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New App Gives Us Oral Histories For 911
New App Gives Us Oral Histories for 911 The National September 11 Memorial & Museum has collected over 2,000 audio clips. These will make up the oral history of witnesses, first responders and others who shared their experiences of 9/11 that Broadcastr will bring to the people. According to Karen Matthews, AP, “Broadcastr is the brainchild of Scott Lindenbaum and Andy Hunter, who met in a creative writing graduate program and founded a literary journal called Electric Literature. Broadcastr seeks to make the human voice as ubiquitous as videos on YouTube or photos on Flickr.” “It’s the oldest form of communication, the oral tradition,” Lindenbaum said in an interview. “Every person in the world participates in oral storytelling all day long. And yet social media is missing an oral storytelling component.” Broadcastr became available to the public on February 8th. It will be packaged as a free app for the iPhone and Android later this month. Matthews reported that a user can upload audio and “pin” it to a geographical location. When you visit a location either physically or with your web browser, you will be able to listen to stories pinned to that spot. You can then filter stories to your preferences by location. “If you go the West Village and you’re going to have brunch and you just want to hear love stories you can filter for love stories and just hear love stories the whole way,” Lindenbaum said. “You’ll be walking by a restaurant and suddenly someone will be telling the story of how they proposed to their fiancée at that restaurant.” Broadcastr is operating with seed money from investors. According to Matthews’ article, “In addition to the Sept. 11 Memorial, its partners include UNICEF and the Shoah Foundation, which has collected testimony from tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors.” For now their target is New York City, but when this takes off (and I’m sure it will), all the big cities worldwide will want to have their own Broadcastr service. Kudos to these innovative entrepreneurs, Scott Lindenbaum and Andy Hunter. Oral traditions and storytelling should always be a part of our culture. First hand stories are always more poignant and touching, and we seem to remember them better as well. How many of us remember stories our grandparents told us about the Depression, World War II, or for the younger set, the Viet Nam War? Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com Support for CellPlaza.org is provided by batteries4less.com, the leading online retailer of cell phone batteries, camera replacement batteries, LG Vu cu920 Battery, chargers and mobile accessories and cordless phone batteries. |
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