National Day of Listening...AW style

UPDATE: What to do with your interviews? Follow this link on Sunday (the thread will be there but locked until Sunday). Post them in the new thread in AW History.

If you did an MP3, please check with Mac and Williebee as to what to do with the MP3. I have no idea where they will be stored so the interview links can be posted.


http://www.storycorps.net/

I'm an NPR geek. (I know, shocking)

They have been airing stories for the story corps national day of listening.

People interview their family members, friends, acquaintances, etc and record the conversation. It is one of the largest undertakings of oral history of it's kind. The stories are being archived in the library of congress.

from the site:

Since 2003, over 35,000 everyday people have shared life stories with family and friends in our StoryBooths. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the Library of Congress. Millions listen to our broadcasts on public radio and the web. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind.

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I want to see an AW day of listening, please.

Choose a fellow AWer to interview (via PM or in the thread directly). Post it here.

Get to know things about each other you never thought to ask or just never had the opportunity to.

I'll be contacting my interviewees via PM and will post the results. I hope you participate.


As writers, listening is one of our most important tools. As members of a community it is necessary to thrive.

Well since we are on the net, it's sort of difficult to prep. How long should we give them? As soon as someone has results they can post, or give everyone two weeks and report back then?


And once we get this moving, I'm going to port it up to AW history - where oral histories would belong, yes?

Let's do it!

Put it in your sig lines, pass it on through your chosen interviewees. I want a big turn out.

I'll be contacting my interviewees and making my questions after they agree to the interviews this weekend.

You can wait until after your release.

I've added it to my sig. And I"m going to continue to bump this up until then.

I've sent a PM and requested three interviews. (haskins, poetinahat and robeiae)

haha!

One of the people on NPR today interviewed his travel agent. He's worked with her for 20 years, only met her in person once, and felt like he should interview her to get to know her better.

One of the interviews was an old man interviewing his wife about their first date (60 years previous).

One was a man interviewing his uncle about his grandmother.

Pick anyone, and I guarantee you'll find out something fascinating.

Rob and William have agreed to let me interview them. Hopefully they will choose to interview someone as well.

Can we have a national "looking" day, too? I'll contact three members and look at them.

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:Wonders if it would it be inappropriate to tell people to ignore Rob in the listening thread:

Oh good.

help. yes.



Stew, clueless