[Osdc-edu-authors] Osdc-edu-authors Digest, Vol 4, Issue 9

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

>> I will arrange to meet with the P2P and WASP folks soon. I wonder if
>> recording and transcribing an interview is better than an email interview?
>
> I think it depends a bit on both time available and style.  If you feel like
> the most successful interview will be one with lots of spontaneity, and
> where one answer will lead to the next question, then I'd agree with
> record/transcribe, even though it will take quite a bit more time.
>
> If there are 4 or 5 specific questions you want to ask, then email works
> fine.
>
> I've had experience with both in the past, and part of the problem with a
> record/transcribe interview is that they tend to be much longer than a
> single article's length.  We might want to break it up into two parts, or
> (if the audio is excellent), we could post a podcast of the interview and
> transcribe snippets.

Note that we've got a "Five Questions" format that a number of writers
have already used, and we've got an accompanying graphic that's just
ready to go for such an article.

--g