How Should I Cover The Fringe With The New Web Tools?
With the Edinburgh Fringe fast approaching, I’m thinking about the best way to cover the Fringe with the newest web tools.
Naturally the core product is still the podcast – with a daily 30 minute show from August 7th through till August 31st available through this podcast / RSS feed (or via iTunes), along with the weekly preview shows I’m currently running.
The question is what else to do? The rise of Twitter is the obvious tool to consider using (especially after the success of my Eurovision coverage), but the Fringe isn’t a mass shared experience as the song contest was. The events are generally with small audiences (up to 100) and of course run in many instances over twenty nights.
And of course the podcast is a mix of pre-recorded interviews that don’t necessarily happen in the order that they go out on the podcast (nor even do they get recorded as sensibly as the night before) so I’m not sure if a running commentary of who I’m about to interview will work out, either.
There have also bee a lot of intriguing web services launched in the last year that could be of some use, but which ones are of benefit here – remembering that my audience isn’t built in to those in the way that Twitter, podcasts or blogging here have already established
So I’m… open to suggestions!
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You’ve touched on some of the essential elements of the Festival experience, but it’s worth digging a little more. Why? Because if you want to be sure you’re getting the most from information tools, you need to be sure you have dug up all the raw materials they’ll work with- all the information- or at least know where it is.
So what else is there- there’s press; a huge great tumbling mass of press- pretty much everythung gets reviewed at some point. These reviews have time stamds and comparable ratings- whoot, thats a huge mess of data there.
OK what elese? Well there’s audiences, which as you say are extended through time, but they can potentially form a perculiar virtual community. Everyone that goes to a certain show will have shared a certain experience (with variations)- can you thread their experience over time?
Or Space? YEs that’s the other thing the festival has- a real space, a map, a city, places. Shows and audiences all exist in a real, live exciting space- how about utilising the physical space and getting the services driven off place. Thread journeys through time, trigger community spread over time based upon place, enable clustering. Mmm, augmented reality beckons- show me the nearest 5 star show in the next half hour with tickets…. Biuld an online map of mad flyerers…
AudioBoo’s might be a good, quick and easy way of sharing little snippets from shows or for grabbing quick chats with acts.
Similarly what about little bits of streaming over Qik if they allow it at shows?
A Latitude style map would also be great but even with crowd-sourcing be a swine to populate.
Someone reading over my shoulder suggested setting up a ning but that just sounds plain rude to me.
And as half-suggested in the other post – an App that could pull together all the reviews in real-time would be great for iphones and N-style devices. Could you set up a google search for a few phrases and have the RSS feed automatically pinged out?