December 2009
3 posts
The art of editing
bobulate:
In a workshop led by Ira Glass, host of public radio’s “This American Life,” I heard him admit, “We edit out people’s breaths and pauses in the interviews before they go on air.” Referring to those ums and stammers, this well-known personality admitted to a group of aspiring storytellers that his renowned radio show might not be as unvarnished as it had once seemed. Editing out pauses...
i love merlin mann.
merlin:
weselec:
Granted, having a public following can be meaningful for more than social reasons, which a relatively public figure may have, but if you’re there to be social, and that’s largely the way you use the network, what’s the point of leaving the gate open at all?
Is the issue simply that the signal-to-noise when you already reach a large audience is too low to ever be worth wading...
November 2009
2 posts
