Digital Voices

I understand that podcasting is something you can download on your mp3 player from the internet and respond to it. It is like a song because you can do the same thing but you cannot respond to music. You can also listen to the podcast on your mp3 player any time you want just like if you had music on your mp3 player you could listen to the music anytime you wanted. I noticed about the technology that it was really good because the guy who was talking was up in space and when he talked it sounded pretty clear.

“This I Believe” essay that I listened to was called An Optimistic View of the World by Dan Tani. I selected this piece because it was the very first essay listed and I thought it had to be good. What stood out to me in this essay was that the guy was in space and he still could make a podcast. The aspect that was memorable to me was that his mother died in a car accident and he could not go down to honor her. What was effective about this piece was that it was kind of personal.

What I noticed about the introduction of the speech was that it was really attention getting. What was interesting about it is how he compared his job to others people’s jobs by saying some people travel in their jobs but not as much as I do or as fast.