Digital Voices

a. Now I understand how podcasting is used. I didn’t know before that there are people that want to tell their experiences and their thought, and many of them are not really important. Podcasting allows them to do this, since everybody can share their views. The sounds were clean, so that people could understand, and there were no background noises. This puts the listener more in direct contact with the speaker and takes away any possible distraction

b. I listened to “The Strange Blessing that brought me Home”, which attracted me because in this period I always think about my home, and I found it personal, and “Living with Integrity”. In the first one what really impressed me was the sense of freedom that the girl was describing, her being positive, despite the fact that she was talking about hurricane Katrina, and she really brought into her speech with her voice, that sometimes sounded like she was crying. In “Living with Integrity”, I’ve been impressed by the integrity of the man, of course. He explained really well his thought and made me understand things that I ignored.

c. The introduction speech was helpful, because you start getting to know the speaker. It’s like the difference between knowing someone and his name or knowing someone and not knowing his name. In the second case, it’s much more like a stranger. With a little bit of information, then you get really closer to the speaker.