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Will Femia is a Weblog enthusiast who, through good fortune and dumb luck, was introduced to the form as his position as chat producer for MSNBC.com careered into obsolescence. On any given day, Will can be found having already spent an unhealthy amount of time squinting at a computer screen.

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Voices in my Head: Last chance for Earth

Posted: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6:26 PM by Will Femia
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I interviewed the Guardian's environment correspondent, Paul Brown, about his new book on Global Warming. I actually talked to him last week but fitting it into this week's "green" coverage seemed like a good idea (though of course every week is green week on Clicked).

The book itself is really attractive. If you happen to be in a book store it's worth at least flipping through. The interview went well, but listening to it again in the production process I wonder if I sound like a skeptic. It's hard to ask "tough" questions about something I agree with.

This is the landing page with the link to the video.

Here's the mp3 link for download.

Unrelated to the content: The Voices in my Head series is a side project I've been pursuing to practice interviewing skills and learn online media production tools. For this one the publicist gave me some photos from the book so I was able to cycle through those with the audio along with the book cover.  I also introduced a small bit of video of myself at the beginning and end. One of the challenges of this series is what the video element should be when the content is only audio. I like the idea behind this one but I think I need some kind of title screen to run with the introduction so I'll try that next time. Let me know if you have any ideas.

Also, I don't know if I mentioned it before, but in case you're wondering where I get these authors, I work with an independent publicity company that pitches authors that may be of interest or have some connection to the news. Not only do they provide me with a variety of authors but I don't end up in any awkward relationships with specific publishers.

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I like the audio/visual format a lot. Even though I read more than I look at TV or computers I find myself expecting to have a computer provide more than just a sound environment. The slides are a big plus for me, thanks.

Paul McFarland (Sent Friday, November 09, 2007 7:31 AM)

Your image is your own business, but I think socks without holes would be an improvement. (insert smiley face here)

Charlie, Wilminteon, DE (Sent Friday, November 09, 2007 8:33 AM)

Charlie, ug, well, at least my underwear was clean. I wanted to keep it as honest as possible given the straightforward nature of Clicked, but then I looked at the video and said, "Oh crap, I'm a scumbag!" But what am I going to do, put on a suit and make-up? (or.. put on socks with no holes.. um.)

Anyway, I'm thinking of trying to do the next one in a coffee shop or something so at least I'll have shoes on.

It would be neat to record it while I'm on the phone with the guest, but I don't want to do something like Imus or Howard Stern where you see the guy at the mic in headphones and that's it.

Will Femia (Sent Friday, November 09, 2007 2:25 PM)



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