Mignon Fogarty is both Grammar Girl and the new media mogul of the Quick and Dirty Tips Network. Mignon talks with Emerson and Lyle about her alter ego, Grammar Girl, as well as the shows success, the traffic, the technical information and the inside scoop on the Quick and Dirty Tips Network.
What Mignon Is Into
Co-creator and editor of boingboing.net, Mark Frauenfelder talks with Emerson and Lyle. Mark and his wife started boingboing as a ‘zine and rode the .com boom, taking boingboing onto the internet. Mark talks about the origins of boingboing, the business of boingboing, censorship, the other editors, and the future of boingboing. Mark talks a lot about the sites he goes to and the podcasts he listens to. It’s an in-depth conversation with one of the internet’s first celebrities.
Emerson and Lyle talk with Mass Communication Professor, Stanley Baran. Professor Baran teaches at Bryant University in Rhode Island. The conversation focus’ on Mc Luhan’s Global Village, changes in media since 2000, Josh Wolf, and the concept of information overload. Emerson also picks Professor Baran’s brain on the direction of Media Sound Off.
It is a fascinating and in depth interview on mass communication and new media.
Always controversial, journalist, film critic, and web host, Harry Knowles picks up the phone for a talk with Emerson and Lyle. The three talk about a wide range of topics including: AICN’s humble beginnings, hype vs. reality in the news, journalism vs. “a guy having fun on the internet”, Harry’s mistakes, the future of journalism and film review, the origin of the AICN website colors, Harry’s movie collection, advertising on the site, and the running of the AICN empire. It’s a fascinating conversation with a leader in modern subjective journalism.
Emerson and Lyle talk with the director of The Internets Celebrities videos. Some of Casimir Nozkowski’s other projects, such as Crying While Eating and The Hello Curve (video), are also discussed. Casimir also talks about video distribution on sites such as YouTube versus placing films in film festivals, how he got on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and whether or not his short productions are art?
Jesse Thorn, America’s Radio Sweetheart, talks with Emerson and Lyle about his radio show and podcast, The Sound of Young America.
Jesse talks about his start on college radio, his rise to syndicated PRI talk show host and podcast superstar. What are the differences between traditional radio and podcasting? How are the audiences of each different? What does NPR’s Terry Gross think of The Sound of Young America? And where did the name of the show come from? These questions and more will be answered on this weeks Media Sound Off.
Host, Bat Segundo, sends his roving reporter, Edward Champion, out to interview writers and thinkers. The interviews are long form conversational discussions.
Emerson and Lyle talk with Edward about his interview style, how he gets such great guests, and how podcasting differs from traditional radio and journalism.
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Champion also writes a blog at EdRants.com