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Story of the Week Survey
by Andrew McCaskey
Here’s the link http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3DGKWV7
Here’s the reason behind the survey.
I had a very good email from a listener this past weekend :
he writes..
I’ve been listening to your podcast for a few years now and in the past couple of months I see stories mainly around Twitter, phones, repeat consumer services and products. I don’t mind to hear about it once in a while but every single day is too much.
Would you consider increasing the variety of news items to dilute the consumer products and services news?
I’ve been reading slashdot for comparison and there is no shortage of interesting items that in my opinion should have made it to the truly interesting. To gage what I find interesting (I’m sure there are others who by hearing Slashdot news don’t have phones and services in mind):
Space Shuttle Spy Gets 15 Years (SD, Feb 10)
Signs of Water Found On Saturnian Moon Enceladus (SD, Feb 10)
Re-Engineering the Immune System (SD, Feb 10)
New Material Transforms Car Bodies Into Batteries (SD, Feb 9)
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Thanks for taking the time to read this feedback.
Point well taken – as I explained in a return email,
I have been looking for a way to increase the listener and subscriber base. The tech enthusiast audience is spread over a number of entertaining personality based shows (audio and video), so I have been trying to include more business and regulatory news and grow in that way – while balancing the time and effort to produce the show.
Each of those stories would certainly have been worthy; but as the show has extended past Slashdot to include Digg, Reddit, Mashable, ArsTechnica, Techcrunch, GigOm, Techmeme, buzz machine and about thirty other RSS feeds it’s getting a bit harder to choose.
So, on the site you will find a link to a survey for Story of the Week- where I simply go through the rundown of the previous week’s stories and ask listeners to consider news items that they remember, and say “more like this” or “fewer like this”.
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