Travel Show Blog #20: Been Repurposing
A friend of mine (thanks Meike!) just sent me a link to a really good site that has been put together by Allan Lew (see Blog #13 for more about Allan). The site is a list of “Podcasts about Tourism, Travel and Education”.
One of the things I like about this site is that it categorises travel podcasts in this way:
On the topic of Travel Podcasts, Mark Peacock of the Travel Commons podcast proposed a 2×2 matrix of travel podcasts based on the degree to which they are (1) about Travel or about Destinations, and (2) Original Material or Repurposes Material [e.g., re-done radio programs]. I have expanded the defintion of Repurposed to include “Professional” podcasts, which are produced by professional travel writers/publishers and radio broadcasters. (Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference.)
Here is the link to podcasts about tourism, travel and education:
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~alew/TG_Podcasts.html
The Travel Show (the one you are on right now) gets put in the “original and amatuer” category. I like that! However, not all that you can hear on the Travel Show is original. For example, the recordings used in podcast #6 and podcast #7 are from the recent CAUTHE conference. I gained permission to use these recorded speeches in my show. What I do know from reading Allans site is that I now have a name for doing this. It’s called “repurposing”. Thomas Bauer, a friend and fellow academic, once told me that academics are the best recyclers when it comes to using data and other information. I guess Thomas is right again.
Doc Martin.