/wp-content\/audio\/BlankOnBlank_MartinScorsese.mp3\">MP3<\/a>], Ricky Gervais on his yearning for jetpacks [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/media.blubrry.com\/blankonblank\/cdn.blankonblank.org\/wp-content\/audio\/BlankOnBlank_RickyGervais_Atheism.mp3\">MP3<\/a>], and Radiohead\u2019s Thom Yorke telling off the \u201cwankers\u201d [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/media.blubrry.com\/blankonblank\/cdn.blankonblank.org\/wp-content\/audio\/BlankOnBlank_Thom_Yorke.mp3\">MP3<\/a>] that evidently surround him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/2012\/10\/21\/podthoughts-colin-marshall-blank-blank\">at Maximum Fun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vital stats: Format: the bits of interviews you weren\u2019t meant to hear Episode duration: 5m-11m Frequency: weekly \u201cFor journalists of all stripes, we are helping them realize the untapped potential of their work as dynamic, fresh content in a new, rapidly changing multimedia world.\u201d You\u2019ll easily find this lightly tortured phrase on the about page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podthoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}